1 He woke with the jerk of his right fist coming up against his face and the line burning out through his right hand. He had no feeling of his left hand but he braked all he could with his right and the line rushed out. Finally his left hand found the line and he leaned back against the line and now it burned his back and his left hand, and his left hand was taking all the strain and cutting badly. He looked back at the coils of line and they were feeding smoothly. Just then the fish jumped making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall. Then he jumped again and again and the boat was going fast although line was still racing out and the old man was raising the strain to breaking point and raising it to breaking point again and again. He had been pulled down tight onto the bow and his face was in the cut slice of dolphin and he could not move.
中文翻譯
他的右拳猛的朝他的臉撞去，釣索火辣辣地從他右手裏溜出去，他驚醒過來了。他的左手失去了知覺，他就用右手拚命拉住了釣索，但它還是一個勁兒地朝外溜。他的左手終于抓住了釣索，他仰著身子把釣索朝後拉，這一來釣索火辣辣地勒著他的背脊和左手，這左手承受了全部的拉力，給勒得好痛。他回頭望望那些釣索卷兒，它們正在滑溜地放出釣索。正在這當兒，魚跳起來了，使海面大大地迸裂開來，然後沉重地掉下去。接著它跳了一次又一次，船走得很快，然而釣索依舊飛也似地向外溜，老人把它拉緊到就快綳斷的程度，他一次次把它拉緊到就快綳斷的程度。他被拉得緊靠在船頭上，臉龐貼在那切下的鯕鰍肉上，他沒法動彈。
This is what we waited for, he thought. So now let us take it.
Make him pay for the line, he thought. Make him pay for it.
中文翻譯
我們等著的事兒發生啦，他想。我們來對付它吧。
讓它爲了拖釣索付出代價吧，他想。讓它爲了這個付出代價吧。
He could not see the fish‘s jumps but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy splash as he fell. The speed of the line was cutting his hands badly but he had always known this would happen and he tried to keep the cutting across the calloused parts and not let the line slip into the palm not cut the fingers.
中文翻譯
他看不見魚的跳躍，只聽得見海面的迸裂聲，和魚掉下時沉重的水花飛濺聲。飛快地朝外溜的釣索把他的手勒得好痛，但是他一直知道這事遲早會發生，就設法讓釣索勒在起老繭的部位，不讓它滑到掌心或者勒在手指頭上。
If the boy was here he would wet the coils of line, he thought. Yes. If the boy were here. If the boy were here.
中文翻譯
如果那孩子在這兒，他會用水打濕這些釣索卷兒，他想。是啊。如果孩子在這兒。如果孩子在這兒。
The line went out and out and out but it was slowing now and he was making the fish earn each inch of it. Now he got his head up from the wood and out of the slice of fish that his cheek had crushed. Then he was on his knees and then he rose slowly to his feet. He was ceding line but more slowly all he time. He worked back to where he could feel with his foot the coils of line that he could not see. There was plenty of line still and now the fish had to pull the friction of all that new line through the water.
中文翻譯
釣索朝外溜著，溜著，溜著，不過這時越來越慢了，他正在讓魚每拖走一英寸都得付出代價。現在他從木船板上抬起頭來，不再貼在那爿被他臉頰壓爛的魚肉上了。然後他跪著，然後慢慢兒站起身來。他正在放出釣索，然而越來越慢了。他把身子慢慢挪到可以用脚碰到那一卷卷他看不見的釣索的地方。釣索還有很多，現在這魚不得不在水裏拖著這許多摩擦力大的新釣索了。
Yes, he thought. And now he has jumped more than a dozen times and filled the sacks along his back with air and he cannot go down deep to die where I cannot bring him up. He will start circling soon and then I must work on him. I wonder what started him so suddenly? Could it have been hunger that made him desperate, or was he frightened by something in the night? Maybe he suddenly felt fear. But he was such a calm, strong fish and he seemed so fearless and so confident. It is strange.
中文翻譯
是啊，他想。到這時它已經跳了不止十二次，把沿著背脊的那些液囊裝滿了空氣，所以沒法沉到深水中，在那兒死去，使我沒法把它撈上來。它不久就會轉起圈子來，那時我一定想法對付它。不知道它怎麽會這麽突然地跳起來的。敢情饑餓使它不顧死活了，還是在夜間被什麽東西嚇著了？也許它突然感到害怕了。不過它是一條那樣沉著、健壯的魚，似乎是毫無畏懼而信心十足的。這很奇怪。
"You better be fearless and confident yourself, old man," he said. "You‘re holding him again but you cannot get line. But soon he has to circle."
