英语听书《白鲸记》第910期

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but whose mysteries not even himself could read, though his own live heart beat against them; 但是，尽管他自己那颗活生生的心在怦怦地撞着那些刺花，然而，这些奥妙的文章却连他自己也弄不清楚。

and these mysteries were therefore destined³ in the end to moulder⁴ away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed⁵, and so be unsolved to the last. 因此，这些奥妙的论著就注定得跟刻在那上面的一层活羊皮纸一起霉烂掉，直到最后还是弄不清楚。

And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation⁶ of his,  难怪有一天早晨亚哈打量一下可怜的魁魁格后，连忙转身就走，嘴里连呼：

when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg—"Oh, devilish tantalization⁷ of the gods!" "啊，真叫鬼都给急煞了！"想来亚哈心里一定也有这种想法。

Chapter 111 The Pacific 第一百十一章 太平洋

When gliding⁸ by the Bashee isles⁹ we emerged at last upon the great South Sea; 驶过了巴士群岛，我们终于来到了南海的大洋面上；

were it not for other things I could have greeted my dear Pacific with uncounted thanks, for now the long supplication¹⁰ of my youth was answered; 要不是为了其它的事情，我准会千恩万谢地对我的可爱的太平洋表示一番敬意，因为现在我童年时代的宿愿总算实现了；

that serene¹¹ ocean rolled eastwards¹² from me a thousand leagues of blue. 那平静的大洋滚滚向东流去，把我带到相隔三千英里的苍海来。

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath; 这个大洋总有一股使人说不出的奥妙的味道，它那缓慢而使人害怕的骚扰不平的气氛，似乎是表示下边隐藏有个神秘的人；

like those fabled¹³ undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John. 就象童话上所载的，那块下面埋着《福音书》著者圣约翰的以弗所草皮始终是起伏不息那样。

And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; 与此对称的是，在这片海洋的大牧场，绵延起伏的汪洋的大草原和四海的公共大墓地上，波涛在不停地起落涨退；

 

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