英语听书《白鲸记》第810期
Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness. It is a most refreshing, convivial, beauti
英语听书《白鲸记》第811期
Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which cov
英语听书《白鲸记》第812期
The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches abou
英语听书《白鲸记》第813期
And an idol, indeed, it is; or rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it for a
英语听书《白鲸记》第814期
That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as
英语听书《白鲸记》第815期
The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, 下边用的是负荷力特别大的木头, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height. 足以支撑那个简直是用砖
英语听书《白鲸记》第816期
Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare masonry of that side is exposed, penetrated by the two iron mouths of the furnaces, directly underneath the pots. These mouths are fitted with heavy doors of iron. The intense heat of
英语听书《白鲸记》第817期
Would that he consumed his own smoke! 它要是能够吸收自己的烟气,岂不更好! for his smoke is horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time. 因为它那烟气真是难闻,可你又
英语听书《白鲸记》第818期
The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps. To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces. Opposite the mouth of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden hearth, was the windl
英语听书《白鲸记》第819期
So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continu
英语听书《白鲸记》第820期
Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. My God! what is the matter with me? I thought. Lo! in my brief sleep I had turned myself about, and was fronting the s
英语听书《白鲸记》第821期
With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. All is vanity. ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom y
英语听书《白鲸记》第822期
Chapter 97 The Lamp 第九十七章 灯 Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine
英语听书《白鲸记》第823期
Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up 第九十八章 装舱和打扫 Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; 前面已经讲过了:大鲸是怎样老远就被桅顶上的人发现; how he is
英语听书《白鲸记》第824期
At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the great hatchways are unsealed, 最后,待到装完了最后一桶,所有的油都冷却了的时候,就打开许多大舱口, the bowels of the ship are thrown open, and down g