字幕翻译：hardstick 校订：hardstick
祝祷
（译者注：左面的招牌上写着：迪亚吉列夫俄罗斯芭蕾舞团。 右面的招牌上写着：伊格尔.斯特拉文斯基的《春天的祭礼》）
伦敦 1914
The audience 观众的掌声
pricks an intellectual ear. 刺激着知识分子的耳朵。
Stravinsky quite the concert of the year. 在斯特拉文斯基的年度音乐会上。
Forgetting now the hullabaloo they made, 现在忘却他们造成的喧嚣，
the audience pricks an intellectual ear. 观众的掌声刺激着知识分子的耳朵。
Bassoons begin, 巴松管开始奏响，
sonority envelopes our auditory innocence, 声响包围着观众的天真，
and brings to me, I must admit, 我必须承认，它带给我的是，
some drift of things omnific,seminal, and adolescent. 孕育创造力的青春的洪流。
Men in boaters, far from Henley, 男人在船上，驶离了亨利镇，
girls in pink and blue taffeta. 女孩穿粉红色和蓝色的塔夫绸。
In that long summer, 在漫长的夏季。
I hunted, played cricket,but only watched tennis. 我打猎，玩板球，但却只观看了网球比赛。
God was in His heaven 上帝呆在他自己的天堂里，
and there were sausages for breakfast. 享受着早餐的香肠。
And in small recruiting offices, 而在狭小的征兵登记处里，
dull young men wait to inscribe in paper quires, 愚钝的年轻人在一沓文件里签下了
the names of the living and the dead. 自己的名字和生死状。
Mr Sassoon. 沙逊先生。
Yes. 我是。
I'm Siegfried. 我是齐格弗里德。
And I'm Hamo, younger brother. 我是哈默，是弟弟。
And we've both come for our fitting. 我们是来试衣服的。
Just so, sir. 这样吧，先生们。
I think we should start with the shirts. 我想我们应该从衬衫开始。
You can't have your shirts too dark, sir. 您的衬衫不能太黑，先生们。
Ah, war! A la mode! 啊，现在是战时！流行色！
I never said goodbye to him. 我从未向他告别。
译者注：以下这首诗出自同时代英国诗人 A.E.豪斯曼（1859-1936）的《夏日慵懒的山坡上》
On the idle hill of summer, 在夏天慵懒的山坡上，
sleepy with the flow of streams, 伴随着溪流声昏昏欲睡，
far I hear the steady drummer, 我听见远处传来坚定的鼓声，
drumming like a noise in dreams. 就和梦中的声音一样。
Far and near and low and louder, 由远及近，由弱渐强，
on the roads of Earth go by, 在世界各地的道路上走过，
dear to friends and food for powder, 火药和粮食是最亲爱的朋友，
soldiers marching, all to die. 士兵们正在向着死亡行军。
East and west in fields forgotten 东方和西方被遗忘的战场上，
bleach the bones of comrades slain. 战友们死去的尸骨变得惨白。
Lovely lads and dead and rotten. 可爱的小伙子们正在死去和腐烂。
None that go return again. 没有人能再回家乡。
Far the calling bugles hollo, 远处的号角发出问候，
high the screaming fife replies. 高地的风笛尖叫作答。
Gay the files of scarlet follow: 一股股鲜血流出的快乐：
Woman bore me, I will rise. 妇人降生我于尘世，我将自己升入天堂。
I was anxious to know what you were suffering from. 我很想知道，你究竟得了什么病。
It's only trench fever,nothing fatal, 这是战壕热，没什么致命的，
just debilitating. 只是虚弱。
I dread everything now. 我现在什么都害怕。
The telephone... 电话...
the telegram. 电报。
There's only one thing worse 只有一件事比
than remaining in the past, Mother, 停留在过去更糟糕，母亲，
and that's begrudging the future. 那就是，嫉妒未来。
The future,without either of my sons, 假如未来没有我的两个儿子，
is to be dreaded, not enjoyed. 那就是恐惧，而不是享受。
I am writing you this private letter 我怀着极大的遗憾
with the greatest possible regret. 给你写这封私人信件。
I must inform you that it is my intention 我必须通知你，我打算
to refuse to perform any further military duties. 拒绝继续履行任何军事职责。
I am doing this as a protest 我这样做是为了
against the policy of the government 抗议政府的政策，
in prolonging the war 因为他们对表达和平条件无所作为，
by failing to state their conditions for peace. 致使战争延长。
I have written a statement of my reasons, 我已写了一份理由的陈述，
of which I enclose a copy. 随信一并奉上。
I am making this statement 我发表这一声明
as an act of wilful defiance of military authority 是一种故意蔑视军事当局的行为，
because I believe that the war 因为我认为，那些有能力
is being deliberately prolonged 结束战争的人
by those who have the power to end it. 正在故意延长战争。
I am a soldier 我是一名士兵，
convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. 我坚信，此举是为了士兵们。
I believe that the war upon which I entered 我相信，我参加的这场
as a war of defence and liberation 保卫和解放的战争，
has now become a war of aggression and conquest. 现在已经变成了侵略和征服的战争。
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers 我相信，我和我的战友们最初
entered upon this war 参战的目的，
should have been made so clearly stated 是应该被明确表达，
as to have made it impossible to change them. 而且是不可能改变的。
And that had this been done,the objects that actuated us 如果能做到这点，
would now be attainable by negotiation. 我们就能通过谈判来达到此目标。
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops 我目睹并忍受了部队的痛苦，
and I can no longer be a party 我再也不能为这些
to prolong these sufferings for ends 被我认为是邪恶和偏见的目的，
which I believe to be evil and unjust. 而延长这些痛苦，直至死去。
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, 我并不是单纯地反对战争，
but against the political errors 我更要反对那些
and insincerities for which 让战士们做出牺牲的
the fighting men are being sacrificed. 政治上的错误和虚伪。
On behalf of those who are suffering now, 我代表那些正在遭受痛苦的人们，
I make this protest against the deception 对正在对他们实施的欺骗
which is being practised upon them. 表示抗议。
Also, I believe it may help to destroy 此外，我相信，它可能有助于
the callous complacency 消除国内大多数民众的
with which the majority of those at home 那种麻木不仁的自满情绪，
regard the continuance of agonies 他们对持续的痛苦
which they do not share 并不感同身受，
and which they have not enough imagination to realize. 他们也没有足够的想象力来意识到这一点。
I suppose this was your doing. 我想这是你干的。
Yes, and Eddie Marsh. 是的，还有埃迪·马什。
I take this very ill, Robbie. 我对此很反感，罗比。
Why did you involve Marsh? 你为什么把马什牵扯进来？
Because he's Principal Private Secretary to Winston Churchill 因为他是温斯顿·丘吉尔的首席私人秘书，
and he wanted to help. 他想为你帮忙。
He was instrumental in getting you 他帮你通过了
a Medical Board examination instead of a court martial. 医学委员会的鉴定，而不是上军事法庭受审。
If you were found guilty at a court martial, 如果你在军事法庭被判有罪，
you could be shot. 你可能会被枪决。
That was a risk I was prepared to take. 我准备冒这个险。
But there are those who care for you 但有些人关心你，
and who were not. 有些人不关心你。
A court martial would have been a platform 军事法庭本来是我
to state my opposition to the conduct of the war, 进行反战宣传的平台，
and you have prevented me doing so. 而你阻止了我这么做。
And not only for this Times article 不是为了《泰晤士报》的这篇文章，
but for my statement to be read out 而是要在议会下院，大声读出
on the floor of the House. 我的声明。
You've rendered me impotent, Robbie. 你这样做，渲染了我的懦弱。
You've robbed me of my dignity. 你剥夺了我的尊严。
Better that than a firing squad. 这总比行刑队要好得多。
That is a matter of opinion. 那是你的看法。
Don't be angry with me, Siegfried. 别生我的气，齐格弗里德。
My intentions were honourable. 我的用意是高尚的。
译者注：银制十字勋章背面刻着： “齐格弗里德.洛林.沙逊少尉 皇家韦尔奇燧发枪团”
译者注：这首歌现在名为《天堂里的幽灵骑手》（Ghost Riders In The Sky）。 原唱作者是美国的歌手，演员斯坦.琼斯(Stan.Jones) 于1948年写的《牛仔传奇》（A Cowboy Legend）。后被多人翻唱。
An old cowpoke went ridin' out 一个漆黑的大风夜里，老牛仔
One dark and windy day 骑马出行
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way 他走到了一座山脊，想休息一会儿
When all at once, a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw 突然，他看到了一大群红眼的牛群
A-ploughing through the ragged skies 吃力地穿行在乌云密布的
And up a cloudy draw 阴暗天空中
Yippee-yi-ay 快快-呀-驾
Yippee-yi-oh 稳稳-咿-吁
The ghost herd in the sky 那是在天上的幽灵畜群
Their brands were still on fire 它们的火印刚刚被烙上
And their hooves were made of steel 它们的蹄子被钉上钢圈
Their horns were black and shiny 它们的犄角黑得发亮
And their hot breath he could feel 它们在寒冷中呼出热气
A bolt of fear went through him 他全身上下透过一阵惊悚
As they thundered through the sky 天空中传来它们发出轰鸣声
For he saw the riders coming hard 原来是他看见来了一群骑手
And he heard their mournful cries 他还听到这帮骑手悲哀的哭声
Yippee-yi-ay 快快-呀-驾
Yippee-yi-oh 稳稳-咿-吁
Ghost riders in the sky 天堂的幽灵骑手
As the riders loped on by him 那群骑手大步跑过他的身旁
He heard one call his name 他听见有人喊他的名字
If you wanna save your soul from hell 如果你想从地狱里拯救你的灵魂
A-riding on our range 那里现在成了我们的牧场
Then, cowboy change your ways today 牛仔你要改变你今天的行程
Or with us you will ride 否则你将和我们一样
Trying to catch the devil's herd 整天费力地追赶那魔鬼的畜群
Across these endless skies 穿行在这无尽的天际
Yippee-yi-ay 快快-呀-驾
Yippee-yi-oh 稳稳-咿-吁 （译者注：齐格弗里德.沙逊在1953年，皈依天主教）
Ghost riders in the sky 天堂的幽灵骑手
Yippee-yi-ay 快快-呀-驾
Yippee-yi-oh 稳稳-咿-吁
I'm intrinsically against any kind of conversion. 我本质上反对任何形式的皈依。
It's too much like wishful thinking. 这太像一厢情愿了。
Besides, in a poet, 另外，您作为一名诗人，
it seems to imply he has 这似乎暗示着什么
nothing interesting left to say. 难道就没有什么值得一说的东西吗。
I said I was only thinking about it. 我说过了，我曾仔细考虑过。
Surely you're not looking for God? 你肯定不是在寻找上帝吗？
That's one way of putting it. 这只是一种说法.
