英语听书《白鲸记》第542期

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　　No need to travel! 不必出门了！

　　The world's one Lima. 世界就跟利马一模一样。

　　I had thought, now, that at your temperate² North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.  我现在才想到，在你们那温暖的北方，子子孙孙也都跟山岗一样又冷静又圣洁，

　　But the story. 不过，还是讲故事吧。

　　"I had left off, gentlemen, where the Lakeman shook the backstay.  “诸位先生，我刚才是讲到湖上人摇摇后支索的。

　　Hardly had he done so, when he was surrounded by the three junior mates and the four harpooneers, who all crowded him to the deck. 他才这样一摇，大二三副和四个标枪手便把他团团围住了，他们都把他前呼后拥地弄到甲板上。

　　But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar³, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle. 但是，那两个运河船的水手象两颗彗星似的嗖地从索上滑了下来，冲进吵吵嚷嚷的人群里，想把他们那个人拉到船头楼去。

　　Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil⁴ ensued; 其他一些水手也帮他们一起拉，于是，接着就拉拉扯扯，大起哄了；

　　while standing⁵ out of harm's way, the valiant⁶ captain danced up and down with a whale-pike, 那个站在轰嚷圈外、身体结实的船长，手里拿着一支捕鲸枪，跳来跳去，

　　calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck. 要他那几个头目不客气地对付那个万恶的坏家伙，把他带到后甲板去。

　　At intervals⁷, he ran close up to the revolving⁸ border of the confusion, 他不时地奔到旋来转去的乱糟糟的人群的旁边，

　　and prying⁹ into the heart of it with his pike, sought to prick¹⁰ out the object of his resentment¹¹. 用他那支鱼枪直向人群里戳着，想把他所憎恨的那个对象给挑出来。

　　But Steelkilt and his desperadoes were too much for them all; 可是，斯蒂尔基尔特和他那些亡命汉都不是大家敌得过的对手；

　　they succeeded in gaining the forecastle deck, where, hastily slewing¹² about three or four large casks in a line with the windlass, 他们终于顺利地占住了船头楼的甲板，在那里，匆匆地把三四只大桶滚得跟绞车排成一行后，

　　these sea-Parisians entrenched¹³ themselves behind the barricade¹⁴. 这三个水上的巴黎人(巴黎人——指一七八九年法国大革命时，那些进行巷战的巴黎市民。)就在路障后面固守起来了。

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