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No, said Peleg, and he hasn't been baptized right either, or it would have washed some of that devil's blue off his face.
不,法勒說,他還沒有正式受過洗呢,不然的話,他臉上該不會顯得這么毫無神氣吧(指魁魁格做了一天一夜的齋戒后,臉上毫無血色。
Do tell, now, cried Bildad, is this Philistine a regular member of Deacon Deuteronomy's meeting? I never saw him going there, and I pass it every Lord's day.
現在,老實說吧,比勒達嚷著,這個非力士人是德脫羅諾米執事的宣道會的正式會友嗎?我從來沒見過他在那里,我每個主日都在那地方。
I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meeting, said I; all I know is, that Queequeg here is a born member of the First Congregational Church. He is a deacon himself, Queequeg is.
我一點也不知道什么德脫羅諾米執事,也不知道他的宣道會,我說,我所知道的是,這個魁魁格生下來就是第一公理教會的教友。他自己就是個執事,魁魁格就是個執事。
Young man, said Bildad sternly, thou art skylarking with me-explain thyself, thou young Hittite. What church dost thee mean? answer me.
小伙子,比勒達嚴峻地說,你簡直是在跟我大開玩笑。你自己說吧,你這個小赫人。你說的是哪一種教派,回答我吧。
Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg here, and all of us, and every mother's son and soul of us belong; the great and everlasting First Congregation of this whole worshipping world; we all belong to that; only some of us cherish some queer crotchets no ways touching the grand belief; in that we all join hands.
我覺得自己已給逼得走投無路了,于是答道:我指的是那個古代的天主教派,先生,也是你跟我,還有那邊的法勒船主,跟這個魁魁格,我們大家,我們每一個人都歸屬的教派;就是這整個崇拜的世界的偉大而萬世不易的公理教會;我們都是屬于這個教派;只有我們里頭一些懷有怪想的人才不同這個偉大的信仰發生關系;我們大家都在那個信仰中手攜手了。
Splice, thou mean'st splice hands, cried Peleg, drawing nearer. Young man, you'd better ship for a missionary, instead of a fore-mast hand; I never heard a better sermon. Deacon Deuteronomy-why Father Mapple himself couldn't beat it, and he's reckoned something. Come aboard, come aboard: never mind about the papers. I say, tell Quohog there-what's that you call him?
捻接,你應該說手捻接手,法勒更走攏些,叫道。小伙子,你還是去做牧師,用不著當水手啦;我從來沒有聽到比這更好的講道。怕連德脫羅諾米執事...不,怕連梅普爾神甫本人也敵不過你呢,他還算是個有點本事的人咧。上船來,上船來,甭提什么證件了。我說,告訴那個刮荷格。你管他叫什么?
