英语听书《白鲸记》第942期

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they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething¹ sea; 碰到他们在翻卷过来的海浪中，张弄着中帆桁的时候，也要大加咒骂一顿。

but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; 不过，在我所有的航程中，可难得碰上这样的情况，就是说，当上帝的炽热的手指已经按在船上的时候；

when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds² and the cordage. 当上帝的"弥尼，弥尼，提客勒，乌法珥新"已跟护桅索和索具交织在一块儿的时候，竟会听到这么一种咒骂。

While this pallidness⁴ was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted⁵ crew; 这种青白色的火光正在高高地烧着的当儿，那些着迷似的水手们话也不多了；

who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a faraway constellation⁶ of stars. 他们都紧挤在一起，站在船头楼上，在那股灰白的磷光的照射下，大家的眼睛都亮闪闪的，象是远远的群星。

Relieved against the ghostly light, the gigantic jet negro, Daggoo, loomed⁷ up to thrice his real stature⁸, 那个乌黑发亮的魁梧黑人大个儿，衬着那鬼火，更其轮廓鲜明，他的身材赫然显得比他原来的身躯大了三倍，

and seemed the black cloud from which the thunder had come. 似乎巨雷就是发自那团黑云。

The parted mouth of Tashtego revealed his shark-white teeth, which strangely gleamed as if they too had been tipped by corpusants; 塔斯蒂哥那只张开的嘴巴，露出了他那副雪白的鲨鱼牙齿，牙齿发出的闪光，煞是奇特，仿佛在那上面也有一层电光似的；

while lit up by the preternatural light, Queequeg's tattooing⁹ burned like Satanic blue flames on his body. 魁魁格身上的刺花，给这股不可思议的亮光一照，好象也燃得身上发出了恶魔似的蓝光。

The tableau¹⁰ all waned¹¹ at last with the pallidness aloft; 后来随着那股青白色的火光的上升，这个戏剧性的场面也就完全消逝了；

and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall³. "裴廓德号"和甲板上的全部船员又再次给笼罩在黑色的帷幕里。

A moment or two passed, when Starbuck, going forward, pushed against some one. It was Stubb. 隔不多久，斯达巴克向前走去时，撞上了个什么人。原来是斯塔布。

"What thinkest thou now, man; I heard thy cry; it was not the same in the song." "喂，你现在觉得怎样，老朋友；我听到你在哭呢，那声音可跟歌声不同呀。"

 

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