Chapter 10-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《老人与海The Old Man and the Sea》

10 “Fight them,”he said,“T'll fight them until I die.” But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead.He put his two hands together and felt the palms.They were not dead and he could bring the pain of life by simply opening and closing them.He leaned his back against the stern and knew he was not dead.His shoulders told him. I have all those prayers I promised if I caught the fish,he thought. But I am too tired to say them now.I better get the sack and put it over my shoulders. He lay in the stern and steered and watched for2 the glow to come in the sky.I have half of him,he thought.Maybe I'll have the luck to bring the forward half in.I should have some luck.No,he said.You violated your luck when you went too far outside. “Don't be silly,”he said aloud.“And keep awake and steer.You may have much luck yet④.” "I'd like to buy some if there's any place they sell it,"he said. What could I buy it with?He asked himself.Could I buy it with a ·164· 10 “和它们战斗，”他说，“我要和它们战斗到死。” 但是现在处于黑暗中，看不见亮光，也看不见 灯光，只有风和稳定拖曳着的帆，他觉得自己或许 ①perhaps /pa'heps/ad或 许，多半 已经死了。他把双手合在一起，感觉一下掌心。他 只要把手张开又合拢，就可以感到生命的痛楚，他 的手并没有死。他把背靠向船尾，他知道自己并没 有死，那是他的肩膀告诉他的。 他想起来：我已经许了愿，如果让我捕到这条 鱼，就要念所有的祈祷文。但是我现在太累了，没 办法念。我还是把布袋拿来披在肩膀上吧。 他躺在船尾，把着舵，望着天空，等待亮光出 g②watch for守候 现。我只有半条鱼了，他心想。也许我还有把这半 条鱼顺利带回去的运气吧。我应该有点运气的。 不，他说，你出海这么远，就已经在与你的运气作 对了。 ③violate'varaleit/妨碍， 冒犯 “别傻，”他大声说，“保持清醒，好好掌舵。也 ④yet /jet/ad仍，至今，益 许你还有很多好运气在后头呢。” 发，更 “如果有什么地方是卖运气的，我很想买一 点。”他说。 我到底能用什么买呀？他问自己。我能够拿一 ·165. The Old Man and the Sea lost harpoon and a broken knife and two bad hands? “You might,”he said.“You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea.They nearly sold it to you too." I must not think nonsense,he thought.Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?I would take some though in any form and pay what they asked.I wish I could see the glow from the lights,he thought.I wish too many things.But that is the thing I wish for now.He tried to settle more comfortably to steer and from his pain he knew he was not dead. He saw the reflected 2 glare of the lights of the city at what must have been around ten o'clock at night.They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises.Then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now with the increasing breeze. He steered inside of the glow and he thought that now,soon,he must hit the edge of the stream3. Now it is over,he thought.They will probably hit me again.But what can a man do against them in the dark without a weapon? He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of the night.I hope I do not have to fight again,he thought.I hope so much I do not have to fight again. But by midnight5 he fought and this time he knew the fight was useless.They came in a pack and he could only see the lines in the water that their fins made and their phosphorescence as they threw themselves on the fish.He clubbed at heads and heard the jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below.He clubbed desperately at what he could only feel and hear and he felt something seize the club and it was gone. ·166· 老人与海 只失去的鱼叉、一把已断的小刀和两只受伤的手去 买吗？ “或许可以，”他说，“你曾试想拿在海上的八十 四天来买它，而差一点它们也卖给了你。” 我绝对不可胡思乱想，他想。运气这种东西， ④recognize /rekagnaz/g认 可，承认，公认，赏识 可以用许多不同的方式降临，谁又能认得出它来 呢？不过无论它是什么形态，我都想买一些，而且 不会讨价还价。但愿我能看得到灯火的反光，他 reflected /ri'flektid/a. 想。我所希望的事情太多了，但此刻仅有这一个愿 射的 望。他试着把自己安置得更舒服一点，以便把舵， 从疼痛中他明白自己还没死。 大概是晚上十点左右，他看见了城市灯火反射 出的亮光。起先亮光忽隐忽现，好比月亮升起前天 空中的光晕。然后，隔着海洋看去，亮光已稳定。 此刻风势转强，浪潮汹涌。他已驶人光亮之处，此 3 stream/stri:mln溪，川， 刻他想着，他马上就要驶人海流的边缘了。 流 一切总算过去了，他想。鲨鱼可能还会再来袭 ④probably'probablt/ad.大 概，或许 击我，但是一个手无寸铁的人，如何在黑暗中对付 它们呢？ 现在他浑身僵硬酸痛，寒夜里，所有操劳过度 的部位都感觉疼痛。他想，我希望不要再战斗，我 殷切希望不要再战斗了！ 5 midnight /midnait/n.午 夜 但是到了午夜时分，他又开始了另一场战斗， 而且他知道这次再怎么斗也没有用。鲨鱼成群结队 地来了，他只能看到它们的鳍在水中所划出的线， 以及它们冲向大鱼时身上发出的磷光。他用棍子击 0 seize/sI:zl.抓住，速住， 打它们的头，听到它们嘴巴抢食的声音，感觉到小 夺取 船因它们在下面咬住大鱼时的摇摆。他仅靠感觉和 听声音，拼命地打，他感觉到有什么东西抓住了棍 ·167· The Old Man and the Sea He jerked the tiller free from the rudder and beat and chopped with it,holding it in both hands and driving it down again and again.But they were up to the bow now and driving in one after the other and together, tearing off the pieces of meat that showed glowing below the sea as they turned to come once more. One came,finally,against the head itself and he knew that it was over.He swung the tiller across the shark's head where the jaws were caught in the heaviness of the fish's head which would not tear.He swung it once and twice and again.He heard the tiller break and he lunged at the shark with the splintered butt.He felt it go in and knowing it was sharp he drove it in again.The shark let go and rolled away That was the last shark of the pack that came.There was nothing more for them to eat. The old man could hardly breathe5 now and he felt a strange taste in his mouth.It was coppery and sweet and he was afraid of it for a moment.But there was not much of it. He spat into the ocean and said."Eat that,galanos.And make a dream you've killed a man." He knew he was beaten now finally and without remedy and he went back to the stern and found the jagged end of the tiller would fit in the slot of the rudder well enough for him to steer.He settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her course.He sailed lightly now and he had no thoughts nor any feelings of any kind.He was past everything now and he sailed the skiff to make his home port as well and as intelligently as he could.In the night sharks hit the carcass as someone might pick up crumbs from the table.The old man paid no attention to them and did not pay any attention to anything except ·168· 老人与海 子，之后连棍子都被拖走了。 