英语听书《白鲸记》第1014期

（单词翻译）

That's good. — Help me, man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward¹ still; what a leaping spout²! — Hands off from me! The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars⁴; the helm!

好——。喂，扶我一把；我要站起来。唔，唔，我看到它啦！你们瞧！你们瞧！还在向下风游去；那喷水多高呀！——放开我！亚哈身上那股长存的元气又涌上来了！扯帆；把桨插出去；转舵向风！

It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus continued with what is called double-banked oars. It was thus now. But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin⁵; swimming with a velocity⁶ which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar³; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude⁷. The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising⁸ intermediate means of overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes — the two parts of the wrecked⁹ boat having been previously¹⁰ secured by her — and then hoisting¹¹ everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stunsails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby Dick.

每当一只小艇给撞破了，按照通例，它的水手被另一只小艇救起来后，就去帮助另一只小艇干活；于是就用所谓双座桨继续进行追击。目前正是这般情况。可是，增加了力量的小艇，并不就抵得上那条大鲸本身所加上去的力量，因为它好象每根鳍都有三倍的座桨似的；游得那么神速，一眼就教人看出，如果在现在这种情况下，再继续追下去，那么，这种追击，即使不是徒劳无功，也一定是不知要划到几时才止。任何一个水手也都经不住这样长期不息的紧张划桨；偶尔为之，倒还可以勉为其难一下。这时，正如通常的情况那样，大船倒是追击大鲸的最良好的工具。因此，这会儿，小艇都赶到大船跟前，不一会，大船的吊机就把它们都吊了上去——那两截破艇已事先缚在大船侧——接着，把一切东西都吊在船侧，船帆高高堆起，斜张起副帆，很象一只双副翅膀的信天翁。"裴廓德号"开始去尾追莫比－迪克了。