There lived an old man in a small town of Germany.

在德国的一个小镇上住着一位老人。

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He was an old man who fished alone in a small boat on the sea and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

他是一个老人，独自在海上的一条小船上钓鱼。至今出海84天了，他一条鱼也没钓到。

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"Now pull that one out." said the old man, looking at a small tree.

“现在把那棵拔出来。”老人看着一棵小树说。

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Yet he could not laugh. He felt small agaist the comb shining from the old man.

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There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.

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His father was a grocer and small-time landlord, but the family was so strapped the old man wore the same pair of underwear every day, washing them each night.

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