英语听书《白鲸记》第513期

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　　and spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately¹ clung to the hemp², 对我们的号角声置若罔闻，执拗地固守在大绞索上好久，

　　as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for their homeless selves.  好象它们把我们这艘船看做一种无人住的、飘流的船只，看做是一件命该凄凉的东西，因此恰好作为它们那无家可归的身躯的栖身处了。

　　And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; 抛呀，掷呀，险恶的海洋还在无休无止地起伏，仿佛它那浩大的浪潮就是一颗良心，

　　and the great mundane³ soul were in anguish⁴ and remorse⁵ for the long sin and suffering it had bred. 而那种伟大的尘世的灵魂就会天良发现，在它那久积的罪恶和苦难中悔恨，感到痛苦。

　　Cape⁶ of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called of yore; 好望角呀，人们可这样叫你么？其实，还不如象以前那样，叫做暴风雨角(好望角，靠非洲最南部，介于印度洋与大西洋之间，一四八七年，为葡萄牙探险家迪亚斯在去印度探险途中所发现，以其风涛险恶称为暴风雨角，后经葡王约翰二世改称今名，意谓从此可以有直航印度之希望了。)；

　　for long allured⁷ by the perfidious⁸ silences that before had attended us, 我们以前长期受到那背信弃义的静穆的诱惑，

　　we found ourselves launched into this tormented⁹ sea, where guilty beings transformed into those fowls¹⁰ and these fish, 如今一旦驶进这个苦难的海洋，我们便觉得，在这里，罪犯变成了的种种鸟禽和鱼类，

　　seemed condemned¹¹ to swim on everlastingly¹² without any haven¹³ in store, or beat that black air without any horizon. 似乎都注定要永生永世在这里游来游去，根本就没有避难所，得永远在这险恶的空际鼓翼，望不到一片陆地。

　　But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; 但是，正如空际是平静、雪白而不变的，仍在指引源源不绝的鸟类飞腾上去一样；

　　still beckoning¹⁴ us on from before, the solitary¹⁵ jet would at times be descried¹⁶. 那个时时可以看到的孤寂的喷水，还在招呼着我们继续向前。

　　During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched¹⁷ and dangerous deck, 在风暴肆虐这种令人绝望的境地里，亚哈虽然还在继续指挥这艘透湿而危险的船只，

　　manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates. 脸上却显得极其阴沉抑郁，而且比以前更难得对他那三个大二三副说话了。

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