tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 27

MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 27 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 27 Knights and Squires Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod and hence according to local usage was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky neither craven nor valiant taking perils as they came with an indifferent air and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase toiling away calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year. Good-humored easy and careless he presided over his whaleboat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner and his crew all invited guests. He was as particular about the comfortable arrangements of his part of the boat as an old stage-driver is about the snugness of his box. When close to the whale in the very death-lock of the fight he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly as a whistling tinker his hammer. He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster. Long usage had for this Stubb converted the jaws of death into an easy chair. What he thought of death itself there is no telling. Whether he ever thought of it at all might be a question but if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner no doubt like a good sailor he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft and bestir themselves there about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order and not sooner. What perhaps with other things made Stubb such an easy-going unfearing man so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world fail of grave peddlers all bowed to the ground with their packs what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his that thing must have been his pipe. For like his nose his short black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face. You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe. He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded stuck in a rack within easy reach of his hand and .