老人与海（原著：海明威） 中文译本源自人民文艺出版社（译者：李育超）
他是个老人，独自驾一条小船在湾流中捕鱼。 He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream...
这回连续出海八十四天，一无所获。 .and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.
头四十天，有个男孩跟着他。 In the first 40 days, a boy had been with him.
不过，一连四十天都没捕到鱼，男孩的父母就对孩子说， But after 40 days without a fish the boy's parents told him ...
.老头如今晦气到家了， that the old man was now definitely and finally salao...
真是倒霉透顶， which is the worst form of unlucky...
于是，男孩照他们的吩咐上了另一条船， and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat...
头一个星期就捕到了三条很棒的鱼。 which caught three good fish the first week.
老人教会了这男孩捕鱼，男孩很敬重他。 The old man had taught the boy to fish, and the boy loved him.
老人瘦骨嶙峋，颈背上刻着深深的皱纹。 The old man was gray and wrinkled, with deep furrows in the back of his neck...
他的双手由于常用钓线拖拽大鱼，勒出了很深的疤痕。 ... and his hands had the deep, creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords.
可是，这些伤疤没有一处是新的， But none of these scars were fresh.
和没有鱼的沙漠里风雨侵蚀留下的痕迹一样古老。 They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
他浑身上下都显得很苍老，只有那双眼睛， Everything about him was old, except his eyes.
和大海是一样的颜色，看上去生气勃勃，有一股不服输的劲儿。 And they were the same color as the sea, were cheerful and undefeated.
男孩见老人天天空船而归，心里很难受。 It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty.
他总是走下岸去，帮老人拿卷起来的钓线，或是鱼钩、鱼叉， He always went down to help him carry the lines, the gaff and harpoon...
还有缠在桅杆上的船帆。 and the sail that was furled around the mast.
那船帆用面粉袋打了几个补丁 The sail was patched with flour sacks, and furled.
收拢起来真像是一面标志着永远失败的旗帜。 It looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
没人会偷老人这些家什， No one would steal from the old man...
不过，船帆和沉甸甸的钓线最好还是拿回家， ... but it's better to take the sail and lines home...
露水对它们可不大好。 as the dew was bad for them.
尽管老人深信当地人不会来偷， Though he was sure no local people would steal...
可还是觉得，把手钩和鱼叉留在船上， the old man thought a gaff and a harpoon...
让人产生非分之想，大可不必。 were needless temptations to leave in a boat.
当天有收获的渔夫都已经回来了，他们把大马林鱼剖开， The successful fishermen were already in and had butchered their marlin out...
整个儿横排在两块木板上，两人各抬着木板的一头一路走去送到收鱼站， ... carried them laid full-length across two planks to the fish house...
在那儿等着冷藏车把鱼运往哈瓦那的市场。 ...where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana.
“我请你去露台饭店喝瓶啤酒吧。”男孩说。 "Can I offer you a beer on the terrace?" The boy asked.
那敢情好，”老人说，“都是打鱼的嘛。” "Why not?" the old man said. "Between fisherman. "
* 两瓶啤酒，马丁，谢谢。 Two beers, Martin. Please.
他们坐在露台上，不少渔夫拿老人开玩笑， They sat on the terrace and many fishermen made fun of the old man.
老人并不气恼。 But he was not angry.
他压根儿不去想自己从什么时候起变得如此谦卑， He did not remember when he had attained humility...
他知道自己变得谦卑起来， ... but he knew he had attained it...
而且知道这并不丢脸，也无损于真正的自我尊严。 ... and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no true loss of pride.
还有些上了年纪的渔夫望着他，为他感到难过， Some of the older fishermen looked at him and were sad...
但他们并没有表露出来，只是说些客套话，谈谈海流， ... but they did not show it. They spoke about the currents...
说说钓线入水的深度， ... and the depths they'd drifted their lines at...
接连的好天气，以及各自的见闻。 ... and the steady, good weather and of what they had seen.
- 圣地亚哥。- 哦？ - Santiago. - Yes?
要不要我去弄些沙丁鱼来，给你明天用？ Can I go and get the sardines for you tomorrow?
哦，不用了。 Oh, no. No.
打棒球去吧。我还能划得了船，也撒得动网。 You play ball. I can still row, and I can still throw the net.
我还知道上哪儿能搞来四个鱼饵。 I know where I can get four fresh baits.
我今天还有剩下的。 I still have mine from today.
我给你弄四个新鲜的吧。 Let me get four fresh ones.
- 一个吧。- 两个。 - One. - Two.
好吧两个。 Two.
- 不会是偷来的吧？- 我倒想去偷，不过，这是我买来的。 - You didn't steal them, did you? - I would, but I bought these.
谢谢你。 Thank you.
就算不能跟你一块儿捕鱼，我也想帮点儿忙。 If I cannot fish with you, I'd like to serve in some way.
你请我喝了瓶啤酒， You bought me a beer.
你已经是个男子汉了。 You are already a man.
两人顺着大路来到老人的棚屋前。 They walked up the road together.
老人把裹着船帆的桅杆靠在墙上， The old man stood the mast outside his shack.
棚屋里有一张床、一张桌子、一把椅子， In the old man's shack, there was a bed, a table, chairs...
泥地上还有一块地方可以用木炭烧火做饭。 ... and a place to cook with charcoal.
棕褐色的墙面上，有一幅彩色的《耶稣圣心图》， On the brown walls, there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus...
还有一幅《科伯圣母图》， ... and another of the Virgin of Cobre.
都是他妻子的遗物。 These were relics of his wife.
原先，墙上还挂着一幅他妻子的着色照片， Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall.
因为一瞧见那照片就让他感到孤单，他就取下来， But he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it.
放在屋角的搁板上自己那件干净的衬衫底下。 It was on the shelf in the corner, under his clean shirt.
明天是第八十五天。 Tomorrow is the 85th day.
八十五是个幸运数字， Eighty-five is a lucky number.
你想不想看我带回来一条鱼，去掉内脏净重还有一千多磅？ How'd you like to see me bring one in that dressed out over a thousand pounds?
你还有力气对付一条非常大的鱼吗？ Are you strong enough now for a truly big fish?
我想还有。 I think so.
再说我还有不少窍门儿呢。 And there are many tricks.
圣地亚哥，我又能跟着你了。 Santiago, I could go with you again.
我们家挣到了一点儿钱。 We've made enough money.
算了，你遇上了一条走运的船，还是待下去吧。 No, no. You are in a lucky boat. You stay with them.
不过，你总该记得，有一回你一连八十七天都没捕到鱼， Remember how long we went without fish before?
后来连续三个星期，我们每天都捕到了大鱼。 Then we caught big ones every day for three weeks.
我记得， I remember.
我知道你不是因为吃不准才离开我的。 I know you did not leave me because you lost confidence.
是爸爸让我走的。我是孩子，总得听他的。 It was my papa made me leave. I am a boy and I must obey him.
我明白，这很在理。 Of course, of course. It is quite normal.
他不大有信心。 He hasn't much faith.
- 是啊，可是我们有，对吧？- 对。 - But we have, haven't we? - Yes.
如果你是我的孩子，我就会带你去碰碰运气， If you were my boy, I would take you out again.
可你是你爸妈的孩子，而且你还搭上了一条走运的船。 But you are your father's and your mother's, and you are in a lucky boat.
有什么吃的？ What do you have to eat?
一锅黄米饭和鱼。你想吃点儿吗？ I have a pot of yellow rice and some fish. Would you like some?
不了，我回家去吃。 No. I'll eat at home.
- 我把渔网拿走好吗？- 当然喽。 - May I take the cast net? - Of course.
好吧，我有昨天的报纸， I have yesterday's newspaper.
可以看看棒球的消息。 I will read the baseball.
其实根本没有渔网，男孩还记得他们是什么时候把渔网给卖掉的。 There was no cast net. The boy remembered when they had sold it.
不过，他们每天都要装模作样地走一遍过场。 But they went through this fiction every day.
一锅黄米饭和鱼也是编出来的，男孩心里也明白。 There was no pot of yellow rice and fish, and the boy knew this.
男孩不知道昨天的报纸是否也是纯属编造。 He didn't know whether yesterday's paper was a fiction too.
