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Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
那三个标枪手,默默地执行了命令,手里拿着约三英尺长的卸下来的标枪铁头,倒钩朝上,站到他面前来。
Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So, so; now, ye cup-bearers, advance.
可别让那锐利的钢头戳着我!打斜拿着;把它们倒转过来!你们不懂得大杯底吗?把接口倒转过来!唔,唔,现在你们几个上酒人,上前去。
The irons! take them; hold them while I fill! Forthwith, slowly going from one officer to the other, he brimmed the harpoon sockets with the fiery waters from the pewter.
那些标枪头,把它们拿过来;我斟酒的时候要拿牢!他立刻脚步缓慢地从这个头目走到那个头目,把蜡锡杯里的烈酒注满标枪头的接口。
Now, three to three, ye stand. Commend the murderous chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league.
现在三对三,你们站好。举起这杀气腾腾的圣餐杯!请呀,你们这些人现在已经加进了这个不容分散的同盟里啦。
Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it. Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow-Death to Moby Dick!
哈,斯达巴克!大功告成了!那边那个表示认可的太阳正在等着作证呢。喝呀,你们这些标枪手!喝呀,发誓呀,你们这些站在可怕的捕鲸小艇头上的人...打死莫比－迪克!
God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death! The long, barbed steel goblets were lifted; and to cries and maledictions against the white whale, the spirits were simultaneously quaffed down with a hiss.
如果我们不把莫比－迪克追击到死,上帝是要追击我们大家的!那三只长长的倒钩钢杯都被高高举起;在高喊打击白鲸的叫声和诅咒声的同时,烈酒也被咝的一声一饮而尽。
Starbuck paled, and turned, and shivered. Once more, and finally, the replenished pewter went the rounds among the frantic crew; when, waving his free hand to them, they all dispersed; and Ahab retired within his cabin.
斯达巴克脸色发白,摇摇晃晃,浑身发抖。那只加满了酒的蜡锡杯又再次,也是最后一次在狂热的水手间挨次传下去。等到亚哈那只不拿酒杯的手对他们一挥,大家便都散了;亚哈也退回到他的舱室里去。
