老人与海（The Old Man and the Sea）英文书评(book reviews)

这本书讲了古巴(Cuba)的一个名叫圣地亚哥的老渔夫，独自一个人出海打鱼，在一无所获(to achieve nothing)的84天之后钓到了一条无比巨大的马林鱼。这是老人从来没见过也没听说过的比他的船还长两英尺的一条大鱼。鱼的劲(vigor)非常大，拖(to drag)着小船漂流了整整两天两夜，老人在这两天两夜中经历了从未经受的艰难考验，终于把大鱼刺(to stab)死，拴(to tie)在船头(the bow)。然而这时却遇上了鲨鱼(a shark)，老人与鲨鱼进行了殊死搏斗(put up a good fight)，结果大马林鱼被鲨鱼吃光了，老人最后拖回只剩下一副光秃秃bald的鱼骨架(a fish skeleton)和一身(all over the body)的伤。最后却得到了人们的赞赏。

《老人与海》完全可能成为当代一部名副其实的经典作品。厄纳斯特·海明威的这部短篇小说处理方法谨严(exact)、注意时间和地点的统一(unite)，行文(a style of writing)简洁而内涵(intension)很深(deep)。另外，和极大多数巨著(a great work)一样，海明威的这篇小说读起来可有不止一层的意思。一方面，这是一个激动人心的带有悲剧性(tragedy)的冒险故事。故事讲到一个精神沮丧(depress)的老渔人，在他对职业的自豪感的支持之下，冒险远航至墨西哥湾流并在那里钓住了一条该水域中从未见过的最大的马林鱼。故事接着说到他孤零零地、在因奋力叉住这条大鱼而耗尽了力气之后，被迫投入一场和一群海盗似的鲨鱼的绝望的搏斗之中，结果是那些鲨鱼只给他留下了猎获物的一具骨架。另一方面，这又是一个寓言，它描述

(describe)了人所具有(possess)的不可征服(conquer)的精神力量——一个人如何从灾难和实际失败的环境中攫取精神上的胜利。再一方面，这是带有宗教意义的一种隐喻(a metaphor)，作者不引人注目地给这一主题添加了基督教(Christian)的一些象征和比喻。一种注意写实(writing or painting realistically)，有着动人的情节(plot)；另一种则侧重(to lay special emphasis on)道德说教，充满象征(badge)的意义。

Translation:(book reviews)

This book tells us a story about a Cuban old man. He went fishing at sea on his own. After more than eighty four days , he fished an extremely large fish.The old man hadn’t ever seen such a big fish that was two meters longer than his boat.The vigor of fish was so strong that it dragged the boat drifting for two days.During the two days,the old man experienced the difficulties that he had never met with. Finally,he stabbed it and tied the fish on the bow. However,he came across a shark. Then,the old man put up a good fight with a shark. As a result, the fish was eaten by the shark. So,the old man carried a bald fish skeleton and being hurt all over the body to reach home. But in the end, he attained admiration by people.

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most immortal

works. The book may very well become one of the true classics of this generation.Certainly, Ernest Hemingway's short novel is processed exact , well united time and places and it’s style of writing is very deep. In addition, as the most great works, his novel contains not only one meaning. First of all,this is an exciting tragedy adventure story. Because I see a picture how an old man killed the large fish and fought a shark via his wisdom. Furthermore, it’s also a fable that describes a spirit strength ------ how a person achieved success from a bad envirnoment. Lastly, the story implied a religious metaphor as well.The author added some Christian symbols and figure of speech inconspicuously.

So, in my opinion, this novel tells not only a moving plot,but also lays special emphasis on moral meanings that are full of the symbol of badge. The spirit that the old man possessed impressed me deeply. meaning

 

第二篇：老人与海 英语书评

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作业：The Old Man and the Sea

I had read this novel when I was in middle school. I came across it in a library and after opening the book I continued reading till the last page. It’s amazing that there should be such a wonderful story. Later, I learned some parts of the story from our Chinese book and the teacher told us to try to feel something that the author was expressing. Then, I became confused for all I noticed was the story itself.

