英语听书《白鲸记》第988期

（单词翻译）

But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential¹ hours when he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that even as Ahab's eyes so awed² the crew's, the inscrutable Parsee's glance awed his; or somehow, at least, in some wild way, at times affected³ it. Such an added, gliding⁴ strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious⁵ at him; half uncertain, as it seemed, whether indeed he were a mortal substance, or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the deck by some unseen being's body. And that shadow was always hovering⁶ there. For not by night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber⁷, or go below. He would stand still for hours: but never sat or leaned; his wan⁸ but wondrous⁹ eyes did plainly say — We two watchmen never rest.

可是，如果在他幽然独处的时分，在他认为只有一双眼睛在瞪着他的时候，你仔细地瞧一瞧他的话，那么，你就会看出，哪怕亚哈的眼睛是那么使水手们望而生畏，可那个清教徒的费解的眼色也使亚哈望而生畏，至少有点不可思议地会时时叫亚哈感到畏惧。这会儿，在这个瘦瘦的费达拉身上，开始增添了那么一种叫人捉摸不定的奇特的神气，身子那么不住地索索抖，使得水手们都以怀疑的神色望着他；看来确是有点叫人摸不准，究竟他是个真正的活人，还是一种眼不能见的躯体投在甲板上的抖颤的影子。而且那个影子始终在那里徜徉不散。因为就是在夜里，人们也不知道究竟费达拉可曾打过盹，或者下到舱里去过。他会镇天一动不动地呆在那里：从来不坐一会儿，也不靠一下。他那双苍白而奇怪的眼睛，清清楚楚地告诉人家——我们这两个守望者是从来不休息的。

Nor, at any time, by night or day could the mariners¹⁰ now step upon the deck, unless Ahab was before them; either standing¹¹ in his pivot-hole, or exactly pacing the planks¹² between two undeviating limits, — the main-mast and the mizen; or else they saw him standing in the cabin-scuttle, — his living foot advanced upon the deck, as if to step; his hat slouched heavily over his eyes; so that however motionless he stood, however the days and nights were added on, that he had not swung in his hammock; yet hidden beneath that slouching hat, they could never tell unerringly whether, for all this, his eyes were really closed at times; or whether he was still intently scanning them;

而且，现在不论日夜，水手们一跨上甲板，随时可以看到亚哈，他不是站在他那只镟孔里，就是正在笔直的两点一线间——主桅和后帆间——跪来踱去，要不然，就看到他站在舱室的升降口上，——他那只好腿跨在甲板上，仿佛要跨上去那样，帽子低盖在眼睛上。所以，不管他怎样站在那里一动不动，不管他怎样日以继夜地不上吊铺；然而，他那双低掩在帽子下面的眼睛，究竟是不是有时闭着，还是仍在凝神地瞪着大家，谁也摸不准。