英語聽書《白鯨記》第529期

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In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.

事實上，整個航程差不多都刮著順適的和風，如果不是那個維因耶德人的大副拉德尼狂妄傲慢，同那個布法羅(這里的湖即指伊利湖。布法羅(在紐約西部的一個市)是伊利湖上的商港。)的湖上人，那個惡棍斯蒂爾基爾特激起復仇之念的話，那么‘大鯨出來了號’，隨便怎樣都不會遭到一點意外，一定能夠絕對安全地抵達口岸。”

"Lakeman! Buffalo! Pray, what is a Lakeman, and where is Buffalo?' said Don Sebastian, rising in his swinging mat of grass.

“湖上人！野牛！請問，什么叫做湖上人，野牛又是什么地方？塞瓦斯蒂安先生從他那搖搖擺擺的草墊子上立起來問道。

On the eastern shore of our Lake Erie, Don; but - I crave your courtesy - may be, you shall soon hear further of all that. Now, gentlemen, in square - sail brigs and three-masted ships, well nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far Manilla; this Lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean. For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours, Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, andSuperior, and Michigan, possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes."

“先生，那是在我們的伊利湖的東岸。不過——我請你原諒一下——也許你馬上就可以全部都聽到了。諸位先生，且說那種橫帆二桅船和三桅船，就跟隨便哪一艘從你們的古老的卡亞俄(卡亞俄——秘魯?shù)闹饕谈邸?駛到老遠的馬尼拉的那種船差不多，又大又結(jié)實。這個湖上人，雖然生在我們美國那種四面著陸的中心，卻又是受過那種愛把大?？醋隹梢該尳俚霓r(nóng)民觀念所熏陶的。因為我們那些淡水大海——伊利湖，安大略湖，休倫湖，蘇必利爾湖和密歇根湖——在它們合流的時候，就有一種象大洋似的滔滔氣派，有大洋許多最高貴的特點，有各式各樣相似的人種和風土習俗。