我的名字是Alithea My name is Alithea.
我的故事是真实的 My story is true.
不过 你更有可能相信我 You're more likely to believe me, however,
如果我把它当作一个童话故事来讲述 if I tell it as a fairy tale.
所以 从前 So, once upon a time,
当人类乘着金属翅膀在天空中飞驰时 when humans hurtled across the sky on metal wings,
当他们穿上有蹼的脚 when they wore webbed feet
并在海底行走 and walked on the bottom of the sea,
当他们手里拿着玻璃砖的时候 when they held in their hands glass tiles
可以从空气中哄骗出情歌... that could coax love songs from the air...
......有一个女人 充分的快乐和孤独 ...there was a woman, adequately happy and alone.
孤独的选择 Alone by choice.
快乐是因为她是独立的 Happy because she was independent,
靠锻炼她的学术思想为生 living off the exercise of her scholarly mind.
她的业务是故事 Her business was story.
她是一位叙事学家 She was a narratologist
试图寻找真理的人 who sought to find the truths
人类所有的故事都是如此 common to all the stories of humankind.
为此 每年一次或两次 To this end, once or twice a year,
她冒险去了陌生的地方 she ventured to strange lands.
对中国来说 南洋 To China, the South Seas,
和黎凡特的永恒城市... and the timeless cities of the Levant...
在那里 她的同类人聚集在一起 讲述关于故事的故事 where her kind gathered to tell stories about stories.
这种方式 This way.
打扰一下 这边走 女士 Excuse me. This way, lady.
你在做什么 你能放手吗 求你了 What are you doing? Can you let go, please?
伊斯坦布尔的奥秘 The mysteries of Istanbul.
- Alithea!- - Alithea! -
Alithea! Alithea!
欢迎你! Welcome!
-终于来了!啊 -Gunhan! -Welcome at last! Aw. -Gunhan!
-我亲爱的朋友 - -My dear friend.
哦 多好啊! 我很抱歉 Oh, how wonderful! I'm sorry.
-这是阿米娜 -阿米娜 -This is Amina. -Amina.
来自英国文化协会 From the British Council.
在机场的那个家伙对我的行李动手动脚 That fellow at the airport manhandling my luggage,
你看到他了吗 did you see him?
什么伙计 What fellow?
你来的时候他就跑掉了 He scuttled off when you arrived.
小号 羊皮夹克 粉色衣领 Small, sheepskin jacket, pink collar.
有趣的是 Interesting.
他摸起来很热 He was hot to touch.
穆斯基 Musky.
也许他是一个精灵 Perhaps he was a djinn.
更有可能是一个非法出租车司机 An illegal taxi driver, more likely.
擦了太多的古龙水 Wearing too much cologne.
所以 教授 So, Professor,
你是说你相信有精灵吗 you saying you believe in djinn?
我相信有一些人需要相信他们 I believe there are those who need to believe in them.
包括我吗 Including me?
精灵 鬼魂 Djinn, ghosts,
外国人 只要有帮助 aliens, whatever helps.
酒店为你安排了一个可爱的惊喜 The hotel's arranged a lovely surprise for you.
这是阿加莎-克里斯蒂的房间 It's the Agatha Christie room.
在这个房间里 In this room,
她写了《东方快车谋杀案》 she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
那么 你将如何解释 So, how would you explain
雷雨的力量 the power of a thunderstorm
如果你没有能力 if you don't have the means
来测量和模拟气象数据 to measure and model meteorological data?
你如何解释四季的变化 How can you explain the seasons?
从秋天到冬天再到春天和夏天 Autumn through winter to spring and summer,
如果你不知道地球 if you don't know that the Earth
在轴线上倾斜的情况下绕着太阳运行 orbits the Sun while tilted on an axis?
一切都是神秘的 Everything was mystery.
季节、海啸、微生物疾病...... The seasons, tsunamis, microbial disease...
除了求助于故事 我们还能做什么呢 What else could we do but resort to stories?
正如宾尼博士所鼓励我们理解的那样 As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us to understand,
故事曾经是唯一的途径 stories were once the only way
以使我们令人困惑的存在变得连贯 to make our bewildering existence coherent.
这是完全正确的 That's exactly right.
我们为未知的力量命名 We gave name to the unknown forces
所有奇迹和灾难的背后 behind all wonder and catastrophe,
通过告诉对方... by telling each other...
通过给对方讲故事 By telling each other stories.
- 让我告诉你 - - Let me show you. -
我们讲述了具体的、强大的、可亲近的神灵的故事 We told tales of specific, powerful, relatable gods
在所有的文化中 在所有的神话中 永远存在 ever present in all cultures, in all mythologies,
从希腊人 到罗马人 到北欧人 from the Greeks, to the Romans, to the Norse,
等等 等等 and so on, and so on.
宙斯、波塞冬、雅典娜的熟悉后裔 The familiar descendant of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena,
索尔 整个团伙 Thor, the whole gang,
即使在今天也能找到表达方式 find expression even today.
这些都是他们的遗迹 These are their vestiges.
问题仍然是 它们的目的是什么 The question remains, what is their purpose?
我们现在对他们的要求是什么 What do we require of them now?
有神话 也有科学 There is mythos, and there is science.
哦 对不起 Oh. Sorry.
神话是我们当时知道的 Mythology is what we knew back then.
科学是我们迄今为止所知道的东西 Science is what we know so far.
迟早的事 Sooner or later,
我们的创作故事被取代 our creation stories are replaced
科学的叙述所带来的 by the narratives of science.
艰辛的科学 Painstaking science.
和所有的神和怪兽 And all gods and monsters
过期不候 outlive their original purpose
并沦为隐喻 and are reduced to metaphor.
胡说八道! Rubbish!
Alithea! Alithea!
Alithea Alithea.
发生了什么事 What happened?
我不知道 她只是摔倒了 I don't know. She just fell.
-她刚刚摔倒 - -She just fell. -
天哪 Gosh.
你还好吗 Are you okay?
你不应该去看医生吗 Shouldn't you see a doctor?
为什么 当我感觉这么好的时候 Why? When I feel so well?
原谅我 Alithea 你确定吗 Forgive me, Alithea. Are you sure?
除了通常的酸痛和疼痛 Apart from the usual aches and pains,
没有任何不妥之处 there is nothing untoward.
没有理由大惊小怪 There's no reason to make a fuss.
那么 后面发生了什么 So, what happened back there?
最近 我的想象力越来越好 Lately, my imagination's been getting the better of me.
伏击我 Ambushing me.
我想这是一个警告 I think it's a warning.
关于什么 About what?
不要自满 Not to be complacent.
为了保持我的脚趾 To keep on my toes.
它不时地表现得很粗暴 It manifests rudely from time to time.
我试着不把它打掉 I try not to fight it off.
它负责了一会儿 然后就退后了 It takes charge for a moment, and then it steps back.
什么是退步 What steps back?
哦 贡汉 这是不理性的 不要在意 Oh, Gunhan, it's irrational. Pay it no mind.
你的行为像个孩子 你知道吗 You are behaving like a child. Do you know that?
你知道 我其实是个孩子 You know, I am actually a child.
如果有命运 我们能逃脱吗 If there is fate, can we escape it?
谁能说呢 Who can say?
但是我告诉你 But I tell you this,
在伊斯坦布尔的大巴扎 in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul,
有62条街道和4,000家商店 there are 62 streets and 4,000 shops.
而在其中一家商店里 有三个房间 And in one of those shops, there are three rooms.
在这些房间中最小的一个 In the smallest of those rooms,
有一堆东西没有分类 there was a pile of things unsorted,
新与旧 old and new.
从那堆东西的底部 From the bottom of that pile,
我选择了一个纪念品 I chose a memento.
你知道这是什么吗 Do you know what this is?
我不确定 但它可能是Cesm-i Bulbul I'm not sure, but it could be Cesm-i Bulbul,
a "南丁格尔之眼" a "Nightingale's Eye."
1845年左右 在Incirkoy有这些玻璃制造商 Around 1845, there were these glassmakers in Incirkoy.
他们以这种螺旋状的蓝白色图案而闻名 They were famous for this spiral blue-white pattern.
哦 拜托 这是我的礼物 Oh, please. It's a gift from me.
选择不那么惆怅的东西 Choose something less forlorn.
还有 呃 如果这是Cesm-i Bulbul And, er, if this is Cesm-i Bulbul,
呃 有什么办法可以鉴定吗 er, is there a way of authenticating it?
好吧 他们说 如果它是真的 Well, they say that if it is genuine,
有时你可以看到血迹的斑点 sometimes you can see specks of blood
从玻璃吹制者的肺部 from the lungs of the glassblowers.
但这更可能是最近的模仿 But this is more likely a recent imitation.
它已被火烧毁 选点别的吧 It's been damaged by fire. Pick something else.
不 谢谢你 贡汉 No, thank you, Gunhan.
我喜欢它 I like it.
无论它是什么 我相信它有一个有趣的故事 Whatever it is, I'm sure it has an interesting story.
喂 Hello?
