英语听书《白鲸记》 第160期

But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.

然而，你如果看到他们匆匆忙忙地从亚哈的船舱里奔出来，你就会明白，独裁者真正的所在。

But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or uneasiness—to call it so—which I felt, yet whenever I came to look about me in the ship,

这一回情况似乎有点特殊，我周围的人是一群异教徒、一群野蛮人，他们的强悍和孤僻似乎都昭示着他们以前经历中一些不可告人的秘密。

it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such emotions.

以利亚那神神叨叨的鬼话无疑是形成我这种焦虑不安的心情的一个重要因素。

For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked.

当然，这里面我个人的原因似乎也不容忽视，因为在平常，我对那样一个衣衫破烂的人的话会一笑置之的。这一回情况似乎有点特殊，我周围的人是一群异教徒、一群野蛮人，他们的强悍和孤僻似乎都昭示着他们以前经历中一些不可告人的秘密。

But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.

当然，大副、二副和三副的表现足以让我打消一些这方面的忧虑，让我的信心抬起头来并抑制不住地让那种叫做“愉快”的心清时不时地跑出来。