Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale.

挪威的捕鲸人昨天说他们用捕鲸叉捕获了一头雌性小须鲸。

Norwegian whalers, after all, are not killing endangered species.

挪威的捕鲸者毕竟没有不杀濒危物种。

Australian news coverage was less sympathetic towards the whalers.

澳大利亚的新闻报道对捕鲸者则不那么同情。

Roughly half are killed by whalers from Japan, mostly off Antarctica;

其中约有一半是被日本捕鲸者从南极洲捕杀的；

In turn, the Yankee whalers left behind rats, disease, and their genes.

与此对照的是美国捕鲸者们留下了老鼠，疾病和他们的基因。和岛民那个？

Potts, the Australian, says the campaign against the whalers will continue.

澳大利亚人波茨说，反对捕鲸的活动将继续进行。

Janders fought back: "You're converting any more old whalers, Brother Hale?"

詹德尔斯反唇相讥：“你有没有再招到老捕鲸手当信徒，黑尔兄弟？”

Early Basque whalers called them whale killers when they saw them attacking other whales.

早年巴斯克猎鲸者看到它们攻击其它鲸鱼时，称它们为杀人鲸。

Without pausing we jumped into the boat with the other whalers and headed out into the bay.

一刻不停地，我们和其他捕鲸人都跳进渔船，朝海湾方向驶去。

It fed the largest herds of fur seals and great whales on Earth in the ages before the sealers and whalers came.

早在捕海豹人和捕鲸人到来以前，它就喂养了大量的软毛海豹和地球上体形巨大的鲸鱼。

But the quota was for nine whales, and whalers killed just seven and could not find a market for the meat, he said.

他说，配额数量为九头鲸，而捕鲸者只捕杀到七头，而且找不到卖鲸肉的市场。

Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd shiptracking the whalers, says he is prepared to keep up the chase for weeks.

保罗沃森船长被海洋看护协会派来跟踪捕鲸船队，他说他已经准备好继续工作几个星期。

Deep cuts: Whalers peel back a layer of fat, or blubber, before harvesting the meat underneath on July 30 in Wada Port.

深深的口子：7月30日和田港，获得下面的肉之前，捕鲸人划开一层脂肪，或称鲸油。

Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd ship tracking the whalers, says he is prepared to keep up the chase for weeks.

保罗·沃森船长被海洋看护协会派来跟踪捕鲸船队，他说他已经准备好继续工作几个星期。

There were all these words we used, and the whalers would take our men because they knew our seafaring skills went back to them.

那时候我们在用很多这种词，捕鲸的会来雇我们的人，因为他们知道，我们的航海技巧是祖上传下来的。

Is that argument any more convincing than that used by Japanese whalers claiming "research purposes" to justify their activities?

这样的论点比起日本捕鲸者为自己辩护时所称的“研究目的”是否更有说服力？

Whalers slaughtered the giant tortoises, and the few settlers brought rats, cats and goats, which crowded out local flora and fauna.

捕鲸者猎杀巨型陆龟，为数不多的定居者将老鼠、猫和山羊带到了那儿，排挤了当地的动植物种群。

Her name noelani proudly explained a hawaiian who had shipped on whalers and who had mastered the barbarous pidgin of the seaports.

“她，诺伊拉妮，”一个经常接送水手因而学了些似通非通的英语的夏威夷人骄傲地解释说。

The incident, in which one activist suffered cracked ribs, marked a dramatic escalation in hostilities between whalers and campaigners.

有一名活动人士在事件中被撞断了肋骨，该事件标志着捕鲸者与反对者之间的敌对情绪升级。

In the 19th century, whalers, pirates and other seafarers plucked the animals from their native islands for use as ballast and food on long journeys.

十九世纪，捕鲸者、海盗和其他航海家将象龟从栖息岛屿掠走，作为长途航行的压舱物和食物。

An island of the southern Pacific Ocean in southern French Polynesia south-southeast of Tahiti. It was much visited by whalers in the early 19th century.

位于南太平洋上的一小岛，在大溪地岛正南的东南部的法属玻利尼西亚的南部。在19世纪前，经常有捕鲸者到此地。

Loggers, whalers, and other profiteers who squander the future for present greed, are only doing what all wild creatures have done for three billion years.

伐木者、捕鲸者和其他为了眼前的贪欲而挥霍未来的投机商，只不过与所有野生生物30亿年来所做的一样。

It was a time when the killer whales, or "killers" as they were then called, helped the whalers catch the baleen whales that were on their annual migration.

在那个时期，杀人鲸，正如当时他们被称呼的，帮助捕鲸者捕杀在每年迁移途中的须鲸。

As well as the damage to Japan's international standing, he also pointed out that meat from Antarctic whaling spoilt the market for Japan's handful of local whalers.

他还指出，南极捕鲸不仅有损日本的国际形象，也扰乱了市场，对日本少数本地捕鲸者不利。

Now, as Hobart Town was the nearest port, the whalers found that it saved time to go thither with their oil, and to buy their provisions and refit their ships there;

霍巴特镇是最近的港口，捕鲸者无论是运鲸油上岸，还是在这里购买补给品，以及整修捕鲸船，都可以节省时间。

Whalers cut open and inspect meat from a 35-ton fin whale, one of two fin whales caught off the coast of Hvalfjsrour, north of Reykjavik, on the western coast of Iceland.

捕鲸的人正在切开一头35吨的长须鲸并检查其肉质，有一半的长须鲸在冰岛西岸的首都雷克雅维克北部的Hvalfjsrour被捕捞。

Roughly half are killed by whalers from Japan, mostly off Antarctica; the cull is permissible, Japan says, because it amounts to "scientific" rather than commercial whaling.

其中约有一半是被日本捕鲸者从南极洲捕杀的；日本方面声称捕杀活动是可被容许的，因为这是“科学性质的”捕鲸，而非商业性质。

One of the original founders of Greenpeace in the 70s, Watson warned whalers that if they did not comply with international conservation law, his organisation would sink their boats.

作为70年代绿色和平组织的创始者之一，瓦特森警告捕鲸者，如果他们不遵从国际保护法，他的组织将会使他们捕鲸者的船沉没。