老人与海英文

theoldmanandthesea,byernestmillerhemingway(1899–1961)《老人与海》，美国作家海明威著。《老人与海》是海明威的代表作，也是一部象征性的小说。主人公桑提亚哥是一位老渔夫，他经过重重艰险，捕获了“一条不止一千五百磅重的大马林鱼”，但这条大马林鱼却被鲨鱼吃光了，桑提亚哥只拖回了一副鱼的骨架。海明威(ernesthemingway)(1889-1961)

翻译：很久很久以前，有一个国王。他喜欢画画。他认为他的画很好，所以他喜欢把它们展示给人们看。人们不敢说国王的画不好，所以他们都说他的画很好。有一天，国王向一位艺术家展示了他的一些照片。他希望这位艺术家能把这些话说得很好。

但是这位艺术家说他的画太差了，他应该把它们放进火里。国王生他的气，把他关进了监狱。过了一段时间，国王的卫队把这位艺术家带回了宫殿。

国王对画家说。“如果你告诉我哪张照片好，我就放你走。”他又给他看了几张新照片，问他对它们有什么看法。看了一眼之后，艺术家立刻转向警卫说：“请带我回监狱。”

原文：Long, long ago, there was a king. He liked to draw pictures. He thought his pictures were good, so he liked to show them to people. People were afraid to say that the king's pictures were bad, so they all said that his pictures were very good.

One day, the king showed some of his bast pictures to an artist. He wanted the artist to speak well of these pictures. But the artist said his pictures were so bad that he should put them into the fire. The king got angry with him and put him to prison.

After some time, the king's guard brought the artist back to the palace. The king said to the artist. "I will set you free if you tell me which one of my pictures is good."

Again he showed him some of his new pictures and asked what he thought of them. After having a look at them, the artist at once turned to the guard and said,"Take me back to prison, please."

The Old Man and the Sea!

The Old man and the Sea 内容简介The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works.Told in language of great simplicity and power,it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman,down on his luck,and his supreme ordeal——a relentless,agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.Here Hemingway recasts,in strikingly contemporary style,the classic thene of courage in the face of defeat,of personal triumph won from los.Written in 1952,this hugely successfully novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a huge part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.