裴廓德號遇上歡喜號

The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried. As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams, called shears, which, in some whaling-ships, cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet; serving to carry the spare, unrigged, or disabled boats.

那緊繃著的裴廓德號繼續航行；翻滾的波浪與日子一一逝去；那具棺材改成的救生浮筒仍輕輕地晃著；接著，望見了另一艘船——她的名字取得諷刺得可憐，竟叫「歡喜號」。當她駛近時，所有人的目光都釘在她那寬闊的橫樑上——那橫樑叫做「叉架（shears）」，在有些捕鯨船上，會在後甲板上方八、九呎的高處橫架而過；用來擱放備用的、未裝索具的、或是損壞了的小艇。

Upon the stranger’s shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled, half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a horse.

在那陌生船的叉架上，只見一堆碎裂的、白森森的肋材，還有幾片裂開的船板——那曾經是一艘捕鯨小艇；可如今你一眼就能望穿這堆殘骸，清楚得就像你望穿一具皮肉剝盡、半已脫節、正在日曬風化中泛白的馬骨架。

“Hast seen the White Whale?” / “Look!” replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail; and with his trumpet he pointed to the wreck. / “Hast killed him?” / “The harpoon is not yet forged that ever will do that,” answered the other, sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck, whose gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together.

「見過那條白鯨嗎？」/「你看！」那面頰深陷的船長從艉欄那兒回道；他用喇叭筒指向那堆殘骸。/「殺死牠了嗎？」/「能做到那事的魚叉，還沒打出來呢，」對方答道，目光哀傷地瞟向甲板上一個圓鼓鼓的吊床——幾名默不作聲的水手，正忙著把它收攏的兩邊縫合起來。

“Not forged!” and snatching Perth’s levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—“Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the White Whale most feels his accursed life!”

「還沒打出來！」亞哈一把從叉架的凹槽裡抽出珀斯鍛的那柄平放的魚叉，高高舉起，狂呼道——「瞧好了，南塔克特人；我這隻手裡握著的，就是牠的死亡！這些倒鉤是用血淬過、用閃電淬過的；我發誓還要把它們三重淬煉——就淬在那鰭後灼熱的要害上，那是白鯨最能感到自己那該死的命的地方！」

“Then God keep thee, old man—see’st thou that”—pointing to the hammock—“I bury but one of five stout men, who were alive only yesterday; but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury; the rest were buried before they died; you sail upon their tomb.” Then turning to his crew—“Are ye ready there? place the plank then on the rail, and lift the body; so, then—Oh! God”—advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands—“may the resurrection and the life——”

「那就願上帝保佑你，老人家——你看見那個了嗎」——他指著那吊床——「我要埋葬的，只是五條壯漢裡的一個，他們昨天還活著呢；可不到入夜就都死了。我只埋這一個；其餘的，還沒斷氣就先被海葬了；你們此刻正航行在他們的墳塋之上。」接著他轉向自己的船員——「那邊都準備好了嗎？把跳板架到船舷上，抬起遺體；好，那麼——哦！上帝啊」——他高舉雙手朝那吊床走去——「願那復活與生命——」

“Brace forward! Up helm!” cried Ahab like lightning to his men. But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea; not so quick, indeed, but that some of the flying bubbles might have sprinkled her hull with their ghostly baptism.

「轉帆向前！轉舵！」亞哈像閃電般朝他的人喝道。可那猛然起動的裴廓德號，終究不夠快，沒能逃過那具屍體不久後撞入海面所濺起的水聲；確實不夠快——快不到讓那幾點飛濺的水沫，不至於像一場幽靈的洗禮般，灑上她的船身。

As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod’s stern came into conspicuous relief. “Ha! yonder! look yonder, men!” cried a foreboding voice in her wake. “In vain, oh, ye strangers, ye fly our sad burial; ye but turn us your taffrail to show us your coffin!”

當亞哈此刻滑離那愁雲慘霧的歡喜號時，懸在裴廓德號船尾那具古怪的救生浮筒，便格外醒目地凸顯了出來。「哈！那邊！看那邊，弟兄們！」她航跡後方傳來一個不祥的聲音喊道。「白費力氣啊，你們這些外鄉人，想逃開我們這場悲傷的葬禮；你們不過是把艉欄轉過來對著我們——好讓我們看見你們自己的棺材罷了！」