英语听书《白鲸记》第1020期

Aye, aye! cried Stubb, "I knew it — ye can't escape — blow on and split your spout¹, O whale! the mad fiend himself is after ye! blow your trump² — blister³ your lungs! — Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller⁴ shuts his watergate upon the stream!"

是呀，是呀！斯塔布叫道，"我心里有数——你逃不了喽——大鲸呀，你尽管喷尽管吹吧！疯狂的恶魔正在亲身紧追着你哪！吹起你的喇叭，鼓起你的肺吧！——亚哈就要煞住你的血了，象个磨坊手在溪流上关起他的水闸那样！"

And Stubb did but speak out for well nigh all that crew. The frenzies⁵ of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked anew. Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe⁶ of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter⁷ before the bounding bison. The hand of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils⁸ of the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense⁹; the fixed¹⁰, unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging¹¹ towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled along. The wind that made great bellies¹² of their sails, and rushed the vessel¹³ on by arms invisible as irresistible¹⁴; this seemed the symbol of that unseen agency which so enslaved them to the race.

斯塔布所说的，差不多也就是那些水手要说的话，这种如疯如狂的追击，到了这时，已把他们弄得十分激动，一如陈年老酒重新发作那样了。不管在他们中间，有些人以前有过什么样朦胧的恐惧和预兆；可是，这些恐惧，现在不仅由于对亚哈的日见增长的敬畏而完全无影无踪，而且好象遭到了四面兜抄，完全不打自垮了，正如大草原上的胆怯的野兔；一见那只被捆缚着的野牛，便四散奔命那样。命运之神的手已攫住了他们全体的灵魂；而且，经过了上一天那种惊心动魄的险境；昨天晚上的提心吊胆；加上他们那艘疯狂的船在拚命直追那条如飞的目的物时，那种坚定不移、无所畏惧、盲冲瞎撞、不顾一切的劲头；总之，经过了所有这一切后，他们的心也都轱辘轱辘地向前疾奔了。那种把风帆吹得鼓鼓胀起的大风，那双把船急推猛赶前去的无可抗拒而眼不能见的大手；这似乎就是如此驱使他们疲于奔命的那种眼不能见的神力的象征。

They were one man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all; though it was put together of all contrasting things — oak, and maple¹⁵, and pine wood; iron, and pitch, and hemp¹⁶ — yet all these ran into each other in the one concrete hull¹⁷, which shot on its way, both balanced and directed by the long central keel;

他们已成为一个人，而不是三十个人了。因为就象这艘装着他们全体的船一样；虽然它是用各种性质极其不同的东西——橡木，枫木，松木；铁器；沥青和大麻——凑合起来的，然而，所有这些东西都彼此混凝为一艘具体的船，这艘船就被那根长长的主龙骨所平衡、指引、象箭般驶去；

1 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。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 blister   

n.水疱；(油漆等的)气泡；v.(使)起泡

参考例句：

• I got a huge blister on my foot and I couldn't run any farther.我脚上长了一个大水泡，没办法继续跑。
• I have a blister on my heel because my shoe is too tight.鞋子太紧了，我脚后跟起了个泡。

4 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

5 frenzies   

狂乱( frenzy的名词复数 )； 极度的激动

参考例句：

6 awe   

n.敬畏，惊惧；vt.使敬畏，使惊惧

参考例句：

• The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

7 scatter   

vt.撒，驱散，散开；散布/播；vi.分散，消散

参考例句：

• You pile everything up and scatter things around.你把东西乱堆乱放。
• Small villages scatter at the foot of the mountain.村庄零零落落地散布在山脚下。

8 perils   

极大危险( peril的名词复数 )； 危险的事（或环境）

参考例句：

• The commander bade his men be undaunted in the face of perils. 指挥员命令他的战士要临危不惧。
• With how many more perils and disasters would he load himself? 他还要再冒多少风险和遭受多少灾难？

9 suspense   

n.（对可能发生的事）紧张感，担心，挂虑

参考例句：

• The suspense was unbearable.这样提心吊胆的状况实在叫人受不了。
• The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念。

10 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

11 plunging   

adj.跳进的，突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发，生灵涂炭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 bellies   

n.肚子( belly的名词复数 )；腹部；（物体的）圆形或凸起部份；腹部…形的

参考例句：

• They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
• starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童

13 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

14 irresistible   

adj.非常诱人的，无法拒绝的，无法抗拒的

参考例句：

• The wheel of history rolls forward with an irresistible force.历史车轮滚滚向前，势不可挡。
• She saw an irresistible skirt in the store window.她看见商店的橱窗里有一条叫人着迷的裙子。

15 maple   

n.槭树，枫树，槭木

参考例句：

• Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
• The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。

16 hemp   

n.大麻；纤维

参考例句：

• The early Chinese built suspension bridges of hemp rope.古代的中国人建造过麻绳悬索桥。
• The blanket was woven from hemp and embroidered with wool.毯子是由亚麻编织，羊毛镶边的。

17 hull   

n.船身；(果、实等的)外壳；vt.去(谷物等)壳

参考例句：

• The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
• The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。