英语听书《白鲸记》第539期
日期:2016-09-15 16:56

(单词翻译:单击)

"Canallers, Don, are the boatmen belonging to our grand Erie Canal. You must have heard of it.
“运河船的水手,先生,就是我们的伊利大运河的船夫。你一定听说过。
Nay, Senor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North."
“不,先生;在我们这种向来就是气候温暖、沉闷、弄得大家都懒洋洋的地方,对于你们那种严寒的北方,我们是不大清楚的。
"Aye? Well then, Don, refill my cup. Your chicha's very fine; and ere proceeding further I will tell ye whatour Canallers are; for such information may throw side-light upon my story.
“是吗?那么,先生,再给我满一满杯。你们的奇赤(奇赤——西班牙和南美洲人惯喝的一种甜酒。)真不错;我得先把我们的运河船的水手是怎样一种人,告诉你后再继续说下去,因为这种知识,可以间接说明我的故事。
For three hundred and sixty miles, gentlemen, through the entire breadth of the state of New York; through numerous populous cities and most thriving villages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility; by billiard-room and bar-room; through the holy-of-holies of great forests; on Roman arches over Indian rivers; through sun and shade; by happy hearts or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand almost like milestones, flows one continual stream of Venetianly corrupt and often lawless life. There's your true Ashantee, gentlemen; there howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches."
“诸位先生,在长达三百六十英里(伊利运河的长度在三百五十至三百六十英里间。)的距离间,有一条威尼斯式的腐化而无法无天的生活的。流个不停的河流,它经过:纽约州的整个宽度,无数人口稠密的城市和最兴旺的村庄,漫长的、凄凉的、渺无人烟的沼地,丰饶肥沃无与伦比的耕地,弹子房与酒吧间,至圣的大森林地带,穿过跨连印第安河流的罗马式的横桥,烈日高照和荫荫凉凉的地方,叫人心欢和心碎的地方,那些有名的莫霍克郡(英霍克郡——在纽约州中部。)的差别显著的风景区,特别是经过一列列的雪白的教堂,教堂的尖顶简直就象里程碑似的高矗着。诸位先生,这就是你们的地道的阿散蒂(阿散蒂——非洲黄金海岸的一个郡,多山多林,土地肥沃,出产丰富,民性强悍。作者在这里把它比喻为伊利运河流域一带的美国地方。),在那里,你们那些异教徒在号叫,这些人到处都看得到,就在你的身旁,就在教堂的长射的阴影下,躲在教堂的舒适而神气十足的背风处。

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重点单词
  • streamn. (人,车,气)流,水流,组 v. 流动,流出,飘动
  • affluentadj. 富裕的 n. 支流
  • numerousadj. 为数众多的,许多
  • shaden. 阴影,遮蔽,遮光物,(色彩的)浓淡 vt. 遮蔽,
  • shadown. 阴影,影子,荫,阴暗,暗处 vt. 投阴影于,跟踪
  • thrivingadj. 旺盛的;蒸蒸日上的;繁荣的 v. 兴旺(thr
  • sceneryn. 布景,风景,背景
  • snugadj. 温暖舒适的,合身的,安全的 v. 使整洁干净,
  • dulladj. 呆滞的,迟钝的,无趣的,钝的,暗的 v. 变钝
  • canaln. 运河,沟渠,气管,食管 vt. 建运河,疏导