As for the tableware, it was elegant and in perfect taste.

至于桌上的食具，更是精美，无可指摘。

Each utensil, spoon, fork, knife, and plate, bore on its reverse a letter encircled by a Latin motto, and here is its exact duplicate:

每一件东西，匙子、叉子、刀、盘，上面都有一个字母，字母周围有一句题词，我们照原来的样式抄在下面：MOBILLSiNMOBILD，动中之动！

Moving within the moving element! It was a highly appropriate motto for this underwater machine, so long as the preposition in is translated as within and not upon.

这句题词只要把原来的IN字译成中字而不译成上字，就正好用在这只潜水船上。

The letter N was no doubt the initial of the name of that mystifying individual in command beneath the seas!

N可能是在海底下发号施令的那位神秘人物的姓名开头的一个字母！

Ned and Conseil had no time for such musings. They were wolfing down their food, and without further ado I did the same.

尼德·兰和康塞尔跟我不一样，并没有想得这么多。他们在尽量地吃，我立刻也跟他们一样做。

By now I felt reassured about our fate, and it seemed obvious that our hosts didn't intend to let us die of starvation.

此外，我对，于我们的命运也放心了，据我看来事情很清楚，我们的主人决没有意思让我们俄死。