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A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.
它是那種不朽的西方世界的最莊嚴和天使似的幽靈,在古代的設陷阱者和獵手看來,就是原始時代的光榮的再現,當時亞當就象這匹雄偉的駿馬一樣顯赫,昂首無畏。
Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio;
不論是置身在它的僚屬和將領之間,率領著那些一望無垠地布滿整個平原(象一個俄亥俄州)的無數部隊前進,
or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness;
還是置身于遍地的臣民之中,這只白駒總是襯著它那冷冷的乳白色吸溜著熱得發紅的鼻孔,往前馳騁。
in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe.
檢閱它們;不管它露出了怎樣的相貌,它在最驍勇的印第安人看來,始終是令人敬畏的發顫的對象。
Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary record of this noble horse, that it was his spiritual whiteness chiefly, which so clothed him with divineness;
根據這匹駿馬的傳奇性的記載,毫無疑問,這匹馬之所以具有如此的神圣性,主要是因為它那神圣的白色;
and that this divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
而且這種神圣性中所含有的白色,雖然博得大家頂禮膜拜,同時也增添一種難以名狀的恐怖。
But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and Albatross.
但是,也有其它一些不同的情形,這種本來在白駒和信天翁身上,具有一切附帶的和奇特的光榮的白色,如果換了一個場合,種種光榮便全都消失了。
What is it that in the Albino man so peculiarly repels and often shocks the eye, as that sometimes he is loathed by his own kith and kin!
為什么患天老兒病的人那么令人討厭而始終叫人看得眼花繚亂,同時又常常遭到他自己的親友的厭惡呢!
It is that whiteness which invests him, a thing expressed by the name he bears.
那是因為他身上有一種他的名稱之所由來的東西白色。
The Albino is as well made as other men-has no substantive deformity--and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. Why should this be so?
天老兒也跟別人一樣生得端端正正...并沒有什么本質上的缺陷...然而,只是這種全白的外貌,才使他比之那種最丑陋的畸形人還更特別令人嫌惡。為什么會這樣呢?
