英語聽書《白鯨記》第842期

How it was exactly, continued the one-armed commander, "I do not know; but in biting the line, it got foul of his teeth, caught there somehow; but we didn't know it then; so that when we afterwards pulled on the line, bounce we came plump on to his hump! instead of the other whale's; that went off to windward, all fluking. Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it was— the noblest and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life—I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage he seemed to be in. And thinking the hap-hazard line would get loose, or the tooth it was tangled to might draw (for I have a devil of a boat's crew for a pull on a whale-line); seeing all this, I say, I jumped into my first mate's boat—Mr. Mounttop's here (by the way, Captain—Mounttop; Mounttop—the captain);— as I was saying, I jumped into Mounttop's boat, which, d'ye see, was gunwale and gunwale with mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old great-grandfather have it. But, Lord, look you, sir—hearts and souls alive, man—the next instant, in a jiff, I was blind as a bat—both eyes out—all befogged and bedeadened with black foam—the whale's tail looming straight up out of it, perpendicular in the air, like a marble steeple. No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after the second iron, to toss it overboard—down comes the tail like a Lima tower, cutting my boat in two, leaving each half in splinters;

它究竟想干什么，這個獨(dú)臂船長繼續(xù)說下去，"我可不清楚；可是它在咬繩索的時候，不知怎么一來，繩索絆住了它的牙齒，把它扎住了；我們當(dāng)時并不知道；因此，等到后來我們拉繩索的時候，砰地一沖，我們?nèi)监弁ǖ舻剿潜撤迳先?！而其它那些鯨卻都給僥幸地望風(fēng)逃去了?？吹竭@般情勢，又是這么一只了不起的大鯨——老兄，這是我生平所見到的最了不起最大的東西——我打定主意要捉住它，不管它看來是火氣多么大?？墒?，想到那條危——危險的繩索會給松脫，或者是絆住它牙齒的那根繩索會給甩脫（因為我已經(jīng)他媽的叫全艇的水手都來拉住那根繩子了）；總之，看到了這種種情形，我就跳進(jìn)我那大副的小艇里——就是這位蒙托潑先生（順便介紹一下，船長——這是蒙托潑，蒙托潑——這是船長）；我剛才說，我跳進(jìn)了蒙托潑的小艇里，你知道，當(dāng)時，我們兩只小艇正緊靠著；我就抓著首先看到的一支標(biāo)槍，給這條老祖宗嘗嘗厲害?？墒?，天啊，你聽著，先生——哎呀！老朋友——緊接著，一眨眼工夫，我就象只蝙蝠似的，什么都看不見了——兩只眼睛都瞎了——全都讓那陣墨黑的泡沫弄得昏昏蒙蒙了——大鯨的尾巴從泡沫里矗起，筆直地聳到空中，活象個大理石尖塔。當(dāng)時再往后退也沒有用了；可是，正當(dāng)我在午刻時分摸索著的時候，那只扎眼的太陽，就象是王冠上的珠寶；我說正當(dāng)我投了第二支標(biāo)槍后，又在摸索著的時候，那條尾巴卻從下面象座利馬塔一般甩了起來，把我的小艇一切為兩，各成兩堆木片了；

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