他把舵柄由舵上卸下，双手握着它，一次又一 次地往下戮打鲨鱼。但是此刻它们已游向船头，一 ①tear off扯掉 条接着一条，成群拥上来，撕扯大鱼的肉，一片片 的肉在海上闪烁着光芒，然后它们转了一圈又再度 回来。 最后，过来一条鲨鱼来抢食鱼头，他知道一切 都完了。他朝鲨鱼头挥舞着舵柄，鲨鱼的嘴咬住大 鱼沉重的头，扯不动，也撕不下来。老人一次又一 次地挥打，他听到舵柄断裂的声音，但也只好举起 ②lunge /lAnd3/突进，刺 断裂的舵柄朝鲨鱼戳刺。他感觉已刺进去了，而且 splinter/'splinta/其使分 裂 他晓得舵柄仍然尖锐，因此再往里面扎去。鲨鱼松 ④roll away散去，离开 了嘴，翻滚下来，这是刚才蜂拥而至的鲨鱼中的最 后一条。也已经没有什么东西可供它们吃的了。 5 breathe/bri:d/g.呼吸 老人这时几乎已喘不过气来，他感觉口中有奇 coppery /koparv/a.含铜 的，钢的 怪的味道，是一种铜腥的味道，甜甜的，这味道令 他担心了一下，但是这味儿并不太浓。 他往海里吐了一口唾沫说：“吃吧！虎鲨。去做 个梦吧，梦见你们杀死了一个人。” 现在他明白，他终于被打败了，而且是一败涂 remedy /remid/i补救， 赔偿 地，就回到船尾，发现那半截锯齿状的舵柄还可以 用jagged /d3gtda.锯齿 状的，参差不齐的 安置在舵孔里，勉强可以操作航行。他把肩膀上的 ⑨slot/slDt/n.缝，狭槽 布袋整理好，继续使小船驶向航道。这时航行起来 很轻便，他已无任何想法，亦无任何感觉，对任何 事都不感兴趣了。他尽量保持清醒地驾着小船，朝 家乡的港口回航。晚上，鲨鱼又来袭击大鱼的残 骸，就像有些人捡食饭桌下的面包屑一样。老人不 crumb /krAm/:.碎屑，面 再理会它们，除了航行以外，他对任何事情都漠不 包屑 关心。他只注意到小船现在没有沉重的负荷了，它 ·169· The Old Man and the Sea steering.He only noticed how lightly and how well the skiff sailed now there was no great weight beside her. She's good,he thought.She is sound and not harmed in any way except for the tiller.That is easily replaced. He could feel he was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore.He knew where he was now and it was nothing to get home. The wind is our friend,anyway,he thought.Then he added, sometimes.And the great sea with our friends and our enemies2.And bed,he thought.Bed is my friend.Just bed,he thought.Bed will be a great thing.It is easy when you are beaten,he thought.I never knew how easy it was.And what beat you,he thought. “Nothing,”he said aloud..“I went out too far..” When he sailed into the little harbour the lights of the Terrace were out and he knew everyone was in bed.The breeze had risen steadily and was blowing strongly now.It was quiet in the harbour though and he sailed up onto the little patch of shingle below the rocks.There was no one to help him so he pulled the boat up as far as he could.Then he stepped out and made her fast to a rock. He unstepped the mast and furled the sail and tied it.Then he shouldered the mast and started to climb.It was then he knew the depth of his tiredness5.He stopped for a moment and looked back and saw in the reflection from the street light the great tail of the fish standing up well behind the skiff's stern.He saw the white naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with the projecting bill and all the nakedness between. He started to climb again and at the top he fell and lay for some ·170· 老人与海 是多么轻巧而平稳地航行着。 他心想，这真是一条好船，它很结实，而且除 了舵柄以外，一点损坏也没有，而那些倒很容易更 换。 他感觉到他已经航进海流里面来了，同时也可 以看见沿着海岸旁边海滨住宅区的灯光。他现在知 ①colony'kolont/m.聚居地 道自己正处于什么方位，回家已不成问题了。 他想，不论如何，风总是我们的朋友，他又补 充说，有时候是的。大海中有我们的朋友，也有我 2 enemy/enm/r敌人，仇 们的敌人。还有床，他想。床是我的朋友，只要有 敌 一 张床就行了，他想。