But did you deeply scan him in his more secret confidential hours when he thought no glance but one was on him; then you would have seen that even as Ahab's eyes so awed the crew's, the inscrutable Parsee's glance awed his; or somehow, at least, in some wild way, at times affected it. Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious at him; half uncertain, as it seemed, whether indeed he were a mortal substance, or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the deck by some unseen being's body. And that shadow was always hovering there. For not by night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber, or go below. He would stand still for hours: but never sat or leaned; his wan but wondrous eyes did plainly say — We two watchmen never rest.
可是，如果在他幽然獨(dú)處的時(shí)分，在他認(rèn)為只有一雙眼睛在瞪著他的時(shí)候，你仔細(xì)地瞧一瞧他的話，那么，你就會看出，哪怕亞哈的眼睛是那么使水手們望而生畏，可那個(gè)清教徒的費(fèi)解的眼色也使亞哈望而生畏，至少有點(diǎn)不可思議地會時(shí)時(shí)叫亞哈感到畏懼。這會兒，在這個(gè)瘦瘦的費(fèi)達(dá)拉身上，開始增添了那么一種叫人捉摸不定的奇特的神氣，身子那么不住地索索抖，使得水手們都以懷疑的神色望著他；看來確是有點(diǎn)叫人摸不準(zhǔn)，究竟他是個(gè)真正的活人，還是一種眼不能見的軀體投在甲板上的抖顫的影子。而且那個(gè)影子始終在那里徜徉不散。因?yàn)榫褪窃谝估铮藗円膊恢谰烤官M(fèi)達(dá)拉可曾打過盹，或者下到艙里去過。他會鎮(zhèn)天一動不動地呆在那里：從來不坐一會兒，也不靠一下。他那雙蒼白而奇怪的眼睛，清清楚楚地告訴人家——我們這兩個(gè)守望者是從來不休息的。
Nor, at any time, by night or day could the mariners now step upon the deck, unless Ahab was before them; either standing in his pivot-hole, or exactly pacing the planks between two undeviating limits, — the main-mast and the mizen; or else they saw him standing in the cabin-scuttle, — his living foot advanced upon the deck, as if to step; his hat slouched heavily over his eyes; so that however motionless he stood, however the days and nights were added on, that he had not swung in his hammock; yet hidden beneath that slouching hat, they could never tell unerringly whether, for all this, his eyes were really closed at times; or whether he was still intently scanning them;
而且，現(xiàn)在不論日夜，水手們一跨上甲板，隨時(shí)可以看到亞哈，他不是站在他那只鏇孔里，就是正在筆直的兩點(diǎn)一線間——主桅和后帆間——跪來踱去，要不然，就看到他站在艙室的升降口上，——他那只好腿跨在甲板上，仿佛要跨上去那樣，帽子低蓋在眼睛上。所以，不管他怎樣站在那里一動不動，不管他怎樣日以繼夜地不上吊鋪；然而，他那雙低掩在帽子下面的眼睛，究竟是不是有時(shí)閉著，還是仍在凝神地瞪著大家，誰也摸不準(zhǔn)。
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