英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)書(shū)《白鯨記》第228期

And the women of New Bedford, they bloom liketheir own red roses.

至于新貝德福的女人,她們可真象紅玫瑰一般鮮艷。

But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the finecarnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight inthe seventh heavens.

但是,玫瑰花只在夏季才盛開(kāi);而她們那面頰的美麗的淡紅色卻象七重天里的陽(yáng)光似的始終輝煌燦爛。

Elsewhere match that bloom of theirs, ye cannot,save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk,

什么地方能看得到跟她們相媲美的那種鮮艷呀,可說(shuō)是找不到的,除非是到撒冷去,據(jù)說(shuō),在那里,年青姑娘都發(fā)散著那種麝香的氣息,

their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh theodorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.

她們那些水手情郎在離岸老遠(yuǎn)的地方就聞得到那股香味,仿佛他們是駛近了香氣四溢的丁香群島,而不是到了清教徒的沙漠。