英语听书《白鲸记》第448期

 Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking¹ in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched² the ship from such a fiendish man!  他岸上那些老朋友中,如果有任何一个人只消隐约揣摩到他这番心事的话,那么,那些惊得发呆而公正的人,一定会立时就把这条船拖住,不让这样一个恶魔似的人去航驶了!

They were bent³ on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint.  他们都是一心想着大获其利的巡游,想着可以数尽造币厂的金圆的厚利的。

He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge. 他却专心致志于进行大胆的。不能宽恕的。不可思议的报仇雪恨。

Here, then, was this grey-headed, ungodly old man, chasing with curses a Job's whale round the world,  于是,这个白发苍苍。不畏鬼神的老人便在这里带着一群水手,满怀愤恨地要走遍天下。

at the head of a crew, too, chiefly made up of mongrel renegades, and castaways, and cannibals-morally enfeebled also, by the incompetence⁴ of mere⁵ unaided virtue⁶ or right-mindedness in Starbuck, the invulnerable jollity of indifference⁷ and recklessness in Stubb, and the pervading⁸ mediocrity in Flask⁹.  去追逐一条约伯的大鲸,而这些个水手,也主要是由一伙混血的背教者。光棍和生番组成的，也是道德薄弱的一群,加上一个力不胜任,只有无济于事的美德或者公正观念的斯达巴克,一个卤莽而漠不关心的,镇天嘻嘻哈哈的斯塔布,和一个非常平庸的弗拉斯克。

Such a crew, so officered, seemed specially¹⁰ picked and packed by some infernal fatality¹¹ to help him to his monomaniac revenge.  这样一群水手,这样配备的头目,似乎就是劫数难逃的天意特为帮助他完成他那偏热症的复仇而挑拣出来的一群出类拔萃的人物。

1 lurking   

潜在

参考例句：

• Why are you lurking around outside my house? 你在我房子外面鬼鬼祟祟的，想干什么？
• There is a suspicious man lurking in the shadows. 有一可疑的人躲在阴暗中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

2 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》

3 bent   

n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的

参考例句：

• He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
• We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。

4 incompetence   

n.不胜任，不称职

参考例句：

• He was dismissed for incompetence. 他因不称职而被解雇。
• She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. 她觉得，本是老板无能，但她却成了替罪羊。

5 mere   

adj.纯粹的；仅仅，只不过

参考例句：

• That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
• It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。

6 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

7 indifference   

n.不感兴趣，不关心，冷淡，不在乎

参考例句：

• I was disappointed by his indifference more than somewhat.他的漠不关心使我很失望。
• He feigned indifference to criticism of his work.他假装毫不在意别人批评他的作品。

8 pervading   

v.遍及，弥漫( pervade的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• an all-pervading sense of gloom 无处不在的沮丧感
• a pervading mood of fear 普遍的恐惧情绪

9 flask   

n.瓶，火药筒，砂箱

参考例句：

• There is some deposit in the bottom of the flask.这只烧杯的底部有些沉淀物。
• He took out a metal flask from a canvas bag.他从帆布包里拿出一个金属瓶子。

10 specially   

adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地

参考例句：

• They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。

11 fatality   

n.不幸，灾祸，天命

参考例句：

• She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
• He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。