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《老人与海》中的鲨鱼及其他（完结）

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第一条鲨鱼 Mako Shark (这是老人尊重的鲨鱼)

Theshark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water as thedark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had comeup so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke the surface of the bluewater and was in the sun. Then he fell back into the sea and picked up thescent and started swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.

　　这条鲨鱼的出现不是偶然的。当那一大片暗红的血朝一英里深的海里下沉并扩散的时候，它从水底深处上来了。它窜上来得那么快，全然不顾一切，竟然冲破了蓝色的水面，来到了阳光里。跟着它又掉回海里，嗅到了血腥气的踪迹，就顺着小船和那鱼所走的路线游去。

Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it upagain, or have just a trace of it, and he swam fast and hard on the course. Hewas a very big Mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the seaand everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. His back was as blue asa sword fish‘s and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome.He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws which were tight shut nowas he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifingthrough the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his jawsall of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinarypyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man‘s fingers whenthey are crisped like claws. They were nearly as long as t he fingers of theold man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fishbuilt to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong andwell armed that they had no other enemy. Now he speeded up as he smelled thefresher scent and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.

有时候它迷失了那气味。但是它总会重新嗅到，或者就嗅到那么一点儿，它就飞快地使劲跟上。它是条很大的灰鲭鲨，生就一副好体格，能游得跟海里最快的鱼一般快，周身的一切都很美，除了它的上下颚。它的背部和剑鱼的一般蓝，肚子是银色的，鱼皮光滑而漂亮。它长得和剑鱼一般，除了它那张正紧闭着的大嘴，它眼下就在水面下迅速地游着，高耸的脊鳍象刀子般划破水面，一点也不抖动。在这紧闭着的双唇里面，八排牙齿全都朝里倾斜着。它们和大多数鲨鱼的不同，不是一般的金字塔形的。它们象爪子般蜷曲起来的人的手指。它们几乎跟这老人的手指一般长，两边都有刀片般锋利的快口。这种鱼生就拿海里所有的鱼当食料，它们游得那么快，那么壮健，武器齐备，以致所向无敌。它闻到了这新鲜的血腥气，此刻正加快了速度，蓝色的脊鳍划破了水面。

When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was ashark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. He preparedthe harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on. The ropewas short as it lacked what he had cut away to lash the fish.

　　老人看见它在游来，看出这是条毫无畏惧而坚决为所欲为的鲨鱼。他准备好了鱼叉，系紧了绳子，一面注视着鲨鱼向前游来。绳子短了，缺了他割下用来绑鱼的那一截。

The old man‘s head was clear and good now and he was fullof resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. Hetook one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might aswell have been a dream, he thought. I can not keep him from hitting me butmaybe I can get him. Dentuso, he thought. Bad luck to your mother.

　　老人此刻头脑清醒，正常，充满了决心，但并不抱着多少希望。光景太好了，不可能持久的，他想。他注视着鲨鱼在逼近，抽空朝那条大鱼望上一眼。这简直等于是一场梦，他想。我没法阻止它来袭击我，但是也许我能弄死它。登多索鲨，他想。你它妈交上坏运啦。

The shark closed fast astern and when he hit the fish theold man saw his mouth open and his strange eyes and the clicking chop of theteeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail. The shark‘s head wasout of water and his back was coming out and the old man could hear the noiseof skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he rammed the harpoon down ontothe shark‘s head at a spot where the line between his eyes intersected with theline that ran straight back from his nose. There were no such lines. There wasonly the heavy sharp blue head and the big eyes and the clicking, thrustingall-swallowing jaws. But that was the location of the brain and the old man hitit. He hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all hisstrength. He hit it without hope but with resolution and complete malignancy.

　　鲨鱼飞速地逼近船梢，它袭击那鱼的时候，老人看见它张开了嘴，看见它那双奇异的眼睛，它咬住鱼尾巴上面一点儿的地方，牙齿咬得嘎吱嘎吱地响。鲨鱼的头露出在水面上，背部正在出水，老人听见那条大鱼的皮肉被撕裂的声音，这时候，他用鱼叉朝下猛地扎进鲨鱼的脑袋，正扎在它两眼之间的那条线和从鼻子笔直通到脑后的那条线的交叉点上。这两条线实在是并不存在的。只有那沉重、尖锐的蓝色脑袋，两只大眼睛和那嘎吱作响、吞噬一切的突出的两颚。可是那儿正是脑子的所在，老人直朝它扎去。他使出全身的力气，用糊着鲜血的双手，把一支好鱼叉向它扎去。他扎它，并不抱着希望，但是带着决心和十足的恶意。

The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was notalive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of therope. The old man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it.Then, on his back, with his tail lashing and his jaws clicking, the sharkplowed over the water as a speedboat does. The water was white where his tailbeat it and three-quarters of his body was clear above the water when the ropecame taut, shivered, and then snapped. The shark lay quietly for a little whileon the surface and the old man watched him. Then he went down very slowly.

