tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 26

MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 26 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck a native of Nantucket and a Quaker by descent. He was a long earnest man and though born on an icy coast seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale. He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous. Only some thirty and summers had he seen those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. But this his thinness so to speak seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight. It was merely the condensation of the man. He was by no means ill-looking quite the contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit and closely wrapped up in it and embalmed with inner health and strength like a revivified Egyptian this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come and to endure always as now for be it Polar snow or torrid sun like a patent chronometer his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates. Looking into his eves you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid steadfast man whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action and not a tame chapter of sounds. Yet for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude there were certain qualities in him which at times affected and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman and endued with a deep natural reverence the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline him to superstition but to that sort of superstition which in some organization seems rather to spring somehow from intelligence than from ignorance. Outward portents and inward presentiments were his. And if at times these things .