But as the colossal skull embraces so very large a proportion of the entire extent of the skeleton; as it is by far the most complicated part; 不过,因为这个硕大的脑壳占着整个骷髅非常大的比例;它又是极其复杂的部分;
Chapter 103 Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton 第一百零三章 鲸骷髅的尺寸 In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit. 首先
But soon my line was out; and following it back, I emerged from the opening where I entered. 可是,不一会,我的麻线拉完了;只得顺着麻线打回头,从刚才进去的那个缺口出来。 I saw no living thing within; naught was t
The spoken words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; 在疾驰如飞的锭子声中,说话是听不到的; those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements. 可是这种说话,却教墙外的人听
while, suspended from a bough, the terrific lower jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung sword that so affrighted Damocles. 而那只挂在大树枝上的、在一切皈依者头顶颤动着的可怕的下颚,就象是把达摩克利兹
For being at Tranque, years ago, when attached to the trading-ship Dey of Algiers, 因为多年以前,由于我参加了阿尔及尔的商船德号,曾经到了托朗魁, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of T
Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; 是不是那个博学的斯塔布曾经爬上你的绞盘,给你讲过鲸类的解剖学; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibi
But this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; 请记住,这是极北的地区,在那里,啤酒很适宜他们的体质; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the ha
and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my own, 而且,我还把有关贮藏的鱼等的可能数量,给编了一张补充表格, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc, consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that anc
But this awkwardness only lasted a minute, because the strange captain, observing at a glance how affairs stood, 可是,这种尴尬场面,不过持续了一分钟模样,因为那个陌生的船长一眼就看清了真相, cried out, I see, I
And he took that arm off, did he? asked Ahab, now sliding down from the capstan, and resting on the Englishman's shoulder, as he did so. 那么,它把这只手臂膀给搞掉了,是么?亚哈问道,这时,他搭着那英国人的肩膀,从绞
How it was exactly, continued the one-armed commander, I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; 它究竟想干什么,这个独臂船长继续说下去,我可不清楚;可是它在咬绳索的时候,
and, flukes first, the white hump backed through the wreck, as though it was all chips. 于是,它尾巴一甩,那白色的背峰往后朝那只破艇一冲,仿佛那只小艇全是一堆木屑。 We all struck out. 我们都给摔出去了。
But, at his superior's introduction of him to Ahab, he politely bowed, and straightway went on to do his captain's bidding. 不过,听到他的上司把他介绍给亚哈后,他有礼貌地鞠一个躬,就立刻照他船长的吩咐说下去了。
But I may as well sayen passant, as the French remark, 不过,我还得说象法国话所说的en passant(法文:顺便一提的意思。), that I myselfthat is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergyam a strict total abstinence ma
No, I don't, said the captain, but his mother did; he was born with it. 不,我没数,那个船长说,不过,他母亲准有数;他生下来就有这个洞洞。 Oh, you solemn rogue, youyou Bunger! was there ever such another Bunger in the
And he knows it too. So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness. 而且,大鲸也有自知之明。因此,你们所谓白鲸的恶毒,只不过是它的笨拙而已。 For he never means to swallow a single limb;
What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. He's all a magnet! 什么叫别去碰它为妙,那条该死的东西可不是没有引诱力的。它就是块大磁石! How long since thou saw'st him last? Which way
The voyage was a skilful and lucky one; and returning to her berth with her hold full of the precious sperm, 这是一次灵巧而幸运的航行;载着满舱名贵的鲸脑回到了停泊地, the Amelia's example was soon followed by other ships
The ship named after him was worthy of the honor, being a very fast sailer and a noble craft every way. 这艘以他为名的船真有应得的光荣,因为在各方面说来,它是一艘十分快速而了不起的船。 I boarded her once at mid