Chapter 3-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《老人与海The Old Man and the Sea》

3 Sometimes someone would speak in a boat.But most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars.They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for2 the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish.The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated 5 because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean.Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at night where all the wandering fish fed on them. In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness.He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean.He was sorry for the birds,especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost ·032· 3 有时候有人会在船上说话。但大多数的船只 ①spread a即art散开 都是静默的，只有桨打在水里的声音。他们出了 ②head for出发，动身 港后就四面散开来了，每个人都向海上他认为能 找到鱼的地方划去。老人明白他要去离海港很远 的地方，于是便把土地的气息抛在脑后，全力划 phosphorescence /fosfa- 向清晨海洋的清爽气息之中。他看见墨西哥湾海 'resns/n.磷光 草在水中所发出的磷光，原来，老人已划到渔夫 ④fathom'fadam/n.英寻 们称为“深井”的地方。叫这名字是因为那里的 (长度单位6英尺) 海底出现了一个有七百英寻的深渊，海潮冲击海 5congregate /'koogrigeit/v. 聚集 底的峭壁形成了漩涡，使得各种鱼类都聚集在一 ⑥swirl/sw3/n漩涡，涡状 形 起，包括许多虾子、做鱼饵用的小鱼，在最深的 concentration /,konsen- 几个洞里有时候还会有一大群的乌贼，它们会在 'treifon/n集中，集合 8 squid/skw1d/m.乌贼 晚上浮到紧靠海面的地方，而在那里漫游的鱼群 wandering /wondorin/a. 漫游的，徘徊的 就以它们为食。 在昏暗中，老人可以感觉黎明将至了。当他划 )trembling /'tremblig/a. 抖的，担心的，战栗的 船时，可以听见飞鱼离开水面一刹那所发出的颤抖 a hissing /'hisin/.发嘶嘶 声 声，以及它们在黑暗中飞掠时那坚硬翅膀的嘶嘶 be fond of喜欢，爱好 声。他很喜爱飞鱼，因为它们是他在海上主要的朋 B delicate /'delik/a.精巧 友。他很替鸟儿感到难过，特别是那些纤小漆黑的 的，精致的 燕鸥，老是四处飞翔，寻寻觅觅却依然一无所获。 ·033· The Old Man and the Sea never finding,and he thought,the birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones.Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel She is kind and very beautiful.But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly,dipping and hunting,with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea. He always thought of the sea la mar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her.Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman,those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats5,bought when the shark livers had brought much money,spoke of her as elmar which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy.But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours,and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them.The moon affects her as it does a woman,he thought. He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current.He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour. I worked the deep wells for a week and did nothing,he thought. Today I'll work out where the schools of bonito 5 and albacore%are and maybe there will be a big one with them. Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current.One bait was down forty fathoms.The second was at ·034· 老人与海 他常在想：除了那些专靠抢夺为生的鸟类和强壮有 力的大鸟以外，鸟类的生活真是比我们苦啊！为什 ①robber'rDba/i.强盗，盗 贼 么像海燕那样的鸟儿生来就如此纤细柔弱，而大海 2 swallow /'swplao/n.燕子 cruel/'kroal/a,残酷的 却是如此的残酷？海洋是仁慈而且非常美丽的。但 同时又可以变得残酷，并且说变就变！那些飞翔中 的鸟，不时还潜入水中捕食，它们微弱的鸣叫声， 与这浩瀚的大海相比，显得太渺小与柔弱了。 老人印象中的海永远像是“海娘子”，在西班 牙语中爱它的人们都是这样称呼它。有时候，喜爱 它的人也会咒骂它，但是，他们总把它比成一个女 ④buoy /bo/n.(湖，河等中 人。而那些年轻的渔夫，他们用浮标制作钓线的浮 的浮标 5 motorboat /'mautabaut/n. 子，驾着汽艇，那是他们在鲨鱼肝上赚了钱而买下 汽艇 的—他们就称大海为“海郎”，把它看作是男的。 masculine /'matskjolin/a. 男性的，男子气概的 他们谈起它的时候，总是把它当成一个竞争的对 7 contestant /kan'testont/n. 竞争者，争论者 手，或是一个地方，甚至是一个仇敌。但是，老人 think of考虑：想象，有 总认为它是女的，她可以给予人类很大的恩宠，也 的看法 9 feminine /'feminin/a. 可以不给予。如果她做出粗鲁或狠毒的事，那是因 女（似的：女性的 0 withhold /wio'hauld/v. 为它无法自我控制。他以为月亮对于海洋的影响， 停止，拒给，保留，抑制 就好比月亮对于女人的影响一样。 Iwild/wald/a.