Now I read the novel again, but in English. I have been familiar with the plot and many details in the story, and I could still recognize them while reading them in English. The story goes like this: there’s an old man in Cuba named Santiago who was a fisherman. He had been fishing hard in the Gulf Stream for 84 days but got nothing. In the previous days a boy named Manolin was fallowing him as a company, but the kind boy was force to leave the old man by his parents who thought that the old man was unlucky. However, Santiago continued to go fishing alone in the eighty-fifth day. The boy cared about him and prepared things for him.

The old man left the land early in the morning and in this very day his luck finally came—a large marlin bit his bait and couldn’t escape. But the fish was so big and heavy that it pulled the skiff or a little ship as far as it could do. The old man was very excited and determined to defeat it. So they started a battle which lasted for days and nights. First the fish was in charge, it swam fast with great strength and the old man could only pull the rope with great efforts. When the old man was tired he ate bonito or dolphin to keep strong and he started to talk to himself so that he would not feel weak in the mind. The marlin grew tired gradually and it began to circle. The old man knew that he was to have the fish. He burnt all his energy to pull the rope while the fish was circling under the water. The fish came nearer and nearer to his skiff, and then the old man hit the fish with a harpoon and finally got it. The fish was huge and it was longer than his skiff. He tight it alongside the skiff with ropes and lay down in the stern to have a rest.

However, on the way back the blood from the scar of the fish speared in the sea water and then the sharks came. The old man was not afraid and used every weapon to fight with them. There were five or six times of attacking from those sharks and each time they ate lots of fine meat from the marlin. The old man fought again and again to protect his fish and used harpoon, oar, knife, rudder and so on to beat the sharks. They fought all the way back home and in the end the old man gave it up because the fish was almost eaten up and he was exhausted.

The old man finally came back after sailing out for so far and so long a time. It was deep in the night; he left the skiff and the fish and went to bed. In his dream, he saw lions playing on the beach in the coast of Africa. The story ended.

It is said that the author, Ernest Hemingway who is a great American writer wrote the novel in only eight weeks, basing on one of his friend’s true experience. He created the figure of the old man which was later called by people “tough man” and showed his life attitude and spiritual world. The most well-known sentence of this novel and also the topic of it is that: “man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” These words become belief of many readers.

In my opinion, the whole story is about a battle between an old man and the sea, both of which are considered to have symbolic meanings according to critics. The old man once was so energetic and strong but couldn’t get harvest from the sea. He used his old body and strong mind to fight against nature and challenge his fate. He did win a bit—he got the large fish, but he lost totally because he carried back only the skeleton of the fish with his hands bleeding. On the other “网上英语自主学习”课程总计36课时，平均每4个课时完成一个学习任务，学生按要求完成相应的作业并对自己的学习过程进行自我评价，如，甲、乙…

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hand, he had done all he could to fight against all unlucky things and didn’t lose his face. He behaved like a real man, a tough man. That’s what’s most important in a battle.

Hemingway is famous for his special writing style and skills. His words are short but tough, and people describe this as “telegraph style”. And from this typical work of his I can easily find out something worth noticing. I like the first paragraph very much because it reads so natural and attracting and it will lead you into the situation as soon as possible.

It writes: “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 fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish, the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.”

Some features can be seen that verbs and nouns are used mostly, but not adjectives. This will make the novel clean and hard like bones and easy to understand.

The novel is not long and not difficult to read in English, and I think we can learn to be tough like Santiago when facing with hard times in our life, which is the best solution we should choose in a bad situation.

“网上英语自主学习”课程总计36课时，平均每4个课时完成一个学习任务，学生按要求完成相应的作业并对自己的学习过程进行自我评价，如，甲、乙…