英语听书《白鲸记》第812期

The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches abou

英语听书《白鲸记》第811期

Gurry, so called, is a term properly belonging to right whalemen, but sometimes incidentally used by the sperm fishermen. It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which cov

英语听书《白鲸记》第810期

Plum-pudding is the term bestowed upon certain fragmentary parts of the whale's flesh, here and there adhering to the blanket of blubber, and often participating to a considerable degree in its unctuousness. It is a most refreshing, convivial, beauti

英语听书《白鲸记》第870期

Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, 在这些遗物中最为希奇的是，一七七九年在巴黎的多芬纳路发掘出了一块头壳； a short street o

英语听书《白鲸记》第871期

When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, 当我置身在这些大鲸的骷髅、头壳、牙齿、嘴巴、肋骨和脊骨堆里时， all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing bre

英语听书《白鲸记》第872期

But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; 但是，这种大鲸在亚当以前的踪迹不只是印在大自然的铅板上，而且在灰石和

英语听书《白鲸记》第873期

They keep a Whale's Rib of an incredible length for a Miracle, 庙里把一根长得叫人不能置信的肋骨保存在那里， which lying upon the Ground with its convex part uppermost, makes an Arch, the Head of which cannot be reached by a Man

英语听书《白鲸记》第874期

Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, 至于在迄今所已发掘的亚当以前的大鲸中，上一章所提到的那条亚拉巴马鲸应该算是最大的了， and that wa

英语听书《白鲸记》第875期

But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. 但是，可有任何一个捕鱼人相信这些说法么？没有。 The whale of to-day is as big as his ancestors in Pliny's time. 现代的鲸正跟普利尼时代的它的祖先一般大小。 And

英语听书《白鲸记》第876期

Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, 再把这种长着背峰的鲸群跟那长着背峰的野牛群比较一番吧， which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri

英语听书《白鲸记》第877期

Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favor of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, 而且，正确地考虑一番，似乎也还提供不出任何论据，足以证明抹香鲸会逐渐趋于灭亡，比如说， th

英语听书《白鲸记》第878期

And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; 正如冷淡的瑞士人，一遇外族入侵他们的河谷，便都撤到他们的大山上去一般， so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the mi

英语听书《白鲸记》第880期

Chapter 106 Ahab's Leg 第一百零六章 亚哈的腿 The precipitating manner in which Captain Ahab had quitted the Samuel Enderby of London, had not been unattended with some small violence to his own person. 亚哈船长那么慌慌张张地离开了

英语听书《白鲸记》第881期

Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, 而且，当时他那偏热症的心里可没有忘记： that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; 现下的苦痛都是直接来自先前

英语听书《白鲸记》第882期

To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; 要追溯这种无穷无尽的不幸的渊源，最后就会使我们走进那无源无主的神鬼阵里去， so that, in th

英语听书《白鲸记》第883期

to that timid circle the above hinted casualtyremaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab， 在那些胆怯的亲友中看来，上述变故这变故的确依然是亚哈所无法了解的一件心事， invested itself with terrors, not e

英语听书《白鲸记》第879期

And there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, 因此，如果这些大象，几千年来已经遭到了塞密拉密斯，波拉斯，汉尼拔 and b

英语听书《白鲸记》第884期

Chapter 107 The Carpenter 第一百零七章 木匠 Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. 如果你象个苏丹那样坐在土星的卫星群中，单独挑

英语听书《白鲸记》第241期

And taken with the context, this is full of meaning. 上下文一串起来,这就含义深刻了。 Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. 你们看,船友们

英语听书《白鲸记》第239期

See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee worldwide from God? Miserable man! 那么,你们是否看到,船友们,约拿竟想远走高飞,避开上帝!这个可怜的家伙! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat