英语听书《海底两万里》第394期 第25章 地中海四十八小时(20)

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bright-colored weevers known in Aristotle's day as sea dragons and whose dorsal² stingers make them quite dangerous to pick up,  有颜色生动的海鳝，亚里士多德时代，名字叫海龙，脊背上有利刺，捕捉它们的时候很危险。

then dolphinfish with brown backs striped in blue and edged in gold, handsome dorados, moonlike opahs that look like azure³ disks but which the sun's rays turn into spots of silver,  其次有哥利芬鱼，脊背褐色，带蓝色小条纹，圈在边缘金黄的框子里面。有美丽的扁鱼！月形金口鱼，像发出天蓝色光线的盘，阳光照在上面，像银白色的斑点一般。

finally eight-meter swordfish from the genus Xiphias, swimming in schools, sporting yellowish sickle-shaped fins⁴ and six-foot broadswords, stalwart animals, plant eaters rather than fish eaters, obeying the tiniest signals from their females like henpecked husbands. 最后有旗形一角鱼，长八米，成群结队地走过，它们带淡黄色的鳍，鳍长六英尺，作镰刀和长剑形，这是很勇敢大胆的鱼，爱吃革叶，不爱吃小鱼，雄一角鱼看见雌一角鱼的些微动作，立即服从，就像素有训练的很驯服的丈夫那样。

But while observing these different specimens⁵ of marine⁶ fauna⁷, I didn't stop examining the long plains of Atlantis.  但是，就在观察这些海洋动物的不同品种的时候，我也不停地看那大西洋洲的辽阔平原。

Sometimes an unpredictable irregularity in the seafloor would force the Nautilus to slow down, and then it would glide⁸ into the narrow channels between the hills with a cetacean's dexterity⁹.  有时，由于平原地面的崎岖不平，使得诺第留斯号的速度要缓慢些；它于是像鲸鱼类一样巧妙，溜进许多丘陵形成的狭窄曲折的水道里面去。

If the labyrinth¹⁰ became hopelessly tangled¹¹, the submersible would rise above it like an airship, and after clearing the obstacle,  如果这个五花八门的地带无从走出，它就跟轻气球一般浮上来，越过了障碍后，

it would resume its speedy course just a few meters above the ocean floor.  它再到深几米的海底下迅速行驶。

It was an enjoyable and impressive way of navigating¹² that did indeed recall the maneuvers¹³ of an airship ride, with the major difference that the Nautilus faithfully obeyed the hands of its helmsman. 真是使人钦佩和使人神迷的航行，让人联想起空中飞行的轻气球的情形，但有这样一种分别，就是诺第留斯号完全服从它的领航人的两手。

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