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yet is there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale, moored by night to a whaleship at sea. If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
然而，你就想象不到有一个时间或场合，在数目的众多上，在神情的奕奕上，可以跟它们在那天夜里的海上的捕鲸船边，围着一条死抹香鲸的情况相比拟。如果你从来没有见到过那种场面，那么，请你对于应不应该崇拜魔鬼，对于安抚魔鬼的利害得失的问题，还是暂缓作出决定为妙。
But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his own epicurean lips.
可是，直到现在，斯塔布对于近在身旁的、正在进行着的筵席的嗫嚅声，还是一点也没有注意到，同样地，那些鲨鱼也没有留意到斯塔布这个老饕的嘴巴的巴嗒声。
Cook, cook!—where's that old Fleece? he cried at length, widening his legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper; and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing with his lance; "cook, you cook!— sail this way, cook!"
厨司，厨司！——那个弗里斯老头儿在哪儿？他终于一面叫了起来，一面把双脚叉得更开些，仿佛要站得更稳，痛快地饱尝这顿晚餐；同时，他把他的叉子朝盘子里一戳，仿佛在戳着他那鱼枪；“厨司，你这厨司！——到这边来，厨司！”
The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously routed from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard;
这个黑人老头打厨房里踉踉跄跄地踱出来，可是，因为刚在最不相宜的时分让人家从暖烘烘的吊铺里吵醒，神色并不显得很高兴。如象许多黑人老头一样，他的膝盖骨也有点儿毛病，所以不能象他其它那些关节一样运转自如。这个人家管他叫弗里斯老头的人，撑着火钳（这种粗具火钳形式的东西，是用两根敲直了的铁箍做成的），慢吞吞地一瘸一瘸地走过来。这个黑檀色的人挣着走了过来，为了表示听候吩咐，在斯塔布的食具架对面死板板地停了下来；
