The protagonist is an old fisherman named Santiago, and the supporting role is a child named Manolin.
译文：主角是一位名叫圣地亚哥的老渔夫，配角是一个名叫马诺林的孩子。
Feng Cang's disabled old fisherman has not caught fish for 84 days, but he still refuses to give up.
译文：风烛残年的老渔夫已经八十四天没钓到鱼了，但老渔夫仍然不肯放弃。
On the contrary, he is full of the spirit of struggle.
译文：相反，老渔夫充满了奋斗的精神。
On the eighty-fifth day, he finally caught an eighteen-foot-long, 1,500-pound marlin.
译文：第八十五天，老渔夫终于钓到一条长十八英尺、重一千五百磅的大马林鱼。
The big fish towed the boat into the sea, and the old man persisted.
译文：那条大鱼把船拖到海里，老人仍坚持着。
Although his left hand had no water, no food, no weapons, no assistants and cramps, he was not discouraged at all.
译文：即使没有水，没有食物，没有武器，没有助手，左手抽筋，老渔夫一点也不气馁。
After two days and nights, he finally killed the big fish and tied it to the side of the boat.
译文：过了两天两夜，老渔夫终于把那条大鱼杀了，绑在船边。
But a lot of sharks came immediately to catch his spoils.
译文：但许多鲨鱼立刻前来抢夺战利品。
He killed them one by one, leaving only a bad rudder as a weapon.
译文：老渔夫一一地杀死它们，最后只剩下一个坏舵作为武器。
As a result, the big fish could not escape the fate of being eaten.
译文：结果，大鱼逃不过被吃掉的命运。
Finally, the old man came back with a pair of exhausted fish bones.
译文：最终，老人筋疲力尽地拖回一副鱼骨头。
When he returned home and lay in bed, he had to retrieve the good old days from his dreams in order to forget the cruel reality.
译文：当老渔夫回到家躺在床上时，为了忘记残酷的现实，老渔夫不得不从梦中找回过去的美好时光。
扩展资料：
《老人与海》创作背景和寓意：
小说《老人与海》是根据真实的人和事实写成的。第一次世界大战后，海明威移民到古巴去见老渔夫格雷戈里奥·富恩特斯。1930年，海明威的船在风暴中沉没，富恩特斯搭救了海明威。从那以后，海明威和富恩特斯结下了深厚的友谊，经常一起去钓鱼。
虽然海明威作品中的老人是悲剧人物，但海明威具有尼采的超人性格。海明威坦然接受失败，勇敢面对死亡。这些“硬汉”体现了海明威的人生哲学和道德理想，即人不向命运低头，永不屈服于失败和乐观向上的生活态度。
参考资料来源：百度百科-老人与海 （海明威创作中篇小说）