英语听书《白鲸记》第41期-英语课

时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：白鲸记

英语课

Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage 1 away to far distant scenes,I know not,

but he now spoke 2 of his native island;and,eager to hear his history,I begged him to go on and tell it.
He gladly complied.Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words,yet subsequent disclosures,
when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology,now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere 3 skeleton I give.
CHAPTER 12.Biographical.
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko,an island far away to the West and South.It is not down in any map;true places never are.
When a new hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout,followed by the nibbling 4 goats,
as if he were a green sapling;even then,in Queequeg's ambitious soul,lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen 5 whaler or two.
His father was a High Chief,a King;his uncle a High Priest;and on the maternal 6 side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors 7.
There was excellent blood in his veins 8 royal stuff;though sadly vitiated,
I fear,by the cannibal propensity 9 he nourished in his untutored youth.
A Sag 10 Harbor ship visited his father's bay,and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian 11 lands.But the ship,having her full complement 12 of seamen,
spurned his suit;and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.But Queequeg vowed 14 a vow 13.Alone in his canoe,he paddled off to a distant strait,
which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island.On one side was a coral reef;on the other a low tongue of land,covered with mangrove 15 thickets 16 that grew out into the water.
Hiding his canoe,still afloat,among these thickets,with its prow 17 seaward,he sat down in the stern,paddle low in hand;and when the ship was gliding 18 by,
like a flash he darted 19 out;gained her side;with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank his canoe;climbed up the chains;and throwing himself at full length upon the deck,grappled a ring bolt there,
and swore not to let it go,though hacked 20 in pieces.
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard;suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists;Queequeg was the son of a King,
and Queequeg budged 21 not.Struck by his desperate dauntlessness,and his wild desire to visit Christendom,the captain at last relented,and told him he might make himself at home.

1 savage

adj.野蛮的；凶恶的，残暴的；n.未开化的人

The poor man received a savage beating from the thugs.那可怜的人遭到暴徒的痛打。
He has a savage temper.他脾气粗暴。

2 spoke

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说