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But the bird has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied.
可是，鳥兒還有一聲叫喊，會用陣陣的哀鳴來表示它的恐懼；而這只海里的大啞獸的恐懼，卻好象被拴住了，給人施上了魔法似的；它除了從噴水孔里噴出來的那陣悶氣，一點聲響都沒有，這就教人看得頓生一陣難以言狀的憐憫心了。然而，它那嚇人的身軀，格子閘似的嘴巴，和碩大無比的尾巴，可還是足以使最強健、而又懷有如此惻隱之心的人喪膽的。
Seeing now that but a very few moments more would give the Pequod's boats the advantage, and rather than be thus foiled of his game, Derick chose to hazard what to him must have seemed a most unusually long dart, ere the last chance would for ever escape.
德立克這時看到，只消再過一會兒，就會給"裴廓德號"占了上手，也就是說，他就得這樣白白失去他的獵物，于是，他自以為，與其讓這個最后機會一去不返，不如以一種罕見的長程擲槍來冒一冒險了。
But no sooner did his harpooneer stand up for the stroke, than all three tigers—Queequeg, Tashtego, Daggoo—instinctively sprang to their feet, and standing in a diagonal row, simultaneously pointed their barbs; and darted over the head of the German harpooneer, their three Nantucket irons entered the whale. Blinding vapors of foam and white-fire! The three boats, in the first fury of the whale's headlong rush, bumped the German's aside with such force, that both Derick and his baffled harpooneer were spilled out, and sailed over by the three flying keels.
可是，正當他的標槍手站了起來，想擲槍的時候，"裴廓德號"的三只老虎——魁魁格，塔斯蒂哥，大個兒——也都本能地跳了起來，斜角似的站成一行，同時瞄準他們的倒鉤；掠過那個德國人標槍手的頭頂擲了出去，他們那三支南塔開特的槍頭都插進了那大鯨的身上，激起了多么使人眼花繚亂的一陣迷霧和白焰！那條鯨勃然大怒，向前狂奔，三只小艇就砰地把那只德國人小艇撞在一邊，來勢之猛，把德立克跟他那個撲了空的標槍手都一起摔了出去，三只如飛的小艇徑自向前劃去了。
Don't be afraid, my butter-boxes, cried Stubb, casting a passing glance upon them as he shot by; "ye'll be picked up presently— all right—I saw some sharks astern—St. Bernard's dogs, you know— relieve distressed travellers.
別怕，我的黃油罐子（黃油罐子（butter-box）——對德國人的一種蔑稱。），斯塔布朝他們身邊射出去的時候，匆匆地瞥了他們一眼，叫道："立刻就有人來打撈你們——一點不假——我看到船梢有不少鯊魚哪——那就是圣·伯納的狗（圣·伯納的狗——是一種最大的猛狗，出產在圣·伯納隘道地方（在瑞士及意大利國境間的阿爾卑斯山脈），專門用以施救迷在雪地里的旅客。），你們知道——那是專門撈救遭難旅客的。