早上好 宾尼博士 Good morning, Dr. Binnie.
-早上好 -这是客房服务 -Good morning. -This is room service.
-是的 -你喜欢怎样的鸡蛋 -Yes. -How do you like your eggs?
呃 流动的 谢谢 Er, runny, please.
-用吐司吗 -是的 但没有面包皮 -And with toast? -Yes, but no crusts.
-两个鸡蛋 -就一个 -Two eggs? -Just one.
-好的 谢谢你 -谢谢你 -Okay, thank you. -Thank you.
我将闭上眼睛 数到三 I'm going to close my eyes and count to three,
之后 我将感谢 after which I would be grateful
如果你会离开 if you would be gone.
一 One,
两个 two,
三 three.
四 Four,
五 five,
6, six,
七 八 seven, eight,
九 十 nine, ten.
我想你不会说英语吧 I don't suppose you speak English?
德文 Deutsch?
西班牙语 Espanol?
埃利尼卡 Ellinika?
爱因斯坦 Einstein.
世界上最著名的物理学家 阿尔伯特-爱因斯坦... The world's most famous physicist, Albert Einstein...
"电视 " "Television."
电视 Television.
"发射器" "Transmitters."
发射器 Transmitters.
我是一个权力不大的精灵 I am a djinn of modest power,
但我开始理解这些传输 but I begin to understand these transmissions.
哦! Oh!
你已经学会了说我的语言 You've learned to speak my language.
这种英语是直截了当的 This English is straightforward.
它的规则很快就学会了 我发现 Its rules quickly learn, I find.
- 不 不 不 -你想把这个小艾伯特送给自己吗 - Nein, nein, nein. -Would you like this little Albert for yourself?
不 不 不 这对他不可能是好事 把他放回去 No, no, no. That can't be good for him. Put him back.
-我可以扩大他 - 怎么做 -I could expand him. - How?
我们可以和他说话 We could speak with him.
-这怎么可能呢 -不 把他放回去 -How is this possible? -No, put him back.
-这是你的愿望吗 -这是不可能的 -Is that your wish? -This is not possible.
不 这是你的义务 No. It's your obligation.
那么 你会希望得到什么呢 So, what will you wish for?
你心中的愿望是什么 What is your heart's desire?
现在 让我们 呃 不要超越自己 Now, let's, er, not get ahead of ourselves.
我需要慢慢来 I need to take this slow.
我有世界上所有的时间 I have all the time in the world.
告诉我关于你自己的情况 Tell me about yourself.
我的名字是阿利特哈-宾尼 My name is Alithea Binnie.
我在土耳其参加一个会议 I am in Turkey for a conference.
而我在一天之内就回到了我的祖国 And I return to my homeland in a day's time.
还有呢 Also?
另外 我也要承认 我有一件事要做 Also, I have a confession to make.
我从来没有告诉过任何人的事情 Something I've never told anybody.
优秀 Excellent.
在我年轻的时候 有一个男孩 When I was young, there was a boy.
你的初恋情人 Your first lover?
不 不 不 他不属于血肉之躯 No, no, no. He was not of flesh and blood.
一个精灵 A djinn?
没有 No.
当时 我发现自己在一所女子学校 At that time, I found myself in a school for girls.
成群结队的女孩 Gaggles of girls.
我是 嗯 我天生就是一个孤独的生物 I was, well, I am a solitary creature by nature.
还有这个男孩 恩佐 And this boy, Enzo,
他来到我身边 从一种空虚中走出来 he came to me, out of an emptiness.
出于一种想象的需要 Out of a need to imagine.
他用一种语言给我讲故事 He told me stories in a language
只有我们两个人说话 that only we two spoke.
而他总是在我头疼的时候消失 And he always disappeared when I had a headache,
但他从未离开过 but he was never far away
当我因哮喘而不能移动时 when I couldn't move for asthma.
他就像这个小阿尔伯特 He was like this little Albert
你不愿意让我给你 you would not let me give you?
发出的声音 An emanation?
只是一种不存在的发散 Only an emanation of an absence.
我担心他会离开 所以我把他写下来 I feared he would leave, and so I wrote him down.
我把这本日记写得满满的 充满了事实 And I filled this journal, bulging with facts.
但我试图插入的现实主义越多 But the more realism I tried to insert,
我越发开始怀疑 the more I began to doubt,
而且 呃 这一切都开始觉得很傻 and, er, it all began to feel silly.
我觉得很傻 I felt silly.
所以 经过一段时间的努力 So, after a time,
我在学校的炉子里把它全烧了 I burned it all in the school furnace.
此后 他就完全消失了 And after that, he disappeared altogether.
然而 我在这里 And yet, I am here.
有悖于理性 是的 Contrary to reason, yes.
我在这里 我们有工作要做 I am here, and we have work to do.
你能晚点再来吗 拜托 Can you come back later, please?
这是客房服务 宾尼医生 It's room service, Dr. Binnie.
我有你的早餐 I have your breakfast.
请稍等！ Just a minute!
必须关门 Must close door.
上午好 Good morning.
你想把它放在哪里 宾尼医生 Where would you like it, Dr. Binnie?
谢谢你 哦 我可以接受 Thank you. Oh, I can take it.
-请允许我 -不 不 我可以处理 -Please, allow me. -No. No, I can manage it.
很好 宾尼医生 我希望你休息得好 Jolly good, Dr. Binnie. I hope you are well rested.
哦 这看起来很好吃 是的 我是 Oh, that looks delicious. Yes, I am.
在这个美好的日子里 你打算做什么 What do you plan to do on this fine day?
呃 我不确定 我在即兴创作 Er, I'm not sure. I'm improvising.
好吧 我想向你展示一个美丽的艺术画廊... Well, I'd like to show you a beautiful art gallery...
-这太客气了 谢谢你 -......今天下午 当你有机会的时候 -That's so kind. Thank you. -...this afternoon, when you get a chance.
-也许下次吧 -这将是很好的 -Maybe another time. -It will be great.
谢谢你 祝你有一个美好的一天 Thank you. Have a beautiful day.
好的 很好 请享用 Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.
谢谢你! Thank you!
我明白了 一个更方便的尺寸 A more convenient size, I see.
我尽我所能去适应 I do what I can to fit in.
请 Please.
我不需要点早餐 I needn't have ordered breakfast.
这是Nan-e nokhodchi 鹰嘴豆、丁香、开心果 It's nan-e nokhodchi. Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.
它将在你的嘴里融化 It will melt in your mouth.
我可以问你一件事吗 May I ask you something?
什么都可以 Anything.
你怎么会找到我的瓶子里 How come you found your way into my bottle?
啊 这是个很好的故事 Ah, it's quite a story.
那是我第三次被监禁 That was my third incarceration.
你已经被困在瓶子里三次了 You've been trapped in a bottle three times?
我可能是一个精灵 但我也是一个傻瓜 I may be a djinn, but I'm also a fool
对女人的谈话太有好感了 with too great a fondness for the conversation of women.
我今后需要更加小心 I need to be more careful in the future.
你当初是怎么被抓住的 How were you caught in the first place?
通过愿望 By desire.
还能怎样 How else?
她是谁 Who was she?
谢巴 Sheba.
希巴女王 The Queen of Sheba?
她是我的亲戚 She was my kin.
她是一个精灵 She was a djinn?
她的母亲是一个精灵 Her mother was a djinn.
这有可能吗 Is that possible?
有一些法律允许精灵和凡人的结合 There are laws that allow the union of djinn and mortals,
但他们不能产生不朽的子孙 but they cannot produce an immortal scion
驴马之道 the way a donkey and a horse
只能生产出无籽的骡子 can only produce a seedless mule.
那么 她是什么样子的呢 So, what did she look like?
除了她腿上浓密的黑发外 Other than a thick glade of black hair on her legs,
她看起来像任何其他人 she looked like any other human being,
当然 除了 她是示巴 except, of course, she was Sheba.
从各方面来看 她都非常漂亮 By all accounts, she was very beautiful.
她并不美丽 她就是美丽本身 She was not beautiful. She was beauty itself.
我在各方面都是自由的 I was in every way free.
我将在她的睡房里进进出出 I would come in and out of her sleeping chamber.
谢巴... Sheba...
我和她的任何一个女奴一样清楚地知道 I knew as well as any of her female slaves
让她幸福得发抖的触觉 the touches that made her shiver with bliss.
我从来没有如此想要一个生物 Never have I wanted a creature so.
而她渴望得到你的回报 And she desired you in return?
我是她的玩物 她的红颜知己 I was her plaything. Her confidante.
如果不是为了所罗门 我可能已经变得更多 I might have become more, but for Solomon.
所罗门王 King Solomon?
祝福他的记忆 Blessed be his memory.
他从沙漠的另一端来向她求婚 He came from across the deserts to woo her.
她没有去找他吗 Didn't she go to him?
不 从来没有 No. Never.
但它在所有的圣书中都有 But it's in all the holy books.
所有的故事和绘画 All the stories and the paintings.
亨德尔还为此写了音乐 And Handel wrote music about it.
