英语听书《白鲸记》第1003期

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Chapter 133 The Chase — First Day

第一百三十三章 追击——第一天

That night, in the mid-watch when the old man — as his wont¹ at intervals² — stepped forth³ from the scuttle⁴ in which he leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely, snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship's dog will, in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle⁵. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that peculiar⁶ odor, sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm⁷ whale, was palpable to all the watch; nor was any mariner⁸ surprised when, after inspecting the compass, and then the dog-vane, and then ascertaining⁹ the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible, Ahab rapidly ordered the ship's course to be slightly altered, and the sail to be shortened.

那天夜里，夜班时分，这个老人——他总是隔不多久就上来——从他倚着的小舱口跨了出来，走到他那镟孔去时，他突然凶巴巴地把脸向前一冲，猛吸一下海上的空气，象条船上的伶俐的狗，在驶近什么蛮荒的岛屿时那样。他宣称附近一定有条鲸。不一会，所有的值班人都闻到那股特别的气味，那股时常是活的抹香鲸在老远发出来的气味。等到检查过罗盘针，又看一看风信器，再尽可能地肯定那气味的确切方向后，水手们都不觉得奇怪了，亚哈迅速下令，略转航向，收缩风帆。

The acute policy dictating¹⁰ these movements was sufficiently¹¹ vindicated¹² at daybreak, by the sight of a long sleek¹³ on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead, smooth as oil, and resembling in the pleated watery¹⁴ wrinkles bordering it, the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip, at the mouth of a deep, rapid stream.

发布这些行动的精明措施，到了黎明时分，便完全得到证实，因为在正前方的海上，已出现了一片笔直而长长的、象油一般滑的景色，而且在它周围还好象有打褶的涟漪，象在一条深澈的急流的出口，那种锃亮的金器般的湍急的浪潮那样。

Man the mast-heads! Call all hands!

准备爬上桅顶！把大家都召拢来！

Thundering with the butts¹⁵ of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers¹⁶ with such judgment¹⁷ claps that they seemed to exhale¹⁸ from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands.

大个儿拿起三根木槌柄，象打雷般敲着船头楼，把所有睡着的人都敲醒来，这样天雷般的轰击声，弄得大家都象是从小舱口里给轰了出来，手里拿着衣服，一涌而出。