纯英文版8_老人与海_Now_the_man_watched_the_three_sticks

The old man and the sea

老人与海 ，双语版。

演播：雪羽白

Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths. It was quite light and any moment now the sun would rise.

The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it.

He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water. He kept them straighter than anyone did, so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there. Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.

But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The sun was two hours higher now and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the east. There were only three boats in sight now and they showed very low and far inshore.

All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought. Yet they are still good. In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. It has more force in the evening too. But in the morning it is painful.

Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him. He made a quick drop, slanting down on his back-swept wings, and then circled again. 

"He's got something," the old man said aloud. "He's not just looking."

He rowed slowly and steadily toward where the bird was circling. He did not hurry and he kept his lines straight up and down. But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird.

The bird went higher in the air and circled again, his wings motionless. Then he dove suddenly and the old man saw flying fish spurt out of the water and sail desperately over the surface.

"Dolphin," the old man said aloud. "Big dolphin." 

He shipped his oars and brought a small line from under the bow. It had a wire leader and a medium-sized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines. He let it go over the side and then made it fast to a ring bolt in the stern. Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow. He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water.

As he watched the bird dipped again slanting his wings for the dive and then swinging them wildly and ineffectually as he followed the flying fish. The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish. The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped. It is a big school of dolphin, he thought. They are widespread and the flying fish have little chance. The bird has no chance. The flying fish are too big for him and they go too fast.

词汇

1bonito /bə'ni:təʊ/

n.鲣（等金枪鱼科鱼类）

例：Lo m á s bonito es verles felices, con una sonrisa.

2albacore /'ælbəkɔ:/

n.青花鱼科的海产鱼

例：I picked up only a straggler from the albacore that were feeding.

3shank /ʃæŋk/

n.胫，小腿;钥匙柄;轮轴

例：I went to use the bathroom, and this guy jumped me with a shank.

4hook /hʊk/ 4/6/考研

n.钩，铁钩;弯曲部分，有钩部分;圈套，陷阱;〈俚〉锚

例：Water and electric hook-ups are available and facilities are good.

5garland /ˈgɑ:lənd/ GRE

n.花环，花冠，花圈;[建]华饰;〈古〉诗歌选集;胜利和荣誉的象征

例：Garland covered his mouth with his hand and belched discreetly.

6tuna /ˈtju:nə/ 6

n.<鱼>金枪鱼（科），鲔鱼;金枪鱼罐头;<植>金枪仙人掌

例："I'll take the grilled tuna," Mary Ann told the waiter.

7plummets /ˈplʌmɪts/

v.垂直落下，骤然跌落( plummet的第三人称单数 )

例：As a result, blood sugar plummets, sometimes even going below the baseline.

8attractiveness /ə'træktɪvnəs/

吸引力

例：The attractiveness of the schemes depends almost entirely on tax relief.

9coil /kɔɪl/ IELTS/TOEFL/4/6/考研

n.（一）卷，（一）盘;盘卷之物;线圈;纷乱，纠缠不清

例：The heated gas is piped through a coil surrounded by water.

10inshore /ˈɪnˈʃɔr, -ˈʃor/ IELTS

adj.近海岸的;向陆的

例：A barge was close inshore about a hundred yards away.

01

重点单词/词组

steadily

【释】at a steady rate or pace

【译】稳定地，稳固地

【同】firmly

scent

【释】n. something is the pleasant smell that it has

【译】香味

【搭】faint scent 清香

scent与fragrance的区别

◈fragrance 较正式的典雅用词，常指花妆品、花朵和香料等发出的令人感到新鲜、愉快的香味；

◈scent 与smell很接近，但着重某物质或物体所特有的气味，多指好闻的气味。

loop

【释】 v.tie a length of it in a loop around the object

【译】 缠绕

drift

【释】v.be in motion due to some air or water current

【译】漂流

【搭】drift into 将…赶进；不知不觉地陷入

drift和float的区别

◈drift 多指随风或顺水飘荡，表示动态；

◈float 可与drift换用，但侧重指因有液体或气体所支持而不下沉，可表动态或静态。

precision

【释】n.the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

【译】准确性

【同】accurate

02

句子解析

1.He was letting the current do a third of the work.

解析：“a third”，英语中分数的表达方法，用“基数词＋序数词”表示。其中基数词表示分子，序数词表示分母。如果分子大于1，分母要用复数形式。比如：three fifths 五分之三。

译文：他正让海流帮他干三分之一的活儿。

2.All the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines.

解析：be covered with... 被...覆盖

译文：钓钩的所有突出部分，弯钩和尖端，都给包在鱼肉里。

3.There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting.

