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The dignity of our calling the very heavens attest. Cetus is a constellation in the South! No more!
鯨座是天上的一個(gè)星座，捕鯨者是何等的威風(fēng)也便可想而知了。
Drive down your hat in presence of the Czar, and take it off to Queequeg! No more!
如果你對(duì)沙皇脫帽的話(huà)，那么我相信你也會(huì)對(duì)魁魁格脫帽的！
I know a man that, in his lifetime, has taken three hundred and fifty whales.
噢，天知道，人們除了捕鯨還有什么可以稱(chēng)為威風(fēng)的事呢？
I account that man more honourable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.
一個(gè)一生中捕到過(guò)三百五十條鯨魚(yú)的捕鯨者，遠(yuǎn)比占領(lǐng)過(guò)同樣多的城池的將軍威風(fēng)！
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me;
我個(gè)人就更不用說(shuō)了。如果我的生命中還有什么閃光之處的話(huà)；
if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of;
如果我在這個(gè)紛紛攘攘的世界上還配有一點(diǎn)我并不追求的名望的話(huà)；
if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone;
如果我還為人類(lèi)做了一點(diǎn)有益的事情的話(huà)；
if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.
或者說(shuō)我的繼承人—也許叫債權(quán)人更合適
in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
在我的抽屜里還能找到一部什么手稿的話(huà)，那么所有的這一切都應(yīng)歸功于捕鯨業(yè)！ 捕鯨船就是我的哈佛大學(xué)！ 捕鯨船就是我的耶魯大學(xué)！
