All right then! Imagine this weapon to be ten times stronger and the animal ten times more powerful, launch it at a speed of twenty miles per hour, multiply its mass times its velocity1, and you get just the collision we need to cause the specified catastrophe.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址好吧!现在假定那武器还要厉害十倍，那动物的力量还要大十倍，如果它的前进速度是每小时二十英里，那么拿它的体重去乘它的速度平方，就能求出憧坏斯各脱亚号的那股冲击力。

上海龙凤shlf最新地址So, until information becomes more abundant, I plump for a sea unicorn of colossaldimensions,

因此，在还没有得到更多的材料之前，我认为这是一只海麒麟，这只海麒麟身躯非常巨大，

上海龙凤shlf最新地址no longer armed with a mere lance but with an actual spur, like ironclad frigates7 or those warships called 'rams,' whose mass and motor power it would possesssimultaneously.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址身上的武装不是剑戟，而是真正的冲角，像铁甲船或战舰上所装有的那样，它同时又具备有战舰的重量和动力。

This inexplicable phenomenon is thus explained away--unless it's something elseentirely, which, despite everything that has been sighted, studied, explored and experienced, is still possible!

这样便说明了这种神秘不可解的现象。或者相反地，不管人们所见到的、所感到的是怎样，实际上什么都不是;那也是可能的。

These last words were cowardly of me; but as far as I could, I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, who when they do laugh, laugh raucously.

最后几句话只能说明我没有主见，看问题摇摆不定;这是为了在一定程度上保全我教授的身份，同时不愿意让美国人笑话，因为美国人笑起来，是笑得很厉害的。

I had left myself a loophole. Yet deep down, I had accepted the existence of the monster.

上海龙凤shlf最新地址我于是自下这一条退路。其实我是承认这个怪物的存在的。