女士 我当时在场 Madam, I was there.
所罗门向她走来 Solomon came to her.
他从音乐开始 He began with music.
我尽我所能地劝阻她 I did all that I could to dissuade her.
但当她用 But when she used
雅巴萨蜜蜂的香蜡 the scented wax of the Jabassa Bee
来去除她腿上的毛发 to remove the hair from her legs,
我知道我已经迷失了 I knew that I was lost.
但我像个傻瓜一样 继续告诉她 But I, like a fool, went on telling her
她的身体是丰富而可爱的 that her body was rich and lovely,
但她的思想却更丰富、更可爱 but her mind was richer and lovelier,
而且更耐用 and more durable.
她同意我所说的一切 And she agreed with all that I said,
并掉下一滴热泪 and dropped a hot tear.
她开始给他布置任务 这似乎是不可能的 She began to set him tasks, which seemed impossible,
觅得一缕红丝 to find a particular thread of red silk
在千室一厅的宫殿里 in the palace of a thousand rooms,
来猜测她母亲精灵的秘密名字 to guess the secret name of her mother djinn,
来告诉她女人最渴望什么 to tell her what women most desire.
这看起来确实不可能 That does seem impossible.
对他来说不是 Not for him.
他可以和地上的野兽说话 He could speak to the beasts of the earth,
并对由微妙的火做成的精灵 and to the Djinn made of subtle fire.
他找到了蚂蚁来发现丝线 He found ants to discover the thread of silk,
和一个Ifrit来悄悄告诉母亲的名字 and an ifrit to whisper the mother's name.
然后他看着她的眼睛 Then he looked into her eyes
并告诉她女人最渴望的东西 and told her what women most desire.
她感到很惊讶 She was astonished,
并告诉他 他是对的 and told him he was right.
于是 她答应了他最想要的东西 And so she granted him what he most desired,
这就是与她结婚并被带到她的床上 which was to wed her and be taken to her bed.
他是一个伟大的魔术师... He was a great magician...
-......把我囚禁起来 - -...and imprisoned me
带着力量的话语进入一个铜瓶 with a word of power into a brass bottle.
她没有为我求情 She made no plea for me.
我对她来说什么都不是 I was nothing to her.
瓶子里的呼吸 A breath in a bottle.
就这样 我被扔进了红海 And so, I was cast into the Red Sea
并消磨了两千五百年 and languished for two and a half thousand years.
除了睡眠之外 Apart from sleep,
一个人在瓶子里呆了两千五百年 做了什么 what does one do in a bottle for two and a half thousand years?
Djinn不睡觉 Djinn don't sleep.
那么 你是如何管理的呢 So, how do you manage then?
好吧 在最初的100年里 我对我的命运感到愤怒 Well, for the first 100 years, I rage against my fate.
我向Boschkolo祈求释放我 I pray to Boschkolo for my release,
当这些都不起作用时 我就向我知道的任何神灵祈祷 and when that does not work, I pray to any god I know,
然后向任何我可能不知道的神明 and then to any god I may not know.
而当 我仍然没有找到答案 And when, still, I find no answers,
我在清醒的梦中度过我的时间 I spend my time in waking dreams
重新审视我生命中的所有故事 revisiting all the stories of my life.
而当我已经用尽了很多很多次 And when I have exhausted this many, many times,
我回到了我的祈祷和愤怒中 I return to my prayer and my rage.
然后 最后 And then, finally,
我对自己玩了一个把戏 I play a trick on myself.
我祈祷留在瓶子里 I pray to remain in the bottle.
我恳求Boschkolo让我永远留在瓶子里 I beseech Boschkolo to keep me always in the bottle.
那这样做有用吗 And does that work?
渴望什么 To yearn for nothing?
假装不想要更多的东西 To pretend to want nothing more
比起被装在瓶子里 than to be contained in a bottle?
没有 No.
对于一个精灵来说 这是我们最接近死亡的时候了 For a djinn, it is the closest we ever come to death.
你知道她问题的答案吗 Do you know the answer to her question?
女性最渴望的是什么 What women most desire?
是的 Yeah.
你不知道吗 Do you not know?
如果你不知道 我不能告诉你 If you do not know, I cannot tell you.
好吧 当然 我们并不都想要同样的东西 Well, surely, we don't all want the same thing.
夫人 你的愿望我一点也不清楚 Madam, your yearnings are not at all clear to me.
I...我正处于我生命中的一个节点 我拥有我所需要的一切 I... I'm at a point in my life where I have all I need.
我敢说我很满足 而且很感激 I daresay I'm content, and gratefully so.
告诉我 Tell me.
你是一个妻子吗 寡妇 Are you a wife? A widow?
-嗯......也许是个母亲 -Um... -A mother, perhaps?
我没有孩子 没有兄弟姐妹 没有父母 I have no children, no siblings, no parents.
我确实曾经有一个丈夫 I did once have a husband.
啊 Ah.
那么这位丈夫的肤色如何呢 And what was the complexion of this husband?
他的肤色 His complexion?
在开始时 它是发光的 In the beginning, it was glowing.
在结局中呢 And in the ending?
这并不是什么故事 It's not much of a story.
但这是一个故事 它是你的故事 But it is a story. It is your story,
而它总是明智的 and it is always wise
以了解那些对你有控制权的人 to understand those who have a hold on you.
请 Please.
嗯 好的 嗯... Well, okay, um...
我们从年轻时就认识对方 We'd known each other since our youth.
我们 呃 很早就结婚了 We, er, married early.
在开始时 我们很高兴 In the beginning, we took pleasure
在彼此的思想和身体中 in each other's minds and bodies.
嗯... Um...
我们舒适地度过了这几年 We passed the years comfortably,
然后 当它发生时 and then as it happens,
它全部蒸发了 it all evaporated,
和 呃......我们成为 and, er... and we became
少 less.
那他在哪里 And where is he?
他在哈克尼 和艾玛琳-波特在一起 He's in Hackney, with Emmeline Porter.
嗯 Mm.
他告诉我 我... He told me I...
我没有能力读懂感情 I was incapable of reading feelings.
我没有能力读懂他的感受 I was incapable of reading his feelings.
...会有一个决议 ...gonna have a resolution.
这真是令人振奋啊! This is exciting!
-这很令人兴奋!- 不 不是的 -It is exciting! - No, it's not.
让我猜猜看 没有人死在里面 Let me guess. No one dies in it.
不! No!
我的大脑思维方式是......是...... The way my brain is wired is... is the...
我的力量之源 the source both of my power
和 呃 和我的孤独 and, er, and my solitude.
我怀疑这就是我喜欢故事的原因 I suspect that's why I like stories.
我通过故事找到感觉 I find feelings through stories.
也许你可以希望他回来 Perhaps you could wish for him back.
哦 不 不 不 不 不 不 不 Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.
没有 No.
I...我想 嗯 I... I thought, um,
我可能会对损失和背叛感到悲伤 但是 呃 I might grieve a loss and betrayal, but, er,
不 事实上 我是自由的 no, in fact, I was free.
我就像一个囚犯 I was like a prisoner
从地牢里走出来 来到阳光下 emerging from a dungeon into the sunlight.
我扩展到我自己的生活空间 I expanded into the space of my own life.
不 我不能希望更多 No, I could not wish for more.
你是一个聪明而谨慎的女人 Alithea You are a wise and cautious woman, Alithea.
但我们都有欲望 But we all have desires,
即使他们仍然对我们隐瞒 even if they remain hidden from us.
这就像也许 That's as maybe.
但我也是一个叙事学家 But I am also a narratologist,
而这将是一个问题 and that is going to be a problem.
这将是一个非常大的问题 It's going to be a very big problem.
看 我知道所有的故事都有 See, I know all the stories there are
关于诡计多端的精灵 about trickster djinn,
以及他们操纵愿望的方式 and the ways in which they manipulate wishing
以达到他们自己的目的 to their own ends.
我不是他们中的一员 I am not one of them.
我敬畏神灵、诚实守信 I am god-fearing and honorable,
并只在这里实现你的心愿 and only here to grant your heart's desire.
好吧 即使那是真的 Well, even if that's true,
你怎么能依靠那些被召唤的人的愿望 how can you rely on those called upon to wish?
你怎么知道你可以依靠我 How do you know you can rely on me?
嗯 我希望如此 Well, I hope so.
和你一起 我当然希望如此 With you, I certainly hope so.
有一个... There's a...
有趣的小故事 我的意思是 你可能知道它 funny little story. I mean, you probably know it.
三个朋友在一艘小船上迷失在海上 Three friends lost at sea in a tiny boat.
他们拉起一条神奇的鱼 They pull up a magic fish,
他给予他们每个人一个愿望 who grants each of them one wish.
第一个 The first one,
"我希望我在家里和我的妻子在一起" "I wish I were at home with my wife."
他消失了 He vanishes.
第二首 "我希望我在玩 The second one, "I wish I were playing
在田里和我的孩子们一起" in the fields with my children."
他走了 Off he goes.
还有第三条 "我想念我的朋友......" And the third one, "I miss my friends..."
