MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 120 +121 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 120 The Deck Toward the End of the First Night Watch Ahab standing 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 lash 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-hands yet. Quick and see to By masts and keels he takes me for the hunchbacked skipper of some coasting smack. 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 sublime did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady. Oh take medicine take medicine CHAPTER 121 Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks Stubb and Flask mounted on them and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging. No Stubb you may pound that knot there as much as you please but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying. And how long ago is it since you said the very contrary Didn t you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward Stop now didn t you say so Well suppose I did What then I ve part changed my flesh since that time why not my mind Besides supposing we are loaded with powder barrels aft and lucifers forward how the devil could the lucifers get afire in this drenching spray here Why my little man you have pretty red hair but you couldn t get afire now. Shake yourself you re Aquarius or the water-bearer Flask might fill pitchers at your coat collar. Don t you see then .