海底兩萬里 第56期 第5章 冒險活動(11)

Two days passed. The Abraham Lincoln stayed at half steam. On the offchance that the animal might be found in these waterways, a thousand methods were used to spark its interest or rouse it from its apathy.

兩天過去了，林肯號以低速度慢慢前進(jìn)。在可能碰到這個動物的海面上，人們想盡方法引起它的注意或刺激它遲鈍的神經(jīng)。

Enormous sides of bacon were trailed in our wake, to the great satisfaction, I must say, ofassorted sharks.

人們把一大塊一大塊的臘肉拉在船后，——但我應(yīng)該說，這內(nèi)使鯊魚們感到十分滿意。

While the Abraham Lincoln heaved to, its longboats radiated in every direction around it and didn't leave a single point of the sea unexplored.

林肯號一停下來，許多小船放下去，馬上就向戰(zhàn)艦周圍各方出發(fā)，不讓一處海面不被搜索到。

But the evening of November 4 arrived with this underwater mystery still unsolved.

11月4日晚上到了，這個潛在海底的秘密還是沒有揭露出來。

At noon the next day, November 5, the agreed-upon delay expired. After a position fix, true to his promise, Commander Farragut would have to set his course for the southeast and leave the northerly regions of the Pacific decisively behind.

明天，11月5日正午，規(guī)定的期限便滿期了。中午一過，法拉古艦長就要履行他的諾言，使戰(zhàn)艦離開太平洋的北部海面，向東南方開行。

By then the frigate lay in latitude 31 degrees 15' north and longitude 136 degrees 42' east.

船這時正在北緯31度15分，東經(jīng)136度42分。