通译双语文库:白鲸5．早餐

I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.

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However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more’s the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

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The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at. They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

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You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore. This young fellow’s healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage. That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him. In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore. But who could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes’ western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.

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“Grub, ho!” now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

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They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor. But perhaps the mere crossing of Siberia in a sledge drawn by dogs as Ledyard did, or the taking a long solitary walk on an empty stomach, in the negro heart of Africa, which was the sum of poor Mungo’s performances—this kind of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.

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These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence. And not only that, but they looked embarrassed. Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas—entire strangers to them—and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalemen!

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But as for Queequeg—why, Queequeg sat there among them—at the head of the table, too, it so chanced; as cool as an icicle. To be sure I cannot say much for his breeding. His greatest admirer could not have cordially justified his bringing his harpoon into breakfast with him, and using it there without ceremony; reaching over the table with it, to the imminent jeopardy of many heads, and grappling the beefsteaks towards him. But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.

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We will not speak of all Queequeg’s peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare. Enough, that when breakfast was over he withdrew like the rest into the public room, lighted his tomahawk-pipe, and was sitting there quietly digesting and smoking with his inseparable hat on, when I sallied out for a stroll.

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5．早餐|CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.

起床穿衣，洗漱完毕，我走下楼去。心情甚至有些愉快地向科芬道了早安。尽管这家伙昨天跟我开了个不大不小的玩笑。

酒吧里已经聚了很多人了，住店的客人都来了。昨天没来得及细看，今天一注意才知道，这些人绝大多数都是捕鲸者：大副、二副、三副；铁匠、木匠、铜匠；还有标枪手、守船人，不一而足。

他们的肤色一律棕黑，衣着随便，蓄胡子的人占了很大的比例。

你可以通过他们的外表来判断他们在岸上已经呆了多长时间了。

瞧，这个小伙子，两颊赤红，像烤过的梨，他从印度洋回来不超过三天。

他旁边那一位，颜色没他那么重，身上似乎有点锻木的味道，他上岸有一个星期了。

有的人脸上只剩下一丝隐隐约约的热带的黄色了，他们在岸上肯定已经呆了好几个星期了。

不过，谁也不能从魁魁格的面色来判断他上岸的时间。

“吃饭喽！”科芬吆喝着。

在桌边落坐以后，我就竖起了耳朵，想听听捕鲸的故事，可大家却一律地沉默。大家的仪态举止似乎还有些忸怩。

这实在让人费解。

噢，这是一群怕羞的狗熊、一群羞赧而又勇敢的捕鲸人。

魁魁格在这群人中似乎并不太显眼。他冷若冰霜地坐在那里，不苟言笑。

他的出众之处在于拿着标枪吃饭，而且用标枪吃饭。他不喜欢热咖啡、热面包卷之类的东西，只喜欢那半生不熟的牛排。

他的标枪直奔牛排而去，稳准狠地戳起一块来，回送到嘴边。每一次出击和回兵都有刺破别人脑袋的危险。好在他举止还算稳当，这在他们这一群人中已经算是有礼仪、有教养了。

魁魁格吃饱以后，马上就走了出去。我出去散步时，看见他正叼着他的斧头烟斗，吸烟化食呢。那顶奇特的高帽子还戴在头上。

I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly. I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.

“Grub, ho!” now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.