Well, speaking as one of the spiritually-undernourished, 作为一个精神上贫乏的人，
if you find him, make sure he's still an Englishman, 如果你找到他，你是不是还想确认，他是个英国人，
doesn't live on the wrong side of the park. 甚至还在公园的另一边。
I assume that was supposed to be amusing. 你小子是不是觉得此事好玩？
Why Catholicism, Father? 为什么选择天主教皈依，父亲？
Something permanent, 有些东西是永恒，
unchanging. 不变的。
You can get that from dressage but without the guilt. 你要真闲得无聊，可以去练花样骑术。
There is no need to be snide. 这不需要伪装。
If all you can do is ridicule, 如果你所能做的只是嘲笑，
it would be better if you remained silent. 那你最好还是保持沉默。
Better still, go outside and wait in the car. 你最好安静地离开这里，回到你停在外面的汽车上去。
Well, it's a long drive back to London, 那好吧，反正回伦敦要开很长一段时间车程，
so the sooner we can get started, the better. 所以，我们越早离开这里越好。
Siegfried, 齐格弗里德，
what do you ask of the Church of God? 你对上帝的教会有什么要求？
Faith. 要有信仰。
What does faith offer you? 信仰又能给你什么呢？
Life everlasting. 生命的永存。
If you then desire to enter into life, 如果你想道成肉身，
keep the commandments. 那就要遵守上帝的戒律。
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart "你要全心全意，用你的灵魂，
"and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind." 用你的全部思想，去爱主你的上帝"
Siegfried,do you renounce Satan? 齐格弗里德，你能摒弃撒旦吗？
I do renounce him. 我能摒弃他。
And all his works? 能抛弃他的所作所为？
I do renounce him. 我真的能抛弃他。
And all his pomps? 还有他做的诗呢？
I do renounce him. 我真能抛弃他。
Receive this burning light 接受这燃烧的光，
and keep thy baptism so as to be without blame. 谨守你的洗礼，这样就不会受到责备。
Keep the commandments of God, 你们要守神的诫命，
that when the Lord shall come to the nuptials, 当主来参加典礼的时候，
thou mayest meet Him 你可以和众圣徒
together with all the Saints in the heavenly court, 在天上的院子里与他相会，
and mayest thou have eternal life for ever and ever. 这样你就可以有永生，直到永永远远。
Siegfried, go in peace and the Lord be with you. 齐格弗里德，去吧，主与你同在。
The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. 愚蠢的人会说，他的心中没有上帝。
You will be drawn up in your feelings 你将会感觉到，超出你的理解力的，
above understanding 被牵引到一个
to the radiance of divine darkness 超越其他凡人的，被神赋予黑暗的
that transcends all being. 光芒四射中去。
Christ, receive my soul 上帝，接受我的灵魂，
and release me from the imprisonment of doubt. 把我从疑虑重重的幽闭拘禁中解放出来。
And grant me peace. 并赐予我安宁。
I'm quite appalled by what you've done. 我对你的所作所为感到震惊。
I can only hope your CO in Liverpool 我只希望你们在利物浦团部的长官，
will ignore your letter. 根本就不理会你的这封信。
I'm terrified that you will be put under arrest. 我很害怕你会被逮捕。
We read your statement,Lieutenant, with some alarm. 我们读了你的陈述，中尉，有些担心。
You may sit if you wish, Lieutenant. 你想坐就坐吧，中尉。
Thank you, sir. 谢谢，长官。
Why did you make it? 你为什么要这么做？
I wanted to state my position 我想阐述我对
regarding the conduct of the war. 战争行为的看法。
It is not your place to question 你没有资格去质询
how the war is being prosecuted. 战争会如何进行的。
Your duty lies in obeying orders. 你的职责是基于你参军时的誓言。
Duty? 职责？
That word covers a multitude of sins. 这个词包含了许多罪恶。
In the face of such slaughter, 面对如此的屠杀，
one cannot simply order one's conscience. 不能说它是出于每个人的良知。
One can do better than that. 人们可以有更好的做法。
One can ignore it. 人们可以忽略它。
That reply was so disgraceful,you ought to be in politics. 你的回答太可耻了，你应该去从事政治。
That was impertinent,Lieutenant. 中尉，你太无礼了。
Are you pro-German? 你支持德国人吗？
No. I'm pro-human. 不。我支持人类。
We are not here to discuss humanity, 我们这里不是谈人性的地方，
that is religion's sphere of operations. 那是宗教范畴的问题。
And what of morality? 那道德呢？
Morality is a luxury 现在谈道德很奢侈，
that we can only afford during peace time. 我们只在和平时期才提倡道德。
I would be very grateful if you would take 我非常希望你能减少
that offensive tone out of your voice. 你话中攻击性的语气。
Voices raised in anger only perpetuates war. 愤怒的语气只会让战争更长久。
And passive resistance only invites defeat. 消极的抵抗只会招致失败。
I simply cannot remain silent 我面对如此的伤亡，
in the face of such casualties. 不能保持沉默。
Someone must,should be brought to book. 必须有人受到惩罚。
The casualties, young man, 年轻人，伤亡人数
are a matter for the Imperial General Staff. 是帝国总参谋部的事。
And your statement,indeed your entire attitude, 你的言论，甚至你的整个态度，
is both offensive 都是对军队纪律
and detrimental to military discipline. 的冒犯和伤害。
My colleague is quite right. 我的同僚说得很对。
It is not your place to question your superiors, 你没有资格质疑你的上级，
much less to imply that they are not honourable. 更不用说暗示他们不值得尊敬了。
Perhaps, sir,if you, if any of you 也许，长官，如果你，
were to visit the front, 如果你们中的任何一个去前线，
then you might at least spare a thought 那么你至少可以为那些失去亲人的家庭
for the many bereaved families and the pain they suffer. 和他们所遭受的痛苦想一想。
You are out of order, sir! 你太过分了，先生！
I thought that was the very reason 我想这就是我
for my being brought before you. 被带到你们面前的原因。
This has gone far enough. 这已经足够了。
Yes, of course. 是的，当然了。
Yes, I agree. 是的，我同意。
Myself and my fellow officers 我和我的同僚们
feel that your mind is still in chaos 都觉得你的思想还在混乱中
and that you are unfit to be trusted with men's lives. 你不适合被托付性命。
It is therefore the Board's decision 因此委员会决定
that you should be sent to a hospital 将你送往苏格兰的一家医院
for nervous diseases in Scotland. 治疗神经疾病。
We therefore order you to report immediately 因此我们命令你立即到爱丁堡的
to Craiglockhart, in Edinburgh. 克雷格洛克哈特报到。
Good morning, Lieutenant. 早上好，中尉。
You may leave your coat and luggage here. 您可以把大衣和行李放在这里。
A porter will take them up to your room. 搬运工会把它们送到您的房间。
Name? 姓名？
Sassoon, Siegfried. 沙逊，齐格弗里德。
Rank? 军衔？
- Second Lieutenant.- Age? -少尉。-年龄？
30. 30岁。
Years of complete service? 服役年限？
Two years, eleven months. 两年，另十一个月。
Completed months 已经在战场
with Field Force? 呆了几个月啦？
Thirteen months. 13个月。
Disease? 有什么病吗？
I've had some sort of breakdown. 我有点崩溃了。
Nervous debility? 神经性无力症？
Yes, I believe that's what they call it. 是的，我想他们是这么说的。
Enter it as neurasthenia, Matron. 请输入神经衰弱，护士长。
As we came in, sir,I noticed several men 先生，我们进来的时候，我注意到
with blue dots on their faces. 几个脸上有淤斑的人。
Morphine. 吗啡。
Morphine? 吗啡？
The dots denote that they've had their doses, 这些点表示他们已经服用了一定的剂量，
so that they are given no more until the appropriate time. 所以在适当的时间之前，不会再给他们注射。
Who will be treating this man? 谁来治疗这个人？
- Doctor Rivers.- Rivers' office is next door. -里弗斯医生。-里弗斯的办公室就在隔壁。
I think it would be polite if you introduced yourself. 我想如果你介绍一下自己会比较礼貌。
Yes, sir. 是的，长官。
And in your room, 在你的房间里，
you will find an armband. 你会发现一个袖标。
It is to be worn at all times, 任何时候都要佩戴，
especially outside the hospital grounds. 尤其是在医院外面。
It is to show that you are a serving soldier in hospital 这是为了表明你是一名在医院服役的士兵，
and not a conscientious objector. 而不是一个良心拒服兵役者。
We wouldn't want you to be attacked 我们不希望你在王子街
in Princes Street,now, would we? 被袭击，对吧?
Which arm shall I wear it on, sir? 我应该戴在哪支胳膊上？长官。
The pleasure of that choice, Lieutenant, 随你的便，中尉，
is entirely yours. 这完全是你的选择。
Your room is on the upper floor 您的房间在楼上
at the end of the corridor. 走廊尽头。
Dismissed. 解散。
Hmm? 嗯？
Sassoon, Siegfried, Lieutenant. 沙逊，齐格弗里德，中尉。
Your burgeoning fame precedes you. 久仰你的大名。
I enjoyed The Old Huntsman very much. 我非常喜欢《老猎人》这篇。
You may not know, 你也许不知道，
but we have a house magazine, The Hydra. 我们医院自己办了份内部刊物，《九头蛇》。
I'm sure it would welcome a contribution from you. 我相信它会欢迎你的投稿。
Well, I'll, erm, 我想我会更加
try to write something light and amusing. 努力去写一些轻松有趣的文章。
Oh, there's no need to go that far. 哦，没必要这么刻意。
You have an appointment to see me at 10:30 in the morning. 你已经预约好，明早上10:30来见我。
这座位于苏格兰多迪维尔的克莱格哈特陆军医院， 是英国最早的治疗炮弹震伤型心里疾病的医院。
它们采用让病人自主地参与各种创造性活动的疗法， 院刊《九头蛇》后成为在此治疗的军官们 发泄对战争造成创伤不满的平台。
Dear Mother, 亲爱的母亲，
have arrived in Dottyville. 我已经来到了多蒂维尔。
Wish you were here. 希望你也在这里。
Good morning, Doctor. 上午好，大夫。
Good morning, Sassoon. 上午好，沙逊。
Please, sit down.We're quite relaxed here. 请坐下，我们这里要非常放松。
Although we do seem to go through 虽然我们需要通过的
rather too many chief medical officers, 主审军医官似乎很多，
some are more flexible than others. 但有些人还是比较灵活有弹性的。
Then they're replaced by someone 然后他们就会被来自阿德尔肖特的， （英国陆军传统上的训练大本营）
who wants everything to be as taut as Aldershot. 让人紧张不堪的其它军医所代替。 （英国陆军传统上的训练大本营）
Then they too are replaced. 然后他们再被替换。
And what's your persuasion? 你的见解是什么？
Oh, I prefer a certain measure of laxity. 我更倾向于一种轻松疗法。
One can't be at attention forever, 人不能总保持专注，
it plays havoc with the nerves. 这样他的神经系统就会紊乱
From the, er, little I know of your method of treatment here, 我对你的治疗方法知之甚少，
I understand that from whatever I say 我估计你能从我所说的话中，
you can deduce whether or not 能否得出这样的结论：
my grandmother was a dipsomaniac. 我的奶奶曾经是个酒鬼。
Was she? 是吗？
Alas, no, no. 哎，不是啦。
Just a sweet sherry at Christmas and on birthdays. 只是在圣诞节和生日时，偶尔喝一杯甜雪利酒。
Well done, your grandmother. 你奶奶做的不错。
She didn't know what she wasn't missing. 她不知道，她自己错过了什么。
Well, just tell me whatever it is you want me to do, 你让我干什么，
and I'll comply with your wishes. 我就干什么。
It isn't a question of what I want. 这不是，我要你做什么。
It's a question of what you think you need. 而是你认为，你需要什么。
Am I to start? Or do you? 是我先开始？还是你？
Is there anything you feel you wish to say? 你有什么想说的吗？
What I feel cannot be talked away or soothed into silence. 我的感受无法用言语排遣，也无法用安抚来平息。
Why? 为什么？
Too many have died. 太多人死了。
Too much has been destroyed. 太多的东西被毁灭了。
There can be an easement of pain. 疼痛可以得到缓解。
A move towards acceptance. 一个举动也可以获得赞同。
Pain is not the only terror. 疼痛并不是唯一的恐惧。
There are many more. 还有很多别的东西。
Can you name them? 你能说出它们的名字吗？
If I could name them, they would cease to be terrors. 如果我能说出那些名字，那就不是恐惧了。
That's a very elegant way of avoiding an answer. 这是一个非常优雅的回避答案的方式。
All evasions are elegant. 所有的逃避都是优雅的。
Think of politics. 和政治一样。
I've always thought that politicians 我总是认为那些政治家
were too stupid to be subtle. 蛮横得让人不可理喻。
Perhaps they're just too subtle to be inelegant. 就因为他们太心思缜密了，反而就变得蛮横了。
Are you a good soldier? 你是一个好士兵吗？
Passable. 算是吧。
I was a poor marksman. 我的枪法很差。
I never knew which eye to shut. 我不知道该闭上哪只眼睛。
I understand you were awarded the MC. 我知道你曾被授予十字勋章。
Yes. 是的。
It's supposed to signify gallantry. 这是表彰勇敢。
Bravery is only cowardice in extremis. 勇敢只是在绝境中的怯懦。
At the root of bravery lies terror 勇敢的根源在于恐惧，
and the fear of fear. 是面对恐惧的恐惧。
But you were conspicuous by your courage. 但你的勇气引人注目。
Why did you discard the Military Cross? 你为什么要丢弃十字勋章？
Disgust at my own dwindling standards 我讨厌自己的不断地矮化，
and the men I felt I had betrayed. 并觉得我在背叛别的人。
It was nothing short of duplicity. 这就是欺骗。
And yet the men under your command 我听说，你手下的人
held you in the highest esteem, I'm told. 非常敬重你。
And I them. 我也敬重他们。
They seemed to me to be all 在我看来，他们是
that was good and true in this world. 这个世界上一切美好而真实的东西。
Are you searching for truth? 你在寻找真理吗？
Isn't everyone? 其他人不也都在寻找吗？
And if you find it, 如果你找到了它，
what then? 然后呢？
Peace of mind, contentment. 心灵得倒满足和平静。
No longer yearning for what's been lost. 不再苛求失去的东西。
以下诗句出自A.E.豪斯曼的《最可爱的树》
Loveliest of trees 最可爱的树
The cherry now 樱花绽放
Is hung with bloom 沿着树干枝头
Along the bough 挂满花朵
And stands about 她在林地中伫立
The woodland ride 随风摇曳
Wearing white 在万物复苏时节
For Eastertide 身着白衣
Come in. 请进。
Lieutenant Sassoon? 沙逊中尉？
Yes. 是我。
I'm Wilfred Owen. 威尔弗雷德·欧文。
欧文出生于英格兰，父亲是普通铁路官员，从小受母亲熏陶喜爱诗歌及绘画， 因家贫无法上大学深造，后去法国教英语，1915年回国参军上战场。 他写了著名反战诗篇《青春挽歌》《为国捐躯》《不可思议的聚会》。
There was howling last night. 昨晚有嚎叫声。
Like a wolf. 像是一只狼。
Strictly speaking,wolves ululate. 严格地说,狼群的悲泣。
But howling will do. 但嚎叫还将会有。
Now, don't make light of it like that, Doctor, please. 现在，请不要这样轻视它，医生。
That isn't what I'm doing. 那不是我要做的。
I'm merely keeping it in perspective. 我只是在正确地看待它。
I'm sorry if I sounded uncaring. 很抱歉，我使你听起来有些冷漠。
His screams were terrible. 他的尖叫声很可怕。
Worse than an animal. 比动物还可怕。
Such anguish in them. 他们极度痛苦。
Why do all the worst terrors come at night? 为什么最可怕的事情都发生在晚上？
The night is, I think, 我认为，人一到夜里，
like the unconscious. 都会处于无意识状态。
Waiting all day so that it can steal over you in the dark. 等了一整天，它就趁着在黑暗中悄悄溜到你身上。
You make it sound almost benign. 你说起来，好象它是无关紧要的。
Perhaps it is. 也许就是这样。
I believe Wilfred Owen 我相信，威尔弗雷德·欧文
introduced himself to you the other day. 前几天跟你介绍过他自己。
Yes. 是的。
He seems so gentle. 他看起来很温和。
Feel rather protective of him. 让人不禁地想要去保护他。
Does that protectiveness hide something deeper? 这种保护，是否隐藏了更深层次的东西？
Yes. 是的。
All my friendships do. 我所有的友谊都是这样。
But I've never allowed my emotions to mar or spoil them, 但我从不让我的情绪破坏或宠坏它们，
I remain passive. 我一直是被动的。
It's how I cope. 我就是这么应付的。
You never act on impulse? 你从不冲动行事吗？
No, never. 不，从不。
I'm unable to take risks. 我不能冒险。
It's the hero in me. 这是我内心的英雄。
Why not? 为什么不？
Too afraid, 太害怕了，
too inhibited. 太压抑了。
Shamed by an inner corruption. 因内心的堕落而羞愧。
Or perhaps it's simply because of... 或者可能只是因为…
What's the phrase? 那句话怎么说？
"The love that dare not speak its name." “难以名状之爱”
You are not alone in that respect. 在这方面，你并不孤单。
Frankly, Doctor, I'm surprised. 老实说，医生，我对此有点意外。
Why? 为什么？
The world is full of anomalies. 这个世界充满了反常规的现象。
Well, speaking as one anomaly to another, 那我就从一个反常规的角度来
how do you cope with the law? 谈谈你是怎么对付付律法的?
