英語聽書《白鯨記》第579期

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But you must be a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery; like the Solomon islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.

但是，要看這些景色，就必須是個十足的捕鯨人才行；而且不僅如此，如果想再看看這樣一種景色，還得有把握地站在你第一次站過的那塊經(jīng)緯交叉的地方，否則，象這樣偶然而得的山景，要重新找到你剛才站著的正確地點，就得花番大功夫了，就跟那個梭羅馬群島（即所羅門群島。）一樣，雖然那個氣急呼呼的門達(dá)納（尼烏拉·德·門達(dá)納（1541—1595）——西班牙航海家，他曾于一五六七年發(fā)現(xiàn)所羅門群島。）的足跡，曾經(jīng)一度到過那里，菲格拉（法蘭西斯科·德·菲格拉（1540—1620）——西班牙詩人。）老頭也曾經(jīng)記載過它，可它仍是個隱姓埋名的地方。

Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds. Thus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.

如果閣下有興高高往上攀去，坐著小艇去追尋它們的話，那么在滿天星斗的上天，也不難找到大鯨，有如那些飽經(jīng)戰(zhàn)患的東方民族，看到給包圍在戰(zhàn)云里的軍隊。我就這樣在北極地方，不住地繞著北極星，追擊著那由陣陣金光初次使我看得輪廓分明的大鯨。而在輝煌燦爛的南極天空下，我卻坐上了南船星座，跟他們一起到遠(yuǎn)離海蛇星座和飛魚星座的無垠無涯的地方去追擊鯨星座。

With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!

用一只小巡洋艦的錨來作我的系索柱，用標(biāo)槍的束桿來做我的馬扎子，我就能夠登上那條鯨，沖到最高的天空，去看看那傳說中的上天和它所有的無數(shù)帳篷里，究竟是不是真的包藏有我肉眼所不能見的東西！