Half of all ships will eventually be lost at sea.

一半的船最后会在大海里失踪。

It was a story of Whalers on a whaling ship.

这是一个关于船上的的故事。

We have stopped one chaser boat already and saved one plot of whales.

我们已经阻止了一艘船，拯救了一片鱼。

A Bedford whaler came back last week who was gone three.

贝特福特的船出去3年 上周才回来。

Japan's government has promised all whalers will stay within 320 kilometers from its coast.

日本政府承诺所有船将停留在距离海岸320公里以。

He's heading to Nantucket to see if he can find work on a whaling ship.

他正前往楠塔基特岛，想寻找在船上工作的机会。

A fearful accident occurred to the boat's crew of another whaler when attacking a rorqual.

另一艘船的船员，在碰到了一件可怕的事情。

24 hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship.

此离船倾覆已经过去了24小。

They become friends and together they find work on a whaling ship called the Pequod.

他们成为了朋友，并在一艘为裴廓德号的船上找到了工作。

Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works.

除了吊起的小艇，美国船外观上的独特之处还在于它的炼油间。

The whaling ships sailed Monday from the port of Kushiro, on the northern island of Hokkaido.

船只周一从北海道北部的钏路港（Kushiro）出发。

Mark this, too, in the whaler.

请注意这一点，船也是这样。

No whaling vessel could have been better armed.

就是一只船也不会装备得更完备了。

As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats.

当他们的船开始在巨浪中沉没的候，们挤上了三只小小的船。

These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of " Moby Dick."

他们就是船Essex号上的船员，他们的故事后来成为了著《白记》的一部分。

The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.

英国船上的这种兴高采烈的气氛是历史研究的一个好课题。

But this behavior made them susceptible to whaling ships.

但这种行为使它们容易受到船的攻击。

I think the end of the story of the whaleship Essex offers an illuminating, if tragic, example.

我认为船Essex号的故事结局提供了一个富有启发性的例子，尽管是个悲剧结局。

And so it was that Norway's whaling fleet became the largest in the world.

就这样，挪威的船队成为了世界上最大的船队。

In the first days of resumed whaling, whalers caught two minke whales, which were taken to the northern port of Kushiro.

在恢复的头几天里，船获了两头小须，并将它们带往钏路北部港口。