TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 33

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 33 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 33 The Specksynder Concerning the officers of the whale-craft this seems as good a place as any to set down a little domestic peculiarity on ship-board arising from the existence of the harpooneer class of officers a class unknown of course in any other marine than the whale-fleet. The large importance attached to the harpooneer s vocation is evinced by the fact that originally in the old Dutch Fishery two centuries and more ago the command of a whale-ship was not wholly lodged in the person now called the captain but was divided between him and an officer called the Specksynder. Literally this word means Fat-Cutter usage however in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer. In those days the captain s authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns the Specksynder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme. In the British Greenland Fishery under the corrupted title of Specksioneer this old Dutch official is still retained but his former dignity is sadly abridged. At present he ranks simply as senior Harpooneer and as such is but one of the captain s more inferior subalterns. Nevertheless as upon the good conduct of the harpooneers the success of a whaling voyage largely depends and since in the American Fishery he is not only an important officer in the boat but under certain circumstances night watches on a whaling ground the command of the ship s deck is also his therefore the grand political maxim of the sea demands that he should nominally live apart from the men before the mast and be in some way distinguished as their professional superior though always by them familiarly regarded as their social equal. Now the grand distinction between officer and man at sea is this- the first lives aft the last forward. Hence in whale-ships and merchantmen alike the mates have their quarters with the captain and so too in most of the American whalers .

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