THE DISSIDENTS – 31
翻译：在阳台上唱歌 校对：Whalesong
本片改编自田纳西·威廉姆斯的同名戏剧 翻译字幕时，我们参照了鹿金的译本
《玻璃动物园》
我的口袋里 满是把戏
I have tricks in my pocket.
我的袖子中 尽是花招
I have things up my sleeve.
但我绝非舞台上的魔术师
But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
他给你们表演貌似真实的幻象
He gives you illusion which has the appearance of truth,
我则是带给你们精美幻觉包裹的真实
and I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
首先 我要让时光倒流
To begin with, I turn back time.
回到那个古怪的
I reverse it to that quaint period,
1930年代
the '30s,
那时美国庞大的中产阶级
when the huge middle class of America
被一所盲人学校录取
was matriculating in a school for the blind.
他们的眼睛不听使唤
Their eyes had failed them,
或者说他们使唤不了自己的眼睛
or they had failed their eyes,
所以不得不用手指使劲按着
and so were having their fingers pressed forcibly down
炽热的布莱叶盲文字母表
on the fiery brail alphabet
这是一个正在解体的经济的象征
of a dissolving economy.
在西班牙 有革命在发生
In Spain there was revolution.
而这里只有喊叫和混乱
Here there was only shouting and confusion.
西班牙有格尔尼卡
In Spain there was Guernica.
这里有工人骚乱
Here there were disturbances of labor,
有时 在像芝加哥 克利夫兰 圣路易斯
sometimes pretty violent,
这种一向和平的城市里
in otherwise peaceful cities such as Chicago,
甚至闹得更凶
Cleveland and St. Louis.
这是这出戏的社会背景
This is the social background of the play.
这是一部回忆剧
The play is memory.
既然是回忆剧
Being a memory play,
所以灯光暗淡
it is dimly lighted.
多愁善感
It is sentimental.
如梦似幻
It is not realistic.
记忆中 一切似乎都离不开音乐
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
这就解释了为什么舞台侧面会传出小提琴声
That explains the fiddle in the wings.
我是这部戏剧的叙述者 也是其中角色之一
I am the narrator of the play, and also a character in it.
其他角色包括我的母亲 阿曼达
The other characters are my mother, Amanda,
我姐姐 劳拉
My sister, Laura,
还有一位在最后一幕登场的男性客人
and a gentleman caller who appears in the final scenes.
他是戏中最具现实主义色彩的人物
He is the most realistic character in the play,
一个来自我们某种程度上
being an emissary from a world of reality
已经格格不入的真实世界的使者
that we were somehow set apart from.
但因为我有像诗人一样依赖符号象征的缺点
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols,
我把这个角色也当作一种象征
I use this character also as a symbol.
他是那个遥遥无期 但一直备受期待
He is the long-delayed, but always expected,
也是我们为之而生的东西
something that we live for.
戏中还有第五个角色
There is a fifth character in the play,
但他只出现在
but he only appears
这副大的出奇的照片里
in this larger-than-life-size photograph.
他是我的父亲 很久以前就离开我们了
This is my father, who left us a long time ago.
他是个电话接线员
He was a telephone man
却爱上了长途旅行
who fell in love with long distances.
他放弃了
He gave up his job
电话公司的工作
with the telephone company
然后趁黑悄悄溜出了城
and skipped the light fantastic out of town.
我们最后一次听到他的消息
The last we heard of him
是通过一张他从墨西哥太平洋海岸的马萨特兰
was a picture postcard from Mazatlan,
寄来的风景明信片
on the Pacific Coast of Mexico,
上面写着四个字
containing a message of two words.
“你好”
"Hello.
”再见”
Goodbye."
没有地址
And no address.
– 你知道吗 劳拉
– You know, Laura,
上个礼拜天 我在教堂碰到了件特别有意思的事
I had the funniest experience in church last Sunday.
教堂里坐的满满当当 只有最前面那排座有空位
The church was full except for one pew way down front,
那坐着一个小姑娘
and in that was just one little lady.
于是我对她笑了笑 说
So I smiled at her very sweetly and I said,
“不好意思”
"Excuse me.
“你介意我坐你旁边吗？”
Would you mind if I shared this pew?"
她说 “当然介意”
"I certainly would," she said.
“这个位子租出去了”
"This space is rented."
