英语听书《海底两万里》第395期 第25章 地中海四十八小时(21)

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it grew rockier and seemed to be strewn with pudding stones and a basaltic gravel³ called "tuff," together with bits of lava⁴ and sulfurous obsidian⁵.  石头愈来愈多，有好些变质岩，玄武石凝灰岩，同时又有硫磺火石和黑暇石散在中间。

I expected these long plains to change into mountain regions, and in fact, as the Nautilus was executing certain turns, I noticed that the southerly horizon was blocked by a high wall that seemed to close off every exit.  我想山岳地带不久就要接上辽阔的平原。真的，在诺第留斯号更往前驶的时候，我望见南方的天际水平线，被一带高墙挡起来，好像完全没有出路似的。

Its summit obviously poked⁶ above the level of the ocean.  很显然，墙顶是超出大洋水面了。

It had to be a continent or at least an island, either one of the Canaries or one of the Cape⁷ Verde Islands.  那可能是大陆，至少也是一个岛，或加纳里群岛之一，或青角群岛之一。

Our bearings hadn't been marked on the chart-perhaps deliberately-and I had no idea what our position was.  船方位的标记还没有做—可能是有意这样—我不知道我们所在的方位。

In any case this wall seemed to signal the end of Atlantis, of which, all in all, we had crossed only a small part. 总之，这座高墙我看来是标记出大西洋洲的尽头，我们没有走过的恐怕也只有很小的一部分了。

Nightfall didn't interrupt my observations. I was left to myself. Conseil had repaired to his cabin.  黑夜没有中断我的观察，我独自一人留下，康塞尔回他的房中去了。

The Nautilus slowed down, hovering⁸ above the muddled⁹ masses on the seafloor, sometimes grazing them as if wanting to come to rest, sometimes rising unpredictably to the surface of the waves.  诺第留斯号行驶缓慢，在地面认不清的一堆一堆东西上面往来盘旋，有时它接触到这些乱堆，好像它想停留在上面似的；有时又很任意地浮出海水面上来。

Then I glimpsed a few bright constellations¹⁰ through the crystal waters, specifically five or six of those zodiacal stars trailing from the tail end of Orion. 我这时通过海水透明晶体，望见一些光辉的星宿，那正是跟参垦鱼贯排列起来的六七颗黄道星宿。

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