英语听书《白鲸记》第967期

 Who art thou, boy? 你是谁呀，孩子？

Bell-boy, sir; ship's-crier; ding, dong, ding! Pip! Pip! Pip! 我是钟僮，先生；是船上的号丁；叮，咚，叮！比普！比普！比普！

One hundred pounds of clay reward for Pip; five feet high — looks cowardly — quickest known by that! 比普生来体重一百磅；五英尺高——样子就是胆怯怯的——一看就看得出！

Ding, dong, ding! Who's seen Pip the coward? 叮，咚，叮！谁个见过比普这胆小鬼来着？

There can be no hearts above the snow-line. Oh, ye frozen heavens! look down here. 在雪线上边的，是不会有善心人的。你这冻却了的上天呵！你低下头来瞧一瞧吧。

Ye did beget¹ this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines². 你生下了这个倒霉的孩子，又把他抛弃了，你这造物的浪子呀。

Here, boy; Ahab's cabin shall be Pip's home henceforth, while Ahab lives. 过来，伙计，从今以后，只要亚哈活着，亚哈的舱室就是比普的家。

Thou touchest my inmost centre, boy; thou art tied to me by cords woven of my heart-strings. Come, let's down. 你打动了我的心坎，孩子；你让我的心弦织成的绳索跟我紧绑在一起了。来，来，咱们下去吧。

What's this? here's velvet³ shark-skin, intently gazing at Ahab's hand, and feeling it. 这是什么？这是丝绒似的鲨鱼皮呀，他凝神谛视着亚哈的手，摩挲着它。

"Ah, now, had poor Pip but felt so kind a thing as this, perhaps he had ne'er been lost! "呀，呀，如果早让可怜的比普摸到这样柔滑的东西，也许他永远也不会走失！

This seems to me, sir, as a man-rope; something that weak souls may hold by. 这东西呀，我觉得好象是根舷门索，先生；这是那些胆小的家伙可以拉牢的东西。

Oh, sir, let old Perth now come and rivet⁴ these two hands together; the black one with the white, for I will not let this go." 呵，先生，现在就找柏斯老头来吧，叫他把这两只手给钉在一起；一只黑手跟一只白手钉在一起，因为我不愿意放掉这只手。"

Oh, boy, nor will I thee, unless I should thereby⁵ drag thee to worse horrors than are here. Come, then, to my cabin. 呵，孩子，我也不愿意放掉你那只手，除非是我把你拖到比现在更叫人害怕的地方去。来吧，那么，到我舱室里去。

 

1 beget   

v.引起；产生

参考例句：

• Dragons beget dragons,phoenixes beget phoenixes.龙生龙，凤生凤。
• Economic tensions beget political ones.经济紧张导致政治紧张。

2 libertines   

n.放荡不羁的人，淫荡的人( libertine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Peter had been very busy with The Libertines and was exhausted. PETE在LIBERTINES非常忙碌甚至精疲力竭。 来自互联网
• He flew in from Japan where The Libertines were on tour. PETE喜欢叫自己外婆利物浦的南希，和外婆关系特别好。 来自互联网

3 velvet   

n.丝绒，天鹅绒；adj.丝绒制的，柔软的

参考例句：

• This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
• The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。

4 rivet   

n.铆钉；vt.铆接，铆牢；集中(目光或注意力)

参考例句：

• They were taught how to bore rivet holes in the sides of ships.有人教他们如何在船的舷侧钻铆孔。
• The rivet heads are in good condition and without abrasion.铆钉钉头状况良好，并无过度磨损。

5 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。