英语听书《白鲸记》第230期

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THIS TABLET Is erected³ to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. 他的未亡人特立此碑以为纪念。

Shaking off the sleet⁴ from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.  我抖掉我的冰结得闪亮的帽子和外套上的雨雪后,在靠门边的地方坐下来,出乎意料的是,我侧过头去一看,魁魁格就在我旁边。

Affected⁵ by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance⁶.  他受到了这种肃穆的气氛的感染,脸上显出一股奇特的信疑参半。想探个究竟的神气。

This savage⁷ was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance;  这个野人似乎是在场的人群中,唯一看到我走进来的人;

because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid⁸ inscriptions⁹ on the wall. 因为只有他不识字,所以不在念墙上那些索然无味的碑文。

Whether any of the relatives of the seamen¹⁰ whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not;  究竟在这些会众中,有没有那些刻在碑上的水手们的亲属,我可不知道;

but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief,  但在捕鱼业中,这种没有记录的意外事件,本来就是多得不可胜数,而且,很明显地,在场的女人中,虽然有几个脸上没有一种无止的忧伤的装饰,

that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak¹¹ tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh. 但是,我敢断定,在我面前这些集合在这里的妇女,一看到这些凄凉的石碑,她们那创伤未愈的心胸,一定会触景生情,旧恨添新愁。

Oh! ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing¹² among flowers can say-here, here lies my beloved;  啊!你们这些有死亡的亲属埋在青草冢里的人;你们可以站在花丛中指着说...喏,这里躺有我的亲人;

ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms¹³ like these. What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!  你们却体会不出象这样郁积在心里的凄怆之情。在这些下边并没有骨灰的镶黑边的碑石里,是多么凄怆和空虚!这些不可移动的碑文多么使人绝望!

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