海底两万里第1章到第11章（海底两万里）

海底两万里 #第6章 Go full steam ahead（7） 第6章 开足马力 ( 7 )

原文赏析：

But to get near it, the commander went on, I'd have to put a whaleboat at your disposal?

Certainly, sir.

That would be gambling with the lives of my men.

And with my own! the harpooner replied simply.

Near two o'clock in the morning, the core of light reappeared, no less intense, five miles to windward of the Abraham Lincoln.

Despite the distance, despite the noise of wind and sea, we could distinctly hear the fearsome thrashings of the animal's tail, and even its panting breath.

Seemingly, the moment this enormous narwhale came up to breathe at the surface of the ocean,

air was sucked into its lungs like steam into the huge cylinders of a 2,000-horsepower engine.

Hmm! I said to myself. A cetacean as powerful as a whole cavalry regiment-now that's a whale of a whale!

中文译文：

不过你去挨近它的时候，舰长说，我得给一只捕鲸艇供您使用吧?

当然要有一只，先生。

坐小船岂不是拿我的人员的生命去冒险？

我的命不算命吗?这位鱼叉手干脆地回答道。

到早晨两点左右，这发光的焦点，在跟林肯号前面相距五海里远的海面，又发出同样强烈的光。

虽然距离大，虽然有风声和浪声，我们还是清楚地听到这动物尾巴的搅水声。

并且听到它的喘息声。这只巨大的独角鲸到洋面上来呼吸的时候，

空气吸入它肺中，就像水蒸气送到两千马力机器的大圆筒里面去那样。

晤！我想，这强大得像一队骑兵的鲸鱼，一定是一条了不得的鲸鱼!