中文翻譯
“你最好自己也毫無畏懼而信心十足，老傢伙，”他說。“你又把它拖住了，可是你沒法收回釣索。不過它馬上就得打轉了。”
The old man held him with his left hand and his shoulders now and stooped down and scooped up water in his right hand to get the crushed dolphin flesh off of his face. He was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit and lose his strength. When his face was cleaned he washed his right hand in the water over the side and then let it stay in the salt water while he watched the first light come before the sunrise. He‘s headed almost east, he thought. That means he is tired and going with the current. Soon he will have to circle. Then our true work begins.
中文翻譯
老人這時用他的左手和肩膀拽住了它，彎下身去，用右手舀水洗掉粘在臉上的壓爛的鯕鰍肉。他怕這肉會使他噁心，弄得他嘔吐，喪失力氣。擦乾淨了臉，他把右手在船舷外的水裏洗洗，然後讓它泡在這鹽水裏，一面注視著日出前的第一綫曙光。它幾乎是朝正東方走的，他想。這表明它疲乏了，隨著潮流走。它馬上就得打轉了。那時我們才真正開始幹啦。
After he judged that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out and looked at it.
"It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man."
中文翻譯
等他覺得把右手在水裏泡的時間够長了，他把它拿出水來，朝它瞧著。
“情况不壞，”他說。“疼痛對一條漢子來說，算不上什麽。”
He took hold of the line carefully so that it did not fit into any of the fresh line cuts and shifted his weight so that he could put his left hand into the sea on the other side of the skiff.
"You did not do so badly for something worthless," he said to his left hand. "But there was a moment when I could not find you."
中文翻譯
他小心地攥著釣索，使它不致嵌進新勒破的任何一道傷痕，把身子挪到小船的另一邊，這樣他能把左手伸進海裏。
“你這沒用的東西，總算幹得還不壞，”他對他的左手說。“可是曾經有一會兒，我得不到你的幫助。”
Why was I not born with two good hands? he thought. Perhaps it was my fault in not training that one properly. But God knows he has had enough chances to learn. He did not do so badly in the night, though, and he has only cramped once. If he cramps again let the line cut him off.
中文翻譯
爲什麽我不生下來就有兩隻好手呢？他想。也許是我自己的過錯，沒有好好兒訓練這只手。可是天知道它曾有過够多的學習機會。然而它今天夜裏幹得還不錯，僅僅抽了一回筋。要是它再抽筋，就讓這釣索把它勒斷吧。
When he thought that he knew that he was not being clear-headed and he thought he should chew some more of the dolphin. But I can‘t, he told himself. It is better to be light-headed than to lose your strength from nausea. And I know I cannot keep it if I eat it since my face was in it. I will keep it for an emergency until it goes bad. But it is too late to try for strength now through nourishment. You‘re stupid, he told himself. Eat the other flying fish.
中文翻譯
他想到這裏，明白自己的頭腦不怎麽清醒了，他想起應該再吃一點鯕鰍。可是我不能，他對自己說。情願頭昏目眩，也不能因噁心欲吐而喪失力氣。我還知道吃了胃裏也擱不住，因爲我的臉曾經壓在它上面。我要把它留下以防萬一，直到它腐臭了爲止。不過要想靠營養來增强力氣，如今已經太晚了。你真蠢，他對自己說。把另外那條飛魚吃了吧。
It was there, cleaned and ready, and he picked it up with his left hand and ate it chewing the bones carefully and eating all of it down to the tail.
中文翻譯
它就在那兒，已經洗乾淨，就可以吃了，他就用左手把它撿起，吃起來，細細咀嚼著魚骨，從頭到尾全都吃了。
It has more nourishment than almost any fish, he thought. At least the kind of strength that I need. Now I have done what I can, he thought. Let him begin to circle and let the fight come.
中文翻譯
它幾乎比什麽魚都更富有營養，他想。至少能給我所需要的那種力氣。我如今已經做到了我能做到的一切，他想。讓這魚打起轉來，就來交鋒吧。
The sun was rising for the third time since he had put to sea when the fish started to circle.