　　鲨鱼翻了个身，老人看出它眼睛里已经没有生气了，跟着它又翻了个身，自行缠上了两道绳子。老人知道这鲨鱼快死了，但它还是不肯认输。它这时肚皮朝上，尾巴扑打着，两颚嘎吱作响，象一条快艇般划奇水面。它的尾巴把水拍打得泛出白色，四分之三的身体露出在水面上，这时绳子给绷紧了，抖了一下，啪地断了。鲨鱼在水面上静静地躺了片刻，老人紧盯着它。然后它慢慢地沉下去了。

后来的铲鼻鲨 Shovel-nosed sharks (老人厌恶它们，因为它们饿了连海龟都会咬，还会袭击人类)

He had sailed for two hours, resting in the stern and sometimes chewinga bit of the meat from the marlin, trying to rest and to be strong, when he sawthe first of the two sharks.

　　他已经航行了两个钟点，在船梢歇着，有时候从大马林鱼身上撕下一点肉来咀嚼着，努力休息，保持精力，这时他看到了两条鲨鱼中首先露面的那一条。

'Ay,' he said aloud. There is no translationfor this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make,involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.

“Ａｙ，”他说出声来。这个词儿是没法翻译的，也许不过是一声叫喊，就象一个人觉得钉子穿过他的双手，钉进木头时不由自主地发出的声音。

'Galanos,' he said aloud. He had seen thesecond fin now coming up behind the fish and had identified them asshovel-nosed sharks by the brown, triangular fin and the sweeping movements ofthe tail. They had the scent and were excited and in the stupidity of theirgreat hunger they were losing and finding the scent in their excitement. Butthey were closing all the time.

“加拉诺鲨，”他说出声来。他看见另一个鳍在第一个的背后冒出水来，根据这褐色的三角形鳍和甩来甩去的尾巴，认出它们正是铲鼻鲨。它们嗅到了血腥味，很兴奋，因为饿昏了头，它们激动得一会儿迷失了臭迹，一会儿又嗅到了。可是它们始终在逼近。

The old man made the sheet fast and jammed the tiller.Then he took up the oar with the knife lashed to it. He lifted it as lightly ashe could because his hands rebelled at the pain. Then he opened and closed themon it lightly to loosen them. He closed them firmly so they would take the painnow and would not flinch and watched the sharks come. He could see their wide,flattened, shovel-pointed heads now and their whitetipped wide pectoral fins.They were hateful sharks, bad smelling, scavengers as well as killers, and whenthey were hungry they would bite an oar or the rudder of a boat. It was thesesharks that would cut the turtles‘ legs and flippers off when the turtles wereasleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.

　　老人系紧帆脚索，卡住了舵柄。然后他拿起上面绑着刀子的桨。他尽量轻地把它举起来，因为他那双手痛得不听使唤了。然后他把手张开，再轻轻捏住了桨，让双手松弛下来。他紧紧地把手合拢，让它们忍受着痛楚而不致缩回去，一面注视着鲨鱼在过来。他这时看得见它们那又宽又扁的铲子形的头，和尖端呈白色的宽阔的胸鳍。它们是可恶的鲨鱼，气味难闻，既杀害其他的鱼，也吃腐烂的死鱼，饥饿的时候，它们会咬船上的一把桨或者舵。就是这些鲨鱼，会趁海龟在水面上睡觉的时候咬掉它们的脚和鳍状肢，如果碰到饥饿的时候，也会在水里袭击人，即使这人身上并没有鱼血或黏液的腥味。

'Ay,' the old man said. 'Galanos. Come ongalanos.'