"我希望他们在这里 " "I wish they were here."
你已经得到了它 You've got it.
关于许愿的故事 没有一个不是警示性的故事 There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale.
没有一个结局是快乐的 None end happily.
甚至那些应该是笑话的也不例外 Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
但你和我才是这个故事的作者 But you and I are the authors of this story,
而我们可以避免所有的陷阱 and we can avoid all traps.
那么 如果我根本就没有许愿呢 Well, what if I made no wish at all?
什么 Pardon?
如果我没有许愿呢 What if I made no wish?
这将是一个... That would be an...
- - - -
这将是 That would be
灾难性的! catastrophic!
好的 All right.
- - - -
我需要告诉你我的下一次监禁的情况 I need to tell you about my next incarceration.
我洗耳恭听 I'm all ears.
我永远不会知道 I will never know
我的瓶子如何从红海之底来到... how my bottle came from the bottom of the Red Sea to...
...到君士坦丁堡的一个宫殿 ...to a palace in Constantinople.
但我认为这涉及到 But I fancy somehow it involved
杀害一名奥斯曼帝国战士的事件 the killing of an Ottoman warrior.
一个帝国的衰落 The fall of an empire.
还有一个恋爱中的女孩 And a girl in love.
梅尔哈巴 Merhaba.
古尔丹以奴隶身份生活 Gulten lived as a slave
嫔妃们的院子里 in the courtyard of the concubines
在塞拉格里奥 in the seraglio.
- - - -
当我出现在她面前时... When I appeared to her...
...她晕倒了 ...she fainted.
我很难唤醒她 And I had great trouble rousing her.
我明确表示 我没有伤害她的意思 I made it clear that I meant her no harm,
因为我注定要在酒中度过 for I was condemned to the bottle.
直到你得到你的三个愿望 Until you got your three wishes.
-直到她得到她的为止 - -Until she got hers. -
-请 -好的 -Please. -Okay.
现在 这个可怜的女孩告诉我 Now, the poor girl told me
她心不在焉地爱上了一个美丽的男人... she was distractedly in love with a beautiful man...
......她立即希望 ...and she wished immediately
在他的眼里找到青睐 to find favor in his eyes.
-正如它所发生的 - - As it happens,
她最渴望的是辉煌的穆斯塔法 the one she most desired was the splendid Mustafa.
穆斯塔法王子 Prince Mustafa.
苏莱曼大帝的长子 Eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent,
并可能成为他强大王位的继承人 and likely heir to his mighty throne.
如果我知道将要发生的事情 Had I known what was to come,
我愿意冒着伊比利斯的愤怒的危险 I would've risked the furies of Iblis
激烈地分散她的注意力 让她放弃她的愿望 to vehemently distract her from her wish.
但不假思索 But without thinking,
我拿着我的瓶子 变出了油 I took my bottle and conjured oils
为她做准备 to prepare her.
魅力之油 Oils of enchantment
曾经只由Sheba使用 once used only by Sheba.
我告诫她要把瓶子藏起来 I cautioned her to hide the bottle
以免其权力落入他人手中 lest its powers fall into other hands.
我去找了穆斯塔法 I went to Mustafa.
古尔丹 Gulten.
我低声叫着她的名字 I whispered her name.
他派人去找她 He sent for her.
这是很容易的 It was so easy.
作为一个精灵 我有无尽的好奇心 As a djinn, I am endlessly curious
关于人类的方式 about the ways of humans.
因此 在我的业余时间里 So, in my spare time,
我开始在皇宫里闲逛 寻找它的阴谋诡计 I took to wandering the palace in search of its intrigues.
而在那里 在太监中 And there, among the eunuchs,
妃子们和嫔妃们 the consorts, and the concubines,
我第一次见到胡里姆 I first saw Hurrem.
欢笑的人 The Laughing One.
她也是一个奴隶 She, too, was a slave
在他们中间崛起的人 who had risen through the center of them all
成为苏丹的宠儿 to become the Sultan's favorite.
苏莱曼智者除了看到她之外 没有其他人 Suleiman the Wise saw none but her.
她试图保护他的王位 And she sought to protect his throne
在她自己的儿子们的支持下 而不是他心爱的穆斯塔法 in favor of her own sons over his beloved Mustafa.
为了这个目的 她让人监视王子 And to this end, she had the prince watched
被许多探究的眼睛盯着 by many probing eyes.
当我看到Hurrem如何 When I saw how Hurrem
她的操纵是一个杰作 made a masterpiece of her manipulations,
我担心我的古尔丹会被卷入这个网中 I worried that my Gulten might be caught in this web.
我试图警告她要小心 I tried to warn her to be careful.
但她已经决定了她的第二个愿望 But she had already decided on her second wish.
这样的错误 Such a mistake.
因为在这一刻 Because at this moment,
苏莱曼 愿他的名字得到保佑 Suleiman, blessed be his name,
正在受到破坏 is being undermined.
他的勇士们认为他正在软化 His warriors believe he is going soft,
对他的诗作更感兴趣 more interested in his poetry
比起用强势的手来统治 than ruling with a strong hand.
赫里姆为谣言推波助澜 Hurrem fuels the rumors
军队要夺取他的王位 that the military want to take his throne
并用穆斯塔法取代他 and replace him with Mustafa.
王子已经成为一个棋子 The prince has become a pawn
在无休止的权力游戏中 in the ceaseless game of power.
苏莱曼大帝 Suleiman the Magnificent,
征服者苏莱曼 Suleiman the Conqueror,
帝国的守护者和保护者 patron and protector of empires,
苏莱曼之父 Suleiman the Father,
只剩下了一个选择 was left with a choice
他知道这将使他心碎 that he knows will break his heart.
同时 古尔丹认为没有理由 Gulten, meantime, saw no reason
为什么她应该保持不被发现 why she should remain unseen.
鉴于她怀的是下一任苏丹的儿子 Given she was carrying the son of the next Sultan.
尽管我提出了种种警告 Despite all my warnings,
她炫耀她新近膨胀的乳房和腹部 she parades her newly swollen breasts and belly.
而这些悄悄话很快就传遍了整个农庄 And the whispers soon spread throughout the seraglio.
可怕的阴谋行动得太快了 The terrible plottings move all too quickly.
穆斯塔法王子无辜地来到 Prince Mustafa comes innocently
进入他父亲的面前 into the presence of his father,
以保证他的忠诚 to reassure him of his loyalty.
而哑巴们正在等着他 And the mutes are waiting for him.
他向他的贾尼瑟斯人喊道 He cried out to his Janissaries,
爱他的人 who loved him,
但他的声音被粉碎了 他的呼吸停止了 but his voice was crushed and his breath stopped
在他父亲的弓弦上 by the string of his father's bow.
-古尔丹! - - Gulten!
"许个愿吧! "Make a wish!
救救你自己 古尔丹！" Save yourself, Gulten!"
只要说几句话 她就能获得自由 Just a few words and she could have been free
以安全地生下她的孩子 to bear her child in safety,
我和我的灵魂终于到了精灵的境界 and I to spirit away at last to the Realm of Djinn.
但她跑到了刺客的手里 But she ran into the hands of the assassins.
- - - -
我正准备用武力夺取它们 I was about to take them by force,
当我被一个伊比利斯的追随者封锁时 when I was blocked by a follower of Iblis.
- - - -
Gulten! Gulten!
她没有提出要拯救自己的愿望 She made no wish to save herself.
没有为拯救我们俩而许愿 No wish was made to save us both.
所以 我在那里 So, there I was,
或者说我不在那里 你可以说 or there I was not, might you say,
几乎被解放出来 被拴在这个世界上 almost emancipated and tethered to this world
由第三个愿望未实现 by a third wish unperformed.
但你意识到了 不是吗 But you realize, don't you,
你刚刚告诉我的故事 that you've just told me the story
一个注定失败的女人的故事 of a woman who was doomed
作为她所做的愿望的结果 as a consequence of the wishes she made?
是的 但她没有完成愿望 Yes, but her failure to complete the wishes
也注定了我的命运 also doomed me.
没有人可以完成这个愿望吗 Could nobody else complete the wish?
这是我的希望 That was my hope.
而这将最终解放你 And that would finally liberate you?
这是我唯一的希望 That was my only hope.
但你却被弄得看不见了 But you were rendered invisible.
像一个幽灵 Like a ghost.
徘徊在看不见的地方 Wandering unseen.
还有你的瓶子 And your bottle,
藏在松动的石头下 hidden under the loosened stone
只有死去的古尔丹知道 known only to the dead Gulten.
是的 那是一种困境 Yes, it was a predicament.
我试图吸引某人的注意 I tried to attract the attention of someone,
任何可以帮助我的人 anyone that could help me.
我的星星 我多么努力 My stars, how I tried.
我跟随他们的气味 他们的每一步 I followed their scent, their every step.
愿意的 恳求的 尖叫的 Willing, pleading, screaming.
只要能吸引他们来找我 Anything to draw them to me.