这还是我第一次听说
That's the first time I ever knew
上帝还会出租空位
the Lord rented space.
这些北方的圣公会信徒啊
These Northern Episcopalians.
我能理解一些圣公会教徒
I can understand certain Episcopalians,
但是北方的那些 不行
but the Northern ones, no.
哦 亲爱的
Oh, honey.
别用手指拨食物
Don't push your food with your fingers.
要真非拨不可的话
If you must push your food with something,
也得用面包皮去拨
The thing to use is a crust of bread.
哦 汤姆
Oh, tom.
你得细嚼慢咽
You must chew your food.
亲爱的 动物胃里有分泌液
Honey, animals have secretions in their stomachs
所以他们不用嚼也能消化食物
that allow them to digest their food without mastication.
但是人类得先咀嚼食物
But human beings must chew their food
然后才能吞下去
before they swallow it down.
要嚼 知道吗？
Chew, hmm?
要嚼
Chew.
亲爱的
Honey,
细嚼慢咽 行吗？
Eat leisurely, hmm?
细嚼慢咽
Eat leisurely.
精心烹饪的美食 风味多娇
A well-cooked meal has many delicate flavors
要含在口中
that must be held
慢慢品味
in the mouth for appreciation,
不能狼吞虎咽
not just gulped down.
懂吗？
Hmm?
要嚼
So chew.
嚼
Chew.
你不想给你的唾液腺
Don't you want to give your salivary glands
发挥作用的机会吗？
A chance to function?
妈
Mother.
这顿晚饭
I have not enjoyed
我一口都没吃好
one bite at this dinner
就因为你没完没了地教我该怎么吃饭
because of your constant directions on how to eat it.
我每吃一口 你都像只老鹰一样盯着
It's you that makes me rush through meals
才让我吃得这么草率
with your hawk-like attention to every bite I take.
真是有病
It's sickening.
我的胃口全没了
Spoils my appetite,
扯了半天什么动物分泌液
all this discussion of animal secretions,
什么唾液腺 什么咀嚼
salivary glands, mastication.
脾气大的 跟大都会剧院的明星似的
Temperament like a metropolitan star.
我还没允许你离开餐桌呢
You're not excused from the table.
我要去抽根烟
I'm getting a cigarette.
你抽的太多了
You smoke too much.
妈 我去端咖啡吧
Mother, I'll bring in the coffee.
不用 不用 你坐着 你坐着
No, no, no, no, You sit down, You sit down.
今天晚上我来当黑佣
Now, I'm going to be the colored boy tonight
你来当女主人
and you're going to be the lady.
不用 我都已经站起来了
Well, no, I'm already up.
那你就快坐下 继续坐着
Well, resume your seat. Resume your seat.
你得保持如花似玉 等着追求者上门
Keep yourself fresh and pretty for the gentlemen callers.
我不想盼着什么追求者 妈妈
I'm not expecting any gentlemen callers, mother.
亲爱的 这些人妙就妙在
Well, honey, the nice thing about them is
他们总挑你最不盼着他们的时候来
sometimes they come when they are least expected.
我还记得
While I remember
在蓝山 一个星期天下午
One Sunday afternoon in blue mountain
那时候你妈妈我还是个小姑娘
When your mother was a girl.
咱家门廊外边的小伙子多得跟集会似的
Such a convocation stomped on our porch,
都带着巧克力 还有捧花 还有...
with chocolate and bouquet and...
我知道她要说这个
I know what's coming.
是 就让她说吧
Yes, but let her tell it.
又说一遍？
Again?
她就爱讲这个
She loves to tell it.
– 在那个
– And on that
蓝山的星期天下午
Sunday afternoon in blue mountain
那时你妈还是个小姑娘
when your mother was a girl,
足足有十七位我的追求者来拜访
she received 17 gentlemen callers.
有时候
Sometimes there weren't
都没椅子给他们坐
enough chairs to accommodate them all,
我们还得派个小黑佣
and we had to send a colored boy
去教区拿些折叠椅过来
over to the parish house to fetch the folding chairs.
你是怎么招待那些客人的呢？
And how did you entertain those gentlemen callers?
我刚好精通谈话的艺术
Well, I happened to understand the art of conversation.
你肯定是能说会道
I bet you could talk.