中文翻譯
自從他出海以來，這是第三次出太陽，這時魚打起轉來了。
He could not see by the slant of the line that the fish was circling. It was too early for that. He just felt a faint slackening of the pressure of the line and be commenced to pull on it gently with his right hand. It tightened, as always, but just when he reached the point where it would break, line began to come in. He slipped his shoulders and head from under the line and began to pull in line steadily and gently. He used both of his hands in a swinging motion and tried to do the pulling as much as he could with his body and his legs. His old legs and shoulders pivoted with the swinging of the pulling.
中文翻譯
他根據釣索的斜度還看不出魚在打轉。這爲時尚早。他僅僅感覺到釣索上的拉力微微减少了一些，就開始用右手輕輕朝里拉。釣索象往常那樣綳緊了，可是拉到快迸斷的當兒，却漸漸可以回收了。他把釣索從肩膀和頭上卸下來，動手平穩而和緩地回收釣索。他用兩隻手大幅度地一把把拉著，儘量使出全身和雙腿的力氣來拉。他一把把地拉著，兩條老邁的腿兒和肩膀跟著轉動。
"It is a very big circle," he said. "But he is circling."
中文翻譯
“這圈子可真大，”他說。“它可總算在打轉啦。”
Then the line would not come in any more and he held it until he saw the drops jumping from it in the sun. Then it started out and the old man knelt down and let it go grudgingly back into the dark water.
中文翻譯
跟著釣索就此收不回來了，他緊緊拉著，竟看見水珠兒在陽光裏從釣索上迸出來。隨後釣索開始往外溜了，老人跪下了，老大不願地讓它又漸漸回進深暗的水中。
"He is making the far part of his circle now," he said. I must hold all I can, he thought. The strain will shorten his circle each time. Perhaps in an hour I will see him. Now I must convince him and then I must kill him.
中文翻譯
“它正繞到圈子的對面去了，”他說。我一定要拚命拉緊，他想。拉緊了，它兜的圈子就會一次比一次小。也許一個鐘點內我就能見到它。我眼下一定要穩住它，過後我一定要弄死它。
But the fish kept on circling slowly and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones two hours later. But the circles were much shorter now and from the way the line slanted he could tell the fish had risen steadily while he swam.
中文翻譯
但是這魚只顧慢慢地打著轉，兩小時後，老人渾身汗濕，疲乏得入骨了。不過這時圈子已經小得多了，而且根據釣索的斜度，他能看出魚一邊游一邊在不斷地上升。
For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead. He was not afraid of the black spots. They were normal at the tension that he was pulling on the line. Twice, though, he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him.
中文翻譯
老人看見眼前有些黑點子，已經有一個鐘點了，汗水中的鹽份漚著他的眼睛，漚著眼睛上方和腦門上的傷口。他不怕那些黑點子。他這麽緊張地拉著釣索，出現黑點子是正常的現象。但是他已有兩回感到頭昏目眩，這叫他擔心。
"I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this," he said. "Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I‘ll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now."
中文翻譯
“我不能讓自己垮下去，就這樣死在一條魚的手裏，”他說。“既然我已經叫它這樣漂亮地過來了，求天主幫助我熬下去吧。我要念一百遍《天主經》和一百遍《聖母經》。不過眼下還不能念。”
Consider them said, he thought. I‘ll say them later.
中文翻譯
就算這些已經念過了吧，他想。我過後會念的。
Just then he felt a sudden banging and jerking on the line he held with his two hands. It was sharp and hard-feeling and heavy.
中文翻譯
就在這當兒，他覺得自己雙手攥住的釣索突然給撞擊、拉扯了一下。來勢很猛，有一種强勁的感覺，很是沉重。
He is hitting the wire leader with his spear, he thought. That was bound to come. He had to do that. It may make him jump though and I would rather he stayed circling now. The jumps were necessary for him to take air. But after that each one can widen the opening of the hook wound and he can throw the hook.
中文翻譯
它正用它的長嘴撞擊著鐵絲導綫，他想。這是免不了的。它不能不這樣幹。然而這一來也許會使它跳起來，我可是情願它眼下繼續打轉的。它必須跳出水面來呼吸空氣。但是每跳一次，釣鈎造成的傷口就會裂得大一些，它可能把釣鈎甩掉。
"Don‘t jump, fish," he said. "Don‘t jump."
“別跳，魚啊，”他說。“別跳啦。”
The fish hit the wire several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little line.
中文翻譯
魚又撞擊了鐵絲導綫好幾次，它每次一甩頭，老人就放出一些釣索。
I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine. But his pain could drive him mad.
