英语听书《海底两万里》第503期 第31章 章鱼(11)

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Before my eyes there quivered a horrible monster worthy¹ of a place among the most farfetched teratological legends. 在我的眼前，游动着一头可怕的完全配得上载入那些离奇怪诞的传说中的怪物。

It was a squid of colossal² dimensions, fully³ eight meters long. 这是一条8米长的巨大的章鱼。

It was traveling backward with tremendous speed in the same direction as the Nautilus. 它非常迅速地往“鹦鹉螺号”船只的同一方向倒退走。

It gazed with enormous, staring eyes that were tinted⁴ sea green. 它那巨大的海绿色眼睛盯着我们。

Its eight arms (or more accurately⁵, feet) were rooted in its head, which has earned these animals the name cephalopod; 那八只长在头上、使它被称为头足动物的爪子，或者说八只脚，

its arms stretched a distance twice the length of its body and were writhing⁶ like the serpentine⁷ hair of the Furies.  伸展时相当于身体的两倍，像复仇三女神的头发一样扭动着。

You could plainly see its 250 suckers, arranged over the inner sides of its tentacles⁸ and shaped like semispheric capsules.  我们清楚地看到它的两百五十个吸盘，呈半圆球状，排列在触脚的内侧。

Sometimes these suckers fastened onto the lounge window by creating vacuums against it. 有时，这些吸盘内形成真空紧紧地吸住客厅的玻璃。

The monster's mouth--a beak⁹ made of horn and shaped like that of a parrot--opened and closed vertically¹⁰. 这头怪物的嘴——像鹦鹉的喙一样是骨质的——垂直地一张一翕。

Its tongue, also of horn substance and armed with several rows of sharp teeth, would flicker¹¹ out from between these genuine shears¹². 它的骨质舌头上武装着好几排尖牙，颤动时活像一把真正的大铁剪。

What a freak of nature! 大自然是多离奇怪诞啊！

A bird's beak on a mollusk¹³! 一只软体动物竟然长着一只鸟喙！

Its body was spindle-shaped and swollen¹⁴ in the middle, a fleshy mass that must have weighed 20,000 to 25,000 kilograms.  它的身体成棱形，中间部位鼓起，形成一块重可达20000到25000公斤的肉。

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