英语听书《白鲸记》第952期

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During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, 在台风刮得顶顶厉害的时分，

the man at the Pequod's jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled² to the deck by its spasmodic motions  尽管舵柄上缚有大索，但是，因为舵柄阵阵震动，那个掌着"裴廓德号"的牙骨舵的舵手，

even though preventer tackles had been attached to it — for they were slack — because some play to the tiller was indispensable. 还是好几次被撞得蹒蹒跚跚地摔在甲板上，这是因为大索松了，舵柄势必会摇动不定。

In a severe gale³ like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, 在这样厉害的狂风中，船只好比一只在疾风里翻簸着的毽子，

it is by no means uncommon⁴ to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals⁵, go round and round. 所以，看到罗盘里的针不时地兜来兜去，也就决不是件稀奇的事了。

It was thus with the Pequod's; 此时的"裴廓德号"就是这般情况。

at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice the whirling velocity⁶ with which they revolved⁷ upon the cards; 几乎每一震动，舵手就要望一望罗盘针在盘面上的旋力；

it is a sight that hardly anyone can behold⁸ without some sort of unwonted emotion. 这种情景，任何人看了，心情都不免非常激动。

Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated⁹ so much, 大约午夜过后几小时，台风已经减弱了很多，

that through the strenuous¹⁰ exertions¹¹ of Starbuck and Stubb — one engaged forward and the other aft, 靠了斯达巴克和斯塔布的紧张努力——一个管船头，一个管船梢，

the shivered remnants of the jib and fore¹² and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, 前桅和主中桅上那些飘零零的三角桅都从桅桁上给拉了下来，

and went eddying¹³ away to leeward¹⁴, like the feathers of an albatross, 打旋地朝下风卷去，活象一只正想起飞的信天翁，

which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing. 被风吹刮得连羽毛都掉下来了。

The three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed,  那三幅相当新的篷帆现在都被收拢来了，

and a storm-trysail was set further aft; so that the ship soon went through the water with some precision again; 船梢后边，扯起一幅风暴斜桁纵帆；所以，这艘船不一会又比较准确地破浪前进了；

 

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