TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 88

MOBY DICK HERMAN MELVILLE CHAPTER 88 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 88 Schools and Schoolmasters The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations. Now though such great bodies are at times encountered yet as must have been seen even at the present day small detached bands are occasionally observed embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each. Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts those composed almost entirely of females and those mustering none but young vigorous males or bulls as they are familiarly designated. In cavalier attendance upon the school of females you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude but not old who upon any alarm evinces his gallantry by falling in the rear and covering the flight of his ladies. In truth this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman swimming about over the watery world surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and endearments of the harem. The contrast between this Ottoman and his concubines is striking because while he is always of the largest leviathanic proportions the ladies even at full growth are not more than one-third of the bulk of an average-sized male. They are comparatively delicate indeed I dare say not to exceed half a dozen yards round the waist. Nevertheless it cannot be denied that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to embonpoint. It is very curious to watch this harem and its lord in their indolent ramblings. Like fashionables they are for ever on the move in leisurely search of variety. You meet them on the Line in time for the full flower of the Equatorial feeding season having just returned perhaps from spending the summer in the Northern seas and so cheating summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth. By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there and so evade the other excessive

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