英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)書(shū)《白鯨記》第970期
But this only the more affected some of them, because most mariners cherish a very superstitious feeling about seals, arising not only from their peculiar tones when in distress, but also from the human look of their round heads and semi-intelligent faces, seen peeringly uprising from the water alongside. In the sea, under certain circumstances, seals have more than once been mistaken for men.
這就更其影響若干船員的心情，因?yàn)樗执蠖鄬?duì)海豹懷有一種十分迷信的想法，這種想法的由來(lái)，不僅是因?yàn)楹１诳嚯y時(shí)所發(fā)出來(lái)的那種特別的聲調(diào)，且也因?yàn)樗腥说南嗝玻瑘A圓的頭顱，和一張半聰明的臉，在船側(cè)的海里隱然出現(xiàn)的緣故。在海上，有的時(shí)候，海豹總不止一次地被錯(cuò)認(rèn)為人。
But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning. At sun-rise this man went from his hammock to his mast-head at the fore; and whether it was that he was not yet half waked from his sleep (for sailors sometimes go aloft in a transition state), whether it was thus with the man, there is now no telling; but, be that as it may, he had not been long at his perch, when a cry was heard — a cry and a rushing — and looking up, they saw a falling phantom in the air; and looking down, a little tossed heap of white bubbles in the blue of the sea.
不過(guò)，水手們所感到的預(yù)兆，注定要在那天早晨，在他們中間一個(gè)人的命運(yùn)上，得到最有力的證實(shí)。太陽(yáng)出來(lái)的時(shí)候，這個(gè)人從他的吊鋪起來(lái)，爬上船頭的桅頂；究竟是他還沒(méi)有睡醒（因?yàn)樗謧冇袝r(shí)總是將醒未醒就爬上去），還是這個(gè)人生來(lái)就是如此，可說(shuō)不上來(lái)；總之，他在那上面停不多久，就教人聽(tīng)到一陣叫聲——一陣叫喊聲和噼哩啪啦聲——大家往上一望，看到空中有個(gè)跌下來(lái)的幽影；再往下面一看，大海里已冒起一小堆翻來(lái)翻去的白色泡沫了。
The life-buoy — a long slender cask — was dropped from the stern, where it always hung obedient to a cunning spring; but no hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and the parched wood also filled at its every pore; and the studded iron-bound cask followed the sailor to the bottom, as if to yield him his pillow, though in sooth but a hard one.
那只救生圈——一只細(xì)長(zhǎng)的木桶——打船梢放了下去，救生圈一直被用根靈活的纜索乖乖地掛在船梢?？墒?，救生圈放下去后，卻沒(méi)有人冒出來(lái)抓住它，而那只桶因?yàn)殚L(zhǎng)期讓太陽(yáng)曬得干縮了，所以，它慢慢地滿足了水，干枯的木板就完全漲透了。可是，那只鑲著鐵箍的木桶，卻跟那個(gè)水手沉到海底去了，仿佛給他送下了一只枕頭，雖然實(shí)際上是只硬梆梆的枕頭。
