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No, no, it wasn't; I said the corpusants have mercy on us all; and I hope they will, still. But do they only have mercy on long faces? — have they no bowels for a laugh? And look ye, Mr. Starbuck — but it's too dark to look. Hear me, then; I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a' block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; and so, all that sperm will work up into the masts, like sap in a tree. Yes, our three masts will yet be as three spermaceti candles — that's the good promise we saw.
不，不，那并不是哭声；我是说，电光可怜可怜我们大家吧；我直到此刻还是希望它会可怜我们。难道电光只会可怜哭丧着脸的人吗？——对于笑容满面的人就不发慈悲心吗？你看，斯达巴克先生——唉，实在是黑得看都看不清。那么，听我说吧，我认为我们是把桅顶上的火光，看做好运气的兆头；因为插着那些桅杆的船舱都塞满了鲸油，你可知道；因此，所有的鲸油都会渗透到桅杆里，就象树液渗透树木一样。是呀，我们那三根桅杆还是会象三根鲸油蜡烛一样——这就是我们看到的好指望。
At that moment Starbuck caught sight of Stubb's face slowly beginning to glimmer into sight. Glancing upwards, he cried: "See! see!" and once more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor.
这时，斯达巴克看到斯塔布的脸慢慢地开始叫人看得清了。他往上边一望，不禁叫了起来："瞧！瞧！"又看到那高高的细光了，那种灰蒙蒙的光彩似乎格外神奇。
The corpusants have mercy on us all, cried Stubb, again.
电光可怜可怜我们大家吧，斯塔布又叫了起来。
At the base of the main-mast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig. In various enchanted attitudes like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast.
在主桅脚的地方，就在那只金币和火光下面，那个祆教徒跪在亚哈跟前，头往后仰着；而在附近，一群水手在把高挂着的拱弯的索具缚在圆柱上，他们都被那股火光吸住了。这会儿，大家的手都搭住绳索，象钟摆般挂在那里，活象一群粘在果树园里的下垂枝桠上的失去感觉的黄蜂。从各人所表现出来的各种着迷似的姿势看来，就象是赫鸠娄尼恩（赫鸠娄尼恩——意大利那不勒斯附近的一个古城；公元七九年由于维苏威火山爆发而毁灭。一七三三年进行大规模发掘时，损坏了许多古迹和艺术品。）发掘出来的一些骷髅：有的站着，有的跨步，有的正在奔跑，还有一些人则象钉牢在甲板上似的动都不动。但是，大家的眼睛都往上瞪着。
