英語聽書《白鯨記》第576期
Chapter 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars
第五十七章 畫里的；牙雕的；木刻的；鐵板的；石頭的；山里的；星星的鯨
On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a CRIppled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board before him, representing the tragic scene in which he lost his leg. There are three whales and three boats; and one of the boats (presumed to contain the missing leg in all its original integrity) is being crunched by the jaws of the foremost whale. Any time these ten years, they tell me, has that man held up that picture, and exhibited that stump to an incredulous world. But the time of his justification has now come. His three whales are as good whales as were ever published in Wapping, at any rate; and his stump as unquestionable a stump as any you will find in the western clearings. But, though for ever mounted on that stump, never a stump-speech does the poor whaleman make; but, with downcast eyes, stands ruefully contemplating his own amputation.
你在下了塔山（塔山——在倫敦的倫敦塔西北面。）向著倫敦碼頭走去的時(shí)候，你也許會(huì)看到一個(gè)殘廢的乞丐（照水手們的稱法，也叫“小錨”），他胸前掛著一塊畫板，畫著他失掉了腿的悲慘的情景。那上面有三條鯨和三只小艇，其中一只小艇（想來那個(gè)原來雙腿完好的人就在這只小艇上失掉了腿），正被一條打頭的鯨在咬在嚼。據(jù)說，這十年來，這個(gè)人都時(shí)刻掛著那幅圖畫，把那殘肢公諸這個(gè)不輕信的人間。但是，現(xiàn)在已到了辨明他的情況的時(shí)候了?？傊?，他那幅畫上的三條鯨實(shí)際上就是一直在瓦平（瓦平——倫敦的區(qū)名，在泰晤士河北岸。）公開著的那些鯨（鯨——這里系作者暗喻那些作惡橫行的家伙。）；而他的殘肢就跟你可以無可置疑地在西部的開墾地上找到的樹樁（樹樁——"Stump"在英文中可解釋為殘肢，也可解釋為樹樁，這一句有雙關(guān)意義，同時(shí)暗喻資產(chǎn)階級(jí)在西部砍伐樹林，開疆辟土遺留下來的樹樁。）一樣。不過，可憐這個(gè)捕鯨人雖然始終站在那只樹樁上，卻從來沒有做過競選演說（從前英美政客在競選或在其它場合上發(fā)表“政論”時(shí)，都站在樹樁上，這里是雙關(guān)意義的諷喻，也就是說，有權(quán)發(fā)表“政論”的人民不能開口，拼命要上“臺(tái)”去統(tǒng)治人民的政客，卻大發(fā)謬論。），而是搭拉著眼睛，憂傷地站在那里，凝視著他自己的斷腿。
Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.
在整個(gè)太平洋上，在南塔開特，新貝得福和薩格港（薩格港——紐約州的一個(gè)商港，在加丁納灣。），也隨時(shí)可以碰到許多刻劃大鯨和捕鯨的逼真的寫生畫，這些都是捕魚人自己刻在抹香鯨的牙齒上，或者刻在以露脊鯨骨做出來的女人的勒腰帶上，同時(shí)也可以看到象捕鯨人稱為解悶手工品的其它許多東西，這是捕鯨者利用他們在海上的空閑時(shí)間，以粗骨頭精雕細(xì)刻出來的各種精巧的小玩意兒。
