英语听书《白鲸记》第860期

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　　those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements¹. 可是这种说话，却教墙外的人听得一清二楚，因为它打敞开的窗子里冲了出去。

　　Thereby² have villainies been detected. 因此，丑恶的事情难免要被发觉。

　　Ah, mortal! then, be heedful; for so, in all this din³ of the great world's loom⁴, thy subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar. 人呀！要小心谨慎呀；因为，你们那些最微妙的思想，在这个大千世界的纺织机的喧闹声中，也许会在老远就给人们偷听去。

　　Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging—a gigantic idler! 且说这只受人崇拜的、巨大的白骷髅——这个巨大的懒汉！就悠闲地躺在阿萨西提的树林里那架碧绿而从不停止活动的纺织机中。

　　Yet, as the ever-woven verdant⁵ warp⁶ and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty⁷ idler seemed the cunning weaver⁸; 而且，由于在它周围始终是交错地嗡响着那些织个不停的翠绿的经纬线，弄得这个大懒汉就象个巧妙的织工；

　　himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton. 它全身都织满着葡萄藤；每时每刻都显得更旺盛，更青翠，可它自己却是架骨胳。

　　Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. 生命笼罩着死亡；死亡支撑着生命；严酷的神配上朝气蓬勃的生命，赋予它以鬈发的美容。

　　Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous⁹ whale, 这时，我跟王族的托朗郭一起去拜谒这条奇妙的大鲸，

　　and saw the skull¹⁰ an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending¹¹ from where the real jet had issued, 看到那祭坛似的脑袋，和那人工的烟雾正从那曾经发出真正的喷水的地方高高冒起，

　　I marvelled¹² that the king should regard a chapel¹³ as an object of vertu. He laughed. 我不禁惊叹这位国王竟把个教堂当作件骨董了。他笑了笑。

　　But more I marvelled that the priests should swear that smoky jet of his was genuine. 可是，更叫我诧异的是，那些僧人竟赌神发咒地说，它那烟喷嘴的喷水是真的。

　　To and fro I paced before this skeleton— brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs¹⁴, 我在这个骷髅前面踱来踱去——撩开葡萄藤——朝肋骨里挤了进去，

　　and with a ball of Arsacidean twine¹⁵, wandered, eddied¹⁶ long amid its many winding¹⁷, shaded colonnades¹⁸ and arbors. 手里拿着一只阿萨西提的麻线球，在它那曲折蜿蜒阴凉的柱廊和乔木丛中旋来转去地徜徉了好久。

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