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我必須讓它的疼痛老是在一處地方，他想。我的疼痛不要緊。我能控制。但是它的疼痛能使它發瘋。
After a while the fish stopped beating at the wire and started circling slowly again. The old man was gaining line steadily now. But he felt faint again. He lifted some sea water with his left hand and put it on his head. Then he put more on and rubbed the back of his neck.
中文翻譯
過了片刻，魚不再撞擊鐵絲，又慢慢地打起轉來。老人這時正不停地收進釣索。可是他又感到頭暈了。他用左手舀了些海水，灑在腦袋上。然後他再灑了點，在脖頸上揉擦著。
"I have no cramps," he said. "He‘ll be up soon and I can last. You have to last. Don‘t even speak of it."
中文翻譯
“我沒抽筋，”他說。“它馬上就會冒出水來，我熬得住。你非熬下去不可。連提也別再提了吧。”
He kneeled against the bow and, for a moment, slipped the line over his back again. I‘ll rest now while he goes out on the circle and then stand up and work on him when he comes in, he decided.
中文翻譯
他靠著船頭跪下，暫時又把釣索挎在背上。我眼下要趁它朝外兜圈子的時候歇一下，等它兜回來的時候再站起身來對付它，他這樣下了决心。
It was a great temptation to rest in the bow and let the fish make one circle by himself without recovering any line. But when the strain showed the fish had turned to come toward the boat, the old man rose to his feet and started the pivoting and the weaving pulling that brought in all the line he gained.
中文翻譯
他巴不得在船頭上歇一下，讓魚自顧自兜一個圈子，幷不回收一點釣索。但是等到釣索鬆動了一點，表明魚已經轉身在朝小船游回來，老人就站起身來，開始那種左右轉動交替拉曳的動作，他的釣索全是這樣收回來的。
I‘m tireder than I have ever been, he thought, and now the trade wind is rising. But that will be good to take him in with. I need that badly.
中文翻譯
我從來沒有這樣疲乏過，他想，而現在刮起貿易風來了。但是正好靠它來把這魚拖回去。我多需要這風啊。
"I‘ll rest on the next turn as he goes out," he said. "I feel much better. Then in two or three turns more I will have him."
中文翻譯
“等它下一趟朝外兜圈子的時候，我要歇一下，”他說。“我覺得好過多了。再兜兩三圈，我就能逮住它。”
His straw hat was far on the back of his head and he sank down into the bow with the pull of the line as he felt the fish turn.
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他的草帽被推到後腦勺上去了，他感到魚在轉身，隨著釣索一扯，他在船頭上一起股坐下了。
You work now, fish, he thought. I‘ll take you at the turn.
The sea had risen considerably. But it was a fair-weather breeze and he had to have it to get home.
"I‘ll just steer south and west," he said. "A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island."
It was on the third turn that he saw the fish first.
中文翻譯
你現在忙你的吧，魚啊，他想。你轉身時我再來對付你。
海浪大了不少。不過這是晴天吹的微風，他得靠它才能回去。
“我只消朝西南航行就成，”他說。“人在海上是决不會迷路的，何况這是個長長的島嶼。”
魚兜到第三圈，他才第一次看見它。
He saw him first as a dark shadow that took so long to pass under the boat that he could not believe its length.
"No," he said. "He can‘t be that big."
中文翻譯
他起先看見的是一個黑乎乎的影子，它需要那麽長的時間從船底下經過，他簡直不相信它有這麽長。
“不能，”他說。“它哪能這麽大啊。”
But he was that big and at the end of this circle he came to the surface only thirty yards away and the man saw his tail out of water. It was higher than a big scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the dark blue water. It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. His dorsal fin was down and his huge pectorals were spread wide.
中文翻譯
但是它當真有這麽大，這一圈兜到末了，它冒出水來，只有三十碼遠，老人看見它的尾巴露出在水面上。這尾巴比一把大鐮刀的刀刃更高，是極淡的淺紫色，竪在深藍色的海面上。它朝後傾斜著，魚在水面下游的時候，老人看得見它龐大的身軀和周身的紫色條紋。它的脊鰭朝下耷拉著，巨大的胸鰭大張著。
On this circle the old man could see the fish‘s eye and the two gray sucking fish that swam around him. Sometimes they attached themselves to him. Sometimes they darted off. Sometimes they would swim easily in his shadow. They were each over three feet long and when they swam fast they lashed their whole bodies like eels.
