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On the day following Queequeg's signing the articles, word was given at all the inns where the ship's company were stopping,
在我們簽約以后的第二天，岸上各個(gè)旅店便都接到了通知，讓“裴廓德號(hào)”的水手們把行李送到船上去，
that their chests must be on board before night, for there was no telling how soon the vessel might be sailing.
因?yàn)殚_(kāi)船的日期是不定的，也許明天就走。
So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last.
我和魁魁格把行李送上船以后，又返回岸上的旅店，我們計(jì)劃開(kāi)船時(shí)再上船。
But it seems they always give very long notice in these cases, and the ship did not sail for several days.
不過(guò)，即使他們通知你要開(kāi)船，你上了船，船卻要好幾天以后才能開(kāi)。
But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod was fully equipped.
負(fù)責(zé)準(zhǔn)備這些東西的，是比勒達(dá)船長(zhǎng)的妹妹，一個(gè)小老太婆。她是個(gè)很干練的人，
Every one knows what a multitude of things—beds, sauce-pans, knives and forks, shovels and tongs, napkins, nut-crackers,
仿佛永遠(yuǎn)不知疲倦地往船上搬著各種各樣的東西：牛肉、面包、淡水、鐵桶、燃料、鉗子、餐巾、刃叉、錘剪…
and what not, are indispensable to the business of housekeeping.
因?yàn)榇闲枰獪?zhǔn)備的東西太多，臨時(shí)想起來(lái)就又得延期開(kāi)船。
Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.
捕鯨是一項(xiàng)遠(yuǎn)離塵世的事業(yè)，一去數(shù)年，鍋碗瓢盆、食品藥品以及衣物都要拿上夠三年用的。
And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means to the same extent as with whalemen.
而且，捕鯨船出海作業(yè)的危險(xiǎn)性最大，小船、圓木、繩索、標(biāo)槍都要有備用的，連船長(zhǎng)也有一位后備的。
