But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.

但, 些都人, 他们平日都给幽闭在木架泥糊的小屋里...拴在柜台上, 钉在板凳上, 伏在写字台上。

Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.

几乎任何人都会注意到, 人所熟见的鱼都没有平尾, 只有一根垂直的, 或者向上向下的尾巴。

Think you not then that brains, like yoked cattle, should be put to this leviathan, to make him at all budge to any landsman's imagination?

那么，难道你不认为，在任何人的想，只大海兽定然长着一只上了轭的牲口那样的脑袋，使它动弹不得么？

Though this fish, whose loud sonorous breathing, or rather blowing, has furnished a proverb to landsmen, is so well known a denizen of the deep, yet is he not popularly classed among whales.

种鲸, 它的高大宏亮的呼吸声, 或者不如说吹气声, 往往授上人以一种话柄, 它海上的有名公民, 然而, 一般仍不把它算做鲸。