And as for going as cook,though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board--yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; 我虽然承认当厨司相当光荣,而且在船上,厨司也算得是个头目
No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the fore-castle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. 不,我去航海,总是当一名平平常常的水手,就站在船桅前边,钻进前甲板的船头楼,高高地
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? 倘若有个大块头的船长命令我去拿把扫帚来打扫甲板,那又算得什么呢? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the
On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. 相应地,船客却必须自己掏钱.因此,这世界上,掏钱和拿钱是完全不同的。 The act of paying is perhaps t
He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. 然而,他却自以为先呼吸到;可是并不如此。 In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it. 老百姓在其他
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, 虽然我真说不出,究竟为什么那些舞台经理, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, 也就是命运诸神要派定我担任这个捕鲸的寒伧角
Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; 其次,那条大鲸在那里面滚动它那岛屿般的身体的荒凉辽阔的大海; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; 和与那条大鲸分不开的无可言宣.难以名
I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific. 我把一两件衬衫塞进我那只旧旅行袋里,往腋了一挟,便动身到合恩角和太平洋去。 Quitting the good city of
Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan? 那些土著的捕鲸者,那些红种人,最初坐独木舟去追击大鲸,不就是从南塔开特出发的吗? And w
And there they stand--miles of them--leagues. 他们就站在那里...一连几英里,一连十几英里都是。 Inlanders all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and avenues,north, east, south, and west. 他们都是来自大街小巷......来自
But here is an artist. 可是,这儿有一位画家, He desires to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. 他想为你画一幅在萨科。流域算是最陶醉,最幽静,最
Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. 那市镇的四周就象布着一匝沉默的哨兵似的,成千上万的人都站在那儿盯着海洋出神。 Some leaning agai
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. 当年伽图是一边大诵哲学,一边引剑自刎的;我却悄悄地上了船。 There is nothing surprising in this. 这是一点也不奇怪的事情。
Renee was in her mid-twenties, with long black hair and round glasses. 其中一名叫雷妮的女生给他留下了深刻的印象,雷妮大概20多岁,黑色长发,带一个银边眼镜。 In the tape, she is playing with a software program d
Renee was a nurse. She wasn't someone who had been particularly interested in mathematics in the past. 雷妮是个护士。过去,她从不像其他人那样对数学感兴趣。 But she had somehow gotten hold of the software well and was hooked.
She types in 80. The line steeper still, but it's not totally vertical. 她输入80,线更斜了,但是还是没有变成垂线。 Ohhh, it's infinity, isn't it? It's never going to get there. 数值是无穷大是吗?我永远都划不出一条垂
Schoenfeld once asked a group of high school students how long they would work on a homework question before they concluded that it was too hard for them ever to solve. 肖恩菲尔德曾经问一组高中生,在他们做家庭作业时,在下定结
If, on the other hand, you start working the day I give you the midterm, you'll be frustrated. 或者,另一方面,如果你只是在我们期中考试那天才开始复习,那么你一定会感到很失落。 You'll come to me and say, 'It's i
Now, here is the interesting part. As it turns out, the average number of items answered on the TIMMS questionnaire varies from country to country. 从问卷结果来看,国家间的差异很大,这是个有趣的现象。 It is possible, in fact
So, which places are at the top of both lists? The answer shouldn't surprise you. 那么哪几个国家或地区将会出现在这两个数据的前几位呢? Singapore, South Korea, China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and Japan. 没有任何悬念,他们分
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