英语听书《白鲸记》第43期

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Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed¹ head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money.  第二天，是星期一。我把那个香料制的人头卖给了一个理发匠，就去找店老板结账，账是我们俩的，钱却是他一个人的。 

The grinning landlord, as well as the boarders, seemed amazingly tickled² at the sudden friendship which had sprung up between me and Queequeg—especially as Peter Coffin's cock and bull stories about him had previously³ so much alarmed me concerning the very person whom I now companied with.  店里的人们对我们俩之间突然产生的友谊似乎很感兴趣，特别是店老板彼德·科芬，他关于野人的谎话曾经把我吓了个半死，可如今我和野人成了好朋友。 

We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking⁴ our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner⁵ moored⁶ at the wharf⁷.  我借了一辆独轮车，把我们的行李装了上去，直奔停泊在港口的邮船“摩斯号”。 

As we were going along the people stared; not at Queequeg so much—for they were used to seeing cannibals like him in their streets, 一路上有很多人注视着我们。他们看的并非魁魁格，因为街头巷尾像他这样的人并不鲜见，

but at seeing him and me upon such confidential⁸ terms.  他们感到奇怪的是我跟这样一个人的良好的关系。 

But we heeded⁹ them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon¹⁰ barbs¹¹.  对他们我们一点也不理会，轮流推着小车往前走，魁魁格偶尔停一停，整理一下标枪钩上的皮鞘。 

I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore¹², and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons¹³.  我问他是不是捕鲸船上都不备标枪而要标枪手自带。

To this, in substance, he replied, that though what I hinted was true enough, yet he had a particular affection for his own harpoon,  他说他的标枪质地上乘、饱经战阵，

because it was of assured stuff, well tried in many a mortal combat, and deeply intimate with the hearts of whales. In short, like many inland reapers¹⁴ and mowers, who go into the farmers' meadows armed with their own scythes—though in no wise obliged to furnish them—even so,  捅到过数不清的大鲸鱼的心脏，就像一个农民喜欢自己的镰刀一样，他无比热爱自己的标枪。独轮车由我手里转到他手里时，

Queequeg, for his own private reasons, preferred his own harpoon.  魁魁格给我讲了一个关于他第一次见到独轮车的故事。

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