Yet dost thou darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.
然而，你那更加难解的半个身子，却以一种即使不是更加难解的、也是更加自豪的信念来颠簸我。所有你那些不值一提的单纯的情感都在我这下面漂泛；我仰赖那一度是生物的鼻息，它原来呼的是气，现在却是水了。
Then hail, for ever hail, O sea, in whose eternal tossings the wild fowl finds his only rest. Born of earth, yet suckled by the sea; though hill and valley mothered me, ye billows are my foster-brothers!"
海呵，万岁，万万岁，野鸟在你的永恒的颠簸中找到唯一的栖息之所。生自大地的，却受海洋的哺养；虽然山岗和溪谷抚养了我，然而，你波涛却是我的同奶弟兄！"
Chapter 117 The Whale Watch
第一百十七章 看守大鲸
The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's.
那天黄昏时分所打的四条鲸，都彼此相隔很远地死了；一条远在上风的地方；一条稍微近些，在下风地方；一条在前边；一条在后边。除了上风处那一条要到明天早晨才能把它弄来以外，其余三条都在傍晚前就给拖到舷侧来了；于是，打过了上风那条鲸的小艇，就得通宵守在它的旁边；那只小艇就是亚哈的小艇。
The waif-pole was thrust upright into the dead whale's spout-hole; and the lantern hanging from its top, cast a troubled flickering glare upon the black, glossy back, and far out upon the midnight waves, which gently chafed the whale's broad flank, like soft surf upon a beach.
浮标杆笔直插在那条死鲸的喷水孔中；杆顶挂着一只灯笼，在它那黑黝黝的大背上发出一股闪烁不定的灯光，远照到午夜的波涛上，波涛柔和地擦着那条鲸的宽大的身侧，象细浪冲击着海滩。
Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who crouching in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails. A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering through the air.
除了那个祆教徒以外，亚哈和他艇上的水手似乎都睡着了；那个祆教徒，蹲成一团，坐在船首，瞅着一群鲨鱼，它们在大鲸四周，妖魔似的嬉戏，尾巴轻拍着薄杉木船板。突然横空划过一阵象是蛾摩拉城的冤魂在死海上同声叫喊的呻吟声。