英语听书《海底两万里》第215期 第16章 在海底平原散步(6)

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　　I recognized the lower slopes of some magnificent rocks carpeted by the finest zoophyte specimens², and right off, I was struck by an effect unique to this medium. 我看出这是海底岩石前沿好看的一列，石上满铺着最美丽的形形色色的植虫动物；我首先就被这种特有的景色怔住。

　　By then it was ten o'clock in the morning.  这时是早晨十点。

　　The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique³ angle, decomposing⁴ by refraction as though passing through a prism;  太阳光在相当倾斜的角度下，投射在水波面上，光线由于曲折作用，像通过三梭镜一样被分解，

　　and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues⁵ of the solar spectrum⁶.  海底的花、石、植物、介壳、珊瑚类动物，一接触被分解的光线，在边缘上显现出太阳分光的七种不同颜色。

　　This riot of rainbow tints⁷ was a wonder, a feast for the eyes: a genuine kaleidoscope of red, green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo⁸, and blue;  这种所有浓淡颜色的错综交结，真正是一架红、橙、黄、绿、青、蓝、紫的彩色缤纷的万花筒，

　　in short, the whole palette of a color-happy painter!  总之，它就是十分讲究的水彩画家的一整套颜色！

　　If only I had been able to share with Conseil the intense sensations rising in my brain, competing with him in exclamations⁹ of wonderment!  看来实在是神奇，实在是眼福！我怎样才能把我心中所有的新奇感觉告诉康塞尔呢！怎样才能跟他一齐发出赞叹呢！

　　If only I had known, like Captain Nemo and his companion, how to exchange thoughts by means of prearranged signals!  我怎样才能跟尼摩船长和他的同伴一样，利用一种约定的记号来传达我的思想呢！

　　So, for lack of anything better, I talked to myself: I declaimed inside this copper¹⁰ box that topped my head, spending more air on empty words than was perhaps advisable. 因为没有更好的办法，所以我只好自己对自己说话，在套着自己脑袋的铜盒子里面大声叫喊；虽然我知道，说这些空话消耗的空气恐怕比预定的要多些。

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