23.He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, the blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.
他眺望着海面，知道他此刻是多么孤单。但是他可以看见在黑暗的深水里的棱镜和鱼线往前和那平静的波动。云朵现在贸易风，他朝前望去，看到一个飞行的野鸭在水面上的天空，模糊，然后蚀刻再次和他知道没有人是独自在海上。
24.I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one’s own body. It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from. But a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone.
我恨抽筋，他想。这是对自己身体的背叛行为。它是在别人面前丢脸由于食物中毒而腹泻或者呕吐。但是抽筋，他认为这是一个calambre侮辱自己，尤其是当一个人是孤单的。
25.If I were him I would put in everything now and go until something broke. But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.
如果我是他，我会竭尽所能去直到事情发生。但是，感谢上帝，他们是不是我们谁杀了他们的智能;虽然他们更高贵、更能。
26.I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now, anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.
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