英语听书《白鲸记》第999期

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away, whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded¹ past fifty, and sailed for Cape² Horn the next day, leaving but one dent³ in my marriage pillow — wife? wife? — rather a widow with her husband alive? Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, Starbuck; and then, the madness, the frenzy⁴, the boiling blood and the smoking brow, with which, for a thousand lowerings old Ahab has furiously, foamingly chased his prey⁵ — more a demon⁶ than a man! — aye, aye! what a forty years' fool — fool — old fool, has old Ahab been! Why this strife⁷ of the chase? why weary, and palsy the arm at the oar⁸, and the iron, and the lance? how the richer or better is Ahab now? Behold⁹. Oh, Starbuck! is it not hard, that with this weary load I bear, one poor leg should have been snatched from under me? Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise. God! God! God! — crack my heart! — stave my brain! — mockery! mockery!

走了，远走重洋，离开我那过了五十岁才结婚的年轻妻子，第二天出发到合恩角去，只在我结婚的枕头上留下了一个凹痕——妻子？妻子？——还不如说是在守活寡！唉，斯达巴克，我一跟她结婚，就叫那个可怜的姑娘守寡；于是，疯呀，狂呀，热血呀，汗水直冒的额头呀，亚哈老头就这样放下了无数次的小艇，愤怒凶狂地去追击他的猎物——简直不是个人，而是个恶魔！——唉，唉！亚哈老头可过了四十年多么傻瓜——傻瓜——老傻瓜的生活呀！干吗要这样拚命的追击？又干吗要这样不怕疲累，不怕双手发麻地扳桨？拿标枪，拿捕鲸枪呢？亚哈现在可发了财，可过得好些？斯达巴克啊，你瞧！我背着这么个发腻的包袱，可怜一条腿又给搞掉了，这不艰苦吗？喏，给我把这簇老发撩开吧；它弄得我看不见了，弄得我象是要哭了。这么灰白的头发，决不是长出来的，而是打什么灰堆里出来的！可是，斯达巴克，我可显得很老，非常非常的老了吗？我觉得极其乏力，腰弯，背曲，好象我是打乐园时代起便蹒蹒跚跚地走了不知多少年代的亚当。天啊！天啊！天啊！——费尽我的心机，——绞尽我的脑汁！——滑稽！滑稽！