and when the deck-ends of these ropes are being every few minutes cast down from the fastenings, it would be but a natural fatality, if, unprovided with a constant watchman, the hoisted sailor should by some carelessness of the crew be cast adrift an...
and with his own hands he rigged a nest of basketed bowlines; and sending a hand aloft, with a single sheaved block, to secure to the mainmast head, he received the two ends of the downwardreeved rope; and attaching one to his basket prepared a pin f...
And yet, somehow, did Ahab in his own proper self, as daily, hourly, and every instant, commandingly revealed to his subordinates, Ahab seemed an independent lord; the Parsee but his slave. Still again both seemed yoked together, and an unseen tyrant...
no matter, though he stood so in the scuttle for a whole hour on the stretch, and the unheeded night-damp gathered in beads of dew upon that stone-carved coat and hat. The clothes that the night had wet, the next day's sunshine dried upon him; and so...
But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential hours when he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that even as Ahab's eyes so awed the crew's, the inscrutable Parsee's glance awed his; or somehow, at least, in s...
now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick; and now that all his successive me...
Here, our old sailors say, in their black seventy-fours great admirals sometimes sit at table, and lord it over rows of captains and lieutenants. 这地方，我们老水手说，在他们那怕人的七十四门大炮的兵舰上，桌子边时常坐着...
If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahab's purpose keels up in him. I tell thee no; it cannot be. 如果你再这样跟我唠叨下去，亚哈的目的就都要搁浅啦。我对你说不行；这是不行的。 Oh good master, master, master! 啊，...
Chapter 129 The Cabin 第一百二十九章 船长室 (Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches him by the hand to follow.) （亚哈要走上甲板；比普抓着他的手要跟他一起走） Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. 孩子，...
Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, 这种情形在南塔开特并不是什么希罕的事情，一般船长们总要打发这样幼小的儿子离开家门， for a protracted th...
