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In addition to those fine engravings from Garnery,
除了卡納里這兩件精美的作品以外，
there are two other French engravings worthy of note, by some one who subscribes himself "H. Durand."
另外還有兩件值得重視的法國版畫，那是一個自署為“Ｈ·杜蘭”的人的作品。
One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts.
其中有一件，雖然不挺適應我們此刻的要求，但多少還是值得一提的。
It is a quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific;
那是一幅太平洋諸島中的寧靜的午景；
a French whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board;
一艘拋了錨的法國捕鯨船，靠在風平浪靜的岸邊，人們在懶洋洋地取水上船，
the loosened sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping together in the breezeless air.
船上那松弛的篷帆，和背景上的長長的棕櫚樹葉，都在平靜無風的空中低垂在一起。
The effect is very fine, when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen under one of their few aspects of oriental repose.
一想到那幅畫上把那些辛勞的捕魚者的姿態(tài)，表現(xiàn)為一種東方式的恬靜，那效果可真是再好也沒有了。
The other engraving is quite a different affair:
另一幅版畫卻是完全不同的一件作品：
the ship hove-to upon the open sea, and in the very heart of the Leviathanic life, with a Right Whale alongside;
一艘停在遼闊的大海上的船，加上船邊的那條露脊鯨，表現(xiàn)出了捕鯨生活的本質；
the vessel (in the act of cutting-in) hove over to the monster as if to a quay;
那艘船（正在剖鯨脂）正在用勁曳著那只巨獸，象在碇泊碼頭一般；
and a boat, hurriedly pushing off from this scene of activity, is about giving chase to whales in the distance.
另外那只正從這個活躍的現(xiàn)場急忙劃出去的小艇，正要劃到遠處去追擊鯨群。
The harpoons and lances lie levelled for use;
標槍和魚槍都平放著，準備隨時取用；
three oarsmen are just setting the mast in its hole;
三個槳手在把桅桿插在桅孔里；
while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse.
而突然間，海里一陣翻騰，那條小船便筆直地騰出了水面，活象一匹后腳豎起的駿馬。
From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies;
從那艘大船上，正升騰起陣陣熬煎鯨油的烏煙，直象烏煙密布在鍛冶場的村集上空；
and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen.
在上風的地方，隨著一陣狂風和暴雨，涌出一片烏云，仿佛要加速那些激昂的水手的動作似的。