那可不 我跟你说
Well, I could, I tell you.
我那时候的女孩都挺能说会道
All the girls in my day could.
是吗？
Yes?
当然
Yes.
我们知道怎么才能让这些小伙子满意
We knew how to entertain our gentlemen callers.
一个女孩要是光有漂亮脸蛋
It's not enough for a girl to be possessed
和苗条身材是不够的
of a pretty face and a graceful figure,
虽说这两样我都不差
although I wasn't slighted in either respect.
她还得有个机灵的头脑
But she also had to have a nimble wit
和什么场面都能应对的嘴皮子才行
and a tongue to meet all occasions.
你都跟他们聊些什么呢？
What did you talk about?
各种国家大事之类的
Things of importance going on in the world.
但从来不聊什么粗俗下流 上不得台面的话题
Well, never anything coarse or common or vulgar,
因为追我的人可都是上流绅士
because my callers were gentlemen all,
都是密西西比三角洲最上等的那些绅士
Some of the finest men on the Mississippi delta.
种植园主和他们的儿子
Planters and sons of planters.
有个叫拉夫林的年轻小伙子
There was young champ Laughlin.
他后来当上了
He later became
三角洲种植园主银行的副行长
Vice-president of the Delta Planters' Bank.
还有库切尔两兄弟
And the Cutrere brothers.
韦斯利和贝茨
Wesley and Bates.
这个贝茨 就是我那些相好里的一个
Now Bates was one of my own bright particular beaus,
但是他却跟
and he got into a fight
温赖特家的野小子杠上了
with that wild Wainwright boy.
他们在月光赌场火并了一场
They shot it out on the floor of the Moon Light Casino.
贝茨被子弹打穿了肚子
Bates was shot right through the stomach.
死在了
Died in the ambulance
去孟菲斯的救护车上
on the way to Memphis.
他倒是留了一大笔遗产给他老婆
He left his widow well provided for too.
八千到一万英亩的土地 只多不少
8,000 or 10,000 acres, no less.
留给一个他根本没爱过的女人
And he never loved that woman.
她只是在他情场失意的时侯趁虚而入
She just caught him on the rebound.
别人发现他死的那天晚上 身上还带着我的照片
They found my picture on him the night he died.
还有那个小伙子
And that boy.
那个三角洲的每个女孩
That boy that every girl in the delta
都魂牵梦萦的小伙子
had set her cap for.
那个从格林县来的
That beautiful, brilliant young
聪明又帅气的小伙子
fizzy boy from Greene County.
他又给他妻子留了什么？
Why did he leave his widow?
他压根没结婚
He never married.
怎么？
What's the matter?
你说得好像我以前的所有追求者
You sound as if all my old admirers
都已经坟头长草了一样
had turned up their toes to the daisies.
这难道不是你提到的那些人里头一个
Isn't this the first one you mentioned
还活着的吗？
that still survived?
他可是赚了一大笔钱
Well, he made an awful lot of money.
他北上去了华尔街 发家致富了
He went north to Wall Street and he made a fortune.
想想看 我本来可以成为J·邓肯·菲茨休夫人
And I could have been Mrs. J. Duncan Fitzhugh, you imagine.
但是呢？
And what did I do?
我却瞎了眼 看上了你们的爸
I just went out of my way and picked your father.
妈 我去收盘子了
Mother, let me clear the dishes.
不用 不用
No, no, no, no.
你到那边
You go over there
去记你的打字机键位表
and you study your typewriter chart.
要么就练一会儿速记
You practice your shorthand a little.
得保持如花似玉
Keep yourself fresh and pretty,
因为差不多到了
because it's almost time
你的追求者要来的时候了
for our gentlemen callers to start arriving.
你估计今天
Now, how many you think
咱们能接待几个小伙子？
We're going to entertain today?
妈妈 我觉得今天不会有小伙子来了
I don't believe that we'll be receiving any, mother.
一个都不来吗？
Not any?
没人吗？
Not one?
哦 你尽开玩笑
Oh, you must be joking.
连一个小伙子都没有吗？
Not one single gentleman caller?
怎么？
What's the matter?
这里是发洪水了还是刮龙卷风了？
Has there been a flood or a tornado?
没有洪水
It's not a flood.
也没有龙卷风 妈妈
It's not a tornado, mother.
