After it is light, he thought, I will work back to the forty-fathom bait and cut it away too and link up the reserve coils. I will have lost two hundred fathoms of good Catalan cardel and the hooks and leaders. That can be replaced.
- that : that이 지시하는 것은 two hundred fathoms of good Catalan cordel and the hooks and leaders인데 이 모든 것을 단수로 취급했다. 간략한 표현으로 보인다.
But who replaces this fish if I hook some fish and it cuts him off?
- it cuts him off : it은 노인이 낚을 수도 있는 그 어떤 고기, him은 지금 미끼를 물고 있는 청새치
I don't know what that fish was that took the bait just now. It could have been a marlin or a broadbill or a shark. I never felt him. I had to get rid of him too fast.
- 물고기가 문 낚싯줄을 너무 빨리 끊어버리는 바람에 그 물고기가 어떤 물고기인지 알아볼 수 있는 기회가 없었다는 것.
Aloud he said, "I wish I had the boy."
(52:1) But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself and you had better work back to the last line now, in the dark or not in the dark, and cut it away and hook up the two reserve coils.
- 노인은 어둡든 어둡지 않든 자신의 일을 해낼 수 있다. 눈으로 보고 일을 하는 것이 아니라는 것을 암시하고 있다.
have 동사가 세 번 사용되는데 각각 다른 뜻을 가진다 : (1) haven’t got : 현재완료 (2) have only yourself : 가지다 (3) had better : ~하는 것이 좋다
So he did it. It was difficult in the dark and once the fish made a surge that pulled him down on his face and made a cut below his eye. The blood ran down his cheek a little way. But it coagulated and dried before it reached his chin and he worked his way back to the bow and rested against the wood.
눈 밑에 상처가 나서 피가 흐르는 모습은 헤밍웨이가 즐겨 했던 권투 시합에서 선수들이 부상을 입어도 다시 맞서 싸우는 그런 모습을 연상하게 한다. 그리고 이렇게 피를 흘리는 모습은 십자가에서 피를 흘리는 예수의 모습과 겹쳐지고 있다.
He adjusted the sack and carefully worked the line so that it came across a new part of his shoulders and, holding it anchored with his shoulders, he carefully felt the pull of the fish and then felt with his hand the progress of the skiff through the water.
- anchored : 노인이 물고기가 물고 있는 낚싯줄을 자기 어깨에 고정시키는데 anchor라는 단어를 사용한다. 이 말은 ‘닻을 내리다’라는 기본적인 의미를 가진다. 물고기가 노인의 어깨에 닻을 내리고 있는 듯한 모습을 보여준다. 노인과 물고기는 낚싯줄로 연결되어 있다.
I wonder what he made that lurch for, he thought. The wire must have slipped on the great hill of his back.
- 노인의 등에 낚싯줄을 걸치고 있는 것처럼 물고기의 등에도 줄(wire=leader)이 걸쳐져 있음에 틀림없다고 생각한다. 노인과 물고기가 같은 조건에서 겨루고 있다. 물고기는 노인의 자아라는 암시를 여기에서도 볼 수 있다.
Certainly his back cannot feel as badly as mine does. But he cannot pull this skiff forever, no matter how great he is. Now everything is cleared away that might make trouble and I have a big reserve of line; all that a man can ask.
"Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead."
(53:1) He'll stay with me too, I suppose, the old man thought and he waited for it to be light. It was cold now in the time before daylight and he pushed against the wood to be warm. I can do it as long as he can, he thought. And in the first light the line extended out and down into the water. The boat moved steadily and when the first edge of the sun rose it was on the old man's right shoulder.
"He's headed north," the old man said. The current will have set us far to the eastward, he thought. I wish he would turn with the current. That would show that he was tiring.
- 해가 동쪽에서 뜨고 물고기는 배를 끌고 북쪽으로 가고 있다. 멕시코 만류를 따라서 북쪽으로 가고 있고, 멕시코 만류는 북쪽으로 가다가 동쪽으로 방향이 바뀌는데 물고기가 해류를 따라 가기를 바란다. 노인은 결국 이 물고기가 지치기를 바란다는 것이다. 해류를 거스르지 않고 해류를 따라서 이동하는 것은 힘이 덜 들기 때문에, 물고기가 해류를 따라서 간다는 것은 그만큼 물고기의 힘이 떨어졌다는 증거가 된다.
When the sun had risen further the old man realized that the fish was not tiring. There was only one favorable sign. The slant of the line showed he was swimming at a lesser depth. That did not necessarily mean that he would jump. But he might.
"God let him jump," the old man said. "I have enough line to handle him."
Maybe if I can increase the tension just a little it will hurt him and he will jump, he thought. Now that it is daylight let him jump so that he'll fill the sacks along his backbone with air and then he cannot go deep to die.
- sack : 물고기의 부레를 air bladder라고 하지 않고 sack이라고 한다. 노인의 등에도 sack이 있고 물고기의 등에도 sack이 있다. 물고기의 등에는 leader에 해당하는 wire가 둘러 있고, 노인의 등에는 낚싯줄이 둘러 있다.