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Life was what Captain Ahab and I was thinking of; and how to save all hands how to rig jury-masts how to get into the nearest port; that was what I was thinking of.
不,那時節沒有時間想到死上面去。亞哈船長跟我想的是生;想到怎樣救大家的生命。怎樣裝上那應急的桅桿...怎樣設法駛到最鄰近的港口去;這就是我那時候想的東西。
Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck, where we followed him.
比勒達無話可說了,只是扣上他的上衣,高視闊步地在甲板上走著,我們也跟著他走去。
There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.
他在甲板上立定了,泰然地俯視著幾個在中甲板補中桅帆的帆工。
Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
他時時彎下身子,撿起一塊布片,或者拿起一段涂了柏油的麻線,要不然,這些東西也許會給糟蹋了。
