英语听书《白鲸记》第1035期

Stand over that helmsman with a top-maul! So, so; he travels fast, and I must down. But let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there's time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and not changed a wink¹ since I first saw it, a boy, from the sand-hills of Nantucket!

拿只大槌子去把舵手监视起来！唔，唔；它游行很快，我得下去了。不过，让我在这高高的地方再好好地望一望四下的海吧；时间还多着呢。还是老景色，老景色，不过，不知怎地，还是有点儿新颖；唔，打我是个南塔开特的沙丘的小孩子时候初次看到海以来，它可一点也没有什么变化呀！

The same — the same! — the same to Noah as to me. There's a soft shower to leeward². Such lovely leewardings! They must lead somewhere — to something else than common land, more palmy than the palms. Leeward! the white whale goes that way; look to windward, then; the better if the bitterer quarter. But good bye, good bye, old mast-head!

老样子！——老样子！挪亚看到的时候是这样，我看到的时候也是这样。下风的地方在下毛毛雨啦。这样可爱的下风！它一定会吹到什么地方去——吹到跟普通地方有点儿不同的地方去，吹到比棕榈树还要茂盛的地方去。下风！白鲸正在朝下风游去；那么，看一看上风吧；后边如果刮得越厉害越好。可是，再见啦，再见啦，老桅顶！

What's this? — green? aye, tiny mosses³ in these warped⁴ cracks. No such green weather stains on Ahab's head! There's the difference now between man's old age and matter's. But aye, old mast, we both grow old together; sound in our hulls⁵, though are we not, my ship? Aye, minus a leg, that's all. By heaven this dead wood has the better of my live flesh every way. I can't compare with it; and I've known some ships made of dead trees outlast⁶ the lives of men made of the most vital stuff of vital fathers.

这是什么？——绿色的东西？噫，在这些歪歪曲曲的缝缝里竟有小小的苔藓。亚哈的头上可就没有这种碧绿的气候留下的痕迹。现在老头子跟这东西竟有所不同了。不过，喂，老桅杆呀，咱俩可是一起老起来的；不过，咱俩的身躯都还很硬朗，可不是嘛，我的船呀？是呀，只不过是少掉了一条腿罢了。老天在上！这块枯木头却在各方面都比我的活肌体强。我不能跟它相比；我早就知道，有些用枯木头做的船，却比那些由精力充沛的先人用最富活力的材料做成的人远更长命呢。

1 wink   

n.眨眼，使眼色，瞬间；v.眨眼，使眼色，闪烁

参考例句：

• He tipped me the wink not to buy at that price.他眨眼暗示我按那个价格就不要买。
• The satellite disappeared in a wink.瞬息之间，那颗卫星就消失了。

2 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。

3 mosses   

n. 藓类, 苔藓植物 名词moss的复数形式

参考例句：

• Ferns, mosses and fungi spread by means of spores. 蕨类植物、苔藓和真菌通过孢子传播蔓生。
• The only plants to be found in Antarctica are algae, mosses, and lichens. 在南极洲所发现的植物只有藻类、苔藓和地衣。

4 warped   

adj.反常的；乖戾的；（变）弯曲的；变形的v.弄弯，变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 )；使（行为等）不合情理，使乖戾，

参考例句：

• a warped sense of humour 畸形的幽默感
• The board has warped. 木板翘了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 hulls   

船体( hull的名词复数 )； 船身； 外壳； 豆荚

参考例句：

• Hulls may be removed by aspiration on screens. 脱下的种皮，可由筛子上的气吸装置吸除。
• When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. 当他们的目的达到以后，他们便凋谢零落，就象脱却果实的空壳一样。

6 outlast   

v.较…耐久

参考例句：

• The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.人生的充分利用就是为争取比人生更长久的东西而度过一生。
• These naturally dried flowers will outlast a bouquet of fresh blooms.这些自然风干的花会比一束鲜花更加持久。