The Snows of Kilimanjaro乞力馬扎羅山的雪（英文原版）

寫得很好，英文如母語般親切（淚）。學業病讀外文都會下意識關注用詞和句式，越讀越散。 海明威語言簡潔但信息量大，短篇裏容納了女男主的現在過去經歷，兩人感情關係狀態，以及對人生意義的思考。死期將近的男主，延宕的寫作夢，不斷的感情挫折。他對女主的描述帶有輕蔑的審視感，他說話的態度語氣用詞都很劣。其實我覺得和《白象似的羣山》裏女男主牛頭不對馬嘴的對話異曲同工，可以借對話分析他的敘事手法，看似閒聊其實包含很多信息，不妨把這理解爲他對所謂愛情（異性戀）的看法（某種隱喻）。 金句頻出： Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. “Love is a dunghill,” said Harry. “And I’m the cock that gets on it to crow.” How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth. He had destroyed his talent by not using it, by betrayals of himself and what he believed in, by drinking so much that he blunted the edge of his perceptions, by laziness, by sloth, and by snobbery, by pride and by prejudice, by hook and by crook. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟 讀了兩遍來寫書評，但是還是覺得領會不夠，不過這本寫得極好，用不着我粗鄙的評價來襯托它，它短小卻是珍品。 大道至簡，這是我在讀第二遍有這種模糊的感覺。 推薦

跌宕的結局很眼熟，《離騷》用過，好萊塢電影裏也常看到。好萊塢編劇可能是從海明威這裏學的。

每個人的死亡都是壯美的，只是我們無法走入將死者的內心

英文文本除了海明威自己的一些不愛斷句的小問題，是沒什麼毛病的。問題出在翻譯上，能看懂，但都中英文對照了，翻譯精度就有點差勁了，例如“No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”翻譯“成沒人能解釋這隻豹子爲何會出現在如此高的地方。”直接把seeking漏掉，句意也變了。 還有“squatted obscenely”後面的obscenely形容前面的squatted，直接翻譯成“蹲伏在那裏”，直接把adv.漏了。我只看了三頁就找出來兩個問題，難以想象後面會有多誇張。

用中文翻譯這篇英文，是非常有難度的。海明威藏在文字裏的那種傷感情緒的流動，幾乎很難用中文翻譯過來。

冰山文學，小時讀的翻譯版，只覺得作者對打獵這種少許幾個人的描寫乾淨，文字洗練，及長有能力閱讀英文原版，也漸漸能體會海明威電文的風格(-對比菲茨傑拉德)

一直想讀中文版卻一直忘讀，既然發現原文了，就一起看吧。