I adopt a less than honest respect for it. 我对它有一种“不太诚实”的尊重。
So evasion is not confined solely to second lieutenants? 所以逃避责任不只是少尉的事吗?
No, it affects all ranks. 不，它影响社会各阶层。
I trust after this disclosure, you will be discreet. 我相信在这次厌战情绪披露之后，你会谨慎行事的。
Discretion is my middle name. “谨慎”将嵌入我的名字。
Well, it's better than Ethel anyway. 反正也比自诩尊贵的“艾瑟尔”强。
One assumes these theatricals have some deeper purpose. 别人会认为如此做戏，有一些不可告人的目的。
Well, sir, I think they help to give 长官，我觉得它们能
some sort of ease away from the front line. 让我们轻易地忘却前线。
I doubt that. 我对此怀疑。
Should the enemy perceive 如果敌人察觉到
that the British Army is always preparing for a tango, 英军总是在忙于跳探戈舞，
the war is lost. 战争就输了。
Besides, the spectacle of men 此外,男人和男人跳舞的场面
dancing with men is never palatable. 永远不会令人愉快。
I had always thought such creatures 我一直认为，如此野蛮甚至还带着
went into the library 他们的左轮手枪的人，
with their service revolvers and did the decent thing. 只要走进了图书馆，那他们就会表现得有教养。
And how is your treatment progressing, Lieutenant? 你的治疗进展如何,中尉?
Oh, it has its unique moments, sir. 哦,每种病自有其独特的疗程,长官。
Well, let us hope these unique moments 那我们就让这独特的疗程，
coalesce enough to get you back to active service, 尽快治愈好你们，让你们重返现役，
fighting fit, as it were. 像以往那样冲锋陷阵。
Doesn't that rather depend, sir, 长官，你也不管我们为什么要
on what's fit to fight for? 冲锋陷阵吗？
But perhaps I'm just being syndromatic. 也许我只是表现出了“症状”。
Or is that a lapsus linguae? 或者是口误？
I beg your pardon? 你说什么?
Lapsus linguae, sir. 口误，长官。
Slip of the tongue. 舌头打卷了。
I know what it means,Lieutenant. 我知道这意味着什么，中尉。
The rest of us may be unable 我们这些人也许读不懂
to read Beowulf in the original, 北欧经典史诗《贝奥武夫》，
but we're not all complete Philistines. 但我们也不是只会打铁造兵器的“菲利士”人。
Of course not, sir. 当然不是，长官。
Carry on. 继续吧。
- Ready? - Yes. -准备好了吗？-好了。
Halitosis! 出语不凡！
Your first poem in Hydra. 你在《九头蛇》的第一篇诗作。
Long live the editor! 主编万岁！
I am the editor. 主编是我。
Hooray for nepotism! 为亲密关系欢呼！
And what do you think of my verse, Siegfried? 你觉得我的诗怎么样，齐格弗里德?
It seemed a little too dependent 它似乎太依赖
on 19th century models. 19世纪的模式了。
You make it sound like 你的诗像是在学
The Courtship of Miles Standish. 华兹沃思的《迈尔斯·司坦迪希求婚记》。
Oh, God, no. Nothing's ever as bad as that. 哦,上帝,不。没有比这更糟的事了。
But you do find my work derivative? 你是不是认为我的作品在模仿别人？
While I was at Clare, 当我在剑桥卡莱尔学院时，
I wasted far too much time reading Swinburne. 我花了很多时间阅读斯温伯恩的作品。
It was very bad for my adjectives. 当时我的修辞很差。
You have to speak directly,not with another's voice. 你必须自己表达出来，而不是用别人的语言。
Look, at first,everyone's work is derivative. 起初，每个人的作品都是靠模仿的。
We all have to start somewhere. 我们都要有个起点。
At Cambridge,apart from Swinburne, 在剑桥，除了斯温伯恩之外，
I did nothing except read William Morris in a punt 我整天就躺在平底船上读威廉.莫里斯的作品，
and staggered through Maud. 间歇还读丁尼生的《莫德》。
Perhaps, er, my latest effort 也许，我的最新成果，
will please you. 能让你读了高兴。
It's called Disabled. 它叫做《伤残的士兵》
欧文在这首诗里，写出了一位十九岁的士兵，在战争中 失去双腿士兵的凄惨景象，也表达了作者对这位士兵的内疚。
It's magnificent. 这是宏伟的。
It pierces the heart. 它穿透了人的心灵。
What a gift you have. 你太有天赋了。
I have been passed 我已经通过了
by the Medical Board as fit for active service. 医务委员会的审查，认为我适合服现役。
When do you rejoin your regiment? 你何时归队？
December. 十二月。
Just before Christmas. 就在圣诞节前。
Oh. 哦。
这首歌《在教堂等候》是创作于19世纪末期的一首流行歌曲。
There was I waiting at the church 只有我独自在教堂等候
Waiting at the church Waiting at the church 在教堂等候，在教堂等候
When I found he left me in the lurch 当他把我留在困境当中
Lord, how it did upset me 上帝，这多么地让我难过
All at once he sent me round a note 他突然给我发来一张便笺
Here's the very note 在这张便笺上
This is what he wrote 他这样写道
"Can't get away to marry you today “今天不能脱身和你成婚，
"My wife won't let me" 我老婆不愿意离开我。”
There was I 只剩下我
Waiting at the church 在教堂等候
Waiting at the church Waiting at the church 在教堂等候 在教堂等候
When I found he left me in the lurch 当我发现我陷入困境
Lord, how it did upset me 上帝，这多么地让我难过
All at once he sent me round a note 他突然发给我一张便笺
Here's the very note 在这张便笺上
This is what he wrote 他这样写道
"Can't get away to marry you today “今天不能脱身和你成婚
"My wife won't let me" 我老婆不愿意离开我。”
What is it, Siegfried? 你这是怎么了？齐格弗里德？
Nothing. 没什么。
Wilfred's about to return to duty. 威尔弗雷德就要回前线了。
I know. 我知道。
What will you do? 你怎么办？
Nothing. 没什么。
I will not do anything to make the parting even more painful. 我不会做任何让离别更加痛苦的事。
I'd give everything I possess 只要他能再多待一个小时，
to have him stay just one more hour. 我愿意付出我的一切。
One more minute. 哪怕就多呆一分钟。
Quick to tears, slow to love. 用于撕裂很快，用于相爱却很慢。
You know, when I first met him, 我第一次见到他的时候，
he had a slight stammer. 他有点口吃。
And spoke, I thought,with a grammar school accent. 我想，他说话带着文法学校的腔调。
How could I be such a snob? 我怎么能如此自负？
He really is a lovely man. 他真是个可爱的人。
And I think the greater poet. 我认为更是一位伟大的诗人。
What about your poetry? 你写的那些诗呢?
It's egotism, really. 真的是有点自负。
That seems a little harsh. 这听起来有点残酷。
Truth often is. 真理往往如此。
I have no idea why I come here. 我不知道我为什么来这里。
It's really done no good at all, this. 这样对我一点用都没有。
Think of it as a cleansing of the soul. 就当是灵魂的净化吧。
Why do you have to put it so beautifully? 你为什么要说得这么漂亮？
Will you stay just for a few more moments? 你能再待一会儿吗？
Yes. 好吧。
Whenever you're ready, sir. 你俩什么时候完事儿，长官。
Wilfred was killed 威尔弗雷德战死了。
just a week before the war ended. 就在战争结束前一个星期。
1918年11月4日，欧文在掩护战友渡过桑布勒运河时，中弹身亡。
以下摘自威尔弗雷德.欧文写的《青春挽歌》
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? 对于那些像牲口一样死去的人们，这算是什么丧钟啊？
Only the monstrous anger of the guns. 只有那愤怒的巨大枪炮声。
Only the stuttering rifles'rapid rattle 还有那咔塔咔塔的来福枪声
can patter out their hasty orisons. 能滔滔不绝地说出他们的匆忙祈祷声。
No mockeries for them from prayers or bells, 没有祈祷声和钟声对他们嘲弄，
nor any voice of mourning, 也没有悲伤的哭泣声，
save the choir's. 只听见那合唱声。
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells 那是呼啸而过的发狂的炮弹声，
and bugles calling for them from sad shires. 和召唤悲伤战马的军号声。
What candles may be held to speed them all? 什么样的烛光能寄托对他们的哀思？
Not in the hands of boys,but in their eyes 不是被男孩们拿在手中的蜡烛，而是在他们眼中
shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. 闪烁出神圣的告别的微光。
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall, 他们的棺罩，是姑娘们愁眉紧蹙的惨白面容，
their flowers, the tenderness of silent minds, 是她们的花朵，是她们的静默心灵的柔情，
and each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. 以及在缓慢暮色中每一扇拉下的百叶窗。
The woman posing, who appears to be wearing a spinnaker 那个摆着臭姿势，穿着像三角帆的女人，
is Lady Ottoline Morrell. 就是奥黛丽·莫雷尔夫人。
More hair than self-restraint,but definitely nobody's fool. 她的头发要比她的自制力多。但没人能愚弄她。
She looks as though 她看起来，好像自从
she hasn't heard a joke since the Boer War. 布尔战争时，就没有听到过笑话。
For Ottoline, the Boer War was the joke. 对于奥黛丽来说，布尔战争就是笑话。
Ottoline. 奥黛丽。
May we pause for a moment, Dorothy, 我们能停下一会儿吗？多萝茜，
- before rigor mortis sets in? - Of course, Ottoline. -我都快变成僵尸了。-当然可以，奥黛丽。
Who is this extremely beautiful young man, Robbie? 这个非常漂亮的年轻人是谁，罗比？
Sassoon, Siegfried. 沙逊家的齐格弗里德。
It sounds Wagnerian. 这像是瓦格纳歌剧里的人物。
It's just Home Counties,I'm afraid. 我只不过是来自伦敦郊区。
So you are not a keeper of the flame at Bayreuth? 所以你不是拜罗伊特圣火的守护者？
No, no, I'm afraid not. 不，我恐怕还不是。
What are your musical tastes then? 那你的音乐品味如何？
Er, Ravel, Albeniz, Chausson.Scriabin, if I must. 呃，拉威尔，阿尔贝尼兹，肖松。如果必须的话，那还有斯克里亚宾。
Cesar Franck,when I'm in the mood. 当我心情好的时候，也听塞瑟尔.弗兰克的。
And Bartok? 巴尔托克呢？
Oh, no. Never Bartok, no. 哦，不。从来不听。
His music always sounds to me 他的音乐在我听来
like a lunatic playing the xylophone. 总是像个疯子在演奏木琴。
Vice versa. 反之亦然。
I once heard Paderewski play Bartok at Tunbridge Wells, 我曾经在滕布里奇韦尔斯听过帕岱莱夫斯基演奏巴托克，
but I found it rather disappointing. 但我觉得很失望。
Well, what did you expect, Robbie? 你以为呢，罗比？
It was Tunbridge Wells. 那可是皇家滕布里奇韦尔斯乐团。
Come into the main house and have tea. 我们去大客厅喝茶吧。
May I join you, Ottoline? 我能和你一起吗？奥黛丽。
Of course. Dorothy, 当然了，多萝茜，
you are not a servant,but an honourable. 你又不是仆人，是贵客。
Now come along, Mr Bassoon, 一起走吧，巴松管先生，
and tell me what you really have against Mr Bartok. 告诉我，你到底对巴托克先生有什么不满。
Not a great deal.I just don't like his music. 没什么。我只是不喜欢他的音乐。
Oh, a word into your shell-like, 哦，提前跟你打个招呼，
she'll ask you to stay the night. 她会让你留下来过夜的。
She always asks attractive young men to stay the night. 她总是邀请有魅力的年轻男子留宿。
So lock your bedroom door 所以要锁好卧室的门，
or wear something very, very severe. 或者穿一些非常非常严肃的衣服。
I thought that I might be more interesting than cocoa. 我想我可能比可可豆更有趣。
I'm afraid I prefer cocoa. 我恐怕更喜欢可可豆饮料。
Sleep badly. 你就会睡不着了。
Dickie. Curse the Wood! It's time to go. 迪克。该死的树林！该进攻了。
O Christ, what's the good? 噢，上帝，这有什么用？
We'll never take it,and it's always raining. 我们攻克不下来，雨一直在下。
They snipe like hell! 鬼东西们在打冷枪！
O Dickie, don't go out! 噢，迪克，别出去！
I fell asleep. 我睡着了。
Next morning, he was dead. 第二天早上，他死了。
And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. 那些受轻伤的微笑着躺在床上。
Ivor Novello... 这是艾佛.诺维洛创作的成名曲...
