海底兩萬里 第225期 第17章 海底森林(6)

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I say 150 meters, although I had no instruments for estimating this distance. But I knew that the sun's rays, even in the clearest seas, could reach no deeper. So at precisely this point the darkness became profound. Not a single object was visible past ten paces. Consequently, I had begun to grope my way when suddenly I saw the glow of an intense white light. Captain Nemo had just activated his electric device. His companion did likewise. Conseil and I followed suit. By turning a switch, I established contact between the induction coil and the glass spiral, and the sea, lit up by our four lanterns, was illuminated for a radius of twenty-five meters.

我說我們是在一百五十米的深度;雖然沒有什么器械可以讓我測量，但我知道，即最清澈的海水，陽光也不能再往下照了。正是在這時候，周圍變得漆黑。在十步外什么也看不見。所以我只能摸索著走，這時我看見一道相當明亮的白光忽然閃出來。原來是尼摩船長使用他的電光機器。他的同伴照他那樣做?？等麪柡臀乙矊W(xué)著他們的榜樣。我轉(zhuǎn)動螺絲釘，使電磁鐵跟曲玻璃管接通，燈亮了，海中有我們四盞探照燈的照射，周圍二十五米內(nèi)都明亮起來。

Captain Nemo continued to plummet into the dark depths of this forest, whose shrubbery grew ever more sparse. I observed that vegetable life was disappearing more quickly than animal life. The open-sea plants had already left behind the increasingly arid seafloor, where a prodigious number of animals were still swarming: zoophytes, articulates, mollusks, and fish.

尼摩船長繼續(xù)走人森林中最幽深的地方，沿途樹木漸漸稀少。我注意到，在海底，植物界要比動物界消失得早些。海產(chǎn)植物雖然已經(jīng)放棄了這些變?yōu)樨汃さ耐恋?，但?shù)量很多的動物、植蟲動物、節(jié)肢動物、軟體動物和魚類仍然到處皆是。

While we were walking, I thought the lights of our Ruhmkorff devices would automatically attract some inhabitants of these dark strata. But if they did approach us, at least they kept at a distance regrettable from the hunter's standpoint. Several times I saw Captain Nemo stop and take aim with his rifle; then, after sighting down its barrel for a few seconds, he would straighten up and resume his walk.

我一邊走一邊想，我們帶的蘭可夫燈的燈光必然要引起那些沉黑的海底下居民的注意，齊集前來。可是，它們雖然前來，但總是留在獵人力量不可及，距離相當遠的地方。好幾次，我看見尼摩船長停步，瞄準他的槍，但經(jīng)過一些時候的觀察后，他又把槍放下，再向前行。