老人与海

老人與海
Lǎorén yǔ hǎi
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella

Examples

HSK 7-9
《 Lǎorén yǔ hǎi 》 shì Hǎimíngwēi de dàibiǎozuò.
The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway's best-known work.
HSK 7-9
《 Lǎorén yǔ hǎi 》 lǐ de lǎo yúfū yìlián bāshísì tiān dōu méi dǎdào yú.
The old fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea goes eighty-four days in a row without catching a fish.

Tips

history
Published in 1952, it tells of 圣地亚哥, an old Cuban fisherman who goes far out alone, hooks a giant marlin, fights it for two days and nights, and loses it to sharks on the way home, bringing back only its skeleton. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and was cited when 海明威 received the Nobel Prize in 1954.
culture
Its line 'a man can be destroyed but not defeated' is much quoted in Chinese, as 一个人可以被毁灭,但不能被打败, and is a favourite of student essays.

Stroke Order

老 lǎo
人 rén
与 yǔ
海 hǎi