英語聽書《白鯨記》第896期
I'm a sort of strange-thoughted sometimes, they say; but that's only haphazard-like. Then, a short, little old body like me, should never undertake to wade out into deep waters with tall, heron-built captains; the water chucks you under the chin pretty quick, and there's a great cry for life-boats. And here's the heron's leg! long and slim, sure enough! Now, for most folks one pair of legs lasts a lifetime, and that must be because they use them mercifully, as a tender-hearted old lady uses her roly-poly old coach-horses. But Ahab; oh he's a hard driver. Look, driven one leg to death, and spavined the other for life, and now wears out bone legs by the cord. Halloa, there, you Smut! bear a hand there with those screws, and let's finish it before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false, as brewery men go round collecting old beer barrels, to fill 'em up again. What a leg this is! It looks like a real live leg, filed down to nothing but the core; he'll be standing on this to-morrow; he'll be taking altitudes on it. Halloa! I almost forgot the little oval slate, smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude. So, so; chisel, file, and sand-paper, now!
他們都說，我有時(shí)候是個(gè)奇思怪想的人；可是這倒有點(diǎn)象偶然的事。那么，象我這樣一個(gè)又矮又小的老頭兒，決不應(yīng)該跟那些個(gè)蒼鷺一般身材高大的船長一起蹚到深水的地方去；海水很快就會(huì)卡住你的頭頸，那就得大叫救命啦。嗯，這就是一只蒼鷺腿！又長又細(xì)，果真不錯(cuò)！大多數(shù)的人，一雙腿可以用上一生一世，那一定是因?yàn)橛玫米凶屑?xì)細(xì)的緣故，就象一個(gè)慈心善腸的老太太用著她那些圓胖胖的老馬一般?？墒?，亞哈呀，他是個(gè)硬心腸的趕車人。你瞧，把一條腿也趕死了，還要不惜犧牲另一條腿去求生，現(xiàn)在卻把兩條骨腿的筋都蹩斷了。喂，喂，你老人家！幫幫忙。把那些螺絲遞給我吧，讓我們把它完工算啦！免得那個(gè)使人復(fù)活的家伙（指迦百列天使長。）又拿著號(hào)角來催喚了，是真是假，就象釀酒人走遍各地去收回舊酒桶，拿來再裝酒那樣。這可是多漂亮的一條腿呀！樣子很象條真的活腿，全是用榫頭敲起的；他明天就要靠它來撐住啦；他就可以站在這上面量高度了。噯喲！我簡直把那小塊卵石板給忘掉了，得把這塊牙骨磨磨光，他要靠它來計(jì)算寬度呢。唔，唔；鑿子，銼子，砂紙，來吧！
