英语听书《白鲸记》第985期

 If thou speakest thus to me much more, Ahab's purpose keels up in him. I tell thee no; it cannot be. 如果你再这样跟我唠叨下去，亚哈的目的就都要搁浅啦。我对你说不行；这是不行的。

"Oh good master, master, master! 啊，好主人呀，主人，主人！

Weep so, and I will murder thee! have a care, for Ahab too is mad. 还要哭，我可要把你宰啦！得留神，亚哈也是个疯子。

Listen, and thou wilt¹ often hear my ivory foot upon the deck, and still know that I am there. 听着，你还可以常常听到我的牙腿踏在甲板上的声音，还可以知道我在那上面。

And now I quit thee. Thy hand! — Met! True art thou, lad, as the circumference² to its centre. 现在，我可得跟你分手了。伸出你的手来！——握一握！孩子，你就真象圆周绕着圆心一样的忠诚。

So: God for ever bless thee; and if it come to that, — God for ever save thee, let what will befall." 因此，但愿上帝永远保佑你；如果有什么意外，——都随它来吧，上帝会永远保护你。

(Ahab goes; Pip steps one step forward.) （亚哈走了；比普向前跨上一步）

Here he this instant stood, I stand in his air, — but I'm alone. 这就是他刚才站着的地方；我照他的样子站在这里——可是，我却是孤零零的。

Now were even poor Pip here I could endure it, but he's missing. 现在就是有可怜的比普在这里，我也受得了，可惜他不见了。

Pip! Pip! Ding, dong, ding! Who's seen Pip? He must be up here; let's try the door. 比普，比普！叮，咚，叮！谁看到过比普嘛？他一定是在这里；让我来敲敲门。

What? neither lock, nor bolt, nor bar; and yet there's no opening it. 怎么？没有锁；又没有插销，也没有门闩；而且也没有通路。

It must be the spell; he told me to stay here: Aye, and told me this screwed chair was mine. 这一定是有符咒；他要我待在这地方：啊，他还对我说，这只转椅是我的。

Here, then, I'll seat me, against the transom, in the ship's full middle, all her keel and her three masts before me. 那么，我就坐在这里吧，背靠着横材，坐在船的正中央，前边是船身和三支桅杆。

 

1 wilt   

v.(使)植物凋谢或枯萎；(指人)疲倦，衰弱

参考例句：

• Golden roses do not wilt and will never need to be watered.金色的玫瑰不枯萎绝也不需要浇水。
• Several sleepless nights made him wilt.数个不眠之夜使他憔悴。

2 circumference   

n.圆周，周长，圆周线

参考例句：

• It's a mile round the circumference of the field.运动场周长一英里。
• The diameter and the circumference of a circle correlate.圆的直径与圆周有相互关系。