英語聽書《白鯨記》第893期

Sir?—Clay? clay, sir? That's mud; we leave clay to ditchers, sir.

先生？泥？泥，先生？那是爛泥呀；我們還是讓挖陰溝的人去弄泥吧，先生。

The fellow's impious! What art thou sneezing about?

這家伙真邪惡！你干啥不斷地打噴嚏？

Bone is rather dusty, sir.

骨頭總是灰蒙蒙的，先生。

Take the hint, then; and when thou art dead, never bury thyself under living people's noses.

那么，記住，等你死的時候，可千萬別當著活人的臉下土呀。

Sir?—oh! ah!—I guess so; so;—yes, yes—oh dear!

先生？——啊！呀！——我想是這樣；不錯——啊，天哪！

Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh? Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well for thy work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall nevertheless feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that is, carpenter, my old lost leg; the flesh and blood one, I mean. Canst thou not drive that old Adam away?

聽著，木匠，也許你自稱是個規(guī)規(guī)矩矩、正正派派的、有本領的匠人吧？唔，那么，如果我一跨上你給我做的這條腿，是不是就可以充分表現(xiàn)出你的能耐，使我覺得在這個地方又長上了一條腿呢；噯，木匠師傅，我說的是我先前失掉的那條腿，那條有血有肉的腿呀。你難道不能把那個老亞當攆走嗎？

Truly, sir, I begin to understand somewhat now. Yes, I have heard something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still pricking him at times. May I humbly ask if it be really so, sir?

啊，真的，先生，我這下可開始有點弄明白啦。不錯，在這方面，我已經(jīng)聽到過一些希奇的說法；折桅斷桿的人總是永遠忘不了他的舊材，還時常刺痛著他的心呢。請問是不是真的這樣，先生？

It is, man. Look, put thy live leg here in the place where mine once was; so, now, here is only one distinct leg to the eye, yet two to the soul.

是這樣，老朋友。喂，試把你那條活腿安到我從前也有一條腿的地方上看；所以么，雖然現(xiàn)在看來明明只有一條腿，心里記著的卻是一雙。

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