英语听书《白鲸记》第943期（在线收听）

No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still. 不，不，那并不是哭声；我是说，电光可怜可怜我们大家吧；我直到此刻还是希望它会可怜我们。

But do they only have mercy on long faces? — have they no bowels for a laugh? 难道电光只会可怜哭丧着脸的人吗？——对于笑容满面的人就不发慈悲心吗？

And look ye, Mr. Starbuck — but it's too dark to look. 你看，斯达巴克先生——唉，实在是黑得看都看不清。

Hear me, then; I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; 那么，听我说吧，我认为我们是把桅顶上的火光，看做好运气的兆头；

for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a' block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; 因为插着那些桅杆的船舱都塞满了鲸油，你可知道；

and so, all that sperm will work up into the masts, like sap in a tree. 因此，所有的鲸油都会渗透到桅杆里，就象树液渗透树木一样。

Yes, our three masts will yet be as three spermaceti candles — that's the good promise we saw. 是呀，我们那三根桅杆还是会象三根鲸油蜡烛一样——这就是我们看到的好指望。

At that moment Starbuck caught sight of Stubb's face slowly beginning to glimmer into sight. 这时，斯达巴克看到斯塔布的脸慢慢地开始叫人看得清了。

Glancing upwards, he cried: "See! see!" and once more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor. 他往上边一望，不禁叫了起来："瞧！瞧！"又看到那高高的细光了，那种灰蒙蒙的光彩似乎格外神奇。

The corpusants have mercy on us all, cried Stubb, again. 电光可怜可怜我们大家吧，斯塔布又叫了起来。

At the base of the main-mast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, 在主桅脚的地方，就在那只金币和火光下面，

the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; 那个祆教徒跪在亚哈跟前，头往后仰着；

while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, 而在附近，一群水手在把高挂着的拱弯的索具缚在圆柱上，

a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig. 他们都被那股火光吸住了。这会儿，大家的手都搭住绳索，象钟摆般挂在那里，活象一群粘在果树园里的下垂枝桠上的失去感觉的黄蜂。

In various enchanted attitudes like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, 从各人所表现出来的各种着迷似的姿势看来，就象是赫鸠娄尼恩发掘出来的一些骷髅：有的站着，有的跨步，有的正在奔跑，

others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast. 还有一些人则象钉牢在甲板上似的动都不动。但是，大家的眼睛都往上瞪着。