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Moby Dick
——By Herman Melville
Chapter 135 The Chase — Third Day
第一百三十五章追擊——第三天
The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.
第三天的清晨晴朗地來臨了，前桅頂上那個孤寂的守夜人再次由一群日夜的望者接了班，每根桅桿，幾乎每根圓木都布滿了人。
D'ye see him? cried Ahab; but the whale was not yet in sight.
你們可看到它嗎？亞哈叫道；可是，大鯨卻還沒有看到。
In his infallible wake, though; but follow that wake, that's all. Helm there; steady, as thou goest, and hast been going. What a lovely day again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could not dawn upon that world. Here's food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels; that's tingling enough for mortal man! to think's audacity. God only has that right and privilege. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
沒錯，我們還是尾隨著它；只要釘著它，就行啦。轉舵向風；留心，照常駛去。又是個多可愛的天氣呀！如果說這是個新創造的世界，是專為天使們造出來的一個夏宮，今天早晨就是第一次為天使們而敞開的話，那樣的世界也不會有比這更好的天氣吧。亞哈要是有時間思考的話，這倒是可以思考的材料，可是，亞哈從來就不思考：他只是感覺，感覺，感覺；對人類說來，這也就真夠了！思考是種放肆的行為。只有上帝才有這種權利和特權。思考就是，也應該是樁冷靜。鎮定的事兒；可是，我們的可憐的心跳得這般厲害，我們的可憐的腦子又跳得如此急劇，哪能思考呢？
