英语听书《白鲸记》第835期

 　　I see nothing here, but a round thing made of gold, and whoever raises a certain whale, this round thing belongs to him. 我什么也看不见，只看见一只金子做成的圆圆的东西，谁能发现某一条鲸，这个圆东西就归谁。

　　So, what's all this staring been about? 所以，这有什么多看头呀？
　　It is worth sixteen dollars, that's true; and at two cents the cigar, that's nine hundred and sixty cigars. 不错，它值十六块钱；二分钱一根雪茄烟，这就可买九百六十根雪茄啦（按二分钱一根雪茄计算，十六块钱应该可买八百支雪茄，这里系作者计算错了。）。
　　I won't smoke dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and here's nine hundred and sixty of them; so here goes Flask 1 aloft to spy 'em out. 我决不象斯塔布那样吸腌臜的烟斗，我可喜欢雪茄，这里有九百六十支雪茄；我弗拉斯克就从这里爬到上边去把大鲸给找出来吧。
　　Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; 那么，这样做法该算聪明还是愚蠢呢；算它真是聪明，却又象是愚蠢；
　　yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it. 然而，算它真是愚蠢，却又有点儿聪明。
　　But, avast; here comes our old Manxman—the old hearse-driver, he must have been, that is, before he took to the sea. 不过，且慢，那个人岛老头来了——这个赶灵车的老家伙，在他下海前，一定是干过这营生的。
　　He luffs up before the doubloon; halloa, and goes round on the other side of the mast; 他让风吹到那块金币跟前了；啊，又从桅边那头兜过去了；
　　why, there's a horse-shoe nailed on that side; and now he's back again; what does that mean? 哼，那边正钉着一块马蹄铁呢；可是，他又回来了；这又是什么道理呢？
　　Hark! he's muttering— voice like an old worn-out coffee-mill. Prick 2 ears, and listen! 听着！他在嘟哝着呢——声音活象一架破旧的研咖啡机。竖起耳朵来听吧！
　　If the White Whale be raised, it must be in a month and a day, when the sun stands in some one of these signs. 如果会找到那条白鲸的话，还得一个月零一天，就是当太阳走到这些宫宿的一个宫宿里的时候。
　　I've studied signs, and know their marks; they were taught me two score years ago, by the old witch in Copenhagen. 我专门研究过宫宿，懂得它们的记号，这是四十年前哥本哈根的一个老巫婆教我的。Now, in what sign will the sun then be?  那么，到了那时候，太阳在什么宫呢？
　　The horse-shoe sign; for there it is, right opposite the gold. 在马蹄宫；它就正在这块金币的对面。
　　And what's the horse-shoe sign? 那么，马蹄宫又是什么呢？
　　The lion is the horse-shoe sign — the roaring and devouring 3 lion. 狮子座就是马蹄宫呀——那是那狂吼而贪婪的狮子呀。
　　Ship, old ship! my old head shakes to think of thee. 船啊，老船呀！一想到你，我的老脑袋可就打起转来了。
　　There's another rendering 4 now; but still one text. 还另有一番景致呢；不过，这还是同一个模型里的东西。
　　All sorts of men in one kind of world, you see. 你知道，各式人等都在同一个世界里。
　　Dodge 5 again! here comes Queequeg— all tattooing—looks like the signs of the Zodiac himself. 又躲避了！噫，魁魁格来了——全身刺花——那样子，就象十二星宫再世。
　　What says the Cannibal? 这生番要说些什么呀？
　　As I live he's comparing notes; looking at his thigh 6 bone; thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf 7, or in the bowels 8, I suppose, 老实说，他倒是相当有声有色的；看到他那大腿骨，简直叫人认为太阳不是长在他那大腿骨里，就是长在他的小腿肚里，或者是藏在他的肚皮里了，
　　as the old women talk Surgeon's Astronomy in the back country. 我这个想法，就跟偏僻地方那些老太婆在谈外科医生的星象学一样。
　　And by Jove, he's found something there in the vicinity of his thigh— I guess it's Sagittarius, or the Archer 9. 不过，千真万确，他在他那大腿骨的左近找出些什么来了——我猜想，那就是人马宫，或者叫做射手座。
　　No: he don't know what to make of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some king's trowsers. 不，他是不识这块金币的，他还当它是打从哪个国王的裤子上落下来的一颗旧钮扣呢。
　　But, aside again! here comes that ghost-devil, Fedallah; tail coiled out of sight as usual, oakum in the toes of his pumps as usual. 可是，再等一等！噫，费达拉那个魔鬼也来了；那根尾巴还是象平常一样卷得叫人看不到，还是跟平常一样穿着填絮的鞋子。
　　What does he say, with that look of his? 他那副神气要说些什么呢？
　　Ah, only makes a sign to the sign and bows himself; there is a sun on the coin— fire worshipper, depend upon it. 啊，光是对着那十二宫打个手势，鞠了一个躬；啊，那块金币上有一只太阳——硬是个拜火教者。
　　Ho! more and more. This way comes Pip— poor boy! would he had died, or I; he's half horrible to me. 嗬嗬！越来越多了。比普又从这边跑出来了——可怜的孩子呀！究竟是他死了呢还是我死了呀；他竟弄得我惊疑不定起来。