Then he looked behind him and saw that no land was visible. That makes no difference, he thought.
That : 육지가 안 보인다는 사실. 그만큼 멀리 온 것인데 멀리 온 것은 그만큼 위험하다는 뜻이고, 노인에게는 별 상관이 없다는 뜻. 두려움이 없다는 것.
I can always come in on the glow from Havana.
glow : (특히 불꽃이 나지 않는 불의 은은한) 불빛
There are two more hours before the sun sets and maybe he will come up before that. If he doesn't maybe he will come up with the moon. If he does not do that maybe he will come up with the sunrise. I have no cramps and I feel strong. It is he that has the hook in his mouth. But what a fish to pull like that. He must have his mouth shut tight on the wire. I wish I could see him. I wish I could see him only once to know what I have against me.
It was cold after the sun went down and the old man's sweat dried cold on his back and his arms and his old legs.
- his back and his arms and his old legs : old라는 형용사를 legs에 붙였다. 늙은 다리에 주목하게 한다. 앙상한 다리가 상상되면서 이 노인이 추위와 싸우면서 버티고 있다는 것을 알게 해준다.
During the day he had taken the sack that covered the bait box and spread it in the sun to dry. After the sun went down he tied it around his neck so that it hung down over his back and he cautiously worked it down under the line that was across his shoulders now. The sack cushioned the line and he had found a way of leaning forward against the bow so that he was almost comfortable. The position actually was only somewhat less intolerable; but he thought of it as almost comfortable.
I can do nothing with him and he can do nothing with me, he thought. Not as long as he keeps this up.
Once he stood up and urinated over the side of the skiff and looked at the stars and checked his course.
- urinate : (25:18-20) He urinated outside the shack and then went up the road to wake the boy. He was shivering with the morning cold. But he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon he would be rowing.
The line showed like a phosphorescent streak in the water straight out from his shoulders. They were moving more slowly now and the glow of Havana was not so strong, so that he knew the current must be carrying them to the eastward. If I lose the glare of Havana we must be going more to the eastward, he thought. For if the fish's course held true I must see it for many more hours. I wonder how the baseball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought. It would be wonderful to do this with a radio. Then he thought, think of it always.
동쪽으로 이동하게 되면 지구가 둥글기 때문에 수평선으로 보이던 Havana의 불빛이 보이지 않게 된다. 지금까지는 북쪽으로 향하는 멕시코 만류를 따라서 북쪽으로 이동하고 있었기 때문에 Havana의 불빛을 볼 수 있었지만 동쪽으로 이동하게 되면 보이지 않게 된다.
Think of what you are doing. You must do nothing stupid.
Then he said aloud, "I wish I had the boy. To help me and to see this."
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought. But it is unavoidable. I must remember to eat the tuna before he spoils in order to keep strong.
before he spoils : tuna를 가리켜서 he라고 한다. 이 다랑어는 죽은 것인데도 he라고 칭한다.
Remember, no matter how little you want to, that you must eat him in the morning. Remember, he said to himself.
During the night two porpoise came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing.
- rolling and blowing : 몸을 구르며 노는 소리와 숨을 뱉으며 물을 뿜는 소리
He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female.
생물학자들에 따르면 수컷이 내는 소리와 암컷이 내는 소리는 구별할 수 없다고 한다. 이 부분은 헤밍웨이가 시적인 환상을 주기 위해서 지어낸 이야기이다.
"They are good," he said. "They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish."
- 여기 등장하는 돌고래(porpoise)는 큰돌고래 혹은 병코돌고래(Bottlenose Dolphin)로, 학명은 Tursiops truncatus이다. 돌고래는 신화에서 배를 인도하여 항구로 무사히 귀환시키기도 하고 파선을 막아주기도 하고 상어의 습격을 막아주기도 하면서 인간에게 친숙한 물고기로 알려져 있다.
Then he began to pity the great fish that he had hooked. He is wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is, he thought. Never have I had such a strong fish nor one who acted so strangely.
- 노인은 자신을 strange하다고 했는데 물고기도 strange하다고 말한다. 그리고 물고기가 노인 자신보다 더 strange하다고 한다.
Perhaps he is too wise to jump. He could ruin me by jumping or by a wild rush. But perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he knows that this is how he should make his fight. He cannot know that it is only one man against him, nor that it is an old man. But what a great fish he is and what he will bring in the market if the flesh is good. He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?
청새치를 수컷(male)이라고 부르면서 수컷과 수컷의 대결이라는 것을 보여주고 있다.