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Chapter 124 The Needle
第一百二十四章 羅盤針
Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.
隔天早晨，還沒有完全平靜的海洋，在大片大片的浪濤里徐徐翻騰著，汩汩地沖激著"裴廓德號"的船梢，象只張開的大掌在推著它前進(jìn)。猛烈向前吹刮的風(fēng)勢還是這么厲害，弄得海空似乎就是挺胸腆肚的大篷帆；整個世界都隆隆地順風(fēng)而駛了。那只看不見的太陽給掩在一片晨曦中，只靠它那四射的光線才知道它的方位；它那槍尖似的光線一堆一堆地向前蠕動，金光燦爛，象是發(fā)自那些巴比倫王和王后的寶冠那樣籠罩著萬物。海洋就象只熔金的坩堝，泡沸沸地閃動著光和熱。
Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time the teetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake.
亞哈單獨站在那里，好久地一言不發(fā)，好象看得著迷了；每當(dāng)那艘起伏不息的船只的牙墻往下一潛，他就把眼睛望一會前方那燦爛的陽光；等到船只駛到把太陽拉在后邊了，他就轉(zhuǎn)了個身，望著后邊那只太陽，那股黃澄澄的光輝，是多么跟他那不歪不斜的后影混凝為一呵。
Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightest well be taken now for the sea-chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows; hallo! a tandem, I drive the sea!
哈，哈，我的船呀，人家這會兒還真會把你當(dāng)做太陽的水戰(zhàn)車呢，嗬，嗬！一切在我前邊的國家呀，我給你們帶來太陽嘍！配上遠(yuǎn)處的波濤；喂！就是前呼后擁的一串啦，我在鞭策海洋前進(jìn)了！
