The Old Man and the Sea 老人與海（英文原版）

The sky,the ocean, the skiff,the gears, the great fish and the sharks. For me it's more like Describing someone's interior world. Someone might know you, but they can't help you for your internal fight in your head, The coast guard was trying to search him.the the young boy cares about him,but no one can really help him.what he can rely on is only himself and His determination and he was never defeated!

Struggling, accepting, calm It is neither lucky nor unlucky, nor even a tragic life.

a man can be destroyed but not defeated

I have just finished reading The Old Man and the Sea. Long before that, I already knew the story, but I hadn’t read it for many years. I knew that the old man sailed alone into the sea to catch a big fish and that it was a tough voyage. But I didn’t know what happened after he caught the fish. I read a comment from a reader on WeChat Reading: “When I was young, I hoped the old man would catch the fish. But as I got older, I came to admire the old man for fighting hard against the sharks, even though he was losing part of the fish.” And I want to ask a further question. The old man took the skeleton of the fish home, so people knew what he had experienced. He still got people’s respect and admiration. But in the real world, there are so many tough voyages like the one in The Old Man and the Sea that are happening in people’s lives, but they are never seen by others. The only person who knows about them is the person who experienced them. Those people are not only struggling to accept their losses, but also have to face misunderstanding or even humiliation from others.

我突然發現：聖地亞哥這老頭兒他不僅僅是一個釣魚佬，他還是一個徹頭徹尾的純愛戰士。 心血來潮想讀《老人與海》的英文原版。 對於CET-4都沒過的我，讀起來確實有點過於磕磕絆絆了。 我花了十幾天，零零碎碎的終於讀到了第2章。 原文1：Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt. 這個句子裏有一個我不認識的看似無關緊要的單詞“tinted”意思是“着色的”或“染色的”。 最初我覺得他大概是想表達一張彩色照片的意思，我很奇怪他爲什麼不用“a color photograph”。 我轉念一想是不是他想形容這是一張顏色沒那麼鮮豔的照片呢？比如他的妻子已經去世很久了照片有些褪色，那原文可以寫“a faded color photograph”。 我一邊查着單詞，一邊分析着語意。 我在想海明威到底要表達什麼？ 突然我想到故事發生的背景，在那個時代，一張彩色照片也許一個很昂貴的東西。 我馬上查了查，故事發生在20世紀40年代，1935年彩色照片技術纔剛剛現世，成本極其高昂。所以人們選擇通過手工方法，在黑白照片手工添加顏色，來提升視覺效果，這就是着色照。 儘管它是全綵照片的低成本替代方案，但是對於普通人來說，一張“黑白着色照片”仍然要花掉幾天的工資。對於窮困的聖地亞哥來說，擁有一張着色照，當然是十分奢侈的。 聖地亞哥的窮困在前文早有說明。 原文2：They walked up the road together to the old man's shack ……The shack was made of the tough bud-shields of the royal palm which are called guano and in it there was a bed, a table, one chair, and a place on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal. 聖地亞哥住什麼呢？“shack”意思是簡陋的小屋、棚屋、茅舍。裏面有什麼呢？一張牀，一個桌子，一把椅子和一處用來燒炭做飯的空地。 聖地亞哥如此的窮困，但是他依然爲妻子保留了一張珍貴的着色照片。 在前文可以讀到他小船的桅杆和他的房間一樣長，漁具就放在角落。而且他在地上做飯，可以想象他的屋子是髒亂的。 但是他有一件“clean shirt”，那張讓他孤獨到不敢看的“tinted photograph”放在了他唯一一件“clean shirt”的下面。 所以老人聖地亞哥，是把他去世的妻子，當做最珍視的東西，放在心裏面最乾淨的角落。 他不是魚癡，他是情聖。 哈哈哈，多可愛的老頭兒。

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