英语听书《白鲸记》第441期

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For, it was not so much his uncommon¹ bulk that so much distinguished² him from other sperm³ whales, but, as was elsewhere thrown out--a peculiar⁴ snow-white wrinkled forehead, and a high, pyramidical white hump.  因为,它跟其它一些抹香鲸的巨大的区别,并不在于它那非凡的体躯,而是在于一如已在另些地方偶然提到的...一个雪白异常的。皱结的前额,和一个高高的,金字塔似的白色背峰。

These were his prominent features; the tokens whereby, even in the limitless, uncharted seas, he revealed his identity, at a long distance, to those who knew him. 这就是它的显著特征,凭它这些特征,甚至在无际无垠的。地图上找不到名称的海面上,在老远的地方,一碰上认识它的人,它的身份就暴露了。

The rest of his body was so streaked⁵, and spotted⁶, and marbled with the same shrouded⁷ hue⁸, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive⁹ appellation¹⁰ of the White Whale;  至于它身体的其余部分,因为都是些条纹,斑点,又有跟它身上同样颜色的大理石纹,所以,到头来,就得到了它那特征的称号白鲸了;

a name, indeed, literally¹¹ justified¹² by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding¹³ at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam¹⁴, all spangled with golden gleamings. (如果时当午刻,看到它慢慢地穿过深蓝色的海面,)撇下一道泡沫浓腻。银河似的长痕,激起一片闪耀金光,那么,它那生动的神态,就显得白鲸这个名称真是名副其实了。

Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable¹⁵ hue, nor yet his deformed¹⁶ lower jaw¹⁷, that so much invested the whale with natural terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity¹⁸ which, according to specific accounts, he had over and over again evinced in his assaults. 这种鲸之所以天生使人畏惧,与其说是由于它那罕有的硕大,突出的色泽,畸形的下颚,倒不如说是(按照它那特有的情形说来)由于它在突击的时候,一再表现出来的那种无以伦比的充满机智的阴险。

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