英语听书《白鲸记》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，这个独臂船长继续说下去，"我可不清楚；可是它在咬绳索的时候，不知怎么一来，绳索绊住了它的牙齿，把它扎住了；我们当时并不知道；因此，等到后来我们拉绳索的时候，砰地一冲，我们全都噗通掉到它那背峰上去！而其它那些鲸却都给侥幸地望风逃去了。看到这般情势，又是这么一只了不起的大鲸——老兄，这是我生平所见到的最了不起最大的东西——我打定主意要捉住它，不管它看来是火气多么大。可是，想到那条危——危险的绳索会给松脱，或者是绊住它牙齿的那根绳索会给甩脱（因为我已经他妈的叫全艇的水手都来拉住那根绳子了）；总之，看到了这种种情形，我就跳进我那大副的小艇里——就是这位蒙托泼先生（顺便介绍一下，船长——这是蒙托泼，蒙托泼——这是船长）；我刚才说，我跳进了蒙托泼的小艇里，你知道，当时，我们两只小艇正紧靠着；我就抓着首先看到的一支标枪，给这条老祖宗尝尝厉害。可是，天啊，你听着，先生——哎呀！老朋友——紧接着，一眨眼工夫，我就象只蝙蝠似的，什么都看不见了——两只眼睛都瞎了——全都让那阵墨黑的泡沫弄得昏昏蒙蒙了——大鲸的尾巴从泡沫里矗起，笔直地耸到空中，活象个大理石尖塔。当时再往后退也没有用了；可是，正当我在午刻时分摸索着的时候，那只扎眼的太阳，就象是王冠上的珠宝；我说正当我投了第二支标枪后，又在摸索着的时候，那条尾巴却从下面象座利马塔一般甩了起来，把我的小艇一切为两，各成两堆木片了；

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