- - - -
而我这样做的目的是可怜的100年 And I do this piteously for 100 years,
每一次失败 我的意志就开始消退 and with every failure, my will begins to fade.
然后在1620年 And then in 1620,
希望以一个拿着剑的男孩的形式出现 hope comes in the form of a boy with a sword.
穆拉德！穆拉德！ Murad! Murad!
穆拉德！ Murad!
通过某种方式 这个男孩感觉到了我 By some means, this boy senses me.
我能够把他引到石头上 I'm able to draw him to the stone.
易卜拉欣！ Ibrahim!
凝胶 Gel.
穆拉德！ Murad!
易卜拉欣！ Ibrahim!
就在我即将被送到的时候 And just as I am about to be delivered
到他们手中 into their hands,
他们的母亲找到他们 their mother finds them.
她是Kosem She is Kosem,
是苏丹艾哈迈德一世的遗孀 a widow of the Sultan, Ahmed the First.
而男孩们则是王位的下一个继承者 And the boys are next in line for the throne.
当我看到他腿上的毛发 When I see the hair on his legs,
我知道在穆拉德的某处血脉中 I know that somewhere in Murad's bloodline
涌动着一个精灵的力量 pulses the power of a djinn.
我到处跟着他 I follow him everywhere,
决心把他拉回到石头上 determined to draw him back to the stone.
但在11岁时 他就登上了王位 But at the age of 11, he ascends the throne
并成为穆拉德四世苏丹 and becomes Sultan Murad the Fourth.
并被通常的阴谋诡计所吸引 And caught up by the usual intrigues,
他对我来说更加迷茫 he is even more lost to me.
20岁时 他带领他的军队去打仗 At 20, he leads his armies to war.
他与他的手下并肩作战 He battles alongside his men
在高加索和美索不达米亚 in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
关于他的鲁莽行为的故事被传为佳话 Stories are told of his recklessness,
甚至用他自己的生命 even with his own life.
我对再次见到他感到绝望 I despair of ever seeing him again.
希望是一个怪物 Alithea 而我是它的玩物 Hope is a monster, Alithea, and I am its plaything.
所以他死了 So he died?
不是在战斗中 Not in battle.
回到伊斯坦布尔 Back in Istanbul,
科森需要保护王位 Kosem needs to protect the throne.
她需要保护易卜拉欣 She needs to protect Ibrahim.
那个小兄弟 是的 The little brother? Yes.
他是奥斯曼家族的最后一位成员 He is last of the Ottoman line.
他必须生育男性子女 He has to produce male children.
因此 科塞姆把他锁在一个完全由黑貂皮铺成的笼子里 So, Kosem locks him in a cage lined entirely with sable.
相当于监狱 Quite the prison.
而且是一个他永远不想离开的地方 And one he will never want to leave.
这让他大为放荡 It debauches him royally.
他相信肉体的广度越大 He believes the greater the expanse of flesh,
快感越强烈 the more intense the pleasure.
因此 科塞姆寻找丰满而巨大的美女 So, Kosem seeks out beauties voluptuous and immense,
并把他们带到他的沙发上 and brings them to his couch.
我的命运具体转折在这个癖好上 My fate turns specifically on this fetish.
怎么说呢 How's that?
你会看到 You'll see.
穆拉德回来了 Murad is back.
虽然他回来时是个征服者 And though he returns a conqueror,
他不能舍弃他的血袍 he cannot shed his robes of blood.
战争确实腐化了他的灵魂 War had truly rotted his soul.
我等待着 直到他独自一人 I wait until he is alone.
我决心把他引回石头上 I am determined to draw him back to the stone.
我不想打断 但我确实有一个问题 I don't want to interrupt, but I do have a question.
对你来说 什么样的愿望很重要吗 Did it matter to you what kind of wish
这样的人可能会做出什么 such a man might make?
一个如此贪得无厌的人 One so insatiable.
没有 No.
即使它是深刻的邪恶也不行 Not even if it were profoundly evil?
如果这意味着我的自由 就不会 Not if it meant my freedom.
事实是他有其他事情要做 The truth is he has other things on his mind.
他相信自己是无敌的 He believes he is invincible,
而要无限期地统治 他必须摆脱所有的对手 and to rule indefinitely, he must be rid of all rivals.
易卜拉欣 Ibrahim.
科萨姆需要阻止他 Kosem needs to stop him.
不知何故 她需要转移他的注意力 Somehow, she needed to distract him
从他的嗜血中得到其他的满足 from his bloodlust with other gratifications.
首先 她安排他永远处于醉酒状态 First, she arranges for him to be perpetually drunk.
然后她尝试了一些非常精明的做法 And then she tries something very shrewd.
你可能会喜欢的东西 Something that you might enjoy.
她派人去找 She sends to find,
来自帝国的各个角落 from all corners of the empire,
最好的讲故事的人 the best storytellers.
- - - -
那些没有说服力的人 Those who are not persuasive
恐惧中逃亡 或倒在他的不耐烦中 flee in fear or fall to his impatience.
只有一个 There is only one
谁有能力使他着迷 who has the ability to enchant him.
用故事来抚慰 To soothe with stories,
以此来挟持他的展开 to hold him hostage to their unfolding.
这是他唯一的朋友 This is his only friend.
而这种友谊变成了爱情 And that friendship turns to love.
既然我没有别的事可做 Since there is nothing else for me to do,
我感激地听着 I listen gratefully,
因为我也喜欢在他的故事中迷失 for I, too, love being lost in his stories.
当老人死后 When the old man dies,
王宫里的人都逃到街上去了 all in the palace flee to the streets,
因为他们担心穆拉德的悲痛会招致新的谋杀 for they fear Murad's grief will incur fresh murder.
但他只是坐着 嚎叫着 喝到空空如也 But he just sits, and howls, and drinks until he is empty.
而我的耐心得到了回报 And my patience is rewarded.
因为在这种状态下 For in this state,
我终于能够引起他的注意了 I am finally able to get his attention
并把他引回秘密浴室 and draw him back to the secret bathroom.
哦 我知道这是要去哪里 Oh, I know where this is going.
他将会太虚弱 无法举起石头 He's going to be too weak to lift the stone.
甚至连转动门闩的能力都太弱 Too weak even to turn the latch.
于是 他离开了 喝得酩酊大醉 永远睡不着觉 So, he leaves and drinks himself to permanent sleep.
哦! Oh!
而我就在那里 And there I am,
留给我自己的遗忘 left to my own oblivion,
没有人可以听到我的声音 with no one to hear my voice,
没有人认识我 也没有人感受我 更没有人感知我 no one to know me, nor feel me, nor sense me.
你无法想象 You can't imagine.
嗯 实际上 我可以 Well, actually, I can.
你能想象那种孤独感吗 Can you imagine the loneliness?
它可能如何压倒 How it might overwhelm?
我可以 I can.
只有当我们对别人来说是真实的 我们才会存在 We exist only if we are real to others.
你同意吗 Do you agree?
我愿意 I do.
那么 这就是我们的命运 Alithea This, then, is our fate, Alithea.
如果你根本就不许愿 If you make no wish at all,
我将被夹在两个世界之间 I will be caught between worlds,
在所有的时间里 隐形和孤独 invisible and alone, for all of time.
许个愿吧 阿利提亚 Make a wish, Alithea.
让它成为你的心愿 Make it your heart's desire.
如果我是你 我会更加小心 I'd be more careful if I were you.
很明显 你设法找到了自己的出路 Obviously, you managed to find your way out.
或多或少 More or less.
我开始认为我是在一个诡计多端的人面前 I'm beginning to think I'm in the presence of a trickster.
这将会好得多 That would be so much better.
我的工作会轻松很多 My work would be so much easier.
但事实是 我只是一个白痴 But the truth is, I am just an idiot
运气差得离谱的人 who has been extravagantly unlucky.
好吧 我不得不相信你的话 Well, I have to take your word for that.
那么 So?
易卜拉欣 我想 成为苏丹 Ibrahim, I suppose, becomes Sultan?
易卜拉欣必须被拖到王位上 Ibrahim has to be dragged to the throne.
他任命了他的一个嫔妃 He appoints one of his concubines
大马士革的总督 Governor of Damascus.
她的名字叫糖块 Her name is Sugar Lump.
无论从哪个角度看 都是他的最爱 By every measure, his favorite.
如果她不是自由漫游的话 Had she not been free to roam,
她就不会发现那个秘密浴室 she would not have found the secret bathroom.
如果她没有决定去洗澡 Had she not decided to take a bath,
它就不会过度填充 it would not have overfilled.
如果她不是笨手笨脚的 Had she not been clumsy
当她走过地板时 as she walked across the floor,
她就不会滑倒 砸到石头 she would not have slipped, smashed the stone,
-并找到了我的瓶子 -啊 是的 -and found my bottle. -Ah, yeah.
说实话 我本应该更有尊严 To be honest, I should have been more dignified.
但我开始乞求 无耻地乞求 But I began to beg, shamelessly.
"我希望你能回来 "I wish you were back
在你的瓶子里 在博斯普鲁斯海峡的底部 " in your bottle at the bottom of the Bosphorus."
