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Tell Quohog to step along. By the great anchor, what a harpoon he's got there! looks like good stuff that; and he handles it about right. I say, Quohog, or whatever your name is, did you ever stand in the head of a whale-boat? did you ever strike a fish?
告訴刮荷格走過來吧。天啊,他有多厲害的一支標槍呀!樣子象是用好鋼料打成的;他大概也使得很不錯吧。我說,刮荷格,或者隨你叫什么名字,你可曾站在捕鯨艇頭過?你可打過一條魚?
Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hanging to the side; and then bracing his left knee, and poising his harpoon, cried out in some such way as this:
魁魁格一言不發,野里野氣地跳上了舷墻,又從舷墻上跳到一艘吊在船側的捕鯨艇頭上,然后支起他的左膝頭,平舉著他的標槍,好象是這樣的叫嚷起來:
Cap'ain, you see him small drop tar on water dere? You see him? well, spose him one whale eye, well, den! and taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
船長,你看見那海面上的一小滴柏油吧?你看見嗎?好,就當它是一只鯨的眼睛,那么!瞧著吧!于是,他以那一小滴柏油為目標,就把那支標槍嗖地一聲掠過比勒達老頭的闊邊帽頂,直穿過船甲板,把那滴閃爍的柏油打得無影無蹤了。
Now, said Queequeg, quietly, hauling in the line, spos-ee him whale-e eye; why, dad whale dead.
瞧,魁魁格鎮定地拉著繩索,說道,那要是鯨的眼睛的話,哼,那只鯨就完蛋啦。
Quick, Bildad, said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway. Quick, I say, you Bildad, and get the ship's papers. We must have Hedgehog there, I mean Quohog, in one of our boats. Look ye, Quohog, we'll give ye the ninetieth lay, and that's more than ever was given a harpooneer yet out of Nantucket.
趕快,比勒達,法勒說,可是,他的合伙人,已經被那近在身旁的。如飛的標槍嚇得退向艙口那邊去了。趕快,我說,你,比勒達,把船上的文件拿來。我們一定要雇海奇荷格(這老頭又把魁魁格的名字說成海奇荷格,我是說刮荷格,把他安置在我們的一只小艇里。喂,刮荷格,你聽著,我們給你九十分之一的拆賬,這個拆賬,在南塔開特的標槍手中還是破天荒第一遭呢。
So down we went into the cabin, and to my great joy Queequeg was soon enrolled among the same ship's company to which I myself belonged.
于是我們走進了艙里,教我極感快活的是魁魁格立刻就成為我所屬的這只船的船員了。
When all preliminaries were over and Peleg had got everything ready for signing, he turned to me and said, I guess, Quohog there don't know how to write, does he? I say, Quohog, blast ye! dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark?
等一切的準備工作都做完,法勒把要簽約的事情都料理停當的時候,他對我說,我想,那個刮荷格是不會寫字的,他會嗎?我說,刮荷格,該死!你要簽名還是畫個押?
