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Now then, at the spot indicated on the world map, one of these seagoing rivers was rolling by, the Kuroshio of the Japanese, the Black Current: heated by perpendicular rays from the tropical sun, it leaves the Bay of Bengal, crosses the Strait of Malacca, goes up the shores of Asia, and curves into the north Pacific as far as the Aleutian Islands, carrying along trunks of camphor trees and other local items, the pure indigo of its warm waters sharply contrasting with the ocean's waves. It was this current the Nautilus was about to cross. I watched it on the map with my eyes, I saw it lose itself in the immenseness of the Pacific, and I felt myself swept along with it, when Ned Land and Conseil appeared in the lounge doorway.
正是，在平面地圖上記下的那個點，展開了上面說的一條暖流，日本人叫做黑水流，黑水流從孟加拉灣出來，受熱帶太陽光線的直射，很為溫暖，橫過馬六甲海峽，沿著亞洲海岸前進，人太平洋北部作環彎形，直到阿留地安群島。它將樟腦樹干和各地方的各樣土產輸送出去，它的暖流的純靛藍色跟大洋的水流顯然分開。諾第留斯號要走的就是這條水流。我兩眼盯著它，我看見它抿沒在太平洋的無邊水際中；我正感到自己跟水流一齊奔馳的時候，尼德·蘭和康塞爾在客廳門口出現了。
My two gallant companions stood petrified at the sight of the wonders on display.
我的兩個老實同伴看見堆在他們眼前的神奇物品，驚怪得發楞了：
Where are we? the Canadian exclaimed. In the Quebec Museum?
我們在什么地方呢？我們在什么地方呢？加拿大人喊，我們在魁北克博物館嗎？
Begging master's pardon, Conseil answered, but this seems more like the Sommerard artifacts exhibition!
如果先生認為可以，康塞爾答，還不如說這是桑美拉大廈呢！
My friends, I replied, signaling them to enter, you're in neither Canada nor France, but securely aboard the Nautilus, fifty meters below sea level.
朋友們，我回答，我同時做個手勢，讓他們進來，你們不是在加拿大，也不是在法蘭西，而是在諾第留斯號船上，在海底下五十米。
If master says so, then so be it, Conseil answered. But in all honesty, this lounge is enough to astonish even someone Flemish like myself.
當然要相信先生的話，因為先生這樣肯定了。康塞爾回答，老實說，這個客廳，就是讓我這個佛蘭蒙人看來也要驚奇。
Indulge your astonishment, my friend, and have a look, because there's plenty of work here for a classifier of your talents.
朋友，你驚奇吧，你好好地看吧，因為對于你這么能干的一個分類者，這里實在有不少的工作可做哩。
Conseil needed no encouraging. Bending over the glass cases, the gallant lad was already muttering choice words from the naturalist's vocabulary: class Gastropoda, family Buccinoidea, genus cowry, species Cypraea madagascariensis, etc.
我并不需要鼓勵康塞爾去做。這個老實人早就彎身在玻璃柜子上，嘴里已經低聲說出生物學家所用的詞匯：腹足綱，油螺科，磁貝屬，馬達加斯加介蛤種，等等…
