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'No thank you,' said the Manager, standing, perhaps from the force of winter habit, with his back against the chimney-piece, and looking down upon the Captain with an eye in every tooth and gum. 'You have taken the liberty, you were going to say - though it's none—'
“不，謝謝您，”經(jīng)理說道；也許是由于冬天養(yǎng)成的習(xí)慣，他還繼續(xù)站著；他的背靠著壁爐架，并往下望著船長，好像他每個牙齒和牙床中都長著一只眼睛似的。“您剛才說，您冒昧地——其實(shí)并沒有什么冒昧。”
'Thank'ee kindly, my lad,' returned the Captain: 'of coming here, on account of my friend Wal'r. Sol Gills, his Uncle, is a man of science, and in science he may be considered a clipper; but he ain't what I should altogether call a able seaman - not man of practice. Wal'r is as trim a lad as ever stepped; but he's a little down by the head in one respect, and that is, modesty. Now what I should wish to put to you,' said the Captain, lowering his voice, and speaking in a kind of confidential growl, 'in a friendly way, entirely between you and me, and for my own private reckoning, 'till your head Governor has wore round a bit, and I can come alongside of him, is this - Is everything right and comfortable here, and is Wal'r out'ard bound with a pretty fair wind?'
“非常感謝您，我的朋友，”船長回答道，“我是為了我的朋友沃爾冒昧地到這里來的，他的舅舅所爾·吉爾斯是一位搞科學(xué)的人，在科學(xué)上他可以算得上是一只快速帆船。可是，我不能把他稱為能干的船員——他不是個注重實(shí)際的人。沃爾是個難得的棒小伙子；不過他也有缺點(diǎn)，那就是謙虛。現(xiàn)在，在你們老板心情沒有稍稍恢復(fù)，我可以來跟他一起交談之前，”船長壓低了聲音，以極為信任的低沉的粗聲說道，“我希望以友好的方式，完全在您與我之間，也為了我個人有個正確的估量，向您提個問題，就是：這里是不是一切都很完善妥貼，沃爾出航是否順風(fēng)？”
'What do you think now, Captain Cuttle?' returned Carker, gathering up his skirts and settling himself in his position. 'You are a practical man; what do you think?'
“您現(xiàn)在怎么想，卡特爾船長？”卡克提起衣服下擺，站好姿勢，回答道，“您是個注重實(shí)際的人，您怎么想呢？”
The acuteness and the significance of the Captain's eye as he cocked it in reply, no words short of those unutterable Chinese words before referred to could describe.
船長的眼睛向上一瞟作為回答，那眼光的銳利與意味深長，除了前面提到的不能發(fā)音的中國語言外，其他語言都不能形容。
'Come!' said the Captain, unspeakably encouraged, 'what do you say? Am I right or wrong?'
“好啦！”船長受到難以表述的鼓舞，說道，“請您說說，我對了還是錯了？”
