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Skiff: a small light boat for one person

Patch: to repair a hole in something by putting a piece of something else over it

Gaunt: someone looks very thin, usually because of ill

Blotch: a small unpleasant-looking area of color, like skin.

Erosion: the process by which something is gradually reduced or destoryed

Cove: part of the coast

Hoist: to raise, lift, or pull something up, especially using ropes

Strip: a long narrow piece of paper, cloth etc

Faint: difficult to see, hear, smell

"I can remember the tail slapping and banging and the thwart breaking and the noise of the clubbing. I can remember you throwing me into the bow where the wet coiled lines were and feeling the whole boat shiver and the noise of you clubbing him like chopping a tree down and the sweet blood smell all over me."

边听音频边看书，这几句读的押韵，印象深刻。动词ing形式有画面感，很容易想象出场景。

老人做梦时对沙滩的描写

the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

Smell of the land, smell of the ocean

对日出的描写

The sun rose thinly from the sea

Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water

太阳慢慢升起到海面波光鳞鳞

看过中文版觉得没意思，现在读了原文才知道为什么经典，文中对老人心里活动以及环境的描写很精彩，并且用词都比较通俗易懂，读的很顺利。