THE NEXT DAY, November 9, I woke up only after a long, twelve-hour slumber. Conseil, a creature of habit, came to ask "how master's night went," and to offer his services. He had left his Canadian friend sleeping like a man who had never done anything else.
第二夭，十一月九日，我足足睡了十二个钟头才醒来。康塞尔来了，他习惯地问我“先生晚上睡得好”，接着就干起活来了。他不去惊动他的朋友，那个加拿大人，让他像瞌睡虫那样在房中睡觉。
I let the gallant lad babble as he pleased, without giving him much in the way of a reply. I was concerned about Captain Nemo's absence during our session the previous afternoon, and I hoped to see him again today.
我让这个好好先生随心所欲他说话，没有回答他的每一句。我一心想着为什么还看不见尼摩船长，从我们昨天聚谈以后，他一直没有露面，我希望今天能看到他。
Soon I had put on my clothes, which were woven from strands of seashell tissue. More than once their composition provoked comments from Conseil. I informed him that they were made from the smooth, silken filaments with which the fan mussel, a type of seashell quite abundant along Mediterranean beaches, attaches itself to rocks. In olden times, fine fabrics, stockings, and gloves were made from such filaments, because they were both very soft and very warm. So the Nautilus's crew could dress themselves at little cost, without needing a thing from cotton growers, sheep, or silkworms on shore.
我很快穿好了贝足丝织造的衣服。这一身衣料不止一次引起了康塞尔的思索。我告诉他，这身衣料是由发光的、丝一般柔软的纤维制成，这些纤维产在海石上，是地中海沿岸很丰富的一种像“猪腔形”介壳贝类留下的。从前人们拿来做成很好看的衣料，袜子，手套，因为它们又软又暖。诺第留斯号的船员一点不需要陆地上的棉花、羊毛和蚕丝，就可以穿起物美价廉的衣服。
As soon as I was dressed, I made my way to the main lounge. It was deserted.
我穿好了衣服就到客厅去，那里还没有人。
I dove into studying the conchological treasures amassed inside the glass cases. I also investigated the huge plant albums that were filled with the rarest marine herbs, which, although they were pressed and dried, still kept their wonderful colors. Among these valuable water plants, I noted various seaweed: some Cladostephus verticillatus, peacock's tails, fig-leafed caulerpa, grain-bearing beauty bushes, delicate rosetangle tinted scarlet, sea colander arranged into fan shapes, mermaid's cups that looked like the caps of squat mushrooms and for years had been classified among the zoophytes; in short, a complete series of algae.
我于是钻研那些玻璃柜中堆积着的贝类学上的宝藏，全神贯注地研究。我也潜心搜索那宽大的植物标本库，库里充满着海中最希罕的植物，它们虽然风干了，但仍然保存着令人赞美的颜色。在这些珍贵的水产植物中间，我看到了那些坏生的海苔，孔雀昆布，葡萄叶形的海藻，粒状的水马齿，大红色的柔软海草，扇子形的海苑，吸盘草，这草很像外形下陷的冬菇，很久以来就被归人植虫动物的一类，最后我看到了整个一组的海藻类植物。
The entire day passed without my being honored by a visit from Captain Nemo. The panels in the lounge didn't open. Perhaps they didn't want us to get tired of these beautiful things.
整整一天过去了，尼摩船长始终没有来看我。客厅的嵌板没有打开也许人家不愿意我们对于美丽的事物接触得太多吧。
The Nautilus kept to an east-northeasterly heading, a speed of twelve miles per hour, and a depth between fifty and sixty meters.
诺第留斯号行驶的方向仍是东北偏东，速度为每小时十二海里，距离海面五十至六十米。
Next day, November 10: the same neglect, the same solitude. I didn't see a soul from the crew. Ned and Conseil spent the better part of the day with me. They were astonished at the captain's inexplicable absence. Was this eccentric man ill? Did he want to change his plans concerning us?
