英語聽書《白鯨記》第530期

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They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full - rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, theyhave drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

它們包括不少羅曼蒂克的大小群島，如同玻利尼西亞海一樣，大部地區(qū)又都是兩岸住有兩個顯著不同的民族，象大西洋那樣，他們從東部地方，設(shè)置了一些綿長的海口，通到我們那許多準(zhǔn)州的地方，防波堤星棋羅布，到處都被排炮，被巍峨的馬啟諾海峽(馬啟諾海峽——東邊是休倫湖，西邊是密執(zhí)安湖。海峽上有炮臺，是十八世紀(jì)時英、法，十九世紀(jì)英、美在戰(zhàn)爭時互爭的要地。)的山羊似的參差的大炮弄得愁眉不展。他們聽到過海軍艦隊的雷鳴似的勝利，他們有時還把他們的淺灘放棄給未開化的野人，那些野人的紅漆色的臉從他們那些毛皮小屋里閃出紅光來，兩邊都有大片的古老的、人跡未到的森林，在那里，那些形狀可怕的松樹高矗得象峨特族的多如牛毛的帝王。那些樹林里都潛伏有許多非洲野獸和有柔毛的動物，它們那些可供出口的皮毛都拿給韃靼皇帝做龍袍去了，他們反映出布法羅和克利夫蘭(克利夫蘭——在伊利湖上的商港。)的光滑的首邑和文尼伯哥湖(文尼伯哥湖——在美國威斯康星州。)上的村莊的生活。他們跟裝備齊全的商船，跟國家的全副武裝的巡洋艦，跟大輪船，跟淺灘的獨木舟同樣地游來泛去。他們被朔風(fēng)(原文Borean，即Boreas，希臘神話中的北風(fēng)之神。)掃蕩得桅斷船破，好象遭到鹽潮的沖擊那樣的可怕，他們也懂得船只失事的滋味，因為不管是在看不見陸地的地方，還是在內(nèi)陸，他們都在半夜里不知經(jīng)歷過多少次連人帶船覆沒的慘禍。