Melville incorporated in "moby dick" an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore . 梅尔维尔在《白鲸》中汇集了各种捕鲸知识。
He sat on a float that the whale could have smashed with a flip of her tail . 他坐在一个浮筒上，如果鲸鱼把尾巴一甩就能把浮筒碰个粉碎。
The americans appeared, rough, rugged, good-looking veterans of the whaling grounds . 那些美国人来了，都是剽悍结实，相貌堂堂的捕鲸老手。
The beak of a shovellerduck is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale . 琵嘴鸭的嘴的构造，较鲸鱼的嘴更为巧妙复杂。
Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself . 在这些动机中，首先是那条大鲸，叫人一想起就没法按捺得下自己。
Why don't you admit you had a whale of good time junketting all over europe, without tommy to tie you ? “你为何不承认没有托米连累你，你就可以大玩特玩，漫游整个欧洲？”
He threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling . 在他写完第六部著作初稿的时候，他特别钻研了有关捕鲸的事，和它结了不解之缘。
Moreover, he threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling . 此外，在他写完第六部著作初稿的时候，他特别钻研了有关捕鲸的事，和它结下了不解之缘。
To return to franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured english readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of niagara . 再回过来说好训人，喜谐谑的富兰克林，可不动声色地使欧洲人相信鲸鱼象鲑鱼那样跳过尼亚加拉瀑布，真可谓蔚为大观。
Which is bigger , a blue whale or a dinosaur 哪一个更大，一只蓝鲸还是一只恐龙。
