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Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
那三個標槍手,默默地執行了命令,手里拿著約三英尺長的卸下來的標槍鐵頭,倒鉤朝上,站到他面前來。
Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers, advance.
可別讓那銳利的鋼頭戳著我!打斜拿著;把它們倒轉過來!你們不懂得大杯底嗎?把接口倒轉過來!唔,唔,現在你們幾個上酒人,上前去。
The irons! take them; hold them while I fill! Forthwith, slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.
那些標槍頭,把它們拿過來;我斟酒的時候要拿牢!他立刻腳步緩慢地從這個頭目走到那個頭目,把蠟錫杯里的烈酒注滿標槍頭的接口。
Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league.
現在三對三,你們站好。舉起這殺氣騰騰的圣餐杯!請呀,你們這些人現在已經加進了這個不容分散的同盟里啦。
Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow-Death to Moby Dick!
哈,斯達巴克!大功告成了!那邊那個表示認可的太陽正在等著作證呢。喝呀,你們這些標槍手!喝呀,發誓呀,你們這些站在可怕的捕鯨小艇頭上的人...打死莫比－迪克!
God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death! The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.
如果我們不把莫比－迪克追擊到死,上帝是要追擊我們大家的!那三只長長的倒鉤鋼杯都被高高舉起;在高喊打擊白鯨的叫聲和詛咒聲的同時,烈酒也被咝的一聲一飲而盡。
Starbuck paled, and turned, and shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew; when, waving his free hand to them, they all dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
斯達巴克臉色發白,搖搖晃晃,渾身發抖。那只加滿了酒的蠟錫杯又再次,也是最后一次在狂熱的水手間挨次傳下去。等到亞哈那只不拿酒杯的手對他們一揮,大家便都散了;亞哈也退回到他的艙室里去。
