It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.

有时候，在拴住一条力气非常大、特别机灵的大鲸时，通常要设法像切断脚筋那样，切断鲸鱼巨尾上的筋腱，把它弄残废。

But here—if we suppose this interview betwixt Mistress Hibbins and Hester Prynne to be authentic, and not a parable—was already an illustration of the young minister's argument against sundering the relation of a fallen mother to the offspring of her frailty.

但在这里——如果我们假设希宾斯夫人和海丝特·白兰之间的这次采访是真实的，而不是寓言的话——已经说明了这位年轻的牧师反对断绝堕落母亲与她脆弱的后代之间的关系的论点。