Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.

你老是拿那些吝啬如命的船东和我唠叨，好像船东就是我的良心似的。

Prates talked about the area, known as the Equatorial Margin, as " perhaps the last frontier of oil for Brazil."

普拉茨谈到这一地区，也就是众所周知的赤道边缘，说它可能是“巴西石油的最后前沿”。

What she said was prate and prattle.

她的话都是空谈和胡说。

I know the age better than you do, though you will prate about it so tediously.

我比你更了解这个年龄，尽管你会喋喋不休地谈论它。

An old, fat, irresponsible, one-sided object like you prating about springtime and flowers in the middle of winter!

一个又老又胖、不负责任、片面的东西， 像你一样在隆冬里喋喋不休地谈论春天和鲜花！

I would have you to know I've an honour of my own, as good as yours, though I don't prate about it all day long, as if it was a God's miracle to have any.

我想让你知道我有自己的荣誉， 和你的一样好， 虽然我不会整天喋喋不休， 好像拥有任何荣誉都是上帝的奇迹。