It was useless for the girls to argue hotly that such conduct humiliated the soldiers. Mammy replied that the girls would be a sight more humiliated if they found lice upon themselves.

姑娘们热烈争论，说这样做使士兵们太丢脸了，嬷嬷说，要是将来姑娘们发现自己也有虱子，不是更丢脸吗？

Seizing that opportunity, Ahab first paid out more line; and then was rapidly hauling and jerking in upon it again—hoping that way to disencumber it of some snarls—when lo! — a sight more savage than the embattled teeth of sharks!

抓住这个时机，亚哈头一个放出了一些捕鲸索，然后迅速地又拉又抖——想把一些缠结的地方解开——就在这时，看哪！——一个比鲨鱼那严阵以待的牙齿还要可怕的景象出现了！