英语听书《白鲸记》第187期

 Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here?  拉撒路不是情愿到苏门答腊去而不情愿留在这里吗?

Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery¹ pit itself, in order to keep out this frost? 他不是更加情愿跑到赤道线,去跟它一顺儿的躺着,或者,天晓得,干脆就钻到火坑里,避开这种冰天雪地吗?

Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded² there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg³ should be moored⁴ to one of the Moluccas.  瞧哪,那个拉撒路就该头枕栏石,僵挺挺地躺在那老财主的门口,这可比流冰竟会飘泊在摩鹿加群岛上远更希奇咧。

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid⁵ tears of orphans⁶. 然而,老财主本人呢,他也象沙皇一般住在那由冰冻的哀息声所造成的冰宫里,并且因为他是禁酒运动会的会长,他是光喝孤儿们的温吞吞的泪水的。

But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come.  不过,现在不必这么哭丧着脸啦,我们要去捕大鲸了,这类事情将来多的是呢。

Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter⁷ may be. 我们还是把冰冻的靴子上的冰块刮刮掉,去看看这个大鲸究竟是怎样一种地方吧.

1 fiery   

adj.燃烧着的，火红的；暴躁的；激烈的

参考例句：

• She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
• His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。

2 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

3 iceberg   

n.冰山，流冰，冷冰冰的人

参考例句：

• The ship hit an iceberg and went under.船撞上一座冰山而沉没了。
• The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。

4 moored   

adj. 系泊的 动词moor的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London. 该船现在永久地停泊在伦敦泰晤士河边。
• We shipped (the) oars and moored alongside the bank. 我们收起桨，把船泊在岸边。

5 tepid   

adj.微温的，温热的，不太热心的

参考例句：

• She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.她把嘴伸到水龙头底下去喝那微温的水。
• Her feet firmly planted on the tepid rough brick of the floor.她一双脚稳固地立在微温而粗糙的砖地上。

6 orphans   

孤儿( orphan的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The poor orphans were kept on short commons. 贫苦的孤儿们吃不饱饭。
• Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。

7 spouter   

喷油井；捕鲸船；说话滔滔不绝的人；照管流出槽的工人

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