第三天，11月10日，还是没有人，同样是冷清清的。我看见一个船员。尼德-兰和康塞尔跟我在一起过了大半天。他们对船长的不可理解的不露面很惊讶，这个奇异的人病了吗？他要改变他怎样安排我们的计划吗？
But after all, as Conseil noted, we enjoyed complete freedom, we were daintily and abundantly fed. Our host had kept to the terms of his agreement. We couldn't complain, and moreover the very uniqueness of our situation had such generous rewards in store for us, we had no grounds for criticism.
总而言之，正像康塞尔说的，我们享受到完全的自由，我们吃得很讲究。我们的主人完全遵守他约定的条款。我们不能抱怨，而且，我们意想不到的遭遇使我们受到了很好的待遇，光这一点，我们就没有权利控诉他。
That day I started my diary of these adventures, which has enabled me to narrate them with the most scrupulous accuracy; and one odd detail: I wrote it on paper manufactured from marine eelgrass.
这一天我开始写这次奇遇的日记，这样，我可以详尽而确切地把事情记录下来；我是用海中大叶藻制的纸写日记，这也是一件新奇的事。
Early in the morning on November 11, fresh air poured through the Nautilus's interior, informing me that we had returned to the surface of the ocean to renew our oxygen supply. I headed for the central companionway and climbed onto the platform.
月11日，大清早，诺第留斯号的内部全换了新鲜空气，我知道我们现在又回到洋面上来补充氧气。我向中央楼梯走去，走上平台。
It was six o'clock. I found the weather overcast, the sea gray but calm. Hardly a billow. I hoped to encounter Captain Nemo there--would he come? I saw only the helmsman imprisoned in his glass-windowed pilothouse. Seated on the ledge furnished by the hull of the skiff, I inhaled the sea's salty aroma with great pleasure.
这时是早晨六点。我看见天是陰的，海也发暗，但相当平静。差不多没有波浪。我希望在平台上碰见尼摩船长，他会来吗）我只看见领航人关在他那玻璃笼间里。我坐在小艇外壳的突出部分，很自在地呼吸着海上的新鲜空气。
Little by little, the mists were dispersed under the action of the sun's rays. The radiant orb cleared the eastern horizon. Under its gaze, the sea caught on fire like a trail of gunpowder. Scattered on high, the clouds were colored in bright, wonderfully shaded hues, and numerous "ladyfingers" warned of daylong winds.
在太阳光的照射下，浓雾渐渐消散了。一轮红日从东方的天际涌出。海面被阳光照射得像燃着了的火药，发出一片红光。云彩散在高空，染上深浅不同的色泽，无数的“猫舌头”预告今天整天都要刮风。
But what were mere winds to this Nautilus, which no storms could intimidate!
可是对于大风暴也不惊怕的诺第留斯号，普通的风又算得了什么呢？
So I was marveling at this delightful sunrise, so life-giving and cheerful, when I heard someone climbing onto the platform.
我正在欣赏使人愉快的日出景象，忽然听到有人走上平台来。
I was prepared to greet Captain Nemo, but it was his chief officer who appeared--whom I had already met during our first visit with the captain. He advanced over the platform, not seeming to notice my presence. A powerful spyglass to his eye, he scrutinized every point of the horizon with the utmost care. Then, his examination over, he approached the hatch and pronounced a phrase whose exact wording follows below. I remember it because, every morning, it was repeated under the same circumstances. It ran like this:
我正准备招呼尼摩船长，但上来的人不是他，而是他的副手。他在平台上向前走，好像没有看见我似的。他拿一架倍数很大的望远镜，十分细心地观察四周的天边、观察过后，他走近嵌板，说了一句话，这句话的语音拼法完全跟下面写的一样。我所以把它记下来，是因为每天早晨，在同样的情况下，总是听到这句话。这句话是这样：
"Nautron respoc lorni virch."
“诺土隆一雷斯扑一罗宜一维尔希。”
What it meant I was unable to say.
