英語聽書《白鯨記》第470期

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And portions of it are presented in the circular.

通報中還附有部分的圖式。

This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months;

"這份移棲圖將海洋分成經緯各五度的許多區(qū);每區(qū)垂直地劃分代表十二個月份的十二欄;

and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month in every district, and the two others to show the number of days in which whales, sperm or right, have been seen."

每區(qū)再橫分為三行;其中一行用以表示每月在每區(qū)所花的日數(shù),另外兩行則表示在這些日數(shù)中所發(fā)現(xiàn)的抹香鯨或者露脊鯨。")。

Besides, when making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct-say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity-mostly swim in veins, as they are called;

此外,當抹香鯨從一個食料場移到另一個食料場去的時候,是受了一種必然的本能的指引...也可說是得到了上帝的秘密情報...

continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship ever sailed her course, by any chart, with one tithe of such marvellous precision.

像人們所說的,大都是借血管游水的,它沿著特定的海洋線,那么筆直正確的繼續(xù)向前,游程之驚人的準確,是使用任何海圖的船只都未能及其什一的。

Though, in these cases, the direction taken by any one whale be straight as a surveyor's parallel, and though the line of advance be strictly confined to its own unavoidable, straight wake, yet the arbitrary vein in which at these times he is said to swim, generally embraces some few miles in width.

在這些情況下,雖則任何一只大鯨所取的方向直得象測量員的平行線,雖則前進的路線是嚴格地局限于它自己的不然而然的。筆直的航跡,然而,據(jù)說它在這時向前游去的那條變化不定的"管道",一般總有幾英里闊。

(more or less, as the vein is presumed to expand or contract);

(大小得視血管的脹縮程度而定);

but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship's mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding along this magic zone.

而且在它謹慎地沿著這個不可思議的地帶游去的時候,它決不會超出捕鯨船的桅頂望人的視覺范圍。

The sum is, that at particular seasons within that breadth and along that path, migrating whales may with great confidence be looked for.

總之,在特定的季節(jié)中,在那種寬度里,循著那種游徑,是可以很有把握地找到移棲的大鯨的。