The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.
这位老先生店铺里的货物不少，有航海表、晴雨计、望远镜、指南针、航海图、地图、六分仪、象限仪，以及用于确定航线、计算航程和发现情况的各类仪器。
Objects in brass and glass were in his drawers and on his shelves, which none but the initiated could have found the top of, or guessed the use of, or having once examined, could have ever got back again into their mahogany nests without assistance.
铜器和玻璃器皿放在抽屉里和架子上，只有知其内情的人才能发现这些物品，猜出它们的用途，或者在看过一遍之后，第二次可以无须帮助放回它们的红木巢穴。
Everything was jammed into the tightest cases, fitted into the narrowest corners, fenced up behind the most impertinent cushions, and screwed into the acutest angles, to prevent its philosophical composure from being disturbed by the rolling of the sea.
每一件东西都紧紧地塞在盒子或箱子里，放在最狭窄的角落里，挡在最不招眼的垫子后面，压进最细小的暗角里，为的是使它们沉思冥想的宁静不会受到海波的侵扰。
Such extraordinary precautions were taken in every instance to save room, and keep the thing compact; and so much practical navigation was fitted, and cushioned, and screwed into every box (whether the box was a mere slab, as some were, or something between a cocked hat and a star-fish, as others were, and those quite mild and modest boxes as compared with others);
为了节省地方，把东西摆得紧凑，才想得这样周密，布置得这样仔细，处处都利用了，一切实用的航海仪器都安装好、搁好，放在各自的箱子里，这些箱子有的不过是厚板块，有的类似三角帽或海星，也有的体积不大、貌不惊人。
that the shop itself, partaking of the general infection, seemed almost to become a snug, sea-going, ship-shape concern, wanting only good sea-room, in the event of an unexpected launch, to work its way securely to any desert island in the world.
这样的气氛迷漫整个店铺，使它似乎变成一只非常舒适、准备远洋航行的船舶，只待时机一到就可以扬帆起航，安全地驶往天涯海角的任何一座荒岛，它所缺的唯有宽阔的海面。
Many minor incidents in the household life of the Ships'Instrument-maker who was proud of his little Midshipman, assisted and bore out this fancy.
这位船舶仪器制造商以拥有一个小小海军候补生而扬扬得意，他家庭生活中的许多逸事可以为此作注。
His acquaintance lying chiefly among ship-chandlers and so forth, he had always plenty of the veritable ships' biscuit on his table.
他的相识多为船具商之类，所以他的饭桌上总是摆着许多货真价实的船上吃的饼干；
It was familiar with dried meats and tongues, possessing an extraordinary flavour of rope yarn.
散发着浓重气味的肉脯和舌头是司空见惯的；
Pickles were produced upon it, in great wholesale jars, with 'dealer in all kinds of Ships' Provisions' on the label;
还有整罐整罐的腌菜也放在桌子上，腌菜罐子上贴着“经营各种船上食品”的字样；
spirits were set forth in case bottles with no throats.
桌上还摆着无颈方瓶装着的烧酒。
Old prints of ships with alphabetical references to their various mysteries, hung in frames upon the walls;
墙上贴着嵌在画框里的陈旧的船舶图片，每张图片上都按照字母顺序标明各自的神秘性。
the Tartar Frigate under weigh, was on the plates;
餐具上画着航行中的鞑靼人的快速帆船。
outlandish shells, seaweeds, and mosses, decorated the chimney-piece;
壁炉架上点缀着奇形怪状的贝壳、海藻和苔藓。
the little wainscotted back parlour was lighted by a sky-light, like a cabin.
里面的镶嵌着护壁板的小起居室的屋顶上有一口天窗，宛如船舱。
Here he lived too, in skipper-like state, all alone with his nephew Walter: a boy of fourteen who looked quite enough like a midshipman, to carry out the prevailing idea.
他像船长一样，也是一个人住在这里，只有他的外甥沃尔特与他做伴，外甥是一个十四岁的男孩，他的相貌很像一个海军候补生，正好与整个气氛相得益彰。❤
