海底兩萬里 第305期 第23章 珊瑚王國(4)

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I took the wounded man's pulse. It was intermittent. The body's extremities were already growing cold, and I saw that death was approaching without any possibility of my holding it in check. After dressing the poor man's wound, I redid the linen bandages around his head, and I turned to Captain Nemo.

病人的脈搏，我按了按，已經(jīng)時有時無。身體各處，手，指腳趾的尖端已經(jīng)冰冷，我看出死已臨頭，沒法救治了。我包扎好這個不幸的病人，又把他頭上的紗布弄好，轉(zhuǎn)過身來對著尼摩船長；我問他：

How did he get this wound? I asked him.

哪來的這傷痕呢？

That's not important, the captain replied evasively. The Nautilus suffered a collision that cracked one of the engine levers, and it struck this man. My chief officer was standing beside him. This man leaped forward to intercept the blow. A brother lays down his life for his brother, a friend for his friend, what could be simpler? That's the law for everyone on board the Nautilus. But what's your diagnosis of his condition?

那沒關系！船長掩飾地回答，諾第留斯號受到一次仲撞，弄斷了機器上的一條杠桿，打中了這個人。般副正在他旁邊。他奮身前去，頂受了這打擊……兄弟為自己的兄弟犧牲，朋友為自己的朋友犧牲，再沒有更簡單的享！這是諾第留斯號船上全體船員共同遵守的規(guī)律！您對于他的病精的意見究竟怎樣？

I hesitated to speak my mind.

我遲疑不敢說。

You may talk freely, the captain told me. This man doesn't understand French.

您可以說，船長對我說，這人不懂得法語。

I took a last look at the wounded man, then I replied:

我最后看一下傷員，然后回答：

This man will be dead in two hours.

這人在兩小時內(nèi)就要死了。

Nothing can save him?

沒有什么辦法可以救他嗎？

Nothing.

沒有。

Captain Nemo clenched his fists, and tears slid from his eyes, which I had thought incapable of weeping.

尼摩船長的手抖起來，幾滴眼淚從他的眼中流出來了，從前我以為他的眼睛是不會哭的。

For a few moments more I observed the dying man, whose life was ebbing little by little. He grew still more pale under the electric light that bathed his deathbed. I looked at his intelligent head, furrowed with premature wrinkles that misfortune, perhaps misery, had etched long before. I was hoping to detect the secret of his life in the last words that might escape from his lips!

霎時間，我再看一下這垂死的人，他的生命一點一點消失了。他蒼白的面色，由于有明亮的電光照在他臨死的床上，更顯得慘白。我看他的聰明頭額有很多過早的皺紋，那是生活中的不幸或多年的貧苦給他造成的。我要從他嘴里偶然吐出的一些話，明白他生平的秘密！您可以退出了，阿龍納斯先生。尼摩船長這時對我說。