英语听书《白鲸记》第372期（在线收听） |
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish. 第一,鲸类学这门科学之未定未决的情形,正是有待于事实证明的首当其冲的问题,在某些方面说来,它还有一个争议未决的问题,那就是大鲸究竟是不是鱼。 In his System of Nature, A.D. 1776, Linnaeus declares, I hereby separate the whales from the fish. 林尼厄斯在写于一七七六年的《自然之体系》一书中说,这里我要把鲸与鱼区别开来。
But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnaeus's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan. 不过,就我所知,我知道直至一八五○年,鲨鱼和鲱鱼, |
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