我只是不像你在蓝山的时候那么受欢迎罢了
I'm just not popular like you were in Blue Mountain.
妈妈是怕我会成老处女
Mother's afraid I'm going to be an old maid.
你好 妈妈 我正在
Hello, mother. I was just—
我看你是正在练打字是吧
Yes, you were just practicing your typing, I suppose.
是的
Yes.
编 编 接着编
Deception, deception, deception.
美国革命女儿会的会开得怎么样 妈妈？
How was the D.A.R. meeting, mother?
美国革命女儿会
D.A.R. meeting?
你不是去参加美国革命女儿会的会了吗 妈妈？
Didn't you go to the D.A.R. meeting, mother?
没去
No.
我没去什么美国革命女儿会的会
I didn't go to any D.A.R. meeting.
没那个精力
Didn't have the strength.
也没那个勇气
I didn't have the courage.
我只想找个地洞
I just wanted to find a hole in the ground
钻进去
and crawl in it and stay there
这辈子都不出来
for the rest of my entire life.
你这是干什么 妈妈？
Why did you do that, mother?
为什么？
Why?
还为什么？
Why?
你都多大了 劳拉？
How old are you, Laura?
妈妈 你知道我多大
Mother, you know my age.
我还以为你已经是个大人了呢
I was under the impression you were an adult.
看来我真是错得离谱
It seems I was entirely mistaken.
请别这样盯着我 妈妈
Please don't stare at me, mother.
我们以后该怎么办？
What are we gonna do?
我们以后会变成什么样？
What is gonna become of us?
前途又在哪呢？
What is the future?
妈妈 出什么事了吗？
Mother, has something happened?
出什么事了吗 妈妈？
Has something happened, mother?
让我先缓一缓
I'll be all right in a minute.
我只是被生活里的这些事搞得一头雾水
I am just bewildered by life.
妈 我希望你告诉我到底发生了什么事
Mother, I wish that you would tell me what has happened.
我去了美国革命女儿会那边
I went to the D.A.R., as you know—
他们给了我职位
I was to be inducted as an officer.
然后我顺道
and I stopped by
去了一趟鲁比卡姆商学院
Rubicam's Business College on the way
跟他们说一声你感冒了
to tell them about your cold
顺便问问你在那的表现怎么样
and ask how you were doing there.
哦
Oh.
是呢
Yes.
哦
Oh.
哦 哦 哦 哦 哦
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
我去找了你的打字老师
I went straight to your typing instructor,
告诉她我是你妈妈
and I introduced myself as your mother.
她都不知道有你这个人
She didn't know who you were.
她说 “温菲尔德？”
"Wingfield?" she said.
“我们学校就从来没收过这么个学生”
"Well, we don't have any such scholar enrolled in this school."
我向她保证说肯定有
I assured her she did.
我说 “我女儿劳拉从一月份就开始就在这学习了”
I said, "Well, my daughter Laura has been coming here since early January."
“这我不清楚” 她说
"I don't know," she said,
“你说的是不是那个特别腼腆内向”
"Unless you mean that terribly shy little girl
”只上了几天就退学了的姑娘”
that dropped out after only a few days attendance."
“不是” 我说 “不是那个”
"No," I said. "I don't mean that one."
“我说的是我女儿劳拉”
"I mean my daughter Laura,
”过去六周里 她天天都来的”
"Who's been coming here every day for the past six weeks."
“那真不好意思” 她说
"Well, excuse me," she said,
然后她拿出了考勤表
and she got down the attendance record.
上面有你的名字
There was your name,
白纸黑字
Unmistakable, printed,
每天你都缺勤
and every time you had been absent.
然后我还跟她说她搞错了
And I still told her she was wrong.
我说 “不可能”
I said, "oh, no.
“肯定是搞错了”
There must be some mistake.
“肯定是考勤记错了”
There must be some mix-up in the records."
“不会错的” 她说
"Oh, no," she said.
“我现在记起她来了”
"I remember her perfectly now.
“她太腼腆了”
"She was so shy,
“手抖得连字都没法打”
and her hands shook so that her fingers wouldn't strike the right keys.
“后来我们给她做速打测试的时候”
And then when we gave her a speed test,
“她整个人都垮了”
she just fell apart completely
“说胃里难受想吐”
and was sick to her stomach
“我们还得把她抬进卫生间里去”
and had to be carried to the washroom.
“打那之后她就再没来过了”
After that she never came back anymore.
“我们一直往她家里打电话”
We called the house every day,
“但从来没人接”
but we never got any answer."
那会儿正是我在
That's when I was working all day long,
百货店没日没夜工作的时候
I suppose, down at that department store,
向顾客介绍那些...
demonstrating those...
我听完之后 虚地差点没站住
I was so weak I couldn't stand up.
不得不坐下
I had to sit down
他们给我倒了杯水
while they gave me a glass of water.
五十块钱的学费啊
Fifty dollars tuition.
这甚至都不是钱的事
It's not even the money so much,
而是所有我寄托在你身上的希望
but it's all my hopes of any kind of a future for you
就这么破灭了
just gone out the spout,
就这么破灭...
just gone out the spout like—
劳拉 不准打开那个留声机！
Laura, don't you play that Victrola!
现在你告诉我
Now, what have you been doing every day
你每天骗我说去上学之后
when you have gone out of this house
都出门干什么去了？
telling me you were going to business college?
我就是出去转转
I just went out walking.
这不是实话
That's not true.
真的 妈妈 我只是出去转转
Yes, it is, mother. I just went walking.
转转？ 转转？
Walking? Walking?
大冬天的？
In winter?
穿着那么薄的外套 是故意想得肺炎吗？
Deliberately courting pneumonia in that light coat?
你都去哪转悠？
Now, where were you walking to?
什么地方都去
All sorts of places.
公园去得比较多
Mostly in the park.
亲爱的 你在得了感冒之后还出去是吗？
Honey, even after you started catching that cold?
妈妈 这是两害相权取其轻
Mother, it was the lesser of two evils.
我不能回学校去
I couldn't go back.
我都吐在地板上了
I threw up on the floor.
也就是说 你每天从早上七点半
So, from half-past 7:00 in the morning
到下午五点以后
till after 5:00 in the afternoon,
你是想说
you mean to tell me
你一直在公园里转悠就为了
you went walking around in the park in order to make
让我相信你还在商学院上学？
me believe you were still going to business college?
妈妈 没有听上去那么糟糕
Mother, it wasn't as bad as it sounds.
我会到室内取暖
I went inside places to get warmed up.
哪个室内？
Inside where?
我会去艺术博物馆
I went to the art museum
还有动物园里的鸟房
and the bird house at the zoo.
我天天都去看企鹅
I visited the penguins every day.
有时候我不吃午饭 去看电影
Some days I did without lunch and I went to the movies.
然后 最近我会在下午
But...lately in the afternoons,
去一个叫做珍宝箱的地方
I've been going to that place called the jewel-box,
那个培植热带花卉的大玻璃房子
that big glass house where they raise the tropical flowers.
亲爱的 你做这么多就是为了骗我？
Honey, you did all this to deceive me?
就为了骗我？
For deception?
为什么？
Now, why?
为什么？ 劳拉 为什么？
Why? Laura, why?
妈妈 当你失望的时候
Mother, when you are disappointed,
脸上就会出现那可怕痛苦的表情
you get that awful suffering look on your face
就像博物馆里《耶稣之母》那副画上的一样
like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum.
我无法面对你那种表情
I couldn't face it.
没法面对
I couldn't.
那 亲爱的 我们现在该怎么
So, what are we going to do now, honey,
为我们后半辈子打算呢 嗯？
for the rest of our lives? Hmm?
难道就干坐在这栋房子里
We just going to sit down in this house
看着外面人来人往吗？
and watch the parades go by?
用这个玻璃动物园自娱自乐吗？
Amuse ourselves with the little glass menagerie?
一遍又一遍地放着你爸爸留下的这些旧唱片
Eternally play those worn-out phonograph records
当作对他痛苦的怀念？
your father left as a painful reminder of him?
我们没法找个班上
We can't have a business career.
没那个能力
No, We can't do that.
只会让我们消化不良
That just gives us indigestion.
那我们不就只剩下
So what is there left for us
自力更生一条路了吗？
but dependency all our lives?
劳拉
Laura.
亲爱的 我很清楚那些既没结婚
Honey, I know so well what happens to unmarried women
生活中也找不到方向的女人将来会是什么下场
who are not prepared to occupy a position in life.
