英语听书《白鲸记》第193期

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Fill to this mark, and your charge is but a penny; to this a penny more; and so on to the full glass-the Cape³ Horn measure, which you may gulp⁴ down for a shilling. 倒到这一格,只要你一个便士;再倒到这一格,又得再加一个便士;依此类推,直到倒满一杯。这种合恩角的量器,使人一口就可以喝掉一个先令。

Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen⁵ gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers⁶ specimens⁷ of skrimshander.  我进去后,看到几个年轻水手聚在桌旁,靠着暗淡的灯光,正在检视各式各样的解闷手工。

I sought the landlord, and telling him I desired to be accommodated with a room, received for answer that his house was full-not a bed unoccupied.  我找到了店老板,对他说,我要一个房间,得到的回答是屋子住满了...没有一张空床。

But avast, he added, tapping his forehead, you haint no objections to sharing a harpooneer's blanket, have ye?  不过,慢着,他敲着额头,又说,跟一个标枪手睡一床你反对不反对呢?

I s'pose you are goin' a-whalin', so you'd better get used to that sort of thing. 我想你是要去捕鲸的,所以,你还是习惯一下这种事情吧。

I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be,  我对他说,我从来不喜欢两个人睡一只床;还说,我要是非这样做不可,也得看那个标枪手是怎样一种人。

and that if he (the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable,  我又说,如果他(店老板)实在没有别的地方可给我住,那个标枪手又不是很叫人讨厌的,

why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket. 那么,这样冰冷的夜晚,与其再到这个陌生的城市去乱闯,倒不如勉强跟任何一个规规矩矩的人睡一床算了。

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