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Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical duties,such being the case with his comrades. I mention all these particulars so that you may understand exactly how this affair stood between the two men.
再說，這時‘大鯨出來了號’上那些身體比較強壯的水手都被分成幾班，輪流抽水；斯蒂爾基爾特因為是大伙里力氣最大的，向來總被指派為其中一班的班長；因此，他本來就可以免掉任何的確與抽水任務無關的瑣事，他的伙伴也是如此。我所以要把這些細節都說出來，是好叫你們正確地了解他們兩人之間的事件的真相。
"But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being--a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved-- this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
“不過，事情還不止如此。要他去鏟那些東西的這個命令，簡直就是明白地意味著刺激和侮辱斯蒂爾基爾特，一如拉德尼在他臉上吐了唾沫。任何一個做過捕鯨水手的人都會明白這一點；所以當這個大副發出他這個命令的時候，湖上人完全心里有數，而且無疑地比別人更其有數。不過，他不聲不響地坐了一會兒，眼睛緊盯著那個大副的滿含惡意的眼睛，覺得他心里已經堆起了許多火藥桶，火苗已經悄悄地快要燃著那些桶子了；總之，在他本能地看到這一切的時候，諸位先生，斯蒂爾基爾特就不知不覺地產生了這種難以名狀的虛幻的感情——那種奇特的忍耐工夫，和不愿意對任何一個本來就已叫人生厭的人激起更進一步的怒火——這是真正驍勇的人哪怕在受迫害的時候也最最感到厭惡的事。
