英语听书《白鲸记》第931期

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All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed¹ by breaths of once living things, exhaled² as air, but water now. 所有你那些不值一提的单纯的情感都在我这下面漂泛；我仰赖那一度是生物的鼻息，它原来呼的是气，现在却是水了。

Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl³ finds his only rest. 海呵，万岁，万万岁，野鸟在你的永恒的颠簸中找到唯一的栖息之所。

Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!" 生自大地的，却受海洋的哺养；虽然山岗和溪谷抚养了我，然而，你波涛却是我的同奶弟兄！"

Chapter 117 The Whale Watch 第一百十七章 看守大鲸

The four whales slain⁴ that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one less distant, to leeward⁵; one ahead; one astern. 那天黄昏时分所打的四条鲸，都彼此相隔很远地死了；一条远在上风的地方；一条稍微近些，在下风地方；一条在前边；一条在后边。

These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; 除了上风处那一条要到明天早晨才能把它弄来以外，其余三条都在傍晚前就给拖到舷侧来了；

and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's. 于是，打过了上风那条鲸的小艇，就得通宵守在它的旁边；那只小艇就是亚哈的小艇。

The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whale's spout-hole; 浮标杆笔直插在那条死鲸的喷水孔中；

and the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering⁶ glare upon the black, glossy⁷ back, 杆顶挂着一只灯笼，在它那黑黝黝的大背上发出一股闪烁不定的灯光，

and far out upon the midnight waves, which gently chafed⁸ the whale's broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach. 远照到午夜的波涛上，波涛柔和地擦着那条鲸的宽大的身侧，象细浪冲击着海滩。

Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; 除了那个祆教徒以外，亚哈和他艇上的水手似乎都睡着了；

who crouching⁹ in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally¹⁰ played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar¹¹ planks¹² with their tails. 那个祆教徒，蹲成一团，坐在船首，瞅着一群鲨鱼，它们在大鲸四周，妖魔似的嬉戏，尾巴轻拍着薄杉木船板。

A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering¹³ through the air. 突然横空划过一阵象是蛾摩拉城的冤魂在死海上同声叫喊的呻吟声。

 

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