英语听书《白鲸记》第902期

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Well was it that the Typhoons did not visit them then. 还好，当时台风没来光顾他们。

Now, at this time it was that my poor pagan companion, 且说就在这时，我那个可怜的异教伙伴，

and fast bosom-friend, Queequeg, was seized with a fever, which brought him nigh to his endless end. 我的最知心的朋友，魁魁格却正害着热病，眼看快要结束他那无限的生命了。

Be it said, that in this vocation¹ of whaling, sinecures² are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; 必须说明一下，在捕鲸这行业中，从来没有什么闲差使，显职跟危险是分不开的；

till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil³. 就是做到了船长的地位，也是爬得越高，越是辛苦。

So with poor Queequeg, who, as harpooneer, must not only face all the rage of the living whale, 可怜的魁魁格也是这样，他作为一个标枪手，不但必须勇敢承当活鲸的一切狂暴，

but—as we have elsewhere seen—mount his dead back in a rolling sea; and finally descend⁴ into the gloom of the hold, 而且——一如我们已在另些地方看到的——还得在海浪滔滔的大海里，跨上那致人死命的鲸背；最后又得钻进阴暗的船舱里，

and bitterly sweating all day in that subterraneous confinement⁵, resolutely⁶ manhandle the clumsiest casks and see to their stowage. 汗流浃背地镇天呆在那地下密室里，坚毅不拔地处理那些最笨重的油桶，把它们储藏得妥妥帖帖。

To be short, among whalemen, the harpooneers are the holders⁷, so called. 总之，在捕鲸业中，标枪手就是所谓的管仓人。

Poor Queequeg! when the ship was about half disembowelled, you should have stooped over the hatchway, and peered down upon him there; 可怜的魁魁格！在这艘船已经出空了一大半时，你真该伏在舱口，往下朝他一望；

where, stripped to his woollen drawers, the tattooed⁸ savage⁹ was crawling about amid that dampness and slime, 在那里，这个刺花的野人赤裸着上身，穿着条羊毛裤，正在那湿漉漉而腻嗒嗒的地方爬来爬去，

like a green spotted¹⁰ lizard¹¹ at the bottom of a well. 活象井底里一只绿点子的蜥蜴。

And a well, or an ice-house, it somehow proved to him, poor pagan; 那地方，不知怎地，好象就是这个可怜的异教徒的一口井，或者是一间冰屋；

where, strange to say, for all the heat of his sweatings, he caught a terrible chill which lapsed¹² into a fever; 说也奇怪，尽管他在那里热得浑身是汗，却突然受了一阵可怕的寒气，发起寒热来了；

and at last, after some days' suffering, laid him in his hammock, close to the very sill of the door of death. 经过几天的折磨后，他终于躺在吊铺上，靠近死神的门槛了。

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