英语听书《白鲸记》第996期

（单词翻译）

Hither, and thither¹, on high, glided² the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty³ leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.

在高空上，这里那里都掠过一些毫无斑点的小鸟的雪白的翅膀；这就是发人遐思的女性气质的天空；可是在海里，在无底的深渊里，却有威力无比的大鲸、剑鱼和鲨鱼在游来游去；这就是使人激起强烈的、苦恼的、杀气腾腾的想法的男性气质的大海。

But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were, that distinguished⁴ them.

不过，虽然内部有这么截然不同的景况，可是，这种不同，只是表现在外部的幢幢阴影中；这两种东西似乎就是一体；仿佛区别它们的只是性别而已。

Aloft, like a royal czar and king, the sun seemed giving this gentle air to this bold and rolling sea; even as bride to groom⁵. And at the girdling line of the horizon, a soft and tremulous motion — most seen here at the Equator — denoted the fond, throbbing⁶ trust, the loving alarms, with which the poor bride gave her bosom⁷ away.

高高在上、象个威风凛凛的帝王的太阳，似乎给这个豪迈翻腾的大海抹上一层柔和的神态；有如新娘之于新郎。而在水平线的边缘上，有一阵柔和的颤动——在赤道上，这是最常见的景象——标示出了那个可怜的新娘，在献出她的身心时那种迷恋的悸动，钟情的激动。

Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth⁸ in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.

亚哈的眼睛，象是还在灰烬中发光的两块煤炭，眯得紧紧，打起皱结，皱得如瘤如节、坚定不移、毫不动摇而形容憔悴的亚哈站在早晨的晴空下，抬起他那碎甲似的额头，望着那美女的前额似的苍天。

Oh, immortal⁹ infancy¹⁰, and innocency¹¹ of the azure¹²! Invisible winged creatures that frolic all round us! Sweet childhood of air and sky! how oblivious¹³ were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe¹⁴!

不朽的天真烂漫的穹苍呵！在我们四周嬉戏的眼所不见的鸟类！可爱的幼年时代的天空呵！你们对亚哈老头的愁肠百结的悲伤是多么健忘！