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That afternoonthere was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking down in the wateramong the empty beer cans and dead barracudas a woman saw a great long whitespine with a huge tail at the end that lifted and swung with the tide while theeast wind blew a heavy steady sea outside the entrance to the harbor.

那天下午，露台饭店来了一群旅游者，有个女人朝下面的海水望去，看见在一些空啤酒罐和死梭子鱼之间，有一条又粗又长的白色脊骨，一端有条巨大的尾巴，当东风在港外不断地掀起大浪的时候，这尾巴随着潮水瓶落、摇摆。

"What'sthat?" she asked a waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the greatfish that was now just garbage waiting to go out with the tide.

“那是什么？"她问一名侍者，指着那条大鱼的长长的脊骨，它如今仅仅是垃圾，只等潮水来把它带走了。

"Tiburon,"the waiter said, "Eshark. " He was meaning to explain what hadhappened.

“Ｔｉｂｕｒｏｎ①，"侍者说，"Ｅｓｈａｒｋ②。"他打算解释这事情的经过。

"I didn'tknow sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails. "

“我不知道鲨鱼有这样漂亮的尾巴，形状这样美观。”

"I didn'teither," her male companion said.

“我也不知道，"她的男伴说。

Up the road, inhis shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his faceand the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about thelions.

在大路另一头老人的窝棚里，他又睡着了。他依旧脸朝下躺着，孩子坐在他身边，守着他。老人正梦见狮子。

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