所以我在这里 So here I am,
落入你的小心翼翼的手中 fallen into your careful hands.
似乎我们无法逃避对方 Seems we cannot escape each other.
你让我受你的摆布 You have me at your mercy.
这个愿望... This wishing...
这是一种危险的艺术 It's a hazardous art.
"我希望 "带来无限的解脱 "I wish" brings infinite unravelings.
不一定 Not necessarily.
-嗯 你自己的故事里都有 -我知道 但是... -Well, it's there in all your own stories. -I know, but...
你说你不是一个诡计多端的人 You say you're not a trickster,
而你说你和我是这个故事的作者 and you say that you and I are the authors of this story.
但我无法把自己写出来 But I'm not able to write myself out of it.
正确 Correct.
你为什么不跳回你的瓶子里呢 Why don't you just hop back into your bottle
我就把它交给更容易受骗的人 and I'll give it to someone more gullible?
有人更绝望了 更加贪婪的人 Someone more desperate. Someone more greedy.
我不会再回到瓶子里了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
为什么不呢 Why not?
我不会再回到瓶子里了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
好吧 我不是在提出三个愿望 Well, I am not making three wishes.
那么你就把我送到我的遗忘处 Then you are sending me to my oblivion.
哦 你是不可能的 Oh, you're impossible.
而你却让我头疼 And you are giving me a headache.
好的 好的 All right. All right.
我的做法是这样的 我将提出三个愿望 Here's what I'll do. I will make three wishes.
-我会的 -在你死之前 -I will. -Before you die?
就在此时 一个接一个 Right now. One after the other.
-准备好了吗 -嗯 嗯 -Ready? -Mm-hmm.
第一件事 我希望你的头痛已经消失 Number one. I wish your headache were gone.
第二 Number two.
我希望能喝上一口这种茶 I wish for a sip of this tea.
最后 我希望再来一次这样的活动 And finally, I wish for another one of those.
你嘲弄我 You mock me.
三个愿望 非常简单 Three wishes, perfectly simple,
而且理论上是安全的 and theoretically safe.
我正是被所罗门囚禁的 I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
因为我喊出了我心中的愿望 because I cried out my heart's desire.
只有给予你你的 我才能获得释放 Only by granting you yours may I earn my release.
是的 嗯 我很欣赏这种对称性 Yes, well, I appreciate the symmetry,
但事情是这样的 but the thing is this,
我这辈子都无法唤起一个合格的愿望 I cannot for the life of me summon up one eligible wish.
而你却要向我要三个 And you're asking me for three.
你有任何生命吗 你甚至还活着吗 Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
你知道 在一些文化中 You know, in some cultures,
没有欲望意味着开悟 absence of desire means enlightenment.
那么你就是一个虔诚的傻瓜 Then you are a pious fool.
如果我很满足 为什么要试探命运 If I'm content, why tempt fate?
而你是个懦夫 And you're a coward.
不要诱导我 Don't goad me.
没有人类 没有天使 也没有精灵 There is no human, no angel, nor djinn
不抓紧机会 that wouldn't grasp at the chance
以满足他们最深切的渴望 to fulfill their deepest longings,
而我却被一个 and I am saddled with the one
声称什么都不想要的人 who claims to want nothing at all.
Alithea Binnie 你是个骗子! Alithea Binnie, you are a liar!
你知道 我开始希望我们从未见过面 You know, I am beginning to wish we never met.
不！不！不！ No! Nyet!
别这么说! Don't say that!
- - - -
所以... So...
这以前就发生在你身上 that's happened to you before.
而且情况很糟糕 And it was bad.
这很糟糕 'Twas bad.
那是苦的 'Twas bitter.
这是最残酷的愿望 'Twas the cruelest wish of all.
你又一次被愚蠢的行为破坏了 You were undone by silliness yet again.
我在这里是因为一个天才 I'm here because of a genius.
这次是谁呢 Who was it this time?
她是Zefir She was Zefir.
在人类中很少有这样的奇迹 Rarely among humankind has there been such a wonder.
但你在这里是因为她的愚蠢 But you're here because of her folly.
我是由于泽菲尔的缘故才落得如此下场 I ended up in this as a consequence of Zefir.
而这是一个故事 And this is the story
你一直都在避免告诉我 you've been avoiding telling me all along.
这是我一直避免告诉甚至是自己的故事 This is the story I've avoided telling even myself.
泽菲尔是一个弃儿 Zefir was a foundling,
12岁时嫁给了一个富有的商人 married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.
他比她大得多 而且很善良 He was much older than her, and kind,
如果你认为把一个人像鸟一样关在笼子里是善良的 if you think keeping someone like a bird in a cage is kind.
有两位年长的妻子 她们不喜欢她 There were two older wives, who did not like her
并且根本没有和她说话 and did not talk to her at all.
每个人 包括仆人 Everyone, including the servants,
似乎是在嘲笑她 seemed to be mocking her.
她既没有礼仪 也没有学问 She had neither etiquette nor learning.
她长得并不漂亮 She grew to no great beauty
并不知道为什么而生气 and was angry without knowing why.
正如命运所安排的那样 我的瓶子来到了她身边 As the fates would have it, my bottle came to her
作为她丈夫的爱情信物 as a love token from her husband.
当她完成了对他的满足之后 And when she had finished satisfying him
并最终独自一人 and was finally alone,
她设法撬开了它 she managed to prise it open.
仿佛她在等待我 It was as if she was waiting for me.
我一眼就看出 她很敏锐 I saw at once that she was sharp,
她看到我很绝望 and she saw that I was desperate
为自由和谈话 for freedom and conversation.
我告诉了她我的故事 正如我告诉你的那样 I told her my story, as I have told you,
她通过她所做的东西向我展示了自己 and she revealed herself to me by the things she had made.
凝胶 凝胶 Gel. Gel.
凝胶 Gel.
她本可以被记住的 She could have been remembered
像天才的达芬奇一样 like the genius da Vinci,
其关于飞行的理论 whose theories on flight
是苏丹和国王们的谈资 were the talk of sultans and kings.
她是一个熟练的艺术家 但没有人看到她的艺术 She was a skilled artist, but no one saw her art.
她告诉我她被吃掉了 She told me she was eaten up
有未使用的电源 with unused power.
她认为她可能是个女巫 She thought she might be a witch.
她说 如果她是一个男人 则除外 Except, she said, if she were a man,
她的智力通常会被接受 her intellect would have been ordinarily accepted.
她是一个热衷于学习的女人 She was a woman ardent for learning,
而且我知道她的第一个愿望是什么 and I knew what her first wish would be.
这让我很高兴 And it delighted me
来实现这个愿望 to fulfill this wish.
所以 我教她历史、哲学 So, I taught her histories, philosophies,
语言 诗歌 languages, poetry.
我教她天文学 数学 I taught her astronomy, mathematics,
这对她来说是一种幸福 which was bliss to her.
我带来了她的书籍和著作 I brought her books and writings,
我们把它藏在她收集的瓶子里 which we hid in her collection of bottles.
萨巴赫... Sabah...
她可以随时向亚里士多德求助 She could always call on Aristotle
从一个红色玻璃瓶中取出 from a red glass jar,
或欧几里得的绿色 or Euclid from a green,
毕达哥拉斯 斯宾诺莎 Pythagoras, Spinoza,
而不需要我去重新体现它们 without needing me to re-embody them.
我们把整个世界都放在她的房间里 We had the whole world in her room,
而我却把心丢给了她 and I lost my heart to her.
能使她快乐是我的幸福 'Twas my bliss to make her happy.
为了看到她的蓬勃发展 To see her flourish.
而且她在各方面都很兴旺 And she flourished in every way.
完全的 Totalmente.
她开始反叛 She began to rebel
即使是反对屈服的姿态 even against the gestures of submission
她丈夫要求的 that her husband required,
因为她已经掌握了爱情的技巧 for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft,
人迹罕至的地方 out of reach of any human
没有和精灵做爱过的人 that had not made love to a djinn.
他对她的渴求变成了一种痴迷 His cravings for her became an obsession.
而他什么时候会来找她 And when he would come to her,
我将离开她的房间 前往天空 I would leave her room and journey the skies.
我看到了山 看到了海洋...... I saw the mountains, the oceans...
我看到森林里的野兽 I saw the beasts of the forest,
无人踏足的地方 where no man treads.
当我回来时 她会等着我 And when I would return, she would be waiting for me.
我将告诉她我的一天 她会高兴得晕过去 I would tell her of my day, and she would faint with joy
和失望 and disappointment.
她为什么不发愿获得自由呢 Why did she not make a wish to be free?
对她来说有更重要的东西 There was something more important to her.
她设计了一个 "数学" " She had devised a "mathematica,"
一种语言来解释这些力量 a language to explain the forces
带来空间、时间和物质的存在 which bring space, and time, and matter into being.
她是普罗米修斯人 很勇敢 She was Promethean, brave.
但她无法解决这个难题 But she could not solve this puzzle.
