Crushed thirty feet upwards, the waters flashed for an instant like heaps of fountains, then brokenly sank in a shower of flakes, leaving the circling surface creamed like new milk round the marble trunk of the whale.

被压碎的海水溅起三十英尺之高，像许多喷泉闪烁了片刻，又一阵雪花般散落下来，在水面上留下奶油色的圆圈，像新鲜的牛奶围绕在大鲸那大理石一般的身躯。