解析：There be 句型+“no part… which was not“双重否定，表示肯定。

译文：不管一条大鱼接触到钓钩的哪一部分，都是喷香而美味的。

4.The boy had given him two fresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets.

解析：此句中，which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets 是非限定性定语从句，表示对“两条鱼”的进一步解释说明。

译文：男孩给了老人两条新鲜的小金枪鱼，或者叫做长鳍金枪鱼，它们正象铅垂般挂在那两根最深的钓索上。

5.If it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.

解析：句中if it were, 用到了were 表示一种主观上的推测，是虚拟语气，并非实际情况。

译文：如果用得着的话，一条鱼可以拉出三百多英寻长的钓索。

1row /rəʊ/ 4/6/考研

n.行，排;划船;吵闹;路，街

例：We had a humongous row just before she left.

2correctly /kə'rektlɪ/ 6

adv.正确地，得体地;实事求是

例：When an accident happens, quite correctly questions are asked.

3motionless /ˈməʊʃnləs/ TOEFL

adj.不动的，静止的;呆若木鸡的;不运动的;靓

例：The injured man was lying motionless on his back.

4desperately /ˈdɛspərɪtlɪ/ TOEFL

adv.绝望地;不顾一切地;<口>极度地;猛烈地

例：He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.

5dolphin /ˈdɒlfɪn/ IELTS/TOEFL

n.海豚;（码头的）系船柱

例：He was so happy communing with the dolphin in Dingle Bay.

6stern /stɜ:n/ IELTS/TOEFL/GRE/4/6/考研

adj.严厉的，严峻的;坚定的，不动摇的;严肃的

例：He was a stern critic but an extremely kindly man.

7slant /slɑ:nt/ GRE

vt.& vi.（使）倾斜，歪斜

例：The political slant at Focus can be described as centre-right.

8ineffectually /ˌɪnɪ'fektʃʊrlɪ/

adv.无效地，无益地

例：Her voice trailed off ineffectually.

9bulge /bʌldʒ/ IELTS/GRE

n.膨胀;凸出部分;暴涨，突增

例：His eyes seemed to bulge like those of a toad.

10plankton /ˈplæŋktən/ IELTS/GRE

n.浮游生物

例：The first organisms that reproduced sexually were free-floating plankton.

1：重点单词/词组

slant

【释】v.lie obliquely

【译】倾斜

【同】lean

motionless

【释】adj.not in physical motion

【译】 静止的；不运动的

【同】still

desperately

【释】adv.intense despair

【译】 拼命地；绝望地；极度地

【同】profoundly（表示程度）

bait

【释】v. put bait on a hook or in a trap.

【译】 在...中放诱饵

ineffectually

【释】adv.an ineffectual manner

【译】 无益地；无效地

【同】fruitlessly

dip

【释】make a downward movement, usually quickly

【译】 下沉

词汇辨析

dip和immerse的区别：

◈dip v.浸，浸染，蘸。多指短时地将某物部分地浸到液体中，有小心翼翼的意思。

◈immerse v.沉浸，使沉浸于。指全部浸泡在液体中达一段时间，也可指一种氛围。

bulge

【释】n.swell or protrude outwards

【译】使膨胀；使凸起

【搭】bulge with

burst out

【释】give sudden release to an expression

【译】突发，大声喊叫

【同】emerge

【熟词僻义】school n. （鱼）群

iridescent

【释】adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

【译】彩虹色的；闪光的

【同】shot

filament

【释】n. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber

【译】灯丝，细丝

cheerfully

【释】happy, or behaving in a way that shows you are happy

【译】高兴地

2：句子解析

1.The bird went higher in the air and circled again, his wings motionless.

解析：句中：motionless是静止的，不动的意思，同义词是still;；less这个后缀表示“没有的”；很多词只要在后面加上less后缀就表示没有；比如说need需求加上less,就是needless不需要的；wire线，加上less就是wireless.

译文：鸟在空中飞得更高了，并开始盘旋，翅膀纹丝不动。

2.He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water.

解析：这个句子中go back to doing意思是重新做某事，注意to后要加动词ing形式。

译文：他又划起船来，注视着那只此刻正在水面上低低地飞掠的长翅膀黑鸟。

3.The strange light the sun made in the water, now that the sun was higher, meant good weather and so did the shape of the clouds over the land.

解析：句中的so did the shape of the clouds是so 引导的倒装句，完整的表述是：the shape of the clouds over the land meant good weather, too.

译文：太阳此刻升得更高了，阳光在水中变幻出奇异的光彩，说明天气晴朗，陆地上空的云块的形状也说明了这一点。