英語聽書《白鯨記》第860期

The spoken words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements. Thereby have villainies been detected. Ah, mortal! then, be heedful; for so, in all this din of the great world's loom, thy subtlest thinkings may be overheard afar.

在疾馳如飛的錠子聲中，說話是聽不到的；可是這種說話，卻教墻外的人聽得一清二楚，因為它打敞開的窗子里沖了出去。因此，丑惡的事情難免要被發(fā)覺。人呀！要小心謹(jǐn)慎呀；因為，你們那些最微妙的思想，在這個大千世界的紡織機(jī)的喧鬧聲中，也許會在老遠(yuǎn)就給人們偷聽去。

Now, amid the green, life-restless loom of that Arsacidean wood, the great, white, worshipped skeleton lay lounging—a gigantic idler! Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

且說這只受人崇拜的、巨大的白骷髏——這個巨大的懶漢！就悠閑地躺在阿薩西提的樹林里那架碧綠而從不停止活動的紡織機(jī)中。而且，由于在它周圍始終是交錯地嗡響著那些織個不停的翠綠的經(jīng)緯線，弄得這個大懶漢就象個巧妙的織工；它全身都織滿著葡萄藤；每時每刻都顯得更旺盛，更青翠，可它自己卻是架骨胳。生命籠罩著死亡；死亡支撐著生命；嚴(yán)酷的神配上朝氣蓬勃的生命，賦予它以鬈發(fā)的美容。

Now, when with royal Tranquo I visited this wondrous whale, and saw the skull an altar, and the artificial smoke ascending from where the real jet had issued, I marvelled that the king should regard a chapel as an object of vertu. He laughed.

這時，我跟王族的托朗郭一起去拜謁這條奇妙的大鯨，看到那祭壇似的腦袋，和那人工的煙霧正從那曾經(jīng)發(fā)出真正的噴水的地方高高冒起，我不禁驚嘆這位國王竟把個教堂當(dāng)作件骨董了。他笑了笑。

But more I marvelled that the priests should swear that smoky jet of his was genuine. To and fro I paced before this skeleton— brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbors.

可是，更叫我詫異的是，那些僧人竟賭神發(fā)咒地說，它那煙噴嘴的噴水是真的。我在這個骷髏前面踱來踱去——撩開葡萄藤——朝肋骨里擠了進(jìn)去——手里拿著一只阿薩西提的麻線球，在它那曲折蜿蜒陰涼的柱廊和喬木叢中旋來轉(zhuǎn)去地徜徉了好久。

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