海底兩萬里 第155期 第11章 諾第留斯號(6)

I took the cigar offered me, whose shape recalled those from Cuba; but it seemed to be made of gold leaf.

我接過他給我的雪茄煙，形狀有點像哈瓦那制的倫敦式雪茄，煙葉也似乎是上等的金色煙葉。

I lit it at a small brazier supported by an elegant bronze stand, and I inhaled my first whiffs with the relish of a smoker who hasn't had a puff in days.

我在一根漂亮的銅托子上的小火盆上把煙點起來。愛吸煙的人兩天來不抽煙，一拿起煙來，就覺渾身愉快，我盡情地吸了幾口。我說：

It's excellent, I said, but it's not from the tobacco plant.

好極了，但不是煙草。

Right, the captain replied, this tobacco comes from neither Havana nor the Orient.

對，船長回答，這種煙草不是從哈瓦那來的，也不是從東方來的。

It's a kind of nicotine-rich seaweed that the ocean supplies me, albeit sparingly. Do you still miss your Cubans, sir?

這是海里供給我的一種富有煙精的海藻，這種海藻的數(shù)量并不多。先生，您抽不到哈瓦那制的雪前煙不覺得遺憾嗎?

Captain, I scorn them from this day forward.

船長，從今天起我就看不起那些煙了。

Then smoke these cigars whenever you like, without debating their origin. They bear no government seal of approval, but I imagine they're none the worse for it.

那您就隨便抽吧!用不著討論這些煙的來歷了。它們沒有受過任何煙草管理局的檢查，但我想質(zhì)量也并不見得就差些。

On the contrary.

正相反，很好。

Just then Captain Nemo opened a door facing the one by which I had entered the library, and I passed into an immense, splendidly lit lounge.

這時候，尼摩船長打開一扇門，這門跟我進(jìn)入圖書室的閂相對，我走進(jìn)了寬敞華麗的客廳。