中文翻譯
這回魚兜圈子回來時，老人看見它的眼睛和繞著它游的兩條灰色的乳魚。它們有時候依附在它身上。有時候倏地游開去。有時候會在它的陰影裏自在地游著。它們每條都有三英尺多長，游得快時全身猛烈地甩動著，象鰻魚一般。
The old man was sweating now but from something else besides the sun. On each calm placid turn the fish made he was gaining line and he was sure that in two turns more he would have a chance to get the harpoon in.
中文翻譯
老人這時在冒汗，但不光是因爲曬了太陽，還有別的原因。魚每回沉著、平靜地拐回來時，他總收回一點釣索，所以他確信再兜上兩個圈子，就能有機會把魚叉扎進去了。
But I must get him close, close, close, he thought. I mustn‘t try for the head. I must get the heart.
"Be calm and strong, old man," he said.
中文翻譯
可是我必須把它拉得極近，極近，極近，他想。我千萬不能扎它的腦袋。我該扎進它的心臟。
“要沉著，要有力，老頭兒，”他說。
On the next circle the fish‘s back was out but he was a little too far from the boat. On the next circle he was still too far away but he was higher out of water and the old man was sure that by gaining some more line he could have him alongside.
中文翻譯
又兜了一圈，魚的背脊露出來了，不過它離小船還是太遠了一點。再兜了一圈，還是太遠，但是它露出在水面上比較高些了，老人深信，再收回一些釣索，就可以把它拉到船邊來。
He had rigged his harpoon long before and its coil of light rope was in a round basket and the end was made fast to the bitt in the bow.
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他早就把魚叉準備停當，叉上的那卷細繩子給擱在一隻圓筐內，一端緊系在船頭的系纜柱上。
The fish was coming in on his circle now calm and beautiful looking and only his great tail moving. The old man pulled on him all that he could to bring him closer. For just a moment the fish turned a little on his side. Then he straightened himself and began another circle.
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這時魚正兜了一個圈子回來，既沉著又美麗，只有它的大尾巴在動。老人竭盡全力把它拉得近些。有那麽一會兒，魚的身子傾斜了一點兒。然後它竪直了身子，又兜起圈子來。
"I moved him," the old man said. "I moved him then."
中文翻譯
“我把它拉動了，”老人說。“我剛才把它拉動了。”
He felt faint again now but he held on the great fish all the strain that he could. I moved him, he thought. Maybe this time I can get him over. Pull, hands, he thought. Hold up, legs. Last for me, head. Last for me. You never went. This time I‘ll pull him over.
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他又感到頭暈，可是他竭盡全力拽住了那條大魚。我把它拉動了，他想。也許這一回我能把它拉過來。拉呀，手啊，他想。站穩了，腿兒。爲了我熬下去吧，頭。爲了我熬下去吧。你從沒暈倒過。這一回我要把它拉過來。
But when he put all of his effort on, starting it well out before the fish came alongside and pulling with all his strength, the fish pulled part way over and then righted himself and swam away.
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但是，等他把渾身的力氣都使出來，趁魚還沒來到船邊，還很遠時就動手，使出全力拉著，那魚却側過一半身子，然後竪直了身子游開去。
"Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
That way nothing is accomplished, he thought. His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now. I must get him alongside this time, he thought. I am not good for many more turns. Yes you are, he told himself. You‘re good for ever.
中文翻譯
“魚啊，”老人說。“魚，你反正是死定了。難道你非得把我也害死嗎？”
照這樣下去是會一事無成的，他想。他嘴裏幹得說不出話來，但是此刻他不能伸手去拿水來喝。我這一回必須把它拉到船邊來，他想。它再多兜幾圈，我就不行了。不，你是行的，他對自己說。你永遠行的。
On the next turn, he nearly had him. But again the fish righted himself and swam slowly away.
You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.
中文翻譯
在兜下一圈時，他差一點把它拉了過來。可是這魚又竪直了身子，慢慢地游走了。
你要把我害死啦，魚啊，老人想。不過你有權利這樣做。我從沒見過比你更龐大、更美麗、更沉著或更崇高的東西，老弟。來，把我害死吧。我不在乎誰害死誰。
Now you are getting confused in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.
"Clear up, head," he said in a voice he could hardly hear. "Clear up."
Twice more it was the same on the turns.
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你現在頭腦糊塗起來啦，他想。你必須保持頭腦清醒。保持頭腦清醒，要象個男子漢，懂得怎樣忍受痛苦。或者象一條魚那樣，他想。
“清醒過來吧，頭，”他用自己也簡直聽不見的聲音說。“清醒過來吧。”
魚又兜了兩圈，還是老樣子。
I do not know, the old man thought. He had been on the point of feeling himself go each time. I do not know. But I will try it once more.
