英语听书《白鲸记》第937期

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and I have seen it wane⁴ at last, down, down, to dumbest dust. 我也看到它最后熄下去，熄下去，熄成一堆无声无色的灰烬。

Old man of oceans! of all this fiery⁵ life of thine, what will at length remain but one little heap of ashes! 海上的老人呵！你这个火一般的生命，到头来还不是只剩一小堆灰！

Aye, cried Stubb, "but sea-coal ashes — mind ye that, Mr. Starbuck — sea-coal, not your common charcoal⁶. 喂，斯塔布嚷道，"请记住，只剩一小堆海炭灰，斯达巴克先生，是海炭，不是普通那种黑炭。

Well, well! I heard Ahab mutter, 'Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears that I must play them, and no others.' 唔，唔，我听到亚哈在自言自语了，'噫，有人在我这双衰老的手里塞进了这几张牌；还赌神发誓地说，我必须单独玩下去。

And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right; live in the game, and die in it!" 不过，亚哈，你干得不差，活在赌博里，死也死在赌博里！"

Chapter 119 The Candles 第一百十九章 蜡烛

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs⁷: the tiger of Bengal crouches⁸ in spiced groves⁹ of ceaseless verdure. 最热的地方也就是最会培育最凶残的毒物的地方：孟加拉的老虎蹲在那长绿的香料树丛里。

Skies the most effulgent¹⁰ but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes¹¹ that never swept tame northern lands. 最灿烂的天空最会窝藏那最会致人死命的大雷电：绮丽的古巴就经历过那从来不会刮到单调的北方地带的旋风。

So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner¹² encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon. 所以，在这辉煌灿烂的日本海上，也会教水手们碰到最可怕的风暴——台风。

It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town. 它往往会突然从那晴朗无云的天际飕地刮了起来，象是扔向瞌盹懵懂的小城的一颗大炸弹。

Towards evening of that day, the Pequod was torn of her canvas, and bare-poled was left to fight a Typhoon which had struck her directly ahead. 那天傍晚时分，突然迎头来了一阵台风，把"裴廓德号"的帆布刮得精光，只剩几根赤裸裸的桅杆在风里挣扎。

 

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