英文原版 Moby Dick 白鯨記

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of techniques so advanced for its time that some have referred to the 1851 Moby Dick as the first “modern” novel.

捕鯨船“裴廊德”號船長亞哈，在一次捕鯨過程中，被兇殘聰明的白鯨莫比·迪克咬掉了一條腿，因此他滿懷復(fù)仇之念，一心想追捕這條白鯨，竟至失去理性，變成一個獨斷獨行的偏執(zhí)癥狂。他的船幾乎兜遍了全世界經(jīng)歷輾轉(zhuǎn)，終于與莫比·迪克遭遇。經(jīng)過三天追蹤，他用魚叉擊中白鯨，但船被白鯨撞破，亞哈被魚叉上的繩子纏住，掉入海中。全船人落海，只有水手以實瑪利（《圣經(jīng)》中人名，意為被遺棄的人）一人得救。