英语听书《白鲸记》第539期(在线收听) |
"Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. “运河船的水手,先生,就是我们的伊利大运河的船夫。 You must have heard of it. 你一定听说过。
Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North." “不,先生;在我们这种向来就是气候温暖、沉闷、弄得大家都懒洋洋的地方,对于你们那种严寒的北方,我们是不大清楚的。
"Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup. “是吗?那么,先生,再给我满一满杯。
Your chicha's very fine; 你们的奇赤(奇赤——西班牙和南美洲人惯喝的一种甜酒。)真不错;
and ere proceeding further I will tell ye what our Canallers are; for such information may throw side-light upon my story. 我得先把我们的运河船的水手是怎样一种人,告诉你后再继续说下去,因为这种知识,可以间接说明我的故事。
For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, “诸位先生,在长达三百六十英里(伊利运河的长度在三百五十至三百六十英里间。)的距离间,
through the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving villages; 它经过纽约州的整个宽度,无数人口稠密的城市和最兴旺的村庄,
through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; 漫长的、凄凉的、渺无人烟的沼地,丰饶肥沃无与伦比的耕地,
by billiard-room and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; 弹子房与酒吧间,至圣的大森林地带,穿过跨连印第安河流的罗马式的横桥,
through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; 烈日高照和荫荫凉凉的地方,叫人心欢和心碎的地方,那些有名的莫霍克郡(英霍克郡——在纽约州中部。)的差别显著的风景区,
and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand almost like milestones, 特别是经过一列列的雪白的教堂,教堂的尖顶简直就象里程碑似的高矗着,
flows one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life. 有一条威尼斯式的腐化而无法无天的生活的、流个不停的河流。
There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; 诸位先生,这就是你们的地道的阿散蒂(阿散蒂——非洲黄金海岸的一个郡,多山多林,土地肥沃,出产丰富,民性强悍。作者在这里把它比喻为伊利运河流域一带的美国地方。),
there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches." 在那里,你们那些异教徒在号叫,这些人到处都看得到,就在你的身旁,就在教堂的长射的阴影下,躲在教堂的舒适而神气十足的背风处。 |
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