不过，老人真的从床下拿出了报纸。 The old man brought it out from under the bed.
穿得暖和点儿，老爷子， Keep warm, old man.
坐在门口晒晒太阳，别忘了，这可是九月份。 Sit in the sun. Remember, we're in September.
正是大鱼上钩的时候。 The month of the big fish.
五月份人人都能当个好渔夫。 Anybody can be a fisherman in May.
我弄到沙丁鱼就回来。 I'll be back when I get the sardines.
等我回来，你可以给我说说棒球的消息。 Then you can tell me about the baseball.
* - 嘿，马诺林，来吧。- 来打一垒。 - Hey, Manolin, come on. - Play first base.
* 就是，快来吧。 Hey, yeah. Come on.
* - 马诺林。- 两人份晚餐。带走谢谢。 - Manolin. - A dinner for two, please. To take out.
* 你都不在家吃饭了吗？ You don't eat at home anymore?
* -你打算付多少钱？ - 我有六毛。 - How much do you have to spend? - Sixty cents.
* 好运气还是没上门，对吧？ No luck yet, huh?
* 你知道，也许根本不关运气的事儿。可能就是他太老了。 You know, maybe it's not luck at all. Maybe he's too old.
* 不可能，咱们走着瞧吧。 He's not too old. You'll see.
* - 我只是说可能。- 绝无可能。 - I said, maybe. - Not even maybe.
* 好吧。 All right.
* 我只希望等我老了的时候也能有个孩子帮我捕鱼。 I only hope when I'm an old man I have a boy to fish for me.
男孩回来的时候，老人正在椅子上安睡， When the boy came back, the old man was asleep in a chair...
太阳已经西沉。 ... and the sun was going down.
他的肩膀不同寻常，尽管非常老迈，却依然强健有力， His shoulders were still powerful, although very old.
脖子也仍旧壮实得很。 The neck was still strong too.
而且当他睡着的时候，皱纹也不大明显了， The creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep.
尽管他的头颅已非常苍老， His head was very old, though.
闭着眼睛的时候，面庞上没有一丝生气。 And with his eyes closed, there was no life in his face.
醒醒，老爷子。 Wake up, old man.
老人睁开眼睛，一时神情恍惚， The old man opened his eyes, and for a long moment...
仿佛刚从遥远的地方回过神来。 ... he was coming back from a long way away.
接着他笑了笑。 Then he smiled.
你弄到了什么？ What have you got?
- 晚饭，咱们吃饭吧。- 我还不大饿。 - We're gonna have supper. - I'm not very hungry.
来吃吧。你可不能光打鱼不吃饭啊。 Come on and eat. You can't fish and not eat.
我倒是这么干过。 I have.
只要我活着，就不能让你空着肚子去打鱼。 You won't fish without eating while I'm alive.
那就活得长长的，照顾好自己。 Well, then you live a long time and take good care of yourself.
这？这是谁给你的？ Who...? Who gave this to you?
马丁，饭店老板。 Martin. At the terrace.
嗯， Well...
我得谢谢他。 ...I must be sure and thank him.
我已经谢过他了，你用不着去谢了。 I thanked him already. You don't need to thank him.
两人黑灯瞎火地吃了饭，现在天全黑下来了。 They had eaten with no light on the table, and it was dark now.
老人像往常一样和男孩聊着棒球。 The old man had talked to the boy about baseball as always.
聊着了不起的迪马吉奥又恢复常态了。 About the great DiMaggio and how he was himself again...
以及他队里的其他人。 ... and about the other men on the team.
给我说说大名鼎鼎的约翰·J.麦格劳的事儿吧。 Tell me about the great John J. McGraw.
早先他也常到露台饭店来。 He used to come to the terrace sometimes in the olden days too.
我想他满脑子都是赛马和棒球。 His mind was on the horses, I think, as much as it was on the baseball.
至少他的口袋里老是揣着赛马的名单， At least he used to carry lists of horses in his pocket at all times.
在电话里动不动就提到赛马的名字。 And frequently, he would speak the names of horses on the telephone.
他是个了不起的经理，我爸爸认为他是最棒的。 He was a great manager. My father thinks he was the greatest.
那是因为他上这儿来得最多， That's because he came here the most times.
如果杜罗彻年年继续到这儿来， If Durocher had continued coming here...
你爸爸就会认为他是最了不起的经理了。 ...your father would think he was the greatest manager.
说真的，谁是最能干的经理？ Who is the greatest manager, really?
我觉得他们不相上下。 I think they are all equal.
有时候我很想邀上大名鼎鼎的迪马吉奥去捕鱼， Sometime I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing.
听人说，他父亲也是个打鱼的。 They say his father was a fisherman.
兴许他过去和咱们一样穷，能跟咱们说得来。 Maybe he was poor like we are, and he would understand.
你该上床睡觉了，这样明天早晨才能精力充沛。 You ought to go to bed so that you'll be fresh in the morning.
我把这些东西送回露台饭店。 I'll take these things back to the terrace.
- 那就晚安喽。早上我去叫醒你。- 你就是我的闹钟。 - Good night. See you in the morning. - You're my alarm clock.
年岁是我的闹钟， Age is my alarm clock.
- 好好睡吧，老爷子。- 谢谢。 - Sleep well, old man. - Thank you.
晚安。 Good night.
男孩走了出去。“老家伙们干吗醒得那么早呢？”老人想， The boy went out and the old man thought, "Why do old men wake so early?
“难道是为了让日子更漫长？” Is it to have one longer day?"
他把裤子卷起来当枕头， Then the old man rolled up his trousers to make a pillow...
里面塞着那张报纸。 ... putting the newspaper inside them.
然后，他把自己裹在毯子里， He rolled himself in the blanket and slept on the papers ...
睡在弹簧垫上铺着的另一些旧报纸上。 ... that covered the springs of the bed.
他不一会儿就酣然入睡了， He was asleep in a short time...
梦见了自己小时候去过的非洲， ... and he dreamed of Africa, when he was a boy.
长长的金色海滩和白色海滩，白得刺眼， He dreamed of the golden beaches and the white beaches so white they hurt your eyes.
还有高耸的海岬和褐色的大山。 And the high capes and the great brown mountains.
如今他每天夜里都梦见自己生活在那道海岸边上， He lived along that coast now every night, and in his dreams...
在梦里听见海浪的轰隆声响，看到当地的小船乘风破浪。 ... he heard the surf roar, and saw the native boats come riding through it.
在睡梦中，他闻到甲板上的柏油和麻絮的味道， He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept...
还有清晨陆地上的微风带来的非洲的气息。 ... and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought with the morning.
通常，他一嗅到陆地上的微风就会醒来， Usually when he smelled the land breeze, he woke up...
然后穿上衣服去叫醒男孩。 ... and dressed to go to wake the boy.
不过，今夜那微风的气息来得很早， But tonight the smell of the land breeze came very early...
睡梦中他知道时候还早，就继续停留在梦里， ... and he knew it was too early in his dream and went on dreaming.
看着一个个岛屿上的白色山峰从海面上升起， To see the white peaks of the island rising to the sea...
接着还看到加那利群岛形形色色的港湾和锚泊地。 ... and he dreamed of the different harbors and roadsteads of the Canary Islands.
他不再梦见风暴，不再梦见女人， He no longer dreamed of storms nor of women...
不再梦见重大事件，不再梦见大鱼、打架、力量角逐， ... nor of great occurrences nor of great fish nor fights nor contests of strength ...
也不再梦见他的妻子。 ... nor of his wife.
他如今只梦到一些地方， He only dreamed of places now...
还有沙滩上的狮子。 ... and of the lions on the beach.
狮子在暮色中像小猫一样嬉戏着，他喜爱狮子如同他喜爱那个男孩。 They played like young cats, and he loved them as he loved the boy.
他从来没有梦见过那个男孩。 He never dreamed about the boy.
黎明时分，他就这么醒了， In the dawn, the old man simply woke...
从敞开的门望出去，看着月亮，摊开裤子穿在身上。 ... looked out the door at the dying moon, unrolled his trousers and put them on.
