1."The captain at last relented, and told him that he might make himself at home" (Herman Melville).
“最后，船长缓和下来，告诉他随便些”（荷曼？麦尔维尔）。
2."Moby-Dick" was written not by Herman Melville but by Herman Melbrooks, who wrote most of it in Yiddish on the boat over from Coney Island.
“白鲸”不是赫尔曼·梅尔维尔所写，而是赫尔曼·梅尔布鲁克斯的作品，大部分是他在离开科尼岛的船上用意第绪语写的。
3.Delano throughout misses the point of what he is seeing. Did Melville expect the reader to miss the point as well ?
由始至终都没有说到他看见了什么这一点？梅尔维尔也希望读者忘记这一点吗？。
4.Lamed with a bad leg, Melville became separated from his companion and spent a month alone in the company of the natives.
Lamed一个坏腿，梅尔维尔成为脱离他的同伴，并花了一个月仅在该公司的本地人。
5.Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, Melville found himself in poverty with no college education.
麦尔维尔家世显赫，有傲人的家族传统，且本人勤勉上进，然而仍一贫如洗，没有受过大学教育。
6.Just two years before, Rear Admiral George Melville, chief engineer of the U. S. Navy, had issued a similar condemnation of air travel.
早在两年前，海军少将、美国海军首席工程师——乔治•梅尔维尔，也同样谴责了对航空事业的这种投入。
7.At any rate, Melville, unlike these, actually made the voyage, and was thus able to bolster his romantic flights with personal knowledge.
无论如何，梅尔维尔和上述诸人不同。他真的航过海，因此他能够用亲身经历支持他离奇的想象。
8.And it was not uncommon to hear otherwise well-read men confess to an ignorance of Hawthorne or Melville without embarrassment.
饱学之士也大言不惭地承认，他们尚不知霍桑和梅尔维尔为何许人。诸如此类的事是屡见不鲜的。
9.Though the friendship dwindled away, much to Melville's regret, it was a vital tonic to him while he was engaged on Moby Dick.
使梅尔维尔遗憾的是，后来二人的交情日疏，可是在他写《白鲸》时，这段友情对于他却是十分重要的。
10.Unlike Melville and Faulkner, Bellow did not come from a culture saturated in the rhythms and imagery of the English Bible.
和Melville和Faulkner不同，Bellow不是来自于一个被英语圣经浸染的文化。