《老人与海》的故事非常简单，写古巴老渔夫圣地亚哥在连续八十四天没捕到鱼的情况下，终于独自钓上了一条大马林鱼，但这鱼实在大，把他的小船在海上拖了三天才筋疲力尽，被他杀死了绑在小船的一边，在归程中一再遭到鲨鱼的袭击，最后回港时只剩鱼头鱼尾和一条脊骨。

美国作家海明威的《老人与海》是世界文学史上著名的小说杰作，作者因这部作品的成就而获得1954年诺贝尔文学奖。这本双语注释读本不但向读者充分展现了海明威简练笔触下惊心动魄的海上捕鱼和与群鲨搏斗的故事场面，而且给原文增加了必要而详细的注释，在语言和文化背景知识上给予读者指导，方便阅读。本书不仅可以作为文学精品来欣赏，更可以扩充知识，提高英语阅读能力，特别适合已具有一定英语水平的学生和英语学习者阅读。

1952年，小说《老人与海》的发表震惊文坛，并且它为作者海明威赢得了1952年普利策文学奖和1954年诺贝文学奖。这是一部描写人和大自然搏斗的小说。主人公古巴老渔夫桑提亚哥已有好久没打到鱼了，但他仍然每天驾着渔船出海去。有一天，他历尽艰难，钓到了一条足有十八英尺长的大鱼，可是，鲨鱼们涌来了……小说坚持了海明威的一贯主题：人在同外界势力搏斗中终归失败。但老渔夫在同象征着厄运的鲨鱼的斗争中，虽然失败，但他坚忍不拔。这给本书灰暗的主题抹上了几分明朗的色彩。

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……days,"he said. "But not tonight and not tomorrow. Rig now to get some sleep, old man,while the fish is calm and steady."

He held the line tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hand as he leaned all his weight against the wood of the bow. Then he passed the line a little lower on his shoulders and braced his left hand on it.

My right hand can hold it as long as it is braced, he thought. If it relaxes in sleep my left hand will wake me as the line goes out. It is hard on the righ hand. But he is used to punishment.Even if I sleep twenty minutes or a half an hour it is good. He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.

He did not dream of the lions but instead of a vast school of porpoises that stretched for eight or ten miles and it was in the time of their mating and they would leap high into the air and return into the same hole they had made in the water when they leaped.

Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a norther and he was very cold and his righ arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.

After that he began to dream of the long yellow beach and he saw the first of the lions come down onto it in the early dark and then the other lions came and he rested his chin on the wood of the bows where the ship lay anchored with the evening……