The Old Man and the Sea 老人与海（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.

我突然发现：圣地亚哥这老头儿他不仅仅是一个钓鱼佬，他还是一个彻头彻尾的纯爱战士。 心血来潮想读《老人与海》的英文原版。 对于CET-4都没过的我，读起来确实有点过于磕磕绊绊了。 我花了十几天，零零碎碎的终于读到了第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. 这个句子里有一个我不认识的看似无关紧要的单词“tinted”意思是“着色的”或“染色的”。 最初我觉得他大概是想表达一张彩色照片的意思，我很奇怪他为什么不用“a color photograph”。 我转念一想是不是他想形容这是一张颜色没那么鲜艳的照片呢？比如他的妻子已经去世很久了照片有些褪色，那原文可以写“a faded color photograph”。 我一边查着单词，一边分析着语意。 我在想海明威到底要表达什么？ 突然我想到故事发生的背景，在那个时代，一张彩色照片也许一个很昂贵的东西。 我马上查了查，故事发生在20世纪40年代，1935年彩色照片技术才刚刚现世，成本极其高昂。所以人们选择通过手工方法，在黑白照片手工添加颜色，来提升视觉效果，这就是着色照。 尽管它是全彩照片的低成本替代方案，但是对于普通人来说，一张“黑白着色照片”仍然要花掉几天的工资。对于穷困的圣地亚哥来说，拥有一张着色照，当然是十分奢侈的。 圣地亚哥的穷困在前文早有说明。 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. 圣地亚哥住什么呢？“shack”意思是简陋的小屋、棚屋、茅舍。里面有什么呢？一张床，一个桌子，一把椅子和一处用来烧炭做饭的空地。 圣地亚哥如此的穷困，但是他依然为妻子保留了一张珍贵的着色照片。 在前文可以读到他小船的桅杆和他的房间一样长，渔具就放在角落。而且他在地上做饭，可以想象他的屋子是脏乱的。 但是他有一件“clean shirt”，那张让他孤独到不敢看的“tinted photograph”放在了他唯一一件“clean shirt”的下面。 所以老人圣地亚哥，是把他去世的妻子，当做最珍视的东西，放在心里面最干净的角落。 他不是鱼痴，他是情圣。 哈哈哈，多可爱的老头儿。

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