英語聽書《白鯨記》 第173期

And as for going as cook,though I confess there isconsiderable glory in that, a cook being a sort ofofficer on ship-board--yet, somehow, I never fanciedbroiling fowls;

我雖然承認(rèn)當(dāng)廚司相當(dāng)光榮,而且在船上,廚司也算得是個頭目...可是,不知怎的,我從來沒有燒烤子雞的雅興;

though once broiled, judiciously buttered, andjudgmatically salted and peppered, there is no onewho will speak more respectfully, not to sayreverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.

雖則雞子一烤好,牛油涂得不多不少,鹽和胡椒也加得恰到好處,那我是會比誰都起勁地稱贊它,雖不至于五體投地,也一定是心悅誠服的.

It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted riverhorse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids.

古埃及人當(dāng)初就是由于對烤朱鷺燒河馬有種崇拜偶像似的偏愛,所以到今天你還在那些個金字塔,也就是他們那些巨大的燒烤房里看見這些動物的木乃伊.