英语听书《白鲸记》第673期

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and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, 如果它那身体现在不是已跟脑袋分家了的话，

with a lantern we might descend² into the great Kentucky Mammoth³ Cave of his stomach. 我们还可以拿一只灯笼，直跨进它那肯塔基的大钟乳洞一般的肚皮里去呢。

But let us hold on here by this tooth, and look about us where we are. 不过，我们就停在它这只牙齿上，看看我们是在什么地方吧！

What a really beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! 啊，这只嘴巴真是多么漂亮多么雅致呀！

from floor to ceiling, lined, or rather papered with a glistening⁴ white membrane⁵, glossy⁶ as bridal satins. 从地板到天花板都有镶里，或者不如说是用一层白色薄膜裱褙的，光辉闪烁，宛如新娘穿的缎子。

But come out now, and look at this portentous⁷ lower jaw⁸, 那么，现在请走出来，看看这只可怕的下巴颏，

which seems like the long narrow lid of an immense snuff-box, with the hinge at one end, instead of one side. 它似乎很象一只大鼻烟盒的狭长盖子，开关的铰链是装在一端而不是装在边上的。

If you pry⁹ it up, so as to get it overhead, and expose its rows of teeth, it seems a terrific portcullis;  如果你把它往上一撬，好教它张在你的头顶上，露出它那许多牙齿，它真象是城门上的一排可怕的格子吊闸。

and such, alas¹⁰! it proves to many a poor wight in the fishery, upon whom these spikes¹¹ fall with impaling¹² force. 哟，那些个牙齿！这些象尖铁一般的东西，一经使起打桩一样的力气，对谁敲将下来，可要叫捕鱼业中多少个可怜虫一命归西啊！

But far more terrible is it to behold¹³, when fathoms¹⁴ down in the sea, 可是，更教人看得胆战心惊的是，

you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious¹⁵ jaw, some fifteen feet long, 你看到一只满面怒容的鲸，在海里张起十五英尺长的大下巴颏，翻浮在水面上，

hanging straight down at right-angles with his body; for all the world like a ship's jibboom. 下巴垂挂得跟身体成为一只直角，随你怎样看，都跟一艘船的第二桅樯一模一样。

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; 这种鲸可不是死的；它只是没有精神；

out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed, 也许是有点不舒服，患了忧郁症，这才仰躺在那里，连下巴的铰链也松脱了，

leaving him there in that ungainly sort of plight¹⁶, a reproach to all his tribe, who must, no doubt, imprecate lock-jaws upon him. 落得一副惨相，成为它全族类的唾骂对象，它的族类毫无疑问一定会祈求上天使它害牙关紧闭症。

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