英語聽書《白鯨記》第631期

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Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows. Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands to stand off, once more makes a scientific dash at the mass, and with a few sidelong, desperate, lunging, slicings, severs it completely in twain; so that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all ready for lowering. The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room. Into this twilight apartment sundry nimble hands keep coiling away the long blanket-piece as if it were a great live mass of plaited serpents. And thus the work proceeds; the two tackles hoisting and lowering simultaneously; both whale and windlass heaving, the heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally, by way of assuaging the general friction.

于是，另一只大復(fù)滑車的一端就把那洞孔給鉤住了，把那塊鯨脂抓住，以便人們作進一步的處理。這時候，這個嫻熟的劍客，一邊警告大家趕快站開，一邊又對那團大東西巧妙地一截，再加上打斜里拼命的刺削幾下，就把它切成了兩爿；所以，那短短的下半段雖然還是貼牢著，可是，上半邊那塊叫做"絨氈子"的長條子已經(jīng)是孤零零的晃來晃去，隨時可以卸下來了。那些管絞車的人，又重新一面唱起歌來，一面走上前去。當那只正在剝皮的復(fù)滑車，又從鯨身上扯起第二片鯨脂時，另一只復(fù)滑車就慢慢地松開來，落下來，把第一片鯨脂穿過大艙口直旋到下面去，旋進了那間叫做鯨脂房的毫無設(shè)備的會客室里去。在這間昏蒙的屋子里，許多敏捷的手不停地把那些長長的"絨氈"卷起來，仿佛它是一團大蟒蛇。工作就這樣進行下去：那兩架復(fù)滑車同時一起一落，大鯨和絞車則旋來旋去，管絞車的人唱個不停，鯨油房里的先生們在不斷卷著鯨脂，大二三副在剝皮，船身在用力氣，大家偶爾咒罵一聲，借以減輕一下緊張情緒。