英语听书《白鲸记》第842期

 How it was exactly, continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul¹ of his teeth, caught there somehow; 它究竟想干什么，这个独臂船长继续说下去，"我可不清楚；可是它在咬绳索的时候，不知怎么一来，绳索绊住了它的牙齿，把它扎住了；

but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! 我们当时并不知道；因此，等到后来我们拉绳索的时候，砰地一冲，我们全都噗通掉到它那背峰上去！

instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking. 而其它那些鲸却都给侥幸地望风逃去了。

Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it was— the noblest and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life, 看到这般情势，又是这么一只了不起的大鲸——老兄，这是我生平所见到的最了不起最大的东西，

I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage he seemed to be in. 我打定主意要捉住它，不管它看来是火气多么大。

And thinking the hap-hazard line would get loose, or the tooth it was tangled² to might draw (for I have a devil of a boat's crew for a pull on a whale-line); 可是，想到那条危——危险的绳索会给松脱，或者是绊住它牙齿的那根绳索会给甩脱（因为我已经他妈的叫全艇的水手都来拉住那根绳子了）；

seeing all this, I say, I jumped into my first mate's boat—Mr. Mounttop's here (by the way, Captain—Mounttop; Mounttop—the captain); 总之，看到了这种种情形，我就跳进我那大副的小艇里——就是这位蒙托泼先生（顺便介绍一下，船长——这是蒙托泼，蒙托泼——这是船长）；

as I was saying, I jumped into Mounttop's boat, which, d'ye see, was gunwale and gunwale with mine,  我刚才说，我跳进了蒙托泼的小艇里，你知道，当时，我们两只小艇正紧靠着；

then; and snatching the first harpoon³, let this old great-grandfather have it. 我就抓着首先看到的一支标枪，给这条老祖宗尝尝厉害。

But, Lord, look you, sir—hearts and souls alive, man—the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat—both eyes out, 可是，天啊，你听着，先生——哎呀！老朋友——紧接着，一眨眼工夫，我就象只蝙蝠似的，什么都看不见了——两只眼睛都瞎了，

all befogged and bedeadened with black foam—the whale's tail looming⁴ straight up out of it, perpendicular⁵ in the air, like a marble steeple. 全都让那阵墨黑的泡沫弄得昏昏蒙蒙了——大鲸的尾巴从泡沫里矗起，笔直地耸到空中，活象个大理石尖塔。

No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; 当时再往后退也没有用了；可是，正当我在午刻时分摸索着的时候，那只扎眼的太阳，就象是王冠上的珠宝；

as I was groping, I say, after the second iron, to toss it overboard—down comes the tail like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters; 我说正当我投了第二支标枪后，又在摸索着的时候，那条尾巴却从下面象座利马塔一般甩了起来，把我的小艇一切为两，各成两堆木片了；

1 foul   

adj.污秽的；邪恶的；v.弄脏；妨害；犯规；n.犯规

参考例句：

• Take off those foul clothes and let me wash them.脱下那些脏衣服让我洗一洗。
• What a foul day it is!多么恶劣的天气！

2 tangled   

adj. 纠缠的，紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Your hair's so tangled that I can't comb it. 你的头发太乱了，我梳不动。
• A movement caught his eye in the tangled undergrowth. 乱灌木丛里的晃动引起了他的注意。

3 harpoon   

n.鱼叉；vt.用鱼叉叉，用鱼叉捕获

参考例句：

• The harpoon drove deep into the body of the whale.渔叉深深地扎进鲸鱼体内。
• The fisherman transfixed the shark with a harpoon.渔夫用鱼叉刺住鲨鱼。

4 looming   

n.上现蜃景（光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼）v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望

5 perpendicular   

adj.垂直的，直立的；n.垂直线，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The two lines of bones are set perpendicular to one another.这两排骨头相互垂直。
• The wall is out of the perpendicular.这墙有些倾斜。