He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a f他一个老人，划著小船独自在墨西哥湾中捕鱼；八十四天了还没有捕到过一条鱼。
“Santiago,” the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up. “I could go with you again.“圣地亚哥，”当他们从停止的小船爬到岸上的时候，男孩对他说：“我又可以和你出海了，我们赚到了一些钱。”