His voice at once announced that he was a Southerner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleghanian Ridge in Virginia. 他一开口,就让人听出是南方人,而且从他那漂亮的身个看来
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And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply. 至于跟一个从不相识的陌生人睡觉,在一个陌生的客店里,而且在
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Landlord! I've changed my mind about that harpooneer.I shan't sleep with him. I'll try the bench here. 老板!我改变主意啦,那个标枪手...我不跟他一起睡了.我还是在这张长凳上将就一夜吧。 Just as you please; I'm sorry I
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I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair. 这当儿,我把那长凳估量一下,发觉还短一英尺;但是,还可以拿把椅子凑合一下。 But it was a foot too narrow,
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For who could tell but what the next morning, so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down! 因为哪个敢保到了明天早晨,我一走出房间,那个标枪手不会站在门口,一拳
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May be not, taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick, but I rayther guess you'll be done brown if that ere harpooneer hears you a slanderin' his head. 你也许不是,他掏出一根火柴棒,把它削成一支牙签,不过,我却认为,如果那个
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I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him. 老板,我现在要你说出来,说给我听,这个标枪手究竟是个什么样的人,我跟他过夜
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This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed that the landlord, after all, had had no idea of fooling me 这番说明,总算把原来那个莫名其妙的疑团解开了,也表明这个店老板毕竟没有存心要作弄我
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But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed I vum it's Sunday-you won't see that harpooneer to-night; 但是,正当我站在那里犹豫不决的时候,他望望角落里那只钟,喊了起来,我打赌,现在已交礼拜
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Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; 在那些按说不属于这房间的东西里面,有一张捆起的吊床,丢在屋角地板上; also a large seaman's bag, containi
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I put it on, to try it, and it weighed me down like a hamper, being uncommonly shaggy and thick, and I thought a little damp, 我把它穿起来,试一试看,它又毛又厚,压在身上有如镣铐一样重,还感到有点湿濡濡的, as though thi
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Whether that mattress was stuffed with corncobs or broken crockery, there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep for a long time. 那个褥子究竟装的是玉米棒子还是破瓦片,可摸不准,不过,我翻来复去,好
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This accomplished, however, he turned round-when, good heavens; what a sight! Such a face! 不过,他把绳子解开后,转过脸来,啊,老天爷;多怕人呀!这样一张脸! It was of a dark, purplish, yellow color, here and there stuck over with
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No, he answered, generally he's an early bird--airley to bed and airley to rise--yea, he's the bird what catches the worm. 不,他答道,他平常是只早更鸟...早睡早起...对啦,他就是那种捉得到虫儿的早更鸟... But to-night he we
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But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast. 但是最使人大惑不解的是:在那张画
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With halting steps I paced the streets, and passed the sign of The Crossed Harpoons 我且行且息地在街上踱着,走过那块十字标枪的招牌... but it looked too expensive and jolly there. Further on, from the bright red windows of the Swo
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Such dreary streets! Blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. 多么可怕的街道啊!两旁只见一堆堆并不是房子的漆黑的东西,偶尔也看到一点烛光,直象是
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It seemed the great Black Parliament sitting in Tophet. 这倒象是陀斐特的伟大的黑人议会在开会。 A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit. 许多黑脸成
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It was a queer sort of place--a gable-ended old house, one side palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly. 这真可以说是个古怪的地方...一座山形顶的旧房子,有一边象是患了半身不遂症,没精打采地歪靠着。 It stood o
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What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there. 然而,可惜人们都不去塞住那些大小缝隙,却在这里那里塞着一点棉花。 But it's too late to make any improvements no
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