5 beautiful sentences in the English version of The Old Man and the Sea

1.It is what a man must do. This is what a man should do.

2. I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

3. All my life the early sun has hurt my eyes, he thought. The rising sun in my life stung my eyes, he thought. (According to my understanding, it should refer to the first love girlfriend in her early years, the betrayal of the nurse) Hehe, fortunately, these eyes are still quite good now.

4.My big fish must be somewhere. There must be a big fish waiting for me somewhere.

5. The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple.

6.Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man th Ought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like them. Most people treat (turtles, soft-shelled turtles and other animals) ruthlessly, because the heart of a turtle will be defeated by time when its body is cut open and slaughtered. (This sentence refers to "A man can be destroyed but not defended". "A man can be destroyed but not defeated!" )

7. Now is no time to think of baseball, he thought. Now is the time to think of only one thing. That which I was born for. Now there is no time to think about baseball, he thought. This is the time to think about only one thing. That is, what I was born for.

8.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 thou You can imagine that morality is unnecessary to talk about in the sea, but the old people used to think about it and respect it. But now, since there is no one who may disturb him, he has said those thoughts out loud many times.

9.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 They for bait, were down again.

(Tuna, when fishermen sell them or trade them as bait, ……）

1.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, He knew exactly what it was. He felt no tension and weight, but gently grasped the fishing line. Then it came again. This time, it was only pulled for a while, neither heavy nor heavy, and he already knew clearly what fish it was. < P > 11. If you said a good thing, it might not happen. If you say a good thing, then that good thing may not appear. (probably it can be understood as "the secret can't be leaked")

12. What I will do if he decides to go down, I don't know. What I'll do if he sounds and dies I don't know. But I'll do something. There is something of things I can do. I don't know what I'll do if he comes down or if he falls to the ground and dies with a loud voice. But I know that I will do something. There are many things I can do.

13. Then he looked behind him and saw that no land was visible. That makes no difference, he thought. Then he looked behind him, only to find that there was no land that could be seen. He thought that the ocean did not make any difference, and it was no different from before.

14.The position actually was only somewhat less intolerable; But he thought of it as almost comfortable. In fact, the position can only bring a little unbearable feeling, but he almost imagined it was a comfortable thing.

15.Then he thought, think of it always. Think of what you are doing. You must do nothing stupid.

Then he said aloud, "I wish I had the boy. To help me and to see this." After that, he always thought about it. Think about what you are doing. You can't do anything stupid. Then he said loudly, "I hope there is a boy around me who can help me and see this."

16.What a great fish he is and what he will bring in the market if the flesh is good. He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and hi s fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? What a huge fish it is. If it is still fresh, it will be sold in the market. He fought fearlessly like a man, holding the bait and pulling the line. I wonder if he has any plans, or if he is just as desperate as me.

17. He was beautiful, the old man remembered, and He had stayed. He was beautiful, the old man recalled, and he had stayed before.

18. I should not have been a fishman, he thought. But that was that thing that I was born for. Maybe I shouldn't be a fisherman, he thought. But that's what I was born for.

19. "Fish," He said softly, Aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead." "Fish," he said softly, but loudly, "I will accompany you until I die."

2.He could feel the steady hard pull of the line and his left hand was cramped. It drew up tight on the heavy cord and he looked at it in disgust

"What kind of a hand is that," "He said." Cramp then if you want. Make yourself into a claw. It will do you no good. "He could feel the bracket pulling hard, but his left hand was caught. It was caught in a heavy rope, and the old man looked at his left hand in disgust.

21. there is no sense in being anything but practical through, he thought. I have no consciousness ...

22. I wish I could feed the fish, He thought. He is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it. Slowly and conservatively he ate all of the wedge-shaped strips of fish. I hope I can raise these fish, he thought. He is my brother. But I have to kill him and make sure I have a strong body to deal with it. In good conscience, he slowly ate all the wedge-shaped slender fish.

23.He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching t Hem sells against the sky over the water, the blurring, the etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He looked at the sea and knew how lonely he was at the moment. But he could see the prism and fishing line moving forward and the calm fluctuation in the dark deep water. Clouds are now trading in the wind. He looks forward and sees a flying wild duck in the sky on the water, blurred, and then etched again and he knows that no one is alone at sea.

24.I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body. It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from. But a c Ramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates one self-sufficient when one is alone. I hate cramps, he thought. This is a betrayal of one's own body. It is humiliating in front of others, diarrhea or vomiting due to food poisoning. But cramp, he thinks it's a calambre insulting himself, especially when a person is lonely.

25.If I were him I would put in eve