英語聽書《白鯨記》第918期
Oh! that is the one, sir! Said I not all seams and dents but one?
??！就是這一樣?xùn)|西！先生，我剛才不是說過除了一樣?xùn)|西嗎？
Aye, blacksmith, it is the one; aye, man, it is unsmoothable; for though thou only see'st it here in my flesh, it has worked down into the bone of my skull — that is all wrinkles! But, away with child's play; no more gaffs and pikes to-day. Look ye here! jingling the leathern bag, as if it were full of gold coins. "I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part, Perth; something that will stick in a whale like his own fin-bone. There's the stuff," flinging the pouch upon the anvil. "Look ye, blacksmith, these are the gathered nail-stubbs of the steel shoes of racing horses."
不錯(cuò)，鐵匠，就是這一樣?xùn)|西；是呀，老朋友，這是不光坦的，你雖然只看到它是長在我這地方的皮肉上，可它卻直鉆通到我的頭蓋骨——全都是皺褶呀！可是，說正經(jīng)的；今天別再打什么矛尖和標(biāo)槍啦。你瞧！皮袋里叮當(dāng)作響，仿佛那里面裝滿許多金幣。"我也要打一根標(biāo)槍；要打一根無數(shù)的惡魔都折不斷的標(biāo)槍；柏斯，打得它一戳進(jìn)鯨身，就象是長在鯨身上的鰭骨那般。材料就在這里，"他把袋口朝鐵砧一抖。"你瞧，鐵匠，這些都是我搜集來的駿馬蹄鐵的釘頭釘腦。"
Horse-shoe stubbs, sir? Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then, the best and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever work.
馬蹄鐵的釘頭釘腦，先生？亞哈船長，這么說來，你這些東西，真是我們鐵匠從來沒有打過的最好最硬的材料。
I know it, old man; these stubbs will weld together like glue from the melted bones of murderers. Quick! forge me the harpoon. And forge me first, twelve rods for its shank; then wind, and twist, and hammer these twelve together like the yarns and strands of a tow-line. Quick! I'll blow the fire.
我知道，老頭；這些釘頭釘腦焊接起來，就象是把兇手熬煮后的骨膠一樣?？?！給我鑄一根標(biāo)槍。先給我熔鑄成十二根棒條；然后，把它弄彎，弄曲，再把這十二根棒條給絞在一起，絞得象根絞起來的大纜索?？?！我來拉風(fēng)箱。
