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The Old Man and the Sea(Selected)

By Ernest Hemingway

    He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff1 in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally dog-ass, which is the worst form of unlucky and the boy, had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty and he always went down to help him carry either the coiled2 lines or the gaff3 and harpoon4 and the sail that was furled5 around the mast6. The sail was patched7 with flour sacks and, furled; it looked like the flag of permanent8 defeat.

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1. skiff [skIf] n. 小船

2. coil [kCil] v. 盘绕，卷

3. gaff [^Af] n. 大鱼叉

4. harpoon [hB:5pu:n] n. (捕鲸用)鱼叉

5. furl [fE:l] vt. 卷收，叠，收下

6. mast [mB:st] n. 桅，桅杆

7. patch [pAtF] vt. 修补，补缀

8. permanent [5pE:mEnEnt] adj. 永久的，持久的

                                  老人与海(节选)

                                  海明威

    他是个独自在湾流中一条小船上钓鱼的老人，至今已有八十四天，一条鱼也没逮到。头四十天里，有个男孩子跟他在一起。可是，过了四十天还没捉到一条鱼，孩子的父母对他说，老人如今准是十足地“倒了血霉”，这就是说，倒霉到了极点，于是孩子听从了他们的吩咐，上了另外一条船，那条船头一个礼拜就捕到了三条好鱼。孩子看见老人每天回来时船总是空的，感到很难受，他总是走下岸去，帮老人拿卷起的钓索，或者鱼钩和鱼叉，还有绕在桅杆上的帆。帆上用面粉袋打了些补丁，收拢后看起来像是一面标志着永远失败的旗子。 
    

    作者介绍：海明威(Ernest Hemingway l899—1961)现代美国小说家。1954年诺贝尔文学奖的获得者。海明威生于一个乡村医生家庭，从小喜欢钓鱼、打猎、音乐和绘画，曾作为红十字会车队的司机参加第一次世界大战。以后长期担任驻欧记者，并曾以记者身份参加第二次世界大战和西班牙内战。晚年患多种疾病，精神十分抑郁，经多次医疗无效，最终用猎枪自杀。代表作有：《太阳照样升起》、《永别了，武器》、《丧钟为谁而鸣》、《打不败的人》、《五万大洋》等。

    《老人与海》是海明威创作于1952年的一部中篇小说，也是作者生前发表的最后一部小说。它一经问世，便在国际上引起了强烈的反响，在当时的文学界掀起了一阵“海明威热”。《老人与海》塑造了以桑提亚哥为代表的“可以把他消灭，但就是打不败他”的“硬汉形象”。这篇小说相继获得了1953年美国普利策奖和1954年诺贝尔文学奖。

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