"A capful d'you call it?" [qh]

"你说那是一点微风？"[qh]

said I; "'twas a terrible storm." [qh]

我说，"那是一场可怕的风暴啊！"[qh]

"A storm, you fool you," replies he; "do you call that a storm? [qh]

"风暴？你这傻瓜，"他回答说，"你把那也叫风暴？[qh]

why, it was nothing at all; give us but a good ship and sea-room, and we think nothing of such a squall of wind as that; [qh]

那算得了什么！只要船稳固，海面宽阔，像这样的一点风我们根本不放在眼里。[qh]

but you're but a fresh-water sailor, Bob. [qh]

当然，你初次出海，也难怪你，鲍勃。[qh]

Come, let us make a bowl of punch, and we'll forget all that; d'ye see what charming weather 'tis now?" [qh]

来吧，我们弄碗甜酒喝喝，把那些事统统忘掉吧！你看，天气多好啊！"我不想详细叙述这段伤心事。[qh]

To make short this sad part of my story, we went the way of all sailors; the punch was made and I was made half drunk with it: [qh]

简单一句话，我们因循一般水手的生活方式，调制了甜酒，我被灌得酩酊大醉。[qh]

and in that one night's wickedness I drowned all my repentance, all my reflections upon my past conduct, all my resolutions for the future. [qh]

那天晚上，我尽情喝酒胡闹，把对自己过去行为的忏悔与反省，以及对未来下的决心，统统丢到九霄云外去了。[qh]

In a word, as the sea was returned to its smoothness of surface and settled calmness by the abatement of that storm, [qh]

简而言之，风暴一过，大海又平静如镜，[qh]

so the hurry of my thoughts being over, my fears and apprehensions of being swallowed up by the sea being forgotten, [qh]

我头脑里纷乱的思绪也随之一扫而光，怕被大海吞没的恐惧也消失殆尽，[qh]

and the current of my former desires returned, I entirely forgot the vows and promises that I made in my distress. [qh]

我热衷航海的愿望又重新涌上心头。我把自己在危难中下的决心和发的誓言一概丢之脑后。[qh]

I found, indeed, some intervals of reflection; and the serious thoughts did, as it were, endeavour to return again sometimes; [qh]

有时，我也发现，那些忏悔和决心也不时地会回到脑海里来。[qh]

but I shook them off, and roused myself from them as it were from a distemper, and applying myself to drinking and company, [qh]

但我却竭力摆脱它们，并使自己振作起来，就好像自己要从某种坏情绪中振作起来似的。因此，我就和水手们一起照旧喝酒胡闹。[qh]

soon mastered the return of those fits - for so I called them; [qh]

不久，我就控制了自己的冲动，不让那些正经的念头死灰复燃。[qh]

and I had in five or six days got as complete a victory over conscience as any young fellow that resolved not to be troubled with it could desire. [qh]

不到五六天，我就像那些想摆脱良心谴责的年轻人那样，完全战胜了良心。[qh]

But I was to have another trial for it still; and Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave me entirely without excuse; [qh]

为此，我必定会遭受新的灾难。上帝见我不思悔改，就决定毫不宽恕地惩罚我，并且，这完全是我自作自受，无可推诿。[qh]

for if I would not take this for a deliverance, [qh]

既然我自己没有把平安渡过第一次灾难看作是上帝对我的拯救，[qh]

the next was to be such a one as the worst and most hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger and the mercy of. [qh]

下一次大祸临头就会变本加厉；那时，就连船上那些最凶残阴险、最胆大包天的水手，也都要害怕，都要求饶。[qh]