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Chapter 14. Nantucket. 第14章 南塔开特 Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket. 一路无话，我们安抵南塔开特。 Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. 你可

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By reason of these things,then,the whaling voyage was welcome;the great flood gates of the wonder world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul,endless processions of the whale,

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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

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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

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It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, 我在启程赴南塔开特的前夕,在那一个昏暗而阴森的日子里, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day re

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Nothing more happened on the passage worthy the mentioning; so, after a fine run, we safely arrived in Nantucket. 一路上再也没发生什么值得一提的事;因此,在一段顺利的航驶后,我们安抵南塔开特了。 Nantucket! Take out y

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For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it. 因为海洋是属于他们的;他们拥有海洋,犹如皇帝之拥有他自己的皇土;别国的水手不过有一种通行权而已。 Mer