“Ａｙ，”老人说。“加拉诺鲨。来吧，加拉诺鲨。”

They came. But they did not come as the Mako had come.One turned and went out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel theskiff shake as he jerked and pulled on the fish. The other watched the old manwith his slitted yellow eyes and then cam e in fast with his half circle ofjaws wide to hit the fish where he had already been bitten. The line showedclearly on the top of his brown head and back where the brain joined the spinalcord and the old man drove the knife on the oar into the juncture , withdrewit, and drove it in again into the shark‘s yellow cat-like eyes. The shark letgo of the fish and slid down, swallowing what he had taken as he died.

　　它们来啦。但是它们来的方式和那条灰鲭鲨的不同。一条鲨鱼转了个身，钻到小船底下不见了，它用嘴拉扯着死鱼，老人觉得小船在晃动。另一条用它一条缝似的黄眼睛注视着老人，然后飞快地游来，半圆形的上下颚大大地张开着，朝鱼身上被咬过的地方咬去。它褐色的头顶以及脑子跟脊髓相连处的背脊上有道清清楚楚的纹路，老人把绑在桨上的刀子朝那交叉点扎进去，拔出来，再扎进这鲨鱼的黄色猫眼。鲨鱼放开了咬住的鱼，身子朝下溜，临死时还把咬下的肉吞了下去。

The skiff was still shaking with the destruction theother shark was doing to the fish and the old man let go the sheet so that theskiff would swing broadside and bring the shark out from under. When he saw theshark he leaned over the side and punched a t him. He hit only meat and thehide was set hard and he barely got the knife in. The blow hurt not only hishands but his shoulder too. But the shark came up fast with his head out andthe old man hit him squarely in the center of his flat-topped head as his nosecame out of water and lay against the fish. The old man withdrew the blade andpunched the shark exactly in the same spot again. He still hung to the fishwith his jaws hooked and the old man stabbed him in his left eye. The sharkstill hung the re.

　　另一条鲨鱼正在咬啃那条鱼，弄得小船还在摇晃，老人就放松了帆脚索，让小船横过来，使鲨鱼从船底下暴露出来。？”他一看见鲨鱼，就从船舷上探出身子，一桨朝它戳去。他只戳在肉上，但鲨鱼的皮紧绷着，刀子几乎戳不进去。这一戳不仅震痛了他那双手，也震痛了他的肩膀。但是鲨鱼迅速地浮上来，露出了脑袋，老人趁它的鼻子伸出水面挨上那条鱼的时候，对准它扁平的脑袋正中扎去。老人拔出刀刃，朝同一地方又扎了那鲨鱼一下。它依旧紧锁着上下颚，咬住了鱼不放，老人一刀戳进它的左眼。鲨鱼还是吊在那里。

'No?' the old man said and he drove the bladebetween the vertebrae and the brain. It was an easy shot now and he felt thecartilage sever. The old man reversed the oar and put the blade between theshark‘s jaws to open them. He twisted the blade and as t he shark slid loose hesaid, 'Go on, galano. Slide down a mile deep. Go see your friend, or maybeit‘s your mother.'

“还不够吗？”老人说着，把刀刃戳进它的脊骨和脑子之间。这时扎起来很容易，他感到它的软骨折断了。老人把桨倒过来，把刀刃插进鲨鱼的两颚之间，想把它的嘴撬开。他把刀刃一转，鲨鱼松了嘴溜开了，他说：“走吧，加拉诺鲨，溜到一英里深的水里去吧。去找你的朋友，也许那是你的妈妈吧。”

狮子lions (老人年轻的时候在非洲海岸上看过成群的狮子，它们象征着尊严，力量，勇气。老人特别想再次梦到它们。)

He did not dream of the lions but insteadof a vast school of porpoises that stretched for eight or ten miles and it wasin the time of their mating and they would leap high into the air and returninto the same hole they had made in the water when they leaped.

他没有梦见狮子，却梦见了一大群海豚，伸展八到十英里长，这时正是它们交配的季节，它们会高高地跳到半空中，然后掉回到它们跳跃时在水里形成的水涡里。

Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed andthere was a norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep becausehis head had rested on it instead of a pillow.

接着他梦见他在村子里，躺在自己的床上，正在刮北风，他感到很冷，他的右臂麻木了，因为他的头枕在它上面，而不是枕头上。

After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach andhe saw the first of the lions come down onto it in the early dark and then theother lions came and he rested his chin on the wood of the bows where the shiplay anchored with the evening off-shore breeze and he waited to see if therewould be more lions and he was happy.

