英语听书《白鲸记》 第259期

　　Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island faraway to the West and South. It is not down on anymap; true places never are.

　　魁魁格是科科伏柯人,那是一个远在西南方的岛屿。任何一张地图上都没有这个地方;真实的地方是从来不登上地图的。

　　When a new-hatched savage running wild about hisnative woodlands in a grass clout, followed by thenibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; eventhen, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strongdesire to see something more of Christendom than aspecimen whaler or two. His father was a High Chief, a King; his uncle a High Priest; and on thematernal side he boasted aunts who were the wives of unconquerable warriors. There wasexcellent blood in his veins-royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensityhe nourished in his untutored youth.

　　在他还是一个初出茅庐的野人,身披草蓑,在他故乡的林地里狂奔乱跑,背后跟着一群东啃一口西啃一口的山羊,仿佛还是一个毛头小子的时候;甚至在那个时候,在魁魁格的抱负不凡的心中,就已经隐怀一种强烈的愿望:不但要看看一两个堪为楷模的捕鲸者,还要看一看文明人的国度。他父亲是个大酋长,是个国王;他叔父是个祭司长;他夸称他的母系方面,那些姨娘都是一些战无不胜的武士的妻室。他的血统里有高尚的血液....贵胄的品质,然而,我怕他在他那未受教育的少年时代所养成的生番习性已大大损害了他这种品质。

　　A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands.But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King hisfather's influence could prevail. But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled offto a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. Onone side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thicketsthat grew out into the water. Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its prowseaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the ship was gliding by, like aflash he darted out; gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot capsized and sank hiscanoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled aring-bolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.

　　有一只萨格港是一个捕鲸的大港口。的船来访问他父亲治下的港湾,魁魁格就想乘它到文明人的地方去。但是,那只船的水手已经满额,无法满足他的要求;这也不是他那个做国王的父亲的势力所能奏效的。但是,魁魁格已经发下了誓。他独自坐上他的独木舟,划到一个冷僻的海峡里去,因为他知道那只船一离开海岛,必定要经过那地方。那海峡,一边是珊瑚礁,一边是一小片洼地,蔓生了缭绕到海里的红树丛。他把他的独木舟藏在这些树丛里,让它仍是飘浮在水面上,船头对着海洋那面,自己坐在船尾,桨子低抓在手里;等到那只船一驶过时,他就一阵闪电似的射了出去;抓住了船舷;一只脚往后一踢,把他那只独木舟踢翻沉没;他爬上锚链;直扑在甲板上,抓住了船上的有环螺钉,发誓说哪怕拿他砍成碎片,他也决不放手。