2️⃣5️⃣只听一个声音说：“阿瓜马拉，你这坏女人（蜇人的水母）。” "Agua mala," the man said. "You whore."接着，老人从船舷轻轻挥动着船桨，低头望向水面；他看到那些“颜色与拖曳丝线相仿的小鱼”在其中游动：时而穿梭其间，时而隐没于气泡所形成的微小阴影之下。From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted. 他们，对这些“丝线”毫无反应。They were immune to its poison.然而，对某些人来说，却未必如此：当一些“丝线”缠住渔线、并附着在其上，呈现出黏滑而紫色的状态时，这位老人恰在捕鱼；But men were not and when some of the filaments would catch on a line and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish,他的手臂和手掌上，通常会迅速出现荨麻疹和疮疹；这是由“毒漆树(长春滕)”或“毒橡树”毒素所致。he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give.但这些来自“阿瓜马拉”水域的毒素，发作得极为迅速，猛烈得犹如鞭笞一般。But these poisonings from the aguamala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.这些虹彩般的气泡，很美。但它们是最虚假的东西，老人就爱在海上观看那些庞大的海龟吞食它们的情景。The iridescent bubbles were beautiful. But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.海龟发现了它们，从正面靠近，随后便闭上眼睛；这样，它们整个身体便完全覆盖在硬壳之下，继而将细丝尽数吞食。The turtles saw them, approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all.老人乐见海龟吞食这些生物，也喜欢在暴风雨过后漫步于海滩之上；踩着这些海龟前行，感受它们被自己脚掌上的粗糙皮肤踩中时发出的脆响声。The old man loved to see the turtles eat them and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet.他喜爱绿海龟、鹰嘴鳐，欣赏它们那优雅的姿态与迅捷的速度，以及它们所蕴含的巨大价值；He loved green turtles and hawk_bills with their elegance and speed and their great value 同时，他对那些庞大而愚笨的棱皮龟，抱着友善的蔑视：它们的甲壳，呈黄色；在求爱方式上，颇为怪异；并且，乐此不疲地闭着眼睛吞食葡萄牙水母。and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid logger_heads, yellow in their armour_plating, strange in their love_making, and happily eating the Portuguese men_of_war with their eyes shut.2️⃣6️⃣海龟对于老人来说，并无神秘感可言，尽管他曾多年乘坐海龟船。他为所有的海龟感到惋惜，甚至包括那些体型硕大、长度堪比小艇、重量可达一吨的龟背。He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone in turtle boats for many years. He was sorry for them all, even the great trunk_backs that were as long as the skiff and weighed a ton.大多数人对海龟都缺乏同情心，因为海龟的心脏在被切割和宰杀后，仍能持续跳动数小时之久。Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.但这位老人心想：我也有一颗这样的心；我的手脚，也像它们一样。But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.他吃白色的海龟蛋，是为了给自己补充体力。整个五月份，他都在吃这些蛋；以便在九月和十月时保持强健状态，好捕捉到真正的大鱼。He ate the white eggs to give himself strength. He ate them all through May to be strong in September and October for the truly big fish.老人，每天还会从小屋中那只大桶里，喝上一杯鲨鱼肝油。许多渔民，都在那里存放自己的装备。这桶油，是为“所有”有需要的渔民准备的。He also drank a cup of shark liver oil each day from the big drum in the shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear. It was there for all fishermen who wanted it.大多数的渔民，都厌恶这种味道。但它的效果，并不比“在指定时间起床”差；而且，对于抵御各种流行感冒非常有效，对眼睛也有好处。Most fishermen hated the taste. But it was no worse than getting up at the hours that they rose and it was very good against all colds and grippes and it was good for the eyes.此刻，老人抬头一看，发现那只鸟又在盘旋。 “他果然钓到鱼了！”他大声说道。Now the old man looked up and saw that the bird was circling again. "He's found fish," he said aloud.没有飞鱼跃出水面，也没有饵鱼四处散落。但就在老人观察之际，一条小金枪鱼腾空而起，随即转身、头朝下扎入水中。No flying fish broke the surface and there was no scattering of bait fish. But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped head first into the water.这条金枪鱼，在阳光下闪烁着银光；待它重新沉入水中后，一只只的鱼浮出水面，它们在各个方向跳跃、搅动着水体，并向诱饵跳去。The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait. 它们围绕着它，驱赶着它。They were circling it and driving it.2️⃣7️⃣老人心想：如果它们游得不是太快的话，我就能靠近它们了。随后，他娴熟地“操纵”着渔具，以致水面泛起层层白浪；鸟儿，则时而俯冲、时而潜入那些因惊恐而被迫浮到水面的饵料鱼群之中。If they don't travel too fast I will get into them, the old man thought, and he watched the school working the water white and the bird now dropping and dipping into the bait fish that were forced to the surface in their panic.老人说到：“这只鸟儿帮了大忙！”"The bird is a great help," the old man said.此时，船尾的绳索突然绷紧了，就在他的脚下，而他此前已将绳索的一端打了个活结；于是，他放下手中的桨、紧紧握住绳索，开始用力收线。Just then the stern line came taut under his foot, where he had kept a loop of the line, and he dropped his oars and felt tle weight of the small tuna's shivering pull as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in.随着收线的动作，小金枪鱼的颤抖愈发剧烈；老人能看到鱼儿蓝色的背部在水面上浮现，以及它金色的侧身；随后，他将金枪鱼甩过船舷，让它落入船中。The shivering increased as he pulled in and he could see the blue back of the fish in the water and the gold of his sides before he swung him over the side and into the boat.金枪鱼躺在船尾，沐浴在阳光下，身形紧凑呈子弹状，它那双大而呆滞的眼睛正凝视着，同时用它那灵巧而快速移动的尾巴快速而颤抖地拍打着船板，以此维持生命。He lay in the stern in the sun, compact and bullet-shaped, his big, unintelligent eyes staring as he thumped his life out against the planking of the boat with the quick shivering strokes of his neat, fast_moving tail.这位老人，因他的善举而对鱼动了手，用拳头击打其头部，而后又踢了一脚；此时，他的身体仍在微微颤抖，这一幕就发生在船尾的阴影之下。The old man hit him on the head for kindness and kicked him, his body still shuddering, under the shade of the stern.老人大声说道：“白金枪鱼！它会成为一条漂亮的诱饵，它重十磅。” 他早就记不清自己最初开始独自大声地说话，是从什么时候开始的了。"Albacore," he said aloud. "He'll make a beautiful bait. He'll weigh ten pounds." He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself.过去，他独自一人时也会唱歌；有时夜里独自在舢板或海龟船上掌舵时，也会唱歌。He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats.大概是从那个男孩离开以后，他开始独自大声说话。但是，他对此并无记忆。He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy had left. But he did not remember.当他和那个男孩一起捕鱼时，通常只有在必要的情况下才会交谈。他们通常在夜间，或遭遇恶劣天气被迫停船时，才会交谈。When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm_bound by bad weather.
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