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Upon the stranger's shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled, half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a horse.
在這艘陌生船的那些剪腳起重機(jī)上，人們看到一些以前是一只捕鯨小艇的破碎的白色肋材，和幾片破裂了的船板。可是，你這會(huì)兒仔細(xì)地看看這只破艇，就跟你看到一只被剝掉了皮、有點(diǎn)兒散亂的、發(fā)白了的馬骷髏一樣。
Hast seen the White Whale?
看到過(guò)白鯨嘛？
Look! replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail; and with his trumpet he pointed to the wreck.
你瞧！那個(gè)站在船欄桿邊。兩頰深陷的船長(zhǎng)，湊著話(huà)筒，一面指著那只破艇，一面回答道。
Hast killed him?
把它打殺了沒(méi)有？
The harpoon is not yet forged that will ever will do that, answered the other, sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck, whose gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together.
打得殺它的標(biāo)槍可還沒(méi)有鑄起來(lái)呢，對(duì)方回答說(shuō)，眼睛憂(yōu)郁地望著甲板上一只被人團(tuán)團(tuán)圍起的吊鋪，幾個(gè)悶聲不響的水手正圍在那里在忙著縫縫綴綴。
Not forged! and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!"
還沒(méi)有鑄出來(lái)！亞哈從椏杈上攫起柏斯打出來(lái)的那支標(biāo)槍?zhuān)炝顺鋈ィ呓械馈?quot;你瞧，南塔開(kāi)特人，我這只手里拿著的就是要制它死命的東西！這些鉤鉤全是用血用閃電煉出來(lái)的；我一定要把它插進(jìn)它鰭后頭那個(gè)滾熱的地方，讓它再煉三遍，那地方就是白鯨的致命傷的地方！"
Then God keep thee, old man — see'st thou that — pointing to the hammock — "I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb."
那么，愿上帝保佑你吧，老人家，請(qǐng)你看那東西，他指著那吊鋪，"五個(gè)身強(qiáng)力壯的水手，我只埋葬得了一個(gè)，他們昨天都是生龍活虎的人；可是，不到晚上都死了。我只埋葬得了那一個(gè)；其余的都給活埋了；你是在他們的墳頂上航駛的。"