of Keep The Home-Fires Burning fame. 《做好家务等候孩子们凯旋》。
Hmm, yes. 嗯，是的。
That loathsome little tune. 那恶心的小调。
Ah, he always writes at the top of his voice, 啊，他总是扯着嗓子，歌颂主旋律，
but we must try to be charitable. 但我们必须尽量容忍他。
Ah, Sybil, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. 茜玻，你真该为自己感到羞耻。
Ragtime indeed. 这其实就是，北美黑人的音乐。
Yes, I know. 是的，我知道。
But Mr Novello plays it so well, it's almost music. 但诺韦洛先生演奏得如此出色，简直就像音乐一样。
Besides, at the moment,he's appearing in the West End 此外，目前他正在伦敦西区出演一部
in a very successful play called The Rat. 非常成功的戏剧《老鼠》。
I know. 我知道。
Someone asked me if it was autobiographical, 有人问我，这是不是他本人的自传，
but I said I wasn't sure. 但我说：我不确定。
One day, Robbie,you will go too far. 总有一天，罗比，你会走偏的。
Oh, one day, Sybil,we will all go too far. 总有一天，茜玻，我们都会走偏的。
Thank you for coming,Mr Sassoon. 谢谢您的光临，沙逊先生。
We're all very eager to hear your recitation. 我们都很想听你的朗诵。
Thank you, Lady Colefax. 谢谢，科尔法克斯夫人。
Ladies and gentlemen,pray silence for 女士们先生们，请保持安静，有请我们
one of our greatest poets,Mr Siegfried Sassoon. 最伟大的诗人之一，齐格弗里德·沙逊先生。
When I'm among a blaze of lights, 当我置身于灯火璀璨处，
with tawdry music and cigars 听着俗丽的音乐，抽着雪茄，
and women dawdling through delights 女人们在娱乐场所消磨时光，
and officers in cocktail bars, 军官们在鸡尾酒吧里消磨时光，
sometimes I think of garden nights 有时我会想起，在那花园之夜
and elm trees nodding at the stars. 我透过榆树的枝叶，眺望星辰。
I dream of a small fire-lit room. 我梦想有一间点亮的小屋。
Yellow candles burning straight, 黄色的蜡烛笔直地燃烧着，
and glowing pictures in the gloom, 在黑暗中闪烁着微光，
and kindly books that hold me late. 那些亲切的书籍伴我难眠长夜。
Of things like these I choose to think 当我注定不能孤独的时候，
when I can never be alone. 我选择思考这些事情。
And then someone says,"Another drink," 这时，有人喊道:“再来一杯，”
and turns my living heart to stone. 一下子，我跳动的心变成了石头。
Hmm. 嗯。
Thank you, Mr Sassoon. 谢谢你，沙逊。
That was very touching. 非常感人。
We both thank you, Sybil, 我们俩还得谢谢你，茜珀，
and now go and rejoin Lady Cunard 在丘纳德夫人发表演说前，
before she starts launching something. 赶紧去和她聊几句吧。
艾弗·诺韦洛（Ivor Novello，1893年1月15日—1951年3月6日）， 出生于英国威尔士，作家、作曲家、剧作家和演员。 他也是一位同性恋。
And to think he once played the triangle so beautifully. 想想他曾经敲打得那么好听的三角铁。
What a waste. 简直是浪费。
I seem to be the victim of a cruel jest 我似乎成了一个无情笑话的受害者
It dogs my footsteps with the girl I love the best 这笑话跟随着我最爱的女孩的脚步而来
She's just the sweetest thing that I have ever known 她是我认识的最可爱的尤物
And yet we never get the chance to be alone 但我们从来没有机会独处
My car will meet her and her mother comes, too 我开车去和她约会，她妈妈会跟来
It's a two-seater Still her mother comes, too 尽管我的车是双座的，但她妈妈还是要来
At Ciro's when I am free at dinner, supper or tea 在西罗餐厅我预订了餐位，在吃晚餐和喝茶时，
She loves to shimmy with me 她喜欢和我一起跳摇摆舞
And her mother does, too 她妈妈也要凑上来
We buy her trousseau And her mother comes, too 我们给她买嫁妆，她妈妈也跟来
Asked not to do so Still her mother comes, too 告诉她不要这样，她还是进来了
She simply can't take a snub I go and sulk at the club 她就是不能容忍我在俱乐部，让她受冷落
Then have a bath and a rub And her brother comes, too 然后我们洗个澡，享受一下按摩，她的哥哥也来了
To golf we started And her mother came, too 当我们刚开始打高尔夫时，她妈妈也来了
Three bags I carted 我球车上推着三个袋子
When her mother came, too 当她妈妈也来的时候
She fainted just off the tee 发出的球将她击晕
My darling whispered to me 我的心上人对我耳语
"Jack dear, at last we are free" “杰克，亲爱的，我们终于自由了”
But her mother came, too 但这时，她妈妈又出现了
He is considered very beautiful. 人们认为他很漂亮。
Look at those shoulders. 看那些肩膀。
Yeah, and look at his. 是的，看看他的。
Are we leaving, Ivor? 我们要走吗？艾弗？
No, precious. 不，宝贝。
I'm anxious to meet our distinguished guest, 我很想见我们的贵宾，
Mr Sassoon. 沙逊先生。
I'm eager to have your advice on my next musical. 我很想听听你对我下一部音乐剧的建议。
I'm thinking of writing in terza rima. 我想用terza rima诗歌体写作。 （意大利三行节韵律）
That's near Naples, isn't it? 那是接近那不勒斯地地方吗？
Oh, dear Robbie, 哦，亲爱的罗比，
whose silences are always 沉默总是比
so much more eloquent than speech. 信口胡言更有说服力。
Robbie will give you a paw to guide you home, Glen. 罗比会叼着你回家的，格伦。
C'est la vie. 这就是人生。
C'est la guerre. 这就是争斗。
Oops. 打扰了。
Just leave the keys on the dresser, Glen. 把钥匙放在梳妆台上就行了，格伦。
You know how absent-minded I am with them. 你知道，我和它们在一起是多么心不在焉。
I think he's still in love with you. 我觉得他还爱着你。
The main drawback with love 两情相悦之后，
is that it descends,all too quickly, 很快就产生了一个毛病，
into possessiveness. 就是占有欲。
That really is a bore. 这真无趣。
What shall I do with these? 我应该把这个怎么办呢？
Oh, they're for you. 哦，它们现在是你的了。
Hamo died so far away. 哈默战死在如此遥远的地方。
While I have his sword,I still have him. 我只要看见那把剑，就想起了他。
We never grieved properly for him, Mother. 我们从没有以正确的方式哀悼他，妈妈。
Before grief, there's anger. 愤怒总在哀悼之前。
哈默.沙逊少尉，英国陆军皇家工程兵团，1915年10月28日，协约国与奥斯曼 土耳其的达达尼尔海峡战役中的苏弗湾战场上受伤，失去一条腿后，不治身亡。
I watch you on your constant way, 我注视着你一如既往的道路，
in selfless duty long grown grey. 在无私的责任中慢慢变得模糊。
And to myself, 至于我自己，
I say that I have lived my life to learn 我只能说，用我的生命来理解
how lives like your unasking earn. 你那不求回报的生命。
Aureoles that guide and burn 你就是指引我的内心
in heart's remembrance 并燃烧着的一顶荣冠
when the proud who snared the suffrage of the crowd 此时，那些民众选出的不可一世的家伙们，
are dumb and dusty browed. 已是哑口无言和灰心丧气。
For you live onward in my thought 你活在我的思想中，
because you have not sought rewards that can be bought. 因为你从不苛求得到，本可花钱就能买到的回报。
And so when I remember you, 这样，一旦我记起了你，
I think of all things rich and true 我眼前浮现出所有的情景，
that I have reaped and wrought. 是那么地丰富和真实。
Thank God you survived. 感谢上帝，你还活着。
Good night, darling. 晚安，亲爱的。
Good night, Mother. 晚安，母亲。
Give me your hand, my brother. 伸出你的手，我的兄弟。
Search my face. 盯着我的脸。
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame. 看着我这双感到歉疚的双眼。
For we have made an end of all things base. 我们让一切都回到最开始的起点。
We are returning by the road we came. 我们沿着我们来时的路返回。
Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead, 你和那些战士的英灵在一起，
and I am in the field where men must fight. 我站在作为男人必须战斗的战场上，
But in the gloom,I see your laurelled head 但是在黑暗中，我看见了带着桂冠的头颅
and through your victory I shall win the light. 通过你们的胜利，我将赢得光明。
Sleep in heavenly peace 入睡在天堂般的宁静中
3,500 copies of Counter-Attack sold. 《反击》已经卖出3500本了。
Your fame is spreading, Siegfried. 你现在是名声在外了，齐格弗里德。
Like a virus? 就像是病毒？
Oh, don't be contrary. 哦，不要跟我顶嘴。
So I wake up famous. 所以我一觉醒来就出名了。
Like Byron. 就像拜伦一样。
And I believe you've been overwhelmed 我相信你已经被
by visits from all the great and the good. 所有的大人物和热心读者的来访给烦透了。
Mmm. 嗯。
Massine, Lydia Lopokova, Keynes, 马辛，莉迪亚·洛波科娃，凯恩斯，
Winston Churchill and mother. 温斯顿·丘吉尔和他母亲。
Even "boy actor" Noel Coward. 即使是“男童星”诺埃尔·科沃德。
Have I left anyone out? 我有漏掉谁吗？
The Pope. 教宗。
That's right, Siegfried,think small. 没错，齐格弗里德，你有点小瞧自己了。
How did you find Mr Churchill? 你是怎么找上丘吉尔先生的？
Imperial. 靠帝国。
And Mr Coward? 那科沃德先生呢？
Gushing. 靠吹捧。
What would you have done if Royalty had paid a call? 如果王室成员来拜访你，你会怎么做？
Oh, well, then I'd have tried to curtsey 那我就会试着坐着
from a sitting position. 行屈膝礼了。
Speaking of Royalty,I've come with a command 说到皇室，我奉了“诗歌女王陛下”
from Her Majesty Edith Sitwell. 伊迪丝.希特威尔之命。
You are to attend a performance 你被受邀参加她的
at Carlyle Square 在卡莱尔广场举办的
of her Entertainment-Fa莽ade. 《娱乐面对面》的表演。
Poetry, by Edith. Music, Willie Walton. 伊迪丝写的诗。威利.沃顿配的音乐。
I've gone to a great deal of trouble 我费了很大的劲才拿到这个邀请，
to get this so don't let me down. 所以别让我失望。
If you don't attend, La Sit well 如果你不参加，那个“希特威尔女皇”
has threatened to come to your flat 威胁说要去你在
at Half Moon Street 半月街的公寓，
and hum the whole of Tannhauser to you. 对你哼唱整部的歌剧《唐豪瑟》。
You have been warned. 你已经被警告了。
Oh, I, er... 噢，我，呃...
Ottoline Morell popped in 奥黛丽·莫雷尔刚来过，
and wished to be remembered to you. 希望我能向你问好。
How was she? 她最近怎么样？
Let's just say I've always found lime green 这么说吧，我一直觉得柠檬绿
a very unforgiving colour. 是一种非常无情的颜色。
Poor Ottoline. 可怜的奥黛丽。
She'll go to her grave overdressed. 她会穿着盛装，躺进棺材里的。
I'm looking forward to meeting your mother. 我很期待见到你母亲。
What? 什么？
I said I was looking forward to meeting your mother. 我说我很期待见到你母亲。
All mothers, good or bad 所有的母亲，无论好坏，
are always fascinating. 都是令人着迷的。
I tried to set fire to mine once, 我曾经想放火烧我的妈妈，
but she was all asbestos. 但她全身裹着防火石棉。
Oh, do come on! 哦，算了吧！
We shall never get down to Kent at this rate. 照这样下去，我们永远到不了肯特郡了。
Oh, and I found this for you on the floor. 我在一层大厅上找到了这个给你。
Oh, it'll be from Robbie Ross. 哦，这是罗比.罗斯寄来的。
Why are you so antipathetic towards him? 你为什么对他如此反感？
Because I resent the way that he speaks to me. 因为我讨厌，他跟我说话的方式。
Like he's always putting me in my place. 就好象他要替代我的位置。
You know, the only problem with knowing one's place 想要知道自己的位置唯一的问题就是，
is that other people never seem to know theirs. 其他人似乎永远不知道，他们自己的位置。
He's acerbic, I grant you,but he's never malign, 我承认他很刻薄，但他从不恶意中伤，
and as a friend, very steadfast. 而且作为朋友，他很可靠。
Robbie Ross took some considerable risk 罗比·罗斯当年公开支持奥斯卡·王尔德时，
when he publicly supported Oscar Wilde. 冒了相当大的风险。
He's been hounded ever since by Lord Alfred Douglas. 从那以后，阿尔弗雷德·道格拉斯勋爵一直在找他麻烦。
Oh, please,Bosie was always vindictive. 拜托，“博西”总是存心报复他。
Robbie should have known that from the beginning. 罗比一开始就该知道。
He's really only got himself to blame. 他只能怪自己。
That's really unfair. 这真是不公平。
His loyalty to Wilde was exemplary. 他对王尔德的忠诚堪称典范。
All right, all right.Robbie's a saint. 好吧，好吧。罗比是一个圣人。
Now, how about we drop the subject? 现在，我们不谈这个话题了吧？
在英国大诗人奥斯卡.王尔德与同性情人“波西”惹出丑闻和被审判及被监禁期间， 罗比.罗斯始终支持着王尔德，并掌管他死后的财产，这引来后袭爵成为 阿尔弗雷德.道格拉斯勋爵的“波西”所憎恨。
Oh, that's a very fine sword. 哦，那是把很好的剑。
It was my brother's. 那是我弟弟的。
Hmm. 嗯。
He was killed at Gallipoli. 他战死在加里波第战役上。
Oh, God. 哦，上帝。
What is it? 怎么了？
It's the first performance of Fa莽ade, 今天是《娱乐面对面》节目首演，
and I was supposed to go to it. 我应该到场的。
Well, where's it being performed? 那是在哪里进行的呢？
Some private performance in Carlyle Square. 在卡莱尔广场的专场演出。
Chelsea. 在切尔西。
Well, even if we drove like the wind, 就算我们开得像风一样快，
we should never make it. 也到不了。
Robbie will be furious. 罗比会大发雷霆的。
And so will Edith Sit well. 伊迪丝.希特威尔也会的。
It's being given to a very select audience. 它的听众是经过精心挑选的。
I'm sure she'll understand once you explain 你要你解释一下，
why you weren't able to be there. 我相信她会理解的。
Oh, no,I don't think so, Mother. 哦，不，我想不会，妈妈。
Edith can be a very captious woman. 伊迪丝是一个非常挑剔的女人。
She isn't a woman. 她根本就不算是个女人。
She's an animated meringue. 她就是个走动的白面饼。
And those teeth. 还有她那付牙齿。
Don't be horrible, Ivor. 别说得那么可怕，艾弗。
She suffers, I believe,from a complaint 我相信，她是得了一种
known as receding gums. 牙龈萎缩症。
She's so autocratic, 她太专制了，
I'm surprised she gave them permission to. 我很惊讶她会允许他们这么做。
Oh, well, come along then. 哦，好吧，那就走吧。
Might as well see if we can catch some of it. 也许我们还能赶上一段时间。
I'm sorry to have to rush off like this, Mother. 我很抱歉就这样匆匆离去，妈妈。
It doesn't matter. 我不介意。
Is he just another one of your pretty boys? 他只是你的另一个帅哥吗？
No, it's deeper than that,much deeper. 不，比这更深，深得多。
You don't like him,do you, Mother? 你不喜欢他，对吧？母亲。
He's amusing, but unpleasant. 他很有趣，但不讨人喜欢。
It's his eyes.I think they're cruel. 还有他的眼睛。我认为它们很残忍。
Good night, Mother. 晚安，母亲。
Good night, Siegfried. 晚安，齐格弗里德。
You never came. 你干脆就没来。
Please forgive me, Edith. 原谅我，伊迪丝。
I shall try. 我应该试着整你一番。
I'm entirely to blame. 全怪我。
We visited my mother in Kent and I simply 我们去肯特郡看望母亲，
lost all sense of time. 耽误了时间。
- We? - Mmm. -我们？-嗯。
Myself and Ivor Novello. 我和艾弗.诺维罗。
A man at the cheaper end of poetry. 一个在诗歌中廉价的男人。
I do hope you can forgive me, Edith, 我真的希望你能原谅我，伊迪丝，
for I am mortified by my thoughtlessness. 因为我为自己的轻率感到羞愧。
How was the work received? 作品反响怎么样？
They tittered. 他们只是在冷笑。
Tittered? 冷笑？
Tittered. 冷笑笑。
I overheard someone say,in the most odious manner, 我无意中听到有人用一种极其可憎的口吻说:
"It's this sort of thing “正是这种事情
"that makes one glad to be semi-conscious." 让人对半清醒状态感到高兴。”
- I was deeply wounded.- Hmm. -我当时为你深受伤害。-嗯。
My poetry has wonderful assonances and dissonances. 我的诗有美妙的谐音和不谐音。
I use words for their colour, 我用词语来表达它们的颜色，
not merely for what they are supposed to mean. 而不仅仅是它们应该表达的意思。
Great art may sometimes be so ahead of its time, Edith, 伊迪丝，伟大的艺术有时可能是如此超前于它所处的时代，
that its initial reception 以至于它最初的受欢迎程度
can be considered a succ猫s d'estime. 可以被认为是一个“成功的时代”。
Think of Stravinsky. 感谢斯特拉文斯基。
But I do not wish to think of Stravinsky. 我不希望谈到斯特拉文斯基。
We are performing Fa莽ade at the Aeolian Hall next week. 我们下周在艾奥里亚厅举办《娱乐面对面》的表演。
I shall expect you there. 我期望你能到场。
Of course, Edith. 一定，伊迪丝。
I shall come with the speed of a thousand gazelles. 我将骑着一千头瞪羚的速度赶来。
No need for hyperbole, Siegfried. 不必夸张，齐格弗里德。
A taxi will do. 一辆出租车足矣。
In the early springtime after their tea, 早春时的一天，喝过茶之后，
through the young fields of the springing Bohea, 杰迈玛、约卡斯塔、黛娜和黛布
Jemima, Jocasta, Dinah and Deb 和他们的父亲约书亚·杰布爵士
walked with their father Sir Joshua Jebb. 一起走过春天的武夷茶田。
An admiral red whose only notion, 忽见一只红色海军上将蝶，
a butterfly poised on a pigtailed ocean 那蝴蝶停在梳着猪尾辫子的
is of the peruked sea whose swell 肿胀的假发套上
breaks on the flowerless rocks of Hell. 正拍打那地狱里无花的岩石。
For Hell is just as properly proper, 因为地狱跟格林威治、巴思、雅法一样，
as Greenwich, or as Bath,or Joppa! 都是一样的正经地方!
