tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 50

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 50 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 50 Ahab s Boat and Crew. Fedallah Who would have thought it Flask cried Stubb if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat unless maybe to stop the plug-hole with my timber toe. Oh he s a wonderful old man I don t think it so strange after all on that account said Flask. If his leg were off at the hip now it would be a different thing. That would disable him but he has one knee and good part of the other left you know. I don t know that my little man I never yet saw him kneel. Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase. So Tamerlane s soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight. But with Ahab the question assumed a modified aspect. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of dancer considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties that every individual moment indeed then comprises a peril under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt As a general thing the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not. Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt- above all for Ahab to be supplied with five extra men as that same boat s crew he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod. Therefore he had not solicited a boat s crew from them nor had he in any way hinted his desires on that head. Nevertheless he had taken