然后顺着路走去叫醒男孩。清晨的寒气让他直打哆嗦， Then went down to wake the boy. He was shivering with cold...
不过他知道，哆嗦一阵之后就会感到暖和，等会儿就要去划船了。 ... but he knew that he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be rowing.
男孩家的房门没有上锁， The door of the house where the boy lived was unlocked...
他推开门，光着脚悄悄走了进去。 ... and he opened it and walked in quietly with his bare feet.
男孩睡在外间的一张帆布床上，老人把他看得清清楚楚。 The boy was asleep on a cot in the room and the old man could see him clearly.
老人轻轻握住男孩的一只脚，直到他醒过来， He took hold of one foot gently and held it until the boy woke...
翻了个身看着老人。 ... and turned and looked at him.
男孩很困, 老人说：“真抱歉。” The boy was sleepy, and the old man said, "I'm sorry. "
“男子汉就得这样。”男孩回答说。 "It is what a man must do," the boy answered.
他们顺着路朝老人的棚屋走去， They walked down the road, and all along the road in the dark...
一路上，男人们扛着桅杆，光着脚在黑暗中走动。 ... barefoot men were moving, carrying the masts of their boats.
你睡得怎么样，老爷子？ How did you sleep?
我睡得很好，马诺林，我今天很有信心。 Very well, Manolin. I feel confident today.
我也是， I do too.
现在我得去拿咱们俩要用的沙丁鱼，马上就回来。 I'll get the sardines. Be right back.
你再喝杯咖啡吧。我们在这儿可以赊账。 Have another cup. We have credit here.
老人慢悠悠地喝着咖啡。 The old man drank his coffee slowly.
这是他一整天的吃喝，他明白应该喝下去。 It's all he'd have all day, and he knew that he should take it.
好久以来，吃东西让他感到厌烦，他从来不带午饭。 For a long time now, eating had bored him, and he never carried a lunch.
船头有一瓶水， He had a bottle of water in the bow of the skiff...
那就是他一天里唯一的需求。 ... and that was all he needed for the day.
祝你好运，老爷子。 Good luck, old man.
也祝你好运。 Good luck.
别的海滩上也有船只纷纷出海， There were other boats going out to sea...
老人能听见船桨入水和划动的声音。 ... and the old man heard the dip and push of their oars.
黑暗中，老人可以感到清晨将至， In the dark, the old man could feel the morning coming.
他一边划着船，一边听着飞鱼出水的颤抖声， And as he rode, he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water...
还有它们那直挺挺的翅膀在黑暗中凌空飞离时发出的咝咝声。 ... and the hissing their stiff, set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.
他非常喜爱飞鱼，那是他在海上最重要的朋友。 He was very fond of flying fish, as they were his principal friends in the ocean.
他为鸟儿感到惋惜，尤其是纤弱的黑色小燕鸥， He was sorry for the birds, especially the small, delicate, dark terns...
它们始终在飞翔觅食，却几乎从来都是一无所获。 ... that were always flying and looking and almost never finding.
他想，除了那些掠夺成性的猛禽和健硕有力的鸟儿， He thought, "The birds have a harder life than we do...
鸟类的生活比我们还要艰辛。 ... except for the robber birds and the heavy, strong ones.
既然海洋如此残酷，造物主为什么还要让鸟儿生得如此柔弱纤巧？ Why do they make birds so delicate and fine when the ocean can be so cruel?
大海仁慈而又美丽，可她也会变得如此残暴。 She is kind and very beautiful, but she can be so cruel. "
淡淡的太阳从海面上升起来，老人可以看见别的船只， The sun rose from the sea, and the old man could see other boats...
低低地挨着水面，离海岸不远，横布在海流之中。 ... low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current.
每每想到大海，他脑海中浮现的总是 la ma He always thought of the sea as la mar...
这是西班牙语中人们对大海的爱称。 ... which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her.
喜爱大海的人们有时候也会说她的坏话， Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her...
不过这种时候往往把她当作女人。 ... but they are always said as though she were a woman.
有些年轻一点儿的渔夫， Some of the younger fishermen ...
总把她当作一个竞争对手，一个去处，甚至是一个敌人。 ... spoke of her as a contestant or a place or an enemy...
可老人一贯把大海想象成女人， ... but the old man had always thought of her as feminine...
她向人们施与或拒绝施与莫大的恩惠。 ... and as something that gave or withheld great favors.
“月亮对大海的影响如同对女人的影响一般。”老人觉得。 "The moon affects her as it does a woman," he thought.
不等天色大亮，他就放出鱼饵，让船随流漂荡。 Before it was light, he had his baits out and was drifting with the current.
其中一个鱼饵下沉到四十英寻深处，第二个在七十五英寻， One bait was down 40 fathoms, the second was at 75...
第三个和第四个分别在一百英寻和一百二十五英寻深的蓝色海水里。 ... and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at 100 and 125 fathoms.
接着，太阳越发明亮了，耀眼的阳光照在海面上， Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water, and as it rose clear...
平静的海面将阳光反射到他的眼睛里，令他的双眼感到刺痛。 ... the flat sea sent it back to his eyes so it hurt sharply...
他划着船，不去看太阳， ... and he rode without looking into it.
而是俯视水中，看那几根笔直垂入黑魆魆的海水中的钓线。 He looked down and watched the lines that went down into the dark of the water.
每个用新鲜沙丁鱼做的鱼饵都是头朝下，钓钩的钩身穿进鱼饵， Each bait hung head-down with the shank of the hook inside...
并且扎好，缝得结结实实， ... tight and sewed solid.
这样一来，鱼钩的所有突出部分， All of the projecting part of the hook...
弯钩和钩尖，都包在鱼肉里。 ... the curve and the point, was covered with sardines...
每条沙丁鱼都用鱼钩穿过双眼，在突出的钢钩上形成半个环。 ... each sardine hooked through both eyes so they made a garland of the projecting steel.
一条大鱼所能碰到的鱼钩上的任何部分， There was no part of the hook that a fish could feel...
都会让它感到美味可口。 ... that was not sweet-smelling and good-tasting.
他想，我的钓线深度很精确， "I keep them with precision," he thought.
只是不再走运而已。 "Only, I have no luck anymore.
可谁知道呢？没准儿今天就时来运转。 But who knows? Maybe today.
每天都是一个崭新的日子。 Every day is a new day.
走运当然更好。不过我宁愿做到分毫不差。 It is better to be lucky, but I would rather be exact.
这样运气降临的时候就有备无患了。 Then when luck comes, you are ready. "
太阳升起来已经过了两个小时， The sun was two hours higher now...
他朝东方望去不再感到那么刺眼了。 ... and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the east.
就在这时，他看见一只军舰鸟， Just then he saw a man-o'- war bird.
那鸟儿倏地急转而下，斜着后掠的翅膀，接着又开始盘旋。 He made a quick drop, slanting down on his backswept wings, and then circled again.
它发现了什么，它可不是随便看看。 He's not just looking. He's found something.
长鳍金枪鱼， Albacore tuna.
做钓饵倒不错。 You will make a beautiful bait.
他记不得自己是从什么时候开始独个儿自言自语了。 He did not remember when he'd first started to talk aloud when he was by himself.
早先他一个人有时候还会唱歌， In the old days, he had sung at night when he was alone...
那是在小帆船或者捕龟船上值班掌舵的时候。 ... steering on his watch on the turtle boats.
也许，是在那男孩离开他之后，他才开始一个人大声说话。 He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy had left...
可是他记不得了。 ... but he did not remember.
在海上，不没话找话说被认为是一种美德， It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...
老人向来这么认为，并且始终尊奉这一信条。 ... and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.
可是现在，他经常把心中所想大声说出来， But now he said his thoughts aloud many times...
反正也不会打扰什么人。 ... since there was no one they could annoy.
“如果有人听见我自言自语，会以为我疯了，”他想， "If the others heard me," he thought, "they would think I am crazy.
“不过，既然我没有发疯，就不管他三七二十一。 But since I am not crazy, I do not care.
有钱人的船里有收音机对着他们说话，还给他们播放棒球赛的消息。” And the rich have radios to talk to them on their boats, to bring them the baseball. "
是的。是的。 Yes. Yes.
