英語(yǔ)聽書《白鯨記》第763期
and while yet drawing mortal nourishment, be still spiritually feasting upon some unearthly reminiscence;—even so did the young of these whales seem looking up towards us, but not at us, as if we were but a bit of Gulfweed in their new-born sight. Floating on their sides, the mothers also seemed quietly eyeing us. One of these little infants, that from certain queer tokens seemed hardly a day old, might have measured some fourteen feet in length, and some six feet in girth. He was a little frisky; though as yet his body seemed scarce yet recovered from that irksome position it had so lately occupied in the maternal reticule; where, tail to head, and all ready for the final spring, the unborn whale lies bent like a Tartar's bow. The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts.
一邊在吸取肉體的滋養(yǎng)，一邊又在精神上飽享一些神秘的追懷——這些小鯨就正是這般模樣，它們似乎在往上望著我們，但又不象在望著我們，因?yàn)樵谒鼈兡切律难酃庵校覀冞@些人似乎只是一些馬尾藻而已。那些游在它們旁邊的母親，似乎也在悠閑地望著我們。在這些嬰孩中，其中有一條，就它那奇怪的樣子看來，似乎還不過是剛生下來不上一天的小鯨，可它的身長(zhǎng)卻有十四英尺模樣，腰圍也有六英尺左右。這是一條活潑的小鯨；不過因?yàn)樗纳眢w剛離母腹不久，似乎還擺脫不掉那種令人討厭的姿勢(shì)，因?yàn)樗谀阁w里，本來就從尾到頭，曲得象韃靼人的一把隨時(shí)待發(fā)的弓。它那細(xì)巧的邊鰭和那裂尾片，都還有一種嬰孩耳朵的皺皺折折的外形，象是剛從什么陌生地方來的。
Line! line! CRIed Queequeg, looking over the gunwale; "him fast! him fast!—Who line him! Who struck?—Two whale; one big, one little!"
繩子！繩子！魁魁格打舷邊望了一下，叫道，"它拴住啦！它拴住啦！——是誰(shuí)拴的！是誰(shuí)打的？——兩條鯨；一大一?。?quot;
What ails ye, man? CRIed Starbuck.
你怎么啦，伙計(jì)？斯達(dá)巴克嚷道。
Look-e here, said Queequeg, pointing down.
你瞧，魁魁格指著水底里，說道。
As when the stricken whale, that from the tub has reeled out hundreds of fathoms of rope; as, after deep sounding, he floats up again, and shows the slackened curling line buoyantly rising and spiralling towards the air;
仿佛是一條被戳傷了的鯨，索桶里已經(jīng)拉出了好幾百英尺長(zhǎng)的繩索把它拴住了；仿佛它在深潛到海底后，又浮了起來，弄得那根又松又卷的繩索，成螺旋形地直向空中浮冒起來；