这话是什么意思，那我可说不上来。
These words pronounced, the chief officer went below again. I thought the Nautilus was about to resume its underwater navigating. So I went down the hatch and back through the gangways to my stateroom.
说了这句话之后，船副又下到船舱去了。我想诺第留斯号又要潜入海底航行了。所以我走回嵌板边，穿过狭长的过道，回到我的房中。
Five days passed in this way with no change in our situation. Every morning I climbed onto the platform. The same phrase was pronounced by the same individual. Captain Nemo did not appear.
这样过了五天，情形一点没有改变。每天早晨，我走上平台，听到同样的人说出同样的话。尼摩船长仍然没有露面。
I was pursuing the policy that we had seen the last of him, when on November 16, while reentering my stateroom with Ned and Conseil, I found a note addressed to me on the table.
我不再指望见他了。到了11月16比我跟尼德-兰和康塞尔回到我房中的时候，看见桌上有一封给我的信。
I opened it impatiently. It was written in a script that was clear and neat but a bit "Old English" in style, its characters reminding me of German calligraphy.
我拿过信来，立刻把信拆开。信上的字体写得清楚……很干净，但带一点古体，使人想起是有些像德文字体。
The note was worded as follows:
这信的内容如下：
Professor Aronnax
Aboard the Nautilus
送交诺第留斯号船上的阿龙纳斯教授
November 16, 1867
1867年11月16日
Captain Nemo invites Professor Aronnax on a hunting trip that will take place tomorrow morning in his Crespo Island forests. He hopes nothing will prevent the professor from attending, and he looks forward with pleasure to the professor's companions joining him.
尼摩船长邀请阿龙纳斯教授出去打猎，这次打猎定于明天早晨在克利斯波岛的林中举行。船长希望他没有什么亭，能来参加，同时也很高兴他的同伴能跟他一道来。
CAPTAIN NEMO,
Commander of the Nautilus.
诺第留斯号船长尼摩
"A hunting trip!" Ned exclaimed.
“打猎！尼德-兰喊道。
"And in his forests on Crespo Island!" Conseil added.
“在克利斯波岛的林中！”康塞尔加上一句。
"But does this mean the old boy goes ashore?" Ned Land went on.
“这个怪人要到陆地上去吗？”尼德-兰又说。
"That seems to be the gist of it," I said, rereading the letter.
“在我看来，信中是说得清清楚楚的。”我再看了下信
"Well, we've got to accept!" the Canadian answered. "Once we're on solid ground, we'll figure out a course of action. Besides, it wouldn't pain me to eat a couple slices of fresh venison!"
“那么，一定要接受邀请，”加拿大人说，“我们该怎么办，到了陆地上就知道了。此外我也很高兴能吃到几块新鲜的野味。”
Without trying to reconcile the contradictions between Captain Nemo's professed horror of continents or islands and his invitation to go hunting in a forest, I was content to reply:
尼摩船长本来是讨厌大陆和岛屿的，现在反来邀我们去林中打猎，这矛盾我不想去求得解释，只是满意地说。
"First let's look into this Crespo Island."
“我们先看看克利斯波岛是个什么样的地方。”
I consulted the world map; and in latitude 32 degrees 40' north and longitude 167 degrees 50' west, I found an islet that had been discovered in 1801 by Captain Crespo, which old Spanish charts called Rocca de la Plata, in other words, "Silver Rock." So we were about 1,800 miles from our starting point, and by a slight change of heading, the Nautilus was bringing us back toward the southeast.
我于是查平面地图，在北纬32度40分，西经167度50分的地方，找到一个小岛，它是1801年由克利斯波船长发现的，古老的西班牙地图叫它洛加-德拉-蒲拉达，意译过来就是银石。所以我们现在距出发点约为一千八百海里，诺第留斯号行驶的方向有些改变了，它现在又向东南方驶去。
I showed my companions this small, stray rock in the middle of the north Pacific.
