For even when tranquilly swimming through the mid-day sea in a calm, 因为即使当它悠闲地游过风平浪静的正午的海面， with his elevated hump sun-dried as a dromedary's in the desert; 它那耸起的背峰给太阳晒干得象沙漠上
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And besides other reasons, to this conclusion I am impelled, 撇开其它一切理由， by considerations touching the great inherent dignity and sublimity of the Sperm Whale; 我是由于考虑到抹香鲸本身具有无限威严与雄壮的气概，
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For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. 因为，你知道，晴朗的天气决不会有虹彩；虹彩是专为照耀雾气才出来的。 And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, 因此，
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At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between. 在那桠杈或者分支的地方，这两片裂尾稍微有点叠起，接着又斜斜的、象两张翅膀彼此
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If it be made in the unobstructed air, especially if it descend to its mark, the stroke is then simply irresistible. 如果容它自由发挥一下，尤其是在它袭击它的目的物时，那么，那种打击简直是叫人吃不消的。 No rib
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On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; 总之，从许多方面说来，可惜大鲸的尾巴没有这种抓握力； for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in
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Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven. 那只巨大的尾巴，从无底的深渊猛地一竖起来，好象是突然要攫取高高的上天那样。 So in dreams, have I seen majest
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For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a lily. 因为在大鲸看来，最大的象也不过是条狗罢了，所以跟鲸尾比较起来，象鼻就不过是一支
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Nor are there wanting other motions of the whale in his general body, 在整个鲸身上，还不乏其它种种动作， full of strangeness, and unaccountable to his most experienced assailant. 在它的最有经验的攻击者看来，它浑身都是
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By the straits of Sunda, chiefly, vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas. 船只驶向中国，主要就是从西循巽他海峡进入中国海。 Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; 那个狭小的巽他海
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Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, 这就是我要谈的那个有微妙的伸缩力的器官，不管它在挥舞时是开玩笑，或是一本正经，还是发脾气，
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This was still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, 更为奇特的是，其中有些鲸仿佛完全瘫痪了， completely paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the sea. 象是进了水、失去
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Time out of mind the piratical proas of the Malays, lurking among the low shaded coves and islets of Sumatra, 在太古时代，那些马来的海盗快帆船，就隐藏在苏门答腊的矮林低覆的窄湾小岛间， have sallied out upon the ve
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Surely, he will stop for water. 当然啦，他是会把船停下来装水的。 Nay. For a long time, now, the circus-running sun has raced within his fiery ring, and needs no sustenance but what's in himself. 不，那只在火热的圈子里，象赛
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therefore, as the Pequod gained more and more upon Java Head, the look-outs were repeatedly hailed, and admonished to keep wide awake. 因此，裴廓德号越来越驶近爪哇岬的时候，就一再地关照那些瞭望水手，要他们充分提高
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Broad on both bows, at the distance of some two or three miles, and forming a great semicircle, 这时，在船头两侧、相距两三英里的海面上，有一个大半圆形， embracing one half of the level horizon, a continuous chain of whale-
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Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; 裴廓德号扯起所有的篷帆，紧追起它们了； the harpooneers handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet suspended boats. 标枪手们都握着他们的标枪，在
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But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was herself in hot chase; 但是，当这只疾驶的裴廓德号，正顺着一阵疾风，在拼命地追赶的时候， how very kind of these tawny philanthropists to assist in speeding her on
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then, the harpooneers seemed more to grieve that the swift whales had been gaining upon the ship, 这时，标枪手们对于那些疾奔的大鲸之迫近船边所感到的忧伤， than to rejoice that the ship had so victoriously gained upon the M
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Though such a movement on the part of the whale struck under such circumstances, is in no wise unprecedented; 大鲸被击中后而表现出这种动作来，并不是前无先例的； and indeed is almost always more or less anticipated; yet does i
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