英语听书《白鲸记》 第268期

　　The poor fellow whom Queequeg had handled soroughly, was swept overboard; all hands were in apanic; and to attempt snatching at the boom tostay it, seemed madness. It flew from right to left,and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, andevery instant seemed on the point of snapping intosplinters. Nothing was done, and nothing seemedcapable of being done; those on deck rushed towardthe bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it werethe lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the midstof this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly tohis knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one endto the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it sweptover his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe. Theschooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat,Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap. Forthree minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog, throwing his long arms straight outbefore him, and by turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam. I lookedat the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone down.Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg, now took an instant's glancearound him, and seeming to see just how matters were, dived down and disappeared. A fewminutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging alifeless form. The boat soon picked them up. The poor bumpkin was restored. All hands votedQueequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon. From that hour I clove to Queequeglike a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.

　　可怜那个吃了魁魁格的苦头的小子已给刮到海里去了;大家都象发狂一样,乱作一团;想抓着那帆杠使它停下来。几乎时钟每滴答一下,帆杠就从左到右来回摆了一下,似乎随时都有断成碎片的可能。毫无办法,似乎也想不出什么办法来;甲板上的人们都争相奔到船头,站在那里呆望着那只帆杠,它仿佛就是一条怒不可遏的巨鲸的下颚。在这种惊惶失措中,魁魁格灵巧地跪倒在甲板上,在帆杠晃来晃去的地方爬着,猛地抓住一根索子,他把索子的一端缚到舷墙上,然后等帆杠扫过他头顶的时候,他就象作套索一般急忙将另一端一抛,把帆杠兜住了,他再猛地一拉,那根圆材就被这样套住,一切平安无事了。当这条纵帆船望风驶去,大家正在收拾船尾的时候,魁魁格赤裸着上身,真象个长弧形那么纵身一跳打船侧冲了出去.人们看到他象只狗似的游了三四分钟,两条长胳膊直向前面摔去,在冰冷的浪沫里挨次地现出他那结实的左右肩。我望着这个伟大而光荣的伙伴,可是,却看到并没有救起什么人来。那个毛头小子已经沉到海里去了。这时,魁魁格从水里笔直地冒了出来,眼睛迅疾地四下一瞥,似乎是要弄清一下情况,又潜进水里。消失了.再过几分钟,他又冒了出来,一只手仍在划水,另一只手拖着一个毫无生气的人体。船上的人立刻把他们拉上来。可怜那个乡巴佬苏醒过来了。大家都盛赞魁魁格是个了不起的好汉;船长也来对他道歉。从那时起,我就象狗虱子一样死扳住魁魁格不放;而且直扳到可怜的魁魁格永远潜进水里为止。