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"I've tasted worse smoking mixtures in a pipe," he added, with a philosophic shrug of his shoulders, as he took a couple of cigars from the case I offered him, putting one in his mouth and the other in his pocket.
“我的煙斗就是比這更不是味兒的雜八湊煙也抽過，”他加添了一句，自我解嘲地聳了聳肩膀。在他說這句話的時候又從我遞過去的煙盒里拿了兩支雪茄，一支銜在嘴上，一支揣在口袋里。
Now and then they made a bit of money. Sometimes a mail steamer would come in, and Captain Nichols, having scraped acquaintance with the timekeeper, would succeed in getting the pair of them a job as stevedores. When it was an English boat, they would dodge into the forecastle and get a hearty breakfast from the crew. They took the risk of running against one of the ship's officers and being hustled down the gangway with the toe of a boot to speed their going.
偶然他們也有機會掙到一點兒錢。有時候一艘郵輪開進港，尼柯爾斯船長同雇用計時員攀上交情，會給兩人找個臨時裝卸工的活兒。如果是一艘英國船，他們會溜進前甲板下面的艙房里，在水手那里飽餐一頓。當然，這樣做要冒一定的風險，如果遇見船上的高級船員，他們就要從跳板上被趕下來，為了催他們動作快一些，屁股后面還要挨一靴子。
"There's no harm in a kick in the hindquarters when your belly's full," said Captain Nichols, "and personally I never take it in bad part. An officer's got to think about discipline."
“一個人只要肚子吃飽，屁股叫人踢一腳算不得什么，”尼柯爾斯船長說，“拿我個人說，我是從來不生氣的。高級船員理應考慮船上的風紀的?！?/div>
I had a lively picture of Captain Nichols flying headlong down a narrow gangway before the uplifted foot of an angry mate, and, like a true Englishman, rejoicing in the spirit of the Mercantile Marine.
我的腦子里活生生地出現一幅圖畫：一個氣沖沖的大副飛起一腳，尼柯爾斯船長腦袋朝下地從窄窄的跳板上滾下來；象一個真正的英國人那樣，他對英國商船隊的這種紀律嚴明的精神非常高興。
There were often odd jobs to be got about the fish-market. Once they each of them earned a franc by loading trucks with innumerable boxes of oranges that had been dumped down on the quay. One day they had a stroke of luck: one of the boarding-masters got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the side, covering the rusty hull with paint. It was a situation that must have appealed to Strickland's sardonic humour. I asked Captain Nichols how he bore himself during these hardships.
在魚市場里也不時能夠找點零活兒干。還有一次，卡車要把堆在碼頭上的許多筐桔子運走，思特里克蘭德同尼柯爾斯船長幫助裝車，每人掙了一法郎。有一天兩人很走運：一條從馬達加斯加繞過好望角開來的貨輪需要上油漆，一個開寄宿店的老板弄到包工合同，他們兩個人一連幾天站在懸在船幫旁邊的一條木板上，往銹跡斑斑的船殼上涂油漆。這件差事肯定很投合思特里克蘭德的慣受諷嘲的脾氣。我向尼柯爾斯船長打聽，在那困頓的日子里，思特里克蘭德有什么反應。
"Never knew him say a cross word," answered the Captain. "He'd be a bit surly sometimes, but when we hadn't had a bite since morning, and we hadn't even got the price of a lie down at the Chink's, he'd be as lively as a cricket."
“從來沒聽他說過一句喪氣話，”船長回答說，“有時候他有點兒悶悶不樂，但是就是在我們整天吃不到一口飯，連在中國佬那里歇宿的房錢都弄不到手的時候，他仍然象蛐蛐一樣歡蹦亂跳?！?/div>
I was not surprised at this. Strickland was just the man to rise superior to circumstances, when they were such as to occasion despondency in most; but whether this was due to equanimity of soul or to contradictoriness it would be difficult to say.
我對此并不覺得驚奇。思特里克蘭德正是超然于周圍環境之外的人，就是在最沮喪的情況下也是如此。這到底是由于心靈的寧靜還是矛盾對立，那是難以說清的。
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| cape | [keip] |
想一想再看 n. 岬，海角，披肩 |
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| bore | [bɔ:] |
想一想再看 vt. 使厭煩 |
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| surly | ['sə:li] |
想一想再看 adj. 不和藹的，板著面孔的，粗聲暴氣的 |
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| crew | [kru:] |
想一想再看 n. 全體船員，全體乘務員，(一組)工作人員 |
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| discipline | ['disiplin] |
想一想再看 n. 訓練，紀律，懲罰，學科 |
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| gangway | ['gæŋwei] |
想一想再看 n. (上下船的)跳板，（劇場﹑ 音樂廳等的）座間甬道， |
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| mate | [meit] |
想一想再看 n. 伙伴，配偶，同事 |
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| mercantile | ['mə:kən.tail] |
想一想再看 adj. 貿易的，商業的 |
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| covering | ['kʌvəriŋ] |
想一想再看 n. 覆蓋物，遮避物 adj. 掩護的，掩蓋的 |
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| contract | ['kɔntrækt,kən'trækt] |
想一想再看 n. 合同，契約，婚約，合約 |
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