英语听书《白鲸记》第242期-英语课

时间：2019-02-25 作者：英语课 分类：白鲸记

英语课

Screwed at its axis 1 against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah's room; 一盏旋挂在舱侧上的摇晃晃的灯火,在约拿的房间里轻轻地摇动着;

and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf 2 with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity 3 with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung. 当那只船因为装上最后的货物而船身向码头一边倾斜时,那盏尽冒着烟焰的灯,虽然稍微一动,却始终是随着房间的倾斜而倾斜;事实上,尽管它是笔直地挂在那里,却显然是倾斜得很厉害了,
The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth 4 his tormented 5 eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive 6 finds no refuge for his restless glance. 这盏灯可把约拿给吓慌了;他躺在铺位上,那双苦恼的眼睛滴溜溜地滚来滚去,这回虽然逃成功了,
But that contradiction in the lamp more and more appals 7 him. 可是那不安的眼色却还找不到依傍。而且,那盏象是反挂着的灯,也越来越教他害怕。
The floor, the ceiling, and the side, are all awry 8. 'Oh! so my conscience hangs in me! 地板，顶棚，舱侧全都歪歪斜斜。呵!我的良心也这样挂起啦!他唉声叹气说,
he groans 9, "straight upward, so it burns; but the chambers 10 of my soul are all in crookedness 11!' 笔直朝上,它就这样点着;可是,我的心房却全都歪歪斜斜了。
Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, 他象一个通宵纵酒狂欢后急忙上床的人一般,脑子还是转呀旋呀的,
but with conscience yet pricking 12 him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; 不过,良心还在刺戳着他,正如罗马赛马场里一匹急冲狂奔的雄驹,越奔得快,脚镫也刺得它越凶;
as one who in that miserable 13 plight 14 still turns and turns in giddy anguish 15, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; 也如一个身处苦境.在苦恼的急转中不住地旋来转去。祈求上帝赐助.消灭病症的人一样;
and at last amid the whirl of woe 16 he feels, a deep stupor 17 steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there's naught 18 to staunch it; 最后,在一阵眼花缭乱的悲痛中,他觉得有一阵强烈的麻痹悄悄地袭上身来,就象麻痹悄悄地袭上一个流血过多。快要断气的人一样,因为良心就是伤口,而那个伤口的血是止不注的;
so, after sore wrestling in his berth, Jonah's prodigy 19 of ponderous 20 misery 21 drags him drowning down to sleep. 因此,约拿在铺位上猛烈地抽扭一阵后,他那沉重的苦难的怪物就把他拉向黑甜乡了。