《老人與海》是海明威最著名的作品之一。它圍繞一位老年古巴漁夫，與一條巨大的馬林魚在離岸很遠的灣流中搏鬥而展開故事的講述。它奠定了海明威在世界文學中的突出地位，這篇小說相繼獲得了1953年美國普利策獎和1954年諾貝爾文學獎。
《老人與海》英文好句
1．Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
每一天都是一個新的日子。走運當然是好的，不過我情願做到分毫不差。這樣，運氣來的時候，你就有所準備了。
2．But，then，nothing is easy.
不過話得說回來，沒有一樁事是容易的。
3．A man is not made for defeat，a man can be destroyed but not defeated.
一個人並不是生來就要被打敗的，人盡可以被毀滅，但卻不能被打敗。
4．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.
陸地上空的雲塊這時候像山岡般聳立著，海岸只剩下一長條綠色的線，背後是些灰青色的小山.海水此刻呈現藍色，深的簡直發紫了。
5．Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
現在不是去想缺少什麼的時候，該想一想憑現有的東西你能做什麼。
6．It is silly not to hope，he thought.
人不抱希望是很傻的。
7．But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.
但是這些傷疤中沒有一塊是新的。它們像無魚可打的沙漠中被侵蝕的地方一般古老。
8．They were strange shoulders，still powerful although very old，and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward.
這兩個肩膀挺怪，人非常老邁了，肩膀卻依然很強健，脖子也依然很壯實，而且當老人睡著了，腦袋向前耷拉著的時候，皺紋也不大明顯了。
9．His shirt had been patched so many times that it was like the sail and the patches were faded to many different shades by the sun.
他的襯衫上不知打了多少次補丁，弄得像他那張帆一樣，這些補丁被陽光曬得褪成了許多深淺不同的顏色。
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