英語聽書《白鯨記》第863期

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Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton

第一百零三章鯨骷髏的尺寸

In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. Such a statement may prove useful here.

首先，我想把這種大鯨的活軀體給你特別清晰地說明一番，至于它的骷髏，我們就簡略地提一提。這樣一種說明，也許在這里是有用處的。

According to a careful calculation I have made, and which I partly base upon Captain Scoresby's estimate, of seventy tons for the largest sized Greenland whale of sixty feet in length; according to my careful calculation, I say, a Sperm Whale of the largest magnitude, between eighty-five and ninety feet in length, and something less than forty feet in its fullest circumference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably outweigh the combined population of a whole village of one thousand one hundred inhabitants.

根據(jù)我所做的仔細(xì)計(jì)算，而且這種計(jì)算大半還是以斯哥斯比船長的估計(jì)為依據(jù)的：最大的格陵蘭鯨體重七十噸，身長六十英尺；我說，根據(jù)我的仔細(xì)的計(jì)算，最大的一只抹香鯨，身長大約在八十五到九十英尺間，身圓最大的地方大約四十英尺左右，象這樣一只鯨，它的重量至少有九十噸；因此，以十三個(gè)人合一噸計(jì)算，它的體重就要大大地超過一個(gè)有一千一百個(gè)居民的村子整個(gè)人口的總體重。

Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to this leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsman's imagination?

那么，難道你不認(rèn)為，在任何陸地人的想象中，這只大海獸定然長著一只象上了軛的牲口那樣的腦袋，使它動(dòng)彈不得么？

Having already in various ways put before you his skull, spout-hole, jaw, teeth, tail, forehead, fins, and pers other parts, I shall now simply point out what is most interesting in the general bulk of his unobstructed bones.

關(guān)于它的腦殼，噴水口，嘴巴，牙齒，尾巴，前額，鰭，和其它各個(gè)部分，我已經(jīng)用各種方法告訴過你了。現(xiàn)在我只想指出，在它那以優(yōu)雅的骨胳所構(gòu)成的整個(gè)身軀中，最有趣的是哪一方面。