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作者：Ernest Hemingway（欧内斯特·海明威）
首次发表：1927年3月，《斯克里布纳杂志》Scribner’s Magazine
收录集子：1927年10月
短篇小说集《没有女人的男人》Men Without Women
创作背景：
海明威早期极简风格代表作，
以一家小餐馆为场景，写两名杀手等候目标，
用克制冰冷的对话，展现暴力的虚无与普通人面对恶的无力。
英文原文
The door of Henry’s lunch-room opened
and two men came in.
They sat down at the counter.
“What’s yours?” George asked them.
“I don’t know,” one of the men said.
“What do you want to eat, Al?”
“I don’t know,” said Al.
I don’t know what I want to eat.
Outside it was getting dark.
The street-light came on outside the window.
The two men at the counter read the menu.
From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them.
He had been talking to George when they came in.
“I’ll have a roast pork tenderloin with apple sauce and mashed potatoes,”
the first man said.
“It isn’t ready yet.”
“What the hell do you put it on the card for?”
“That’s the dinner,” George explained.
“You can get that at six o’clock.”
George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.
“It’s five o’clock.”
“The clock says twenty minutes past five,” the second man said.
“It’s twenty minutes fast.”
“Oh, to hell with the clock,” the first man said.
“What have you got to eat?”
“I can give you any kind of sandwich,” George said.
“Ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver and bacon, steak.”
“Give me chicken croquettes with green peas and cream sauce and mashed potatoes.”
“That’s dinner.”
“Everything we want’s dinner, hey?
That’s how you run it.”
“I can give you ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver—”
“I’ll take ham and eggs,” the man called Al said.
He wore a derby hat and a black overcoat buttoned across the chest.
His face was small and white and he had tight lips.
He wore a silk muffler and gloves.
“Give me bacon and eggs,” said the other man.
He was about the same size as Al.
Their faces were different, but they were dressed like twins.
Both wore overcoats too tight for them.
They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
“Anything to drink?” Al asked.
“Beer,” the first man said.
“Two beers.”
George drew two schooners of beer
and put them on the counter.
“Is there anything else?” Al asked.
“No, that will be all.”
“What are you going to do later?” Al asked Max.
“I don’t know,” Max said.
“I haven’t thought.”
“You got anything to read?” Al asked George.
“Nothing but the newspaper.”
“Is that a busy town?” Al asked.
“Not so busy.”
“Got a big population?”
“No, it’s small.”
They were quiet for a while.
Then Al said, “You ought to talk more.
You’re a very quiet boy.”
“Well, I don’t like to talk,” George said.
“Well,” Al said, “you don’t, do you?
Max, he don’t like to talk.”
Max laughed.
“He’s too smart to talk,” Max said.
They went on reading the menu.
“What’s this stupid dinner business all about?” Al said.
“People come in here to eat,
and you don’t give them anything till six.”
“That’s the supper hour,” George said.
Nick, back at the end of the counter,
had not said a word.
“He’s quiet too,” Max said.
“What’s his name?”
“Nick.”
“Nick what?”
“Nick Adams.”
“Does he know what’s going to happen?” Al asked Max.
“No,” Max said, “he don’t know.”
Just then Ole Andreson, the man they were waiting for,
was not coming.
Al stood up.
“We’re going back in the kitchen,” he said.
“You send him in here when he comes.”
George did not answer.
Al and Max walked into the kitchen.
Nick heard them lock the door.
George leaned on the counter.
Nick looked frightened.
“He’s a heavy-set prizefighter,” George said.
“Ole Andreson.
They have got it in for him for some reason.”
Nick could not stop thinking about it.
He left the lunchroom
and went to Ole’s boarding house to warn him.
Ole lay on his bed, fully dressed.
He shook his head.
“There isn’t anything I can do,” he said.
“I’m tired of running.”
Nick walked back to the restaurant.
He could not get the thought of death out of his mind.
“I’m going to get out of this town,” Nick said.
“It’s too awful.”
