It was a story of Whalers on a whaling ship.

这是一个关于捕鲸船上的捕鲸人的故事。

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

他们成为了朋友，并在一艘名为裴廓德号的捕鲸船上找到了工作。

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，想寻找在捕鲸船上工作的机会。

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

捕鲸船只周一从北海道北部的钏路港（Kushiro）出发。

Were whaling ships ever press-ganged into military service?

捕鲸船是否曾经被迫入伍服役？

I opine, that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago.

我认为，它可以明显追溯到两百多年前首次到达伦敦的格陵兰捕鲸船。

It could drag the whole whaling ship.

它可以拖拽整艘捕鲸船。

The most important difference is that the investments in the whaling ship are much more concentrated.

最重要的区别是捕鲸船的投资更加集中。

Norway today has only about a dozen whaling ships, which take in some 500 whales a year.

如今，挪威只有大约十几艘捕鲸船，每年捕获大约 500 头鲸鱼。

And best yet, we get on board a very old whaling ship.

最棒的是，我们登上了一艘非常古老的捕鲸船。

We also ask: what can the records from 19th-century whaling ships teach us about 21st-century workplaces?

我们还想问：19 世纪捕鲸船的记录可以让我们了解 21 世纪的工作场所吗？

He spent about three or four years total on whaling ships, although he continually deserted them.

他总共在捕鲸船上度过了大约三四年的时间，尽管他不断地抛弃它们。

He says that direct action — like interfering with whaling ships or even sinking a whaling ship — is justified by the horror of whale-hunting.

他说，直接行动——比如干扰捕鲸船，甚至击沉捕鲸船——是因为捕鲸的恐怖而合理的。

And what about the language barrier, or lack thereof, on a typical whaling ship?

那么，在典型的捕鲸船上，语言障碍或缺乏语言障碍又如何呢？

The crew of Moby-Dick is more diverse probably than any historic whaling ship was.

白鲸号的船员可能比任何历史上的捕鲸船都更加多样化。

And a whaling ship with a significantly diverse crew is more productive than a ship with an all-white crew.

一艘船员多元化的捕鲸船比一艘全白人船员的捕鲸船效率更高。

The Charles W. Morgan is a whaling ship, that would have sailed with around 35 crew members.

查尔斯·W·摩根号是一艘捕鲸船，航行时约有 35 名船员。

Imagine one whaling ship leaves New Bedford, Massachusetts, with a 20-man crew made up exclusively of white New Englanders.

想象一下，一艘捕鲸船离开马萨诸塞州新贝德福德，船上有 20 名船员，全部由新英格兰白人组成。

The Morgan is considered a sister ship to one of the whaling ships that Herman Melville sailed on, also out of New Bedford.

摩根号被认为是赫尔曼·梅尔维尔驾驶的一艘捕鲸船的姐妹船，这艘捕鲸船也是从新贝德福德出发。

In this crew data, Baggio noticed something surprising:  whaling ships were incredibly diverse workplaces, much more diverse than the typical 19th-century industry.

在这些船员数据中，巴乔注意到了一些令人惊讶的事情：捕鲸船是极其多样化的工作场所，比典型的 19 世纪行业更加多样化。