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"Why not?
"為什么就不會翻身？"
I don't know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so, and he seems to know all about ships' charms. But I sometimes think he'll charm the ship to no good at last. I don't half like that chap, Stubb. Did you ever notice how that tusk of his is a sort of carved into a snake's head, Stubb?
我不知道，不過，我聽說那個叫做費達拉的藤黃鬼子就這么說，他似乎懂得有關船只的一切法術。不過，我有時候想，到頭來，他的法術會把船都弄垮了。我一點兒也不喜歡那家伙，斯塔布。你可注意過，那家伙那副長牙，好象連蛇頭也啃得動似的，斯塔布？
Sink him! I never look at him at all; but if ever I get a chance of a dark night, and he standing hard by the bulwarks, and no one by; look down there, Flask—pointing into the sea with a peculiar motion of both hands—"Aye, will I! Flask, I take that Fedallah to be the devil in disguise. Do you believe that cock and bull story about his having been stowed away on board ship? He's the devil, I say. The reason why you don't see his tail, is because he tucks it up out of sight; he carries it coiled away in his pocket, I guess. Blast him! now that I think of it, he's always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots."
去他媽的！我根本就從來不去望他；不過，要是有朝一日，我在黑夜里有機會碰到他恰巧緊靠在舷墻邊，旁邊又一個人都沒有的時候；哼，就叫他下去，弗拉斯克，——他雙手作了個特殊姿勢，指著海里——"是呀，我會干的！弗拉斯克，我把那個費達拉當做個化了裝的惡魔。你可相信關于他偷偷上船的無稽之談嘛？我說，他就是個惡魔。你所以沒有看到他那根辮子，是因為他把它卷得教人看不見了，我想，他把它盤好后藏在口袋里。該死的東西！啊，我又想起來了，他老在找填絮塞進他的靴頭。"
He sleeps in his boots, don't he? He hasn't got any hammock; but I've seen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging.
他不是穿著靴子睡的嗎？他并沒有吊鋪；我還看到他晚上躺在一堆索具里。
No doubt, and it's because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye see, in the eye of the rigging.
毫無問題，這就是因為他那該死的辮子的緣故；你可知道，他是把它盤在索具中間的孔眼里的。
What's the old man have so much to do with him for?
老頭兒干嗎跟他如此關系密切呢？
Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose.
大概是想干一場大買賣吧，我想。
Bargain?—about what?
大買賣？——是哪一種的？