我在南方也见过这种可怜女人
I've seen such pitiful examples of it in the South—
一群没人要的老处女 只能看亲戚的脸色
barely tolerated spinsters living on some brother's wife
勉强过活
or sister's husband,
躲在像老鼠洞似的小房间里
tucked away in some little mousetrap of a room,
被一个亲戚撺掇去找另一个亲戚
encouraged by one in-law to go visit another in-law,
她们像无巢可归的小鸟
little birdlike women without any nest,
一辈子低声下气抬不起头
eating the crust of humility all their lives.
难道这就是
Now, is that the future
我们给自己规划的未来吗？
we have mapped out for ourselves?
我真的感觉无路可走了
I swear I don't see any other alternative.
这条路我觉得也不怎么样
I don't think that's a very pleasant alternative.
当然 有些女孩会选择结婚
Of course, some girls do marry.
天呐 劳拉
My goodness, Laura.
你难道就没有喜欢过哪个男孩吗？
Haven't you ever liked some boy?
喜欢过
Yes.
妈妈 我以前喜欢过一个
Yes, mother. I liked one once.
真的吗？
You did?
不久前我还无意中翻到了他的照片
I came across his picture a while ago.
他还给了你他的照片？
He gave you his picture too?
没有 那是年鉴上的照片
No. It's in the yearbook.
哦 是你高中时候的同学
Oh, It was a high-school boy.
对
Yes.
他叫吉姆
His name was Jim.
这是他在《彭赞斯海盗》里的照片
Here he is in the Pirates of Penzance.
什么海盗？
The what?
是一部高三学生演的轻歌剧
The operetta the senior class put on.
他的声音非常动听
He had a wonderful voice.
我以前每个礼拜一 三 五去礼堂
I used to sit across the aisle from him
坐的位子就和他隔了一个过道
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the auditorium.
瞧 这是他捧着辩论赛的银奖
Here he is with a silver cup for debating.
你看 他在笑呢
You see his grin?
他还会咧嘴笑是吧
So he had a grin too.
那时候他叫我“蓝玫瑰”
He used to call me blue roses.
他干嘛给你起这么个蠢名字？
Now why did he call you such a silly name as that?
之前有段时间我得了胸膜炎
When I had that attack of pleurosis
没去上学
and I was out of school for a while.
我回学校之后 他问我出了什么事
When I came back, he asked me what the matter was,
我说我得了 “胸膜炎”
and I said, "pleurosis."
可他听成了
Only he thought that I said
“蓝玫瑰”
Blue roses.
所以他后来总是这么叫我
So that's what he always called me after that.
只要他一看见我
Whenever he would see me,
就会喊 “嗨 蓝玫瑰”
He would holler, "Hello, blue roses."
我一直不太喜欢那个和他交往的女孩
I never cared very much for the girl that he went out with,
艾米莉·麦森巴赫
Emily Meisenbach.
她是索尔丹高中最会打扮的女孩
She was the best-dressed girl at Soldan,
但我一直觉得她不是个实诚的姑娘
but she never struck me as being sincere.
我之前在报纸上看到过他们订婚的消息
I read once in the newspaper that they were engaged.
那都是很久以前了
That was a long time ago.
他们现在肯定已经结婚了
They're probably married by now.
哦 没事的 亲爱的
Oh, That's all right, honey.
没事的
It's all right.
你懂的 有些女孩
You know, sometimes when little girls
可能在工作事业上受挫
are not cut out for business careers,
但最后都能嫁一个好郎君
they end up married to very nice young men,
我相信你也会嫁个好郎君的
and I'm just going to see that you do that too.
妈妈
Mother.
怎么了？
What?
我是个瘸子
I'm crippled.
打住！
Shh!
别说那个词
Don't use that word.
我跟你说了多少遍不许说那个词？
How many times have I told you never to use that word?
你不是瘸子
You are not crippled.
你只是有一点小小的缺陷
You just have a little defect.
如果你生在我年轻那会儿
Now, if you had lived in the days when I was a girl,
我们每晚都会出去跳舞
and we went out to dances every night,
穿着曳地的长裙 飘逸又优雅
and we had those long graceful skirts sweeping the ground,
你的脚说不定还会被当成是优点呢
it might even have been considered an asset.