接着他感觉重重的一下，那分量让人难以置信。 Then he felt something hard and unbelievably heavy.
那是鱼的分量。 It was the weight of the fish...
于是，他让钓线向下滑去，往下，再往下， ... and he let the line slip down, down, down...
把两卷备用钓线中的一卷一点点放开。 ... unrolling off the first of the two reserve coils.
在离海岸这么远的地方，长到这个月份，这条鱼个头儿一定不小， This far out, he must be huge in this month.
鱼儿啊，快吃吧，吃吧。 Eat them, fish. Eat them.
请吃吧。 Please eat them.
饵料多么新鲜啊， How fresh they are...
你却待在这漆黑而冰冷的海水里。 ...and you down deep in that cold water in the dark.
来吧， Come on, now.
再转身回来， Make another turn.
闻一闻。不是很香吗？趁新鲜吃吧， Then eat them. Just smell the sardines.
还有金枪鱼呢。 Then there is the tuna...
又硬，又凉，又好吃。 ...cold and hard and lovely.
鱼儿，吃吧， Come on, fish. Eat them.
别难为情。 Don't be shy.
它会咬饵的， He'll take it.
上帝保佑让它咬饵吧。 God help him to take it.
它不可能游走的， He can't have gone.
天知道它是不会游走的。它是在兜圈子。 God knows he can't have gone. He must be making another turn.
说不定它以前上过钩，还记得这回事儿。 Perhaps he has been hooked before, and he remembers part of it.
它刚才不过是在兜圈子， He was just turning. He's going to take it.
好大的鱼啊， What a fish!
现在它把鱼饵咬在嘴边， Now he has it sideways in his mouth...
正要带着鱼饵游走呢。 ...and he's going away with it.
钓线从老人的手指间轻轻溜下去的时候， As it went down, slipping lightly through the old man's fingers...
他仍旧能觉出很大的分量， ... he could still feel the great weight...
尽管他的拇指和食指之间几乎感觉不到什么压力。 ... though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible.
它咬饵了， He's taken it.
现在我让它吃个够。 Now let him eat it.
再吃点儿吧， Eat it good, now, fish.
好好吃吧。 Go on, eat it.
吃吧，这样钩尖就能刺入你的心脏，把你杀死， Eat it until the point of the hook goes into your heart and kills you...
然后乖乖地上来吧，让我把鱼叉刺进你的身体。 ...then come up nice and easy and let me put the harpoon into you.
好啦，你准备好了吗？ Now, are you ready?
吃够了吗？ Have you been long enough at table?
*现在鱼一动不动了，老人能感觉到它被钩住了。 Now the fish was struck, and the old man could feel that he was hooked.
*它应该朝前游或者跳起来或者往下钻。 Now he should run with the line or jump or sound to the depths below...
*但是什么都没有发生。 ... but nothing happened.
那鱼径自慢慢游走， The fish just moved away slowly...
老人连一英寸也拉不上来。 ... and the old man could not raise him an inch.
他的钓线很结实，是专为钓大鱼而做的， His line was strong and made for heavy fish...
他把钓线抵在背上猛拉，钓线绷得紧紧的，竟然有水珠迸出。 ... and he held it until it was so taut that beads of water were jumping from it.
小船开始慢慢向西北方向漂去。 Then the boat began to move slowly off toward the northwest.
老人身子抵在横座板上向后仰，和鱼的拉力相对抗。 The old man leaned back against the pull.
鱼一刻不停地游着，和小船一起在平静的水面上慢慢行进。 The fish moved steadily, and they traveled slowly on the calm water.
另外几个鱼饵还在水里，不过没什么动静，可以置之不理。 The other baits were still in the water, but there was nothing to be done.
这样下去它会死的， This will kill him.
它不可能永远这么游下去。 He can't keep this up forever.
然而，过了四个钟头，那鱼仍然拖着小船，一刻不停地游向大海深处， But four hours later, the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea...
钓线也依然紧绷在老人背上。 ... towing the skiff, and the old man was still braced solidly.
“这该是条多大的鱼啊。”他想。 "What a fish to pull like that!" he thought.
“它的嘴准是死死钩在钢丝钓钩上了。” "He must have his mouth shut tight on the wire.
“我真想看它一眼，好知道这是个什么样的对手。” I wish I could see him only once to know what I have against me. "
陆地已经不在视线之内。“这没什么关系，”他想。 There was no land in sight now. "That makes no difference," he thought.
“我总能借着哈瓦那的灯光回家。” "I can always come in on the glare off the lights from Havana. "
这鱼上钩约莫是在中午，可我还没看见它一眼呢。 It was noon when I hooked him, and I have not yet seen him.
真希望那孩子在我身边， I wish the boy was here.
我正被一条鱼拖着走，成了系缆绳的桩子啦。 I'm being towed by a fish, and I am the towing bitt.
“如果它一门心思往下钻，我该怎么办？我不知道。 "What I will do if he decides to go down, I don't know.
如果它潜到海底，死在那里怎么办？我不知道。 What I'll do if he sounds and dives, I don't know.
我得想想法子。我有不少办法呢。 I'll do something. There are plenty of things I can do.
我倒是可以把钓线固定起来，”他想，“不过这样一来鱼就会把钓线扯断。 I could make the line fast, " he thought, "but then he could break it.
我得死命拉住，不得已的时候放开一点儿钓线。 I must hold him all I can and then give him line when he must have it.
谢天谢地，它在朝前游，没有往下钻。” Thank God he is traveling and not going down. "
日落之后天气变凉了， It was cold after the sun went down...
老人的后背、胳膊和两条老腿上的汗水都晾干了，身子感到发冷。 ... and the old man's sweat dried cold on his back and his arms and his old legs.
* “太阳落山了，它没有上来。”他想。 "He didn't come up when the sun set," he thought.
* 也许会和月亮一起上来。 "Maybe he will come up with the moon.
* 要是还不上来，也许会在太阳升起的时候。 If he does not do that, maybe he will come up with the sunrise.
我真想看看它的样子。 I wish I could see him.
我真想看它一眼，好知道这是个什么样的对手。” I wish I could see him only once to know what I have against me. "
两只海豚游到小船附近，他能听见它们翻腾和喷水的声音。 Two porpoises came round the boat, he could hear them rolling and blowing.
他能分辨出雄海豚那喧闹的喷水声， He could tell the difference between the noise the male made...
和雌海豚发出的叹息似的喷水声。 ... and the sighing blow of the female.
“它们真好，”他想。 "They're good," he thought.
“嬉戏、打闹，相亲相爱。 "They play and make jokes and love one another.
它们跟飞鱼一样，是我们的兄弟。” They are our brothers, like the flying fish. "
他开始怜悯起这条被他钓住的大鱼来了。 Then he began to pity the great fish he had hooked.
“它真是了不起，真是与众不同，”他想。 "He is wonderful and strange," he thought.
“有谁知道它有多大岁数？” "Who knows how old he is. "
我从来没有碰上过一条这么强壮的鱼， Never have I had such a strong fish...
也没有见识过这么奇特的一条鱼。 ...or one that acted so strangely.
它也许是太聪明了，才没有往上跳。 Maybe he's too wise to jump.
它要是跳起来或者横冲直撞，我就完了。 He could ruin me with a jump or one quick rush.
不过，也许它曾经不止一次上过钩， Maybe he has been hooked many times before...
知道就该这么对抗。 ...and he knows this is how he must make his fight.
它咬起饵来像条雄鱼， He took the bait like a male.
拖拽起钓线来也像条雄鱼， He moves like a male.
搏斗起来没有一丝惊慌。 There is no panic in his fight.
不知道它是胸有成竹，还是和我一样孤注一掷。 I wonder if he has a plan or if he's just as desperate as I am.
真希望那孩子在我身边。 I wish the boy was here.
老人靠着观察天上的星斗， The fish never changed his course nor his direction all that night...
看出这条鱼整个晚上都没有改变自己的路线和方向。 ... as far as the old man could tell from watching the stars.
他能感觉到大鱼的力量。那鱼一直朝着自己选择的方向，一刻不停地游着。 He felt the strength of the great fish moving steadily toward what he had chosen...
