Chapter 5-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《老人与海The Old Man and the Sea》

1 The line rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged ahead of the boat and the fish came out. He came out unendingly and water poured^{} from his sides. He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showec wide and a light lavender^{②. His sword③} was as long as a baseball bat④ and tapered} like a rapier and he rose his full length from the water and then reentered{} it, smoothly, like a diver and the old man saw the great scythe-blade{}of his tail go under and the line commenced to race out. "He is two feet longer than the skiff," the old man said. The line was going out fast but steadily and the fish was not panicked. The old man was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking strength. He knew that if he could not slow the fish with a steady pressure the fish could take out all the line and break it. He is a great fish and I must convince{} him, he thought. I must never let him learn his strength nor what he could do if he made his run If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent^{} as we who kill them; although they are more noble{} and more able. .082. 钓线缓缓地、平稳地上升,然后,船头海水波 涛汹涌,这条鱼破水冲出。它直冲而上,水从它的 ①pour /po:/v. 倾注,倾泻, 身体两侧奔流而下。在太阳底下,它浑身明亮耀 奔流而下 ② lavender /laeronds/ n. 淡 眼,头与背脊是深紫色的,身体两侧淡紫色条纹在 紫色:衣草 阳光的照射之下,显得宽阔而美丽。它的长嘴像棒 ③sword /so:d/n. 剑:长嘴 ④baseball bat 棒球棒 球棒那么长,逐渐变细,像一把长剑,它把全身从 taper/terpa/v. 逐渐变细. 逐渐变尖 头到脚都露出水面,然后立即又像一个潜水员一样 reenter /. ri:'enta/ v. 再进 没入水中,老人看着它那大镰刀似的大尾巴没入水 入,重返 scythe-blade 像镰刀似的 中,钓线也开始往外飞溜而去。 锋利 “它比小船还要长两英尺呢!”老人说。钓线朝 水中溜得既快又稳,那条鱼看来并不惊慌。老人试 着用双手去拉住钓线。他知道,如果他不能稳定地 控制住,让鱼减缓速度的话,所有的钓线都会被拉 出去扯断。 ③ convince /kon'vins/ v. 使 确信,使信服 这是一条大鱼,我一定要征服它,他想。我绝 不能让它知道它的力量有多大,也不可让它知道它 可以如何脱逃。如果我是它,我一定会使出全力向 ② intelligent /n'telidsont/ a 前狂冲,直到把钓线扯断为止。还好,感谢上帝 聪明的,伶俐的,有才智的 onoble /naubl/a. 高尚的, 它们没有我们这些捕杀它们的人这样聪明,虽然它 高贵的 们比人类高尚,也比人类有本领 .083. The Ofdf Man andf the Sea The old man had seen many great fish. He had seen many that weighed more than a thousand pounds and he had caught two of that size in his life, but never alone. Now alone, and out of sight of land, he was fast to the biggest fish that he had ever seen and bigger than he had ever heard of, and his left hand was still as tight as the gripped^{} claws of an eagle{② It will uncramp③ though, he thought. Surely it will uncramp to help my right hand. There are three things that are brothers: the fish and my two hands. It must uncramp. It is unworthy of it to be cramped. The fish had slowed again and was going at his usual pace. I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now, anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence④ He settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering} as it came and the fish swam steadily and the boat moved slowly through the dark water. There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped. “Bad news for you, fish," he said and shifted{} the line over the sacks that covered his shoulders He was comfortable but suffering, although he did not admit^{} the suffering at all. "I am not religious^{}," he said. "But I will say ten Our Fathers^{}and ten Hail Marys^{} that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a .084· 老人与海) 老人见识过许多大鱼,他见过许多重量超过一 千磅的,过去也曾抓过两条这么大的,不过没有一 次是独自一人完成的。现在,他独自一人漂流在海 上,看不见陆地,他与一条他平生从未见过最大的 ①grip/grip/v. 紧握:夹紧 一条鱼紧紧地全在一起,这是一条比他曾听说过的 ②eagle/i:ql/n. 鹰,鹰状标 都还要大的鱼,而这时候,他的左手还是僵硬如鹰 饰 ③ uncramp /An'kraep/ v. 松 爪一般。 开.....的夹甜 抽筋总会好的,他想。左手肯定会好起来,好 帮助我的右手。现在有三样东西是我的兄弟:这条 鱼和我的两只手。抽筋一定要好起来,这手不该再 抽筋了。这时,鱼又慢下来了,它以平常的速度游 着。 我真搞不懂它为什么要跳上来,老人想。它跳 上来似乎是要我看看它有多么大。现在我总算知道 了,他想。希望我也能让它看看我是怎样的一个人。 不过,如果是这样,它就会看到这只抽筋的手了。 ④ intelligence /in'telidgaAs/ 还是让它把我当作一个很强壮的男子吧,我会变得 n.智慧:智力 suffering /'saforin/ n. 苦 更强壮。但愿我就是这条鱼,他想,它使出所有的 楚,受难 力量,而要对付的仅仅是我的意志和我的智慧 他惬意地靠在木头上,忍着疼痛。那条鱼还是 稳稳地向前游着,船也在深蓝色的水中移动着。随 着东风吹来,海上掀起一阵阵轻微的浪潮。到了中 午,老人抽筋的左手复原了。 shift/fift/v移动:转亮 “鱼啊!这对你可是一个坏消息啊!”他说着, admit /ad'mit/v. 承认:容 把垫在袋子上的钓线移动了一下位置 许 ⑧ religious /rr'hd3as/ a. 信 他稍微感到有些舒服了,但疼痛依然,只是他 奉宗教的,虔诚的 不愿承认罢了。 Our Fathers 天主经(基督 教的祷文) “我不是一个虔诚的教徒,”他说,“但是,假如 HailMarys 圣母经(基督 教天使问侯圣母的话 让我抓到这条鱼,我愿念十遍天主经:十遍圣母 .085. The Ofdf Man andf the Sea pilgrimage{}to the Virgin of Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise." He commenced to say his prayers② mechanically. Sometimes he would be so tired that he could not remember the prayer and then he would say them fast so that they would come automatically③. Hail Marys are easier to say than Our Fathers, he thought. "Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee{④. Blessed art thou^{} among women and blessed is the fruit of thy^{} womb{}, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners^{} now and at the hour of our death. Amen." Then he added, “Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish. Wonderful though he is." With his prayers said, and feeling much better, but suffering exactly as much, and perhaps a little more, he leaned against^{} the wood of the bow and began, mechanically, to work the fingers of his left hand. The sun was hot now although the breeze was rising gently. "I had better re-bait that little line out over the stern," he said. "If the fish decides to stay another night I will need to eat again and the water is low in the bottle. I don't think I can get anything but a dolphin here. But if I eat him fresh enough he won't be bad. I wish a flying fish would come on board tonight. But I have no light to attract them. A flying fish is excellent to eat raw and I would not have to cut him up. I must save all my strength now. Christ, I did not know he was so big.” "I'll kill him though,"he said. "In all his greatness and his glory^{①." Although it is uniust, he thought. But I will show him what a mar can do and what a man endures^{}. .086. 老人与海 ① pilgrimage /ptlgrimidy/ n 经;如果我抓到它,我发誓到考伯圣母朝圣。我记 朝圣 ② prayer /prea/ n. 祈祷 着这个承诺。” 他开始机械地念起祷词。偶尔因太疲倦了,想 ③ automatically /5:ta'maettkl ad. 自动地:机械地 不起祷词,他就会含含糊糊地很快念过去,以便能 赶快地脱口而出。他想,念圣母经要比天主经容易 (古) ④ thee /Or:: 0v/ pron. 多了。 (thou的宾格)你 “圣母玛利亚,满被圣宠者,主与你同在。女 thou /au/ pron. 你 bless /bles/v. 祝福,保佑 中尔为颂扬,尔之子耶鲜,并为人赞美。天主圣母 thy /ar/ pron. (古)(thou 的所有格)你的 玛利亚,为吾等罪人,今祈天主,及吾死候。阿 ⑧womb/wu:m/n. 子宫:发 源地 门!”然后他又加上一句,“颂扬圣母,析求您让这 sinner /sino/ n. 罪人 条鱼死亡。虽然它是那么的神勇。” 做完祷告后,他感觉舒服多了,但是,身上的 lean against 靠在 痛楚丝毫没有减少,甚至还加重了。他靠着船头的 木板,开始机械地活动左手的手指。 虽然微风正徐徐吹着,但太阳依然酷热无比。 “我最好还是把船尾的那条小钓线重新装上鱼 饥,”他说,“如果这条鱼还要和我再耗上一整夜的 话,我得再多吃一点东西,而瓶子里的水已经所剩 无几了。我想在这里除了海豚以外,我是钓不着其 他东西的。不过,如果趁着新鲜时吃掉它,海豚肉 的味道其实也不错。我希望今夜会有一条飞鱼跳到 船上来,可惜我没有灯光可以吸引它们。飞鱼生吃 味道还不错,而且用不着把它剖开。现在我必须节 省体力。天啊!我还真没料到它这么大啊!” “不过,我一定会宰了它,”他说,“纵然它是那 样庞大,那样了不起。” glory /qlo:rr/ n. 荣誉:荣 他想,虽然这不公平,但我要让它知道人类有 耀 endure /n'djua/v. 耐久. 多大的能力,能够接受多大的考验。 忍耐 “我曾告诉那孩子,我是一个奇怪的老人,”他 .087: The Ofdf Man andf the Sea "I told the boy I was a strange old man," he said. "Now is when I must prove it." The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it I wish he'd sleep and I could sleep and dream about the lions, he thought. Why are the lions the main thing that is left? Don't think, old man, he said to himself. Rest gently now against the wood and think of nothing. He is working. Work as little as you can. It was getting into the afternoon and the boat still moved slowly and steadily^{①}. But there was an added drag{②} now from the easterly③ breeze and the old man rode gently with the small sea and the hurt of the cord across his back came to him easily and smoothly④ Once in the afternoon the line started to rise again. But the fish only continued to swim at a slightly higher level. The sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back. So he knew the fish had turned east of north. Now that he had seen him once, he could picture} the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins^{} set wide as wings and the great erect^{} tail slicing through{} the dark. I wonder how much he sees at that depth, the old man thought. His eye is huge and a horse, with much less eye, can see in the dark. Once I could see quite well in the dark. Not in the absolute{} dark. But almost as a cat sees. The sun and his steady movement of his fingers had uncramped his left hand now completely and he began to shift more of the strain to it and he shrugged^{} the muscles^{①} of his back to shift the hurt of the cord a little. .088. 老人与海) 说,“现在是时候证明给他看了。” 他以往就算证明过一千次,那都不算什么。现 在,他要再次证明自已是个奇怪的老人。每一次都 是一个新的时机,而且,他从来不愿回想过去的种 种。 我真希望它睡去,这样我也能睡一会,并再梦 见狮子,他想。为什么狮子会变成记忆中最主要的 东西呢?他对自已说道:别再乱想了,老头子。轻 轻地靠在木头上休息一下吧!什么事都不要去想。 它正在忙碌着。你越少忙碌越好 ① steadily /stedl/ ad. 稳定 时间已接近下午,船依旧缓慢而稳定地移动 地:稳固地 ②drag/draeg/n. 曳力;阻力 着。但是,东风逐渐增强,带来了一些阻力,老人 ③ easterly /i:stolr/ n. 东风 ④ smoothly /'smu:òl/ ad. 平 在轻微的风浪中缓缓漂流,绳子压在背上,那种疼 稳地 痛的感觉也变得轻松而温和多了。 下午,钓线又浮上来。但是这条鱼只是在高一 些的水面下继续游着。太阳照在老人的左臂、左肩 和背上。