英语听书《白鲸记》第1026期

As before, the attentive¹ ship having descried² the whole fight, again came bearing down to the rescue, and dropping a boat, picked up the floating mariners³, tubs, oars⁴, and whatever else could be caught at, and safely landed them on her decks. Some sprained⁵ shoulders, wrists, and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched⁶ harpoons⁷ and lances; inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks⁸; all these were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one. As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap⁹.

那只聚精会神的大船，跟先前一样，看到了整个战斗场面后，又驶过来营救了，它放下一只小艇，捡起那些漂浮着的水手，索桶。桨子和一切能够捡到的东西，把他（它）们平安地拖上甲板。于是甲板上尽是扭伤了肩膀。手腕。脚踝头的面如土色的伤残者，弯曲了的标枪跟捕鲸枪，纠缠难理的绳索，以及残桨破板。不过，似乎还没有遭到致命的或者甚至严重的伤患者。这时，亚哈正跟上一天的费达拉一样，人们发现他面容严峻地紧扳住他那只小艇的半爿残片，它倒还相当富有浮力；而且他也不象上一天那个不幸者那样显得精疲力竭。

But when he was helped to the deck, all eyes were fastened upon him; as instead of standing¹⁰ by himself he still half-hung upon the shoulder of Starbuck, who had thus far been the foremost to assist him. His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.

不过，当人们把他扶上了甲板后，大家的眼睛都紧盯着他；他不是自己立在那里，而是半个身子还靠在斯达巴克的肩膀上，斯达巴克一直是首先去扶他的。亚哈那只牙腿已经断了，只剩下一段短短的尖截。

Aye, aye, Starbuck, 'tis sweet to lean sometimes, be the leaner who he will; and would old Ahab had leaned oftener than he has.

唉，唉，斯达巴克，有的时候，靠一靠真舒服，不管靠的是哪一个；但愿亚哈老头多靠一靠了。

The ferrule has not stood, sir, said the carpenter, now coming up; I put good work into that leg."

那个箍子不行啦，先生，这会儿，木匠走上来，说道；“那条腿我可花了不少工夫呢。”

But no bones broken, sir, I hope, said Stubb with true concern.

我想，骨头该没有折坏吧，先生，斯塔布带着真心关切的神情说。

1 attentive   

adj.注意的，专心的；关心(别人)的，殷勤的

参考例句：

• She was very attentive to her guests.她对客人招待得十分周到。
• The speaker likes to have an attentive audience.演讲者喜欢注意力集中的听众。

2 descried   

adj.被注意到的，被发现的，被看到的

参考例句：

• He descried an island far away on the horizon. 他看到遥远的地平线上有个岛屿。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• At length we descried a light and a roof. 终于，我们远远看见了一点灯光，一所孤舍。 来自辞典例句

3 mariners   

海员，水手（mariner的复数形式）

参考例句：

• Mariners were also able to fix their latitude by using an instrument called astrolabe. 海员们还可使用星盘这种仪器确定纬度。
• The ancient mariners traversed the sea. 古代的海员漂洋过海。

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 sprained   

v.&n. 扭伤

参考例句：

• I stumbled and sprained my ankle. 我摔了一跤，把脚脖子扭了。
• When Mary sprained her ankles, John carried her piggyback to the doctors. 玛丽扭伤了足踝，约翰驮她去看医生。

6 wrenched   

v.（猛力地）扭( wrench的过去式和过去分词 )；扭伤；使感到痛苦；使悲痛

参考例句：

• The bag was wrenched from her grasp. 那只包从她紧握的手里被夺了出来。
• He wrenched the book from her hands. 他从她的手中把书拧抢了过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 harpoons   

n.鱼镖，鱼叉( harpoon的名词复数 )v.鱼镖，鱼叉( harpoon的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Greenpeace hopes to position its boats between the harpoons and the whales. 绿色和平希望他们的船能开到港口与鲸鱼群之间的地方。 来自互联网
• NIV Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? 7[和合]你能用倒钩枪扎满它的皮，能用鱼叉叉满它的头吗？ 来自互联网

8 planks   

（厚）木板( plank的名词复数 )； 政纲条目，政策要点

参考例句：

• The house was built solidly of rough wooden planks. 这房子是用粗木板牢固地建造的。
• We sawed the log into planks. 我们把木头锯成了木板。

9 mishap   

n.不幸的事，不幸；灾祸

参考例句：

• I'm afraid your son had a slight mishap in the playground.不好了，你儿子在操场上出了点小意外。
• We reached home without mishap.我们平安地回到了家。

10 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。