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But upon flinging the third, in the act of tossing overboard the clumsy wooden block, it caught under one of the seats of the boat, and in an instant tore it out and carried it away, dropping the oarsman in the boat's bottom as the seat slid from under him. On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but we stuffed two or three drawers and shirts in, and so stopped the leaks for the time.
可是，把第三只甩出去的时候，在刚要把这块笨重木块抛到海里去时，却被小艇的一个座位扳住了，刹那间，那座位就给卷了出去、拖走了，那座位从那个桨手的屁股下面一滑，桨手给摔在艇肚里。船板给撞坏了，水打两边涌了进来，不过，我们塞了两三件衬衫衬裤后，漏洞就暂时给堵住了。
It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning. So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake. Here the storms in the roaring glens between the outermost whales, were heard but not felt. In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods. Yes, we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion.
本来几乎是无法把带有"得拉格"的标枪掷出去的，亏得我们已经深入了鲸群，四周的鲸逐渐减少了，而且因为我们越来越远离那乱哄哄的外围，那种可怕的乱糟糟声似乎也在逐渐减弱了。所以，等到最后那支摇晃晃的标枪一甩出去，那条拖着绳子的鲸就打斜里消失了；接着，我们随着它那逐渐失势的细小的力量，悄悄地插进两条鲸中间，直冲到鲸群的最中心去，我们好象从什么山洪爆发的急流里，驶进了一个水波不兴的湖谷。虽然外围的鲸群依然象汹涌的峡谷似的激荡着，可是在这里，却只听得着而感受不到了。在这么一片汪洋的中心，海面显得象缎子一般光亮滑溜（人们管它叫"滑板"），这种气氛是由于心绪较为宁静的鲸群喷出的稀薄水份造成的。不错，我们现在就置身在这种宁静得叫人失魂落魄的境地里，据说，这就是表面平静，底里却骚乱不息的情况。
