And even when recognized at last, their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life that lives in a dog or a horse.
即便在日后明白是怎么回事了，它們的身軀仍舊龐大得令人不敢相信：如此笨重的東西能在所有方面都像狗或像馬似的生機勃勃嗎？
Indeed. In other respects, you can hardly regard any creature of the deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore. For though some old naturalists have maintained that all creatures of the land are of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad general view of the thing, this may very well be.
對，你在別的方面要是像看待海生動物是不行的。雖然，一些老博物學(xué)家認為海洋和陸地的生活物種一樣，而且廣義來說這也很正確。
Yet coming to specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish that in disposition answers to the sagacious kindness of the dog? The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear comparative analogy to him.
但是從某一種特性來說，比如，海洋中沒有一種動物能和狗一樣具有靈敏的嗅覺。一般來說，只有可怕的鯊才稱得上和狗具有相近的特性。
But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one.
雖然，普通大陸對海生生物的態(tài)度始終有一種不可言說的敵視和厭惡；我們知道海洋始終是個不可知的領(lǐng)域，因而哥倫布才為了找到他證據(jù)不足的西方世界而航行了許多不可知的世界。
Though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment’s consideration will teach that, however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment;
自古人世間最大的災(zāi)難不管從哪方面來講都勢必在生活于海洋上的人身上發(fā)生；只要思考一下就曉得，不管天真的人類怎樣炫耀科技成果，不管科技在充滿希望的將來有多么大的發(fā)展。
Yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
但是，一直到世界末日雷聲響起來的時候，大海永遠在欺侮和殺戮人類，把人類制造出來的最為雄偉牢固的快速帆船吞噬。盡管這樣的后果接連不斷地出現(xiàn)，而人類原本應(yīng)該對大海所懷有的敬畏之情已經(jīng)消失了。
The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow. That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah’s flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
我們曾經(jīng)閱讀過第一只在海上泛舟的小船，滿載葡萄牙人的復(fù)仇心理航行了全世界而沒有留下一個寡婦。眼前的這個浪濤滾滾的大海正是去年把無數(shù)船只毀掉的那一個。是啊，挪亞的洪水還沒退去，愚昧的人類，洪水在這個世界上仍然覆蓋有三分之二的面積。
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