床真是件好东西，当你筋疲 力尽战败之时，床给你舒服安逸，他想。我从来不 晓得，床竟然有这么舒服安逸。而到底是什么将你 打败？他想 “什么也没有，”他大声说，“是我自己出海太远 了。” 当他驶进小港时，露天酒吧的灯光已经熄灭， 3 shingle /f0gl/H.鹅卵石 他知道每一个人都已经上床了。风正不断地加强， ④step out走出去 愈吹愈猛。然而海湾里面一切平静，他航向岩石下 一堆沙砾处。没有人帮助他上岸，只有尽自己的能 力，把船尽量地往上拖。然后，他走下船把船系在 岩石上。 他卸下桅杆，把帆卷起来捆好，然后扛在肩上， tiredness /'tatadnis/n. 劳，疲倦 开始往上爬。这个时候，他才体会到自己到底有多 reflection /r'flek fan/n 射，映象 疲倦。他稍停片刻，回过头去，由街灯的反射中，他 ⑦naked'neikid/a棵体的， 看到那条大鱼的尾巴耸立在船尾。他还看见它秃得 无遮盖的 mass/maes/n块，大多 像一条条白线的背脊骨，以及那一团黑漆漆的头骨 数，质量，群众，大量 和突出的尖硬唇，其余就只剩光裸裸的躯壳骨架。 9 climb /klaim/攀登，爬 他又开始往上爬，爬到顶上的时候，他摔了一 ·171· The Old Man and the Sea time with the mast across his shoulder.He tried to get up.But it was too difficult and he sat there with the mast on his shoulder and looked at the road.A cat passed on the far side going about its business and the old man watched it.Then he just watched the road. Finally he put the mast down and stood up.He picked the mast up and put it on his shoulder and started up the road.He had to sit down five times before he reached his shack. Inside the shack he leaned the mast against the wall.In the dark he found a water bottle and took a drink.Then he lay down on the bed.He pulled the blanket over2 his shoulders and then over his back and legs and he slept face down on the newspapers with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up. He was asleep when the boy looked in the door in the morning.It was blowing so hard that the drifting-boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man's shack as he had come each morning.The boy saw that the old man was breathing and then he saw the old man's hands and he started to cry.He went out very quietly to go to bring some coffee and all the way down the road he was crying. Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water,his trousers rolled up,measuring the skeleton with a length of line. The boy did not go down.He had been there before and one of the fishermen was looking after the skiff for him. “How is he?”one of the fishermen shouted "Sleeping,"the boy called.He did not care that they saw him crying.“Let no one disturb him.” ·172· 老人与海 跤，他扛着桅杆在地上躺了一会儿，他想要努力站 起来，但这对他来说实在太困难了。他坐在那里， 肩膀上依旧扛着桅杆，望着来时的路。一只猫从远 处走过，像是要去忙它的事，老人注视着它，然后 又望着路。 终于他把桅杆放下，站起身来，然后，再把桅 杆扛在肩膀上，开始沿着路走。在走到小木屋之 前，他总共坐下来休息了五次。 在小木屋里，他把桅杆靠在墙边。黑暗之中他 ①lie down躺下 摸索到一个水瓶，喝了一口水。然后便倒在床上， ②pull over把拉过来 他拉起毯子盖在肩膀、背上和腿上。他脸朝下趴在 报纸上，手臂直直地伸着，手心朝上。 3paln/pam/n.手掌 早上，男孩从门口往里面张望，他正熟睡着。 风猛烈地吹着，那些随风飘荡的小船都不出海，因 此男孩也就晚一点儿才起床，跟每天早晨一样，他 来到老人的小木屋里。男孩看到老人还在呼吸，而 在看到老人的手之后，他哭了起来。他静悄悄地走 出去弄些咖啡来，一路上他边走边流泪。 很多渔夫正围着小船观看，到底是什么东西捆 在船边。其中有一个人卷起裤子站在水里，用一根 线绳在那儿测量大鱼骨架的长度。 男孩没有走下去看，因为刚才他就看过了，有 一位渔夫在那里帮他看守着小船。 ④skeleton /'skelitan//n.骨 架，骨骼 “他还好吗？”一位渔夫叫喊着。 “正在睡觉。”小孩喊着。他一点儿都不在意别 人看见他在哭泣，“大家都别去打扰他。” ⑤hout小awt/,.呼嘎，呼叫 “从鼻子到尾巴共八十英尺长。”刚才量鱼骨头 的那位渔夫叫着。 disturb/dis't3b/g打扰， 扰乱 “我相信。”男孩说。 ·173·