英語聽書《白鯨記》 第348期

　　You would almost as soon have expected him to turnout of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded,stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and,whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out insuccession, lighting one from the other to the end ofthe chapter; then loading them again to be inreadiness anew. For, when Stubb dressed, instead offirst putting his legs into his trowsers, he put hispipe into his mouth.

　　你簡直別想在他下床的時候,會先看到他的鼻子而看不到他的煙斗。他在床邊的架子上擱有一整排裝了煙葉的煙斗,一伸手就可摸到;他一上了床鋪,就接連不斷地把它們一支支都吸個遍,一支吸完,又湊上這一支再點(diǎn)燃一支,直吸到最后一支為止;然后又把它們一支支裝滿煙葉,以便隨時重新取用。因?yàn)樗顾荚诖┮路臅r候,他總不是先把雙腿插進(jìn)褲筒里,而是先把煙斗插到嘴里去的。

　　I say this continual smoking must have been one cause, at least of his peculiar disposition;for every one knows that this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with thenameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it; and as in time of thecholera, some people go about with a camphorated handkerchief to their mouths; so, likewise,against all mortal tribulations, Stubb's tobacco smoke might have operated as a sort ofdisinfecting agent.

　　我認(rèn)為這樣不斷吸煙一定是有個道理的,至少是出自他那特別的癖性;因?yàn)?大家都知道,不管是在岸上還是在海上,世間的空氣都嚇人地染上了無數(shù)死于說不明白的災(zāi)難的人所吐出來的空氣;因此,在發(fā)生霍亂時,有些人就把一塊撒著樟腦的手帕緊掩在嘴上行走;同樣的,斯塔布的煙氣,也許可以當(dāng)做一種抵抗人間一切災(zāi)難的辟瘟良劑了。

　　The third mate was Flask, a native of Tisbury, in Martha's Vineyard. A short, stout, ruddyyoung fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that thegreat Leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort ofpoint of honor with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.

　　三副就是弗拉斯克,他是馬撒的維因耶德地方的蒂斯伯里人。這個短小精悍,血色紅潤的小伙子,是很愛跟大鯨格斗的,他好象總認(rèn)為這種大海獸跟他有切身的和傳統(tǒng)的冤仇;因此,每一遭遇,就得把它們撲滅干凈,已成為他的一種榮譽(yù)問題了。

　　So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulkand mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible danger fromencountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species ofmagnified mouse, or at least water-rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some smallapplication of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.

　　他對于它們那巨大的身軀和神秘的態(tài)度所構(gòu)成的許多奇景,竟是如此毫無敬意,如此茫然無知,不理會到碰上它們隨時都有危險的可能;因此,在他那有限的見解看來,一條奇妙的大鯨不過是一種放大的老鼠,或者不過是一只水老鼠而已,只消略施小技,稍花時間,稍使力氣就可以把它殺了烹了。