He tried it once more and he felt himself going when he turned the fish. The fish righted himself and swam off again slowly with the great tail weaving in the air.
I‘ll try it again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes.
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我弄不懂，老人想。每一回他都覺得自己快要垮了。我弄不懂。但我還要試一下。
他又試了一下，等他把魚拉得轉過來時，他感到自己要垮了。那魚竪直了身子，又慢慢地游開去，大尾巴在海面上搖擺著。
我還要試一下，老人對自己許願，儘管他的雙手這時已經軟弱無力，眼睛也不好使，只看得見間歇的一起。
He tried it again and it was the same. So he thought, and he felt himself going before he started; I will try it once again.
He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish‘s agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.
中文翻譯
他又試了一下，又是同樣情形。原來如此，他想，還沒動手就感到要垮下來了，我還要再試一下。
他忍住了一切痛楚，拿出剩餘的力氣和喪失已久的自傲，用來對付這魚的痛苦掙扎，于是它游到了他的身邊，在他身邊斯文地游著，它的嘴幾乎碰著了小船的船殼板，它開始在船邊游過去，身子又長，又高，又寬，銀色底上有著紫色條紋，在水裏看來長得無窮無盡。
The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned, into the fish‘s side just behind the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man‘s chest. He felt the iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his weight after it.
中文翻譯
老人放下釣索，一脚踩住了，把魚叉舉得盡可能地高，使出全身的力氣，加上他剛才鼓起的力氣，把它朝下直扎進魚身的一邊，就在大胸鰭後面一點兒的地方，這胸鰭高高地竪立著，高齊老人的胸膛。他感到那鐵叉扎了進去，就把身子倚在上面，把它扎得更深一點，再用全身的重量把它壓下去。
Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great beauty. He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff. Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the skiff.
中文翻譯
于是那魚鬧騰起來，儘管死到臨頭了，它仍從水中高高跳起，把它那驚人的長度和寬度，它的力量和美，全都暴露無遺。它仿佛懸在空中，就在小船中老人的頭頂上空。然後，它砰的一聲掉在水裏，浪花濺了老人一身，濺了一船。
The old man felt faint and sick and he could not see well. But he cleared the harpoon line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and, when he could see, he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up. The shaft of the harpoon was projecting at an angle from the fish‘s shoulder and the sea was discolouring with the red of the blood from his heart. First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep. Then it spread like a cloud. The fish was silvery and still and floated with the waves.
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老人感到頭暈，噁心，看不大清楚東西。然而他放鬆了魚叉上的繩子，讓它從他劃破了皮的雙手之間慢慢地溜出去，等他的眼睛好使了，他看見那魚仰天躺著，銀色的肚皮朝上。魚叉的柄從魚的肩部斜截出來，海水被它心臟裏流出的鮮血染紅了。起先，這攤血黑魆魆的，如同這一英里多深的藍色海水中的一塊礁石。然後它象雲彩般擴散開來。那魚是銀色的，一動不動地隨著波浪浮動著。
The old man looked carefully in the glimpse of vision that he had. Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow and laid his head on his hands.
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老人用他偶爾著得清的眼睛仔細望著。接著他把魚叉上的繩子在船頭的系纜柱上繞了兩圈，然後把腦袋擱在雙手上。
"Keep my head clear," he said against the wood of the bow. "I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work."
Now must prepare the nooses and the rope to lash him alongside, he thought. Even if we were two and swamped her to load him and bailed her out, this skiff would never hold him. I must prepare everything, then bring him in and lash him well and step the mast and set sail for home.
中文翻譯
現在我得準備好套索和繩子，把它綁在船邊，他想。即使我這裏有兩個人，把船裝滿了水來把它拉上船，然後把水舀掉，這條小船也絕對容不下它。我得做好一切準備，然後把拖過來，好好綁住，竪起桅杆，張起帆駛回去。
He started to pull the fish in to have him alongside so that he could pass a line through his gills and out his mouth and make his head fast alongside the bow. I want to see him, he thought, and to touch and to feel him. He is my fortune, he thought. But that is not why I wish to feel him. I think I felt his heart, he thought. When I pushed on the harpoon shaft the second time. Bring him in now and make him fast and get the noose around his tail and another around his middle to bind him to the skiff.
