Meanwhile the ballast tanks filled with water and the Nautilus sank slowly.

这时，池装满了，诺第留下降。

Next the ballast tanks filled with water, the boat sank, and was fitted into its socket.

然后，让它池装满了，它降下，装在坑里。

Hissing sounds soon told me that water was being admitted into the ballast tanks.

不久发出哨声，我知道海吸入池中。

But can't we float the Nautilus clear by emptying its ballast tanks, to regain our balance?

“我们把池排出去，使船重新得到平衡，诺第留不就能脱身吗？”

Our full electric power was then put on the pumps, which instantly began to expel water from the ballast tanks.

于是把所有电力都送到抽机上，抽机立即把池中排出。

By then it was rising to the surface, but cautiously, while slowly emptying its ballast tanks.

这时，它是很小心，排出池中，往而上升。

The main ballast tanks were filled with the water that hadn't yet congealed at our line of flotation.

通常使用池装满了浮标线周围自由海。

These ballast tanks exist within easy access in the lower reaches of the Nautilus.

教授，事情原来就是这：样。这些池实际是存在，它们在诺第留下层。

It was apparently considered out of the question to dive by filling the ballast tanks.

人们很可以想到，现在不是用装满池方法来潜下降了。

But this is not an ordinary tank, this is what we call an anechoic tank.

但这并非普通池，而是我们所说消声池。

Now then, I have supplementary ballast tanks capable of shipping 100 metric tons of water.

本来我有不少补充池，能容百吨量。

I followed Captain Nemo. The hatch closed, the ballast tanks filled with water, and the submersible sank some ten meters down.

我跟着尼摩船长下来。嵌板关闭了，池装满了，船潜入底十来米深左右。

Certainly, he replied, since the ballast tanks aren't yet empty, and when they are, the Nautilus must rise to the surface of the sea.

“当然能往上浮，”他回答，“因为池还没有排，排后，诺第留自然浮上海面来。”

To prevent the rivers from overflowing, there are pipes and tunnels under the city leading to an enormous water storage tank.

为了防止河流泛滥，城市地下有管道和隧道通向一个巨大池。

Just then a fairly loud hissing told me that the ballast tanks were filling, and the Nautilus sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic.

这时候，发出相当响啸声，我晓得船上池盛满了，诺第留潜入大茵洋底下去了。

To try and stop this, the city of Paris built a gigantic tank which aims to store the excess fluid so it can't flow into the waterway.

为了阻止这种情况，巴黎市建造了一个巨大池，旨在存多余污，防止其流入道。

Besides, I use my supplementary ballast tanks only to reach an average depth of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, and that with a view to conserving my machinery.

另外，只是要到一千五百和二千米中等深度时，我才使用那些补充池，这是为了爱护我机器，小心使用它。

I could hardly wait until our position was reported on the chart. Near 11: 30 the ballast tanks emptied, and the submersible rose to the surface of the ocean.

我等待着把船方位记在地图上，心中有些着急。十一点左右，池空了，船浮上洋面。