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When you see him 'quid, said the savage, honing his harpoon in the bow of his hoisted boat, "then you quick see him 'parm whale."
“你一看到這種大烏賊，”這個(gè)野人一面說(shuō)，一面把他那支標(biāo)槍在那只吊起的小艇頭上磨著，“那么，你很快就可以看到抹香鯨。”
The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea. For this part of the Indian Ocean through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than those off the Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru.
第二天，格外靜寂而悶熱，“裴廓德號(hào)”水手因?yàn)闆](méi)有什么特別要做的事情，都感到簡(jiǎn)直抗拒不了由這樣一個(gè)浩渺的海洋所引來(lái)的睡魔。在我們當(dāng)時(shí)路過(guò)的這一部分印度洋上，并不是捕鯨人稱做活場(chǎng)的地方；就是說(shuō)，這一帶比起里奧·得·拉·普拉塔，或者秘魯沿海地帶更難看到小鯨，海豚，飛魚以及其它一些生長(zhǎng)在比較熱鬧的海里的活潑的居民。
It was my turn to stand at the foremast-head; and with my shoulders leaning against the slackened royal shrouds, to and fro I idly swayed in what seemed an enchanted air. No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
這時(shí)，輪到我站在前桅頂?shù)陌啵晃译p肩倚著那根松弛的最上護(hù)桅索，在那仿佛具有魔力的空中懶洋洋地晃來(lái)晃去。任何堅(jiān)定意志都經(jīng)受不了這種氣氛，所有的意識(shí)都消失在那夢(mèng)也似的氣氛里，最后連我的靈魂也出了竅。雖則原先推著我身體的那股力量早已消失，可是，我的身體還是象鐘擺一般繼續(xù)晃來(lái)晃去。
Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the seamen at the main and mizzen mast-heads were already drowsy. So that at last all three of us lifelessly swung from the spars, and for every swing that we made there was a nod from below from the slumbering helmsman. The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
我在沒(méi)有完全迷迷糊糊之前，看到那兩個(gè)站在中桅頂和后桅頂?shù)乃侄家呀?jīng)打起盹來(lái)了。所以，最后我們?nèi)齻€(gè)人都在那些圓木頭上毫無(wú)生氣地晃了起來(lái)，我們?cè)谏线吇我幌拢逻吥莻€(gè)熟睡著的舵手也點(diǎn)一下頭。海浪也在懶洋洋地點(diǎn)著它那浪頭；在整個(gè)昏睡狀態(tài)似的遼闊的海面上，東邊對(duì)西方點(diǎn)頭，太陽(yáng)籠罩了一切。