亲爱的 当你发现自己有一些短处的时候
Honey, when you have a little disadvantage like that,
那就用其他方面的优点
you just have to cultivate something else
去取长补短
to take its place.
你要让自己更有魅力
You have to cultivate charm
更活泼
more vivacity
或者更
or...
迷人
charm.
这是你爸爸最大的优点
That's the one thing your father had plenty of.
很迷人
Charm.
搞砸了在卢比卡姆商学院的学习之后
After the fiasco at the Rubicam's Business College,
为劳拉
the idea of getting
找对象的任务
a gentleman caller for Laura
开始在母亲的计划中
began to play a more and more important part
变得越来越重要
in mother's calculations.
它成了一种执念
It became an obsession.
那年晚冬初春时分
Late that winter and in the early spring,
妈妈意识到需要一笔钱
realizing that extra money would be needed
去装点门面 打扮女儿
to properly feather the nest and plume the bird,
她开始
she began conducting
卖力地打电话
a vigorous campaign on the telephone,
鼓动那些主妇们
roping in subscribers
订阅一本名叫
to one of those magazines for matrons called
《主妇良友》的杂志
The Homemaker's Companion,
内容是各种
The type of journal which features
赞美女性的连载小说
the serialized sublimation of ladies of letters
出现的词语包括娇嫩浑圆的乳房
who think in terms of delicate cup-like breasts,
苗条纤细的腰身
slim, tapering waists,
丰腴洁白的大腿
rich, creamy thighs,
秋日木烟般的眼眸
eyes like woodsmoke in Autumn,
如音律般予人抚慰的手指
fingers that soothe and caress like strains of music,
像伊特鲁里亚雕塑般健美的身躯
bodies as powerful as Etruscan sculpture.
– 艾达·斯科特吗？
– Ida Scott?
哦
Oh!
我是阿曼达·温菲尔德
This is Amanda Wingfield.
那个 艾达
Well, now, Ida,
我刚在看我的小红册子
I have just been looking in my little red book here,
碰巧看到你的《主妇良友》的订阅
and I see where your subscription to the companion
马上就要到期了
is just about to run out,
但偏偏贝西·梅·霍珀的
and it's just when that wonderful new serial
新一部精彩作品要开始连载了
by Bessie Mae Harper is starting.
嗯
Hmm.
这是她在
It's the first thing she's written
《三人蜜月》之后的第一部作品
since honeymoon for three,
这本身就是件大事了
and that was unusual, you know.
我告诉你 艾达 这部还要更浪漫
Well, Ida, this one is even lovelier.
讲的是长岛赛马圈的故事
It's all about the horsey set on Long Island,
一位首次亮相的名媛在骑马跨栏时
and this debutante is thrown from a horse
从马上摔了下来
while she's taking him over the jumps
那是在一场 那个 赛艇会上
in the, uh, uh, regatta.
然后她的脊柱受伤了
Well, her spine is injured.
因为那匹马
That's what the horse did.
踩在了她身上
He stepped on her.
而全世界唯一一个能让她
And the only surgeon in the whole wide world
不至于终身瘫痪的外科医生
who can keep her from being permanently paralyzed
就是已经和她订婚了的那个男人
is the man she's engaged to be married to.
他身材高大 金发俊俏 而且...
And he's tall and he's blonde and he's—
什么
What?
哦 不 亲爱的
Oh, no, honey.
别让它们烧糊了
Don't let them burn.
你快过去看看炉子
You just go and you take a look in the oven.
我就在这 待命
I'll just sit here and hold on.
你知道这女的干嘛了吗？
You know what that woman did?
她挂我电话
She hung up on me.
干嘛呢？
So?
嘘！
Shh!
儿子 帮我个忙
Son, do me a favor.
干嘛？
What?
梳梳头
Comb your hair.
你收拾完头发之后得多帅啊
Well, you look so pretty when your hair is combed.
只有一点
There's only one respect
我希望你能学学你爸爸
in which I would like you to emulate your father.
哪一点？
What respect is that?
他对仪表的讲究
The care he took of his person.
绝不允许自己邋里邋遢的
Never allowed himself to be untidy.
妈 请你去忙点别的事吧
Mother, please go busy yourself with something else.
