海底两万里 第148期 第10章 水中人(19)

It's an immense wilderness where a man is never lonely, because he feels life astir on every side.

在这汪洋浩瀚的大海中，人们不是孤独的，园为他们感到在自己周围处处都有生命在颤动;

The sea is simply the vehicle for a prodigious, unearthly mode of existence; it's simply movement and love;

海之为物是超越的、神妙的生存之乘舆;海是动，海是爱，

it's living infinity, as one of your poets put it. And in essence, professor, nature is here made manifest by all three of her kingdoms, mineral, vegetable, and animal.

正像你们法国一位大诗人所说的，它是长存的生命。的确，教授，自然界在海中也同样有动物、植物、矿物三类。

The last of these is amply represented by the four zoophyte groups, three classes of articulates, five classes of mollusks, and three vertebrate classes:

动物在海中可以大量地繁殖，主要的有腔肠动物四类，节肢动物三类，软体动物五类，脊椎动物三类，

mammals, reptiles, and those countless legions of fish, an infinite order of animals totaling more than 13,000 species, of which only one-tenth belong to fresh water.

即哺乳类，爬虫类和成群无数的鱼类。鱼类是动物中无穷无尽的一目…共有一万三千多种，其中只有十分之一是在淡水中。

The sea is a vast pool of nature. Our globe began with the sea, so to speak, and who can say we won't end with it! Here lies supreme tranquility.

海是大自然的仓库。可以说，地球是从海开始的，谁知道将来地球不是归给于海呢!海中有无比和平的环境。

The sea doesn't belong to tyrants.

海不属于压迫者。