英语听书《白鲸记》第1013期

（单词翻译）

The Pequod's prows¹ were pointed-, and breaking up the charmed circle, she effectually parted the white whale from his victim. As he sullenly² swam off, the boats flew to the rescue.

裴廓德号船头一掉，迎风驶去，冲破那个魔法似的圈圈，总算把白鲸跟它那些受害者给隔开了。白鲸悻悻地游开了，小艇飞快地划去营救。

Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body's doom³ for a time, lying all crushed in the bottom of Stubb's boat, like one trodden under foot of herds⁴ of elephants. Far inland, nameless wails⁵ came from him, as desolate⁶ sounds from out ravines.

人们把亚哈拖进了斯塔布的小艇里，亚哈两眼充血，眼花缭乱，脸上的皱纹都粘着白花花的泪水；他那紧张了好久的体力确实是垮了，暂时不得不因他这个倒楣身体而服输，萎瘪瘪地躺在斯塔布的艇肚里，象个遭到象群践踏过的人。他发出的幽沉而难以形容的哭声，犹如来自远方的深谷孤音。

But this intensity⁷ of his physical prostration⁸ did but so much the more abbreviate⁹ it. In an instant's compass, great hearts sometimes condense to one deep pang¹⁰, the sum total of those shallow pains kindly¹¹ diffused¹² through feebler men's whole lives. And so, such hearts, though summary in each one suffering; still, if the gods decree it, in their life-time aggregate¹³ a whole age of woe¹⁴, wholly made up of instantaneous intensities¹⁵; for even in their pointless centres, those noble natures contain the entire circumferences¹⁶ of inferior souls.

可是，他这种体力上的剧烈虚脱，却反而来得快也消得快。伟大人物，刹那间所积起的深重痛苦，往往等于常人终其一生所经历的全部平淡痛苦。因此，这种人物，尽管是一桩一桩苦难加起来的，然而，如果天意已定，他们一生的经历便成了整整一个时代的悲痛；而且完全是多次的刹那间的剧烈痛苦积聚起来的，因为哪怕是他们的最微末的一点痛苦，就其高尚的性质说来，就抵得上低劣的人整整一生的痛苦。

The harpoon¹⁷, said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly leaning on one bended arm — "is it safe?"

标枪，亚哈抬起半个身子来，慢吞吞地用一只曲起的胳臂支撑着——"没有出毛病吧？"

Aye, sir, for it was not darted¹⁸; this is it, said Stubb, showing it.

没有，先生，它还没有用过；喏，在这里，斯塔布把标枪拿给他看。

Lay it before me; — any missing men?

把它放在我面前；——有没有人失踪？

One, two, three, four, five; — there were five oars¹⁹, sir, and here are five men.

一，二，三，四，五；——一共五支桨，先生，五个人都在这里。