But good bye, good bye, old mast-head!

“可是再见吧，再见吧，老！

" Man the mast-heads! Call all hands! "

“上！把人都叫起来！”

" And did none of ye see it before? " cried Ahab, hailing the perched men all around him.

“你们没人在我之前发现它吧？”亚哈向他周围栖息在上的人叫道。

The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.

像是高高的棕榈树，攀满了一簇簇大张着的手脚。

Eleven o'clock was striking;Mr. Fogg was an hour in advance of time.

仰光号泊在离码头半海里的海湾里，大上已经升起了开船的信号旗。钟敲了十一点。福克先生早到了一小时。

" There she blows—she blows! —she blows! —right ahead! " was now the mast-head cry.

“它在那儿喷了——它在喷！——它在喷！——就在前面！”这时，上有人喊道。

Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks.

上的标枪手们的脑袋，像错位的冠一样，在他们公牛般的脖子上摇来晃去。

Immediately afterwards the light at the schooner's masthead was run down and extinguished.

紧接着，纵帆船上的灯熄灭了。

The rigging lived. The mast-heads, like the tops of tall palms, were outspreadingly tufted with arms and legs.

索具都很结实。有如高高的棕榈树冠，都满布着一簇簇的手脚。

But at last, some three points off the weather bow, Ahab descried the spout again, and instantly from the three mast-heads three shrieks went up as if the tongues of fire had voiced it.

不过，到了最后，在距离上风舷三个罗经点的地方，亚哈再次发现了喷，顿时，从三仿佛火舌般传来三声尖叫。

" Blast it! " —but slipping backward on the deck, his uplifted eyes caught the flames; and immediately shifting his tone he cried—" The corpusants have mercy on us all! "

“该死！”——他在甲板上往后一滑，抬头正好看见了上的火焰，立时换了一副声调叫道——“电光可怜可怜我们大家吧！”

" Your hat, your hat, sir! " suddenly cried the Sicilian seaman, who being posted at the mizen-mast-head, stood directly behind Ahab, though somewhat lower than his level, and with a deep gulf of air dividing them.

“你的帽子，你的帽子，先生！”那个西西里手突然叫了起来，他正在后上值班，正好站在亚哈后面，只是位置比亚哈低了一些，还隔着一道天空的深渊。

Ahab had now gained his final perch, some feet above the other look-outs, Tashtego standing just beneath him on the cap of the top-gallant-mast, so that the Indian's head was almost on a level with Ahab's heel.

亚哈现在已经到了最终的落脚处，比其他瞭望者高出几英尺。塔什特戈就站在他下面的上的冠上，这个印第安人的脑袋几乎和亚哈的脚后跟在一个平线上。

Almost renouncing all thought of falling in with any game hereabouts, the ship had well nigh entered the straits, when the customary cheering cry was heard from aloft, and ere long a spectacle of singular magnificence saluted us.

大家几乎都放弃了在这附近遇到猎物的念头。船已经快要进入海峡了，就在这时，上传来惯常的欢呼声，不久，一个异常宏伟的奇观就在迎接我们了。

But mark: aloft there, at the three mast heads, stand three men intent on spying out more whales, which, if caught, infallibly will again soil the old oaken furniture, and drop at least one small grease-spot somewhere.

在高处，在三上，站着三个人，专心致志地瞭望着，想发现更多的，一旦捕到，保准又会弄脏那古老的橡木家什，并至少在什么地方洒下一滴油脂。

" Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick! " cried Ahab, " thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand! —Down! down all of ye, but one man at the fore. The boats! —stand by! "

“唉，朝着太阳做你最后的一跃吧，莫比·迪克！”亚哈叫道，“你的大限和你的标枪都已近在眼前！——下来！你们都下来吧，只留一个人在前。小艇！——准备！”

I was down at my observatory among the elders, when a light was run up to the masthead of the schooner, and showed she was closer in than when I had last seen her by the dying daylight.

当一盏灯亮到纵帆船的时，我正站在我的天文台下面，这表明她比我最后一次在即将消逝的白昼看到她时更近了。