But no doubt the first man that ever murdered an ox was regarded as a murderer; perhaps he was hung; and if he had been put on his trial by oxen, he certainly would have been; and he certainly deserved it if any murderer does. Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
不过，毫无疑问，第一个把牛杀死的人，总是被人家看做是个谋杀犯；说不定还要送他上绞架；而且如果把他送到牛群里去审判的话，他准会给绞死；也一定会象任何一个谋杀犯一样罪有应得。请你在礼拜六晚上到肉市场上去走一趟，去看看一群群的两脚动物，在瞪眼紧瞅着一长排一长排的被杀死了的四脚动物吧。那景致可不象是从吃人生番的嘴里拔掉一只牙齿一般么？吃人生番么？谁不是吃人生番？不过，我告诉你，如果一个斐济人，为了防备那即将到来的饥荒，把一个瘦骨嶙峋的传道师拿去腌在他的地窖里，那倒是比较情有可原的；我说，在末日审判的时候，那一个有先见之明的斐济人将比你，比你这个开通文明的老饕，把一些活鹅钉死在地上，拿它们的肝去做你的肥鹅肝饼而大嚼一顿的，更会获得宽恕呢。
But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is adding insult to injury, is it? Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand, dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?—what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing but steel pens.
但是，斯塔布不是借着大鲸自己的光在吃鲸的吗？这不是叫它又受伤又受辱么？可是，请你看一看你的刀柄，我的开通文明的正在吃烤牛排的老饕，你瞧，你那刀柄是用什么东西做的？——还不是你正在吃的那只牛的弟兄们的骨头么？还有，你在狂啖了肥鹅之后，是用什么东西剔牙齿呀？用的正是这种家禽的羽毛呀。"禁止虐待雄鹅协会"的秘书是用什么画笔撰写他那冠冕堂皇的传单呀？那个协会还不过在一两个月前才通过一项提倡使用钢笔的决议咧。
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