Oh, Christ! 噢，上帝！
I have to go backstage. 我还得去趟后台。
Rather you than me. 好在是你去。
Ah. 啊。
The prodigal. 浪子回头了。
Well, Edith,you've done it again. 伊迪丝，你的表演又一次成功了。
All the fine young cannibals. 一帮年轻的野蛮人。
You make it sound like a raiding party. 你听起来是在搞突击。
Isn't it? 不是吗？
Stephen Tennant. 斯蒂芬·坦南特。
斯蒂芬·詹姆斯·纳皮尔·坦南特(1906年4月21日- 1987年2月28日)。 是一位以颓败的生活方式而闻名的英国社会名流，臭名昭著的纨绔子弟。 他被称为“聪明的年轻人”中的“最聪明的人”。
I am... 我是...
Yes, we already know who you are, Stephen. 是的，我们已经知道你是谁了，斯蒂芬。
But who is this absolute dream 但是，这位穿着牡蛎灰色丝绸的
in oyster grey silk? 梦中情人是谁呢?
Hester Gatty. 赫斯特.盖蒂。
Lady Gatty's daughter? 盖蒂夫人的女儿？
Yes. 是的。
She once invited you to Carlton House Terrace. 她曾经邀请你去卡尔顿别墅的露台。
But you hardly noticed me. 但你几乎没有注意到我。
Then I apologize for my lack of taste. 那我为我的品味低下道歉。
We're great admirers of your poetry, Siegfried. 我们非常欣赏你的诗歌，齐格弗里德。
Before you take of fence, Ivor,we like your work, too. 在你和艾弗有一腿之前，我们也喜欢你的作品。
Careful, Stephen, 注意点儿,斯蒂芬，
that was almost enthusiasm. 那算是一种惺惺相惜。
Perhaps they will play one of your charming songs, 诺维洛先生，也许他们会放一首您的
Mr Novello, and then we can dance to it. 迷人歌曲，然后我们就可以跟着它跳舞了。
I can't tempt Stephen, though. 尽管我不能诱惑斯蒂芬。
Why not? 为什么不？
Because I only do the valeta and only when pressed. 我只会跳华尔兹，而且是被逼迫的时候。
I do love dancing. 我真的喜欢跳舞。
So do I. 我也是。
Come on, then. 那就来吧。
Whoo! 哇呜！
I didn't know great poets did the Charleston. 我不知道伟大的诗人会跳查尔斯顿舞。
I didn't know the Charleston did that to gay young things. 我不知道查尔斯顿会这样对待年轻的欢乐。
I think everyone should be gay, don't you? 我觉得每个人都应该欢乐，你呢？
Only in the wider sense. 只是在更广泛的意义上。
And this young man is... 这个年轻人是…
Alexander Fenton. 亚历山大.芬顿。
Doesn't it sound as though 它听起来是不是应该
it should have a title in front of it? 有一个头衔在名字前面?
Sir Alexander Fenton. 亚历山大.芬顿爵士。
For his services to the theatre. 感谢他对剧院的贡献。
Well, that hasn't happened yet. 好吧，这还没有发生。
It will, Ivor. 会发生的，艾弗。
It will. 会的。
I hardly see you these days, Ivor. 这些天我都没怎么见到你，艾弗。
How are you? 你好吗？
Horizontally speaking. 我们平等地谈话。
Oh, busy, old thing. 噢，很忙，老样子。
Very, very busy. 非常，非常忙。
Still gathering lilacs? 还收集紫丁香吗？
You could say that. 你可以这么说。
Well, when you've exhausted botany, 那么，等你研究完植物学，
you might consider moving 你应该考虑转移到
into the field of blood sports. 血腥的战场上去运动。
I'm told that the men who indulge in them 我听说沉溺在这种运动中的男人
are very, very rugged. 都非常，非常硬朗英俊。
Isn't that so, Mr Sassoon? 不是这样吗？沙逊？
You know, I think that's what 你知道吗？这就是
I'm going to miss most about you, Glen, 我最怀念你的地方，格伦，
your quaint sense of humour. 你有强烈的幽默感。
And how have you been passing your time? 你是怎么打发你的时间的？
Seeing lots of musical theatre. 看了很多音乐剧。
Mmm, such as? 嗯，诸如？
Rose-Marie, very enjoyable. 《罗斯玛丽》非常有趣。
Yes, but so Rudolph Friml-ly. 是的，但鲁道夫·弗里姆利也一样。
But it is by Rudolph Friml. 但这是鲁道夫·弗里姆尔的作品。
It was a joke, Siegfried. 开个玩笑，齐格弗里德。
And how about tonight? 今晚上演什么？
Lady, Be Good! 《贤妻良母！》
Gershwin, an unsurpassed genius. 格什温写的，他非常有才华。
Oh, we really mustn't keep you then, Glen. 哦，那我们真的不能耽搁你了，格伦。
You have to admit it, 你必须得承认，
Gershwin is an exceptional talent. 格式温是个杰出的天才。
I don't have to admit anything. 我什么都不用承认。
What's wrong? 怎么了？
We're leaving. 我们要走了。
But I thought you wanted supper. 但我以为你想吃晚饭。
I'm no longer hungry! 我已经饱了！
Name, sir? 姓名，先生？
Mr Sassoon. 沙逊先生。
Sassoon, you say. 你说的是，沙逊。
- Yes.- Oh. -是的。-哦。
Hmm. 嗯。
Would you mind spelling it for me, please, sir? 先生，您介意拼读一下吗？
S-A-S-S-O-O-N.
Hmm. 嗯。
I'm afraid you're not on the list, sir. 恐怕您不在名单上，先生。
Well, I'm going up anyway. 好吧，我还是要上去。
Telephone me in a couple of days, won't you? 过两天给我打电话，好吗？
I practically had to force my way in 我几乎是强行穿过
past the stage doorman. 舞台门卫闯进来的。
Hmm. You were lucky. 嗯，你很幸运。
He's been told to shoot anyone not on my list. 他被要求，可以射杀我名单之外硬闯的人。
Why wasn't I on the list? 为什么我不在名单上？
Oh, for Christ's sake! 哦，看在上帝的份上！
Look, it's been a long run, Siegfried. 听着，咱俩已经够久了，齐格弗里德。
I am tired.I am exhausted. 我累了。我筋疲力尽了。
- You still want supper? - Yes! -你还想吃晚饭吗?—是的！
I'm surprised to see Fenton here. 我很惊讶能在这里见到芬顿。
Why? 为什么不？
I know lots of people. 我认识很多人。
- Fenton is just another...- Admirer. -芬顿只是另一个… —崇拜者。
...fan. ...歌迷。
You both seemed to me to be very friendly 在我看来，你们俩认识了这么短时间，
after so short an acquaintance. 就变得非常友好了。
Now, I get the distinct impression 现在，我明显地感觉到
that I am being grilled. 我正在被拷问。
And that a storm in an egg cup is brewing. 鸡蛋壳里正在酝酿一场风暴。
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be petty, but I am... 对不起，我不想这么小气，但我…
I am very jealous of you. 我很嫉妒你。
Yes, well,affairs are always messy. 是啊，事情总是一团糟。
Who can know the secrets of a human heart? 谁能知道人心的秘密？
Usually the people who don't have one. 通常是那些没有心的人。
Oh, my, my,hasn't it gone chilly in here? 天啊，天啊，这不是太冷酷了吗?
But I love you. 但是，我爱你。
Yes, 是的，
you've said. 你已经说了。
Ivor. 艾弗。
Let me pass. 让我进去。
I'm sorry, sir. I can't let you go up. 抱歉，先生，我不能让你上去。
Why? 为什么？
Mr Novello never sees anyone after a matinee. 诺维尔洛先生在日场演出后就再也见不到人了。
Well, would you please inform Mr Novello 好的，请告诉诺维洛先生
that I've booked a table for 8 PM? 我订了晚上8点的桌位，好吗?
And I'll be expecting him for dinner! 我在等他吃晚饭！
Yes, sir. 好的，先生。
Thank you. 谢谢你。
Is there someone else? 你是不是移情别恋了？
There's always someone else. 我总是移情别恋。
How do you justify your behaviour? 你如何为你的行为辩护？
By asking myself questions 你尽问一些都知道
to which I already know the answers. 我该如何回答的问题。
And when all is said and done, 这都是已经说过和做过的事情了，
my career comes before anyone or anything. 我的事业，比任何人任何事都重要。
And my work 而且我的工作
is as popular as I am. 和我一样受欢迎。
There is a school of thought that regards musical theatre 有一种老派思想认为音乐剧
as a second-rate means of expression. 是二流的表达方式。
Before you judge other people's work, Siegfried, 在你评判别人的作品之前，齐格弗里德，
I would make sure your own is above criticism. 我要确保你自己的作品是无可指责的。
- What does that mean?- Just this, -什么意思?—我只想说，
that since 1918,your poetry has gone 自从1918年以来，你的诗歌
from the sublime to the meticulous. 已经从崇高走向了小心翼翼。
And tell me, Mr Novello, 告诉我，诺维洛先生，
what did you do during the war? 你在战争期间做了什么?
I gave my talent to my country. 我把我的才华献给了我的国家。
I boosted morale by playing every theatre in the land! 我在全国所有剧院演出，鼓舞士气！
Oh, weren't you the lucky one! 哦，你真幸运！
We had the Somme and you had Rhyl! 我们在索姆河流血，你在里尔河唱歌！
Well, I see no point in prolonging 我觉得没必要继续
this unpleasant conversation. 这场不愉快的谈话。
No. 不。
Oh, no.After what's been said, 哦,不。说了这么多，
I don't expect you to foot the bill as well. 我也不指望你来买单了。
Oh, always the gentleman,eh, Siegfried? 噢，总是那么绅士，呃，齐格弗里德？
It's better than being a cad. 总比当个无赖好。
I suspect this is goodbye then. 我想我们该说再见了。
Au revoir might have been kinder. 用法语说“再见”，可能会更亲切一些。
Please don't undermine yourself, Siegfried. 请不要贬低自己，齐格弗里德。
That's what friends are for. 这是为了朋友们。
If you wish to see me again,I'll be at my flat. 如果你想再见到我，我会在我的公寓里。
Well, at least that's more original 至少这比回家找妈妈
than going home to mother. 更有创意。
Snap. 受挫了。
May I sit down? 我能坐下吗？
Yes, of course. 是的，当然了。
Do you still dine here? 你还在这里用餐吗
- Of course.- Why? -当然。-为什么？
Let's just say I like the trips down memory lane. 这么说吧，我喜欢回忆往事。
What next? 下一步是什么？
Well, I suppose, in a bad melodrama, I'd kill myself. 我想，在糟糕的情节剧里，我会自杀。
And in a really bad melodrama,you kill Ivor. 在一场非常糟糕的情节剧里，你杀了艾弗。
Seriously, are you all right? 说真的，你没事吧？
The moment passes,but the hurt remains. 这一刻过去了，但伤痛仍在。
And I was supposed to go and visit my mother 我本来要去看我妈妈，
and now I've missed the train. 但现在我错过了火车。
Drive down, why don't you? 你为什么不开车过去呢？
I have no car. I can't drive. 我没有车。我不能开车。
I was going to motor down to the coast. 我曾经打算开车去海边。
Why don't I give you a lift? 我送你一程吧？
That would be very kind of you. 你真是太好了。
Where does she live? 她老人家住哪里？
Kent. 肯特郡。
Then let's get going. 那我们走吧。
I have absolutely no idea where we are. 我完全不知道我们在哪里。
Although I, erm, 虽然我，呃，
don't possess the wit to woo, 不具备求爱的能力，
may I see you again? 我能再见到你吗?
