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Now, mustering the spare poles from below, and selecting one of hickory, with the bark still investing it, Ahab fitted the end to the socket of the iron. 于是，亚哈打甲板上捡起几根备用的杆子，挑了一根上面还有枝桠的胡桃木

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As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along into the midst of the seas, 我们已经看到,上帝用大鲸去突袭他,把他一口吞进了活地狱里,一阵

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yet it is this holding on, as it is called; this hooking up by the sharp barbs of his live flesh from the back; 然而，正是这种所谓拉住，这种用锐利的倒钩钩住了鲸背的肉体的方法， this it is that often torments the Leviat

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They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea. 它们撇下一条又阔又粗的水痕，直象一张阔大的羊皮纸，在海上不断地摊开来。 Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in

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then, ascending by a ladder to the summit, have a peep down the mouth; 然后，用一架梯子爬到那峰巅去，往下瞧一瞧它的嘴巴。 and were it not that the body is now completely separated from it, 如果它那身体现在不是已跟脑

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