早餐

I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.

我很快也跟著（穿戴整齊），下到酒吧間，很愉快地上前向那咧嘴笑著的店主搭話。

I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.

我對他並不懷半點惡意，儘管在我那同床者一事上，他著實拿我尋了不少開心。

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity.

不過話說回來，能開懷大笑是件了不起的好事，也是件未免太稀罕的好事；這就更可惜了。

So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.

所以，倘若有誰能拿自己這個人，給別人提供一個好笑話的材料，那他可別扭扭捏捏，倒不如痛痛快快地任人這麼消遣、也消遣消遣自己。

And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

而一個身上有著許多惹人發笑之處的人，你儘管相信：這人身上的內涵，比你想的要多。

The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at.

這會兒酒吧間擠滿了昨夜陸續投宿、我還沒來得及好好打量的房客。

They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

他們幾乎全是捕鯨人：大副、二副、三副、船上的木匠、桶匠、鐵匠、魚叉手、看船人；一群黝黑壯碩、鬍子茂密叢生的傢伙；一夥蓬頭垢面、毛茸茸的人，個個拿短水手外套權充晨袍。

You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore.

你大致一眼就看得出每個人上岸多久了。

This young fellow’s healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.

這年輕小伙子那紅潤的臉頰，色澤像個被太陽烤透的梨，聞起來幾乎也帶著那股麝香般的氣味；他從印度洋航程上岸絕不會超過三天。

That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him.

他旁邊那人臉色淺了幾度；你可以說他身上帶著一絲緞木的色調。

In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.

第三個人的膚色裡還留著一抹熱帶的黃褐，卻已略略褪淡；他無疑已在岸上盤桓了好幾個禮拜。

But who could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.

可有誰的臉頰比得上魁魁格的呢？他那橫著各種色斑的臉，活像安地斯山的西坡，把一帶帶截然不同的氣候，一層層並陳在眼前。

“Grub, ho!” now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

「開飯囉——！」這會兒店主一聲喊，猛地推開一道門，我們便進去用早餐。

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

人家說，見過世面的人，舉止會因此變得從容自在、在人前泰然自若。

Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.

但也未必盡然：新英格蘭的大旅行家萊迪亞德，還有那位蘇格蘭的蒙戈・帕克；論到所有人，這兩位在客廳裡卻最沒有自信沉著的派頭。

But perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances—this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish.

不過，也許像萊迪亞德那樣乘狗拉的雪橇橫越西伯利亞，或者像可憐的蒙戈那樣餓著肚子在非洲腹地獨自長途跋涉（這便是他全部的事跡）——我是說，這種旅行，未必是修得一身高雅社交涵養的最佳途徑。

Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.

不過呢，那種社交涵養，大體上倒是哪兒都學得到。

These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence.

我此刻會有這番感想，是因為這麼一檔事：我們都在桌邊坐定後，我正準備聽幾個關於捕鯨的精彩故事；不料叫我大為驚訝的是，幾乎每個人都保持著一種深沉的沉默。

And not only that, but they looked embarrassed.

不僅如此，他們還一副尷尬的模樣。

Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas—entire strangers to them—and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.

是啊，這兒坐著一群老海狗，他們之中許多人曾毫不怯場地在公海上登上巨鯨——對他們素昧平生的巨鯨——眼也不眨地把牠們決鬥至死；可如今，他們坐在一張社交的早餐桌邊——同行、同好——卻你看我我看你，羞怯得像綿羊，彷彿這輩子從沒離開過綠山山間哪個羊圈的視線。

A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!

真是奇景：這些害臊的熊，這些膽怯的搏鯨勇士！

But as for Queequeg—why, Queequeg sat there among them—at the head of the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle.

但說到魁魁格——嘿，魁魁格就坐在他們當中——而且湊巧還坐在桌子的上首；冷靜得像一根冰柱。

To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding.

說真的，他的教養我可不敢恭維。

His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him.

就算是他最大的崇拜者，也沒法真心替他辯解：他竟把魚叉一道帶上早餐桌，還在那兒毫不客氣地使將起來；隔著桌面伸過去，眼看就要危及好幾顆腦袋，把牛排一塊塊勾到自己跟前。

But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

但他這一手做得確實相當從容，而眾所周知，在大多數人眼裡，凡事只要做得從容，就算做得體面。

We will not speak of all Queequeg’s peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.

魁魁格所有的怪癖，我們就不在這兒一一細說了；他如何對咖啡和熱麵包卷敬而遠之，又如何把全副心神都撲在那幾分熟的牛排上。

Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew like the rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was sitting there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat on, when I sallied out for a stroll.

總之，早餐一過，他便和其餘人一樣退到公共大廳，點起他那把菸斗戰斧，戴著他那頂寸步不離的帽子，靜靜坐在那兒一邊消食一邊抽菸；而這時，我已動身出門去散步了。