英語聽書《白鯨記》第968期

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Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude. Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor's!

你瞧！你們這些把神明當作大慈大悲。把人類當作十惡不赦的人們呀，你們瞧呀！看看那全能的神明竟不理睬受難的人類；人類雖是愚笨，卻不知他所行何事，然而，卻都有著恩和愛的快樂的事兒。走吧！我牽著你這只黑手，比我握著皇帝的手還更覺得自豪哪！

There go two daft ones now, muttered the old Manxman. "One daft with strength, the other daft with weakness. But here's the end of the rotten line — all dripping, too. Mend it, eh? I think we had best have a new line altogether. I'll see Mr. Stubb about it."

瞧！兩個癡子一起走啦，那個人島老頭喃喃道。"一個是有魄力的癡子，一個是很懦弱的癡子?？墒?，這根爛繩頭——全都濕淋淋了。把它修一修嘛？我想，我們最好還是去弄根嶄新的繩子來吧。讓我去跟斯塔布談?wù)効础?quot;

Chapter 126 The Life-Buoy

第一百二十六章 救生圈

Steering now south-eastward by Ahab's levelled steel, and her progress solely determined by Ahab's level log and line; the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator. Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.

裴廓德號靠了亞哈親自校準的羅盤針，又完全靠了亞哈所設(shè)計的測程儀來記錄航速，現(xiàn)在正向著東南方，繼續(xù)往赤道駛?cè)?。在這種人跡罕到的水域中作這樣漫長的航行，連一艘船也看不到。不一會兒，一陣打斜吹來的千篇一律的貿(mào)易風(fēng)，把它推在和緩得使人厭倦的波濤上。所有這些看似平靜得出奇的情況，正是行將出現(xiàn)一種騷亂和險惡的場面的預(yù)兆。