英語聽書《白鯨記》第759期

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"Out of the way, Commodore!" CRIed one, to a great dromedary that of a sudden rose bodily to the surface, and for an instant threatened to swamp us. "Hard down with your tail, there!" CRIed a second to another, which, close to our gunwale, seemed calmly cooling himself with his own fan-like extremity.

"閃開些，艇長(zhǎng)！"這個(gè)叫道，因?yàn)樗吹酵蝗挥幸恢幌髥畏宕篑橊勊频臇|西冒出了海面，眼看一下子就要把我們弄翻了。"喂，轉(zhuǎn)舵當(dāng)風(fēng)呀！"那一個(gè)叫道，因?yàn)樗吹搅硪粭l鯨，靠著我們的舷壁，好象泰然地用它那只大扇子似的尾巴在給自己扇風(fēng)。

All whale-boats carry certain curious contrivances, originally invented by the Nantucket Indians, called druggs. Two thick squares of wood of equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each other's grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon. It is chiefly among gallied whales that this drugg is used. For then, more whales are close round you than you can possibly chase at one time. But sperm whales are not every day encountered; while you may, then, you must kill all you can. And if you cannot kill them all at once, you must wing them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure. Hence it is, that at times like these the drug, comes into requisition. Our boat was furnished with three of them. The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg. They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.

所有的捕鯨小艇都帶有一些精巧的小發(fā)明品，這種東西叫做"得拉格"，原來是南塔開特的印第安人始創(chuàng)的。它是把兩塊四方的、大小一樣的厚木頭緊嵌在一起，使兩塊木頭的紋路彼此相交成直角；然后用一根相當(dāng)長(zhǎng)的繩子縛在這木塊中間，把繩子的另一端結(jié)成一個(gè)活圈，使它可以立刻縛住標(biāo)槍。它主要是在碰到"嚇怕了"的鯨群才拿出來用的。因?yàn)樵谶@時(shí)，你周圍的那些鯨已經(jīng)密集得叫你無法一下子追擊它們了。而抹香鯨又不是每天都可以碰到的；于是，既然有了機(jī)會(huì)，就得竭盡力之所及，把它們?nèi)疾稓⒘恕Ｈ绻悴荒芤幌伦佣及阉鼈儦⒌?，那就得把它們弄傷，這樣，可以等你以后有空的時(shí)候再慢慢地來捕殺。因此，凡是碰到這樣的場(chǎng)合，就用得著這種"得拉格"了。我們的小艇一共備有三只這樣的東西。頭二只都很順利地戳住了，我們看到那兩條鯨，被斜里拖著的大木頭銬住著，蹣蹣跚跚地奔開去。它們被鉗得象拖著鐵鏈鐵球的犯人。