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MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 107 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 107 The Carpenter Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn and take high abstracted man alone and he seems a wonder a grandeur and a woe. But from the same point take mankind in mass and for the most part they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates both contemporary and hereditary. But most humble though he was and far from furnishing an example of the high humane abstraction the Pequod s carpenter was no duplicate hence he now comes in person on this stage. Like all sea-going ship carpenters and more especially those belonging to whaling vessels he was to a certain off-hand practical extent alike experienced in numerous trades and callings collateral to his own the carpenter s pursuit being the ancient and outbranching trunk of all those numerous handicrafts which more or less have to do with wood as an auxiliary material. But besides the application to him of the generic remark above this carpenter of the Pequod was singularly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship upon a three or four years voyage in uncivilized and far-distant seas. For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary duties - repairing stove boats sprung spars reforming the shape of clumsy-bladed oars inserting bull s eyes in the deck or new tree-nails in the side planks and other miscellaneous matters more directly pertaining to his special business he was moreover unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes both useful and capricious. The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold was his vice-bench a long rude ponderous table furnished with several vices of different sizes and both of iron and of wood. At all times except when whales were alongside this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works. A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole the carpenter claps it into one of his ever ready vices and .
