けど87日間一匹も釣れないかと思えば3週間毎日大物が釣れたこともあったでしょ？ - マノーリン -- アーネスト・ヘミングウェイ (1899 - 1961): 『老人と海』
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But remember how you went eighty-seven days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for three weeks. - Manolin -- Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1899 - 1961): The Old Man and the Sea
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