The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name. The gaff is something like a boat-hook. With his gaff, the gaffman hooks on to a sheet of blubber, and strives to hold it from slipping, as the ship pitches and lurches about. Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces. This spade is sharp as hone can make it; the spademan's feet are shoeless; the thing he stands on will sometimes irresistibly slide away from him, like a sledge. If he cuts off one of his own toes, or one of his assistants', would you be very much astonished? Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
捕鲸枪有点象是古代巡洋舰用以劫船的武器。钩子呢，有点象小艇上用的钩子。那个钩手拿着钩子，一钩就钩着一片鲸脂，于是用劲抓住它，免得它滑掉，因为这时船只正在东倾西歪地摇来晃去。那个站在那片鲸油上的铲手，就把它垂直地砍成一片片。这只铲子磨得再锐利也没有了；铲手都赤了脚；他站在那上面的那片东西，有时会控制不住而滑开去，象只雪橇。如果他把自己的。或者是他的助手的一只脚趾头砍下来，你总会觉得非常惊奇吧？可是，在鲸脂间里操作的老手们，脚趾头本来就不很多。
Chapter 95 The Cassock
第九十五章 法衣
Had you stepped on board the Pequod at a certain juncture of this post-mortemizing of the whale; and had you strolled forward nigh the windlass, pretty sure am I that you would have scanned with no small curiosity a very strange, enigmatical object, which you would have seen there, lying along lengthwise in the lee scuppers. Not the wondrous cistern in the whale's huge head; not the prodigy of his unhinged lower jaw; not the miracle of his symmetrical tail; none of these would so surprise you, as half a glimpse of that unaccountable cone,—longer than a Kentuckian is tall, nigh a foot in diameter at the base, and jet-black as Yojo, the ebony idol of Queequeg.
如果你在解剖鲸尸的某一时分跨上"裴廓德号"；再如果你信步走近绞车的话，那么，我肯定，你一定会惊讶不置地看到一件非常奇特而难解的东西，看到那些直放在后甲板的排水管里的东西。不管是看到鲸的大头上那个奇妙的水槽，还是看到它那只非常奇异的卸了铰链的下巴，更或者是看到它的奇迹也似的均匀的尾巴，其使人惊惶的程度，总不及你隐约瞥到那个莫名其妙的圆锥物，它远比高大的肯塔基人还长，底端的直径约近一英尺，黑得象魁魁格那个黑檀木的偶像约约一样。
