3.3 老人与海 part3

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在经过如梦似幻的追寻，老人终于找到了了他的fortune。然而，就像塞翁失马焉知非福一样，幸运也未必意味着一路顺风。老人和鱼陷入了一段漫长而艰苦的僵持中。

“It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers”

在海洋残酷的波涛中，哪种生物不是兄弟呢？更何况是大鱼这种实力相当，又能和老人一样用尽全力地战斗的值得尊重的对手呢？或者甚者———本来只是自言自语的老人张口对大鱼说话了，他甚至给大鱼鼓劲助威，就像对他自己一样。是否，在精神层面，为了“living”这样一个同样的目标平尽全力的他们，早已融为一体。

“If you’re not tired, fish,” he said aloud, “you must be very strange.”

鱼啊，你一定和我一样感到累吧。但谁说我们不能战胜劳累呢？我们是一样的奇异，在战斗中把劳累丢弃。

“How do you feel, fish?” he asked aloud. “I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day. Pull the boat, fish.”

鱼啊，你不行了么？动起来！让我们战斗到筋疲力尽的最后一刻。

“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.”

来啊，让我们把性命也赌上吧。有了战斗的酣畅淋漓，谁还在乎生死呢？

“Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty.”

最后，随着大鱼回光返照的最后一次亮相。老人取得了这场战斗的胜利。而此时，老人的心情是复杂的。目标达成了，劳累一拥而上，他视之为兄弟的鱼被他亲手杀死了，他还要面对接下来复杂沉重的分解工作......

“Keep my head dear,” he said against the wood of the bow. “I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work.”

读到这里，我想对老人说一句。别着急，别气馁，my dear,你的flag 早已立起。

“Unless sharks come,” he said aloud. “If sharks come, God pity him and me.”

而且现在him已经不在了。

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word & expression

经过三天战斗，老人已经精疲力竭了，所以文章里有一些不同的表示这个人已经很晕乎的词汇和表达。

lightheaded 英['laɪt'hedɪd] 美['laɪt'hedɪd]                  adj. 头昏眼花的

[例句] She had a sense of relief which left her curiously lightheaded.

“It is better to be light-headed than to lose your strength from nausea.”

faint and dizzy       头昏目眩

“he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him.”

我个人理解里，faint更倾向于意识的模糊，而dizzy更倾向于眼花。我有个很喜欢的服装牌子，主打印花的，就叫dizzy，里面的衣服都很怪异，让人眼花缭乱。难过的是，真的很贵，基本买不起。

dullness 英[dʌlnəs] 美[dʌlnəs]       n. 沉闷; 钝度，迟钝; 枯燥无味

[例句] Tiresome by reason of length , slowness , or dullness ; boring.

“his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted.”

在文中一句里说的是背已经疼到麻木了，神经的迟钝某种意义上也能算是不清醒的一种吧。

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summon 英[ˈsʌmən] 美[ˈsʌmən]    vt. 传唤，召唤; 鼓起（勇气）

“The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength, and more strength he had just summoned”

summon有鼓足的意思，常和up连用。可以和courage，strength和memories搭配。

例句：The oddest events will summon up memories.

tremendous 英[trəˈmendəs] 美[trɪˈmɛndəs]   adj. 极大的，巨大的; 可怕的，惊人的; 极好的

[例句] I felt a tremendous pressure on mychest

“Then the negro, after the rum, would try for a tremendous effort ”

这个词既可以是抽象的巨大也可以是形象的巨大，还可以表示非常好。

比如：I thought it was absolutely tremendous.    我认为它精彩极了。

interminable  英[ɪnˈtɜ:mɪnəbl] 美[ɪnˈtɜ:rmɪnəbl]  adj. 冗长的; 没完没了; 无止境的

[例句] The play dragged on , and seemed interminable.

“his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.”

这句话特别长我理解了很久才看懂，要注意的是interminable 是修饰touching的说明这个动作不断地在进行而且显得很无望。

今天偷偷懒，就写这些好了。其实查到的单词还有很多，每个都好精彩啊，但是打字好累哦。嘻嘻，毕竟周末之前的一天总是特别忙碌。