And before long, we heard that call that all whalemen pray for.

过不久 我们听到所有捕鲸人 祈求的呼唤。

I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated very far beneath the skin of the adult whale; nevertheless, I have been blessed with an opportunity to dissect him in miniature.

我承认，自约拿之后，很少有捕鲸者钻到过成年鲸鱼皮肤下很深很深的地方；然而，我曾经有幸获得一次解剖小鲸的机会。

A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe.

捕鲸者的滚子是从鲸鱼尾巴变细的部分切下来的一条短而结实的腱质物；平均有一英寸厚，大小和锄头的锄板相仿。