我把这个处在太平洋北部的小岛指给我的同伴看。
"If Captain Nemo does sometimes go ashore," I told them, "at least he only picks desert islands!"
我对他们说：“尼摩船长即使偶然想上陆地，他一定也要选择那些荒凉无人的地方。”
Ned Land shook his head without replying; then he and Conseil left me. After supper was served me by the mute and emotionless steward, I fell asleep; but not without some anxieties.
尼德-兰摇摇头，不答话，一会，康塞尔和他都走开了。不动声色的管事人给我端来晚餐，我用过晚餐以后，心里盘算着明天的事，很久才入睡。
When I woke up the next day, November 17, I sensed that the Nautilus was completely motionless. I dressed hurriedly and entered the main lounge.
第二天，11月：7日，我醒来，觉得诺第留斯号不动了。我赶忙穿上衣服，走进了客厅。
Captain Nemo was there waiting for me. He stood up, bowed, and asked if it suited me to come along.
尼摩船长已经在厅里等着我了，他看见我，使站起来向我招呼，问我们跟他一同去打猎有什么不方便没有。
Since he made no allusion to his absence the past eight days, I also refrained from mentioning it, and I simply answered that my companions and I were ready to go with him.
既然他一点不提他八天不露面的原因，我也不便打听，所以只是干脆地回答说，我的同伴和我都很乐意跟他去打猎。
"Only, sir," I added, "I'll take the liberty of addressing a question to you."
“不过，”我又补上一句，“先生，请允许我向您提一个问题。”
"Address away, Professor Aronnax, and if I'm able to answer, I will."
“提吧，阿龙纳斯先生，只要我能答复，我就一定答复。“
"Well then, captain, how is it that you've severed all ties with the shore, yet you own forests on Crespo Island?"
“那么，船长，既然您跟陆地割断了任何联系，您怎会有森林在克利斯波岛上呢？”
"Professor," the captain answered me, "these forests of mine don't bask in the heat and light of the sun. They aren't frequented by lions, tigers, panthers, or other quadrupeds. They're known only to me. They grow only for me. These forests aren't on land, they're actual underwater forests."
“教授；”船长回答，“我的森林不需要太阳，不需要它的光，也不需要它的热。狮子，老虎，豹子，等等，不管什么四足兽都不能到我的森林中来。林中的一切东西只为我一个人生长。这不是陆地的森林，而是海底的森林。”
"Underwater forests!" I exclaimed.
“海底的森林！”我喊道。
"Yes, professor."
“是的，教授。”
"And you're offering to take me to them?"
“您请我到海底森林中去吗？”
"Precisely."
“正是”
"On foot?"
“步行去吗？”
"Without getting your feet wet."
“步行去，而且不沾一点海水。”
"While hunting?"
“一面打猎吗？”
"While hunting."
“一面打猎。”
"Rifles in hand?"
“手拿着猎枪吗？”
"Rifles in hand."
“手拿着猎枪。“
I stared at the Nautilus's commander with an air anything but flattering to the man.
我两眼盯着诺第留斯号的船长、一点没有露出讨好他的神气。
"Assuredly," I said to myself, "he's contracted some mental illness. He's had a fit that's lasted eight days and isn't over even yet. What a shame! I liked him better eccentric than insane!"
我想，他的脑子一定有毛病；敢情是最近还发作了一，次，拖了八天，现在还没有好呢。怪可怜的！但愿他发怪脾气，千万不要发狂才好！
These thoughts were clearly readable on my face; but Captain Nemo remained content with inviting me to follow him, and I did so like a man resigned to the worst.
我的脸色清楚地透露了我这种想法，但尼摩船长不说：什么，只请我跟着他走俄就像不顾一切地听天由命的人一样跟着他。
We arrived at the dining room, where we found breakfast served.
我们到了饭厅，早餐早就摆好在那里了。
"Professor Aronnax," the captain told me, "I beg you to share my breakfast without formality. We can chat while we eat. Because, although I promised you a stroll in my forests, I made no pledge to arrange for your encountering a restaurant there. Accordingly, eat your breakfast like a man who'll probably eat dinner only when it's extremely late."
