Audiobook Dictation: “The wind has risen, and has…”

The wind has risen, and has rapidly carried us away from Axel Island.

風起了，迅速把我們帶離了阿克塞爾島。

The roarings become lost in the distance.

轟鳴聲消失在遠方。

The atmosphere is charged with vapours, pervaded with the electricity generated by the evaporation of saline waters.

大氣中充滿了水氣，瀰漫著鹽水蒸發所產生的電。

The clouds are sinking lower, and assume an olive hue.

雲層越壓越低，呈現出橄欖色。

I feel peculiar sensations, like many creatures on earth at the approach of violent atmospheric changes.

我感到一種異樣的感覺，就像地面上許多生物在劇烈的天氣變化來臨前那樣。

In the distance the clouds resemble great bales of cotton, piled up in picturesque disorder.

遠處，雲團宛如一捆捆巨大的棉包，雜亂而又如畫地堆疊著。

Such is their ponderous weight that they cannot rise from the horizon; but, obeying an impulse from higher currents, their dense consistency slowly yields.

它們如此沉重，以致無法從地平線升起；但在高空氣流的推動下，那濃密的雲塊慢慢鬆散開來。