英语听书《白鲸记》第227期

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The streets do not run with milk; nor in the spring-time do they pave them with fresh eggs.  街上并不是遍地牛奶;春天也不是满街铺满鲜蛋。

Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New Bedford.  然而,尽管如此,人们走遍全美洲,也找不到一个象新贝德福这样尽是贵族宅邸。

Whence came they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country? 华丽非凡的公园和花园的地方.那么,这些都是打哪里来的呢?这些是怎样在这块一度是瘦瘠的。火山岩渣似的地方上生起来的呢?

Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical¹ harpoons² round yonder lofty mansion³, and your question will be answered.  那么,请你走到那边那座高楼大厦去瞧瞧那些具有象征意义的铁标枪,你的疑问就可以获得解答。

Yes; all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.  不错,所有这些富丽堂皇的房屋和花花草草的庭园都是从大西洋，太平洋和印度洋捞来的。

One and all, they were harpooned⁴ and dragged up hither from the bottom of the sea. Can Herr Alexander perform a feat⁵ like that? 每一样东西,都是从海底里用标枪戳起。拉起的。阿历山大先生可变得来这样的戏法吗?

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises⁶ a-piece.  据说,在新贝德福,做父亲的都拿大鲸给他们的女儿。分几条小鲸给他们的侄女儿做嫁妆。

You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding;  你必须去看一看新贝德福的阔绰的婚礼;

for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their lengths in spermaceti candles. 因为,据说,每份人家都有油池,每夜都毫不在乎地通宵点起鲸脑烛。

In summer time, the town is sweet to see; full of fine maples-long avenues of green and gold.  夏季里,这城市看了真叫人爱;尽是些美丽的枫树...形成一条条翠绿金黄的幽道。

And in August, high in air, the beautiful and bountiful horse-chestnuts, candelabra-wise, proffer⁷ the passer-by their tapering⁸ upright cones⁹ of congregated¹⁰ blossoms.  而到了八月里,那些华丽丰盛的七叶树耸入云霄,象华表一般给路人献出它们那笔直有如尖顶的簇开的花朵。

So omnipotent¹¹ is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day. 这是多雄伟的天工!在新贝德福就有许多创世末日所遗留下来的。荒芜不毛的岩石,重新长出许多灿烂夺目的花坛来。

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