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Chapter 81 The Pequod Meets The Virgin
第八十一章"裴廓德号"遇到"处女号"
The predestinated day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen.
命定的日子到来了，我们及时遇到了"处女号"（处女——原文为德文Jungfrau。），它的船长德立克·德·第尔，是个不来梅（不来梅——德国一个城市，在汉堡南面。）人。
At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans are now among the least; but here and there at very wide intervals of latitude and longitude, you still occasionally meet with their flag in the Pacific.
曾经是世界上最伟大的捕鲸民族的荷兰人和德国人，如今已是默默无闻了，不过，每隔很长一段时间，还能偶尔在太平洋上看到他们的国旗。
For some reason, the Jungfrau seemed quite eager to pay her respects. While yet some distance from the Pequod, she rounded to, and dropping a boat, her captain was impelled towards us, impatiently standing in the bows instead of the stern.
不知什么缘故，这艘"处女号"显得很急于要跟"裴廓德号"请个安。它跟"裴廓德号"还隔着一段路的时候，船头就当风停下来，放下一只小艇，它的船长迫不及待地望着我们，他焦灼地站在船头，而不是站在船梢上。
What has he in his hand there? cried Starbuck, pointing to something wavingly held by the German. "Impossible!—a lamp-feeder!"
嗳，他手里拿着什么呀？斯达巴克指着那个德国人拿在手里的、甩来甩去的东西，嚷道。"一只灯油壶！——不会吧！"
Not that, said Stubb, "no, no, it's a coffee-pot, Mr. Starbuck; he's coming off to make us our coffee, is the Yarman; don't you see that big tin can there alongside of him?—that's his boiling water. Oh! he's all right, is the Yarman."
绝对不是，斯塔布说，"不是，不是，那是一只咖啡壶，斯达巴克先生；他是要来给我们煮咖啡的，这是个强门人（强门人——原文为Yarman，有似我国南方人称德国人为强门人。）；你没有看到他旁边还有一只大铁罐么？——那就是滚水。啊！不错，他是个强门人。"
Go along with you, cried Flask, "it's a lamp-feeder and an oil-can. He's out of oil, and has come a-begging."
去你的吧，弗拉斯克叫道，"那是一只灯油壶跟一只油罐子。他没有油啦，要来跟我们讨些油了。"
However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens;
尽管这件事看来是多么希奇：一只鲸油船竟会在捕鲸渔场上向人家借油，尽管那句送煤送到纽卡斯尔（纽卡斯尔——南非塔耳纳省的一个城市，以产煤著名）的老俗谚是多么的自相矛盾，然而，这种事情，往往倒是真的会发生的；
