英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)書《白鯨記》 第75期

And I did not know but what the stingy old Bildadmight have a mighty deal to say about shippinghands, especially as I now found him on board thePequod, quite at home there in the cabin, andreading his Bible as if at his own fireside.

而我不清楚 比勒達(dá)可能有對(duì)于運(yùn)營(yíng)有很強(qiáng)的能力,尤其是在這,現(xiàn)在我發(fā)現(xiàn)現(xiàn)在他好像在自家一樣擺弄著本《圣經(jīng)》。

Now while Peleg was vainly trying to mend a penwith his jack-knife, old Bildad, to my no smallsurprise, considering that he was such an interestedparty in these proceedings; Bildad never heeded us, but went on mumbling to himself out of hisbook,

這時(shí)候，法勒船長(zhǎng)找出一枝鉛筆吃力地削著，而比勒達(dá)依然悠哉悠哉地讀他的《圣經(jīng)》。

"Well, Captain Bildad," interrupted Peleg, "what d'ye say, what lay shall we give this youngman?"

“我說(shuō)比勒達(dá)船長(zhǎng)，給這小伙子多少拆賬?”法勒船長(zhǎng)這樣問(wèn)。

"Thou knowest best," was the sepulchral reply, "the seven hundred and seventy-seventhwouldn't be too much, would it?

“這你比我在行，我想七百七十七分之一就差不多了吧……”

'where moth and rust do corrupt, but LAY'"

七百七十七分之一，好大的“拆賬”!

LAY, indeed, thought I, and such a lay! the seven hundred and seventy-seventh!

諸位陸地上的朋友也許覺(jué)得七百七十七不小吧，可這是把它放在分母的位置上啊!