海底两万里第7章概述（海底两万里）

海底两万里 #第6章 Go full steam ahead（14） 第6章 开足马力 ( 14 )

原文赏析：

As master wishes! Conseil replied.

All right, I admit it: I did wish to run this risk!

The valves were charged. More coal was swallowed by the furnaces. Ventilators shot torrents of air over the braziers.

The Abraham Lincoln's speed increased. Its masts trembled down to their blocks, and swirls of smoke could barely squeeze through the narrow funnels.

We heaved the log a second time.

Well, helmsman? Commander Farragut asked.

19.3 miles per hour, sir.

Keep stoking the furnaces.

The engineer did so. The pressure gauge marked ten atmospheres. But no doubt the cetacean itself had warmed up, because without the least trouble, it also did 19.3.

What a chase! No, I can't describe the excitement that shook my very being. Ned Land stayed at his post, harpoon in hand.

中文译文：

如主人所愿！康塞尔回答。

好吧，我承认:我确实希望冒这个险！

阀门被充了电。炉子吞噬了更多的煤。通风器向火盆上方喷射气流。

亚伯拉罕·林肯号的速度加快了。它的桅杆颤抖着倒下，漩涡状的烟雾几乎无法挤过狭窄的烟囱。

测程器再一次抛下去。

现在速度多少？法拉古舰长问。

舰长，十九点三海里。

再增加人力。

工程师照他的话做了。气压表正指＋气压。但这条鲸鱼也添了火力，因为它一点不困难地也以十九点三海里的速度走动。

多么激烈的追逐呀！不，我真不能描写当时使我全身激动的情绪。尼德·兰站在他的岗位上手拿着鱼叉。