No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man. 怕什么；我就喜欢好钳力；在这个活里活络的世界上，我就喜欢碰碰钳得住的东西，老朋友。

　　What's Prometheus about there?— the blacksmith, I mean—what's he about? 那个普洛米修斯（希腊神话中那个拿火给人类的神，这里借指铁匠。）在那边忙些什么？——我说的是那个铁匠——他在忙些什么呀？

　　He must be forging the buckle-screw, sir, now. 啊，先生，这会儿，他一定是在打旋钉。

　　Right. It's a partnership; he supplies the muscle part. He makes a fierce red flame there! 对，这就是合作互助；他供给筋肉方面的东西。他正在那边烧起通红的火焰！

　　Aye, sir; he must have the white heat for this kind of fine work. 是呀，先生，要做这种精巧活儿，就得有白热。

　　Um-m. So he must. 唔——唔。他是一定要有白热。

　　I do deem it now a most meaning thing, that that old Greek, Prometheus, who made men, they say, should have been a blacksmith, and animated them with fire; 我承认这是桩最有意义的事情，据说那个古希腊人，那个创造了人类的普洛米修斯，原来也必定是干过铁匠的，他这才使人类火气十足；

　　for what's made in fire must properly belong to fire; and so hell's probable. 因为凡是火做成的东西，当然就一定属于火；地狱可能也是这样。

　　How the soot flies! This must be the remainder the Greek made the Africans of. 那烟炱腾得多高！这一定是那个希腊人创造了非洲人剩下来的东西。

　　Carpenter, when he's through with that buckle, tell him to forge a pair of steel shoulder-blades; there's a pedlar aboard with a crushing pack. 木匠，等他打完了螺旋钉后，要他打一副钢肩胛骨；船上还有一个贩子给担子压得透不过气来呢。

　　Sir? Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I'll order a complete man after a desirable pattern. 先生？住嘴，趁普洛米修斯正在忙着，我倒要他按照我合意的样式做出个完整的人来。