大马林鱼

他想起有一回钓到了一对大马林鱼中的一条。

He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin .

到20世纪30年代，海明威发现相比写作，抓大马林鱼其实更容易。

By the mid-1930s Hemingway found it easier to catch huge marlin than to write .

他知道他们会离开他不过是他的大马林鱼的空骨架。

He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch .

在他的杰作《老人与海》里，他把自己对死亡的意识赋予了一条大马林鱼。

In the masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea , he endows a large Marlin with his death consciousness .

但是当它们饿得慌，想吃东西的时候，身子两侧就会出现紫色条纹，象大马林鱼那样。

But when he comes to feed , truly hungry , purple strips show on his sides as on a marlin .

这个时候，一些渔民聚在那只小船的周围，对这条从头到尾长有十八英尺的大马林鱼啧啧称奇。

Meanwhile other fishermen , gathered about the skiff , marveled at the giant marlin , eighteen feet long from nose to tail .

这帮孩子就用大马林鱼的肉块作钓饵。这些肉块是当天下午一条船抓到的大鱼肉。

The boys were baiting them up with chunks of marlin meat from a fish one of the boats had brought in early that afternoon .

在一百英寻的深处有条大马林鱼正在吃包住钓钩尖端和钩身的沙丁鱼，这个手工制的钓钩是从一条小金枪鱼的头部穿出来的。

One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna .

他知道那些鲨鱼除了大马林鱼的空骨架之外，是什么也不会给他留下的。这帮孩子就用大马林鱼的肉块作钓饵。这些肉块是当天下午一条船抓到的大鱼肉。

He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of his great catch . The boys were baiting them up with chunks of marlin meat from a fish one of the boats had brought in early that afternoon .

他已经航行了两个钟点，在船梢歇着，有时候从大马林鱼身上撕下一点肉来咀嚼着，努力休息，保持精力，这时他看到了两条鲨鱼中首先露面的那一条。

He had sailed for two hours , resting in the stern and sometimes chewing a bit of the meat from the marlin , trying to rest and to be strong , when he saw the first of the two sharks .

你近距离看到过大的马林鱼吗？

Have you seen the big ones up close ?

没有，但我相信那个家伙弄不到路虎那么大的马林鱼

No , but I don 't think the guy 's holding a marlin the size of a Range Rover .