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。

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！

If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means.

如果我有时间，而不是生怕一个自命不凡的仆人路过，我就会知道这一切意味着什么。

Whenever he appeared in the yard, she would run to meet him, prating and clucking all the time, and impeding his progress by walking between his legs, to his no small annoyance.

不论泽克什么时候出现在鸡场，她都会跑去迎接他，咯咯地叫个不停，还会走在泽克的两腿之间，给他造成了不小的烦恼。