The old man and the sea
For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, had shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy's father told his son to go in another boat. From that time on Santiago worked alone. Each morning he rowed his skiff out into the Gulf Stream where the big fish were. Each evening he came in empty-handed.
桑提亞哥老人已經八十四天沒有捕到一條魚了。最初，一個年輕的孩子曼諾林和他一起分擔惡運，但在過了四十天倒黴日子之後，孩子的爸爸讓孩子到另一條船上幹活去了。從那個時候起，桑提亞哥只是一個人幹活。每天早晨他劃著小船到有大魚出沒的墨西哥灣流去，每天晚上他總是兩手空空地回來。
The boy loved the old fisherman and pitied him. If Manolin had no money of his own, he begged or stole to make sure that Santiago had enough to eat and fresh baits for his lines. The old man accepted his kindness with humility that was like a quiet kind of pride. Over their evening meals of rice or black beans they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about American baseball and the great DiMaggio. At night, alone in his shack, Santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of Africa, where he had gone on a sailing ship years before. He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.
孩子喜歡並且可憐這個老漁人。曼諾林要是自己沒有掙到錢，就會乞討或偷竊以保證桑提亞哥有足夠的食物和新鮮的魚餌。老人謙卑地接受孩子的好意，謙卑中帶有某種隱而不露的自豪感。晚餐時(吃的是大米飯和黑蠶豆)他們總會談論在運氣好的日子裡一起捕獲的大魚，或是談論美國的棒球賽和偉大的狄馬吉奧。夜間桑提亞哥一個人躺在自己的小棚屋裡，夢見非洲海灘上的獅子，幾年前他航海去過那個地方。他不再夢見自己死去的老婆了。
On the eighty-fifth day Santiago rowed out of the harbor in the cool dark before dawn. After leaving the smell of land behind him, he set his lines. Two of his baits were fresh tunas the boy had given him, as well as sardines to cover his hooks. The lines went straight down into deep dark water.
在第八十五天，桑提亞哥在寒冷的黎明前的黑暗中，把小船劃出了港口。在把陸地的氣息拋在身後之後，他放下了釣絲。他的兩個魚餌是孩子給他的鮮金槍魚，還有把魚鉤遮蓋起來的沙丁魚。釣絲垂直地下到暗黑的深水裡。
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