The thing is a sort of Cyclops. There are ropes, and chains, and a windlass.

这个东西有点类似希腊话中的独眼巨人，有绳子，锁链和绞盘。

The windlass creaked slowly as the rope wound up, each creak bringing the bucket nearer the top.

辘轳吱吱嘎嘎地缓缓地响着，井绳被圈圈绞起来，随着这响声，吊桶逐渐升到了井口。

By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

皇天在上，朋友，我们在这世界上兜来转去，就象那只绞，就是那根木梃。

Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.

要是从小就熟悉了的井台上的辘轳声也会把她吓倒，那么她的经就定是崩溃了。

A coil of new tow-line was then unwound, and some fathoms of it taken to the windlass, and stretched to a great tension.

接着，抖开捆新缆索，撒了十几英尺，结在绞上，拉扯得紧绷绷的。

Opposite the mouth of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden hearth, was the windlass.

在炼油间对门的地方，在大木灶架的另头，就是那只绞。

And so saying, he moved along the windlass, here and there using his leg very freely, while imperturbable Bildad kept leading off with his psalmody.

他边这说着, 边沿着绞走去, 畅所欲为地到处使着他的脚, 那个沉着自若的比勒达则不住地在领头唱着他的赞美诗。

And I hear the darkies coming home across the fields at dusk, tired and singing and ready for supper, and the sound of the windlass as the bucket goes down into the cool well.

我听见黑人薄暮时期倦地路歌唱着从田里回来，准备吃晚餐，还听见吊桶下井打水时辘辘轳吱吱嘎嘎的响声。

" Slip it, " was my answer. " And when I do, you must do your first work on the windlass. I shall have to run at once to the wheel, and at the same time you must be hoisting the jib" .

" 滑出去。" 我回答。 " 我滑时你得第次使用绞盘。 我得立即跑到舵轮去，你同时升起斜桅帆。"