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Yet dost thou darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.
然而，你那更加難解的半個身子，卻以一種即使不是更加難解的、也是更加自豪的信念來顛簸我。所有你那些不值一提的單純的情感都在我這下面漂泛；我仰賴那一度是生物的鼻息，它原來呼的是氣，現在卻是水了。
Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest. Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!"
海呵，萬歲，萬萬歲，野鳥在你的永恒的顛簸中找到唯一的棲息之所。生自大地的，卻受海洋的哺養；雖然山崗和溪谷撫養了我，然而，你波濤卻是我的同奶弟兄！"
Chapter 117 The Whale Watch
第一百十七章 看守大鯨
The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's.
那天黃昏時分所打的四條鯨，都彼此相隔很遠地死了；一條遠在上風的地方；一條稍微近些，在下風地方；一條在前邊；一條在后邊。除了上風處那一條要到明天早晨才能把它弄來以外，其余三條都在傍晚前就給拖到舷側來了；于是，打過了上風那條鯨的小艇，就得通宵守在它的旁邊；那只小艇就是亞哈的小艇。
The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whale's spout-hole; and the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering glare upon the black, glossy back, and far out upon the midnight waves, which gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach.
浮標桿筆直插在那條死鯨的噴水孔中；桿頂掛著一只燈籠，在它那黑黝黝的大背上發出一股閃爍不定的燈光，遠照到午夜的波濤上，波濤柔和地擦著那條鯨的寬大的身側，象細浪沖擊著海灘。
Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who crouching in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails. A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering through the air.
除了那個祆教徒以外，亞哈和他艇上的水手似乎都睡著了；那個祆教徒，蹲成一團，坐在船首，瞅著一群鯊魚，它們在大鯨四周，妖魔似的嬉戲，尾巴輕拍著薄杉木船板。突然橫空劃過一陣象是蛾摩拉城的冤魂在死海上同聲叫喊的呻吟聲。