她需要一把钥匙 She needed a key,
一把打开她感知之门的钥匙 a key to open the doors of her perception.
所以 她使用了她的第二个愿望 So, she used her second wish.
我教她像精灵一样做梦 醒着 I taught her to dream as djinn do, awake.
而这样一来 解决方案就来到了她的身边 And this way, the solutions came to her.
她能够解释看不见的力量 She was able to explain powers invisible,
电磁场和力... electromagnetic fields and forces...
精灵就是由这些东西组成的 The very stuff of which djinn are made.
你是电磁的 You're electromagnetic?
正如你是尘土 我是由微妙的火组成 As you are dust, I am made of subtle fire.
而当她要生孩子的时候 And when she was to bear a child,
我被幸福所困扰 I was plagued with happiness,
因为我知道这将加强我们的力量 for I knew it would strengthen us.
她怀了你的孩子 She was carrying your child?
一个孩子 来自火和尘土 A child, of fire and dust.
那么 它在哪里出了问题 So, where did it go wrong?
阿利提亚 我爱她 Alithea, I loved her.
我喜欢她头脑中的狂热 I loved the fervor of her mind.
我喜欢她的愤怒 I loved her anger.
我爱我的权力 I loved my power
把她的眉头变成笑容 to turn her frowns into smiles.
我爱她胜过希巴 I loved her more than Sheba.
比你自己的自由更重要 More than your own freedom?
是的 Yes.
这成了我最大的愿望 要......留住她 It became my greatest desire to... to keep her,
继续做她的俘虏 to remain her prisoner.
一想到要获得自由 我的心就感到恶心 The thought of being set free sickened my heart.
我发现自己阻止了她 以免她实现第三个愿望 I caught myself stopping her lest she make her third wish.
哦 天哪 Oh, gosh.
我把它弄得一团糟 I made a mess of it.
她开始指责我陷害她 She began to accuse me of trapping her,
-像她的丈夫 - -like her husband. -
我试图做出补偿 I tried to make amends.
为了赎罪 我会把自己放在瓶子里 To atone, I would put myself in the bottle.
将被封存 To be sealed.
这样 她就可以对我拥有更多的权力 That way, she could have more power over me.
成为瓶中之物 To be nothing in a bottle.
我可以为她这样做 I could do that for her.
而且每次都会安抚 And every time, it would appease.
每次都是如此 除了最后一次 Every time, except for the last.
当 像一场突然的暴风雨 所有的雷和闪电 When, like a sudden squall, all thunder and lightning,
她开始哭泣和哀号 并说 she began to weep and wail, and said,
"我希望我可以忘记我曾经见过你 " "I wish I could forget I ever met you."
而她确实做到了 就在当下 And she did, on the instant.
她出局了 我进去了 She was out. I was in.
她已经忘记了我 She'd forgotten me.
Alithea 怎么可能... Alithea, how can it be...
完全爱一个人是个错误吗 a mistake to love someone entirely?
我有一个愿望 I have a wish.
然而 我担心这可能是一个过分的要求 However, I'm afraid it may be too much to ask.
这是我力所能及的吗 Is it within my power?
我希望如此 我确实希望如此 I hope so. I do hope so.
这是你的心愿吗 Is it your heart's desire?
是的 我很确定 Yeah, I'm certain of it.
看 嗯 See, um,
我是来爱你的 I'm here to love you.
还有 呃 And, er,
我希望你能爱我 作为回报 I wish for you to love me in return.
你想让我们做爱情工艺品 You want us to make love-craft?
是的 这也是 Yeah, that, too.
所有这一切 All of it.
而你会放弃自己去做这个 And you would abandon yourself to this?
是的 Yes.
我希望我们的孤独能在一起 I want our solitudes to be together.
我想让这种爱在不朽的故事中得到宣扬 I want that love professed in ageless tales.
我想要你对示巴女王的那种渴望 I want that longing you felt for the Queen of Sheba,
和你给你的天才的那份爱 Zefir and that love you gave to your genius, Zefir.
我想要它 I want it.
我 Me?
你 You.
你呢 You?
我 Me.
是不是太多 Is it too much?
这一切是否要求过高 Is it all too much to ask?
来 Come.
我们该如何对待被唤醒的渴望 What are we to do with longings awoken?
我怎样才能说服你 How can I persuade you
我曾经和一个精灵相爱 that I once found love with a djinn?
在任何情况下 很少有人会相信我 In any case, few would believe me.
爱不是我们通过理性得出的东西 Love is not something we come to by reason.
它更像是一种蒸气 It's more like a vapor,
一个梦想 也许 a dream, perhaps,
诱使我们进入迷魂阵 to lure us into the enchantment
我们自己的故事 of our own stories.
如果是这样的话 If that's so,
我们怎么知道它是否曾经是真实的 how are we to know if it's ever real?
这是一个真理 还是仅仅是一种疯狂 Is it a truth, or simply a madness?
我今天出发去伦敦 I leave for London today.
你会跟我回家吗 Will you come home with me?
现在的地方不是那么容易的 It's not such an easy place nowadays.
但如果你在那里 情况会更好 But it'll be better if you're there.
-请到这边来 - -Over here, please.
举起手来 Hands up.
-请走出来 - -Please step out. -
你的口袋里有什么 What is in your pockets?
哦 Oh.
呃 是一个空瓶子和一个盖子 Er, it's an empty bottle and a top.
请把它放进X射线 Please put it through X-ray.
它是非常微妙的 It is very delicate,
而且我不希望它被损坏 and I don't want it to get damaged.
它不会被损坏 请通过X光检查 It will not be damaged. Please put through X-ray.
我希望它不要进入... I would prefer that it didn't go in the...
护照 登机证 Passport. Boarding pass.
谢谢你 Thank you.
它是相当脆弱的 It's quite fragile.
女士 Madam.
这是个盐罐 It's a saltshaker.
哦 Oh.
不要！不要X光！不要求你了！ No! No X-ray! Please!
停下 夫人 停下 Stop, madam, stop.
女士 Madam.
哦 Oh.
在你自己的时间 In your own time.
这里的空气很浓 The air is thick here.
充满了坚持不懈的声音和匆忙的面孔 Full of insistent voices and rushing faces.
哦 Oh?
像小爱因斯坦一样 Like Tiny Einstein?
电视 和电话塔 以及诸如此类的东西 Television, and phone towers, and such?
是的 Yes.
是的 你所有的巧妙的装置 Yes. All your ingenious devices
所有的人都在喃喃自语 all murmuring at once.
弯曲你的头 Bend your head.
- - - -
你都听到了吗 You hear all that?
- - - -
我也看到并感受到了这一点 I also see it and feel it.
我是一个发射器 I am a transmitter.
这一切是不是太多 Isn't it all too much?
我是一个精灵 I am a djinn.
我可以适应 I can adapt.
我很快就会习惯的 I'll soon get used to it.
她回来了 She's back.
我相信她已经回来了 I believe she's back.
她和某人在一起吗 Is she with someone?
不 我想她又在自言自语了 No, I think she's talking to herself again.
你好 克莱门汀 Hello, Clementine.
芬妮 你还好吗 Fanny. Are you well?
你有什么困难吗 Did you have any trouble?
麻烦 什么样的麻烦 Trouble? What kind of trouble?
与你的外国朋友一起 With your foreign friends.
因为我们经常问自己 Because we often ask ourselves,
"宾尼博士为什么要浪费她的时间和智慧呢 "Why would Dr. Binnie waste her time and intelligence
研究别人的方法而不坚持我们自己的方法 " studying the ways of others instead of upholding our own?"
为我们的英国文化感到羞愧 是吗 Embarrassed by our British culture, are we?
不 不 No. No.
我更有可能因任何人而感到难堪 I am rather more likely to be embarrassed by anybody
反射性地对任何不同的人感到恐惧 reflexly frightened of anybody different.
你到底在说什么 What exactly are you saying?
她说我们是偏执狂 She's calling us bigots.
你的话 不是我的话 Your word, not mine.
你理解错了 You misunderstand.
-哦 -这不是他们的样子 亲爱的 -Oh? -It's not how they look, dear.
这就是他们的生活方式 他们相信什么 It's how they live. What they believe.
-他们吃什么 -你在说什么 -What they eat. -What are you on about?
无论走到哪里 都有民族人 Everywhere one goes, ethnics.
我们被淹没了 我们正在招致我们的厄运 We are being overwhelmed, and we're inviting our doom.
这是不自然的 It's not natural.
鸟儿属于空气 鱼属于大海 Birds belong in the air. Fish belong in the sea.
而这正是善良的主希望我们成为的样子 And that is how the good Lord meant us to be.
你从头到尾都是在胡说八道 You're just spouting rubbish from start to finish.
这是科学 这是一个科学事实 It's science. It's a scientific fact.
-这是个错误的比喻 - -It's a false analogy. -
我的意思是 动物确实有一个自然栖息地 I mean, animals do have a natural habitat.
这是事实 但人类有能力 It's true, but human beings are capable
在他们选择的任何环境中生活 of living in any environment they bloody well choose.
