"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.

“鲯鰍，”老人說出聲來。“大鲯鰍。”他把雙槳從槳架上取下，從船頭下面拿出一根細(xì)釣絲。釣絲上系著一段鐵絲導(dǎo)線和一只中號(hào)釣鉤，他拿一條沙丁魚掛在上面。他把釣絲從船舷放下水去，將上端緊系在船梢一只拳頭螺栓上。跟著他在另一根釣絲上安上了魚餌，把它盤繞著擱在船頭的陰影里。他又劃起船來，注視著那只此刻正在水面上低低地飛掠的長(zhǎng)翅膀黑鳥。

　　

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.

他看著看著，那鳥兒又朝下沖，為了俯沖，把翅膀朝后掠，然后猛地展開，追蹤著飛魚，可是沒有成效。老人看見那些大鲯鰍跟在那脫逃的魚后面，把海面弄得微微隆起。鲯鰍在飛掠的魚下面破水而行，只等飛魚一掉下，就飛快地鉆進(jìn)水里。這群鲯鰍真大啊，他想。它們分布得很廣，飛魚很少脫逃的機(jī)會(huì)。那只鳥可沒有成功的機(jī)會(huì)。飛魚對(duì)它來說個(gè)頭太大了，而且又飛得太快。

　　

He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird. That school has gotten away from me, he thought. They are moving out too fast and too far. But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them. My big fish must be somewhere.

他看著飛魚一再地從海里冒出來，看著那只鳥兒的一無效果的行動(dòng)。那群魚從我附近逃走啦，他想。它們逃得太快，游得太遠(yuǎn)啦。不過說不定我能逮住一條掉隊(duì)的，說不定我想望的大魚就在它們周圍轉(zhuǎn)游著。我的大魚總該在某處地方啊。

　　

The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple. As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now. He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish. 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. But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water.

陸地上空的云塊這時(shí)象山崗般聳立著，海岸只剩下一長(zhǎng)條綠色的線，背后是些灰青色的小山。海水此刻呈深藍(lán)色，深得簡(jiǎn)直發(fā)紫了。他仔細(xì)俯視著海水，只見深藍(lán)色的水中穿梭地閃出點(diǎn)點(diǎn)紅色的浮游生物，陽光這時(shí)在水中變幻出奇異的光彩。他注視著那幾根釣索，看見它們一直朝下沒入水中看不見的地方，他很高興看到這么多浮游生物，因?yàn)檫@說明有魚。太陽此刻升得更高了，陽光在水中變幻出奇異的光彩，說明天氣晴朗，陸地上空的云塊的形狀也說明了這一點(diǎn)?？墒悄侵圾B兒這時(shí)幾乎看不見了，水面上沒什么東西，只有幾攤被太陽曬得發(fā)白的黃色馬尾藻和一只緊靠著船舷浮動(dòng)的僧帽水母，它那膠質(zhì)的浮囊呈紫色，具有一定的外形，閃現(xiàn)出彩虹般的顏色。它倒向一邊，然后又豎直了身子。它象個(gè)大氣泡般高高興興地浮動(dòng)著，那些厲害的紫色長(zhǎng)觸須在水中拖在身后，長(zhǎng)達(dá)一碼。譯語翻譯《老人與海》第2章節(jié)翻譯飛魚與鳥兒的那些事。

　　

"Agua mala," the man said. "You whore."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. They were immune to its poison. 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, he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give. But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.

“Ａｇｕａｍａｌａ，”老人說。“你這婊子養(yǎng)的。”他從坐著輕輕蕩槳的地方低頭朝水中望去，看見一些顏色跟那些拖在水中的觸須一樣的小魚，它們?cè)谟|須和觸須之間以及浮囊在浮動(dòng)時(shí)所投下的一小攤陰影中游著。它們對(duì)它的毒素是不受影響的?？墒侨司筒煌?，當(dāng)老人把一條魚拉回船來時(shí)，有些觸須會(huì)纏在釣絲上，紫色的黏液附在上面，他的胳臂和手上就會(huì)出現(xiàn)傷痕和瘡腫，就象被毒漆樹或櫟葉毒漆樹感染時(shí)一樣。但是這水母的毒素發(fā)作得更快，痛得象挨鞭子抽一般。