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他動手把魚拖到船邊，這樣可以用一根繩子穿進它的鰓，從嘴里拉出來，把它的腦袋緊綁在船頭邊。我想看看它，他想，碰碰它，摸摸它。它是我的財産，他想。然而我想摸摸它倒不是爲了這個。我以爲剛才已經碰到了它的心臟，他想。那是在我第二次握著魚叉的柄扎進去的時候。現在得把它拖過來，牢牢綁住，用一根套索拴住它的尾巴，另一根拴住它的腰部，把它綁牢在這小船上。
"Get to work, old man," he said. He took a very small drink of the water. "There is very much slave work to be done now that the fight is over."
中文翻譯
“動手幹活吧，老頭兒，”他說。他喝了很少的一口水。“戰鬥既然結束了，就有好多辛苦的活兒要幹呢。”
He looked up at the sky and then out to his fish. He looked at the sun carefully. It is not much more than noon, he thought. And the trade wind is rising. The lines all mean nothing now. The boy and I will splice them when we are home.
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他抬頭望望天空，然後望望船外的魚。他仔細望望太陽。晌午才過了沒多少時候，他想。而貿易風刮起來了。這些釣索現在都用不著了。回家以後，那孩子和我要把它們拈接起來。
"Come on, fish," he said. But the fish did not come. Instead he lay there wallowing now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up onto him. When he was even with him and had the fish‘s head against the bow he could not believe his size. But he untied the harpoon rope from the bitt, passed it through the fish‘s gills and out his jaws, made a turn around his sword then passed the rope through t he other gill, made another turn around the bill and knotted the double rope and made it fast to the bitt in the bow. He cut the rope then and went astern to noose the tail. The fish had turned silver from his original purple and silver, and the stripes showed the same pale violet colour as his tail. They were wider than a man‘s hand with his fingers spread and the fish‘s eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope or as a saint in a procession.
中文翻譯
“過來吧，魚，”他說。可是這魚不過來。它反而躺在海面上翻滾著，老人只得把小船駛到它的身邊。等他跟它幷攏了，幷把魚的頭靠在船頭邊，他簡直無法相信它竟這麽大。他從系纜柱上解下魚叉柄上的繩子，穿進魚鰓，從嘴里拉出來，在它那劍似的長上顎上繞了一圈，然後穿過另一個魚鰓，在劍嘴上繞了一圈，把這雙股繩子挽了個結，緊系在船頭的系纜柱上。然後他割下一截繩子，走到船梢去套住魚尾巴。魚已經從原來的紫銀兩色變成了純銀色，條紋和尾巴顯出同樣的淡紫色。這些條紋比一個人摣開五指的手更寬，它的眼睛看上去冷漠得象潜望鏡中的反射鏡，或者迎神行列中的聖徒像。
"It was the only way to kill him," the old man said. He was feeling better since the water and he knew he would not go away and his head was clear. He‘s over fifteen hundred pounds the way he is, he thought. Maybe much more. If he dresses out two-thirds of that at thirty cents a pound?
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“要殺死它只有用這個辦法，”老人說。他喝了水，覺得好過些了，知道自己不會垮，頭腦很清醒。看樣子它不止一千五百磅重，他想。也許還要重得多。如果去掉了頭尾和下脚，肉有三分之二的重量，照三角錢一磅計算，該是多少？
"I need a pencil for that," he said. "My head is not that clear. But I think the great DiMaggio would be proud of me today. I had no bone spurs. But the hands and the back hurt truly." I wonder what a bone spur is, he thought. Maybe we have them without knowing of it.
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“我需要一支鉛筆來計算，”他說。“我的頭腦幷不清醒到這個程度啊。不過，我想那了不起的迪馬吉奧今天會替我感到驕傲。我沒有長骨刺。可是雙手和背脊實在痛得厲害。”不知道骨刺是什麽玩意兒，他想。也許我們都長著它，自己不知道。
He made the fish fast to bow and stern and to the middle thwart. He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside. He cut a piece of line and tied the fish‘s lower jaw against his bill so his mouth would not open and they would sail as cleanly as possible. Then he stepped the mast and, with the stick that was his gaff and with his boom rigged, the patched sail drew, the boat began to move, and half lying in the stern he sailed south-west.
