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Why, Ned! I replied. You still aren't over your old fishing urges? 怎么。我回答，尼德，您还没有打消您哪打鲸鱼的老念头吗？ How could a whale fisherman forget his old trade, sir? 先生，打鲸鱼的人能够忘记他从前的

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That's what I've been telling you, Ned. 我刚才对您说过了，尼德。 All the more reason to get to know them, Conseil answered. 那要认识它们就更有理由了。康塞尔回答。 Look! Look! the Canadian exclaimed, his voice full of ex

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Near eleven o'clock in the morning, while on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a herd of baleen whales. 早上十一点左右，诺第留斯号在大洋面上， This encounter didn't surprise me, because I knew these animals were b

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With Ned and Conseil, I went to sit on the platform. The coast to the east looked like a slightly blurred mass in a damp fog. 我坐在平台上，有尼德兰和康塞尔陪着。东岸好像有一大块东西，在湿雾中隐约显现。 Leaning a

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Aha! the Canadian put in. This beast offers the added luxury of being good to eat? 啊！加拿大人喊道，这东西原来还是好吃的珍品吗？ Yes, Mr. Land. Its flesh is actual red meat, highly prized, and set aside throughout Malaysia for

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He gave his orders. The Abraham Lincoln stayed at half steam, advancing cautiously so as not to awaken its adversary. 他发出命令。为了不至把敌方惊醒，林肯号减低速度，小心谨慎地前进。 In midocean it's not unusual to enc

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But to get near it, the commander went on, I'd have to put a whaleboat at your disposal? 不过你去挨近它的时候，舰长说，我得给一只捕鲸艇供您使用吧? Certainly, sir. 当然要有一只，先生。 That would be gambling with

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Suddenly, just as on the previous evening, Ned Land's voice was audible. 突然，像昨晚那样，尼德兰叫起来了。 There's the thing in question, astern to port! the harpooner shouted. 我们找的那个东西，在船左舷后面！鱼叉手

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While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, 当我观察这只奇怪动物的时候，两道水和汽从它的鼻孔吐出来，直喷到叫十米的高度

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As master wishes! Conseil replied. 随您先生怎样说都好!康塞尔答。 All right, I admit it: I did wish to run this risk! 我承认，这个机会，我倒很乐意去碰一碰。 The valves were charged. More coal was swallowed by the furna

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We stayed on the alert until daylight, getting ready for action. Whaling gear was set up along the railings. 大家一直警戒到天亮，每个人都在准备战斗。 Our chief officer loaded the blunderbusses, which can launch harpoons as far as

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But if they don't exist, my stubborn harpooner, how do you explain the accident that happened to the Scotia? 可是，固执的鱼叉手、如果海底下没有这样的动物，您怎样说明斯各脱亚号所遭遇到的事故呢？ It's maybe . .

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Our frigate would have had fivescore good reasons for renaming itself the Argus, after that mythological beast with 100 eyes! 这只船真有许多理由可以称为多眼号， The lone rebel among us was Conseil, who seemed utterly uninterested in

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