So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the sea. Wrapped, for that interval, in darkness myself, I but the better saw the redness, the madness, the ghastliness of others. The continu
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Convulsively my hands grasped the tiller, but with the crazy conceit that the tiller was, somehow, in some enchanted way, inverted. My God! what is the matter with me? I thought. Lo! in my brief sleep I had turned myself about, and was fronting the s
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With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. All is vanity. ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom y
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Chapter 97 The Lamp 第九十七章 灯 Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine
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Chapter 98 Stowing Down and Clearing Up 第九十八章 装舱和打扫 Already has it been related how the great leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; 前面已经讲过了：大鲸是怎样老远就被桅顶上的人发现； how he is
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At length, when the last pint is casked, and all is cool, then the great hatchways are unsealed, 最后，待到装完了最后一桶，所有的油都冷却了的时候，就打开许多大舱口， the bowels of the ship are thrown open, and down g
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Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, the bare masonry of that side is exposed, penetrated by the two iron mouths of the furnaces, directly underneath the pots. These mouths are fitted with heavy doors of iron. The intense heat of
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Would that he consumed his own smoke! 它要是能够吸收自己的烟气，岂不更好！ for his smoke is horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time. 因为它那烟气真是难闻，可你又
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The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, 下边用的是负荷力特别大的木头， fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height. 足以支撑那个简直是用砖
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That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as
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And an idol, indeed, it is; or rather, in old times, its likeness was. Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol, and burnt it for a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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