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And thus have these naked Nantucketers, these sea hermits, issuing from their ant-hill in the sea,
因此這些南塔開特人,這些大的海隱士，在大海中無往不勝,
overrun and conquered the watery world like so many Alexanders;
他們世代征戰，
parcelling out among them the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland.
大西洋、太平洋和印度洋到處都成了他們征服水下巨獸的戰場。
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada;
噢，隨便你美國把墨西哥畫入德克薩斯州、把古巴送給加拿大、
let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun;
把印度吞入英國吧，
two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
在這個星球上，有三分之二是南塔開特人的。
For the sea is his; he owns it, as Emperors own empires; other seamen having but a right of way through it.
廣闊的海洋都屬于南塔開特人！別國的水手只不過擁有海上通行權；
Merchant ships are but extension bridges; armed ones but floating forts; even pirates and privateers,
商船是橋梁的延伸；兵艦是浮動的炮臺；
though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships,
甚至海盜也只是劫掠海面上的船只，絕無本事攻占海底世界。
other fragments of the land like themselves, without seeking to draw their living from the bottomless deep itself.
其他碎片的土地像自己,不尋求從無底深吸引他們的生活本身。
The Nantucketer, he alone resides and riots on the sea; he alone, in Bible language, goes down to it in ships;
只有南塔開特人是住在海上，海洋是他們的農場，
to and fro ploughing it as his own special plantation. THERE is his home;
他們反復耕作與收獲，他們以海為家，
THERE lies his business, which a Noah's flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China.
他們的生活與事業都在海里。盡管它淹沒數以百萬計的大陸，諾亞的洪水不會打擾。
He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps.
他們就住在大海里,就像草原動物之于草原,他藏身于海浪之中,就像獵人攀爬阿爾卑斯山一樣駕馭波浪。
