英语听书《白鲸记》第884期

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　　Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn¹, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur², and a woe³. 如果你象个苏丹那样坐在土星的卫星群中，单独挑出一个非常入神的人来，那个人似乎是个神明，是个伟大的人物，是个苦恼人。

　　But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary⁴. 但是，如果从同一个角度上，你抓起成群的人来，那些人，不论古今人物，就大多是一群多余的复制品了。

　　But most humble⁵ though he was, and far from furnishing an example of the high, humane⁶ abstraction; the Pequod's carpenter was no duplicate; "裴廓德号"这个木匠，虽然是个最卑微的人，也远不是个非常高雅、出类拔萃的典范，可是，他并不是个复制品。

　　hence, he now comes in person on this stage. 他现在亲自登场了。

　　Like all sea-going ship carpenters, and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels⁷, 如同一切海船的木匠，尤其是如同一般捕鲸船的木匠一样，

　　he was, to a certain off-hand, practical extent, alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral⁸ to his own; 在迅速与有实际经验的程度上，他除了自己的本行，还兼具各行各业的经验。

　　the carpenter's pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary⁹ material. 木匠这个行当就是集古往今来、各式有关手艺的大成，而且多少都同作为辅助品的木材发生关系。

　　But, besides the application to him of the generic¹⁰ remark above, "裴廓德号"这位木匠除了做上面提到的一般事情以外，

　　this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring¹¹ in a large ship, 还格外善于应付一艘航程三四年，

　　upon a three or four years' voyage, in uncivilized and far-distant seas. 历遍许多蛮荒、辽远的海洋的大船不断发生的。

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