英语听书《白鲸记》第421期

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Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant⁴ them; cant them over! know ye not the goblet⁵ end? Turn up the socket⁶! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers, advance.  可别让那锐利的钢头戳着我!打斜拿着;把它们倒转过来!你们不懂得大杯底吗?把接口倒转过来!唔,唔,现在你们几个上酒人,上前去。

The irons! take them; hold them while I fill! Forthwith, slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon¹ sockets⁷ with the fiery⁸ waters from the pewter. 那些标枪头,把它们拿过来;我斟酒的时候要拿牢!他立刻脚步缓慢地从这个头目走到那个头目,把蜡锡杯里的烈酒注满标枪头的接口。

Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices⁹! Bestow¹⁰ them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league.  现在三对三,你们站好。举起这杀气腾腾的圣餐杯!请呀,你们这些人现在已经加进了这个不容分散的同盟里啦。

Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying¹¹ sun now waits to sit upon it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow-Death to Moby Dick!  哈,斯达巴克!大功告成了!那边那个表示认可的太阳正在等着作证呢。喝呀,你们这些标枪手!喝呀,发誓呀,你们这些站在可怕的捕鲸小艇头上的人...打死莫比－迪克!

God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death! The long, barbed steel goblets¹² were lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously¹³ quaffed¹⁴ down with a hiss¹⁵.  如果我们不把莫比－迪克追击到死,上帝是要追击我们大家的!那三只长长的倒钩钢杯都被高高举起;在高喊打击白鲸的叫声和诅咒声的同时,烈酒也被咝的一声一饮而尽。

Starbuck paled, and turned, and shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished¹⁶ pewter went the rounds among the frantic¹⁷ crew; when, waving his free hand to them, they all dispersed¹⁸; and Ahab retired¹⁹ within his cabin. 斯达巴克脸色发白,摇摇晃晃,浑身发抖。那只加满了酒的蜡锡杯又再次,也是最后一次在狂热的水手间挨次传下去。等到亚哈那只不拿酒杯的手对他们一挥,大家便都散了;亚哈也退回到他的舱室里去。

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