英语听书《白鲸记》第251期

And besides all this, there was a certain loftybearing about the Pagan, which even hisuncouthness could not altogether maim. He lookedlike a man who had never cringed and never had hada creditor. Whether it was, too, that his head beingshaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer andbrighter relief, and looked more expansive than itotherwise would, this I will not venture to decide;but certain it was his head was phrenologically anexcellent one. It may seem ridiculous, but itreminded me of General Washington's head, as seenin the popular busts of him. It had the same long regularly graded retreating slope fromabove the brows, which were likewise very projecting, like two long promontories thickly woodedon top. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

除此以外,这个异教徒身上还有一种崇高的气质,这种气质哪怕是他那粗鲁的形相也是不能完全抹煞的。他的样子象是一个从来既不奉承别人,也从未做过债主的人。究竟是不是因为他刚剃过了头,使得他的脑门也更显得鲜明突出地向前冲,显得比原来更开阔,我可不敢擅加推断了;但是,就骨相学的观点看来,他的脑袋肯定是很出色的。说来也许颇为可笑,然而,它的确教我想起华盛顿将军的脑袋来,这是我从他那到处出现的胸像所看到的。它在眉毛上头也同样有一个有规则的。逐渐退后的斜度,也同样是很突出的,象是两个树木丛生的长长的海岬。魁魁格就是野化了的乔治华盛顿。

Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at thestorm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with somuch as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of themarvellous book. Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous,and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown over me upon waking inthe morning, I thought this indifference of his very strange. But savages are strange beings;at times you do not know exactly how to take them. At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems as Socratic wisdom.

当我仔细端相着他,同时又半装着在遥望窗外的暴风雨的时候,他却一点也没有注意到我在那里,居然连看都不看我一眼;而是显得全神贯注在数着那本奇书的书页。一想到昨天晚上我们曾经多么和睦地睡在一起,尤其是想到我一早醒来发现那只搁在我身上的亲昵的胳膊时,我认为他这副冷淡神态是十分奇特的。但是,野人就是怪物;有时就是叫人不完全知道该怎样理解他们。初眼看来,他们都是可怕的;他们那种质朴而寓有恬静的泰然自若的神气,好象具有一种苏格拉底的智慧。