英语听书《白鲸记》第1035期

（单词翻译）

Stand over that helmsman with a top-maul! So, so; he travels fast, and I must down. But let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there's time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and not changed a wink¹ since I first saw it, a boy, from the sand-hills of Nantucket!

拿只大槌子去把舵手监视起来！唔，唔；它游行很快，我得下去了。不过，让我在这高高的地方再好好地望一望四下的海吧；时间还多着呢。还是老景色，老景色，不过，不知怎地，还是有点儿新颖；唔，打我是个南塔开特的沙丘的小孩子时候初次看到海以来，它可一点也没有什么变化呀！

The same — the same! — the same to Noah as to me. There's a soft shower to leeward². Such lovely leewardings! They must lead somewhere — to something else than common land, more palmy than the palms. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter. But good bye, good bye, old mast-head!

老样子！——老样子！挪亚看到的时候是这样，我看到的时候也是这样。下风的地方在下毛毛雨啦。这样可爱的下风！它一定会吹到什么地方去——吹到跟普通地方有点儿不同的地方去，吹到比棕榈树还要茂盛的地方去。下风！白鲸正在朝下风游去；那么，看一看上风吧；后边如果刮得越厉害越好。可是，再见啦，再见啦，老桅顶！

What's this? — green? aye, tiny mosses³ in these warped⁴ cracks. No such green weather stains on Ahab's head! There's the difference now between man's old age and matter's. But aye, old mast, we both grow old together; sound in our hulls⁵, though are we not, my ship? Aye, minus a leg, that's all. By heaven this dead wood has the better of my live flesh every way. I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made of dead trees outlast⁶ the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.

这是什么？——绿色的东西？噫，在这些歪歪曲曲的缝缝里竟有小小的苔藓。亚哈的头上可就没有这种碧绿的气候留下的痕迹。现在老头子跟这东西竟有所不同了。不过，喂，老桅杆呀，咱俩可是一起老起来的；不过，咱俩的身躯都还很硬朗，可不是嘛，我的船呀？是呀，只不过是少掉了一条腿罢了。老天在上！这块枯木头却在各方面都比我的活肌体强。我不能跟它相比；我早就知道，有些用枯木头做的船，却比那些由精力充沛的先人用最富活力的材料做成的人远更长命呢。