...随着风的how叫,大海跳了出来,船gro吟着,跳水了,但坚定地将她的红色地狱射到了越来越多的地狱,进一步射入了海的黑色和夜晚,轻蔑地在她的嘴里倡导了白骨,并在她的嘴上恶毒地吐了四周;然后,匆忙的pequod充满了野蛮人,充满着火,燃烧尸体,陷入黑暗的黑暗中,似乎是她的单狂司令的灵魂的物质。
(...as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastedly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.)
这段经文生动地描绘了捕鲸船pequod的动荡之旅,当时它与周围的自然力量作斗争。这艘船被人格化为一种凶猛的生物,与狂风和坠毁的海浪作斗争,将其深入到黑暗,神秘的海洋中。这些图像不仅强调了船只的身体斗争,还暗示了其指挥官亚哈(Ahab)上尉的黑暗,痴迷的本质,他对奇异目标的无情追求反映了船的混乱运动。
该描述反映了亚哈的内部折磨和狂热的痴迷,因为这艘船似乎体现了他疯狂的精神。火,黑暗和死亡的装满的图像表明了一个疯狂的下降,代表了亚哈对大鲸鱼的报仇,马米·迪克(Moby Dick)的报仇。通过这种有力的描述,梅尔维尔强调了船只的危险旅程与亚哈动荡的心理之间的联系,在人,自然和痴迷之间产生了深刻的相互作用。