英语听书《白鲸记》第34期

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 when the wind is shrieking,and the men are yelling,and every plank² thunders with trampling³ feet right over Jonah's head; 

 in all this raging tumult,Jonah sleeps his hideous⁴ sleep.He sees no black sky and raging sea,feels not the reeling timbers, 

 and little hears he or heeds⁵ he the far rush of the mighty⁶ whale,which even now with open mouth is cleaving⁷ the seas after him. 

 Aye,shipmates,Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship a berth⁸ in the cabin as I have taken it,and was fast asleep. 

 But the frightened master comes to him,and shrieks⁹ in his dead ear,' What meanest thou,O,sleeper!arise!' Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, 

 Jonah staggers to his feet,and stumbling to the deck,grasps a shroud,to look out upon the sea.But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks¹⁰. 

 Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship,and finding no speedy vent¹¹ runs roaring fore¹² and aft,till the mariners¹³ come nigh to drowning while yet afloat. 

 And ever,as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead,aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward,but soon beat downward again towards the tormented¹⁴ deep. 

 Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul.In all his cringing¹⁵ attitudes,the God fugitive¹⁶ is now too plainly known.The sailors mark him; 

 more and more certain grow their suspicions of him,and at last,fully to test the truth,by referring the whole matter to high Heaven,they fall to casting lots, 

 to see for whose cause this great tempest was upon them.The lot is Jonah's;that discovered,then how furiously they mob him with their questions. 

 ' What is thine occupation?Whence comest thou?Thy country?What people?But mark now,my shipmates,the behavior of poor Jonah.The eager mariners but ask him who he is, 

 and where from;whereas,they not only receive an answer to those questions,but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, 

 but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him. 

 ' I am a Hebrew,' he cries and then ' I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!' Fear him,O Jonah? 

 Aye,well mightest thou fear the Lord God THEN!Straightway,he now goes on to make a full confession;whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, 

 but still are pitiful.For when Jonah,not yet supplicating¹⁷ God for mercy,since he but too well knew the darkness of his deserts, 

 when wretched Jonah cries out to them to take him and cast him forth¹⁸ into the sea, 

 for he knew that for HIS sake this great tempest was upon them;they mercifully turn from him,and seek by other means to save the ship. 

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