英语听书《白鲸记》第977期

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A most malicious¹ wag, that fellow. 那家伙，是个存心挺坏的小丑。

Rat-tat! So man's seconds tick! Oh! how immaterial are all materials! 嘞——哒——哒！跟人的心脏在跳一样！一切有形的东西可又多么无形呀！

What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? 除了无法估量的思想以外，有什么真实的东西？

Here now's the very dreaded² symbol of grim death, by a mere³ hap⁴, made the expressive⁵ sign of the help and hope of most endangered life. 这就是狰狞的死神的最可怕的象征，只要一有机会，就对最危险的生命意味深长地表示得救和希望。

A life-buoy of a coffin⁶! Does it go further? 一只棺材做的救生圈！它可经用么？

Can it be that in some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver! I'll think of that. But no. 在精神意义上说，棺材会不会不过是一种使人不朽的保藏器呢！我倒要想一想。可是，不。

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight⁷ to me. 我已经在人间的阴暗面混得太久了，因此，我觉得人间的另一面，即从理论上说来是光明的一面，只不过是一种阴晴未定的曙光。

Will ye never have done, Carpenter, with that accursed sound? 木匠呀，你可以别再弄出那种该死的声响来吗？

I go below; let me not see that thing here when I return again. 我还是到下边去吧，但愿我再上来的时候，不会再看到这东西。

Now, then, Pip, we'll talk this over; I do suck most wondrous⁸ philosophies from thee! 哼，那么，比普，咱们俩去把这事情谈一谈吧；我从你那里，的确得到了许多最奇妙的哲理！

Some unknown conduits from the unknown worlds must empty into thee! 你浑身一定装满了可以了解许多未知的事物的导管。

 

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