译文
亨利快餐店的门开了，
走进来两个男人。
他们在柜台边坐下。
“你们要点什么？”乔治问他们。
“我还没想好，”其中一人说。
“阿尔，你想吃什么？”
“我不知道，”阿尔说，
我不知道自己想吃什么。
外面天色渐渐暗下来。
窗外的街灯亮了。
柜台前的两个人看着菜单。
尼克·亚当斯坐在柜台另一头，望着他们。
两人进来之前，他正和乔治闲聊。
“我要一份烤猪里脊，配苹果酱和土豆泥，”
第一个男人说道。
“这个还没做好。”
“菜单上写着，却不给上，搞什么？”
“那是晚餐菜品，”乔治解释道。
“六点之后才供应。”
乔治看向柜台后方墙上的时钟。
“现在五点。”
“钟上已经五点二十分了，”第二个男人说。
“钟快了二十分钟。”
“管这个破钟干什么，”第一个男人说。
“那你们现在能提供什么吃的？”
“各种三明治都可以，”乔治说。
“火腿蛋、培根蛋、猪肝培根、牛排。”
“给我鸡肉炸丸子，配青豆、奶油酱汁和土豆泥。”
“那属于晚餐。”
“合着我们想吃的全都算晚餐，是吧？
你们就是这么做生意的。”
“我可以给你火腿蛋、培根蛋、猪肝——”
“我要火腿蛋，”名叫阿尔的男人说。
他戴着圆顶礼帽，黑色大衣扣得严严实实。
他脸小小的，肤色发白，嘴唇抿得很紧。
脖子围着丝围巾，手上戴着手套。
“我要培根蛋，”另一个男人说。
他和阿尔身形差不多。
两人长相不一样，穿着却像双胞胎。
身上的大衣全都紧绷绷的。
他们身子前倾，手肘撑在柜台上坐着。
“喝点什么吗？”阿尔问道。
“啤酒，”第一个男人说。
“两杯啤酒。”
乔治倒了两大杯啤酒，
放到柜台上。
“还要别的吗？”阿尔问。
“不用，这些就够了。”
“你之后打算干什么？”阿尔问麦克斯。
“不知道，”麦克斯说，
“我还没想。”
“有什么读物吗？”阿尔问乔治。
“只有报纸。”
“这座镇子热闹吗？”阿尔问。
“不算热闹。”
“人口多吗？”
“不多，地方很小。”
他们安静了一阵子。
然后阿尔开口：“你该多说几句话。
你太沉默了，小伙子。”
“我不太喜欢说话，”乔治说。
“哦，”阿尔说，“你确实不爱说话，对吧？
麦克斯，这人不爱开口。”
麦克斯笑了。
“他太精明，不肯多说，”麦克斯说。
他们继续看着菜单。
“这个讨厌的晚餐安排到底是什么名堂？”阿尔说。
“客人过来吃饭，
不到六点就什么都不给。”
“六点是晚餐时间，”乔治说。
尼克一直坐在柜台末尾，
一言未发。
“他也很安静，”麦克斯说。
“他叫什么？”
“尼克。”
“尼克姓什么？”
“尼克·亚当斯。”
“他知道待会儿要发生什么吗？”阿尔问麦克斯。
“不知道，”麦克斯说，“他不清楚。”
他们等候的目标奥尔·安德森，
这时并没有过来。
阿尔站起身。
“我们去后厨等着，”他说。
“他一来，你就让他进到这里。”
乔治没有应声。
阿尔和麦克斯走进厨房。
尼克听见他们锁上了门。
乔治靠在柜台上。
尼克面露惶恐。
“他是个壮实的职业拳击手，”乔治说。
“奥尔·安德森。
不知道因为什么事，他们要除掉他。”
尼克心里一直放不下这件事。
他离开快餐店，
跑到奥尔租住的旅馆给他报信。
奥尔和衣躺在床上。
他摇了摇头。
“我没有任何办法，”他说。
“我已经厌倦四处逃命了。”
尼克走回餐馆。
死亡的画面一直在他脑海里挥之不去。
“我要离开这座小镇，”尼克说。
“这里太可怕了。”
🔍长难句赏析与拆解
原句一
He wore a derby hat and a black overcoat buttoned across the chest.
句式解读
buttoned across the chest是过去分词短语作后置定语，
用来修饰大衣，是海明威典型简洁写法，
没有多余修饰，只用细节勾勒人物。
句子主干
He wore a derby hat and a black overcoat.
原句二
Nick, back at the end of the counter, had not said a word.
句式解读
back at the end of the counter作为插入成分，
交代尼克所处位置，把人物状态和空间结合，
节奏克制冷静，贴合全文氛围。
句子主干
Nick had not said a word.
📖全篇句式特点
以客观冷静的对话推进故事，
几乎没有作者主观抒情描写。
句子大多简短直白，大量使用口语对白，
是海明威标志性的冰山写作风格。
作者只呈现场景与对话，藏起背后恩怨，
把紧张、压抑的氛围感留给读者自行体会。
平淡的文字之下暗藏暴力危机，反差感强烈。
核心词汇
1. counter
/ˈkaʊntə(r)/
柜台
名词（n.）
2. prizefighter
/ˈpraɪzfaɪtə(r)/
职业拳击手
名词（n.）
3. boarding house
/ˈbɔːdɪŋ haʊs/
寄宿公寓
名词（n.）
4. frighten
/ˈfraɪtn/
使害怕，惊吓
动词（v.）
5. awful
/ˈɔːfl/
可怕的，糟糕的
形容词（adj.）
6. loose
/luːs/
宽松的
形容词（adj.）
7. shake
/ʃeɪk/
摇晃
动词（v.）
💡主旨品读
小说以极简的叙事搭建整个故事，
没有交代杀手与奥尔之间的仇恨缘由。
奥尔放弃躲避、坦然等待厄运降临，
尼克目睹这一切之后，萌生逃离小镇的想法。
海明威借这个故事，写出暴力的随机与荒诞，
普通人面对突如其来的死亡威胁时的无力。
很多黑暗无从反抗，也无处可逃，
这就是冰山理论藏在文字之下的沉重内核。
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