英语听书《海底两万里》第456期 第27章 南极(15)

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For a man out of practice at treading land, the captain scaled the steepest slopes with a supple⁵ agility⁶ I couldn't equal, and which would have been envied by hunters of Pyrenees mountain goats. 船长是一个已经不惯踩踏陆地的人，走上这些最陡峭的斜坡，轻便灵活，不单我不能比，就是追赶羚羊的猎人心中也要欣羡。

It took us two hours to reach the summit of this half-crystal, half-basalt peak.  我们费了两个钟头，才到达这座云斑岩、玄武岩掺杂的尖峰上面。

From there our eyes scanned a vast sea, which scrawled⁷ its boundary line firmly against the background of the northern sky.  从上面看，我们的眼光望见一片广阔的海，海在北面天空中清楚现出它的最后界线来。

At our feet: dazzling tracts⁸ of white. Over our heads: a pale azure⁹, clear of mists.  我们脚下，是眩眼的光辉的白冰常我们头上，是从云雾中现出来的淡白的蔚蓝色。

North of us: the sun's disk, like a ball of fire already cut into by the edge of the horizon.  在北方，太阳的轮盘像一只火球一样，已经被水平线的锋刃削开一角了。

From the heart of the waters: jets of liquid rising like hundreds of magnificent bouquets¹⁰.  海水中间，有美丽好看的喷水花束成千成百地放出来。

Far off, like a sleeping cetacean: the Nautilus. Behind us to the south and east: an immense shore, a chaotic¹¹ heap of rocks and ice whose limits we couldn't see. 远远的所在，是那诺第留斯号，像酣睡着的鲸科动物一样。在我们后面，东方和南方，有一片广阔的陆地，是望不见边际的岩石和冰群的凌乱层台。

Arriving at the summit of this peak, Captain Nemo carefully determined¹² its elevation¹³ by means of his barometer¹⁴, since he had to take this factor into account in his noon sights. 尼摩船长走到峰顶上，拿晴雨表小心测量尖峰的高度，因为在他的观察中，峰高也要估计在内。

At 11:45 the sun, by then seen only by refraction, looked like a golden disk, dispersing¹⁵ its last rays over this deserted¹⁶ continent and down to these seas not yet plowed¹⁷ by the ships of man. 正午差一刻，单从折光作用看，太阳像金盘一样现出，它对这从没有人迹来过的海面，把它的最后光芒散在荒凉无人的大陆上。

Captain Nemo had brought a spyglass with a reticular eyepiece, which corrected the sun's refraction by means of a mirror, and he used it to observe the orb¹⁸ sinking little by little along a very extended diagonal that reached below the horizon.  尼摩船长戴上网形线望远镜，这镜利用一个镜面，可以改正折光作用，他观察那沿着一条拖拉得很长的对角线，渐渐沉入水平线下的太阳。

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