英语听书《白鲸记》第1022期

（单词翻译）

For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush¹ of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous² phenomenon of breaching⁴. Rising with his utmost velocity⁵ from the furthest depths, the Sperm⁶ Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam⁷, shows his place to the distance of seven miles and more. In those moments, the torn, enraged⁸ waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance⁹.

白鲸是这样近在眼前，人们不是看到它那平静而旁若无人的喷水；也不是看到它那发自它头部的神秘喷泉的平和的迸射；而是看到了远更奇妙的跳跃。这条抹香鲸从非常深的海底里用尽全力直冒了起来后，就此把它整个身躯全部显现在清澈的空中，高高地滚起一丘炫目的泡沫，教人看到它已在相距七英里多的地方。这时，它所震撼起来的飞溅的狂涛，似乎就是它的鬃毛。在某些方面说来，这种跳跃就是它的挑衅行为。

There she breaches¹⁰! there she breaches! was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven. So suddenly seen in the blue plain of the sea, and relieved against the still bluer margin¹¹ of the sky, the spray that he raised, for the moment, intolerably glittered and glared like a glacier¹²; and stood there gradually fading and fading away from its first sparkling intensity¹³, to the dim mistiness¹⁴ of an advancing shower in a vale.

它在跳啦！它在跳啦！又是一阵叫声，这时，这条白鲸以它无限的骁勇，身子象只鲑鱼直冲云霄。在青翠的草原也似的海面上，衬着那个还要青翠的天边，突然看到它喷出来的水雾，顿时有如看到一条闪烁的冰河，闪闪发光，叫人眼睛难耐；接着，那条冰河从那开始时的炫眼的强度逐渐逐渐消退，终于变成山谷中行将到来的阵雨那么迷雾朦胧。

Aye, breach³ your last to the sun, Moby Dick! cried Ahab, "thy hour and thy harpoon¹⁵ are at hand! — Down! down all of ye, but one man at the fore¹⁶. The boats! — stand by!"

喂，莫比－迪克，向太阳跳你的终吧！亚哈叫道，"你的时辰和你的标枪已是近在眼前了！——下来！你们统统下来，留一个人在前桅上。小艇！——准备！"

Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds¹⁷, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated¹⁸ backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch¹⁹.

那些水手忘记踩着那些用护桅索做成的劳什子索梯，大家都象流星般从孤零零的后支索和桅索上一溜就溜到甲板上；亚哈虽然不象他们那样冲下来，还是很快就从他的岗位上落下来。