英語聽書《白鯨記》 第184期

It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting inTophet.

這倒象是陀斐特的偉大的"黑人議會"在開會。

A hundred black faces turned round in their rows topeer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom wasbeating a book in a pulpit.

許多黑臉成排地轉(zhuǎn)過來;另外還有一個執(zhí)掌命運(yùn)的黑天使正站在講壇上拍擊一本書。

It was a negro church; and the preacher's text wasabout the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.

原來是個黑人教堂;那個傳道者所講的是地獄的陰森可怕.那邊的悲泣。慟哭和咬牙切齒的情況哈!

Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!'

以實瑪利,我嘟噥了一下,趕緊退出去,那塊"陷阱"的招牌上還應(yīng)該加上"招待惡劣"四個字!

Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorncreaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white paintingupon it, faintly representing a tall straight jet of misty spray, and these words underneath

我繼續(xù)往前走,終于看到離碼頭不遠(yuǎn)的地方,有一股昏蒙蒙的燈光,又聽到空中有一陣凄絕的嘎叫聲;我抬起頭來,看到一塊白漆的招牌在門頂上晃著,那招牌隱約顯出一道高高迸射的蒙霧,

The Spouter Inn:--Peter Coffin.

下邊寫著"大鯨客店:彼得.科芬。

Coffin?--Spouter?--Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I.

科芬?大鯨?光就這方面說來,就有幾分兇兆,我心里想。

But it is a common name in Nantucket, they say, and I suppose this Peter here is an emigrantfrom there.

但是,據(jù)說,這是南塔開特地方的普通姓氏,我推想這個彼得大概是從南塔開特來的移民。

As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and thedilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from theruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak toit, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.

因為燈光這樣昏暗,當(dāng)時那個地方又顯得十分寂靜,加上那間要坍似的小木屋本身的樣子,仿佛是從什么火燒場里裝運(yùn)來的,更因為那塊搖搖晃晃的招牌又在發(fā)出一陣苦惱的叫聲,我估量這準(zhǔn)是個價錢便宜的宿店,而且還一定可以喝到上好的土咖啡。