-这不是一个事实 - -That's not a fact. -
-你在说什么 -这是个观点 -What are you saying? -It's an opinion.
而你错了 And you're wrong.
我不会再忍受这些了 I'm not putting up with any more of this.
走吧 克莱姆 让那个疯女人去吧 Come away, Clem. Let the crazy lady be.
我们永远无法从她那里得到任何意义 We're never gonna get any sense out of her.
你知道 我以前从未对你说过这个 You know, I've never said this to you before.
但你们都很可怜 But you're both pitiful.
闭上你的蛋糕孔！ Shut your cakehole!
豌豆脑袋和可怜的人 Pea-brained and pitiful.
你 混蛋！ You, fuckface!
停止你的常春藤在我们这边的墙壁上生长! Stop your ivy growing on our side of the wall!
我为什么要让他们影响我 Why do I let them get to me?
我应该为他们感到遗憾 I should feel sorry for them.
但这是我的家 这是我的避难所 But this is my home. It's my sanctuary.
-我可以希望他们......- -I could wish them... -
顺便说一句 这不是一个愿望 That's not a wish, by the way.
-我知道 - -I know. -
我的Djinn My Djinn.
你今天过得怎么样 How was your day?
每一只倾听的耳朵都是你的 Every listening ear was yours.
每一个声音 每一个气味 和触摸 Every voice, every scent, and touch.
你无处不在 You were everywhere.
一会儿就回来 Back in a minute.
在这个时候会是谁呢 Whoever could that be at this hour?
这可能是她 It could be her.
克莱姆 芬妮 Clem. Fanny.
鹰嘴豆 丁香 开心果 Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.
它们在你口中融化 They melt in your mouth.
这是我的朋友 This is my friend.
他将会呆上一段时间 He'll be staying for a while.
你好 Hello.
-你好 -你好 -Hello. -Hello.
我的Djinn告诉我 My Djinn told me,
当他们在精灵界走到一起时 when they come together in the Realm of Djinn,
他们互相讲故事 they tell each other stories.
故事对他们来说就像呼吸一样 Stories are like breath to them.
他们创造了意义 They make meaning.
"是的 "我说 "Yes," I said.
"我们就是这样的" "That's just how it is with us."
我们讲述的每个故事都是一个片段 Each story we tell is a fragment
在一个无尽的变形马赛克中 in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.
而这个小石子 像所有的故事一样 必须结束 And this small pebble, like all stories, must end.
如果是关于愿望的 那就是一个警世的故事 If it's about wishing, it's a cautionary tale.
那么 它将如何出错 So, how will it go wrong?
也许 它已经有了 Perhaps, it already has.
尽管真理赤裸裸地站在他们面前 Even though Truth stood before them naked,
他们背过身去 they turned their backs.
于是 真理向旁边移动 在阴影中等待 So, Truth moved to the side and waited in the shadows.
在随后的日子里 In the days that followed,
精灵会陪同叙事学家去工作 the Djinn would accompany the narratologist to her work.
而当他不在她身边的时候 And when he wasn't with her,
他将去热切地探索这个世界 he would go in eager exploration of the world.
今天我度过了如此奇妙的一天 Today I had such a marvelous day.
我看到了很多东西 I saw many things.
我看着一个人看向另一个人的活生生的大脑 I watched a human look into the living brain of another
并阻止致命的出血 and arrest a fatal bleeding.
我参观了对撞机 I visited the Collider.
一个探究物质本质的巨大仪器 A vast gizmo which probed the essence of matter.
然后我看到一道菜 一道伟大的菜 And then I saw a dish, a great dish
聆听着久违的星星的低语 that listens to the whispers of stars long dead.
人类是... Humankind is...
是一个奇迹 Alithea is a wonder, Alithea.
我很高兴你这么认为 I'm happy you think so.
所有这些都是因为我被困在Zefir的瓶子里 All of this since I was trapped in Zefir's bottle.
所有这些惊人之举 在不到200年的时间里 All these astonishments, in less than 200 years.
是的 但是 我的意思是 Yes, but, I mean,
这只是工程和技术 that's just engineering and technology.
尽管有这么多的奇思妙想 Despite all the whiz-bang,
我们仍然感到迷惑不解 we remain bewildered.
当我们无法控制混乱的时候 When we can't contain the chaos,
我们充满了恐惧和惊慌 we are filled with dread and panic,
而我们则互相攻击 and we turn on each other.
但当然 你是人 But of course, you are human.
这就是你的本性 That is your nature.
是的 所以 故事从未改变 Yeah. So, the story never changes.
仇恨占了上风 Hate prevails.
它转移并超越了爱情 It metastasizes and outlives love.
我只想谈一谈爱情 I just want to talk about love.
你们这些人都是如此混乱的矛盾 Such a mess of contradictions, all of you.
非常感谢你 Thank you very much.
人类 真是个难题 Humankind, what a conundrum.
你在黑暗中摸索 You fumble around in the dark,
然而 你却把你的智慧发挥到了极致 and yet, you herd your intelligence to great effect.
这是个很好的故事 It is quite a story.
迫不及待地想看到它的发展 Cannot wait to see where it goes.
或者说它可能如何结束 Or how it might end.
这也是 That, too.
凡人永远不会知道 但精灵可能知道 A mortal will never know, but a djinn might.
一个精灵拥有世界上所有的时间 A djinn has all the time in the world.
你不就是那个幸运儿吗 Aren't you the lucky one?
也许 Maybe.
但你们这些尘世的生物有... But you creatures of dust have...
已经成功地使 have managed to eclipse
精灵和天使的力量和目的 the power and purpose of djinn and angel.
你对我们没有用处 You have no use for us.
也许 我们将枯萎并... Perhaps, we will wither and...
-然后消逝了 -是的 -And fade away? -Yes.
是的 嗯 这曾经是一个主题 Yeah. Well, that used to be the subject
我所有的讲座和论文 of all my lectures and papers.
我知道 I know.
然而 你却在这里 And yet, here you are.
我的不可能 My impossible.
是的 Yes.
喂 Hello?
我回来了! I'm home!
喂 Hello?
Djinn? Djinn?
我的爱 My love?
Djinn Djinn.
这是什么 What's this?
你能听到我吗 Can you hear me?
Djinn 跟我说话 Djinn, speak to me.
试着和我说话 Try to speak to me.
我希望你能和我说话 I wish you to speak to me.
哦... Oh...
- - - -
我在睡觉 I was sleeping.
睡觉 Sleeping.
Djinn不睡觉 Djinn don't sleep.
我们去走走吧 Let's go for a walk.
漫长而有力的行走 A long, bracing walk.
我已经为我们准备了一些东西 I have prepared something for us.
我都计划好了 I have it all planned.
对我们来说是一个奇妙的夜晚 A wonderous night for us.
这将是惊人的 It will be amazing.
-我们生命中最美好的时光 -停！停！停 -The best time of our lives. -Stop!
这些电磁场 我可以把它们从我的头上推开 These electromagnetic fields, I can push them from my head.
我可以把他们推开 I can push them away.
我们要去野餐 We'll go for a picnic.
啊 我们要弹四弦琴 Ah, we'll play the ukulele.
Alithea 这里有我的一席之地 Alithea, there is a place for me here.
这些力量 These forces,
他们永远不会消失 不会离开这个世界 they will never go away, not from this world.
我将战胜他们 我可以为你做到这一点 I will overcome them. I can do that for you.
你是我的Alithea 我愛你 You are my Alithea, and I love you.
谢谢你 谢谢你 谢谢你的努力 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for trying.
你认为我不爱你吗 You don't think that I love you?
爱是一种礼物 Love is a gift.
这是对自己的免费馈赠 It's a gift of oneself given freely.
这不是一个人可以要求的事情 It's not something one can ever ask for.
我欺骗了我们两个 I tricked us both.
在我说出这个愿望的时候 The moment I spoke that wish,
我拿走了你授予的权力 I took away your power to grant it.
我 比任何人都更应该知道 I, more than anybody, I should've known that.
我不会再把这事搞砸了 I'm not going to screw this up again.
我的Djinn 如果这个世界不适合你 My Djinn, if this world is not for you,
我希望你回到属于你的地方 I wish that you return to where you belong.
无论那是在哪里 Wherever that may be.
妈咪！ Mummy!
来到这里 小猴子 Come here, little monkey.
那不是妈咪 That's not Mummy.
嘿 嘿 嘿！ 啊 不！ Hey, hey, hey! Ah, no!
看着吧 联赛中的顶级前锋 Watch it. Top striker in the league.
- - - -
你看到了吗 Did you see that?
他时常会来拜访 He would visit from time to time,
他们会把握住每一个生动的时刻 and they would grasp each vivid moment.
尽管聒噪的天空让人痛苦 Despite the pain of the raucous skies,
他总是呆得比他应该呆的时间长 he always stayed longer than he should,
在她恳求他离开后很久 long after she begged him to leave.
他承诺在她有生之年回来 He promised to return in her lifetime,
对她来说 这已经足够了 and for her, that was more than enough.