英语听书《白鲸记》第991期

（单词翻译）

and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the mainmast head, he received the two ends of the downwardreeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin for the other end, in order to fasten it at the rail. This done, with that end yet in his hand and standing¹ beside the pin, he looked round upon his crew, sweeping² from one to the other; pausing his glance long upon Daggoo, Queequeg, Tashtego; but shunning³ Fedallah; and then settling his firm relying eye upon the chief mate, said, — "Take the rope, sir — I give it into thy hands, Starbuck." Then arranging his person in the basket, he gave the word for them to hoist⁴ him to his perch⁵, Starbuck being the one who secured the rope at last; and afterwards stood near it. And thus, with one hand clinging round the royal mast, Ahab gazed abroad upon the sea for miles and miles, — ahead astern, this side, and that, — within the wide expanded circle commanded at so great a height.

于是，他就亲手用绳索盘起一只象篮子似的帆脚索窠，差一个人爬上去，带着一只小滑车，缚到主桅顶上，他接住了那根从上面倒穿下来的两只绳头，把一端接在他那只篮子上，为另一端准备一只栓子，以便把它钉在栏杆上。这样弄好后，他手里就拿着那一端，站在栓子旁边，朝四周的水手一望，眼光打他们身上一个个地扫过去；眼色久久地落在大个儿、魁魁格、塔斯蒂哥的身上；却避而不看费达拉；然后，他把他的坚信的眼睛落在那个大副身上，说，——"先生，请拿住这根绳子——我亲自交在你手里，斯达巴克。"于是，他自己坐进那只篮子里，吩咐他们把他吊到他的瞭望岗位去，斯达巴克终于成了个缚绳子的。随后又站在绳子旁边的人。亚哈就这样一只手钩着那根最上桅杆，放眼瞭望广袤的海面——望望前边，望望后边，望望左边，又望望右边——在这么高的地方，辽阔的四周尽收眼底。

When in working with his hands at some lofty almost isolated⁶ place in the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold, the sailor at sea is hoisted⁷ up to that spot, and sustained there by the rope; under these circumstances, its fastened end on deck is always given in strict charge to some one man who has the special watch of it. Because in such a wilderness⁸ of running rigging, whose various different relations aloft cannot always be infallibly discerned by what is seen of them at the deck;

海上一般水手双手攀着又高又差不多是悬空的绳子，碰巧没有立脚处时，人们把他吊上去后，就用绳子把他挂在那个地方；碰到这种情况，那头缚在甲板上的绳子总是交给一个特地安置在那里的人严密照管。因为象这样一根极其摇晃不定的绳子，上边可能发生的各种情况，往往不象在甲板上那样，可以时常弄得清楚；