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Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include. 且说这件怪事传到船尾去时，那个木匠就立刻受命按照魁魁格的吩咐行事，把他所

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Professor, Captain Nemo went on, if you're amenable, we'll go back in time to 1702. 教授，尼摩船长又说，请您注意，我们现在要回溯到 1702年了。 You're aware of the fact that in those days your King Louis XIV thought an imperia

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The ship named after him was worthy of the honor, being a very fast sailer and a noble craft every way. 这艘以他为名的船真有应得的光荣，因为在各方面说来，它是一艘十分快速而了不起的船。 I boarded her once at mid

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Yet dost thou darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. 然而，你那更加难解的半个身子，却以一种即使不是更加难解的、也是更加自豪的信念来颠簸我。 All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me her

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Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic. 过了几天,冰块和流冰都撇在后面了

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Poor Sag-Harbor, therefore, seems worsted all round. 因此，可怜的萨格港佬，似乎被驳得体无完肤了。 But he had still another reason for his want of faith. 然而，他又有另一个不相信的理由。 It was this, if I remember