As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.

就像是永远不落的北极星，经过长达六个月的北极之夜，依然保持着它锐利、稳定、集中的光芒。亚哈的意志也是如此，死死地照在永远如午夜般阴郁的水手们身上。