英语听书《白鲸记》第458期

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From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall.  那种如同戴着铁手套的恶魔般的南海暴风,所以被称为白浪暴风,正是由它那雪白的样子而得名的。

Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice³ omitted so potent⁴ an auxiliary⁵.  在一些历史事例中,人类的鬼蜮伎俩可也忘不了使用这样强有力的一种辅助手段。

How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction⁶, the desperate White Hoods⁷ of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place! 当那奋不顾身的根特白巾党人用他们团体的雪白的标志蒙面,在市集上杀害他们的监守者的时候,它可给弗鲁瓦萨尔的文章增加了多么巨大的效果呀!

Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary⁸ experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue⁹.  而且,在整个人类世代相传的总经验上,并不乏证明这种色泽的神奇的意味的例子。

It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals¹⁰ the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there;  可以肯定的是,在死尸的外貌上看到的那种使人丧胆的特质,就是那种依依不舍的大理石的苍白色;

as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation¹¹ in the other world, as of mortal trepidation¹² here.  仿佛那种苍白色之作为阴间的恐怖的表征,也正是阳间的人类的战栗的表征。

And from that pallor of the dead, we borrow the expressive¹³ hue of the shroud¹⁴ in which we wrap them.  我们就从死尸的那种苍白色中,借用了那种意义深长的尸衣的颜色来把死尸包裹起来。

Nor even in our superstitions¹⁵ do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle¹⁶ round our phantoms¹⁷;  甚至在我们的迷信观念中,我们还是会给我们的幻影兜上这种雪白的披风;

all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog-Yea, while these terrors seize us, let us add, that even the king of terrors, when personified by the evangelist, rides on his pallid¹⁸ horse. 一切鬼神都是出现在乳白色的迷雾里的。而且,当这种恐怖慑住我们的时候,我们可以这样说,甚至那种恐怖的帝王一旦化身为福音的传教士,骑的也是苍白色的坐骑。

Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize¹⁹ whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar²⁰ apparition²¹ to the soul. 因此,在人的另一种心情说来,随他怎样把白色作为多么庄严或者多么仁慈的象征,谁都不能否认,在白色这种最为奥妙的理想化了的含义中,到头来,还是不免要叫人想起一种特殊的幽灵来。

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