英语听书《白鲸记》第845期

 But I may as well say—en passant, as the French remark, 不过，我还得说——象法国话所说的en passant（法文：顺便一提的意思。），

that I myself—that is to say, Jack¹ Bunger, late of the reverend clergy—am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink-" 我本人——就是说，我杰克·彭格，从前的牧师——可是个绝对滴酒不沾的人；我从来不喝——"

Water! cried the captain; "he never drinks it; it's a sort of fits to him; 水！那船长叫道；"他从来不喝水；水会叫他发老毛病的；

fresh water throws him into the hydrophobia; but go on—go on with the arm story." 淡水会叫他得恐水病；不过，说下去吧——把手臂的故事说下去吧。"

Yes, I may as well, said the surgeon, coolly. 好的，我还是，那船医沉着地说。

"I was about observing, sir, before Captain Boomer's facetious² interruption, "回到刚才布默船长那引人发笑的插话之前的说话，先生，我当时差不多看出了，

that spite of my best and severest endeavors, the wound kept getting worse and worse; 尽管我非常精心致意，严加努力，可是那伤口却越来越糟；

the truth was, sir, it was as ugly gaping³ wound as surgeon ever saw; more than two feet and several inches long. 事实上，先生，那个难看的裂口确是一般外科医生从来未曾见到的，大约有两英尺几英寸长。

I measured it with the lead line. 这是我用测深索量出来的。

In short, it grew black; I knew what was threatened, and off it came. 总之，伤口发黑了；我知道它会有什么危险，必须把它锯掉才行。

But I had no hand in shipping⁴ that ivory arm there; that thing is against all rule" 可是，我又没有办法去弄那只骨手，这事情是违反一切规章的。"

pointing at it with the marlingspike—"that is the captain's work, not mine; he ordered the carpenter to make it; 他用解索针指着那只骨手——"那是船长的工作，不是我的工作；他命令木匠给他做；

he had that club-hammer there put to the end, to knock some one's brains out with, I suppose, as he tried mine once. 他要给装上一把木榔头，我想，那是要用来敲烂人家的脑袋的，他就曾经要敲我的脑袋。

He flies into diabolical⁵ passions sometimes. 他有时候会勃然大怒。

Do ye see this dent⁶, sir"—removing his hat, and brushing aside his hair, and exposing a bowl-like cavity in his skull⁷, 你可看到这个凹痕，先生——"他摘下帽子，把头发掠在一边，脑壳上露出个碗口大的洞洞，

but which bore not the slightest scarry trace, or any token of ever having been a wound, 可是一点也看不出疤痕，或者任何足以表示受过伤的痕记，

"Well, the captain there will tell you how that came there; he knows." "唔，事情的经过，船长会说给你听；他心里有数。"

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 facetious   

adj.轻浮的，好开玩笑的

参考例句：

• He was so facetious that he turned everything into a joke.他好开玩笑，把一切都变成了戏谑。
• I became angry with the little boy at his facetious remarks.我对这个小男孩过分的玩笑变得发火了。

3 gaping   

adj.口的；张口的；敞口的；多洞穴的v.目瞪口呆地凝视( gape的现在分词 )；张开，张大

参考例句：

• Ahead of them was a gaping abyss. 他们前面是一个巨大的深渊。
• The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 shipping   

n.船运（发货，运输，乘船）

参考例句：

• We struck a bargain with an American shipping firm.我们和一家美国船运公司谈成了一笔生意。
• There's a shipping charge of ￡5 added to the price.价格之外另加五英镑运输费。

5 diabolical   

adj.恶魔似的，凶暴的

参考例句：

• This maneuver of his is a diabolical conspiracy.他这一手是一个居心叵测的大阴谋。
• One speaker today called the plan diabolical and sinister.今天一名发言人称该计划阴险恶毒。

6 dent   

n.凹痕，凹坑；初步进展

参考例句：

• I don't know how it came about but I've got a dent in the rear of my car.我不知道是怎么回事，但我的汽车后部有了一个凹痕。
• That dent is not big enough to be worth hammering out.那个凹陷不大，用不着把它锤平。

7 skull   

n.头骨；颅骨

参考例句：

• The skull bones fuse between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five.头骨在15至25岁之间长合。
• He fell out of the window and cracked his skull.他从窗子摔了出去，跌裂了颅骨。