英语听书《白鲸记》第831期

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This coin speaks wisely, mildly, truly, but still sadly to me. 这块金币表现得真聪明、柔顺、忠实，可是在我看来，还是有点忧伤。

I will quit it, lest Truth shake me falsely." 我得赶紧离开它，否则，真理倒要变成谎言了。"

There now's the old Mogul, soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, "he's been twigging it; 瞧那老蒙兀儿，斯塔布在炼油间旁边自言自语道，"他刚才已经看明白了；

and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms³ long. 斯达巴克也是为了这才去的，可是，他们两个人的脸儿呀，我敢说，都大约拉得有三十六英尺长。

And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have it now on Negro Hill or in Corlaer's Hook, I'd not look at it very long ere spending it. 这都是因为看了那块金币的缘故，如果我在黑人山或者在柯尔拉尔岬找到这块东西的话，我准不会瞧它好久，马上把它拿去花掉。

Humph! in my poor, insignificant⁴ opinion, I regard this as queer. 哼！照我的微不足道的鄙见看来，这就是一种怪事。

I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili⁵, your doubloons of Bolivia,  我在以前的多次航行中，早就看到过好些种杜柏仑；你们那些古西班牙的杜柏仑，秘鲁的杜柏仑，智利的杜柏仑，玻利维亚的杜柏仑，

your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes. 波巴扬（南美哥伦比亚的一个城市。）的杜柏仑，还看到许多金蒙伊多尔（葡萄牙旧金币名。），比斯多（西班牙的旧金币名。），约伊（英国对于值四个便士的银元的称呼。），半个约伊，四分之一的约伊。

What then should there be in this doubloon of the Equator that is so killing⁶ wonderful? 那么，这种厄瓜多尔的杜柏仑居然有这么了不起？

By Golconda! let me read it once. Halloa! here's signs and wonders truly! 乖乖！让我也去看它一看吧。啊！这倒真是奇迹！

That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome⁷ calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto. 那么，这大概就是波狄奇老头在他那本《概论》里管它叫黄道的东西，也就是我放在下面那本历书上同样管它叫黄道的东西吧。

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