英语听书《白鲸记》 第1期
ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher hreadbare in coat,heart,body,and brain;I see him now.He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars,with a queer handkerchief,mockingly embellished with all the g
英语听书《白鲸记》 第2期
So fare thee well,poor devil of a Sub Sub,whose commentator I am.Thou belongest to that hopeless,sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm;and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy strong;but with whom one sometimes loves to sit,a
英语听书《白鲸记》 第3期
CHAPTER 1 Loomings. Call me Ishmael.Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is
英语听书《白鲸记》 第4期
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert,try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes,as every one knows,meditation and water are wedded for ever. But here is an artist.He desires to pai
英语听书《白鲸记》 第5期
I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them. For my part,I abominate all honourable respectable toils,trials,and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without tak
英语听书《白鲸记》第6期
But BEING PAID,what will compare with it?The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills,and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.
英语听书《白鲸记》第7期
By reason of these things,then,the whaling voyage was welcome;the great flood gates of the wonder world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul,endless processions of the whale,
英语听书《白鲸记》第8期
rather weary for me,when I struck my foot against the flinty projections,because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.Too expensive and jolly, again thought I,pausing one moment to watch the broad glare
英语听书《白鲸记》第9期
It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless, is a mighty pleasant zephyr to any one in doors, with his feet on the hob quie
英语听书《白鲸记》第10期
CHAPTER 3.The Spouter Inn. Entering that gable ended Spouter Inn,you found yourself in a wide,low, straggling entry with old fashioned wainscots,reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. On one side hung a very large oilpainting so t
英语听书《白鲸记》第11期
And that harpoonso like a corkscrew nowwas flung in Javan seas,and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco.The original iron entered nigh the tail, and,like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man,travelled f
英语听书《白鲸记》第12期
I sat down on an old wooden settle,carved all over like a bench on the Battery. At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs. He was trying his
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six feet in height,with noble shoulders,and a chest like a coffer dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast;while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some rem
英语听书《白鲸记》第14期
The devil fetch that harpooneer,thought I,but stop,could not I steal a march on himbolt his door inside,and jump into his bed, not to be wakened by the most violent knockings?It seemed no bad idea;but upon second thoughts I dismissed it. For who coul
英语听书《白鲸记》第15期
I 'll break it for him,said I,now flying into a passion again at this unaccountable farrago of the landlord's. It's broke a'ready,said he. Broke,said IBROKE,do you mean? Sartain,and that's the very reason he can not sell it,I guess. Landlord,said I,g
