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Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
来吧；让我们把手捏个转遍吧；不，让我们彼此都捏在一起吧；让我们把我们自己一起融化在这种乳油交融的友情里吧。
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever! For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fire-side; the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
要是我能够这样把抹香鲸油一直捏下去，可多好呵！我因为有许多长时期的反复的经验，现在体会到，不管怎样，到头来，人类对于他那种自以为可以获得的幸福，是必须加以降低或者至少得加以修正了，幸福并不是随便靠智力或者幻想就能获得的，而是存在于妻子，心坎，床上，桌上，马背上，火炉边和田舍间的；既然我已经体会到了这一切，我就准备永远地捏下去。我沉浸在夜空似的幻觉里，我看到了天堂里一长列一长列的天使，各人手里都拿着一罐抹香鲸脑。
Now, while discoursing of sperm it behooves to speak of other things akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the try-works.
说到抹香鲸脑，似乎应该把那些跟它有关的事情也说一说，说一说把抹香鲸送到炼油间去的准备工作。
First comes white-horse, so called, which is obtained from the tapering part of the fish, and also from the thicker portions of his flukes. It is tough with congealed tendons—a wad of muscle—but still contains some oil. After being severed from the whale, the white-horse is first cut into portable oblongs ere going to the mincer. They look much like blocks of Berkshire marble.
第一就是那种所谓"白马"的东西，白马就是来自大鲸的尖梢和裂尾的粗大的部分的东西。它因为有许多凝结的筋筋——一叠肌肉——而显得很硬，不过，那里边还有些油。把白马从鲸身上割下来后，先把它切成长方形的块块，然后送到剁碎器去。它那样子很象柏克郡（柏克郡——英国南部的一个郡。）的一块块的大理石。
