英語聽書《白鯨記》第352期

In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out ofHull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, toreceive the full complement of their crew. Uponthe passage homewards, they drop them thereagain. How it is, there is no telling, but Islandersseem to make the best whalemen. They were nearlyall Islanders in the Pequod, Isolatoes too, I call such,not acknowledging the common continent of men,but each Isolato living on a separate continent of hisown. Yet now, federated along one keel, what a setthese Isolatoes were! An Anacharsis Clootzdeputation from all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth, accompanying Old Ahab inthe Pequod to lay the world's grievances before that bar from which not very many of them evercome back. Black Little Pip-- he never did--oh, no! he went before. Poor Alabama boy! On thegrim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of theeternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in withangels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!

同樣地,格陵蘭的捕鯨船也從赫爾或者倫敦駛出來,開進設得蘭群島去招收他們的全部水手。等到回航的時候,又再把他們卸在原地。究竟是怎么一回事,那可說不上來,不過,島民似乎生來都是最優(yōu)秀的捕鯨者。"裴廓德號"上的水手,就幾乎全是島民,也是一些與世隔絕的人,我之所以這樣稱法,并不是泛指一般的陸地人,而是指各有一個小天地的與世隔絕者。不過現在是,大家都同在一條船上相依為命,還成什么與世隔絕者呢!一個從天涯海角各島各嶼匯合攏來的安納薩西?？肆_茨的代表團陪著"裴廓德號"的亞哈老頭,想把人間的牢騷訴諸那個庭上。即普魯士人約翰。巴蒂斯特?？肆_茨子爵,一七九二年改籍法國。他環(huán)游歐洲后,在一七八九年法國大革命爆發(fā)時,來到巴黎參加雅各賓派俱樂部。隔年,他在國民議會的庭上宣稱他和他的徒眾是"人權宣言"的擁護者,自此以后,他自稱為"人類的演說家"。后因觸怒羅伯斯庇爾,被處斬刑。據說他在國民議會的庭上演說時,是代表著巴黎一群咖啡館,下等酒館,茶樓的各式人等的,故作者在此處有如是說法?？墒?能夠從那個法庭生還的卻為數寥寥。比普這黑小子呀...他從來就沒有回來過...啊,不,他以前去過了。可憐的亞拉巴馬。孩子呀!在"裴廓德號"那不祥的船頭樓上,你們不久就將看到他敲著他的小手鼓,彈出永恒的時間前奏曲。當他被派到高高的后甲板去的時候,人家吩咐他響亮地敲起小手鼓,他便有如天使附體一般大敲特敲,一會兒叫懦夫壯起膽來,一會兒又向英雄致敬。