Then the shark's jaws opened astoundingly wide, like a pair of industrial shears, and that would have been the finish of Captain Nemo had not Ned Land, quick as thought, rushed forward with his harpoon and driven its dreadful point into the shark's underside.
Las mandíbulas del tiburón se abrieron desmesuradamente como una guillotina, y en ellas hubiera acabado el capitán si, rápido como el rayo, Ned Land, arpón en mano, no hubiera golpeado con él al tiburón.