Through " Moby Dick's" many pages, Melville invites his readers to leap into the unknown, to join him on the hunt for the " ungraspable phantom of life."

通过《白鲸记》的许多篇幅，梅尔维尔邀请他的读者跳入未知世界，与他一起寻找“生命中不可捉摸的幽灵”。

But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

但是那个影像，也正是我们自己在所有江河海洋里所看到的影像。那是生命的影像，一个要抓而抓不到的幻影；一切的解答都在这里。

If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.

如果分析他关于隐藏宝藏的概念，就会发现它们是由一把真正的角钱和一蒲式耳模糊的、华丽的、难以捉摸的美元组成的。