英语听书《海底两万里》第428期 第26章 大头鲸和长须鲸(9)

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icebergs², or mountains; ice fields, or smooth, limitless tracts³; drift ice, or floating floes; packs, or broken tracts, called patches when they're circular and streams when they form long strips. 像山的冰山，冰田或无边际的平坦田场，浮冰或漂流的冰，层冰或碎裂的冰田，圆形环弯的称为冰圈，拉长一块一块的称为冰流。温度表放在外面，指着零下二度至三度。但我们穿着皮的衣服。

The temperature was fairly low.  温度相当的低，

Exposed to the outside air, the thermometer marked -2 degrees to-3 degrees centigrade.  温度表放在外面，指着零下二度至三度。

But we were warmly dressed in furs, for which seals and aquatic⁴ bears had paid the price.  但我们穿着皮的衣服。很暖和。这些皮是海豹和海熊供应我们的。

Evenly heated by all its electric equipment, the Nautilus's interior defied the most intense cold.  诺第留斯号内部经常有电气机发热，不怕严寒；

Moreover, to find a bearable temperature, the ship had only to sink just a few meters beneath the waves. 并且，要得到使人可以受得住的温度，到达不太寒不太热的所在，那它只需潜下水底几米深就成了。

Two months earlier we would have enjoyed perpetual daylight in this latitude⁵; but night already fell for three or four hours, and later it would cast six months of shadow over these circumpolar regions. 早两个月，在这纬度内，可能永远是白天，但现在已经有三至四小时的黑夜了，再迟一些，黑夜就要长到六个月。把它的阴影遮盖这些环极圈地方。

On March 15 we passed beyond the latitude of the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands.  3月15日，南设德兰群岛和南奥克内群岛的纬度走过了。

The captain told me that many tribes of seals used to inhabit these shores;  8月16日早晨八点，诺第留斯号沿着西经55度行驶。

but English and American whalers, in a frenzy⁶ of destruction, slaughtered⁷ all the adults, including pregnant females, and where life and activity once existed, those fishermen left behind only silence and death. 过南极圈驶去。这里处处都是冰块围绕着我们，四边封起，无路可通。

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