Upon this every soul was confounded; for the phenomenon just then observed by Ahab had unaccountably escaped every one else; but its very blinding palpableness must have been the cause.

听到这话，大家都慌了，因为亚哈刚才观察到的这个现象，居然谁都没有注意到，不过，原因一定是这种显而易见反倒让人视而不见了。