But look ye, the only real owner of anything is its commander; and hark ye, my conscience is in this ship's keel.On deck! 可是,你听着,唯一真正的船东就是这艘船的船长;记住,我的良心就在这艘船的龙骨里。上甲板去
But, mastering his emotion, he half calmly rose, and as he quitted the cabin, paused for an instant and said: 但是,他控制着自己的情绪,相当泰然地起身走了,不过,他离开船长室时,又停了一停,说道: Thou hast
It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, 也许他心头忽发善念;或许不过是一种慎重将事的权谋,因为在当时的情况下, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom o
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. 这艘头重脚轻的大船就象个装着满脑袋亚里士多德学说的枵腹的学者。 Well was it that the Typhoons did not visit them then. 还好,当时台风没
How he wasted and wasted away in those few long-lingering days, till there seemed but little left of him but his frame and tattooing. 在这么缠绵拖延的几天里,竟把他消光耗尽得不成样子,只剩下个刺花的躯壳了。 But as
Not a man of the crew but gave him up; 水手们都没有把他当做个无药可救的病人; and, as for Queequeg himself, what he thought of his case was forcibly shown by a curious favor he asked. 至于魁魁格自己呢,究竟他对于自己的
Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include. 且说这件怪事传到船尾去时,那个木匠就立刻受命按照魁魁格的吩咐行事,把他所
Poor rover! will ye never have done with all this weary roving? Where go ye now? 可怜的漂泊者!你是不是再也不过这种发腻的流浪生活啦?那么,你要到哪里去呀? But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles wher
Queequeg dies game!mind ye that; Queequeg dies game! take ye good heed of that; 魁魁格是斗死了的!你们听着;魁魁格是斗死了的!你们得小心注意呀; Queequeg dies game! I say; game, game, game! but base little Pip, he died
Man and wife,they say,there open the very bottom of their souls to each other;and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus,then,in our hearts ' honeymoon,lay I and Queequeg a cosy,loving pair. CHAPTER 11.Nightgown.
And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea, 因此这些南塔开特人,这些大的海隐士,在大海中无往不胜, overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders; 他们世代
Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. 这笔该死的勾销不了的欠来欠去的人情账! I would be free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. 我真想象空气一般的自由;但是我已经
He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, multum in parvo, Sheffield contrivances, 他就象是一种不合情理、然而用起来却颇著成效的、小型而内容丰富的、舍非尔德式的机巧工具, assuming the exte
six feet in height,with noble shoulders,and a chest like a coffer dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast;while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some rem
ETYMOLOGY. (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) The pale Usher hreadbare in coat,heart,body,and brain;I see him now.He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars,with a queer handkerchief,mockingly embellished with all the g
So fare thee well,poor devil of a Sub Sub,whose commentator I am.Thou belongest to that hopeless,sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm;and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy strong;but with whom one sometimes loves to sit,a
CHAPTER 1 Loomings. Call me Ishmael.Some years ago never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is
Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert,try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes,as every one knows,meditation and water are wedded for ever. But here is an artist.He desires to pai
I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them. For my part,I abominate all honourable respectable toils,trials,and tribulations of every kind whatsoever. It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without tak
But BEING PAID,what will compare with it?The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills,and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven.