Chapter 9-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《老人与海The Old Man and the Sea》

9 The old man made the sheet fast and jammed the tiller.Then he took up the oar with the knife lashed to it.He lifted it as lightly as he could because his hands rebelled2 at the pain.Then he opened and closed them on it lightly to loosen them.He closed them firmly so they would take the pain now and would not flinch and watched the sharks come.He could see their wide,flattened,shovel-pointed heads now and their white-tipped wide pectoral fins.They were hateful5 sharks,bad smelling,scavengers as well as killers,and when they were hungry they would bite at an oar or the rudder of a boat.It was these sharks that would cut the turtles'legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface,and they would hit a man in the water,if they were hungry,even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him. “Ay,”the old man said.“Galanos.Come on galanos..” They came.But they did not come as the Mako had come.One turned and went out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel the skiff shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish.The other watched the old man with his slitted yellow eyes and then came in fast with his half circle of jaws wide to hit the fish where he had already been bitten.The ·150· 9 ①jam/d3em/夹紧，卡住 老人把帆脚索拴牢，再把舵柄夹紧。然后拿起 绑着刀子的桨柄。由于他的手痛得不听指挥，他尽 2 rebel /'rebal/v.反抗 可能地轻轻举起桨。他的两只手先在桨柄上张开又 握住，以便松弛一下筋骨。然后，又再次紧紧地握 firmly /'f3ml/ad.坚定 地，稳固地 紧桨柄，好让他的手能够承受住疼痛，而不至于畏 ④flinch/ntj/畏缩，退 缩，并注视着鲨鱼的来临。他可以看到它们宽大而 缩 扁平，如尖形铲的头部，和末端呈白色的宽阔胸 ⑤hateful /heitfol a可恨的， 讨厌的，可恶的 鳍。它们是一种可恨的鲨鱼，身上有恶臭，吃腐烂 的食物，也捕食活鱼，当它们饥饿的时候，甚至连 ⑥rudder'rAd/n.舵，方向 舵 桨或者船的舵也会咬一口。就是这种鲨鱼，会趁着 lipper/'flpa/n.脚碳 乌龟在水面上熟睡的时候，咬断乌龟的手脚，也会 袭击在水中的人类，当它们饥饿的时候，即使那人 ⑧slime/slarm/n.黏液 身上没有鱼的血腥味，也没有鱼的黏液，都会遭到 攻击。 老人说：“喂，虎鲨，尽管过来吧！虎鲨。” 它们来了。但它们来的情形也不像灰鲭鲨一 样。其中一条转了一圈后，便钻到船底下不见了， 当它撕拉鱼肉时，老人可以感觉船在晃动。另外一 ⑨s拉tst/比使成获缝 只先是眯着它黄色的细小眼睛望着老人，然后很快 地冲上来，用它那几乎是半圆形的下巴，咬住大鱼 ·151· The Old Man and the Sea line showed clearly on the top of his brown head and back where the brain joined the spinal cord and the old man drove the knife on the oar into the juncture2,withdrew it,and drove it in again into the shark's yellow cat-like eyes.The shark let go of the fish and slid down, swallowing what he had taken as he died. The skiff was still shaking with the destruction the other shark was doing to the fish and the old man let go the sheet so that the skiff would swing broadside and bring the shark out from under.When he saw the shark he leaned over the side and punched at him.He hit only meat and the hide was set hard and he barely got the knife in.The blow hurt not only his hands but his shoulder too.But the shark came up fast with his head out and the old man hit him squarely in the center of his flat-topped head as his nose came out of water and lay against the fish.The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again.He still hung to the fish with his jaws locked and the old man stabbed him in his left eye.The shark still hung there. "No?"the old man said and he drove the blade between the vertebra and the brain.It was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever The old man reversed the oar and put the blade between the shark's jaws to open them.He twisted the blade and as the shark slid loose he said,"Go on,galano.Slide down a mile deep.Go see your friend,or maybe it's your mother." The old man wiped the blade of his knife and laid down the oar. Then he found the sheet and the sail filled and he brought the skiff on to her course. "They must have taken a quarter of him and of the best meat,"he said aloud."I wish it were a dream and that I had never hooked him.I'm ·152· 老人与海 已经被咬过的地方。它棕色的头和背脊上的线条很 ①spinal'spainl/a.脊骨的， 清楚，明显地指出大脑与脊椎交会的位置，老人便 脊椎的 拿起那只绑了刀的木桨，刺进那交会点，抽回来， 2 juncture /'d3Anktj∫h/n.接 合点 又往鲨鱼猫似的黄色眼睛刺下去。鲨鱼对大鱼总算 松了口，身体往下溜，临死前还把抢走的那块鱼肉 硬吞下了去。 destruction /dis'trAkfan/n. 破坏，毁灭 小船仍旧晃动着，因为另外一条鲨鱼还在那儿 抢食那条大鱼，老人放松了帆脚索，让小船打横 4 broadside /'bro:dsald/ad. 侧向地 后，船底下的鲨鱼便暴露了出来。当他看见那条鲨 punch /pAnt./比冲孔，打 孔 鱼时，就从船边向前探，向它刺去。他却只打到它 barely/"beal/ad.仅仅， 身上的肉，鲨鱼的皮很厚，他勉强把刀子刺了进 刚刚，几乎不能 去。这么一用力，不但手感到疼痛，肩膀也跟着痛 了起来。但是这条鲨鱼很快把头露出水面，当它的 鼻子刚露出水面靠向大鱼的时候，老人很准确地击 中了它扁平头部的中央。老人把刀子抽出来，然后 又朝同样位置刺了一下，但是它仍然用它宽阔的嘴 ⑦tab/staeb/剌，刺伤 巴，咬住大鱼不放，老人往它左眼刺下去，但鲨鱼 仍然没有松开口。 vertebra /'v3:tibr3/n. “你还不肯罢休？”老人说，并把刀刺向它的背 椎骨，推骨 脊骨与大脑之间。这次很容易就刺进去了，他感觉 ⑨cartilage /ka:tild3/n.软 臂 到鲨鱼的软骨被切断了。老人把桨倒过来，把桨片 0 sever /'seva/.切断 插向鲨鱼的上下额之间，撬开它们。当他扭转桨片 心reverse/r'v3:s/.颠倒， 倒转 时，鲨鱼渐渐松开了嘴，他说：“滚回去，虎鲨！ twist /twist/.拧，扭曲， 绞 回到一英里深的水里去，去找你的朋友或你妈妈 吧。” 老人把刀擦干净，放下桨，之后他又找到了帆 脚索，风再度把帆鼓起，使小船驶回它的航道。 “那条鱼的身体一定被吃掉四分之一了，而且 还是最好的肉，”他大声地说，“但愿这是一场梦， ·153· The Old Man and the Sea sorry about it,fish.It makes everything wrong."He stopped and he did not want to look at the fish now.Drained of blood and awash he looked the colour of the silver backing of a mirror and his stripes still showed. “I shouldn't have gone out so far,fish,”he said.“Neither for you nor3 for me.I'm sorry,fish." Now,he said to himself.Look to the lashing on the knife and see if it has been cut.Then get your hand in order because there still is more to come. "I wish I had a stone for the knife,"the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt."I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things,he thought.But you did not bring them,old man.Now is no time to think of what you do not have.Think of what you can do with what there is. “You give me much good counsel④，”he said aloud.“T'm tired of⑤it.” He held the tiller under his arm and soaked both his hands in the water as the skiff drove forward. “God knows how much that last one took,”he said.“But she's much lighter now."He did not want to think of the mutilated underside of the fish.He knew that each of the jerking bumps of the shark had been meat torn away and that the fish now made a trail for all sharks as wide as a highway through the sea. He was a fish to keep a man all winter,he thought.Don't think of that.Just rest and try to get your hands in shape to defend what is left of him.The blood smell from my hands means nothing now with all that scent in the water.Besides they do not bleed much.There is nothing cut ·154· 老人与海 但愿我没钓到这条鱼。鱼啊！我为你现在的遭遇感 D drain of排出，流光 到抱款。鲨鱼扰乱了一切。”他一时再也说不出话 ②awash/'wDj/a.被浪冲 来了，也不愿意再多看鱼一眼。它的血滚滚地流， 打的 海水将它的身体冲刷成像镜子背面的那种银色，而 它身上的条纹却仍然清晰可见。 Neither...nor…既不是… “我不应该出海这么远，鱼啊！”他说，“对你对 也不是一 我都不应该。鱼啊！我实在很抱歉。” 现在他对自己说：看看绑刀子的绳子是不是断 了。然后把你的手弄好，因为还有更多的鲨鱼要 来。 “但愿我有一块石头可以磨刀，”老人检查过桨 柄上的绳子之后说，“我应该带块石头来的。”该带 的东西可多呢，他想。老头子，但是你什么都没有 带来。现在不是想该带什么东西来的时候，倒是应 该想一想，如何利用现有的东西。 ④counsel/kaonsal/n.忠告： “你给了我很多很好的建议，”他大声地说，“可 建议 tired of厌倦 是，我已经厌烦了。” 小船继续往前行进着，他把舵柄夹在腋下，双 手泡在水中。 “只有上帝知道，后面那条鲨鱼到底抢走了多 少肉，”他说，“不过可以确定小船现在轻多了。”他 6 underside /Andasaid/n.F 腹：下侧 不愿想象鱼腹下面残缺的样子，他晓得，鲨鱼每次 ①bump/bAmp/n.撞击 tear away撕掉，扯开 急剧碰撞猛扯的时候，就是大鱼被撕走一块肉的时 ⑨highway /haiwel/n.公路， 候，而现在，那条鱼就像在它肚子下开了一条有如 大路 公路那么宽的海上大道，引鲨鱼的到来。 他想，这条鱼可以供一个人度过整个冬天啊， 不要再想了。好好休息，把你的手调养好，以便保 护剩下的那一部分鱼肉。我手上的这一点血腥味比 起水中的血腥味来说，简直是微不足道。而且手上 ·155· The Old Man and the Sea that means anything.The bleeding may keep the left from cramping. What can I think of now?he thought.Nothing.I must think of nothing and wait for the next ones.I wish it had really been a dream,he thought.But who knows?It might have turned out well. The next shark that came was a single shovel nose.He came like a pig to the trough2 if a pig had a mouth so wide that you could put your head in it.The old man let him hit the fish and then drove the knife on the oar down into his brain.But the shark jerked backwards as he rolled and the knife blade snapped. The old man settled himself to steer.He did not even watch the big shark sinking slowly in the water,showing first life-size,then small, then tiny 4.That always fascinated 5 the old man.But he did not even watch it now. “I have the gaff now,”he said..“But it will do no good..I have the two oars and the tiller and the short club." Now they have beaten me,he thought.I am too old to club sharks to death.But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller. He put his hands in the water again to soak them.It was getting late in the afternoon and he saw nothing but the sea and the sky.There was more wind in the sky than there had been,and soon he hoped that he would see land. “You're tired,old man,”he said.“tired inside.." The sharks did not hit him again until just before sunset. The old man saw the brown fins coming along the wide trail the fish must make in the water.They were not even quartering on the scent. They were headed straight for the skiff swimming side by side. ·156· 老人与海 的血也流得不多。流点血没什么大不了，但却又意 义非凡。流血也许可以使左手不抽筋。 我现在能想什么呢？他想。什么也不能想，我 必须什么也不想，等着下一群鲨鱼的到来。但愿这 ①single'sggl/a,单一的 一切只是个梦，他想。但是谁知道，也许会有一个 好结局也说不定。 ②trough /tr3:f/n饲料糟 接着，来的是一只铲鼻鲨。它像一只猪冲向食 3 backward /baekwad/ad. 向后 槽一样地来了，如果说猪张大了这么大的嘴，一个 人的头都可以放进去的。老人先让它咬住大鱼，然 后用捆绑着刀的桨往它的脑部刺去。然而当鲨鱼滚 动的身体猛然往后退时，刀突然折断了。 老人坐定下来，掌舵。他完全没去注意水中慢 ④tiny /'tain/a.很少的，微 小的 慢往下沉的鲨鱼，当鲨鱼下沉时，起先可以看到的 5 fascinate/faesinent/r使着 迷，使神魂颠倒 是它身体实际的长度，然后慢慢变小了，最后变成 一丁点儿。这种事情原本是很吸引老人的，但是， 此刻他却连看都不愿意再看一眼。 “现在我还有鱼叉，”他说，“但却没什么用，不 as long as只要，在…的 过我还有两只桨、舵柄和短木棒。” 时候 现在，我已经被它们打败了，他想。我太老 了，没办法用棍子打死鲨鱼。但是只要我还有桨、 短棍和舵柄.我就要再试一试 他又把双手泡在水中。现在已经是下午，接近 傍晚，除了海洋和天空，他什么也看不见。现在风 比刚才大一些，他希望很快就能看到陆地。 “老头，你累了，”他说，“你的内心疲惫不堪。” 就在日落之前，鲨鱼才又来袭击他 老人看见许多棕色的鳍沿着大鱼在水中所形成 ⑦quarter"kwo:tag到处来 回走动：搜寻猎物 的一条血路游过来。它们对一路上的血腥味毫无眷 恋，而直接一股脑儿地并排朝小船游过来。 ·157· The Old Man and the Sea He jammed the tiller,made the sheet fast and reached under the stern for the club.It was an oar handle from a broken oar sawed off to about two and a half feet in length.He could only use it effectively with one hand because of the grip of the handle and he took good hold of it with his right hand,flexing his hand on it,as he watched the shark's come.They were both galanos. I must let the first one get a good hold and hit him on the point of the nose or straight across the top of the head,he thought. The two sharks closed together and as he saw the one nearest him open his jaws and sink them into the silver side of the fish,he raised the club high and brought it down heavy and slamming onto the top of the shark's broad head.He felt the rubbery solidity as the club came down.But he felt the rigidity of bone too and he struck the shark once more hard across the point of the nose as he slid down from the fish.The other shark had been in and out and now came in again with his jaw's wide.The old man could see pieces of the meat of the fish spilling white from the corner of his jaws as he bumped the fish and closed his jaws.He swung at him and hit only the head and the shark looked at him and wrenched 3 the meat loose.The old man swung the club down on him again as he slipped away to swallow and hit only the heavy solid rubberiness. “Come on,galano,”the old man said..“Come in again." The shark came in a rush and the old man hit him as he shut his jaws.He hit him solidly and from as high up as he could raise the club. This time he felt the bone at the base of the brain and he hit him again in the same place while the shark tore the meat loose sluggishly and slid down from the fish. ·158· 老人与海 他把舵柄夹紧，拴好帆脚索，然后伸向船尾拿 ①awof锯下 短棍，那是从一把桨上锯下来的把手，约有两英尺 2effectively /'fektivl/ad. 有效地，有力地 半长。由于把手部分不太好抓，只能以单手操作， 他就用右手紧紧握住，手指在上面一张一合地伸缩 3fiex/ieks/.弯曲（四 活动，眼睛则盯着游过来的鲨鱼。这两条都是虎 肢），伸缩，折曲 鲨。 我必须在第一条鲨鱼紧紧咬住大鱼之后，从它 的鼻尖上或头顶上，对准正中央刺下去，他想。 两条鲨鱼同时包围了上来，他看见靠近的那一 条张开大嘴，将下巴埋入大鱼银色的腹部里，就高 高举起棍子，狠狠地打下去，砰的一声落在鲨鱼宽 ④slam/slaem/猛力打击， 冲击 宽的头顶上。木棍落下来的时候，他感觉它的头像 ⑤rubbery /rAbar/a橡胶似 的，有弹力的 橡胶似的那么坚实。但他也感觉到了它那冰冷僵硬 6solidity/sa'lidit/m坚硬 的鱼骨。当鲨鱼从大鱼身上滑下来时，他又朝它鼻 come down落下来 8 rigidity'd3idat/n.坚硬 尖重重地敲了一下。另外一条鲨鱼一直忽远忽近地 徘徊在大鱼身边，现在又张大着嘴靠了过来。当它 ⑨spill/splW.使捧下，倒出 冲向大鱼咬了一口，在合上嘴的那一刻，老人看见 块块白色的鱼肉从它嘴角掉落了下来。他挥着木 棍朝它头上打，鲨鱼望着他，仍然把肉撕下来。当 wrench /rent.f/猛拉 它游到一旁，准备吞下那块肉的时候，老人再次用 木棍挥打它，感觉上却像是在打厚如橡胶的东西 上。 “来吧！虎鲨。”老人说，“再过来吧！” 鲨鱼猛然间冲过来，当它又闭起嘴咬着鱼肉的 时候，老人又猛敲了它一下。他使尽所有力气，把 木棍尽量举高，着实地敲打下去。这一次他觉得打 到它脑下的脑骨了，当鲨鱼有气无力地撕下一块 sluggishly /'slagiJl/ad. 肉，从鱼身上退下来的时候，老人又在同一部位打 散地，反应迟纯地 了一下。 ·159·