英语听书《白鲸记》第918期

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Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; 不错，铁匠，就是这一样东西；是呀，老朋友，这是不光坦的，

for though thou only see'st it here in my flesh, it has worked down into the bone of my skull² — that is all wrinkles! 你虽然只看到它是长在我这地方的皮肉上，可它却直钻通到我的头盖骨——全都是皱褶呀！

But, away with child's play; no more gaffs and pikes to-day. 可是，说正经的；今天别再打什么矛尖和标枪啦。

Look ye here! jingling³ the leathern bag, as if it were full of gold coins. 你瞧！皮袋里叮当作响，仿佛那里面装满许多金币。

"I, too, want a harpoon⁴ made; one that a thousand yoke⁵ of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone. "我也要打一根标枪；要打一根无数的恶魔都折不断的标枪；柏斯，打得它一戳进鲸身，就象是长在鲸身上的鳍骨那般。

There's the stuff," flinging the pouch⁶ upon the anvil⁷. 材料就在这里，"他把袋口朝铁砧一抖。

"Look ye, blacksmith, these are the gathered nail-stubbs of the steel shoes of racing⁸ horses." "你瞧，铁匠，这些都是我搜集来的骏马蹄铁的钉头钉脑。"

Horse-shoe stubbs, sir? Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then, the best and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever work. 马蹄铁的钉头钉脑，先生？亚哈船长，这么说来，你这些东西，真是我们铁匠从来没有打过的最好最硬的材料。

I know it, old man; these stubbs will weld together like glue from the melted bones of murderers. 我知道，老头；这些钉头钉脑焊接起来，就象是把凶手熬煮后的骨胶一样。

Quick! forge me the harpoon. 快！给我铸一根标枪。

And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns⁹ and strands¹⁰ of a tow-line. 先给我熔铸成十二根棒条；然后，把它弄弯，弄曲，再把这十二根棒条给绞在一起，绞得象根绞起来的大缆索。

Quick! I'll blow the fire. 快！我来拉风箱。

 

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