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英语听书《白鲸记》第577期

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Some of them have little boxes of dentistical-looking implements, specially intended for the skrimshandering business. But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.

他们有一些人还有象牙科医生用的小工具箱,专门用来制作解闷手工。不过,一般说来,他们大都只用他们那种水手小刀来雕刻;他们用了那只可以说是水手的万能工具,凭水手所能想象得出的技巧,就可以给你做出你所喜爱的一切东西来。
Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.
长期离开基督教地区与文明社会而流亡在外的人,必然地会回复到上帝曾经给他安置在那里的那种状态里,也就是所谓野蛮状态。你这个真正的捕鲸者就跟一个易洛魁人一样的野蛮。我自己就是个野蛮人,不过坦白地说,我还没有效忠生番王,而是准备随时反抗他。
Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon. For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
且说野蛮人在不野蛮的时候的特点之一,就是他具有令人惊叹的刻苦耐劳的精神。在那种花样繁多和精工细刻的雕刻品中,一件古代的夏威夷的战棒或者枪桡,就跟一部拉丁辞典一样,是人类的坚持不挠精神的伟大纪念品。因为只用那么一点破碎的贝壳或者一只鲨鱼齿,就做出了那种奇迹似的错综复杂的木刻网状细工,这可花了多少认真勤勉的岁月呵!
As with the Hawaiian savage, so with the white sailor-savage. With the same marvellous patience, and with the same single shark's tooth, of his one poor jack-knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of design, as the Greek savage, Achilles's shield; and full of barbaric spirit and suggestiveness, as the prints of that fine old Dutch savage, Albert Durer.
夏威夷的野蛮人如此,白种的野蛮化水手也如此。他们都以这种不可思议的耐心耐性,使用这样一片鲨鱼牙骨,一把可怜的水手小刀,就给你雕出一点骨雕物来,虽然不算怎样精巧,可是,就它那错综复杂的结构说来,却跟希腊的野蛮人所做的阿基利斯(阿基利斯——希腊神话,也是荷马的史诗《伊利亚特》中的英雄,据传说,他除脚踵外,全身刀枪不入。)盾牌一样结实,而就其富有野蛮人的神韵和创造性说来,却可跟那位高尚的德国老野蛮人艾柏特·丢勒(艾柏特·丢勒(1471—1528)——德国画家,雕刻家,有“艺术王子”和“绘画大师”之称。)的版画相媲美。

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patience ['peiʃəns]

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n. 耐心,忍耐,毅力
n. 单人玩的牌

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domestic [də'mestik]

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adj. 国内的,家庭的,驯养的
n. 家仆,

 
shark [ʃɑ:k]

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n. 鲨鱼
n. 贪婪的人,放高利贷的人,老手

 
rebel ['rebəl]

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n. 叛徒,起义者,反叛者
adj. 造反的,

 
intended [in'tendid]

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adj. 故意的,有意的;打算中的 n. 已订婚者 v.

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trophy ['trəufi]

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n. 奖品,战利品

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inevitably [in'evitəbli]

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adv. 不可避免地

 
toil [tɔil]

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n. 辛苦,苦工,网,罗网,圈套 v. 苦干,跋涉,费力

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allegiance [ə'li:dʒəns]

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n. 忠诚

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characteristics [,kærəktə'ristiks]

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n. 特性,特征;特质;特色(characteristi

 

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