英语听书《白鲸记》第923期

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you almost swear that play-wearied children lie sleeping in these solitudes³, in some glad May-time, when the flowers of the woods are plucked. 简直叫人敢于发誓：在这样静穆的境地里，就象是在一种快乐的五月天里，玩累了的小孩，把树林里的野花都摘光后，正在大睡一通了。

And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate, and form one seamless whole. 因为所有这一切跟你那最为神秘的心情交融在一起，所以，事实。幻想和偶然的遭遇就互相贯穿起来，形成一个天衣无缝的整体。

Nor did such soothing⁴ scenes, however temporary, fail of at least as temporary an effect on Ahab. 尽管这种令人获得慰藉的景色是多么的短暂，它至少对亚哈也暂时起了作用。

But if these secret golden keys did seem to open in him his own secret golden treasuries⁵, yet did his breath upon them prove but tarnishing⁶. 不过，如果这些神秘的金钥匙真会打开他身上那秘密的金银宝库的话，但只消他一个哈气，又会使它失去光泽了。

Oh, grassy⁷ glades⁸! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; 长满青草的林间空地呵！愿无穷的春色永存在生命中；

in ye, — though long parched⁹ by the dead drought of the earthly life, — in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; 你虽然久经人间的苦旱生活而长期龟裂——人类却还可以象小马在清晨的三叶草上一般，在你身上打滚；

and for some few fleeting¹⁰ moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal¹¹ on them. 还可以在霎忽而逝的工夫里，身上感到有生命不朽的凉露。

Would to God these blessed calms would last. 但愿上帝让这种福祉的静穆永垂久远。

But the mingled¹², mingling¹³ threads of life are woven by warp¹⁴ and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. 可是生命的线已被经纬织成一片，混杂不清了：风暴勾消了宁静，一次风暴换来万般宁静。

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; 生命里并没有什么一定不能折回的进程；

we do not advance through fixed¹⁵ gradations, and at the last one pause: — through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, 我们并不是循着固定的层次前进，最后就停将下来的——由孩提时代的无意识的牙牙学语，而少年时代的无思无想的信念，

adolescence¹⁶' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose¹⁷ of If. 成人时代的怀疑（一般的命数），接着是疑惑，再接着是不信仰，最后寄托在人类的最具深思熟虑的"假定"上。

 

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