The Old Man and the Sea--the first fight with the big mako shark

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30.  What does the first shark look like? How did the old man kill it? 

2024-03-25

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  张维忆
  Kill the first shark with a harpoon

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  张维忆
  The shark was not an accident. He had  come up from deep down in the water as  the dark cloud of blood had settled and  dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had  come up so fast and absolutely without  caution that he broke the surface of the blue  water and was in the sun. Then he fell back  into the sea and picked up the scent and  started swimming on the course the skiff  and the fish had taken. Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would  pick it up again, or have just a trace of it,  and he swam fast and hard on the course.  He was a very big ma ko shark built to swim  as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and  everything about him was beautiful except  his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword  fish's and his belly was silver and his hide  was smooth and handsome. He was built as  a sword fish except for his huge jaws which  were tight shut now as he swam fast, just  under the surface with his high dorsal fin  knifing through the water without wavering.  Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of  his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards.  They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped  teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like  claw. They were nearly as long as the  fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was  a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the  sea, that were fast and strong and well  armed that they had no other enemy. Now  he speeded up as smelled the fresher scent  and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.

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