是我耍的花招，老人心想， ... and he thought, "When once through my treachery ...
迫使它做出了选择。 ...it had been necessary for him to make a choice
它本来选择待在黑魆魆的深水里， ... his choice had been to stay in the deep water...
远远避开一切圈套、陷阱和花招。 ... far out beyond all snares and traps and treacheries.
而我选择到没人去过的地方找它。 My choice was to go there and find him beyond all people.
世界上任何人都没去过。 Beyond all people in the world.
现在我们给拴在一起了，从中午开始就是这样。 Now we are joined together and have been since noon.
谁也没有帮手。 And no one to help either one of us. "
我会损失两百英寻长棒极了的钓线，还有钓钩和接钩绳。”他想。 "I have lost 200 fathoms of good line and hooks and leaders, " he thought.
这些还可以重新添置。 "That can be replaced.
可是，万一钓上了别的鱼，把这条鱼给弄丢了，拿什么来代替呢？ But who replaces this fish if I hook some fish and it cuts him off?
我不知道刚才咬饵的是条什么鱼。 I don't know what the fish was that took the bait just now.
有可能是条大马林鱼，或者剑鱼，要么就是鲨鱼。我还没来得及琢磨呢。 Could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark. I never felt him.
我得赶紧把它干掉。 I had to get rid of him too fast. "
“不知道刚才这鱼为什么突然颠了一下，”他想。 "I wonder what he made that lurch for," he thought.
一定是金属接钩绳滑到了它那高高隆起的背上。 "The wire must have slipped on the great hill of his back.
当然，它的后背不会和我一样难受。 Certainly his back cannot feel as badly as mine does...
可是，不管它有多么了不起， ... and he cannot pull this skiff forever...
也不可能永远拖着这条小船游下去。 ... no matter how strong he is. "
“上帝保佑，让它跳吧，” "Please, God, let him jump.
要是我把钓线稍微拉紧一点儿，也许它就会疼得跳起来， Maybe if I can increase the tension a little more, it will hurt him, and he will jump.
就让它跳吧，这样它脊骨边上的气囊会充满空气， Let him jump so that he will fill the sacs along his backbone with air...
就不会沉到深海去死了。 ... and then he cannot go deep to die. "
鱼啊，我喜欢你，也非常尊敬你。 Fish, I love you and I respect you very much...
不过，今天天黑之前，我要杀死你。 ...but I will kill you before this day ends.
一只小鸟从北面朝小船飞来。 A small bird came toward the skiff from the north.
是一只刺嘴莺，在水面上飞得很低。 He was a warbler and flying very low over the water.
老人看出它很疲倦。 And the old man could see that he was very tired.
嘿… Hey...
你多大了？ ...how old are you?
头一遭飞到这儿来？ Is this your first trip?
你不该这么累啊。 Why are you so tired?
鸟儿这都怎么啦？ What are birds coming to anyway?
“因为有鹰，”他想，“鹰会飞到海上捕捉鸟儿。” "The hawks," he thought, "that come out to sea to meet them. "
可这话他没说给鸟儿，反正它也听不懂， But he said nothing of this to the bird, who could not understand him anyway...
而且过不了多久就会领教鹰的厉害。 ... and who'd learn about the hawks soon enough.
好好儿歇歇吧，小鸟， It is all right, small bird.
然后去碰碰运气， You rest for a minute.
像所有的人或鸟， But then you must go in, and you must take your chances like every man...
或者鱼一样。 ...and every fish and every bird must do.
很抱歉，我不能撑起船帆，趁着正在刮起的微风送你回去。 I wish I could hoist my sail and take you in with the small breeze that's rising...
可我总算有个伴儿了。 ...but I'm with a friend.
它被什么东西刺痛了。 Something hurt him.
鱼啊，现在你也尝到滋味了吧， You're feeling it now, fish.
天知道，我也一样。 And so, God knows, am I.
“我怎么能被那鱼猛地一拉就割破了手呢？”老人想。 "How did I let the fish cut me with one pull he made?" the old man thought.
“我准是变得越来越笨了。 "I must be getting very stupid.
这会儿我得专心干自己的活计， I better pay attention to my work.
然后我得吃下那条金枪鱼，免得力不从心。 And then I must eat the bonito so I will not have a failure of strength.
要是那男孩在这儿，再有点儿盐就好了。 I wish the boy was here to cut up the bonito, and I wish I had some salt.
我觉得我是吃不下一整条的。” I don't think I can eat an entire one. "
这叫什么手啊， What kind of a hand is that?
随你去抽筋吧。 Go on. Cramp if you want to.
变成爪子好了。这对你可没什么好处。 Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good.
我得吃下那条金枪鱼， I must eat the bonito...
免得力不从心。 ...not to lose my strength.
不能怪这只手不好，没问题， Do not blame the hand. It is not the hand's fault.
你能跟它奉陪到底。 And you have been a long time with fish.
手啊，你感觉怎么样？ How do you feel, hand?
还是为时过早，没法儿知晓？ Or is it too early to know?
也许太阳出来手就能张开了， Maybe it will open with the sun.
要是我非得用这只手不可，就一定要张开它， If I have to open it, I will open it.
不惜任何代价。 Cost whatever it cost.
“上帝保佑我，让我别再抽筋了，”他想。 "God help me to have the cramp go," he thought.
“因为我不知道这鱼还要怎么着。 "Because I don't know what the fish is going to do.
不过它似乎很平静，好像在按自己的计划行动。可它有什么打算呢？ But he seems calm and following his plan, but what is his plan?
我又有什么打算？ What is mine?
它个头儿大，我必须随机应变，顺应它的计划。 Mine I must improvise to his because of his great size.
如果它跳上来，”他想，“我就能杀死它。” If he will jump, " he thought, "I can kill him. "
它要上来了，手啊，你快点儿啊。快点儿张开吧。 Hand. Come on, hand. He's coming up. Hand.
它比我的小船还长哪。 He's longer than the skiff.
哦，这是条大鱼。 Oh, he's a great fish.
谢天谢地，它们没有我们这些要置它们于死地的人聪明， Thank God they are not as intelligent as we who kill them.
尽管它们更高贵， Although they are more noble...
也更能干。 ...and more able.
我真搞不懂它刚才为什么跳起来， I wonder why he jumped.
它那么一跳，简直就是为了让我瞧瞧它的个头儿有多大。 It's almost as though he jumped just to show me how big he was.
鱼啊，这对你来说可不是好消息。 Bad news for you, fish.
时间已近午后，小船仍旧在稳稳地缓慢行进。 It was getting late in the day now, and the skiff still moved slowly and steadily.
老人感到很舒服，但也很痛苦， The old man was suffering...
虽然他根本不承认有什么痛苦。 ... although he did not admit to suffering at all.
我不是个虔诚的教徒， I am not religious...
不过我要念上十遍《天主经》，十遍《圣母经》，好让我逮住这条鱼。 ...but I will say 10 Our Fathers and 10 Hail Marys that I may catch this fish.
我保证，如果我能捉住它，一定去朝拜科伯圣母。 I will also make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre.
我说到做到。 That is a promise.
“我们在天上的父，愿人都尊你的名为圣。” "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. "
他开始刻板地念起祈祷文来， He commenced to say his prayers mechanically.
有时候竟然累得连祈祷词都忘了， Sometimes he would be so tired that he could not remember the prayer.
于是他念得很快，这样就能顺口念出来。 Then he would say them so fast, they would come automatically.
“念《圣母经》比念《天主经》容易些，”他想。 "Hail Marys are easier to say than Our Fathers, " he thought.
老人感到非常疲乏，而且他知道夜晚很快就会来临。 The old man felt very tired, and he knew that the night would come soon...
他努力去想点儿别的什么。 ... and he tried to think of other things.
他想到了棒球的两大联赛， He thought of the big leagues.
用他的话来说就是比赛。 To him, they were the gran ligas.
他知道纽约的扬基队正和底特律的老虎队有一场比赛。 And he knew that the Yankees of New York were playing the Tigers of Detroit.
“联赛已经进入第二天，可我还不知道比赛结果如何，”他想。 "This is the second day now that I do not know the results of the games, " he thought.
我一定要有信心， Then, to give himself more confidence...
