《老人与海》的英文版节选，最好是一些经典语段。

《老人与海》的英文版节选，最好是一些经典语段。

The Old Man and the Sea, a novella by American writer Ernest Hemingway, was written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It recounts an epic battle between an old fisherman and a giant merlin. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for the book in 1953 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He was born on July 21, 1899, and died on July 2, 1961.Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.The Old Man and the SeaDescribes Cuban fisherman Santiago, the old man in the title.Anyone can be a fisherman in May.The Old Man and the SeaHe no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women , nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beaChapter They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy.The Old Man and the SeaWhy did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.The Old Man and the SeaBut the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.The Old Man and ......余下全文>>