英语听书《白鲸记》第696期-英语课

时间：2019-03-10 作者：英语课 分类：白鲸记

英语课

Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend 1 so low, 有着象莎士比亚或者是梅朗克吞那样高高隆起、低低下降的额头的终究是为数不多。

that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; 他们的眼睛始终象是清澈无浪的湖面，
and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending 2 there to drink, 而且在他们的额头上的皱纹中，似乎使人可以找到那些正从额头上滑下来饮水的长有鹿角似的思想，
as the Highland 3 hunters track the snow prints of the deer. 一如高地的猎户找到雪地里的鹿脚印那样的。
But in the great Sperm 4 Whale, this high and mighty 5 god-like dignity inherent in the brow is so immensely amplified 6, 可是，就大抹香鲸说来，它额头上这种又高耸又威严，一如神灵的仪表却是不胜缕述的，
that gazing on it, in that full front view, you feel the Deity 7 and the dread 8 powers more forcibly than in beholding 9 any other object in living nature. 所以朝它一望，就使人从它那整个面貌中，感到有一种比之看到其它任何生物的额头更具有非常恐怖的神力。
For you see no one point precisely 10; 因为任何一点都教人看不真切，
not one distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face; he has none, proper; 一点也看不到那明显的面貌；它既没有鼻子，眼睛，耳朵，也没有嘴巴，面孔；总之，从严格的意义上说，它什么都没有；
nothing but that one broad firmament 11 of a forehead, pleated with riddles 12; dumbly lowering with the doom 13 of boats, and ships, and men. 它什么都没有，只有一个有如辽阔的苍穹的前额，莫名其妙地打着褶裥，不声不响地一折下去就叫小艇、大船和人都送了终。
Nor, in profile, does this wondrous 14 brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur 15 does not domineer upon you so. 而且从侧面看去，这个额头的怪相也毫不减色；虽然就那样看来，它那壮丽的神气好象不大教人觉得咄咄可怕。
In profile, you plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic depression in the forehead's middle, which, in a man, is Lavater's mark of genius. 不过，从侧面看去，人们却可以清晰地看到它前额正中那种横式的。半弯形的凹状，这个，就人类说来，就是拉瓦特的所谓天才的表征。
But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? 可是，这怎么啦？抹香鲸也有天才？
Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? 难道抹香鲸曾著过一本书，发表过一篇演讲么？
No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. 不，它的伟大的天才是表现在它那一点也没有特别可加证实的行为上。