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Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical duties,such being the case with his comrades. I mention all these particulars so that you may understand exactly how this affair stood between the two men.
再说，这时‘大鲸出来了号’上那些身体比较强壮的水手都被分成几班，轮流抽水；斯蒂尔基尔特因为是大伙里力气最大的，向来总被指派为其中一班的班长；因此，他本来就可以免掉任何的确与抽水任务无关的琐事，他的伙伴也是如此。我所以要把这些细节都说出来，是好叫你们正确地了解他们两人之间的事件的真相。
"But there was more than this: the order about the shovel was almost as plainly meant to sting and insult Steelkilt, as though Radney had spat in his face. Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understand this; and all this and doubtless much more, the Lakeman fully comprehended when the mate uttered his command. But as he sat still for a moment, and as he steadfastly looked into the mate's malignant eye and perceived the stacks of powder-casks heaped up in him and the slow-match silently burning along towards them; as he instinctively saw all this, that strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being--a repugnance most felt, when felt at all, by really valiant men even when aggrieved-- this nameless phantom feeling, gentlemen, stole over Steelkilt.
“不过，事情还不止如此。要他去铲那些东西的这个命令，简直就是明白地意味着刺激和侮辱斯蒂尔基尔特，一如拉德尼在他脸上吐了唾沫。任何一个做过捕鲸水手的人都会明白这一点；所以当这个大副发出他这个命令的时候，湖上人完全心里有数，而且无疑地比别人更其有数。不过，他不声不响地坐了一会儿，眼睛紧盯着那个大副的满含恶意的眼睛，觉得他心里已经堆起了许多火药桶，火苗已经悄悄地快要燃着那些桶子了；总之，在他本能地看到这一切的时候，诸位先生，斯蒂尔基尔特就不知不觉地产生了这种难以名状的虚幻的感情——那种奇特的忍耐工夫，和不愿意对任何一个本来就已叫人生厌的人激起更进一步的怒火——这是真正骁勇的人哪怕在受迫害的时候也最最感到厌恶的事。