他想起了那次在卡萨布兰卡的一家小酒馆里， ... he remembered the time in the tavern at Casablanca...
他跟一个从西恩富戈斯来的大块头黑人比手劲， ... when he played the hand game with a Negro from Cienfuegos...
那个黑人是码头上力气最大的。 ... who was the strongest man on the docks.
那时候的老人还不是老人，而是正当壮年。 He was not an old man then, but he was in his prime.
整整一天一夜， He and the Negro had gone one day and night...
他们俩把胳膊肘撑在桌面那道粉笔线上， ... with their elbows on a chalked line on the table.
不少人都下了赌注。整个晚上，两个人风水轮流转， There was much betting, and the odds changed back and forth all night...
他们每四个小时换一次裁判， ... and they changed the referees every four hours...
好让裁判有时间睡觉。 ... so that the referee could get some sleep.
人们把朗姆酒送到那个黑人嘴边， They fed the Negro rum.
朗姆酒一下肚，那黑人就会拼命使劲儿， Once, after the rum, the Negro made his all-out bid.
但是老人又把手扳了回来，两人成了平手。 But the old man raised his hand up to dead even again.
当时，他有把握击败黑人，那是个好样的黑人，一个了不起的运动员。 He was sure that he had the Negro, who was a fine man and a great athlete beaten.
天亮时，打赌的人要求把比赛定为平局， At daylight, when bettors were asking him to call it a draw...
因为他们得到码头上去干活儿， ... because they had to go to work on the docks...
老人用足了力气， ... the old man unleashed his greatest effort.
那个来自西恩富戈斯的黑人被他打垮了自信心。 He knew that he had broken the confidence of the Negro...
他结束了这场角逐，而且是赶在大家必须去干活儿之前。 ... and now he finished the bout before anyone had to go to work.
打那以后好一阵子，人人都管他叫“冠军”。 For a long time after that, everyone had called him "the champion. "
鱼啊，你感觉怎么样？ How do you feel, fish?
我感觉不错， I feel fine.
左手好多了， My left hand is better.
鱼啊，你就拖着这条船吧。 Pull the boat, fish.
天快黑的时候，鱼和船经过好大一片马尾藻， Just before it was dark, as they passed the great island of sargasso weed...
那片马尾藻在微波动荡的海面上飘摇， ... that heaved and swung as though the ocean were making love...
仿佛大海和什么东西在黄色的毯子下面做爱， ... with something under a yellow blanket...
就在这时，老人那根细钓线被一条鲯鳅咬住了， ... his small line had been taken by a dolphin...
* 他把它弄到了小船上。 ... and he had brought it into the skiff.
鲯鳅烧熟了吃味道棒极了， What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked...
生吃可真糟糕。 ...and what a miserable fish raw.
“眼下还是让这鱼安静些好，日落时分最好别太惊扰它。 "I had better keep the fish quiet now and not disturb him too much at sunset.
太阳落下去的时候，所有的鱼都不大好过。 The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish. "
此时，天已经黑了，九月里，太阳一落，天就黑得很快。 It was darker now, as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in September.
第一批星星出来了。 The first stars were out.
他不知道其中一颗叫作 Rigel，但他一看到那颗星， He did not know the name of Rigel, but he saw it...
就知道所有的星星很快全都会露面， ... and knew soon they would be out, ...
这些相距遥远的朋友又来和他相伴了。 ... and he would have all his distant friends.
“这条鱼也是我的朋友，”他想。 "The fish is my friend too," he thought.
我从来没见过，也没听说过这样一条鱼。 Never have I seen or heard of such a fish.
不过我必须杀死它。 But I must kill him.
幸亏我们用不着非得杀死那些星星。 I'm glad I do not have to kill the stars.
想想看，要是每天都有人必须设法杀死月亮会怎么样， Imagine how it would be if, every day, a man had to try to kill the moon.
月亮会逃走的。 The moon runs away.
不过再想想看，要是每天都有人不得已去设法杀死太阳又会怎样？ But think what it would be if, every day, he had to try to kill the sun.
我们生来还算是幸运的。” We're born lucky.
“已经过去半天一夜，现在又是一天了，可你一直没睡觉。 "It was half a day and a night, and now another day, and you have not slept.
如果你不睡觉，脑子可能会糊里糊涂。 If you do not sleep, you might become unclear in the head.
老家伙，先歇歇， Rest now, old man.
让它卖力气吧， Let him do the work.
等轮到你上阵的时候再说。” Until it is time for your next journey. "
他俯身向前，用整个身子夹住钓线， He lay forward, cramping himself against the line with his body...
身体的全部重量都落在左手上，接着他就睡着了。 ... putting all his weight on his left hand, and he was asleep.
他没有梦见狮子，却梦见了一大群海豚， He did not dream of the lions, but instead, of a vast school of porpoises...
有八到十英里那么宽广，时值交配季节， ... that stretched for eight or 10 miles, and it was in the time of their mating.
它们不断地高高跃到空中， And they would leap high into the air...
再落进腾空一跃时在海水中留下的水涡里。 ... and return in the same hole they made in the water when they leaped.
接着他又梦见在村子里自己躺在床上， Then he dreamed he was in the village, on his bed.
北风强劲，周身寒冷， And there was a norther, and he was very cold.
自己的右臂都麻木了，因为他把头枕在那上面，而不是在枕头上 And his arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.
后来他又梦见那条长长的黄色海滩， After that, he began to dream of the long yellow beach...
看见第一头狮子在黄昏时分下到海滩上， ... and he saw the first of the lions.
他等着看有没有更多的狮子来，心情很愉快。 And he waited to see if there would be more lions, and he was happy.
*** Then he dreamed of the whales that passed along this coast in the fall.
*** And of their mating too, and of their friendliness with each other, and their play.
月亮升起已经好一阵子了，可他还在睡着， The moon had been up for a long time, but he slept on.
大鱼平稳地拖着小船，驶进云彩形成的隧道。 And the fish pulled on steadily, and the boat moved into a tunnel of clouds.
他醒过来是因为自己的右拳猛地砸在脸上，钓线从右手滑出去， He woke with a jerk of his fist coming up, and the line burning out through his hand.
等的就是这个， This is what we waited for.
现在我们来大显身手吧。 Now let us take it.
它得为拖走钓线付出代价，让它为这个付出代价吧。 Make him pay for the line. Make him pay for it.
“我要让它看看，一个男子汉有多大能耐， "I will show him what a man can do ...
“一个男子汉能忍受多大的痛苦。”他想。 ... and what a man endures, " he thought.
他已经证实过上千次了，但那算不了什么。 The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing.
眼下他正要再证实一次。 Now he was proving it again.
每一回都是全新的感受， Each time was a new time...
他在身体力行的时候从来不会回想过去。 ... and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
“要是那个男孩在这儿，他会打湿这些成卷的钓线，”他想。 "If the boy were here, he could wet the coils of the line, " he thought.
“是啊，要是那个男孩在这儿。要是那个男孩在这儿……” "Yes, if the boy were here, if the boy were here. "
“没错儿，现在它已经跳了十几次了，背囊里充满了空气， "Now he has jumped and filled the sacs along his back with air.
不可能再潜到深海里， Now he cannot go down deep to die.
不一会儿它就会开始兜圈子，那时候我一定得对付它。” He will start circling soon, then I must start working on him. "
你这没用的东西， Well, you didn't do so badly...
总算还不是太差劲， ...for something that is worthless.
现在我能做的一切都已经做了， Now I have done my best.
让它开始兜圈子吧， He will begin to circle soon.
让我们开始交锋吧。 Let the fight come.
从他出海以来，太阳第三次升起的时候， The sun was rising for the third time since he had put out to sea.
这条鱼继续慢慢地兜圈子，老人大汗淋漓， The fish was circling slowly, and the old man was wet with sweat...
累得骨头都快散架了。 ... and tired deep into his bones.
我可不能不争气， I could not fail myself now...
就这样死在一条鱼跟前， ...and die on a fish like this.
既然我已经让它乖乖地过来了，老天就保佑我挺下去吧。 Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me to endure.
我要念上一百遍《天主经》，还有一百遍《圣母经》。 I will say 100 Our Fathers and 100 Hail Marys.
