MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 122+123 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 122 Midnight Thunder and Lightning The Main-top-sail yard - Tashtego passing new lashings around it. Um um um. Stop that thunder Plenty too much thunder up here. What s the use of thunder Um um um. We don t want thunder we want rum give us a glass of rum. Um um um CHAPTER 123 The Musket During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon the man at the Pequod s jaw bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions even though preventer tackles had been attached to it- for they were slack- because some play to the tiller was indispensable. In a severe gale like this while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses at intervals go round and round. It was thus with the Pequod s at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards it is a sight that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted emotion. Some hours after midnight the Typhoon abated so much that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb- one engaged forward and the other aft- the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars and went eddying away to leeward like the feathers of an albatross which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing. The three corresponding new sails were now bent and reefed and a stormtrysail was set further aft so that the ship soon went through the water with some precision again and the course- for the present East-south-east- which he was to steer if practicable was once more given to the helmsman. For during the violence of the gale he had only steered according to its vicissitudes. But as he was now bringing the ship as near her course as possible watching the compass meanwhile lo a good sign the wind seemed coming round astern aye the foul breeze became fair Instantly .
