英語(yǔ)聽(tīng)書(shū)《白鯨記》第886期

A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears. Another has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.

一個(gè)水手突發(fā)奇興，想戴鯊魚(yú)齒的耳環(huán)；這個(gè)木匠就給他鉆耳朵。另一個(gè)水手鬧牙痛了；這個(gè)木匠就拿出鉗子，一只手啪嗒地拍一下他那只條凳，教他坐下去；可是，手術(shù)還沒(méi)有做，那個(gè)可憐的家伙就已不由自主地畏畏縮縮了；因?yàn)檫@個(gè)木匠甩著他手里那只木虎鉗柄，示意他如果要木匠替他拔牙齒，就得把下巴夾在那只虎鉗里。

Thus, this carpenter was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent and without respect in all. Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he deemed but top-blocks; men themselves he lightly held for capstans. But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence. But not precisely so. For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.

于是，這個(gè)木匠就有對(duì)付任何事情的準(zhǔn)備，而且對(duì)一切事情都同樣顯得毫無(wú)所謂，毫不在乎。他把牙齒看成是一小塊牙骨；把腦袋只當(dāng)成一塊頂木；至于人呢，他淡然地把他看成一只絞盤(pán)。不過(guò)，照他這樣對(duì)各行各業(yè)都無(wú)所不通，而且又有如此熟練的功夫，似乎可以說(shuō)他具有非常聰明利落的才干、可是，又不完全如此。因?yàn)椋@個(gè)人除了好象有種不受個(gè)人感情影響的遲鈍以外，毫無(wú)任何特點(diǎn)；我說(shuō)，不受個(gè)人感情影響；是因?yàn)樗棺兊酶車囊磺惺挛锘於鵀橐?，所以他好象是有目共睹的大傻子，隨你怎樣鬧得天翻地覆，他仍然始終悶聲不響，哪怕你在干下什么天大的事，他還是置若罔聞。

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