不过眼下可不行。 But I cannot say them now.
就当作是念过了吧， Please consider them said.
我以后会补上的。 I will say them later.
一个小时以来，老人眼前一直浮动着黑点子， For an hour, he had been seeing spots before his eyes.
有两回感到头昏眼花， Twice he had felt faint and dizzy...
这让他有些担忧。 ... and that had worried him.
他最先看到的是一个黑色的影子， Then suddenly, he saw a dark shadow...
那影子过了好长时间才从船底下钻过， ... that took so long to pass the boat ...
他简直不敢相信这鱼竟然有这么长。 ...that he couldn't believe its length.
它不可能有那么大。 He can't be that big.
可是那鱼当真有那么大。 But he was that big.
他又感到一阵头晕， He felt faint again.
“我拉动它了，”他想， "I moved him," he thought.
“也许这回我就能把它拉过来了。” "Maybe this time I can get him over. "
手啊，你拉呀， Pull, hands.
腿啊，你可得站稳了。 Hold on, legs.
“我这回一定得把它拉到船边来，”老人想。 "I must get him alongside this time," the old man thought.
下一轮较量的时候我就得制服它了。 Next time I'll pull him over.
他又试了一次， He tried it once more.
当他把鱼拉转过来的时候，感觉自己都要垮了。 And he felt himself going when he turned the fish.
“我还要再试一次，”他对自己许诺， "I will try it again," the old man promised, ...
尽管他的眼睛一忽看得见，一忽看不见。 ... and he could only see well in flashes.
鱼啊，反正你是死定了。难道你非得把我也害死不可？ Fish, you're going to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
他承受着所有的痛楚，使出余下的全部气力，还有早已丧失的自尊， He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride...
用来对抗鱼的痛苦挣扎。 ... and he put it against the fish's agony.
“可我得把它拉过来，拉近，再拉近，”他想。 "I must get him close, close," he thought.
“千万不能把鱼叉插进它的脑袋，一定要插进它的心脏。” "I mustn't try for the head, I must get the heart. "
现在我杀死了这条鱼，它是我的兄弟， Now I have killed this fish who was my brother.
现在我有苦差事要干啦。 Now I must do the slave work.
动手干吧，老头儿。 Get to work, old man.
老人不需要靠指南针来辨别西南方向， The old man did not need a compass to tell him where southwest was.
仅凭信风吹在身上的感觉和船帆的动向就能知道。 He only needed the feel of the trade wind and drawing of the sail.
他能看得到那条鱼， He could see the fish.
只要看看自己的手，感觉后背抵在船尾， And he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern...
就能知道这是真真切切发生的事儿，不是一场梦。 ... to know this had truly happened and was not a dream.
“我的手很快就能恢复，”他想。 "The hands cure quickly," he thought.
“我让手里的血都流光了，盐水能治愈它们。 "I've bled them clean. The salt water will heal them.
真正的海湾里深色的海水是世上最好不过的良药。” The dark water of the gulf is the greatest healer that there is. "
接着他的头脑有点儿不大清楚了，他问自己： Then his head started to become unclear, and he asked himself:
“现在是这鱼在带我回家，还是我带着鱼回家呢？” "Is he bringing me in, or am I bringing him in?"
他们就像兄弟一样并肩航行。 They were sailing together, lashed side by side.
老人想，“只要它乐意，就算是它在带我回家吧。 And the old man thought, "Let me bring him in, if it pleases him.
我只不过是靠耍花招才胜过了它，而且它也不想伤害我。” I am only better than him through trickery, and he meant me no harm. "
他们航行得很顺利。 They sailed well.
老人把双手浸在海水里，尽量保持头脑清醒。 The old man soaked his hands in the water and tried to keep his head clear.
他不时地看看那条鱼，以确信这是真的。 He looked at the fish constantly to make sure it was true.
一个小时后，第一条鲨鱼发动了袭击。 It was an hour before the first shark hit him.
那是一条很大的灰鲭鲨， He was a very big mako shark...
生就的游泳高手，能和海里速度最快的鱼游得一样快， ... built to swim as fast as the fastest fish of the sea.
此时，它闻到了新鲜的血腥味，于是加快速度， Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent...
蓝色的背鳍破水前进。 ... and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.
老人一看见它游过来，就知道这是一条毫无畏惧、 When the old man saw him coming, he knew this shark had no fear at all...
肆意妄为的鲨鱼。 ... and would do exactly what he pleased.
真是好景不长啊， It's too good to be true.
这简直像是做梦一样， Might just as well have been a dream.
尖齿鲨。 Mako.
现在我这条鱼又在淌血，别的鲨鱼也会来袭击的。 Now my fish bleeds again, and there will be others.
好景不长啊， It was too good to be true.
大鱼被咬得残缺不全， The old man did not look at the fish anymore...
老人都不忍心再看上一眼。 ... since it had been mutilated.
鱼被袭击的时候，他感觉就像是自己受到袭击一般。 When the fish had been hit, it was as if he himself had been hit.
“不过，攻击我这条鱼的鲨鱼被我干掉了，”他想。 "But I killed the shark that hit my fish," he thought.
“它是我见过的最大的尖齿鲨。 "He was the biggest dentuso I have ever seen.
天知道，我可见识过不少大鱼。” It was too good to last. "
他知道，鲨鱼每次猛撞上去， He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark...
都会撕去一块肉， ... had been meat torn away...
而且大鱼在海里给所有的鲨鱼留下了， ... and that the fish now made a trail of blood for all sharks...
一道有公路那么宽的踪迹。 ... as wide as a highway through the sea.
他心里很明白如果驶进海流中间， He knew quite well the pattern of what could happen ...
会发生什么事情。 ... when he reached the inner part of the current...
可是眼下一点儿办法也没有。 ... but there was nothing to be done now.
“不，有办法，”他想。 "Yes, there is," he thought.
“我可以把刀子绑在一支船桨的柄上。” "I can lash my knife to the butt of one of the oars. "
“要是有块磨刀石就好了，”他想，“我真该带一块来。” "I should've brought a stone for the knife," he thought.
“你该带的东西多着哪，可你就是没带，眼下可不是想自己缺什么的时候。 "You should've brought many things, but did not. Now is no time to think...
还是想想用手头儿的东西能派什么用场吧。” ... of what you do not have. Think what you can do with what you have. "
“你给了我好多忠告，”他想，“我都听烦了。” "You give me good counsel," he thought. "I'm tired of it. "
我还是个老头儿，但可不是手无寸铁了。 I am still an old man, but I will not be unarmed.
来吧，加拉诺鲨！ Come on, galanos!
来吧，来吧，加拉诺鲨！ Come on. Come on, galanos!
来吧。来吧。 Come on. Come on.
鱼啊，我出海太远了。 I went out too far, fish.
对你对我都不好。 No good for you, nor for me.
鱼啊，真抱歉。 I'm sorry, fish.
我还有半条鱼， I still have almost half of him left.
也许我走运，能把前半条带回去呢。 Maybe I will have the luck to bring that much of him in.
我总该有点儿运气吧。 I should have some luck.
不会的， No.
你出海太远了，你的好运气都给毁了。 No, you violated your luck when you went too far out.
别犯傻了， Don't be silly.
还是清醒着点儿，掌好舵吧。 Stay awake and steer.
兴许你还能交上好大的运气呢。 You still may have some luck.
要是有地方卖的话， I would like to buy some...
我倒想买些运气。 ...if there is a place where they sell it.
我能拿什么来买呢？ What would I buy it with?
用一支搞丢了的鱼叉、一把折断的刀子， A lost harpoon? A broken knife?
还有一双损坏的手能买来吗？ Two bad hands?
也许你能行， You might.
你试着用连续出海八十四天换来好运气， You tried to buy it with 84 days at sea.
人家差一点儿就卖给你了。 They almost sold it to you too.
绝对不能胡思乱想， Must not think such nonsense.
好运这玩意儿，出现的形式多种多样， Luck is a thing that comes in many forms.
谁能认得准啊？ Who can recognize her?
但愿我能看到哈瓦那的灯光， I wish I could see the lights of Havana.
