英語聽書《白鯨記》 第264期

In short, like many inland reapers and mowers, whogo into the farmer's meadows armed with their ownscythes--though in no wise obliged to furnish them--even so, Queequeg, for his own private reasons,preferred his own harpoon.

總之,正象許多割草者和割稻者一樣,他們總是隨帶自己的鐮刀上農(nóng)民的草場去干活的...雖然不一定非自帶工具不可...魁魁格正是為了自己的理由而寧愿用自己的標槍。

Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told mea funny story about the first wheelbarrow he hadever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which tocarry his heavy chest to his boarding house. Not to seem ignorant about the thing--though intruth he was entirely so, concerning the precise way in which to manage the barrow--Queequegputs his chest upon it; lashes it fast; and then shoulders the barrow and marches up the wharf. "Why," said I, "Queequeg, you might have known better than that, one would think. Didn't thepeople laugh?"

獨輪車從我手里轉(zhuǎn)到魁魁格手里時,他告訴我一個關(guān)于他生平第一次看到獨輪車的有趣故事。事情就發(fā)生在薩格港。好象是他的船主借給他一輛獨輪車,好讓他把他那只笨重的箱子運到他的宿店去。為了對這東西顯得不是一無所知...雖然事實上,關(guān)于如何正確地掌握獨輪車,他是完全一無所知的...魁魁格把他那只箱子放上去后,用繩子捆捆緊;就把車子往肩上一扛,徑自走上碼頭。"怎么,"我說,"魁魁格,想來你總不至于這樣笨吧。人們不笑話你嗎?"

Upon this, he told me another story. The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at theirwedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash likea punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braidedmat where the feast is held. Now a certain grand merchant ship once touched at Rokovoko,and its commander--from all accounts, a very stately punctilious gentleman, at least for asea captain-this commander was invited to the wedding feast of Queequeg's sister, a prettyyoung princess just turned of ten. Well; when all the wedding guests were assembled at thebride's bamboo cottage, this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honor, placedhimself over against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the King,Queequeg's father.

聽到這話,他又告訴我另一個故事。事情好象是,他那個羅科伏柯島上的居民,在他們的結(jié)婚筵席上,都要把嫩椰子壓出來的芬芳的椰汁,滴在一只象潘趣酒壺一般的染色大葫蘆里;這種潘趣酒壺總是那條擺酒席的緶飾墊子上的最主要的裝飾品。有一回,恰巧有一只大商船駛到羅科伏柯,那只船的船長...從各方面看來,至少就一個船長說來,他是個十分莊嚴拘謹?shù)募澥?..這位船長也被邀來出席魁魁格的妹妹的結(jié)婚喜宴,他的妹妹是個剛滿十周歲的美麗小公主。于是,當所有的來賓都被請到新娘的竹搭小屋里去的時候,這位船長也進去了,還被請上首席,他面對著那只潘趣酒壺坐了下來,兩旁就是那個祭司長和國王陛下即魁魁格的父親。