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part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. 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 . ……Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of sqard in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at light where all the wandering fish fed on them”这是一幅多么静谧然而又是多么激荡而激烈的黎明海报图。但这幅极富魅力的图景又不是孤立的，不是游离于人物而存在的它与人物紧密地联系在一起，是通过老人的听觉、视觉、感觉以及丰富的海洋阅历与海洋知识传达给读者的。在这里，本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供作者用环境描写巧妙地烘托了作品的主题与人物的命运：海洋是美丽的，但也是残酷的，它潜藏着巨大的搏杀，在这场搏杀中，人应该以什么样的精神姿态迎接挑战呢?是挺身抗衡还是俯首屈服?是重拳出击还是临难退缩?显然，《老人与海》中的环境描绘寄寓着作者对人格精神的张扬．对人生命运的叩问与思考。同时，也使活动其中的人物形象显得更加丰满更加鲜活。又如：“The clouds over the land move rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue bills behind it. The water was dark blue none,so dark that it was almost purple. As he looked down into it he saw the red siting of the planklon in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now”“The iridescent bubbles were beautiful but they were the falsest in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea lunles eating them”这些环境与景色描写，既给读者带来美的享受，又从不同侧面烘托与映衬出主人公的精神面貌，有助于人物形象与性格塑造。
三、心理描写
心理描写足揭示人物内心括动和性格特征的重要途径，也是中外作家们塑造人物形象的常用方法之。《老人与海》中有着丰富的心理描写，作者娴熟地运用“自由联想”的技巧，把人物心理作为联结景物、衔接对话的手段，利用人物“心理时间”，打破自然本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供时序的限制，从而扩大了作品的容量，使他的作品无不“有我”，仿佛沸腾着一条感情的热流。黑暗中老人听见飞鱼出水的声音时，作者写道 “in the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish fell the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they sqared away in the darkness. He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. He was surry in the birds , especiafly the small delicate dark learns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought