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If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
如果這個臆測是對的話，那么，請想一想那種最難解而又最具有破壞力的種種原質所提供的那種無法抗拒的威力吧。
Now, mark. Unerringly impelling this dead, impregnable, uninjurable wall, and this most buoyant thing within;
現在，請注意，這堵無法抗拒。不會受傷的硬墻的這種真不二價的推進力，加上那里面的最有浮性的東西，
there swims behind it all a mass of tremendous life, only to be adequately estimated as piled wood is— by the cord;
它游起來的時候，身后拖的又是一個碩大無比、驚人的生命，那只有把它估量成是由繩索拖著的一大堆木頭才較確切；
and all obedient to one volition, as the smallest insect.
而且也象最小的昆蟲一般，一切都聽從著一個意志的指揮。
So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster;
所以，等我以后詳述這種龐大的巨獸那種無處不有威力的種種特色的時候，
when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats;
等我告訴你它那些更為瑣碎的有關剖腦的事跡的時候，
I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this;
我相信你就會摒棄一切無知的懷疑，隨時都會堅持這種看法了；
that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific,
即使聽到抹香鯨會把德利英地峽的航路打通，把大西洋跟太平洋匯合起來了，
you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.
你也準會絕不動容。
For unless you own the whale, you are but a provincial and sentimentalist in Truth.
因為除非你承認了大鯨的價值，否則，在真理方面，你就不過是個思想狹隘者和感傷主義者而已。
But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to encounter;
然而，既然懂得真理是只有那些不怕赴湯蹈火的巨人才辦得到的事情；
how small the chances for the provincials then?
那么褊狹的人不就機會很少了嗎？
What befell the weakling youth lifting the dread goddess's veil at Lais?
那個在舍易斯揭起可怕的女神的面紗的柔弱少年，他的結果是怎樣啊？