I live in Margate. 我住在马盖特。
Oh. 哦。
Pity Margate is so far away. 可惜马盖特太远了。
It's not at the moment. 现在走还来得及。
What about Ivor? 艾弗怎么办？
Oh. 哦。
Ivor's already been to Margate. 艾弗已经去过马盖特了。
以下诗句出自《反击》
At dawn, the ridge emerges massed and dun 黎明时分，山脊呈现出密集的暗褐色
in wild purple of the glow'ring sun, 在微弱的太阳光下发出酱紫色，
smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke 阵地上缓慢飘过阵阵硝烟
that shroud the menacing scarred slope. 像一层裹尸布盖上这弹痕累累的斜坡。
And, one by one, 一个接着一个，
tanks creep and topple forward to the wire. 坦克向前爬行并撞倒了电网。
The barrage roars and lifts. 掩护的炮火从头顶呼啸而过。
Then, clumsily bowed with bombs 然后，士兵们笨拙地拿着炸弹、
and guns and battle-gear, 枪支和武器装备，
men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire. 互相推挤，爬上山顶，迎接猛烈的炮火。
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear, 一张张灰色的、喃喃自语的面孔，带着恐惧的面罩，
they leave their trenches,going over the top, 他们离开战壕，爬山坡顶，
while time ticks blank and busy on their wrists, 而时间在他们手腕上单调地、忙碌地滴答作响，
and hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, 而希望，随着鬼鬼祟祟的眼睛和握紧的拳头，
flounders in the mud. 在泥泞中挣扎。
O Jesus, make it stop. 哦，天呐，让这一切停止吧。
We have a guest. 我们有客人了。
Oh, he's not a guest. 哦，它可不是一位客人。
He's an afterthought. 他是来做事后补救的。
This is my life partner,Bobby Andrews. 这是我的人生伴侣，鲍比·安德鲁斯。
Bobby, Siegfried.Siegfried, Bobby. 鲍比,齐格弗里德。齐格弗里德,鲍比。
Well, don't look so shocked. 好吧，别这么震惊。
Love has nothing to do with monogamy. 爱情与一夫一妻制无关。
Or are you the faithful type? 或者你是忠实的类型？
I suppose I must be. 我想我一定是。
If you want fidelity,Siegfried, buy a pet. 如果你想要忠诚，西格弗里德，买个宠物吧。
You kept very quiet about this. 你对此守口如瓶。
Well, that's because I didn't want anyone else 那是因为我不想让别人
to shake him down from the tree. 把他从树上摇下来。
You really are a bastard,aren't you? 你真是个混蛋，不是吗？
I do my best. 我尽我的能力。
Now you must excuse us. 现在你必须原谅我们。
We have a casserole waiting. 我们准备了砂锅菜。
Oh. 哦。
Where shall I put your key? 我把你的钥匙放哪儿？
Back on the floor. 放到楼下就行了。
I can't face tea before 11 AM. 上午11点以前我不能喝茶。
Drink it, you misery. 喝了吧，你这倒霉蛋。
I don't do this for everyone,you know. 我不是为了每个人都这么做的。
I'm the invalid, remember? 我是病人，记住了吗？
Like Chekhov. 像契诃夫。
Oh, what should I do about my hair? 哦，我的头发该怎么办？
Have you considered topiary? 你考虑过修剪吗？
I think I might dye it. 我想我要染一下。
Or I could leave it in its natural colour. 或者我可以保持它原来的颜色。
When I'm sun burnt,it looks like spun gold. 当我被太阳晒伤的时候，它看起来像金子。
I'll be with you in a moment. 我马上就来。
It's Glen Byam Shaw. 是格伦·拜姆·肖。
Isn't that good news? 这难道不是好消息吗？
Siggy will be down in a trice. 西吉很快就会下来。。。
He's suitably undressed. 他得穿好衣服。
We've just been talking about you. 我们正在谈论你呢。
So I hope your ears were burning, 所以我希望你们的耳朵都在发烧，
all three of them. 你们三个。
Is Stephen naturally unpleasant 斯蒂芬是天生不讨人喜欢
or does he take private tuition? 还是他接受私人辅导?
I heard that! 我听说过的！
You were supposed to. 你应该知道的。
Siggy! Siggy! 西吉！西吉！
I'm sorry. 我很对不起。
What can I say? 我能说什么呢？
There's nothing to say. 没有什么好说的。
It's one of the inconveniences of the shadow life we lead. 这是我们过着影子生活的不便之一。
Friends may come,friends may go. 朋友可以来，也可以走。
Enemies are always faithful. 敌人总是不变的。
How is Ivor? 艾弗怎么样？
I have no idea.I don't see him any more. 我不知道。我再也没见过他了。
Did you know about Bobby? 你知道鲍比的事吗？
Yes. 是的。
You might have warned me. 你应该警告我的。
I didn't want to seem vindictive. 我不想让人觉得我怀恨在心。
Sour grapes and all that. 酸葡萄心理在作祟。
I wanted to tell you personally 我想亲自告诉你
that I'm planning to marry. 我要结婚了。
She's an actress and a good sort, 她是个演员，
I think, and we're very fond of each other. 至少我认为是，我们彼此都很喜欢。
When did you decide? 你什么时候决定的？
Some months ago. 几个月前。
You should give a thought to it, too. 你也应该考虑一下。
No, if the intention wasn't pure, 不，如果不深思熟虑，
I don't think I could go through it. 我想我不可能去做的。
Purity is like virginity. 纯洁就像处男。
As soon as you touch it,it becomes corrupt. 只要你一抚摸它，它就会腐烂。
I hope you both will be very happy. 我希望你们俩都能幸福。
Thank you, Siegfried. 谢谢你,齐格弗里德。
I shall do my best. 我会尽我最大的努力。
What's the matter? TB? 有什么事吗?结核病?
You should have told me. 你应该告诉我的。
Why? 为什么？
There's nothing you can do about it. 你对此无能为力。
I could have taken you somewhere, 我本可以带你去别的地方，
to a warmer, drier climate. 去气候更暖和，更干燥的地方。
That rules out Frinton then. 那就排除了去弗林顿的可能性。
Is there somewhere we can go to help you? 有什么地方我们可以帮你吗?
Yes. 是的。
I've been there before. 我曾经和你一样。
In Germany. 在德国。
Haus Hirt in Bavaria. 巴伐利亚州的赫特豪斯。
All cow bells, lederhosen and very, very thick thighs. 所有人挂着牛铃，穿皮短裤，大腿非常非常粗。
So idyllic,you'll want to scream. 如此田园风光，你想想都会尖叫。
But the German men... Gorgeous! 但是德国男人们…太棒了！
I wonder what the collective noun for them is. 我想知道它们的集合名词是什么。
Oh, don't look so glum, Siggy. 哦，别闷闷不乐的，西吉。
I'm not about to join the Hitler Youth. 我不打算去加入希特勒青年团。
Yes. Who is it? 是我。你是谁？
Hello, Siegfried,it's Alexander. 你好,齐格弗里德,我是亚历山大。
Is Stephen there? 史蒂芬在你那里吗？
- Hello?- Don't call here again. -你好？-别再打过来了。
It was Fenton. 是芬顿。
I don't like this at all. 我一点也不喜欢这样。
We bumped into each other on Piccadilly the other day. 前几天我们在皮卡迪利大街上碰见了。
We had a harmless drink and I gave him your number. 我们喝了一杯无酒精的酒，我把你的电话号码给了他。
Don't do it again! 不许再这么做了！
If that were a request,I might consider it. 如果这是你的要求，我会考虑的。
If it's an order, I'll make a point of disobeying it. 如果这是命令，我会坚决不服从。
What did Glen want? 格伦来有什么事？
He's getting married. 他准备结婚了。
The ultimate capitulation. 彻底地向世俗投降了。
I'm sure they'll be very happy. 我相信他们会很高兴的。
She's probably as mediocre as he is. 她可能和他一样平庸。
You'll be doing it next. 接下来就轮到你了。
Thought I'd try my hand at some watercolours. 我想试试水彩画。
- Hmm.- Landscapes and things. -嗯。-风景画之类的。
It's the Magritte in me. 这是我心中的雷尼.马格利特。
This is not a pipe. 这可不是一个烟斗。
Rene will be pleased. 雷尼会很高兴的。
How would you describe your style? 你如何描述你的风格？
Erratic. 不稳定。
But then I'm giving this to a friend 但我要把这个送给
whom I really detest. 我最讨厌的朋友。
比利时超现实主义画家雷尼·马格利特Rene Magritte（1898年-1967年）， 比利时的超现实主义画家，超现实主义运动的主要成员之一。 最著名的一幅画就是烟斗画作，被称为《形象的叛逆》。
You don't remember me at all, do you? 你完全不记得我了，是吗?
The spa? 是那个水疗中心吗？
Ivor Novello? Stephen Tennant? 艾弗.诺维罗？史蒂芬.坦南特？
Oh, yes, of course. 哦，是的，想起来了。
Yes. 是我。
The oyster grey silk. 牡蛎灰色的丝绸。
You're supposed to remember me, not the dress. 你应该记得我，而不是那条裙子。
Before I met you for the first time, I'd always thought 在我第一次见到你之前，我一直以为你
you'd be either mercurial or dark. 不是机智善变，就是阴暗忧郁。
And what am I,dark or mercurial? 我到底是什么？阴暗还是善变？
Oh, neither. 哦，都不是。
You're more opaque, I think. 我认为你更晦涩难懂。
So what brings you down here? 什么风把你吹到这里来了？
I... I should like to say the picturesque, 我…我想说这里风景如画，
but it wouldn't be true. 但那不是真的。
I came down in the hope of seeing you again. 我下来是希望能再见到你。
I used the painting as a ploy. 我用这幅画作为一种策略。
Oh. 哦，
Well, I'm touched. 嗯,我被你感动了。
No one's ever used subterfuge before in order to see me. 以前从没有人为了见我而费尽心机。
It's the modern thing,liberated woman and all that. 这是现代的东西，女性也要解放嘛。
It would be very pleasant if you invited me to lunch. 如果你邀请我吃午饭，那将是非常愉快的。
It would be very pleasant if you accepted. 如果你能接受，我将非常高兴。
You really are very lovely. 你真的很可爱。
May I kiss you? 我能亲吻你吗？
You don't have to ask. 你不用询问我。
I've never had an affair with a woman. 我从来没有和女人发生过感情。
Only men. 只和男人们。
Stephen told me all I needed to know. 斯蒂芬把我需要知道的都告诉我了。
All my life, I feel as though 在我的一生中，我觉得
I've been waiting for a catastrophe to happen. 我好像一直在等待一场灾难的发生。
Well, that's optimism for you. 这对你来说是乐观的。
My whole future could depend on you. 我的未来全靠你了。
You must redeem my life for me, Hester. 你必须救赎我的生命，赫斯特。
That sounds like some sort of proposal. 听起来像是某种提议。
If I was selfish enough,I'd ask you to marry me. 如果我足够自私的话，我会向你求婚的。
If I were foolish enough, 如果我足够傻的话，
I'd accept. 我会接受的。
Oh, I look 500 years old. 我看起来有500岁了。
Some say I am beautiful. 有人说我很漂亮。
And, as an aesthete, 作为一个唯美主义者，
I feel that beauty is eternal. 我觉得美是永恒的。
We see it in the eyes of those who love us. 我们可以从爱我们的人的眼中看到。
Although my mother thinks 虽然我妈妈觉得
that my eyes are like cold seawater. 我的眼睛像冰冷的海水。
My buttocks and my shoulders are very well-shaped. 我的臀部和肩膀形状很好。
But my best feature is the beauty of my hands. 但我最大的特点是我的手很漂亮。
Almond milk and lemon creams are perfect for them, 杏仁奶和柠檬霜对他们来说是完美的，
and one must never laugh too much. 人们永远不要笑得太灿烂。
It coarsens one's face, 它使一个人的脸变得粗俗，
especially if the laughter is gleeful. 特别是当忘情大笑的时候。
Stephen, how can you be so narcissistic? 斯蒂芬，你怎么这么自恋？
It is my defence against nihilism and the vulgar. 这是我对虚无主义和庸俗的防御。
You cannot conduct a life in that way. 你不能这样生活。
Course one can. 当然可以。
My life is my art. 我的生活就是我的艺术。
Yours isn't a life,it's barely a hobby. 你的生活不算是生活，不过是爱好而已。
That was an ugly thing to say. 这话说得真难听。
I know sometimes it's better to be kind than honest, 我知道有时候善良比诚实更好，
but you are frittering your life away 但你把生命浪费在
in pomades and powder. 润发油和粉饼上了。
And if you don't believe me, 如果你不相信我，
ask someone with more sense and less love. 那就去问一个理智上，多少懂点爱的人。
You've made your antipathy to me very obvious. 你对我的反感已经很明显了。
I don't need a second opinion. 我不需要别人的意见。
I'm going to Salisbury for the weekend. 我周末要去索尔兹伯里。
Edith Oliver has found me 伊迪丝·奥利弗在泰丰麦格纳
a cottage to rent in Teffont Magna. 给我找了一间小屋。
I thought we could spend weekends there. 我想我们可以去那里度周末。
Will you come? 你来吗？
I, too, have had an invitation. 我也收到了邀请。
From whom? 谁的？
A German prince whom I think you more than know. 一个德国亲王，我想你一定很了解他。
Philip of Hesse, yes. 黑森的菲利普。是的。
And one of Edith Sitwell's proteges. 伊迪丝·希特威尔的门徒之一。
A concert pianist called Tchelitchew. 一个叫切利丘的钢琴演奏家。
Very Cyrillic, very Russian and very divine. 典型的斯拉夫人，典型的俄罗斯人，而且典型的信仰上帝的人。
And where are you going to? 你要去哪里？
Paris first. 先去巴黎。
Then we'll motor down to Bavaria so I can recuperate 然后我们开车去巴伐利亚，
from life. 让我恢复一下。
After Bavaria, they're going to go on to Venice. 巴伐利亚之后，他们要去威尼斯。
Philip told me that he once 菲利普告诉我，
tried to make love in a gondola, 他曾经想在贡多拉里做爱，
but that there wasn't enough privacy. 但那里没有足够的隐私。
Stability. 冷静点儿。
Oh. 哦。
So it was with you, was it? You sly old thing. 那是和你一起的，是吗?你这个狡猾的老家伙。
This all seems very sudden. 这一切似乎太突然了。
Yes, it does, doesn't it? 是的，是的，不是吗?
