tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 133

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 133 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 133 The Chase - First Day That night in the mid-watch when the old man- as his wont at intervals- stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned and went to his pivot-hole he suddenly thrust out his face fiercely snuffing up the sea air as a sagacious ship s dog will in drawing nigh to some barbarous isle. He declared that a whale must be near. Soon that peculiar odor sometimes to a great distance given forth by the living sperm whale was palpable to all the watch nor was any mariner surprised when after inspecting the compass and then the dog-vane and then ascertaining the precise bearing of the odor as nearly as possible Ahab rapidly ordered the ship s course to be slightly altered and the sail to be shortened. The acute policy dictating these movements was sufficiently vindicated at daybreak by the sight of a long sleek on the sea directly and lengthwise ahead smooth as oil and resembling in the pleated watery wrinkles bordering it the polished metallic-like marks of some swift tide-rip at the mouth of a deep rapid stream. Man the mast-heads Call all hands Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they seemed to exhale from the scuttle so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands. What d ye see cried Ahab flattening his face to the sky. Nothing nothing sir was the sound hailing down in reply. T gallant sails - stunsails alow and aloft and on both sides All sail being set he now cast loose the life-line reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head and in a few moments they were hoisting him thither when while but two thirds of the way aloft and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail he raised a gull-like cry in the air. There she blows - there she blows A hump like a snow-hill It is Moby Dick Fired by the cry which seemed simultaneously taken up .