英语听书《白鲸记》第187期

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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.

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