英语听书《白鲸记》第431期

 I still rest me on thy mat, but the soft soil has slid!  我还是躺在你的席子上,可惜柔软的泥地没有了!我的席子呀,

I saw thee woven in the wood, my mat! green the first day I brought ye thence; now worn and wilted¹ quite.  我是看到你在树林里编起来的,我第一天把你拿到这里来的时候,你还是碧绿的;现在却已经很旧很毛了。

Ah me!-not thou nor I can bear the change! How then, if so be transplanted to yon sky?  我呀...这种变化,是你我都经不起的呀!如果把它移植到那边的青天去,又怎么样呢?

Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? 流水奔下岩石,涌向村庄的时候,我不是听到皮罗希提的峰尖发出滚滚的水声么?

The blast, the blast! Up, spine², and meet it! (Leaps to his feet.) 该死,该死!打起精神来,去迎接它!(跳了起来)

PORTUGUESE³ SAILOR 葡萄牙水手:

How the sea rolls swashing 'gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties⁴! the winds are just crossing swords, pell-mell they'll go lunging presently. 滚滚的海浪把船侧冲击得多厉害啊!赶紧准备收缩帆篷呀,伙伴们!风刮得象交叉的剑,它可就要乱戳起来了。

DANISH SAILOR 丹麦水手:

Crack, crack, old ship! so long as thou crackest, thou holdest!  噼啪,噼啪,老船呀!只要你能噼啪下去,你就尽管噼啪吧!

Well done! The mate there holds ye to it stiffly.  干得好!那边的大副可把你们抓得太紧了。

He's no more afraid than the isle⁵ fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes! 他跟卡特盖特岛要塞一般不怕什么了,用风暴推动的大炮在那里跟波罗的海拚个明白,海盐在大炮上结起硬块!

4TH NANTUCKET SAILOR 南塔开特水手丁:

He has his orders, mind ye that. I heard old Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol-fire your ship right into it! 他是听命办事的,你要注意。我听到亚哈老头对他说,他必须始终挡住狂风,有点象人们用手枪打破槽口一样把船直冲进去!

ENGLISH SAILOR 英国水手:

Blood! but that old man's a grand old cove⁶! We are the lads to hunt him up his whale! 该死!那老头可是一个了不起的老家伙!我们就是命该给他捉牢他那条鲸的小伙子!

ALL Aye! aye! OLD MANX SAILOR 大家:是呀!是呀!人岛老水手:

How the three pines shake! Pines are the hardest sort of tree to live when shifted to any other soil, and here there's none but the crew's cursed clay.  看那三根松木晃得多厉害呀!松树本来是最坚韧的树木,随你移到哪种土壤里都能活下去,可是,这里却只有水手们的该死的泥土。

Steady, helmsman! steady. This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore⁷, and keeled hulls⁸ split at sea.  留心,舵手们!留心。这种天气是会把最有力气的人刮到岸上,会把海上的船龙骨都刮碎的。

Our captain has his birthmark; look yonder, boys, there's another in the sky lurid--like, ye see, all else pitch black. 我们的船长是有痕记的;你们瞧那边,伙计们,天上有另一种痕记，样子怪可怕,你们看,其余尽是漆黑一片。

1 wilted   

（使）凋谢，枯萎( wilt的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The flowers wilted in the hot sun. 花在烈日下枯萎了。
• The romance blossomed for six or seven months, and then wilted. 那罗曼史持续六七个月之后就告吹了。

2 spine   

n.脊柱，脊椎；(动植物的)刺；书脊

参考例句：

• He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.他从马上跌下摔断了脊梁骨。
• His spine developed a slight curve.他的脊柱有点弯曲。

3 Portuguese   

n.葡萄牙人；葡萄牙语

参考例句：

• They styled their house in the Portuguese manner.他们仿照葡萄牙的风格设计自己的房子。
• Her family is Portuguese in origin.她的家族是葡萄牙血统。

4 hearties   

亲切的( hearty的名词复数 )； 热诚的； 健壮的； 精神饱满的

参考例句：

• Heave ho, my hearties! 伙伴们，用力呀！
• Pull away, my hearties! 使劲划，伙计们！

5 isle   

n.小岛，岛

参考例句：

• He is from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.他来自爱尔兰海的马恩岛。
• The boat left for the paradise isle of Bali.小船驶向天堂一般的巴厘岛。

6 cove   

n.小海湾，小峡谷

参考例句：

• The shore line is wooded,olive-green,a pristine cove.岸边一带林木蓊郁，嫩绿一片，好一个山外的小海湾。
• I saw two children were playing in a cove.我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。

7 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

8 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。