英语听书《海底两万里》第432期 第26章 大头鲸和长须鲸(13)

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The Ice Bank! the Canadian told me. 冰山！加拿大人对我说。

For Ned Land, as well as for every navigator before us, I knew that this was the great insurmountable obstacle.  我明白，对尼德·兰和对所有我们以前的航海家来说，冰山是不可超越的障碍。

When the sun appeared for an instant near noon, Captain Nemo took a reasonably accurate sight that gave our position as longitude¹ 51 degrees 30' and latitude² 67 degrees 39' south.  太阳在中午左右，有一会儿现出来，尼摩船长做了一次相当正确的观察，指明船是在西经 51度30分，南纬67度39分。

This was a position already well along in these Antarctic regions. 这已经是：南冰洋地区相当深入的一点了。

As for the liquid surface of the sea, there was no longer any semblance³ of it before our eyes.  大海呀，流动的水面呀，这时在我们眼前看来完全不像了。

Before the Nautilus's spur there lay vast broken plains, a tangle⁴ of confused chunks⁵ with all the helter-skelter unpredictability typical of a river's surface a short while before its ice breakup; but in this case the proportions were gigantic.  对着诺第留斯号的冲角，展开一片崎岖不平的广大平原，夹杂了混乱不清的大冰群，再加上那种乱七八糟凌乱无序的景象，就像在解冻前不久的时候，河面所显出来的一样，不过面积是十分巨大罢了。

Here and there stood sharp peaks, lean spires⁶ that rose as high as 200 feet; farther off, a succession of steeply cut cliffs sporting a grayish tint⁷, huge mirrors that reflected the sparse⁸ rays of a sun half drowned in mist.  到处都有峭削的尖峰，像直升到二百英尺高的细针，远一点，削戍尖峰的一连串悬崖，带着灰白的色泽，像一面一面的大镜，反映出一些半浸在云雾中的阳光。

Beyond, a stark⁹ silence reigned¹⁰ in this desolate¹¹ natural setting, a silence barely broken by the flapping wings of petrels or puffins.  其次，在这凄绝荒凉的自然界中，是那野得可怕的寂静，就是那海燕和海鸭的振翅声也没有能把它打破。

By this point everything was frozen, even sound. 一切都是冰冻了，连声音也冰冻了。

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