But then, that's my life. 但这就是我的生活。
All go. 一切照常。
Older than God, but without any of the influence. 比上帝还老，但没有任何影响。
Am I welcome, Hester? 我受欢迎吗？赫斯特？
Come in and see. 进屋来吧。
Siegfried. 齐格弗里德。
Stephen. 斯蒂芬。
How dreadful we all look. 我们看起来都很可怕。
But I still have beautiful hands, I think. 但我觉得我的手还是蛮漂亮的。
I'll make some tea. 我去泡点茶。
I suppose you've heard of Ivor's death. 我想你已经听说了艾弗的死讯。
Yes. 是的。
They say the funeral attracted a thousand people. 他们说葬礼来了一千人。
Probably made up mostly by all the people he slept with. 可能大部分都是和他睡过的人编造的。
I still have a soft spot for Ivor's work, though. 不过，我还是对伊沃的作品，有些看法。
All those tortured princesses and lovers 那些饱受折磨的公主和情人
who have no money,but plenty of sex appeal. 虽然没有钱，但却性感迷人。
His work was always sentimental nonsense. 他的作品总是多愁善感的废话。
He cheapened everything he touched. 他把他碰到的一切东西，都贬得一文不值。
I've always thought his particular kind of mawkishness 我一直认为，他那种特别的伤感，
was a kind of catharsis 是我们中间，
for the dimmer members among us. 比较妥协的成员的一种宣泄。
That's because you have never known 那是因为你从来都不知道
the difference between the two. 这两者的区别。
We can't all possess your purity of thought. 我们不可能都拥有你这样纯洁的思想。
It isn't a question of purity, 这不是纯洁的问题，
but of discernment. 而是洞察力的问题。
And you were never very good at discernment. 而你向来不擅长辨别是非。
That was rather too acerbic. 这话太尖刻了。
Mordant would be the more accurate word. 更准确的说法是毒舌。
Are you still very angry? 你还很生气吗？
What do you expect? 你期望的是什么？
You ended our relationship 你用一封你的医生写的信，
with a letter from your doctor. 就结束了我们的关系。
How was I supposed to feel? 我会有什么感受呢？
Still clearly very hurt, I see. 我看现在还是很受伤。
I had hoped that you might have been 我本希望你能
a little more forgiving. 更宽容一点。
If I had treated you the way in which you treated me, 如果我用你对待我的方式来对待你，
how forgiving would you be? 你会有多宽容?
Besides,when the parade's gone by, 此外，当游行队伍过去的时候，
you have to have enough sense to realize 你必须有足够的意识到
that you are no longer a part of it. 你不再是其中的一部分。
I'm trying to apologize. 我是想道歉来着。
You're 30 years too late! 你已晚了30年！
Can't we still be friends? 我们还能再做朋友吗？
No. 不。
You once meant so much.Now you mean so little. 你曾经对我那么重要。现在你的意义变得如此渺小。
- Sieg...- Don't trivialise it -齐格... -不要说些油腔滑调的话
by saying something glib. 来贬低它。
Can I see you again?In London perhaps? 我能再见到你吗? 也许在伦敦？
No! 不！
I rarely go to London now. 我现在很少去伦敦了。
And how is George? 乔治怎么样了？
Young. 还年轻。
Thriving. 朝气蓬勃。
He's like all children. 他和所有的孩子一样。
He has the worst aspects of both his parents. 他身上有他父母最坏的一面。
How about his parents' virtues? 他父母的美德呢？
He's cursed with those as well. 他也被这些诅咒了。
I am... 我现在...
very lonely, Siggy. 非常孤单，西吉。
Is it agony? 这是烦恼吗？
One does hope so. 人们确实希望如此。
George has an independent mind, 乔治有独立的思想，
which sometimes shocks Siegfried. 这有时使齐格弗里德感到震惊。
It isn't independence, it's wilfulness. 这不是独立，这是任性。
Who's died? 谁死了？
All of us. 我们所有人。
George, the pipe was not a good idea. 乔治，抽烟斗不是个好主意。
Looks as if it's smoking you. 看起来它在抽你。
Old silver tongue. 还是老一套。
We could do without the smoke. 我们不抽烟也行。
Tea, darling? 喝茶吗？亲爱的？
No, thank you, Mother. 不，谢谢你，妈妈。
Thank you for the tea. 谢谢你的茶。
George will see you out. 乔治会送你出去。
- Goodbye.- Goodbye. —再见。—再见。
Charming as ever. 一如既往的迷人。
But there's still malice at the edge of his voice, 但他的话里仍然带着恶意，
as there always was. 一如既往。
Sometimes, Siegfried,it's more humane 有时候，齐格弗里德，
to be kind than to be honest. 仁慈比诚实更人道。
He constantly goaded my jealousy. 他不断地激起我的嫉妒心。
It was like being killed by degrees. 就像被一步步杀死。
He once told me he thought you were matchless. 他曾经告诉我，他认为你是无与伦比的。
We are unique only to the people who really loathe us. 对于那些讨厌我们的人来说，我们是独一无二的。
Will you come to dinner tonight at Mother's? 你今晚来妈妈家吃饭，好吗？
She'd have invited God if she thought He'd come. 如果她认定上帝会来，她会邀请他的。
I'm uncomfortable with all that distinction. 我对这种区别，感到不舒服。
I'm not at all an intellectual, 我一点儿都不机灵，
I have a very cumbersome mind. 我反应很愚钝。
Oh, please come. 哦，来嘛。
Max Beerbohm said he might drop in for a drink. 麦克斯·比尔博姆说他可能会过来小酌一杯。
Hmm. 嗯。
Then I shall come. 那我会去的。
Just to hear Max's delectable gossip. 就为了听听麦克斯的八卦。
You know, he, er... 你知道，他，呃...
he once described TS Elliot as 他有一次把T.S.艾略特讽刺成，
"Poor old Tom who sits there ironically “可怜的老汤姆呆呆地坐在那里，
"analysing an empty sardine tin." 分析着一个空了的沙丁鱼罐头。”
Well, you better get your skates on, 你最好带上你的溜冰鞋，
and I better get my glad rags out of mothballs. 我把我那件滑稽的旧衣服，从箱子底翻出来。
马克斯.比尔博1872－1956，英国散文家，剧评家，漫画家。 托马斯·斯特尔那斯·艾略特，1888-1965，出生美国的诗人、剧作家和文学批评家。
Now don't miss me too much, all right? 别太想念我了，好吗？
Bye! 再见！
Goodbye, darlings! 再见，亲爱的朋友们！
No welcome? 不欢迎吗？
No bunting? 也不顶撞？
Not even, "You're looking frightfully well, Stephen." 甚至没有说"斯蒂芬，你看起来好极了"
Am I going to get the silent treatment? 你会不跟我说话吗
Or are we going to conduct the rest of this conversation 还是我们要用盲文来进行
entirely in Braille? 接下来的对话?
Beware the wrath of a patient man. 小心忍耐至极之人的愤怒。
Who said that? 这话是谁说的？
Confucius, I think. 我想是孔夫子说的。
On one of his better days. 在他比较舒心的日子里。
Well, if you're going to get all profound on me, 好吧，如果你要对我说什么深奥的话，
perhaps you could throw in Ol' Man River as a bonus. 也许你可以给我唱首《老人河》，作为奖励。
How was Bavaria? 巴伐利亚怎么样？
Bavarian. 巴伐利亚。
Did your companion stay long? 你的同伴也呆了这么长时间吗？
Long enough. 足够长。
And what did you do, Stephen? 你做了什么，斯蒂芬？
Apart from cough? 除了咳嗽？
I... Ooh, what's the phrase? 我...那就话怎么说？
I lived life to the full. 我活得很充实。
- All three of you?- Yes. -你们三个都是吗？-是的。
It's called troilism, I believe. 我想，这就是所谓的“三角恋爱”。
- Or an orgy.- Yes. -或者说是一场放荡狂欢。-是的。
That's probably more accurate,but I won't go into detail. 这样说可能更恰当，但我不会详述细节。
You know how discreet I am in these matters. 你知道我在这种事情上是多么谨慎。
My spies tell me you've been seeing a lot of Hester Gatty. 我的情报来源告诉我，你经常会见赫斯特·盖蒂。
Hester Gatty's been seeing a lot of me. 赫斯特·盖蒂经常见我。
I'm beginning to see the light. 我开始看见了一道光明。
A new, secretive you. 一种崭新的，难以理解的你。
Surely you're not jealous? 你不会嫉妒吧？
Of course not. 当然不会。
Now we can all be girls together. 现在我们可以一起做女生了。
Like Roedean. 像是罗婷女校的。
Have you slept with her? 你和她发生关系了吗？
No. 没有。
Our relationship is as deep as it is decorous. 我们的关系既深厚又高雅。
I've even bought myself some passion-killing pyjamas. 我甚至给自己买了一些抑制情欲的睡衣。
Are you going to marry her? 你要娶她吗？
Yes, I think I probably shall. 是的，我想我可能会。
You'll make a vile partner, Siggy. 你会是个邪恶的配偶的，西吉。
Perhaps, but then I have been taught by a master. 也许吧，但我是被你这位大师教的。
You'll be taking a great risk. 你要冒很大的风险。
I'll be taking the same risk I took with you. 我要冒和你一样的风险。
Couldn't be much worse.May even be better. 不会更糟糕了。也许还会好起来。
I can see years ahead for both of you. 我能预见你们俩的未来。
Filled with passionless silences 无非是没有激情的沉默，
and compulsory cocoa at bedtime. 该睡时，就像喝了可可饮料又睡不着。
Oh, by the way, 哦，再说一句，
as we intend to be living in the country, 既然我们打算住在乡下，
I'll be giving up the lease on this flat. 这间公寓我就不打算再续租了。
I didn't want to leave you in the dark unnecessarily. 我不想不必要地把你留在暗处。
But once we've found a house,you'll have to move out. 但一旦我们找到房子，你就得搬出去。
That sounds almost like a threat. 这听起来像是威胁。
It almost is. 差不多吧。
So you're going to throw baby's 所以你要把宝宝的小身体
little body out into the cold, cold snow? 扔到冰冷的雪地里吗?
No, not immediately, no. 不，不是马上。
We'll wait for warmer weather. 我们将等待更暖和的天气。
Can I get you anything before I leave? 我走之前要给你拿点什么吗？
No. 不用。
I'll write once I get to Scotland. 我一到苏格兰就给你写信。
I said I'll write once... 我说过，我一到就写...
I heard you. I'm trying to listen to the radio. 我听见你的话了，我现在要听收音机。
- Shall I phone? - No! -要我打电话吗？-不用！
What time's your train, Mother? 你的火车是几点发车？妈妈？
Not for an hour. 不到一小时了。
We've got plenty of time to get to the station. 到火车站的时间还足够。
I'll come back for you later. 我等会儿就回来找你。
Remember, marry in haste, 记住，草率结婚， （威廉.康格里夫1693年写的喜剧《老光棍儿》里的台词）
repent at leisure. 后悔莫及。 （威廉.康格里夫1693年写的喜剧《老光棍儿》里的台词）
I was shocked when you got married 你结婚的时候我很震惊，
and for exactly the same reason. 原因也完全一样。
And now it's my turn to be shocked. 现在该轮到我震惊了。
I have given you all a bit of a surprise, haven't I? 我给了你们一个惊喜，不是吗？
- Who's officiating? - Er, Canon Gay. 婚礼主持人是谁?-呃，卡农.盖伊。
Ah. 啊。
Oh, I'm sorry, Lawrence,have you met Glen Byam Shaw? 抱歉，劳伦斯，你见过格伦·拜厄姆·肖吗？
Glen this is TE Lawrence. 格伦，这位是T.E.劳伦斯。
Of Arabia? 阿拉伯的？
Not recently. 不是最近的事情了。
Are you sure you know what you're doing? 你确定你知道自己在做什么吗?
I think so. 我想是的。
In the end, we few, 最后，我们中的少数，
we happy few are always exogamous. 快乐的少数。总是和异族通婚的。
Christ, what does that mean? 上帝，这是什么意思？
To marry outside of one's tribe or group. 与本部落或集团外部的人结婚。
Do you specialise in using words no one understands? 你是否擅长使用别人听不懂的语言？
Yes. It's my revenge on people 是的。这是我对那些不知道
who don't know what exogamous means. 异族通婚的人的报复手段。
Have you chosen any music? 你挑选乐曲了吗？
No. 没有。
Oh, I'm disappointed. 哦，我很失望。
I thought we'd get something English and dismal. 我想我们应该选些英文的和深沉的东西。
What are you doing here? 你在这里做什么？
Hester invited me. 赫斯特邀请我来的。
I'm her maid of hon our. 我是她的伴娘。
The vows that you are about to take 你们将在公正的
are to be made in the presence of God, 并洞悉我们内心一切的
who is the judge of all 上帝面前，
and knows all the secrets of our hearts. 进行宣誓。
Therefore, if either of you know any reason 因此，如果你们中的任何一个
why you may not lawfully marry, 知道你们不能合法结婚的原因，
you must declare it now. 你必须现在宣布。
How are you? 你怎么样啊？
Just very tired. 只是很累。
Is there anything I can get you? 有什么需要我帮忙的吗？
Have you thought of a name? 你想好名字了吗？
No. 没有。
I thought we might call him George. 我想我们可以叫他乔治。
Yes. 好的。
My whole future depends on him. 我的未来全靠他了。
You once said that about me. 你曾经这么说过我。
接下来片中要放的曲子《鸳鸯茶》，原作曲是苏联作曲家 德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇。他为此还当众做了检讨， 声称自己迎合了西方资产阶级低级趣味的爵士风格。
1925年，作曲家文森特.尤曼斯在美国为百老汇写了一部音乐剧 《NO，NO，NANETTE》，其中一首歌《鸳鸯茶》(TEAFORTWO) 成了西方娱乐世界的流行曲。
Do you want to hold him? 你想抱他吗？
...with homes that are rented ...(我不满意)租来的家园
So I have invented my own 那我就创造了属于我们自己的
Darling, this place is a lover's oasis 亲爱的，这地方是爱人的绿洲
Where life's weary chase is unknown... 这里的生活厌倦了追逐未知...
