英语听书《白鲸记》第829期
日期:2018-06-08 17:40

(单词翻译:单击)

It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things. On its round border it bore the letters, REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR: QUITO. So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autumn. Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra.
裴廓德号上这块杜柏仑,想不到竟成为这些东西的一个包罗万象的标本。它的圆边上写有这样的字句:厄瓜多尔共和国:基多。原来这块灿亮的金币是来自一个位于世界中部的,在大赤道的下面、并以赤道为名(厄瓜多尔——是西班牙文,即英文中的赤道的国家;而且这块金币还是在安第斯山脉(安第斯山脉——在南美洲西部。)的中部,在那个不知有秋天的永不雕零的地方铸造出来的。在这些字句的圈圈里,还可以看到有类似安第斯山脉的三个高峰;有一个峰巅冒出了火焰,另一个上面有一只高塔,第三个高峰上有一只昂颈啼叫的公鸡;而在三个峰巅上还弓着一弯区分黄道带的环带,十二宫宿全都标志着它们的自古以来的玄妙气息,那只拱心石似的太阳正在走进那天平星座的昼夜分界线。
Before this equatorial coin, Ahab, not unobserved by others, was now pausing.
这时,亚哈正在这块赤道线的金币前面停了下来,差不多人人都看到他。
There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here,— three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab; and this round gold is but the image of the rounder globe, which, like a magician's glass, to each and every man in turn but mirrors back his own mysterious self.
在这些峰峦、高塔和一切富丽崇高的东西中间,好象有种永远自恃极高的气息;你瞧,——这三个峰巅就象魔王一样高傲。那只稳如磐石的高塔,就是亚哈;那座火山,就是亚哈;那只勇敢无畏的、胜利凯旋的公鸡也是亚哈,一切都是亚哈,这块滚圆的金币就正是比它还圆的地球的形象,它象魔术家的水晶球,轮番照出每个人自己的神秘的形体。

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重点单词
  • volcanon. 火山
  • flamen. 火焰,热情 v. 燃烧,面红,爆发 n. 情
  • loftyadj. 高的,高超的,傲慢的
  • likenessn. 相像,相似物,样子
  • bordern. 边界,边境,边缘 vt. 与 ... 接壤,加边于
  • segmentn. 部份,瓣,弓形 vt. 分割
  • castv. 投,掷,抛,铸造,丢弃,指定演员,加起来,投射(目
  • equatorn. 赤道
  • courageousadj. 勇敢的
  • borevt. 使厌烦 n. 讨厌的人,麻烦事 v. 钻孔,开凿