“阿龙纳斯先生，”船长对我说，“我请您用饭，不要客：气。我们一边吃饭，一边谈话。尽管我答应您可以去林中散步，但我并没有向您保证可以在林中碰到一家饭馆。所以请您尽量吃，就像一个要很迟才能回来吃午饭的人一样地多吃一点。”
I did justice to this meal. It was made up of various fish and some slices of sea cucumber, that praiseworthy zoophyte, all garnished with such highly appetizing seaweed as the Porphyra laciniata and the Laurencia primafetida. Our beverage consisted of clear water to which, following the captain's example, I added some drops of a fermented liquor extracted by the Kamchatka process from the seaweed known by name as Rhodymenia palmata.
我这顿饭吃得很饱。各式各样的菜是由鱼类，海参，美味的植虫动物，另外还有助消化的海藻类植物，像青红片海藻，苦侞味海藻等等做出来的。饮料是用水和酵素酒合成，这酒是按照勘察加岛人的方法，从有名的海藻，即所谓掌形蔷蔽藻酿造出来的。
At first Captain Nemo ate without pronouncing a single word. Then he told me:
起初，尼摩船长只是吃，不说一句话，后来才对我说：
"Professor, when I proposed that you go hunting in my Crespo forests, you thought I was contradicting myself. When I informed you that it was an issue of underwater forests, you thought I'd gone insane. Professor, you must never make snap judgments about your fellow man."
“阿龙纳斯先生，我邀请您到我的克利斯波岛的森林中打猎的时候，您以为我是自相矛盾。当我告诉您这是海底森林的时候，您以为我是发疯。教授，您不能这样轻易判断
"But, captain, believe me--"
“不过，船长，请您相信……”
"Kindly listen to me, and you'll see if you have grounds for accusing me of insanity or self-contradiction."
“请您耐心听下去，然后再看看您是不是应当责备我发疯和自相矛盾了。”
"I'm all attention."
“我听您说，船长。”
"Professor, you know as well as I do that a man can live underwater so long as he carries with him his own supply of breathable air. For underwater work projects, the workman wears a waterproof suit with his head imprisoned in a metal capsule, while he receives air from above by means of force pumps and flow regulators."
“教授，您和我都知道，人只要带了充分的可呼吸的空气，他就可以生活在水底下。工人在水底下工作时，穿上～件不透水的衣服，头上套了一个金属的盒子，再利用打气机和节流器，就可以从水上面获得空气。”
"That's the standard equipment for a diving suit," I said.
“那是一套潜水设备。”我说。
"Correct, but under such conditions the man has no freedom. He's attached to a pump that sends him air through an india-rubber hose; it's an actual chain that fetters him to the shore, and if we were to be bound in this way to the Nautilus, we couldn't go far either."
“对，可是，带了这套设备，人是不自由的，那条输送空气的胶皮管子把他和打气机连接起来，简直就是一条把他拴在陆地上的锁链，如果我们是这样拴连着诺第留斯号，那我们就不能往远处走了。”
"Then how do you break free?" I asked.
“那么，可以自由行动的方法是什么呢？”我问。
"We use the Rouquayrol-Denayrouze device, invented by two of your fellow countrymen but refined by me for my own special uses, thereby enabling you to risk these new physiological conditions without suffering any organic disorders. It consists of a tank built from heavy sheet iron in which I store air under a pressure of fifty atmospheres. This tank is fastened to the back by means of straps, like a soldier's knapsack. Its top part forms a box where the air is regulated by a bellows mechanism and can be released only at its proper tension. In the Rouquayrol device that has been in general use, two india-rubber hoses leave this box and feed to a kind of tent that imprisons the operator's nose and mouth; one hose is for the entrance of air to be inhaled, the other for the exit of air to be exhaled, and the tongue closes off the former or the latter depending on the breather's needs. But in my case, since I face considerable pressures at the bottom of the sea, I needed to enclose my head in a copper sphere, like those found on standard diving suits, and the two hoses for inhalation and exhalation now feed to that sphere."
