英语听书《白鲸记》第1014期

That's good. — Help me, man; I wish to stand. So, so, I see him! there! there! going to leeward¹ still; what a leaping spout²! — Hands off from me! The eternal sap runs up in Ahab's bones again! Set the sail; out oars⁴; the helm!

好——。喂，扶我一把；我要站起来。唔，唔，我看到它啦！你们瞧！你们瞧！还在向下风游去；那喷水多高呀！——放开我！亚哈身上那股长存的元气又涌上来了！扯帆；把桨插出去；转舵向风！

It is often the case that when a boat is stove, its crew, being picked up by another boat, help to work that second boat; and the chase is thus continued with what is called double-banked oars. It was thus now. But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin⁵; swimming with a velocity⁶ which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar³; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude⁷. The ship itself, then, as it sometimes happens, offered the most promising⁸ intermediate means of overtaking the chase. Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes — the two parts of the wrecked⁹ boat having been previously¹⁰ secured by her — and then hoisting¹¹ everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stunsails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby Dick.

每当一只小艇给撞破了，按照通例，它的水手被另一只小艇救起来后，就去帮助另一只小艇干活；于是就用所谓双座桨继续进行追击。目前正是这般情况。可是，增加了力量的小艇，并不就抵得上那条大鲸本身所加上去的力量，因为它好象每根鳍都有三倍的座桨似的；游得那么神速，一眼就教人看出，如果在现在这种情况下，再继续追下去，那么，这种追击，即使不是徒劳无功，也一定是不知要划到几时才止。任何一个水手也都经不住这样长期不息的紧张划桨；偶尔为之，倒还可以勉为其难一下。这时，正如通常的情况那样，大船倒是追击大鲸的最良好的工具。因此，这会儿，小艇都赶到大船跟前，不一会，大船的吊机就把它们都吊了上去——那两截破艇已事先缚在大船侧——接着，把一切东西都吊在船侧，船帆高高堆起，斜张起副帆，很象一只双副翅膀的信天翁。"裴廓德号"开始去尾追莫比－迪克了。

1 leeward   

adj.背风的；下风的

参考例句：

• The trees all listed to leeward.树木统统向下风方向倾。
• We steered a course to leeward.我们向下风航驶。

2 spout   

v.喷出，涌出；滔滔不绝地讲；n.喷管；水柱

参考例句：

• Implication in folk wealth creativity and undertaking vigor spout.蕴藏于民间的财富创造力和创业活力喷涌而出。
• This acts as a spout to drain off water during a rainstorm.在暴风雨季，这东西被用作喷管来排水。

3 oar   

n.桨，橹，划手；v.划行

参考例句：

• The sailors oar slowly across the river.水手们慢慢地划过河去。
• The blade of the oar was bitten off by a shark.浆叶被一条鲨鱼咬掉了。

4 oars   

n.桨，橹( oar的名词复数 )；划手v.划（行）( oar的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• He pulled as hard as he could on the oars. 他拼命地划桨。
• The sailors are bending to the oars. 水手们在拼命地划桨。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 fin   

n.鳍；(飞机的)安定翼

参考例句：

• They swim using a small fin on their back.它们用背上的小鳍游动。
• The aircraft has a long tail fin.那架飞机有一个长长的尾翼。

6 velocity   

n.速度，速率

参考例句：

• Einstein's theory links energy with mass and velocity of light.爱因斯坦的理论把能量同质量和光速联系起来。
• The velocity of light is about 300000 kilometres per second.光速约为每秒300000公里。

7 vicissitude   

n.变化，变迁，荣枯，盛衰

参考例句：

• It is indeed a strange vicissitude of our science.这确实是我们科学的一个奇怪变迁。
• The future is so uncertain that we cannot know all the vicissitude of our fortunes.未来是无法确定的，我们无法知道将来命运所有的变化。

8 promising   

adj.有希望的，有前途的

参考例句：

• The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
• We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

9 wrecked   

adj.失事的，遇难的

参考例句：

• the hulk of a wrecked ship 遇难轮船的残骸
• the salvage of the wrecked tanker 对失事油轮的打捞

10 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

11 hoisting   

起重，提升

参考例句：

• The hoisting capacity of that gin pole (girder pole, guy derrick) is sixty tons. 那个起重抱杆（格状抱杆、转盘抱杆）的起重能力为60吨。 来自口语例句
• We must use mechanical hoisting to load the goods. 我们必须用起重机来装载货物。