英语听书《白鲸记》第1020期

（单词翻译）

Aye, aye! cried Stubb, "I knew it — ye can't escape — blow on and split your spout¹, O whale! the mad fiend himself is after ye! blow your trump² — blister³ your lungs! — Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller⁴ shuts his watergate upon the stream!"

是呀，是呀！斯塔布叫道，"我心里有数——你逃不了喽——大鲸呀，你尽管喷尽管吹吧！疯狂的恶魔正在亲身紧追着你哪！吹起你的喇叭，鼓起你的肺吧！——亚哈就要煞住你的血了，象个磨坊手在溪流上关起他的水闸那样！"

And Stubb did but speak out for well nigh all that crew. The frenzies⁵ of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe⁶ of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter⁷ before the bounding bison. The hand of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils⁸ of the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense⁹; the fixed¹⁰, unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging¹¹ towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled along. The wind that made great bellies¹² of their sails, and rushed the vessel¹³ on by arms invisible as irresistible¹⁴; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.

斯塔布所说的，差不多也就是那些水手要说的话，这种如疯如狂的追击，到了这时，已把他们弄得十分激动，一如陈年老酒重新发作那样了。不管在他们中间，有些人以前有过什么样朦胧的恐惧和预兆；可是，这些恐惧，现在不仅由于对亚哈的日见增长的敬畏而完全无影无踪，而且好象遭到了四面兜抄，完全不打自垮了，正如大草原上的胆怯的野兔；一见那只被捆缚着的野牛，便四散奔命那样。命运之神的手已攫住了他们全体的灵魂；而且，经过了上一天那种惊心动魄的险境；昨天晚上的提心吊胆；加上他们那艘疯狂的船在拚命直追那条如飞的目的物时，那种坚定不移、无所畏惧、盲冲瞎撞、不顾一切的劲头；总之，经过了所有这一切后，他们的心也都轱辘轱辘地向前疾奔了。那种把风帆吹得鼓鼓胀起的大风，那双把船急推猛赶前去的无可抗拒而眼不能见的大手；这似乎就是如此驱使他们疲于奔命的那种眼不能见的神力的象征。

They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all; though it was put together of all contrasting things — oak, and maple¹⁵, and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp¹⁶ — yet all these ran into each other in the one concrete hull¹⁷, which shot on its way, both balanced and directed by the long central keel;

他们已成为一个人，而不是三十个人了。因为就象这艘装着他们全体的船一样；虽然它是用各种性质极其不同的东西——橡木，枫木，松木；铁器；沥青和大麻——凑合起来的，然而，所有这些东西都彼此混凝为一艘具体的船，这艘船就被那根长长的主龙骨所平衡、指引、象箭般驶去；