and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom;  他们的称呼中，有你与您的区别，显得有礼有节；

still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities,  然而他们的血液之中却始终流淌着冒险的成分，勇猛与大无畏的精神,

a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.  使他们可以成为斯堪的那维亚的海中之霸，也可以成为颇有诗人气质的罗马教徒。 

And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart;  这种不乏浪漫色彩的勇猛性格蕴育出了像比勒达船长这种静如处女、动若脱兔的人物，

who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters,  隐居于如此荒蛮之海域，

and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently;  从来没有见过被领导,也有如此的独立性格;

receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly,  他身上有与大自然相谐的宁和与恬美，

but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language, 也有自然斗士的桀骜不驯。

that man makes one in a whole nation's census,a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.  他是悲剧中的伟人，支配别人成了他人格的一种病态表现。