Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner. Full of fine spirits, they invariably come from the breezy billows to windward. 它们一出现,总要受到水手们的兴高采烈的欢呼。它们总是精神饱满地打从微风的
In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure. 在形状上,它跟乌拉鲸稍有不同,身体不象它那么滚圆,腹部也不那么饱满
The Bottle-Nose Whale; the Junk Whale; the Pudding-Headed Whale; the Cape Whale; the Leading Whale; the Cannon Whale; the Scragg Whale; the Coppered Whale; the Elephant Whale; the Iceberg Whale; the Quog Whale; the Blue Whale; c. From Icelandic, Dutc
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board, arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers, a class unknown of course in any other marine than
Now, the grand distinction drawn between officer and man at sea, is this-the first lives aft, the last forward. 海上的船上头目和一般水手的主要区别既然是这样...头目住船尾,水手住船头。 Hence, in whale-ships and merchant
And though of all men the moody captain of the Pequod was the least given to that sort of shallowest assumption; 裴廓德号这位郁郁寡欢的船长,虽说可算是最不善于做出这种浅薄无聊的行动; and though the only homage he ever
BOOK I. (Folio) CHAPTER IV. (Hump Back).--This whale is often seen on the northern American coast. 第一篇(对开型) 第四章(座头鲸)...这种鲸常见于北美洲沿海一带。它经常在那边被捉到后,拖进了港埠。 He has been fre
He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. 它似乎是个仇恨鲸者,犹如有些人是仇恨人类者一样。 Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; 它很怕羞,始终独
Under this head I reckon a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and Long-John, 在这个项目下,我不禁想起一种有着许多名称的巨兽来:脊鳍鲸,高喷鲸,长约翰鲸, has been seen almost in every sea and is c
Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: 在捕鲸者中,它是毫无差别地被称为下列这许多名称的: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Wh
It is chiefly with his name that I now have to do. 我现在所要做的,主要是解释它的名字。 Philologically considered, it is absurd. 从哲理上看来,这是荒唐可笑的。 Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly un
First: According to magnitude I divide the whales into three primary BOOKS (subdivisible into CHAPTERS), and these shall comprehend them all, both small and large. 第一 我按照大小,把鲸分为主要的三篇(各篇再分为章),这就把它们不
First: The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish. 第一,鲸类学这门科学之未定未决的情形,正
Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. 抹香鲸的情况远比不上一切已被捕获的大鲸,关于它的生活情形仍是一片空白。 Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classificat
And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon the throne of the seas. 而且,其中也只有一个人是真正的职业标枪手和捕鲸人。我指的是斯哥斯比船长。 He is not even by any means the largest of the whales.
Thus speak of the whale, the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. 那些动物学家和解剖学的权威,如伟大的居维埃,约翰。亨特和莱松,对于大鲸就是这样说法。 Nevertheless, though
Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities. 我们已经勇猛地奔驶在大海上;而且我们就要消失在大海的无依无傍的一望无垠中。 Ere that come to pass; ere t
It wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you were kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. 他踢你的可不是一种普通松木的腿呀,是吗?不,你是让一个大人物踢了,而且使的是一只美丽的
It wasn't a common pitch pine leg he kicked with, was it? No, you were kicked by a great man, and with a beautiful ivory leg, Stubb. 他踢你的可不是一种普通松木的腿呀,是吗?不,你是让一个大人物踢了,而且使的是一只美丽的
But this insult is whittled down to a point only.' But now comes the greatest joke of the dream, Flask. 而这种侮辱不过是一点点而已。不过,弗拉斯克,现在这个梦的最大的玩笑来到了。 While I was battering away at the pyra