英语听书《白鲸记》第994期

（单词翻译）

Upon the stranger's shears¹ were beheld² the shattered, white ribs³, and some few splintered planks⁴, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you now saw through this wreck⁵, as plainly as you see through the peeled, half-unhinged, and bleaching⁶ skeleton of a horse.

在这艘陌生船的那些剪脚起重机上，人们看到一些以前是一只捕鲸小艇的破碎的白色肋材，和几片破裂了的船板。可是，你这会儿仔细地看看这只破艇，就跟你看到一只被剥掉了皮、有点儿散乱的、发白了的马骷髅一样。

Hast seen the White Whale?

看到过白鲸嘛？

Look! replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail; and with his trumpet⁷ he pointed⁸ to the wreck.

你瞧！那个站在船栏杆边。两颊深陷的船长，凑着话筒，一面指着那只破艇，一面回答道。

Hast killed him?

把它打杀了没有？

The harpoon⁹ is not yet forged that will ever will do that, answered the other, sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck, whose gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together.

打得杀它的标枪可还没有铸起来呢，对方回答说，眼睛忧郁地望着甲板上一只被人团团围起的吊铺，几个闷声不响的水手正围在那里在忙着缝缝缀缀。

Not forged! and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs¹⁰; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin¹¹, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"

还没有铸出来！亚哈从桠杈上攫起柏斯打出来的那支标枪，伸了出去，高叫道——"你瞧，南塔开特人，我这只手里拿着的就是要制它死命的东西！这些钩钩全是用血用闪电炼出来的；我一定要把它插进它鳍后头那个滚热的地方，让它再炼三遍，那地方就是白鲸的致命伤的地方！"

Then God keep thee, old man — see'st thou that — pointing to the hammock — "I bury but one of five stout¹² men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb."

那么，愿上帝保佑你吧，老人家，请你看那东西，他指着那吊铺，"五个身强力壮的水手，我只埋葬得了一个，他们昨天都是生龙活虎的人；可是，不到晚上都死了。我只埋葬得了那一个；其余的都给活埋了；你是在他们的坟顶上航驶的。"