英語聽書《白鯨記》第838期
第一百章 臂和腿
The Pequod of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London
南塔開特的裴廓德號遇到倫敦的"撒母耳·恩德比號"
Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?
船呀！可看到白鯨么？
So cried Ahab, once more hailing a ship showing English colors, bearing down under the stern. Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boat's bow. He was a darkly-tanned, burly, goodnatured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth; and one empty arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a huzzar's surcoat.
亞哈又看到后邊有一艘掛英國旗的船，就這樣喊道。這老頭兒，號筒湊在嘴邊，站在他那吊在后甲板的小艇上，他那只牙腿已經(jīng)讓那個陌生船長看得一清二楚了，那船長正漫不經(jīng)心地倚在他自己的小艇頭。他皮膚黝黑，身體結(jié)實，面容和藹，相貌端正，六十左右的年紀(jì)，穿著件寬大的短上衣，好象圍著一條飾有流蘇的藍(lán)粗呢氈子；他那外套的一只空洞洞的袖筒，象中世紀(jì)武士鎧甲上的長衣的一只繡花的臂筒，在他后邊隨風(fēng)飄展。
Hast seen the White Whale!
可看到白鯨么？
See you this? and withdrawing it from the folds that had hidden it, he held up a white arm of sperm whale bone, terminating in a wooden head like a mallet.
你看見這東西嗎？他把藏在圍布底下的手臂拉出來，把那只用抹香鯨骨做的白手臂高高舉起，這只手臂的末端鑲有一段木錘似的木頭。
Man my boat! cried Ahab, impetuously, and tossing about the oars near him—"Stand by to lower!"
準(zhǔn)備我的小艇！亞哈一邊急躁地叫道，一邊翻動著身旁的木槳——"準(zhǔn)備下水！"
In less than a minute, without quitting his little craft, he and his crew were dropped to the water, and were soon alongside of the stranger.
不到一分鐘工夫，他連人帶小艇以及他的水手都給放下海里，不一會，便靠攏了那艘陌生船。