在这以后，他梦见那道长长的黄色海滩，看见第一头狮子在傍晚时分来到海滩上，接着其他狮子也来了，于是他把下巴搁在船头的木板上，船抛下了锚停泊在那里，晚风吹向海面，他等着看有没有更多的狮子来，感到很快乐。

………（小说结尾处，老人终于梦到了狮子，这象征什么？）

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleepingagain. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by himwatching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

在大路另一头老人的窝棚里，他又睡着了。他依旧脸朝下躺着，孩子坐在他身边，守着他。老人正梦见狮子。

海豚dolphins

Just before it was dark, as they passed a great island of Sargasso weedthat heaved and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making lovewith something under a yellow blanket, his small line was taken by taken by adolphin. He saw it first when it jumped in the air, true gold in the last ofthe sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air. It jumped again and againin the acrobatics of its fear and he worked his way back to the stern andcrouching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm, he pulled thedolphin in with his left hand, stepping on the gained line each time with hisbare left foot.

　　就在断黑之前，老人和船经过好大一起马尾藻，它在风浪很小的海面上动荡着，仿佛海洋正同什么东西在一条黄色的毯子下做爱，这时候，他那根细钓丝给一条鲯鳅咬住了。他第一次看见它是在它跃出水面的当儿，在最后一线阳光中确实象金子一般，在空中弯起身子，疯狂地扑打着。它惊慌得一次次跃出水面，象在做杂技表演，他呢，慢慢地挪动身子，回到船梢蹲下，用右手和右胳臂攥住那根粗钓索，用左手把鲯鳅往回拉，每收回一段钓丝，就用光着的左脚踩住。

When the fish was at the stern, plunging and cutting fromside to side in desperation, the old man leaned over the stern and lifted theburnished gold fish with its purple spots over the stern. Its jaws were workingconvulsively in quick bites against the hook and it pounded the bottom of theskiff with its long flat body, its tail and its head until he clubbed it acrossthe shining golden head until it shivered and was still.

　　等到这条带紫色斑点的金光灿烂的鱼给拉到了船梢边，绝望地左右乱窜乱跳时，老人探出身去，把它拎到船梢上。它的嘴被钓钩挂住了，抽搐地动着，急促地连连咬着钓钩，还用它那长而扁的身体、尾巴和脑袋拍打着船底，直到他用木棍打了一下它的金光闪亮的脑袋，它才抖了一下，不动了。

'What an excellent fish dolphin is to eatcooked,' he said. 'And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go ina boat again without salt or limes.'

“鲯鳅煮熟了吃味道多鲜美啊，”他说。“生吃可难吃死了。以后不带盐或酸橙，我绝对不再乘船了。”

海龟Turtles

He loved green turtles and hawk-bills with their elegance and speed andtheir great value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads, yellow in their armour-plating, strange in their lovemaking, and happily eating the Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut.

　　他喜欢绿色的海龟和玳瑁，它们形态优美，游水迅速，价值很高，他还对那又大又笨的蠵龟抱着不怀恶意的轻蔑，它们的甲壳是黄色的，做爱的方式是奇特的，高高兴兴地吞食僧帽水母时闭上了眼睛。

He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone inturtle boats for many years. He was sorry for them all, even the great trunkbacks that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton. Most people areheartless about turtles because a turtle‘s heart will beat for hours after hehas been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart tooand my feet and hands are like theirs. He ate the white eggs to give himselfstrength. He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October forthe truly big fish.

　　他对海龟并不抱着神秘的看法，尽管他曾多年乘小船去捕海龟。他替所有的海龟伤心，甚至包括那些跟小船一样长、重达一吨的大梭龟。人们大都对海龟残酷无情，因为一只海龟给剖开、杀死之后，它的心脏还要跳动好几个钟点。然而老人想，我也有这样一颗心脏，我的手脚也跟它们的一样。他吃白色的海龟蛋，为了使身子长力气。他在五月份连吃了整整一个月，使自己到九、十月份能身强力壮，去逮地道的人鱼。

飞鱼 flying fish

In the dark the old man could feel themorning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish leftthe water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared awayin the darkness. He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicatedark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and hethought, the birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birdsand the heavy strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as thosesea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful.But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly,dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately forthe sea.

