英语听书《海底两万里》第59期 第6章 开足马力(1)

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　　一听到这喊声，全体船员，从舰长、军官、水手长,

　　sailors, cabin boys, down to engineers leaving their machinery¹ and stokers neglecting their furnaces. The order was given to stop, and the frigate² merely coasted.

　　直到水手、练习生，甚至工程师也丢下机器，火夫也离开锅炉，大家都向鱼叉手这边跑来。

　　By then the darkness was profound, and as good as the Canadian's eyes were, I still wondered how he could see--and what he had seen.

　　停船的命令发出了，船只凭本身余下的动力走着。那时天色非常黑暗，不管这位加拿大人的眼力怎么好，我也要想想他怎能看见和他能够看见什么。

　　My heart was pounding fit to burst.

　　我的心跳得非常厉害，简直要炸了。

　　But Ned Land was not mistaken, and we all spotted⁴ the object his hand was indicating.

　　可是尼德·兰并没有弄错，我们大家都看到了他的手所指的那个东西。

　　Two cable lengths off the Abraham Lincoln's starboard quarter, the sea seemed to be lit up from underneath⁵.

　　离林肯号右舷约三百七十米左右，海面好像是被水底发出的光照亮了。

　　This was no mere³ phosphorescent phenomenon, that much was unmistakable.

　　这光并不是一般的磷光，这谁也不会弄错。

　　Submerged some fathoms⁶ below the surface of the water, the monster gave off that very intense but inexplicable⁷ glow that several captains had mentioned in their reports.

　　这个怪物潜在水面下几米深，放出十分强烈而神秘的光，就像有些船长的报告中所指出的那样。

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