海底兩萬里 第153期 第11章 諾第留斯號(4)

　　Books on mechanics, ballistics, hydrography, meteorology, geography, geology, etc., held a place there no less important than works on natural history, and I realized that they made up the captain's chief reading.

　　機械學、彈道學、海洋繪圖學、氣象學、地理學、地質學等等書籍所占的位置不下于自然科學的書籍，我明白這些都是船長研究的重點。

　　There I saw the complete works of Humboldt, the complete Arago, as well as works by Foucault, Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, Chasles, Milne-Edwards, Quatrefages, John Tyndall, Faraday, Berthelot, Father Secchi, Petermann, Commander Maury, Louis Agassiz, etc., plus the transactions of France's Academy of Sciences, bulletins from the various geographical societies, etc., and in a prime location, those two volumes on the great ocean depths that had perhaps earned me this comparatively charitable welcome from Captain Nemo.

　　我看見架上有韓波爾全集、阿拉哥全集，以及傅戈爾、亨利·圣·克利·德維爾夏斯爾、密爾·愛德華、卡特法日、鄧達爾、法拉第、白爾特洛、薛希修道院長、別臺曼、莫利少校、阿加昔斯等人的著作;科學院的論文，各國地理學會的會刊等等也有。我寫的那兩本書也放在明顯的位置上，我能得到尼摩船長的相當寬大的接待，大概就是由于這兩本書。

　　Among the works of Joseph Bertrand, his book entitled The Founders of Astronomy even gave me a definite date; and since I knew it had appeared in the course of 1865, I concluded that the fitting out of the Nautilus hadn't taken place before then.

　　在伯特蘭的著作中間，他的那部《天文學的創(chuàng)始人》，竟使我推算出這只船制造的確實日期;我知道這部書是于1865年出版，由此可以斷定，諾第留斯號下水是在這一個時期之后。