英语听书《白鲸记》第9期

  It stood on a sharp bleak¹ corner, where that tempestuous² wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft. 

 Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty³ pleasant zephyr⁴ to any one in doors, with his feet on the hob quietly toasting for bed. 

" In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," says an old writer of whose works I possess the only copy extant" it maketh a marvellous difference, 

 whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, 

 or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, 

 and of which the wight Death is the only glazier." True enough, thought I, as this passage occurred to my mindold black letter, 

 thou reasonest well. 

 Yes, these eyes are windows, and this body of mine is the house. 

 What a pity they did not stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint⁵ here and there. 

 But it's too late to make any improvements now. 

 The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. 

 Poor Lazarus there, chattering⁶ his teeth against the curbstone for his pillow, and shaking off his tatters with his shiverings, 

 he might plug up both ears with rags, and put a corn cob into his mouth, and yet that would not keep out the tempestuous Euroclydon. 

 Euroclydon! says old Dives, in his red silken wrapper( he had a redder one afterwards) pooh, 

 pooh! 

 What a fine frosty night; how Orion glitters; what northern lights! 

 Let them talk of their oriental summer climes of everlasting⁷ conservatories⁸; give me the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals. 

 But what thinks Lazarus? 

 Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? 

 Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? 

 Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, 

 ye gods! go down to the fiery⁹ pit itself, in order to keep out this frost? 

 Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded¹⁰ there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg¹¹ should be moored¹² to one of the Moluccas. 

 Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, 

 and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid¹³ tears of orphans¹⁴. 

 But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. 

 Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this" Spouter¹⁵" may be. 

1 bleak   

adj.(天气)阴冷的；凄凉的；暗淡的

参考例句：

• They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
• The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。

2 tempestuous   

adj.狂暴的

参考例句：

• She burst into a tempestuous fit of anger.她勃然大怒。
• Dark and tempestuous was night.夜色深沉，狂风肆虐，暴雨倾盆。

3 mighty   

adj.强有力的；巨大的

参考例句：

• A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
• The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。

4 zephyr   

n.和风，微风

参考例句：

• I feel very comfortable in the zephyr from the sea.从海上吹来的和风令我非常惬意。
• Zephyr,the West Wind,blew away the clouds so that Apollo,the sun god,could shine and made this flower bloom.西风之神吹散了云朵，太阳神阿波罗得以照耀它并使它开花。

5 lint   

n.线头；绷带用麻布，皮棉

参考例句：

• Flicked the lint off the coat.把大衣上的棉绒弹掉。
• There are a few problems of air pollution by chemicals,lint,etc.,but these are minor.化学品、棉花等也造成一些空气污染问题，但这是次要的。

6 chattering   

n. （机器振动发出的）咔嗒声，(鸟等)鸣，啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的，啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The teacher told the children to stop chattering in class. 老师叫孩子们在课堂上不要叽叽喳喳讲话。
• I was so cold that my teeth were chattering. 我冷得牙齿直打战。

7 everlasting   

adj.永恒的，持久的，无止境的

参考例句：

• These tyres are advertised as being everlasting.广告上说轮胎持久耐用。
• He believes in everlasting life after death.他相信死后有不朽的生命。

8 conservatories   

n.（培植植物的）温室，暖房( conservatory的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Conservatories have grown in popularity over the past 10 years. 过去10年，温室越来越受到欢迎。 来自互联网
• FEBRI ELEMENT offers Offers to Railing systems, Aluminium elements and Conservatories. 是一家现代化、得信赖的产品供应商，该供应商从事栏杆，护栏系统，梯式支座装置、式支座装置，钢梯的制造和销售。 来自互联网

9 fiery   

adj.燃烧着的，火红的；暴躁的；激烈的

参考例句：

• She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
• His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。

10 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

11 iceberg   

n.冰山，流冰，冷冰冰的人

参考例句：

• The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。

12 moored   

adj. 系泊的 动词moor的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London. 该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。
• We shipped (the) oars and moored alongside the bank. 我们收起桨，把船泊在岸边。

13 tepid   

adj.微温的，温热的，不太热心的

参考例句：

• She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.她把嘴伸到水龙头底下去喝那微温的水。
• Her feet firmly planted on the tepid rough brick of the floor.她一双脚稳固地立在微温而粗糙的砖地上。

14 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

15 spouter   

喷油井；捕鲸船；说话滔滔不绝的人；照管流出槽的工人

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