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And I did not know but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his own fireside.
而我不清楚 比勒達(dá)可能有對于運(yùn)營有很強(qiáng)的能力,尤其是在這,現(xiàn)在我發(fā)現(xiàn)現(xiàn)在他好像在自家一樣擺弄著本《圣經(jīng)》。
Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a pen with his jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no small surprise, considering that he was such an interested party in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to himself out of his book,
這時(shí)候，法勒船長找出一枝鉛筆吃力地削著，而比勒達(dá)依然悠哉悠哉地讀他的《圣經(jīng)》。
"Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say, what lay shall we give this young man?"
“我說比勒達(dá)船長，給這小伙子多少拆賬？”法勒船長這樣問。
"Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred and seventy-seventh wouldn't be too much, would it?
“這你比我在行，我想七百七十七分之一就差不多了吧……”
'where moth and rust do corrupt, but LAY'"
七百七十七分之一，好大的“拆賬”！
LAY, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and seventy-seventh!
諸位陸地上的朋友也許覺得七百七十七不小吧，可這是把它放在分母的位置上?。?
