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Gentlemen, he said in a calm, penetrating voice, I speak French, English, German, and Latin with equal fluency.
先生們，我會說法語、英語、德語和拉丁語。
Hence I could have answered you as early as our initial interview,
我本來可以在我們初次會見的時候回答你們，
but first I wanted to make your acquaintance and then think things over.
不過我想先認識你們，然后再考慮。
Your four versions of the same narrative, perfectly consistent by and large, established your personal identities for me.
你們把事實經過復述了四遍，內容完全相同，這使我肯定了你們的身份，
I now know that sheer chance has placed in my presence Professor Pierre Aronnax,
我現在知道，偶然的機會使得我碰見了負有出國作科學考察使命的巴黎博物館生物學教授彼埃爾·阿龍納斯先生，
specialist in natural history at the Paris Museum and entrusted with a scientific mission abroad, his manservant Conseil, and Ned Land, a harpooner of Canadian origin aboard the Abraham Lincoln, a frigate in the national navy of the United States of America.
他的仆人康塞爾以及北美合眾國海軍部林肯號戰艦上的魚叉手、加拿大人尼德·蘭。
I bowed in agreement. The commander hadn't put a question to me. So no answer was called for.
我點點頭，表示同意。船長向我提的不是問題，我沒有必要回答。