中文翻譯
他把魚緊系在船頭、船梢和中央的座板上。它真大，簡直象在船邊綁上了另一隻大得多的船。他割下一段釣索，把魚的下頜和它的長上顎扎在一起，使它的嘴不能張開，船就可以盡可能幹淨利落地行駛了。然後他竪起桅杆，裝上那根當魚鈎用的棍子和下桁，張起帶補丁的帆，船開始移動，他半躺在船梢，向西南方駛去。
He did not need a compass to tell him where southwest was. He only needed the feel of the trade wind and the drawing of the sail. I better put a small line out with a spoon on it and try and get something to eat and drink for the moisture. But he could not find a spoon and his sardines were rotten. So he hooked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with the gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in it fell onto the planking of the skiff.
中文翻譯
他不需要羅盤來告訴他西南方在哪裏。他只消憑貿易風吹在身上的感覺和帆的動向就能知道。我還是放一根系著匙形假餌的細釣絲到水裏去，釣些什麽東西來吃吃吧，也可以潤潤嘴。可是他找不到匙形假餌，他的沙丁魚也都腐臭了。所以他趁船經過的時候用魚鈎鈎上了一簇黃色的馬尾藻，把它抖抖，使裏面的小蝦掉在小船船板上。
There were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas. The old man pinched their heads off with his thumb and forefinger and ate them chewing up the shells and the tails. They were very tiny but he knew they were nourishing and they tasted good.
中文翻譯
小蝦總共有一打以上，蹦跳著，甩著脚，象沙蚤一般。老人用拇指和食指掐去它們的頭，連殼帶尾巴嚼著吃下去。它們很小，可是他知道它們富有營養，而且味道也好。
The old man still had two drinks of water in the bottle and he used half of one after he had eaten the shrimps. The skiff was sailing well considering the handicaps and he steered with the tiller under his arm. He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream. At one time when he was feeling so badly toward the end, he had thought perhaps it was a dream. Then when he had seen the fish come out of the water and hang motionless in the sky before he fell, he was sure there was some great strangeness and he could not believe it. Then he could not see well, although now he saw as well as ever.
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老人瓶中還有兩口水，他吃了蝦以後，喝了半口。考慮到這小船的不利條件，它行駛得可算好了，他把舵柄挾在胳肢窩裏，掌著舵。他看得見魚，他只消看看自己的雙手，感覺到背脊靠在船梢上，就能知道這是確實發生的事兒，不是一場夢。有一個時期，眼看事情要告吹了，他感到非常難受，以爲這也許是一場夢。等他後來看到魚躍出水面，在落下前一動不動地懸在半空中的那一刹那，他確信此中准有什麽莫大的奧秘，使他無法相信。當時他看不大清楚，儘管眼下他又象往常那樣看得很清楚了。
Now he knew there was the fish and his hands and back were no dream. The hands cure quickly, he thought. I bled them clean and the salt water will heal them. The dark water of the true gulf is the greatest healer that there is. All I must do is keep the head clear. The hands have done their work and we sail well. With his mouth shut and his tail straight up and down we sail like brothers. Then his head started to become a little unclear and he thought, is he bringing me in or am I bringing him in? If I were towing him behind there would be no question. Nor if the fish were in the skiff, with all dignity gone, there would be no question either. But they were sailing together lashed side by side and the old man thought, let him bring me in if it pleases him . I am only better than him through trickery and he meant me no harm.
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現在他知道這魚就在這裏，他的雙手和背脊都不是夢中的東西。這雙手很快就會痊愈的，他想。它們出血出得很多，海水會把它們治好的。這真正的海灣中的深暗的水是世上最佳的治療劑。我只消保持頭腦清醒就行。這兩隻手已經盡了自己的本份，我們航行得很好。魚閉著嘴，尾巴直上直下地竪著，我們象親兄弟一樣航行著。接著他的頭腦有點兒不清楚了，他竟然想起，是它在帶我回家，還是我在帶它回家呢？如果我把它拖在船後，那就毫無疑問了。如果這魚丟盡了面子，給放在這小船上，那麽也不會有什麽疑問。可是他們是幷排地拴在一起航行的，所以老人想，只要它高興，讓它把我帶回家去得了。我不過靠了詭計才比它强的，可它對我幷無惡意。
They sailed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water and tried to keep his head clear. There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night. The old man looked at the fish constantly to make sure it was true. It was an hour before the first shark hit him.
中文翻譯
他們航行得很好，老人把手浸在鹽水裏，努力保持頭腦清醒。積雲堆聚得很高，上空還有相當多的卷雲，因此老人看出這風將刮上整整一夜。老人時常對魚望望，好確定真有這麽回事。這時候是第一條鯊魚來襲擊它的前一個鐘點。