The Snows of Kilimanjaro乞力马扎罗山的雪（英文原版）

写得很好，英文如母语般亲切（泪）。学业病读外文都会下意识关注用词和句式，越读越散。 海明威语言简洁但信息量大，短篇里容纳了女男主的现在过去经历，两人感情关系状态，以及对人生意义的思考。死期将近的男主，延宕的写作梦，不断的感情挫折。他对女主的描述带有轻蔑的审视感，他说话的态度语气用词都很劣。其实我觉得和《白象似的群山》里女男主牛头不对马嘴的对话异曲同工，可以借对话分析他的叙事手法，看似闲聊其实包含很多信息，不妨把这理解为他对所谓爱情（异性恋）的看法（某种隐喻）。 金句频出： 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.

⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟🌟 读了两遍来写书评，但是还是觉得领会不够，不过这本写得极好，用不着我粗鄙的评价来衬托它，它短小却是珍品。 大道至简，这是我在读第二遍有这种模糊的感觉。 推荐

跌宕的结局很眼熟，《离骚》用过，好莱坞电影里也常看到。好莱坞编剧可能是从海明威这里学的。

每个人的死亡都是壮美的，只是我们无法走入将死者的内心

英文文本除了海明威自己的一些不爱断句的小问题，是没什么毛病的。问题出在翻译上，能看懂，但都中英文对照了，翻译精度就有点差劲了，例如“No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.”翻译“成没人能解释这只豹子为何会出现在如此高的地方。”直接把seeking漏掉，句意也变了。 还有“squatted obscenely”后面的obscenely形容前面的squatted，直接翻译成“蹲伏在那里”，直接把adv.漏了。我只看了三页就找出来两个问题，难以想象后面会有多夸张。

用中文翻译这篇英文，是非常有难度的。海明威藏在文字里的那种伤感情绪的流动，几乎很难用中文翻译过来。

冰山文学，小时读的翻译版，只觉得作者对打猎这种少许几个人的描写干净，文字洗练，及长有能力阅读英文原版，也渐渐能体会海明威电文的风格(-对比菲茨杰拉德)

一直想读中文版却一直忘读，既然发现原文了，就一起看吧。