TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 62 +63

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 62 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 62 The Dart A word concerning an incident in the last chapter. According to the invariable usage of the fishery the whale-boat pushes off from the ship with the headsman or whale-killer as temporary steersman and the harpooneer or whale-fastener pulling the foremost oar the one known as the harpooneer-oar. Now it needs a strong nervous arm to strike the first iron into the fish for often in what is called a long dart the heavy implement has to be flung to the distance of twenty or thirty feet. But however prolonged and exhausting the chase the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the uttermost indeed he is expected to set an example of superhuman activity to the rest not only by incredible rowing but by repeated loud and intrepid exclamations and what it is to keep shouting at the top of one s compass while all the other muscles are strained and half started- what that is none know but those who have tried it. For one I cannot bawl very heartily and work very recklessly at one and the same time. In this straining bawling state then with his back to the fish all at once the exhausted harpooneer hears the exciting cry- Stand up and give it to him He now has to drop and secure his oar turn round on his centre half way seize his harpoon from the crotch and with what little strength may remain he essays to pitch it somehow into the whale. No wonder taking the whole fleet of whalemen in a body that out of fifty fair chances for a dart not five are successful no wonder that so many hapless harpooneers are madly cursed and disrated no wonder that some of them actually burst their blood-vessels in the boat no wonder that some sperm whalemen are absent four years with four barrels no wonder that to many ship owners whaling is but a losing concern for it is the harpooneer that makes the voyage and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted Again if the dart be successful then at

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