The Old Man and the Sea
老人与海
The Old Man and the Sea is a well-known novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. As one of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize 注 for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. The success of The Old Man and the Sea made Hemingway an international celebrity.
《老人与海》是美国作家欧内斯特·海明威1951年写于古巴的著名小说，发表于1952年，是海明威生前创作发表的最后一篇重要小说。它是海明威最著名的作品之一，讲述的是一位风烛残年的渔夫圣地亚哥，在墨西哥湾流与一条大马林鱼搏斗的故事。小说获得1953年普利策奖，并得到诺贝尔评委的认可，海明威因此摘得1954年诺贝尔文学奖桂冠。《老人与海》的成功让海明威成为国际著名作家。
At first glance, the story appears to be an extremely simple story of an old Cuban fisherman, who catches an enormously large fish then loses it again. But, there's much more to the story than that. The novel opens by telling the reader that Santiago has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. He is so unlucky that his young apprentice 注 , Manolin, has been forbidden by his parents to sail with him. Hemingway wanted to use the story of the old man to show the honor in struggle and to draw biblical 注 parallels to life in his modern world. Santiago lives according to his own observation: “Man is not made for defeat ... man can be destroyed but not defeated.” In Hemingway's portrait of the world, death is inevitable, but the best men (and animals) will nonetheless refuse to give in to its power.
乍看上去这部故事似乎极其简单，讲述一位老迈的古巴渔夫如何捕到一条巨型大鱼，最后又失去这条鱼。可是，故事背后的深意远远不止如此。小说一开始便告诉读者圣地亚哥已经连续84天没有捕到鱼了，这种霉运甚至让小徒弟马诺林的父母都严禁他跟老人一起出海。海明威想用这位老人的故事告诉人们，什么是抗争的荣耀，这个圣经般的故事又给现实社会带来哪些启示对照。圣地亚哥以这样的信条生存着：“是人，就不该屈居失败之下……一个人可以被打倒，但不可以被打败。”在海明威笔下的世界，死亡无可避免，但是最好的人(以及动物)却决不屈服于死亡的淫威。