“那就是使用您的两个法国同乡——卢格罗尔和德纳露兹创造的器械。为了符合我的要求，我改善了这种器械，靠了这种器械，可以在新的生理条件下在海水中生活，您的器官一点也不感到什么痛苦。它有一个厚钢板制的密封瓶，瓶中满贮五十大气压力压缩的空气。它像士兵的背囊一样，用一条腰带捆在人的背后，瓶的上部像个钢盒，盒中的空气由吹风机躁纵，只在一定的压力下才能流出来。现在通用的卢格罗尔器械，都有两条胶皮管子从钢盒通出来，套在口鼻上罩着的喇叭形东西；其中一条是吸气用的，另一分是呼气用的，人的舌头按照呼吸的需要，控制这两条胶皮管的开关。但是，在海底下受到的压力很大，所以我要像潜水员一样，把我的脑袋装在铜制的圆球中，那两条胶皮管——吸气管和呼气管就连结在这个圆球上。
"That's perfect, Captain Nemo, but the air you carry must be quickly depleted; and once it contains no more than 15% oxygen, it becomes unfit for breathing."
”好极了，尼摩船长。不过您所携带的空气很快就会用完的，空气中只含有百分之十五的氧时，就不宜再呼吸了。”
"Surely, but as I told you, Professor Aronnax, the Nautilus's pumps enable me to store air under considerable pressure, and given this circumstance, the tank on my diving equipment can supply breathable air for nine or ten hours."
“可不是，但我跟您说过，阿龙纳斯先生，诺第留斯号的打气机使我可以把高压压缩的空气装进去，在这种条件下，这套器械的密封瓶能供应的空气足够我呼吸九到十小时。”
"I've no more objections to raise," I replied. "I'll only ask you, captain: how can you light your way at the bottom of the ocean?"
“我再没有什么可以非难的了，”我回答，“但我要问，您在海底下行动是靠什么来照明呢？”
"With the Ruhmkorff device, Professor Aronnax. If the first is carried on the back, the second is fastened to the belt. It consists of a Bunsen battery that I activate not with potassium dichromate but with sodium. An induction coil gathers the electricity generated and directs it to a specially designed lantern. In this lantern one finds a glass spiral that contains only a residue of carbon dioxide gas. When the device is operating, this gas becomes luminous and gives off a continuous whitish light. Thus provided for, I breathe and I see."
“我用的是兰可夫灯，阿龙纳斯先生。呼吸器放在我背上，探照灯带在我腰间。探照灯装有一组本生电池，但我不用氯化钾，而用海中含量很多的氯化钠来发电。用一个感应线圈把发生的电收集起来，送到特制的灯泡。灯泡中有一根弯曲的玻璃管，管中只有少量的二氧化碳气。使用探照灯的时候，二氧化碳气发出一种连续不断的白光，照亮起来。有了这些设备，我就可以呼吸，可以看见。”
"Captain Nemo, to my every objection you give such crushing answers, I'm afraid to entertain a single doubt. However, though I have no choice but to accept both the Rouquayrol and Ruhmkorff devices, I'd like to register some reservations about the rifle with which you'll equip me."
“尼摩船长，您对我提出的所有反对意见，都作了十分有力的答复，现在我再也不能怀疑了。不过，我虽然不得不承认卢格罗尔呼吸器和兰可夫探照灯，但我对那支猎枪，眈是您要我携带的这件武器，还不得不保留我的意见。“
"But it isn't a rifle that uses gunpowder," the captain replied.
“这不是什么火药枪。”船长回答。
"Then it's an air gun?"
“那么，是气枪吗？”
"Surely. How can I make gunpowder on my ship when I have no saltpeter, sulfur, or charcoal?"
