英语听书《海底两万里》第429期 第26章 大头鲸和长须鲸(10)

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But where's he going? I asked. 他究竟要到哪里去呢？我问。

Straight ahead, Conseil replied.  到前面去，康塞尔回答，

Ultimately, when he can't go any farther, he'll stop. 总之，到了他不能再往前走的时候，他也就只好停止了。

I wouldn't bet on it! I replied. 我可不敢肯定这样说！我回答。

And in all honesty, I confess that this venturesome excursion was far from displeasing² to me.  但白说，我承认这种冒险的游历使我觉得痛快。

I can't express the intensity³ of my amazement⁴ at the beauties of these new regions.  这些新鲜地方的奇美让我迷醉惊异到怎样的程度、那我无法可以表示。

The ice struck superb poses.  冰群的姿态变得更雄伟壮丽了。

Here, its general effect suggested an oriental town with countless⁵ minarets⁶ and mosques⁷.  这边，是一大群冰块形成一座东方城市，中有无数的清真寺院和尖塔。

There, a city in ruins, flung to the ground by convulsions in the earth.  那里，是一座倒塌的城，因为地震动了，被推倒在地下。

These views were varied⁸ continuously by the sun's oblique⁹ rays, or were completely swallowed up by gray mists in the middle of blizzards¹⁰.  阳光斜照；它们现出变换不停的形色，这些形色又迷失在雪花飞舞的大风暴中的灰色云雾里面。

Then explosions, cave-ins, and great iceberg¹¹ somersaults would occur all around us, altering the scenery like the changing landscape in a diorama. 其次、处处都是爆炸、崩裂，冰山大翻筋斗，把这里的整个布景都改变了，像一幅透光风景油画一样。

If the Nautilus was submerged during these losses of balance, we heard the resulting noises spread under the waters with frightful¹² intensity, and the collapse¹³ of these masses created daunting¹⁴ eddies¹⁵ down to the ocean's lower strata¹⁶.  当这些冰群的平衡破坏了的时候，诺第留斯号便潜入水中；声音传到下面，强烈惊人，冰群下沉，造成深而阔的可怕的水涡；力量直到冰洋很深的水层。

The Nautilus then rolled and pitched like a ship left to the fury of the elements. 诺第留斯号于是乱滚乱摇，把持不住，像被疯狂的水流所卷走的一样。

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