My comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the masters son, was now less forward than I.[qh]

我的朋友，即船长的儿子，正是他使我铁下心来上了他父亲的船，现在胆子反而比我小了。[qh]

The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters;[qh]

当时，我们在雅茅斯市被分别安置在好几个地方住宿，所以两、三天之后他才碰到我。[qh]

I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered;[qh]

我刚才说了，这是我们上岸分开后第一次见面。我们一交谈，我就发现他的口气变了。[qh]

and, looking very melancholy, and shaking his head,[qh]

他看上去精神沮丧，且不时地摇头。[qh]

he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voyage only for a trial,[qh]

他问了我的近况，并把我介绍给他父亲。他对他父亲说，我这是第一次航海，只是试试罢了，[qh]

in order to go further abroad,[qh]

以后想出洋远游。[qh]

his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone Young man, says he, you ought never to go to sea any more;[qh]

听了这话，他父亲用十分严肃和关切的口吻对我说，"年轻人，你不应该再航海了。[qh]

you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.[qh]

这次的灾难是一个凶兆，说明你不能当水手"。[qh]

Why, sir, said I, will you go to sea no more?[qh]

"怎么啦，先生，"我问，"难道你也不再航海了吗？"[qh]

That is another case, said he;[qh]

"那是两码事，"他说，[qh]

it is my calling, and therefore my duty;[qh]

"航海是我的职业，因此也是我的职责。[qh]

but as you made this voyage on trial, you see what a taste Heaven has given you of what you are to expect if you persist.[qh]

你这次出海，虽然只是一种尝试，老天爷已给你点滋味尝尝了；你若再一意孤行，必无好结果的。[qh]

Perhaps this has all befallen us on your account, like Jonah in the ship of Tarshish.[qh]

也许，我们这次大难临头，正是由于你上了我们的船的缘故，就像约拿上了开往他施的船一样。[qh]

Pray, continues he, what are you;[qh]

请问，"船长接着说，"你是什么人？[qh]

and on what account did you go to sea?[qh]

你为什么要坐我们的船出海？"[qh]

Upon that I told him some of my story;[qh]

于是，我简略地向他谈了谈自己的身世。[qh]

at the end of which he burst out into a strange kind of passion:[qh]

他听我讲完后，忽然怒气冲天，令人莫可名状。[qh]

What had I done, says he, that such an unhappy wretch should come into my ship?[qh]

他说，"我作了什么孽，竟会让你这样的灾星上船。[qh]

I would not set my foot in the same ship with thee again for a thousand pounds.[qh]

我以后绝不再和你坐同一条船，给我一千镑我也不干！"[qh]

This indeed was, as I said, an excursion of his spirits,[qh]

我觉得，这是因为沉船的损失使他心烦意乱，[qh]

which were yet agitated by the sense of his loss, and was farther than he could have authority to go.[qh]

想在我身上泄愤。其实，他根本没有权利对我大发脾气。[qh]

However, he afterwards talked very gravely to me,[qh]

可是，后来他又郑重其事与我谈了一番，[qh]

exhorting me to go back to my father, and not tempt Providence to my ruin, telling me I might see a visible hand of Heaven against me.[qh]

敦促我回到父亲身边，不要再惹怒老天爷来毁掉自己。他说，我应该看到，老天爷是不会放过我的。[qh]