“可不是。船上没有硝石，没有硫磺，没有木炭，您要我怎么制造火药呢？”
"Even so," I replied, "to fire underwater in a medium that's 855 times denser than air, you'd have to overcome considerable resistance."
“还有，”我说，“海水比空气重八百五十五倍，在这种环境中开枪要有实效，首先就要克服这种巨大的压力。”
"That doesn't necessarily follow. There are certain Fulton-style guns perfected by the Englishmen Philippe-Coles and Burley, the Frenchman Furcy, and the Italian Landi; they're equipped with a special system of airtight fastenings and can fire in underwater conditions. But I repeat: having no gunpowder, I've replaced it with air at high pressure, which is abundantly supplied me by the Nautilus's pumps."
“这不能算作一个理由。现在有一种枪，是按照富尔顿的设计，由英国人菲力哥尔和布列、法国人傅尔西、意大利人兰帝加以改进的，它装有特殊的开关，可以在海水中射击。但是我要再一次告诉您，我没有火药，只能用压缩空气代替，这种空气是诺第留斯号的打气机可以大量供应的。”
"But this air must be swiftly depleted."
“可是这空气很快就会用完的。”
"Well, in a pinch can't my Rouquayrol tank supply me with more? All I have to do is draw it from an ad hoc spigot. Besides, Professor Aronnax, you'll see for yourself that during these underwater hunting trips, we make no great expenditure of either air or bullets."
“不错，但我带有卢格罗尔瓶，不是能按需要随时供应：：空气吗？只要按需要装上一个开关龙头就够了此外，阿龙纳斯先生、您自己就将亲身看到，水底打猎并不费大量的空气和很多的子弹。”
"But it seems to me that in this semidarkness, amid this liquid that's so dense in comparison to the atmosphere, a gunshot couldn't carry far and would prove fatal only with difficulty!"
“但是，在这种看不太清楚的地方，在这个比空气重得多的海水中间，我觉得发出的枪弹不能打得很远，并且也很难命中吧？”
"On the contrary, sir, with this rifle every shot is fatal; and as soon as the animal is hit, no matter how lightly, it falls as if struck by lightning."
“先生，用这种枪，每一发都是可以致命的，并且，动物一被打中，不管伤得怎样轻微，它必然像被雷击一般，立即倒下来。”
"Why?"
“为什么呢？”
"Because this rifle doesn't shoot ordinary bullets but little glass capsules invented by the Austrian chemist Leniebroek, and I have a considerable supply of them. These glass capsules are covered with a strip of steel and weighted with a lead base; they're genuine little Leyden jars charged with high-voltage electricity. They go off at the slightest impact, and the animal, no matter how strong, drops dead. I might add that these capsules are no bigger than number 4 shot, and the chamber of any ordinary rifle could hold ten of them."
“因为这枪发出的子弹并不是普通的子弹，这是奥地利化学家列妮布洛克发明的一种小波璃球，我船上储备了许多，这种小玻璃球装有钢的套子，下面又加了铅底，象真正的来顿瓶一样，里面具有很高的电压。就是最轻微的冲击，也要炸开，被打中的动物，不管怎样强大有力，也得倒下来死去。我要告诉您，它不比四号子弹大，普通猎枪的弹盒可以装上十个。”
"I'll quit debating," I replied, getting up from the table. "And all that's left is for me to shoulder my rifle. So where you go, I'll go."
“我再不争论了，”我从桌旁站起来说，“我只有拿起我的枪来就是了。您去哪里，我就跟您去哪里。”
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern, and passing by Ned and Conseil's cabin, I summoned my two companions, who instantly followed us.
船长领我到诺第留斯号的后部，走过尼德-兰和康塞尔的舱房门前，我叫了我的两个同伴，他们立即跟着我们出来。
Then we arrived at a cell located within easy access of the engine room; in this cell we were to get dressed for our stroll.
一会儿，我们到了前面，靠近机器房的一个小房子里，我们要在这个小房子中穿起我们的海底打猎衣服来。