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and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
眼前這一事實，德立克·德·第爾船長就真個象弗拉斯克說的，確實是拿著一只燈油壺的。
As he mounted the deck, Ahab abruptly accosted him, without at all heeding what he had in his hand; but in his broken lingo, the German soon evinced his complete ignorance of the White Whale; immediately turning the conversation to his lamp-feeder and oil can, with some remarks touching his having to turn into his hammock at night in profound darkness—his last drop of Bremen oil being gone, and not a single flying-fish yet captured to supply the deficiency; concluding by hinting that his ship was indeed what in the Fishery is technically called a clean one (that is, an empty one), well deserving the name of Jungfrau or the Virgin.
他攀上了甲板，亞哈跟他生硬地招呼了一下，根本沒有注意到他手里拿著什么；可是，從他那番斷斷續續的言語中，這個德國人立刻教人知道他對于白鯨毫無所知；他頓時把話題轉到他的燈油壺和油罐子上去，還說明，他不得不在晚上烏漆墨黑地上床睡覺——他從不來梅帶來的油都一滴不剩地點光了，直到如今，卻連一條飛魚也沒有捉到，油料補充不上。歸納他的話意，他那只船確實是捕漁業所特稱的一只"光"船（就是說，是一只空船），真是名符其實的"處女號"（"光"（clean）也可解釋為純潔無疵，故作者謔稱為名符其實的"處女號"。）。
His necessities supplied, Derick departed; but he had not gained his ship's side, when whales were almost simultaneously raised from the mast-heads of both vessels; and so eager for the chase was Derick, that without pausing to put his oil-can and lamp-feeder aboard, he slewed round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders.
滿足了他的需要后，德立克就告別了；可是，他還沒有靠擾他自己的船邊，兩只船的桅頂上差不多就同時叫起發現大鯨的呼號；德立克是那么急著要去追捕，所以，他來不及停下來把油罐子和加油壺放在船上，就把小艇掉了頭，去追趕那條大加油壺的巨鯨了。
Now, the game having risen to leeward, he and the other three German boats that soon followed him, had considerably the start of the Pequod's keels. There were eight whales, an average pod. Aware of their danger, they were going all abreast with great speed straight before the wind, rubbing their flanks as closely as so many spans of horses in harness.
這時，獵物躍現在下風的地方，德立克和另外三只立刻跟上來的德國小艇，已經大大搶在"裴廓德號"的小艇的前頭了。一共有八條同來的鯨群。它們覺察到了危險后，全都靠在一起，直順著風，加速游去，并肩緊靠，有如八匹套著馬具的并排快馬。
