英语听书《白鲸记》第926期-英语课

时间：2019-02-20 作者：英语课 分类：白鲸记

英语课

Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; 甚至舱室里的饭桌也给敲来引火了；

and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed 1 down to the floor for a centrepiece. 船长室里只得用一个大油桶紧缚在舱室中央的船板上权充饭桌。
In the forecastle, the sailors had actually caulked 2 and pitched their chests, and filled them; 在船头楼里，水手们都把他们的箱子用沥青修补了缝缝隙隙后拿来装油；
it was humorously added, that the cook had clapped a head on his largest boiler 3, and filled it; 更有意思的是，那厨司灵机一动，把他的最大的锅子也拿来装油了；
that the steward 4 had plugged his spare coffee-pot and filled it; that the harpooneers had headed the sockets 5 of their irons and filled them; 茶房也巴结地拿出一把备用的咖啡壶来装油；标枪手们都把标枪头拔下来，把油装在承口里；
that indeed everything was filled with sperm 6, except the captain's pantaloons pockets, 真是什么东西都装上了鲸油，只除了船长那几只大裤袋没装，
and those he reserved to thrust his hands into, in self-complacent testimony 7 of his entire satisfaction. 因为他要把双手插在裤袋里，显显他那非常心满意足的得意洋洋的气派。
As this glad ship of good luck bore down upon the moody 8 Pequod, the barbarian 9 sound of enormous drums came from her forecastle; 当这艘鸿运高照。喜气洋洋的船向郁郁不欢的"裴廓德号"冲过来的时候，就听到他们船头楼上那几只大鼓发出的野里野气的声音；
and drawing still nearer, a crowd of her men were seen standing 10 round her huge try-pots, 等到更靠拢的时候，就看到他们那一群水手站在那个大炼油锅四周，
which, covered with the parchment-like poke 11 or stomach skin of the black fish, 那只大炼油锅，不知是覆上羊皮纸似的"鱼鳔"还是黑鱼的鱼肚皮，
gave forth 12 a loud roar to every stroke of the clenched 13 hands of the crew. 水手们握紧的拳头每一阵击打，就发出一阵巨大的响声。
On the quarter-deck, the mates and harpooneers were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles 14; 在后甲板上，大二三副和标枪手们正跟那些随他们从玻利尼西亚群岛上私奔出来的棕榄色女郎在跳舞；
while suspended in an ornamented 15 boat, firmly secured aloft between the foremast and mainmast, 在那艘紧缚在前桅和主桅间的、高高吊起的装璜得很漂亮的小艇里，
three Long Island negroes, with glittering fiddle-bows of whale ivory, were presiding over the hilarious 16 jig 17. 三个长岛黑人，手里都拿着用鲸骨做的亮闪闪的提琴弓，正在主持这个兴高采烈的急迫而轻快的舞会。

adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 caulked

v.堵（船的）缝( caulk的过去式和过去分词 )；泥…的缝；填塞；使不漏水

Caulk a pipe joint; caulked the cracks between the boards with mud. 堵住水管接头的缝隙；填塞木板和泥之间的''。'缝'。''。来自互联网
Caulked all around the window frame. 窗框已经发黄了。来自互联网

3 boiler

n.锅炉；煮器(壶，锅等)

That boiler will not hold up under pressure.那种锅炉受不住压力。
This new boiler generates more heat than the old one.这个新锅炉产生的热量比旧锅炉多。

4 steward

n.乘务员，服务员；看管人；膳食管理员

He's the steward of the club.他是这家俱乐部的管理员。
He went around the world as a ship's steward.他当客船服务员，到过世界各地。

5 sockets

n.套接字，使应用程序能够读写与收发通讯协定(protocol)与资料的程序( Socket的名词复数 )；孔( socket的名词复数 )；（电器上的）插口；托座；凹穴