But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture's midst.

是, 这种种想象最终都在这张图画中间那种怖什么东西上碰壁。

Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself. Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.

在这些动机中，首先是那条大鲸，叫人一想就没法按捺得下自己。这样一个神秘怪物我所有猎奇心。

As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.

汤姆一拿话筒，就听见楼下突然传来音乐声，仿佛是压缩热气突然爆发出来一样。我们听出那是门德尔松《婚礼进行曲》，仿佛预示着什么。

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

魁魁格和塔斯蒂哥就有这么胃口, 他们把先前吃剩东西全都填个干净不算, 往往还弄得那个面色灰白汤团不得不搬上一块未经砍斩咸牛肉来, 那坎牛肉就象是刚从一只活公牛身上斩下来似。