野性的，野 生的，野蛮的 他不费力而稳稳地划着船，因为他把速度控制 wicked /wikid/a.坏的， 邪恶的，缺德的 得很好，而且，除了偶尔水流起了一些漩涡之外， B surface's3:fis/L,表面 海上风平浪静。他借着海流节省了三分之一的力 Boccasional /a'keisnal/a. 偶然的，非经常的 量。这一天，天刚亮时，他发现他已超出自己的预 期，远远离开海港港口之外了。 他想，我在“深井”附近已经有一个星期了， B bonito /ba'ni:tool.鲣 16 albacore /'albgk2:/n. 但什么也没捕捉到。今天应该去有一群群鲣鱼和 花鱼 金枪鱼聚集的地方，也许还会有一条大鱼跟它们 在一起呢！ 天还没有全亮，他已经把饵放下水去，船顺 ·035· The Old Man and the Sea seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms.Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish,tied and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook,the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines.Each sardine was hooked through both eyes so that they made a half-garland 3 on the projecting steel.There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet- smelling and good-tasting. The boy had given him two fresh small tunas,or albacores,which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets5 and,on the others,he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before;but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness.Each line,as thick around as a big pencil,was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coils which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that,if it were necessary,a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line. Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths.It was quite light and any moment now the sun would rise. The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats,low on the water and well in toward the shore,spread out across the current.Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then,as it rose clear,the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it.He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water.He kept them straighter than anyone did,so that at ·036· 老人与海 着海流漂着。一个饵放到了四十英寸底下，第二 个垂到七十五英寻的地方，第三、第四个放入深 D shank小egk/n鱼钩的长 海里的一百英寻和一百二十五英寻处。每个鱼饵 杆轴 2 curve/k3vln.弯曲 都是头朝下的，钩子突起弯曲的地方以及顶端， 都完全被新鲜的沙丁鱼所覆盖住了。每一条沙丁 鱼都被钩子从两只眼睛穿过，而鱼全身沿着钩子 ③garland"ga:land/h.花环 突出部分弯成半圆形，像半个花环一样。如此一 来，当大鱼接近它时，会觉得整个鱼钩是那么鲜 美而香甜。 ④tuna /'tju:na/n金枪鱼 plummet /plAmit/a.铅垂 男孩给了他两条新鲜的小金枪鱼，挂在最深 的两条钓线上有如铅垂一般，其他的钓线分别挂 着一条青蓝色的大鱼和一条黄色小鲑鱼，这两个 鱼饵都是用过的但还算完整，再加上极好的沙丁 6 scent/scnt/n.气味 鱼给它们增加了香昧和吸引力。钓线大概有一支 attractiveness /a'traektivnis 吸引力 粗铅笔那么粗，每一条都系在一根树脂棒上，只 要鱼饵一被牵动或碰触，树脂棒便会往下沉。另 外，每一条钓线都连接着两卷长达四十英寻的绳 子，钓线还可以接上其余的备用绳子，所以，在 必要的时候，一条鱼总共可以拖出三百英寻长的 钓线。 此刻，老人紧紧守着那船边的三根树脂棒，等 待看到它们往下沉，他慢慢地划动，使钓线随时保 持垂直并沉到应有的深度。天色已十分亮了，太阳 8 spread out展开 也快升起来了。 9 glare/glea/.眩目的光， 太阳慢慢地从海平面升起，老人可以看见其他 耀眼的光 的船，在水面上朝着海岸方向散开漂浮着。太阳光 0 sharply/apl/ad.锐利 越来越亮，水面上闪耀着光亮。接着，太阳整个从 地 海平面出来了，海面上静止的海水将阳光反射他到 眼睛里，他感到非常刺眼，他划着船，尽量不去接 ·037· The Old Man and the Sea each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there.Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred. But,he thought,I keep them with precision2.Only I have no luck any more.But who knows?Maybe today.Every day is a new day.It is better to be lucky.But I would rather be exact.Then when luck comes you are ready. The sun was two hours higher now and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the east.There were only three boats in sight now and they showed very low and far inshore3. All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes,he thought.Yet they are still good.In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness.It has more force in the evening too.But in the morning it is painful Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him.He made a quick drop,slanting down on his back-swept wings,and then circled again. “He's got something,”the old man said aloud..