Ahab standing1 by the helm. Starbuck approaching him.
We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?"
"Strike nothing; lash2 it. If I had sky-sail poles, I'd sway them up now."
"Sir!--in God's name!--sir?"
"Well."
"The anchors are working, sir. Shall I get them inboard?"
"Strike nothing, and stir nothing but lash everything. The wind rises, but it has not got up to my table-lands yet. Quick, and see to it.-- By masts and keels! he takes me for the hunchbacked skipper of some coasting smack3. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e'en take it for sublime4, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady5. Oh, take medicine, take medicine!"
1 standing | |
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的 | |
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2 lash | |
v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛 | |
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vt.拍,打,掴;咂嘴;vi.含有…意味;n.拍 | |
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adj.崇高的,伟大的;极度的,不顾后果的 | |
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n.病,疾病(通常做比喻) | |
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