我希望得到的东西太多了， I wish for too many things.
眼下只希望这一样。 But that is what I wish now.
他看见城市灯光的倒影，肯定是在夜里十点钟左右。 He saw the reflected glare of the light of the city at around 10:00 at night.
这时候，他浑身僵硬、酸痛， He was stiff and sore now...
身上的伤口和所有用力过度的地方都让他感到疼痛。 ... and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt.
他没法再跟鱼说话了，因为鱼已经破损得不成样子。 He could not talk to the fish anymore, because the fish had been ruined too badly.
接着他又想起了什么。 Then something came into his head.
半条鱼， Half fish.
你原来是一整条。 Fish that you were.
很抱歉，我出海太远了。 I am sorry I went out too far.
我把咱们俩都毁了。 Ruined us both.
不过，咱们杀死了好多条鲨鱼呢，你和我一起， But we have killed many sharks, you and I...
还打垮了好多条。 ...and ruined many more.
你杀死过多少啊，鱼老弟？ How many have you ever killed, old fish?
你头上的长矛可不是白长的啊。 You do not have that spear for nothing.
“要是夜里来了鲨鱼，该怎么办？”他想， "What will you do now if they come in the night?" he thought.
要是它们夜里来了我该怎么办？ What will I do if they come in the night?
跟它们斗， I'll fight them.
我要跟它们一直斗到死。 I'll fight them until I die.
“哦，但愿不用再搏斗了，”他想。 "Oh, but I hope I do not have to fight again, " he thought.
“真希望不用再搏斗了。” "I hope so much I do not have to fight again. "
但是，他又上阵了，而且这次他心里明白，搏斗也是徒劳。 But he fought again, and this time he knew the fight was useless.
来吧。 Come on.
来吧！ Come on!
来吧。 Come on.
来吧，加拉诺鲨！ Come on, galanos!
来吧，加拉诺鲨！来吧。 Come on, galanos! Come on.
来吧，加拉诺鲨！来吧！ Come on, galanos! Come on!
他知道自己终于被击垮了，无法挽回， He knew he was beaten now, finally and without remedy.
鱼啊，真抱歉。 I'm sorry, fish.
他感觉自己已经到了海流中间， He could feel he was inside the current now...
可以看见沿岸的海滩村落里的灯光。 ... and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore.
他知道现在到了什么地方，回家已经毫不费力了。 He knew where he was now, and it was nothing to get home.
“不管怎么说，风是我们的朋友，”他想。 "The wind is our friend anyway," he thought.
接着他又想，“那是有时候。” Then he added, "Sometimes. "
“还有大海，海里有我们的朋友，也有我们的敌人。还有床。 "And the great sea with our friends and our enemies and bed.
床是我的朋友。就是床。 Bed is my friend, just bed.
床是一件很不错的东西。” Bed will be a great thing. "
你给打垮了，反倒轻松了。 It is easy when you are beaten.
是什么把你给打垮了呢？ What beat you?
没有什么把我打垮，都是因为我出海太远了。 Nothing. I just went out too far.
人不是为失败而生的， Man is not made for defeat.
一个人可以被毁灭，但不能被打败。 Man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
海港里静悄悄的， It was quiet in the harbor.
他驾船来到岩石下面的一小片沙石滩。 And he sailed up onto the little patch of shingle below the rocks.
没人帮忙， There was no one to help him.
他取下桅杆，卷起船帆捆好， He unstepped the mast, furled the sail...
然后扛着桅杆开始往岸上爬。 ... shouldered the mast, and started to climb.
这会儿他才知道自己有多么累。 It was then he knew the depth of his tiredness.
一路上他坐下歇了五次，才走回自己的小棚屋。 He had to sit down five times before he reached the shack.
早上，风刮得太猛烈了， In the morning, it was blowing so hard...
漂流船都不会出海， ... that the boats would not be going out.
男孩便睡了个晚觉，接着跟每天早上一样， And the boy had slept late and then had come to the old man's shack...
来到老人的棚屋。 ... as he had come each morning while the old man was gone.
老人正睡着，男孩看见他在呼吸， The old man was asleep, and the boy saw that he was breathing.
又看看老人那双手，禁不住哭了起来。 And then he saw the old man's hands, and he started to cry.
他悄悄地走出去弄来一些咖啡，一路上哭个不停。 He went out to bring some coffee, and all the way down the road, he was crying.
好多渔夫都围着那条小船，看绑在船旁边的东西。 Many fishermen were around the skiff, looking at what was beside it.
其中一个卷起裤腿站在水里， And one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton...
正用一根钓线量死鱼的残骸。 ... preparing to take off the head and the bill.
男孩没有走下去。 The boy did not go down.
他刚才已经去过了， He had been there before.
* 马丁。 Martin.
一罐咖啡，多加点儿牛奶和糖。 A can of coffee with plenty of milk and sugar in it.
多大的鱼啊， What a fish that was.
从来没见过这么大的鱼。 There has never been such a fish.
你昨天捕到的那两条也不错。 Those were two fine fish you took yesterday.
我的鱼，见鬼去吧。 Never mind about my fish.
他想喝点儿什么吗？ Does he want a drink of any kind?
不要了。等会儿我看他能吃点儿什么。 No. If he does, I'll be back.
跟他说我有多么难过。 You tell him how sorry I am.
谢谢。 Thanks.
* 我去倒咖啡。 I'll get the coffee.
它们把我打垮了，马诺林，它们真的打垮了我。 They beat me, Manolin. They truly beat me.
没把你打垮。那条鱼可没有。 He didn't beat you, not the fish.
你吃了多少苦啊？ Did you suffer much?
现在咱们又能一起捕鱼了。 Now we'll fish together again.
不行啊。 No, no.
我再也交不上好运了。 I am not lucky anymore.
让运气见鬼去吧，我会带来好运的。 The hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.
- 你家里人会怎么说呢？- 我才不管呢。 - What will your father say? - I don't care what he says.
嗯…… Well...
我们得弄一支好使的鱼镖备在船上。 We will have to get a killing lance and keep it onboard at all times.
应该磨得非常锋利， It must be very sharp...
不用回火，要不会断的。我的刀就断了。 ...and not tempered so it will break, like my knife broke.
我再去弄把刀来， I'll get another knife.
这大风要刮多少天啊？ How many days of heavy wind have we?
也许三天，也许还不止。 Oh, maybe three. Maybe more.
我会把一切都准备好， I'll have everything in order.
你把手养好，老爷子。 You get your hands well, old man.
* 过几天就会好了， They will be all right in a couple of days.
我知道该怎么保养。 I know how to care for them.
夜里我吐出来一些奇怪的东西， During the night, I spat up something strange.
感觉胸膛里有什么东西坏了。 I felt like something in my chest was broken.
这也得养好。 Get that well too.
喝咖啡吧，我去给你弄点儿吃的来。 Drink your coffee. I'll get you something to eat.
把我出海时候的报纸随便拿一份来吧。 And... And bring me the papers from the time I was away.
* 好的。 I will.
那天下午，露台饭店来了一群游客， That afternoon there was a party of tourists from Havana at a café.
有位女士望着下面的海水， One of them looked down, and among the empty beer cans...
发现在空啤酒罐和死梭子鱼中间有条又大又长的白色鱼脊骨， ... and dead barracuda, she saw the long backbone of the great fish...
现在这鱼骨只是一堆废物，等着潮水把它冲走。 ... that was now just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.
“那是什么？”她问侍者。 "What's that?" she asked the waiter.
“Tiburón，”侍者说，“鲨鱼。” "Tiburón," the waiter said. "A shark. "
他本想说说事情的来龙去脉。 He was trying to explain what had happened to the marlin.
“我不知道鲨鱼有这么漂亮、形状这么优美的尾巴。”女士说。 "I didn't know sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails, " the woman said.
“我也是。”她的男伴说。 "I didn't either," her male companion answered.
在路另一头的棚屋里，老人又睡着了。 Up the road in his shack, the old man was sleeping again.
他还是脸朝下趴着，男孩坐在一旁守着他。 He was still sleeping on his face, and the boy was sitting by him, watching him.
老人正梦见狮子。 The old man was dreaming about the lions.