🔊 By the mainmast; Starbuck leaned against it.

就在主桅旁--斯达巴克--背靠着它。

🔊 "My soul is more than matched; she's overmanned; and by a madman! Insufferable sting, that sanity should ground arms on such a field! But he drilled deep down, and blasted all my reason out of me! I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut. Horrible old man! Who's over him, he cries;-aye, he would be a democrat to all above; look, how he lords it over all below! Oh! I plainly see my miserable office,-to obey, rebelling; and worse yet, to hate with a touch of pity! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would shrivel me up, had I it. Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide. The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe. His heaven-insulting purpose, God may wedge aside. I would up heart, were it not like lead. But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again."

我的灵魂岂止是被压倒；她已反遭驾驭,且是被一个疯子所驾驭！多么难以忍受的刺痛,理性竟要在这样的战场上放下武器！但他深深钻探,将我全部理智炸飞！我想我看到了他亵渎的结局；却又感到自己必须助其达成。无论我愿不愿意,那不可言喻之物已将我与他绑在一起；用一根我找不到刀来割断的缆绳拖曳着我。可怕的老头！他叫嚷谁在他之上；--唉,他对所有高于他的都想以民主者自居；看哪,他对所有低于他的又是何等颐指气使！哦！我清楚地看见我这可悲的职责--服从,同时反叛；更糟的是,心怀一丝怜悯去憎恨！因为从他眼中,我读出了一股阴森的悲苦,若是我沾染上它,定会将我烧成灰烬。然而尚有希望。时光与潮汐流向广阔。那被憎恶的鲸鱼有整个圆形的水世界任它遨游,正如小小的金鱼有其玻璃球体。他那冒犯天意的图谋,上帝或许会将其搁置一旁。我本想振作,无奈心似铅沉。可我全部的钟表都已停摆；我的心,那统驭一切的钟摆,我却找不到钥匙再为它上弦。

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Insufferable /ɪnˈsʌf(ə)rəb(ə)l/

adj. 无法忍受的,难以容忍的➕

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sanity /ˈsænəti/

n. 心智健全,神志正常➕

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impious /ɪmˈpaɪəs/

adj. 不敬的,亵渎神明的➕

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ineffable /ɪnˈefəb(ə)l/

adj. 无法形容的,难以言表的➕

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democrat /ˈdeməkræt/

n. 民主主义者；民主党人➕

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woe /wəʊ/

n. 悲伤,悲痛；灾难,麻烦➕

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shrivel /ˈʃrɪv(ə)l/

v. (使)枯萎,皱缩➕

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wedge /wɛdʒ/

v. 楔入,插入；挤入➕

🔊 A burst of revelry from the forecastle.

船头传来一阵狂欢的喧闹声。

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revelry /ˈrev(ə)lri/

n. 狂欢,喧闹的庆祝➕

🔊 "Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white whale is their demogorgon. Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft! Methinks it pictures life. Foremost through the sparkling sea shoots on the gay, embattled, bantering bow, but only to drag dark Ahab after it, where he broods within his sternward cabin, builded over the dead water of the wake, and further on, hunted by its wolfish gurglings. The long howl thrills me through! Peace! ye revellers, and set the watch! Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,-as wild, untutored things are forced to feed-Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, O ye blessed influences!"

啊,上帝！竟要与这样一伙异教徒船员同行,他们身上几乎没有人母的温情！在如鲨鱼般凶险的海洋某处孳生。那白鲸是他们的德谟革耳贡。听！那地狱般的狂欢！喧闹在前方！留心后方那纹丝不动的沉默！我想这恰是生命的写照。那欢快、如临大敌、语带讥诮的船首,劈开波光粼粼的海面飞射向前,却只是为了拖着阴郁的亚哈尾随其后,他在船尾舱中沉思,舱室筑于尾流死水之上,更远处,仿佛被那狼嗥般的汩汩水声追猎。那悠长的嚎叫令我浑身战栗！安静！你们这些纵乐者,快去值守！哦,生命！正是在这样的时刻,灵魂被击垮,又被强按着头去认知--就像强迫未经驯化的野兽进食--哦,生命！此刻我才真正感觉到你内在潜伏的恐怖！但这恐怖不属于我！那恐怖已从我体内被驱逐！带着我心中尚存的那份人性的柔软温情,我仍要奋力与你们抗争,你们这些狰狞的、幽灵般的未来！请站在我身边,扶持我,将我缚紧,哦,你们这些赐福的影响力！

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infernal /ɪnˈfɜːn(ə)l/

adj. 地狱般的；可恶的,讨厌的➕

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orgies /ˈɔːdʒiz/

n. 狂欢；纵酒宴乐➕

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unfaltering /ʌnˈfɔːltərɪŋ/

adj. 坚定不移的,稳定的➕

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foremost /ˈfɔːməʊst/

adj. 最重要的,首要的➕

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embattled /ɪmˈbæt(ə)ld/

adj. 卷入冲突的,处境艰难的➕

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bantering /ˈbæntərɪŋ/

adj. 开玩笑的,戏谑的➕

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broods /bruːdz/

v. 沉思,忧思➕

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wolfish /ˈwʊlfɪʃ/

adj. 狼似的；贪婪凶残的➕

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thrills /θrɪlz/

v. 使激动,使兴奋；使颤抖➕

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revellers /ˈrev(ə)ləz/

n. 狂欢者,纵情欢乐的人➕

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untutored /ʌnˈtjuːtəd/

adj. 未受教育的,未经训练的➕

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latent /ˈleɪt(ə)nt/

adj. 潜在的,潜伏的➕

Chapter thirty-eight: Dusk (第三十八章: 黄昏)

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