英语听书《白鲸记》第1015期

（单词翻译）

At the well known, methodic intervals¹, the whale's glittering spout² was regularly announced from the manned mast-heads; and when he would be reported as just gone down, Ahab would take the time, and then pacing the deck, binnacle-watch in hand, so soon as the last second of the allotted³ hour expired, his voice was heard. — "Whose is the doubloon now? D'ye see him?" and if the reply was No, sir! straightway he commanded them to lift him to his perch⁴. In this way the day wore on; Ahab, now aloft and motionless; anon, unrestingly pacing the planks⁵.

桅顶上的人，按部就班地定时定刻报告大鲸的闪光的喷水；每当报告它刚刚沉下去了时，亚哈就把时辰记下，然后，手里拿着罗盘表，在甲板上踱来踱去，一到过了预定时刻的最后一秒钟，便听到了他的声音——。"这会儿那枚金币该谁的喽？你们可看到白鲸嘛？"如果回答是：没有，先生！他就立即叫人把他升到他的守望岗位上去。一天就这样地过去；亚哈一会儿高高在上，一动不动；一会儿又爬下来，心绪不宁地在船板上踱来踱去。

As he was thus walking, uttering no sound, except to hail the men aloft, or to bid them hoist⁶ a sail still higher, or to spread one to a still greater breadth — thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at every turn he passed his own wrecked⁹ boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded sky fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face there now stole some such added gloom as this.

他这样走来走去，一声不吭，除了招呼一下上边的人，或者教他们把一张风帆再扯高些，或者把另一张风帆再张大些——他就这样低挂着帽子，来回地踱着，每一转身，他总要望一望他自己那只破艇。这只破艇放在后甲板上，倒头放在那里，残破的艇头跟粉碎的艇梢对换了位置。最后，他在小艇跟前停将下来；好象在那本来已是满天乌黑的天空中，不时又有阵阵的流云掠过那样，这个老人脸上，这会儿也是这样，又悄悄添上一层忧郁的神色。

Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude¹⁰, and thus keep up a valiant¹¹ place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck⁸ exclaimed — "The thistle the ass⁷ refused; it pricked¹² his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha! ha!"

斯塔布看到亚哈停下来；也许是有意（虽说并无得意洋洋之概）要表现一下他自己的毫不衰退的坚忍不拔的精神，从而使他在船长心里留下一个勇敢的印象，他走上前去，眼睛瞪着那只破艇，喊道——"这是连驴子也不吃的蓟；因为会把它的嘴戳得太厉害，先生，哈！哈！"