海底兩萬里 第294期 第22章 強(qiáng)逼睡眠(1)

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But the Nautilus wanted nothing to do with these nasty animals. Timor Island was visible for barely an instant at noon while the chief officer determined his position. I also caught only a glimpse of little Roti Island, part of this same group, whose women have a well-established reputation for beauty in the Malaysian marketplace.

但諾第留斯號跟這些怪難看的動物并沒有什么交道可打。帝位島也只是在中午，船副記錄方位的時候，出現(xiàn)了一下。同樣，我也只望到了屬于這群島嶼的羅地小島，這島上砌女人在馬來亞市場上被公認(rèn)為有名的美人。

After our position fix, the Nautilus's latitude bearings were modulated to the southwest. Our prow pointed to the Indian Ocean. Where would Captain Nemo's fancies take us? Would he head up to the shores of Asia? Would he pull nearer to the beaches of Europe? Unlikely choices for a man who avoided populated areas! So would he go down south? Would he double the Cape of Good Hope, then Cape Horn, and push on to the Antarctic pole? Finally, would he return to the seas of the Pacific, where his Nautilus could navigate freely and easily? Time would tell.

從這里起，諾第留斯號的方向，在緯度線上彎下來；向西南駛?cè)?。船頭是向著印度洋。尼摩船長打算帶我們到什么地方去呢？他又上溯回到亞洲侮岸去嗎？他要走近歐洲海岸嗎？他是要躲避有人居住的陸地吧，但從航行方向看，這也是不可能的。那么他要往南去嗎？他要先過好望角，然后再過合恩角，向南極走去嗎？最后，他又要回到太平洋中來，他的諾第留斯號在太平洋中航行方便自由嗎？那只有將來才能使我知道。

After cruising along the Cartier, Hibernia, Seringapatam, and Scott reefs, the solid element's last exertions against the liquid element, we were beyond all sight of shore by January 14. The Nautilus slowed down in an odd manner, and very unpredictable in its ways, it sometimes swam in the midst of the waters, sometimes drifted on their surface.

既經(jīng)走過了嘉地埃、依比尼亞、西林加巴當(dāng)、斯各脫暗礁群，這是在海水中浮出的最后礁石了，1月14日我們看不見陸地了。諾第留斯號的速度特別緩慢，好像非常任性，有時在水中走，有時又浮出水面來。

During this phase of our voyage, Captain Nemo conducted interesting experiments on the different temperatures in various strata of the sea. Under ordinary conditions, such readings are obtained using some pretty complicated instruments whose findings are dubious to say the least, whether they're thermometric sounding lines, whose glass often shatters under the water's pressure, or those devices based on the varying resistance of metals to electric currents. The results so obtained can't be adequately double-checked. By contrast, Captain Nemo would seek the sea's temperature by going himself into its depths, and when he placed his thermometer in contact with the various layers of liquid, he found the sought-for degree immediately and with certainty.

在這次航行當(dāng)中，尼摩船長對于海中不同水層的各種溫度，做了些很有興味的實驗。在一般情況下，這些溫度的記錄是利用相當(dāng)復(fù)雜的器械來進(jìn)行，但不論是使用溫度表來探測（因玻璃管時常被水的壓力壓碎），或是使用通過電流的金屬制成的儀器來探測，所得的結(jié)果總還是不很可靠小因為這樣取得的結(jié)果無法校正。但尼摩船長就不同了，他自己親身到海底下去探測各水層的溫度，他的溫度表跟各水層相接觸，馬上很準(zhǔn)確地將得到的度數(shù)告訴他。