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1820年11月20日,一条美国捕鲸船“艾塞克斯”号受到一条抹香鲸攻击,在太平洋中部沉没,这一事件后来成为美国文学名著《白鲸》最后一章的素材,该书有包括中文在内的多种译本,并被改拍成电影。一百多年采世人只知该船幸存者中仅大副一人对这一事件有所记述。1980年春天,在美国发现了一个当年仅16岁的该船船员托马斯·尼克逊所写的日记,其中对沉船的经过
On November 20, 1820, a U.S. sperm whaler, Essex, was attacked by a sperm whale and sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This incident later became a source for the last chapter of the American literary master Beluga, A variety of translations, including Chinese, were transformed into films. For over a century, only one of the survivors of the ship’s survivors was briefed on the incident by one of the collectors. In the spring of 1980, a diary written by Thomas Nixon, a crew of just 16 years old, was discovered in the United States,