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A gentle joyousness — a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale. Not the white bull Jupiter swimming away with ravished Europa clinging to his graceful horns; his lovely, leering eyes sideways intent upon the maid; with smooth bewitching fleetness, rippling straight for the nuptial bower in Crete; not Jove, not that great majesty Supreme! did surpass the glorified White Whale as he so divinely swam.
这条悄悄向前游去的鲸，有一种从容不迫的——迅疾而又非常和缓安静的情趣。这条令人叹为观止的白鲸这样神妙的游态，决不是那雪白的大公牛的朱必特跟心神恍惚的欧罗巴紧扳着他那优美的两只角，双双游去时所能望其项背，尽管他那柔情、谄媚的眼睛斜瞪着那个美女；以爽朗迷人的神速，潺潺地直向克里特岛的新房游去，不，决不是育芙，决不是那个伟大尊严的神所能望其项背。
On each soft side — coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him then flowed so wide away — on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings. No wonder there had been some among the hunters who namelessly transported and allured by all this serenity, had ventured to assail it; but had fatally found that quietude but the vesture of tornadoes. Yet calm, enticing calm, oh, whale! thou glidest on, to all who for the first time eye thee, no matter how many in that same way thou mayst have bejuggled and destroyed before.
这条鲸的柔软的胁腹，在它一游过去，波涛就汹涌地分开的同时，胁腹顿时变得光辉灿烂，看了真是动人心目。难怪在猎人中，有些人会给这种静穆和祥的气态弄得莫名其妙地心醉神迷，胆敢听天由命地去攻击它；到头来却发现这种静穆原来就是风暴的外衣。大鲸啊，你这样悄悄游去，不管你以前已经用这种方法骗过了、毁掉了多少人，但在初次看到你的人的眼里，却还是平静的，平静得动人心魄。
And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw.
莫比－迪克就这样穿过那静谧的热带海洋，在那象是兴高采烈、不断鼓掌似的浪涛间继续前进，人们依然看不到它那沉在水里的充满恐怖的体躯，完全看不到它那扯伤得怕人的嘴巴。