　　老人在黑暗中感觉到早晨在来临，他划着划着，听见飞鱼出水时的颤抖声，还有它们在黑暗中凌空飞翔时挺直的翅膀所发出的咝咝声。他非常喜爱飞鱼，拿它们当作他在海洋上的主要朋友。他替鸟儿伤心，尤其是那些柔弱的黑色小燕鸥，它们始终在飞翔，在找食，但几乎从没找到过，于是他想，乌儿的生活过得比我们的还要艰难，除了那些猛禽和强有力的大鸟。既然海洋这样残暴，为什么象这些海燕那样的鸟儿生来就如此柔弱和纤巧？海洋是仁慈并十分美丽的。然而她能变得这样残暴，又是来得这样突然，而这些飞翔的鸟儿，从空中落下觅食，发出细微的哀鸣，却生来就柔弱得不适宜在海上生活。

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Before it was reallylight he had his baits out and was drifting with the current. One bait was downforty fathoms. The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth weredown in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms.Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tiedand sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and thepoint, was covered with fresh sardines. Each sardine was hooked through botheyes so that they made a half-garland on the projecting steel. There was nopart of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling andgood tasting.

　　不等天色大亮，他就放出了一个个鱼饵，让船随着海流漂去。有个鱼饵下沉到四十英寻的深处。第二个在七十五英寻的深处，第三个和第四个分别在蓝色海水中一百英寻和一百二十五英寻的深处。每个由新鲜沙丁鱼做的鱼饵都是头朝下的，钓钩的钩身穿进小鱼的身子，扎好，缝牢，钓钩的所有突出部分，弯钩和尖端，都给包在鱼肉里。每条沙丁鱼都用钓钩穿过双眼，这样鱼的身子在突出的钢钩上构成了半个环形。不管一条大鱼接触到钓钩的哪一部分，都是喷香而美味的。

The boy had given him twofresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines likeplummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack thathad been used before; but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness. Each line, as thick aroundas a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touchon the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coilswhich could be mad e fast to the other spare coils so that, if it werenecessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.

　　孩子给了他两条新鲜的小金枪鱼，或者叫做长鳍金枪鱼，它们正象铅垂般挂在那两根最深的钓索上，在另外两根上，他挂上了一条蓝色大鲹鱼和一条黄色金银鱼，它们已被使用过，但依然完好，而且还有出色的沙丁鱼给它们添上香味和吸引力。每根钓索都象一支大铅笔那么粗，一端给缠在一根青皮钓竿上，这样，只要鱼在鱼饵上一拉或一碰，就能使钓竿朝下落，而每根钓索有两个四十英寻长的卷儿，它们可以牢系在其他备用的卷儿上，这一来，如果用得着的话，一条鱼可以拉出三百多英寻长的钓索。

沙丁鱼 Sardines

　“May I get the sardines? I know where I can get fourbaits too.“

“我去弄沙丁鱼来好吗？我还知道上哪儿去弄四条鱼饵来。”

“I have mine left from today. I put them in salt in thebox.“

“我今天还有自个儿剩下的。我把它们放在匣子里腌了。”

“Let me get four fresh ones.“

“让我给你弄四条新鲜的来吧。”

“One,“ the old man said. His hope and his confidence hadnever gone. But now they were freshening as when the breeze rises.

“一条，”老人说。他的希望和信心从没消失过。现在可又象微风初起时那么清新了。

“Two,“ the boy said.

“两条，”孩子说。

“Two,“ the old man agreed. “You didn’t steal them?“

“就两条吧，”老人同意了。“你不是去偷的吧？”

“I would,“ the boy said. “But I bought these.“

“我愿意去偷，”孩子说。“不过这些是买来的。”

小男孩儿Manolin就是这样陪伴着老人，他从5岁就跟着老人出海，现在长大了，默默的照顾着老人，但是从来都是小心翼翼，保护着老人的尊严，从不以施舍者自居。老人伤痕累累归来的时候，只有他悄悄的流着泪水，而且决定以后一定和老人一起出海。而老人独自在海上的时候也更是多次的感叹“要是那个男孩子在就好了”。他们的厄运已经结束了，当Santiago醒来，他们会去远海，相信他们可以迎来无数个满载而归的明天。Manolin也终将长大，古巴海岸上若干年后又会出现一个坚毅的老人，他将成为传奇。

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