英语听书《白鲸记》第165期
英语课
I shall ere long paint to you as well as one can without canvas, something like the true form of the whale as he actually appears to the eye of the whaleman when in his own absolute body the whale is moored 1 alongside the whale-ship so that he can be fairly stepped upon there. 长期以来，我一直有一个愿望，尤其是从我开始给诸位讲述“裴廓德号”的故事以后，就更强烈了。
It may be worth while, therefore, previously 2 to advert 3 to those curious imaginary portraits of him which even down to the present day confidently challenge the faith of the landsman. 这个愿望就是：给一只大鲸画像，画一个大鲸的真正的画像。
It is time to set the world right in this matter, by proving such pictures of the whale all wrong. 然而这个愿望此时此刻却无法实现，因为船上既没有画布，我也没有画家的手笔。
It may be that the primal 4 source of all those pictorial 5 delusions 6 will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on the marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn 7 in scales of chain-armor like Saladin's, and a helmeted head like St.George's; ever since then has something of the same sort of license 8 prevailed, not only in most popular pictures of the whale, but in many scientific presentations of him. 那我只能用嘴来画给大家听。 我会画得很仔细，很逼真，让所有捕鲸的人都确信它就是他们追杀至死，刚刚拖回船边的那头鲸。 只有赢得了捕鲸人的赞同，这被我用嘴画出来的东西才能被称为是鲸。
adv.以前，先前（地）
- The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
- Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。
vi.注意，留意，言及；n.广告
- The advert featured a dolphin swimming around a goldfish bowl.该广告的內容为一条在金鱼缸里游动的海豚。
- Please advert to the contents below.I believe you won't be disappointed.敬请留意后面的内容。相信您一定不会失望的。
adj.原始的；最重要的
- Jealousy is a primal emotion.嫉妒是最原始的情感。
- Money was a primal necessity to them.对于他们，钱是主要的需要。
adj.绘画的；图片的；n．画报
- The had insisted on a full pictorial coverage of the event.他们坚持要对那一事件做详尽的图片报道。
- China Pictorial usually sells out soon after it hits the stands.《人民画报》往往一到报摊就销售一空。
n.欺骗( delusion的名词复数 )；谬见；错觉；妄想
- the delusions of the mentally ill 精神病患者的妄想
- She wants to travel first-class: she must have delusions of grandeur. 她想坐头等舱旅行，她一定自以为很了不起。 来自辞典例句
v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的
- All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
- Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
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