Then the negro, after the rum, would try for a tremendous effort and once he had the old man, who was not an old man then but was Santiago EL Campeon, nearly three inches off balance.

• 黑人喝了朗姆酒，就拚命地使出劲儿来，有一回把老人的手（他当时还不是个老人，而是"冠军"圣地亚哥）扳下去将近三英寸。