英語聽書《白鯨記》第609期

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Chapter 64 Stubb's Supper

第六十四章 斯塔布的晚餐

Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod. And now, as we eighteen men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and fingers, slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse in the sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all, except at long intervals; good evidence was hereby furnished of the enormousness of the mass we moved. For, upon the great canal of Hang-Ho, or whatever they call it, in China, four or five laborers on the foot-path will draw a bulky freighted junk at the rate of a mile an hour; but this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with piglead in bulk.

斯塔布是在離開大船相當(dāng)遠(yuǎn)的海上殺死那條鯨的。這一天，風(fēng)平浪靜；我們把三只小艇串聯(lián)起來后，就開始慢慢地把這只戰(zhàn)利品拉曳到"裴廓德號"旁邊來。這時，我們十八個人，三十六條胳膊，一百八十只大小手指，就在海里慢慢地、一個鐘頭過一個鐘頭地張羅那具僵硬的死尸；好象很難弄得動它，要隔好久才會使它動一動；這就足以證明：我們在拉曳的這團(tuán)東西有多大了。因為，在那條叫做運(yùn)河，或者在中國是怎樣叫法的那條大運(yùn)河上，四五個船夫在小徑上曳著一只貨物奇重的舢舨船，一小時的速度都還可拉個一英里路；可是，這只使我們拉得喘不過氣來的徐徐前進(jìn)的大船，卻仿佛是載著生鉛一般。

Darkness came on; but three lights up and down in the Pequod's main-rigging dimly guided our way; till drawing nearer we saw Ahab dropping one of several more lanterns over the bulwarks. Vacantly eyeing the heaving whale for a moment, he issued the usual orders for securing it for the night, and then handing his lantern to a seaman, went his way into the cabin, and did not come forward again until morning.

暮色已經(jīng)攏來，不過，"裴廓德號"的大桅索具上已高高低低地掛起了三盞燈，在朦朧地為我們照路；等到快靠攏的時候，我們看到亞哈打另外幾只燈籠中拿一只擱在舷墻上。他對那條往上拖的鯨，茫然地望了一會，發(fā)出例常的命令，吩咐要在當(dāng)夜把它縛好后，就把他那只燈籠交給一個水手，徑自回船長室去，直到隔天早晨，才重新出來。