英语听书《海底两万里》第61期 第6章 开足马力(3)

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　　法拉古舰长喊:舵向右，向前开!

　　These orders were executed, and the frigate¹ swiftly retreated from this core of light.

　　以上命令执行了，战舰很快离开了发光的中心。

　　My mistake. It wanted to retreat, but the unearthly animal came at us with a speed double our own.

　　我弄错了。我们船要走开，但那神秘的动物却以加借的速度逼近来。

　　We gasped². More stunned³ than afraid, we stood mute and motionless. The animal caught up with us, played with us.

　　我们气都喘不过来。当时，惊呆更甚于恐惧，弄得我们静默不动。

　　It made a full circle around the frigate--then doing fourteen knots-and wrapped us in sheets of electricity that were like luminous⁴ dust.

　　这个动物好像开玩笑似的在海面上向我们冲来。它绕着战舰，并且把船罩在像光尘一样的电光网中。

　　Then it retreated two or three miles, leaving a phosphorescent trail comparable to those swirls⁵ of steam that shoot behind the locomotive of an express train.

　　然后它走出两三海里远，后面拖着一条磷光的尾巴，好像快车的机车留在后面的一团团烟雾般的气体。

　　Suddenly, all the way from the dark horizon where it had gone to gather momentum⁶, the monster abruptly⁷ dashed toward the Abraham Lincoln with frightening speed,

　　忽然间，这个怪物从天边的尽头。以惊人的速度突然向林肯号冲来，在离船身二十英尺的海而上又突然停住，

　　stopped sharply twenty feet from our side plates, and died out-not by diving under the water,

　　光全灭了—不是潜入水中，因为它的光不是慢慢地消散，

　　since its glow did not recede⁸ gradually-but all at once, as if the source of this brilliant emanation had suddenly dried up.

　　而是猝然地，像光的来源陡然断了一般！

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