“He's not just looking.” He rowed slowly and steadily toward where the bird was circling. He did not hurry and he kept his lines straight up and down.But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird. The bird went higher in the air and circled again,his wings motionless.Then he dove and the old man saw flying fish spurt out of the water and sail desperately over the surface. ·038· 老人与海 触海面的光线。他望着水里，专心地看着一直垂进 水中深的钓线。他比任何人都小心地将钓线保持垂 ①exactly hg'zaektl/ad.正 确地，严密地 直，好让每个深浅不同的水流之中，都有鱼饵在诱 使游经那里的鱼儿。一般人都是只让鱼饵随波逐 流，有时候渔夫以为它是停在一百英寻，其实只是 ②precision/pr's13an/h.精 确，精密 在六十英寻而已。 然而，他却认为非弄得很准不可。他想，只可 惜我现在的运气不好了。可是谁知道呢，也许是今 天了。每天都将是新的一天。好运来临当然最好。 但是，我宁可准确一些。这样，当好运来临，你已 3 inshore'n'Jb:/a.近海岸 准备好了。 的，沿海岸的 太阳升上来已经有两个钟头了，向东方远望， 眼睛不再感到疼痛。现在看得见的船只剩三艘，仿 ④blackness/'blaeknis/i黑 佛低于海面之下，远远停在海岸边。 色 ⑤painful'peinfol/a.疼痛 他想着，在我一生当中，看见早晨的阳光，总 的，痛苦的 是感到眼睛刺痛。但是，眼睛依然很好。太阳下山 0man-of-war军舰 的时候，我还可以直视太阳深处，而不会眼前发 ⑦slant/sla:nt/k(使)傾斜， 歪向 黑。其实，黄昏的光线也很强。但是早晨的阳光， 就是那么刺眼。 就在这时，他看见一只有着长长的黑翅膀的军 舰鸟，在他前方的天空盘旋着。突然它两翅向后一 掠，倾身往下直冲，然后又开始在空中盘旋。 “它一定发现什么了，”老人大声说，“它不会 是在那里看看而已。” 他缓缓而平稳地划向鸟儿盘旋的地方。他不慌 8 motionless /'mauf(a)nlis/ a.不动的，静止的 不忙，仍旧尽量保持他的钓线垂直。但划动速度比 dive /darv/潜水，跳水， 海流的速度稍快些，若不是想利用这只军舰鸟，他 俯冲 spurt out喷出 也不必加快速度了。 I desperately /'desparitl/ ad.拼命地 那只鸟飞向了更高处，然后再一次盘旋，它的 ·039· The Old Man and the Sea “Dolphin,”the old man said aloud.“Big dolphin.” He shipped his oars and brought a small line from under the bow.It had a wire leader and a medium-sized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines.He let it go over the side and then made it fast to a ring bolt in the stern2.Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow.He went back to rowing and to watching the long- winged black bird who was working,now,low over the water. As he watched the bird dipped again slanting his wings for the dive and then swinging them wildly and ineffectually 3 as he followed the flying fish.The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish.The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water,driving at speed,when the fish dropped.It is a big school of dolphin,he thought.They are widespread and the flying fish have little chance.The bird has no chance.The flying fish are too big for him and they go too fast. He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird.That school has gotten away from me,he thought.They are moving out too fast and too far.But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them.My big fish must be somewhere. The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it.The water was a dark blue now,so dark that it was almost purple.As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now.He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so ·040· 老人与海 翅膀保持静止不动。突然，它往下俯冲，老人瞧见 有飞鱼从水中跳跃而起，用尽全力像逃命般地掠过 水面。 “海豚！”老人大声喊叫，“大海豚。” 他把桨放下，从船头拿来一条小钓线，钓线上 ①bolt /bault/n.螺栓 有一段铁线和一个中型鱼钩，他在上面装上一条沙 ②stem/st3n/.船尾 丁鱼做饵。再由船边溜下水去，然后再把它绑在船 尾一只大螺栓上。接着他又把另一条钓线也装上 饵，把它放在船头的暗处。他又去划船，并留意着 那只黑色的长翅膀鸟，那只鸟依然在水面低飞着， 3 ineffectually /ina'fskt fuoll/ ad.无效地，无益地 忙着觅食。 ④bulge /bAld3/n.凸出，膨 张 正当他目不转睛注视着的时候，那只鸟又倾斜 着双翅向下俯冲，然后狂乱徒劳地扇着翅膀，追逐 着飞鱼。老人可以看见大海豚微微凸出的身躯在水 5widespread /'waidspred/ 中升起，紧追着逃跑中的飞鱼。海豚在飞鱼飞跃的 a.分布广泛的，普追的 水中破浪前进，当飞鱼潜入水里，海豚正好可以在 那儿一网打尽。这是好大一群海豚啊！飞鱼们几乎 6 burst out闯出来，大声喊， 没活命的机会。他想，它们分布广泛，飞鱼很少有 突发 逃脱的机会。飞鱼太大了，鸟儿是没有任何机会 了，而且它们也游得实在太快了。 stry/stre/a.迷路的：离 他眼见那些飞鱼一次又一次地从水面跃出，以 群的 及鸟儿徒劳无功的动作。老人想—这一群海豚我 是捉不住了。它们实在游得太快、太远。但是，或 许我能抓到一条落单的，而我要的大鱼或许就在它 8 gray /gre/a.灰色的，灰 们中间。我的大鱼必定在某个地方等着我。 白的 ⑨purple"p3pla紫色的 陆地上空的云堆得像山峦一样，海岸成了一条 0 sifting/"siftin/n.筛下物： 散落物 长长的绿线，背后是灰蓝色的小山丘。此刻海水呈 深蓝色，深得几乎发紫。他往水中望去，看见黝黑 的水里潜浮着红色的点点浮游生物，还有经过太阳 ·041·