MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 131+132 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 131 The Pequod Meets The Delight The intense Pequod sailed on the rolling waves and days went by the lifebuoy-coffin still lightly swung and another ship most miserably misnamed the Delight was descried. As she drew nigh all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams called shears which in some whaling-ships cross the quarter-deck at the height of eight or nine feet serving to carry the spare unrigged or disabled boats. Upon the stranger s shears were beheld the shattered white ribs and some few splintered planks of what had once been a whale-boat but you now saw through this wreck as plainly as you see through the peeled half-unhinged and bleaching skeleton of a horse. Hast seen the White Whale Look replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail and with his trumpet he pointed to the wreck. Hast killed him The harpoon is not yet forged that ever will do that answered the other sadly glancing upon a rounded hammock on the deck whose gathered sides some noiseless sailors were busy in sewing together. Not forged and snatching Perth s levelled iron from the crotch Ahab held it out exclaiming- Look ye Nantucketer here in this hand I hold his death Tempered in blood and tempered by lightning are these barbs and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin where the White Whale most feels his accursed life Then God keep thee old man- see st thou that - pointing to the hammock- I bury but one of five stout men who were alive only yesterday but were dead ere night. Only that one I bury the rest were buried before they died you sail upon their tomb. Then turning to his crew- Are ye ready there place the plank then on the rail and lift the body so then- Oh God - advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands- may the resurrection and the life- Brace forward Up helm cried Ahab like lightning to his men. But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it .
