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Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab, answered Perth, resting for a moment on his hammer; "I am past scorching-, not easily can'st thou scorch a scar."
因為我已經渾身都燒焦了，亞哈船長，柏斯說，倚著錘子休息一會；"我已是燒焦的過來人嘍；你要燒了個疤，可也不容易呢。"
Well, well; no more. Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? — What wert thou making there?
好啦，好啦，別再說啦。你這種畏畏縮縮的聲音，叫我聽來，實在太平穩、太神志清醒了。我自己是沒有至樂的，所以我聽到別人那種并不發狂的一切，實在不耐煩。你應該發狂才好，鐵匠；你說說看，你為什么不發狂？你不發狂又怎么受得了？是不是上天還在憎恨你，所以你才不會發狂？——你在干什么活兒？
Welding an old pike-head, sir; there were seams and dents in it.
在焊一只舊矛頭，先生，這只矛頭盡是縫縫和疤疤。
And can'st thou make it all smooth again, blacksmith, after such hard usage as it had?
它經過了這樣猛烈的使用后，你還能把它再修得完全光光坦坦么，鐵匠？
I think so, sir.
我想是可以的，先生。
And I suppose thou can'st smoothe almost any seams and dents; never mind how hard the metal, blacksmith?
鐵匠呀，我想不管多硬的鐵，你簡直都無法把什么縫縫和疤疤都修得很光坦吧？
Aye, sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one.
不，先生，我想我是辦得到的；除了一樣東西，所有的縫縫和疤疤都能修得很光坦。
Look ye here then, cried Ahab, passionately advancing, and leaning with both hands on Perth's shoulders; "look ye here — here — can ye smoothe out a seam like this, blacksmith," sweeping one hand across his ribbed brow; "if thou could'st, blacksmith, glad enough would I lay my head upon thy anvil, and feel thy heaviest hammer between my eyes. Answer! Can'st thou smoothe this seam?"
那么，聽著，亞哈叫道，熱情地走上前去，雙手搭在柏斯肩上；"你瞧——喏——鐵匠，象這種縫縫你可修得光坦？"一只手朝自己那皺結的額頭一劃；"如果你干得了，鐵匠，我真巴不得就把我的頭擱在你這鐵砧上，讓我的額頭嘗一嘗你這最重的錘子的滋味。回答呀！這種縫縫你可修得光坦？"
