He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself. 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. He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy had left. But he did not remember. 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. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.
他記不起他是什么時候第一次開始在獨自待著的當(dāng)兒自言自語的了。往年他獨自待著時曾唱歌來著，有時候在夜里唱，那是在小漁船或捕海龜?shù)男⊥现蛋嗾贫鏁r的事。他大概是在那孩子離開了他、他獨自待著時開始自言自語的。不過他記不清了。他跟孩子一塊兒捕魚時，他們一般只在有必要時才說話。他們在夜間說話來著，要不，碰到壞天氣，被暴風(fēng)雨困在海上的時候。沒有必要不在海上說話，被認(rèn)為是種好規(guī)矩，老人一向認(rèn)為的確如此，始終遵守它。可是這會兒他把心里想說的話說出聲來有好幾次了，因為沒有旁人會受到他說話的打擾。
"If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy," he said aloud. "But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball."
“要是別人聽到我在自言自語，會當(dāng)我發(fā)瘋了，”他說出聲來。“不過既然我沒有發(fā)瘋，我就不管，還是要說。有錢人在船上有收音機對他們談話，還把棒球賽的消息告訴他們。”
Now is no time to think baseball, he thought. Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for. There might be a big one around that school, he thought. I picked up only a straggler from the albacore that were feeding. But they are working far out and fast. Everything that shows on the surface today travels very fast and to the north-east. Can that be the time of day? Or is it some sign of weather that I do not know?
現(xiàn)在可不是思量棒球賽的時刻，他想。現(xiàn)在只應(yīng)該思量一樁事。就是我生來要干的那樁事。那個魚群周圍很可能有一條大的，他想。我只逮住了正在吃小魚的金槍魚群中一條失散的。可是它們正游向遠方，游得很快。今天凡是在海面上露面的都游得很快，向著東北方向。難道一天的這個時辰該如此嗎？要不，這是什么我不懂得的天氣征兆？
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