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He could not see the green of the shore now but only the tops of the blue hills that showed white as though they were snow-capped and the clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them. The sea was very dark and the light made prisms in the water. The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was a mile deep.
他眼下已看不見海岸的那一道綠色了，只看得見那些青山的仿佛積著白雪的山峰，以及山峰上空象是高聳的雪山般的云塊。海水顏色深極了，陽光在海水中幻成彩虹七色。那數(shù)不清的斑斑點(diǎn)點(diǎn)的浮游生物，由于此刻太陽升到了頭頂上空，都看不見了，眼下老人看得見的僅僅是藍(lán)色海水深處幻成的巨大的七色光帶，還有他那幾根筆直垂在有一英里深的水中的釣索。
The tuna, the fishermen called all the fish of that species tuna and only distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them or to trade them for baits, were down again. The sun was hot now and the old man felt it on the back of his neck and felt the sweat trickle down his back as he rowed.
漁夫們管所有這種魚都叫金槍魚，只有等到把它們賣出，或者拿來換魚餌時，才分別叫它們各自的專用名字。這時它們又沉下海去了。陽光此刻很熱，老人感到脖頸上熱辣辣的，劃著劃著，覺得汗水一滴滴地從背上往下淌。
I could just drift, he thought, and sleep and put a bight of line around my toe to wake me. But today is eighty-five days and I should fish the day well.
我大可隨波逐流，他想，管自睡去，預(yù)先把釣索在腳趾上繞上一圈，有動靜時可以把我弄醒。不過今天是第八十五天，我該一整天好好釣魚。
Just then, watching his lines, he saw one of the projecting green sticks dip sharply.
就在這時，他凝視著釣索，看見其中有一根挑出在水面上的綠色釣竿猛地往水中一沉。
"Yes," he said. "Yes," and shipped his oars without bumping the boat. He reached out for the line and held it softly between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand. He felt no strain nor weight and he held the line lightly. Then it came again. This time it was a tentative pull, not solid nor heavy, and he knew exactly what it was.
“來啦，”他說。“來啦，”說著從槳架上取下雙槳，沒有讓船顛簸一下。他伸手去拉釣索，把它輕輕地夾在右手大拇指和食指之間。他感到釣索并不抽緊，也沒什么分量，就輕松地握著。跟著它又動了一下。這回是試探性的一拉，拉得既不緊又不重，他就完全明白這是怎么回事了。