所以,他晓得鱼已经转向东北方了。 如今他既然已见过它一次,他开始可以想象鱼 将它紫色的胸鳞像翅膀一样,大大地张开在水里游 picture /piktfo/ v. 想象 pectoral /pektaral/ a. 胸 着,那竖直的大尾巴划破了黑暗。我很想知道它在 的 fin/fn/n. 那么深的水里看东西,能看得多清楚,老人想。它 ⑧erect /t'rekt/a 直立的,竖 的眼睛真大,马的眼睛就小得多;但马在黑暗中看 立的,笔直的 slice though切,割:划开 得见东西。以前我在黑暗中也能看得很清楚,当然 不是在漆黑的状态下,但也几乎能像猫一样看东 absolute /aebsolu:t/ a. 完 西了。 全的,绝对的 阳光和他不停地活动手指,他的左手已经不再 抽筋了,他开始把拉力挪一些到左手,耸耸肩膀活 shrng/frAg/ v. 耸启 动一下肌肉,使那绳索的勒痕稍微挪动一下。 muscle /mAsl/ n. 朋肉 “鱼啊!你如果还不觉得累,”他大声说,“那你 .089. The Ofaf Man andf the Sea "If you're not tired, fish," he said aloud, "you must be very strange." He felt very tired now and he knew the night would come soon and he tried to think of other things. He thought of the Big Leagues, to him they were the Gran Ligas, and he knew that the Yankees of New York were playing the Tigers of Detroit This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the games, he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of{} the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur② in his heel③. What is a bone spur? He asked himself. Unes puela de hueso. We do not have them. Can it be as painful as the spur of a fighting cock in one's heel? I do not think I could endure that or the loss of the eye and of both eyes and continue to fight as the fighting cocks do. Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts④. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea "Unless sharks come," he said aloud. "If sharks come, God pity him and me." Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? He thought. I am sure he would and more since he is young and strong. Also his father was a fisherman. But woulc the bone spur hurt him too much? "I do not know,"he said aloud. "I never had a bone spur." As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence. the time in the tavern} at Casablanca when he had played the hand game with the great negro^{} from Cienfuegos who was the strongest man on the docks. They had gone one day and one night with their elbows^{} on a chalk{} line on the table and their forearms^{} straight up and their hands 。 090. 老人与海) 真是太不可思议的了。” 他感到非常疲倦,他知道黑夜即将来临,他试 着想一些其他的事物。他想到棒球联赛,他知道纽 约的洋基队正在迎战底特律的老虎队。 这已经是联赛的第二天了,真不知道这场比赛 的结果如何了,他想。但是,我一定要有信心,我 一定要信得过迪马吉奥,即使他脚后跟长了骨刺 ① worthy of ......值得..... 再疼痛,他依然能把一切做得干全十美。“骨刺” 的,应得......的 是什么?他问自己。用西班牙语说“鸡眼”,我们 ②spur /sp3/n. 踢马刺:刺 都没这样的毛病。那种疼痛,是否就像斗鸡时装在 激物 ③heel /hi:l/n. 脚后跟,. 公鸡脚上的铁刺戳进人的脚后跟一样的疼痛?我想 跟部 我一定受不了这种感觉,也无法像公鸡一样,眼睛 都已被啄瞎了,还能继续战斗。人和鸟兽相比并没 有多强。我还是情愿做黑暗中待在水里的动物。 ④beast /br:st/n. 兽:畜牲 “除非是裟鱼来了,”他大声地说,“要是裟鱼来 了,就请上帝可怜它、也可怜我吧!” 你是否认为那伟大的狄马奇奥,会像我一样为 了守着一条鱼熬这样久?他想。我确信他一定会, 因为他更为年轻力壮,一定还可以熬得更久,更何 况他父亲从前也是个渔夫。但骨刺这个问题会不会 很困扰他呢? “我也不知道,”他大声地说,“我从来没有得过 这个毛病。” 太阳下山以后,为了鼓励自己,又想起当年在 卡萨布兰卡的一个酒店里,他和一个从西恩富戈期 tavern/taevs (:in/n. 小酒 来的黑人比手劲,他是码头上号称力气最大的人 馆 negro /nr:grau/ n. 黑人 足足有一天一夜的时间,他两将手时放在画了粉笔 elbow /elbou/n. 肘 线的桌上,前臂竖立,两手紧紧交握着。彼此都钏 chalk /tfo:k/n. 粉竿 forearm /fo:ra:m/ n. 前臂 足了劲想把对方的手臂压倒在桌上。许多人在旁边 .091: