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.
这种鲸, 它的高的呼吸声, 或者不如说是吹气声, 往往授陆上人以一种话柄, 它是海上的有名公民, 然而, 一般仍不把它算做鲸。