He's heading to Nantucket to see if he can find work on a whaling ship.

他正前往楠塔基特岛，想寻找在鲸船上工作的机会。

It was a story of Whalers on a whaling ship.

这是一个关于鲸船上的鲸人的故事。

Japan's government has promised all whalers will stay within 320 kilometers from its coast.

日本政府承诺所有鲸船将停留在距离岸320公里以内。

A fearful accident occurred to the boat's crew of another whaler when attacking a rorqual.

另一艘鲸船的船员，在鲸时碰了一件可怕的事情。

We have stopped one chaser boat already and saved one plot of whales.

我们已经阻止了一艘鲸船，拯救了一片鲸鱼。

Half of all ships will eventually be lost at sea.

一半的鲸船最后会在大里失踪。

A Bedford whaler came back last week who was gone three.

贝特福特的鲸船出去3年 上周才回来。

He ordered his whale boat put into the water, and had his men bring up some supplies and put them in the boat. Then they set out toward the mystery ship.

他下令把鲸船放进水里，并让他的人把一些供给品放鲸船上。然后，他们驶向那艘神秘的船只。

While other hulls are loaded down with alien stuff, to be transferred to foreign wharves; the world-wandering whale-ship carries no cargo but herself and crew, their weapons and their wants.

当其他船只装满了货物，准备运的码头上时，这艘漫游世界的鲸船，除了自己和它的水手，以及水手们的武器和必需品，没有搭载任何货物。

Off the Falkland Islands on June 30, the frigate came in contact with a fleet of American whalers, and we learned that they hadn't seen the narwhale.

6月30日，在马露因面上，林肯号向美的鲸船打听那条独角鲸的消息，这些鲸船都说役碰见。

What fragmentary scientific knowledge was available came from measurements taken by explorers, naval ships, the occasional research expeditions or whaling vessels.

那些残缺不全的科学知识来自于探险者、军船只、临时的研究探险或鲸船只所进行的测量。

I think the end of the story of the whaleship Essex offers an illuminating, if tragic, example.

我认为鲸船Essex号的故事结局提供了一个富有启发性的例子，尽管是个悲剧结局。

They become friends and together they find work on a whaling ship called the Pequod.

他们成为了朋友，并在一艘名为裴廓德号的鲸船上找了工作。

The whaling ships sailed Monday from the port of Kushiro, on the northern island of Hokkaido.

鲸船只周一从北道北部的钏路港（Kushiro）出发。

He told his men to go and bring back as much water as they could, also bread, pumpkins, sugar and a dozen of his private bottles of cider. The whale boat pushed off.

他告诉他的人回船上去，带尽可能多的水、面包、南瓜、糖，以及一打他的私人苹果酒。鲸船离开了。

Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.

于是，如果没有某种成文或不成文的、通用的、无可争辩的、适用于所有情况的规则，两只鲸船之间往往就会爆发伤脑筋的激烈争执。

One day we were chased by the longboats of a whaling vessel, which undoubtedly viewed us as some enormous baleen whale of great value.

一天，我们被一只鲸船的小艇追逐，他们一定认为我们的船是价值很大的巨大鲸鱼。

If I've done my job as a storyteller today, you should be wondering what happened to the men of the whaleship Essex.

如果我今天像说书人一样留个悬念就不说了，你们也许会很想知道Essex号鲸船上的人们底怎么了。

In the first days of resumed whaling, whalers caught two minke whales, which were taken to the northern port of Kushiro.

在恢复鲸的头几天里，鲸船获了两头小须鲸，并将它们带往钏路北部港口。

24 hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship.

此时离鲸船倾覆已经过去了24小时。