英语听书《白鲸记》第762期-英语课

时间：2019-02-25 作者：英语课 分类：白鲸记

英语课

I mention this circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves 1 had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; 我所以要提到这种情况，是因为那些母牛、小犊，仿佛是被故意扣在这极里圈；

and as if the wide extent of the herd 2 had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping; 仿佛直到这时，还不让浩大的鲸群知道这种停下来的真正的原因；
or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way innocent and inexperienced; 这也许可能因为它们都还年纪太轻，不懂世故，各方面都很天真，缺乏经验的缘故；
however it may have been, these smaller whales— now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin 3 of the lake, 总之，不管怎样，这些小鲸——不时地从湖边来到我们这只无法前进的小艇旁边探望一番，
evinced a wondrous 4 fearlessness and confidence, or else a still becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel 5 at. 可以说都显出了一种出奇的无所畏惧和自信心，也可以说，是因为这种失魂落魄的惶恐使它们不能不感到惊奇。
Like household dogs they came snuffling round us, right up to our gunwales, and touching 6 them; 它们象一群家狗，在我们周围嗅来嗅去，把鼻子直伸到我们的舷壁，碰碰我们的舷壁，
till it almost seemed that some spell had suddenly domesticated 7 them. 简直象有什么符咒突然把它们弄驯服了。
Queequeg patted their foreheads; Starbuck scratched their backs with his lance; 魁魁格轻拍着它们的前额；斯达巴克用他的捕鲸枪搔搔它们的背脊；
but fearful of the consequences, for the time refrained from darting 8 it. 只因怕会出什么事，才暂时不去戳它们。
But far beneath this wondrous world upon the surface, another and still stranger world met our eyes as we gazed over the side. 但是，当我们伏在船舷边往下凝视时，远处在上面这个希奇的世界的下边，却另有一个更为奇特的天地映入了我们的眼帘。
For, suspended in those watery 9 vaults 10, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the whales, 因为贴在这种水晶宫里的苍穹中，漂泛有许多在哺小鲸的母鲸的形体，
and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become mothers. 还有一些从它们那粗大的腰围看来，似乎不久就将做母亲的母鲸。
The lake, as I have hinted, was to a considerable depth exceedingly transparent; 这个大湖，我已说过了，虽然很深，却非常明澈；
and as human infants while suckling will calmly and fixedly gaze away from the breast, as if leading two different lives at the time; 一如小孩在吃奶时，安静而定睛地撇开一下母亲的胸脯，望一望别的地方，仿佛同时在过着两种不同的生活：

1 calves

n.(calf的复数)笨拙的男子，腓；腿肚子( calf的名词复数 )；牛犊；腓；小腿肚v.生小牛( calve的第三人称单数 )；（冰川）崩解；生（小牛等），产（犊）；使（冰川）崩解