I'm very happy. 我很高兴。
And this is the reason. 这就是原因。
Cosy to hide in 躲藏在舒适中
To live side by side in 肩并肩地生活着
Don't let it abide in my dream 别让它停留在我的梦中
Picture me upon your knee 坐下来和我一起
Just tea for two and two for tea 就你我两人一起喝杯茶
Just me for you and you for me 只有你和我的鸳鸯茶
Alone 没有别人
Nobody near us to see us or hear us 没别人来靠近我们，窥探我们，或偷听我们
No friends or relations on weekend vacations 周末假期也没有亲戚和朋友来
We won't have it known, dear 亲爱的，我们不会让别人知道
That we own a telephone, dear 我们的电话，亲爱的
Day will break and I'll awake 天将破晓，我将醒来
And start to bake a sugar cake 开始烤一个焦糖蛋糕
For you to take for all the boys to see 让你拿去给所有男孩看
We will raise a family 我们将供养一个家庭
A boy for you, a girl for me 一个男孩归你，一个女孩归我
Oh, can't you see 难道你没看见
How happy we would be? 我们将会多么快乐？
以下诗句出自1879年在纽约上演的音乐剧《彭赞斯的海盗》， 作曲：A.沙利文。作词：威廉·S·吉尔伯特
How beautifully blue the sky. 天空是多么得湛蓝。
The glass is rising very high. 让我们高举起酒杯。
Continue fine I hope it may. 我祝愿天气继续晴朗。
And yet it rained but yesterday. 可是昨天才下过雨。
Tomorrow, it may pour again. 明天可能还会有大雨。
I hear the country needs some rain. 我听说乡村需要下雨。
I stood with the dead. 我和亡灵站在一起。
Come down from Heaven to meet me 当我窒息的时候，
when my breath chokes. 请从天堂下来迎接我。
And through drumming shafts of stifling death 穿过令人窒息的死亡之井，
I stumble towards escape, 我跌跌撞撞地奔向逃生之路，
to find the door opening on morn 去寻找那扇在晨间开启的门
where I may breathe once more 在那里我可以再一次呼吸到
clear cock-crow airs 伴随雄鸡清脆啼声的
across some valley dim with whispering trees. 穿过树木飒飒幽暗山谷而来的空气。
While dawn along the rim of night's horizon 此时，如同在湖中燃烧着火焰般的黎明正沿着
flows in lakes of fire, 地平线上夜幕的边缘
come down from Heaven's bright hill, 从天堂下来，把山丘照亮，
my song's desire. 我唱出了愿望。
Belov'd and faithful, 我所亲爱的和值得信赖的亡灵们
teach my soul to wake in glades deep-ranked 教导我的灵魂苏醒在鲜花盛开的
with flowers that gleam 深邃密林之中的空地上
and shake and flock your paths with wonder. 并颤抖着蜂拥地跟随你们的足迹前往奇观。
In your gaze, show me, 用你们的眼光，告诉我，
the vanquished vigil of my days. 我对当今时代的戒心，是否被压抑住了。
Mute in that golden silence hung with green, 绿色青春被金色幸福平静地笼罩住，已成了哑巴。
come down from Heaven and bring me in your eyes 从你们自天堂下来迎接我的眼神中，
remembrance of all beauty that has been. 我回忆起了往日一切的美好。
And stillness from the pools of Paradise. 就像在静止的天堂的水塘中。
Rising, 升起了，
rising the voices of the muffled dead. 升起了沉闷的亡灵的声音。
Are you going to keep this silence up 今天剩下的时间
for the rest of the day? 你都要保持沉默吗?
Look, I brought you down to London 听着，我带你来伦敦
because I was worried about you! 是因为我担心你!
- I'm fine.- No, you're not! -我很好。-不，你不是！
There was no food in the house! No heating! 房子里没有食物!屋子里没有暖气!
And you were sitting there in the dark 而你却像一个清教徒主教那样
like a Protestant bishop! 坐在黑暗中!
- I can manage!- No, you can't! -我能管好自己！-不，你不能！
If you're going to sulk,I'm going upstairs. 如果你要生闷气，我就上楼去。
Turn that rubbish off! 把那垃圾玩意儿关掉！
I'll do as I like!It's my house! 我爱怎么做就怎么做!这是我的房子！
- It's my music!- That isn't music! -这是我的音乐!-那不是音乐！
It's commercially grotesque noise 这是愚蠢的人为愚蠢的人
made by stupid people for stupid people! 制造的商业怪声!
Oh, don't be so bigoted! 哦，别这么顽固了！
The official numbers 根据官方统计的
of those killed in the First World War. 在第一次世界大战中被杀死的数字。
The United Kingdom and its colonies: 联合王国及其殖民地：
1,225,914. 1,225,914人。
France: 1,697,798. 法兰西： 1,697,798人。
Germany: 2,476,897. 德国：2,476,897人。
Austria-Hungary: 1,567,202. 奥匈帝国: 1,567,202.
Russia: 3,311,251... 俄国： 3,311,251人...
These are the statistics of catastrophe. 这些是灾难的统计数据。
Yet from Prime to Compline,life goes slowly on. 从普莱姆到康普兰，生活依然缓慢地进行着。
Are you thinking great thoughts? 你在考虑宏伟构思吗？
No. 不。
Just sitting here being petty. 只是坐在这里想些琐事。
Trying to understand the enigma of other people. 试着去理解一些旁人的不解之谜。
So many have died. 死的人太多了。
Too many. 太多了。
Most people live for the moment. 大多数人都活在当下。
You live for eternity. 你却活在永恒里。
- Don't say that.- Why not? -别这么说。—为什么不？
Because I'm afraid I might believe it. 因为我怕自己会相信。
I would have liked to have been recognised, though. 不过，我希望自己能得到认可。
In some significant way for my work. 对我的工作有重要意义。
Eliot got the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize. 连艾略特都获得了荣誉勋章和诺贝尔奖。
I've had to make do with the Queen's Award for Poetry. 我只能将就着拿“女王诗歌奖”了。
But Sir Siegfried Sassoon,it would have been nice. 但是齐格弗里德·沙宣爵士，这已经不错了。
- Despite all the sibilants.- Oh, Father. -尽管有这么多的咬牙切齿的声音。—哦,父亲。
How can you be seduced by all that Ruritanian nonsense? 你怎么能被那些所谓“理想国”的胡言乱语所诱惑呢？
The greatest argument against 反对爵位授予制度
Damehoods and Knighthoods is... 是最大的争论点了...
Just look at the people who've got them. 看看那些拥有它们的人。
Why do you hate the modern world, Father? 你为什么讨厌现代世界？父亲？
Because it's younger than I am. 因为它比我年轻。
Well, you've got to bathe and change. 那么，你已经受了洗礼并改变了信仰。
We're going to the theatre,remember? 我们要去剧院，还记得吗？
Do I have to? 我必须要去吗？
Yes, you promised. 是的，你答应过的。
Besides, it's a witty and elegant score. 此外，这是一个机智而优雅的配乐诗。
Even you might enjoy it. 就连你也会喜欢的。
I'm sorry I shouted. 我很抱歉，冲你大喊大叫。
It's... So am I. 这...我也向你道歉。
Peace? 和好吗？
Peace. 和好。
My mother said I never should 我妈妈告诉我，千万不要
Play with the young man in the wood 和那些年轻人在树林里玩
If I did, she would say 如果我做了，她就会说
"Naughty little girl to disobey" “不听话的淘气小女生”
I'm a typically English rose 我是典型的英国玫瑰
But born of typically English stock 生来就是典型的英国种
With a typically Anglo-Saxon family tree 流着盎格鲁-萨克逊的家族血脉
I received my education from a typically English way 我受的是英式教育
In a typically English girl's academy 在一个典型的英式女子学校
I play typically English tennis 我玩典型的英式网球
At a typically English club 还在一个典型的英国俱乐部里
With my typically English feelings for fair play 怀着典型的英国人那种公平竞争的情感
I eat typically English crumpets 我吃典型的英式松脆饼
With my typically English tea 配着我那典型的英式红茶
At the end of every typically English day 每天都过着典型的英国人的日子
Father is a typically English colonel 父亲是位典型的英国上校
Home is a typically English county town 家乡是典型的英国郡府
Mummy and I play typically English patients 妈妈和我扮演典型的英国病人
As the typically English rain is pouring down 当典型的英国雨瓢泼而下
With a typically English spaniel 我们正牵着典型的英国猎犬
Who likes typically English walks 它喜欢进行典型的英国散步
Cause there's typically English trees 因为这里有典型的英国树木
Upon the heath 就在田野里
And if anyone asked me 如果有人问我
How I like this typically English life 我有多么喜欢这种英国式的生活
I am fed up to my typically English tea 我已经被英式红茶灌饱了
Shall we take a cab? 我去叫辆出租车？
No, I'll walk home. 不用，我走着回家。
Are you sure? 你行吗？
It's getting very chilly. 天气越来越冷了。
I'd rather walk. 我真的想走走。
Perhaps my latest effort will please you. 也许，这是我取悦你的最后一次努力。
It's called Disabled. 它叫做《伤残的人》
这首<伤残的人>，作者就是威尔弗莱德.欧文.
I'll come and get you. 我过会儿就来接你。
Thank you. 谢谢你
He sat in a wheeled chair, 他坐在轮椅上，
waiting for dark 等待着天黑
and shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, legless, 他穿着破旧的灰色军服瑟瑟发抖，双腿俱无，
sewn short at elbow. 衣着捉襟见肘。
Through the park, 从公园那边传来的，
voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn. 男孩们的声音在他听来像圣歌那样凄凉。
Voices of play and pleasure after day. 那是经过一天玩闹和欢乐的声音。
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him. 直到他睡意渐浓，才把它们从他身边抚平。
About this time, 大约就在这个时候，
town used to swing so gay 当柔弱的路灯光开始
when glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees, 爬上略带忧郁的树梢上，照亮小镇以往的欢乐时，
and girls glanced lovelier 姑娘们可爱的一瞥
as the air grew dim in the old times, 就像旧时光带来的黯淡空气，
before we threw away his knees. 因为我们不忍看他那双膝。
Now he will never feel again how slim girls' waists are 现在，他再也感受不到女孩纤细的腰身
or how warm their subtle hands. 和她们娇嫩的手有多温暖了。
All of them touch him like some queer disease. 所有这些情景都像一种奇怪的疾病一样困扰着他。
There was an artist silly for his face, 在去年，有一位艺术家为他的脸孔迷惑，
for it was younger than his youth, last year. 因为它比他还年轻。
Now he is old,his back will never brace. 现在他老了，他的背再也支撑不住了。
He's lost his colour very far from here. 他在离这里很远的地方，就失去了光彩。
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry, 子弹打断了静脉，血都快要流干了，
and half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race. 他的半生就在激烈的战斗中耗散了。
And leap of purple spurted from his thigh. 他的大腿喷出一股紫色的浪花。
One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg, 以前有次在玩齐肩高角力赛后，
after the matches carried shoulder-high. 他还把血抹在大腿上。
It was after football when he'd drunk a peg, 为了能够在踢完球喝上一杯酒，
he thought he'd better join. 他想他最好加入球队。
He wonders why. 他想知道为什么。
Someone had said he'd looked a god in kilts. 有人说他穿苏格兰裙像个战神。
That's why. 这就是为什么。
And maybe, too,to please his Meg. 也许也是为了取悦他的梅格。
Aye, that was it, 是的，就是为这，
to please the giddy jilts,he'd asked to join. 为了取悦那些轻浮的情人儿，他要求入伍。
He didn't have to beg. 他不需要申请。
Smiling they wrote his lie: 他们微笑着写下他的谎言：
aged 19 years. 年龄19岁。
Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt, 他几乎没有想到德国人有什么罪行，
and Austria's, did not move him. 奥地利人也没招惹过他什么。
And no fears of fear came yet. 此时，那为了战胜恐惧的恐惧还没出现。
He thought of jewel led hilts 他只想到了镶着宝石的剑柄，
for daggers in plaid socks,of smart salutes, 格子短袜旁插着的匕首，想到了优雅的敬礼，
and care of arms, and leave,and pay arrears, 保管武器，退役后领到军饷，
esprit de corps,and hints for young recruits. 团队精神，还有那《新兵条例》。
And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers. 很快，他就在军鼓声和欢呼声中出征了。
Some cheered him home,but not as crowds cheer goal. 他回家时，一些人向他欢呼，但不像他射门进球时人群欢呼。
Only a solemn man who brought him fruits thanked him. 只有一个人表情庄重地给他带来水果并感激他。
And then inquired about his soul. 然后询问他的心灵。
Now he will spend a few sick years in institutes 现在，他要在学校里病休几年，
and do what things the rules consider wise, 做一些按规定认为明智的事情，
and take whatever pity they may dole. 接受一切人们可能给予的同情。
Tonight he noticed how women's eyes 今晚他注意到女人的目光是如何
passed from him to the strong men who were whole. 从他身上转移到那些强壮而又完整的男人身上的。
How cold and late it is. 现在天气又冷又晚。
Why don't they come and put him into bed? 他们为什么不过来把他放到床上呢？
Why don't they come? 他们为什么还不来？
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