我正忙着…
I'm trying—
背坐直
Sit up straight
这样你的肩膀就不会像麻雀一样突着了
So your shoulders don't stick out like a sparrow's.
对啦
Yeah.
我跟你说 我看过一份病例
And you know, I have seen a medical chart,
我知道这个坐姿对内脏有什么危害
and I know what that posture does to your internal organs.
你坐直了 我给你看
If you sit up, I'll show you.
看见没？
You see?
你的胃挤压着你的肺
Your stomach presses in on your lungs
然后肺又压迫心脏
and then your lungs press in on your heart.
然后你那可怜的小心脏就会像泄了气一样
And then your poor little heart gets discouraged
因为空间太小
because it doesn't have any room left
没法再继续为你跳动了
to go on beating for you.
那你到底要我怎样？
What in Christ's name am I supposed to do?
你敢跟我这么说话
Don't you dare talk to me like that.
你到底怎么回事？
What is the matter with you?
你是疯了吗？
Have you gone out of your senses?
对 我是疯了
Yes, I have. That's true.
被你逼疯的
You've driven me out of them.
你最近怎么回事
What is the matter with you lately,
你..你个白痴？
You big, big idiot?
听着 妈 这个房子里
Look, Mother, I have got no thing,
没有一样东西是真正属于我的
no single thing in this house that I can call my own.
别嚷嚷
Lower your voice.
昨天你没收了我的书
Yesterday you confiscated my books.
没错
I certainly did.
我把那本糟糕的小说还给图书馆了
I took that awful novel back to the library,
那个疯子劳伦斯写的书
That horrible book by that insane Mr. Lawrence.
我没法让那些疯子不写书
Well, I can't control the output of a diseased mind
或者让别人不追捧这些书
or the people that cater to them,
但我绝不允许我家里有这种下流的东西
but I won't have that filth in my house.
不行 不行 不行
No, no, no.
家？ 家？
House? House?
是谁付的房租？
Who pays the rent on the house?
又是谁起早贪黑地卖命工作？
Who makes a slave of himself?
你竟敢这么跟我说话
Don't you dare talk to me like that.
对 妈 你说得对 我不该说这些话
No, that's true, mother. I mustn't say things.
我得闭嘴
I've just got to keep my mouth shut.
你听我说
No, Let me tell you something—
我不要再听了
Well, no, I don't want to hear any more.
你会听到更多
Well, you are going to hear more.
不 我不会再听了 我要出去
No, I will not hear more. I am going out.
你要听我说！
You are going to listen to me!
出去 出去 出去！
Out, out, out!
You are gonna listen to me!
你听我说！
我受够了你的放肆
I have had enough of your impudence.
还有
And another thing.
我的忍耐是有限度的
I am just at the end of my patience.
那你觉得我处于什么状态 妈？
And what do you think I'm at, mother?
难道我的耐心
Aren't I supposed to have any patience
就是无限的吗？
to reach the end of?
我知道这些东西对你无关紧要
I know it seems unimportant to you, mother,
我眼下在干什么 我想干什么
What I'm doing, what I want to do,
对你压根没什么不同
having little difference between them.
你从来不想
You don't think that.
不 我认为你是在做一些你羞于承认的事
No, I think you were doing something you're ashamed of,
所以你才有这样的举动
and that's why you acted like this.
我不相信
Well, I don't believe
你每天晚上都去看电影
that you go every night to the movies.
没谁整宿整宿地去看电影
Nobody goes to the movies night after night.
也没哪个脑经正常的人
Nobody in their right mind
跟你一样老是假装去看电影
Goes to the movies as often as you pretend to.
没人半夜去看电影
And people do not go to movies at almost midnight,
电影也不会凌晨两点散场
and movies do not let out at 2:00 a.m.
你跌跌撞撞地回来
When you come in here,
像疯子一样自言自语
stumbling and muttering to yourself like a maniac,
睡上三个小时
and you get three hours sleep
就去上班了
and then you go to work.
我都能想象你上班时候的样子
Now, I can imagine what you're doing down there,
死气沉沉 无精打采 因为你精神状态很差
moping and doping, because you are in no condition.
对 我就是这样 妈
No. That is true, mother.
我精神状态很差
I am in no condition.
汤姆
Tom.
你怎么敢拿自己的饭碗
How dare you jeopardize your job
和我们生活的保障开玩笑？
and jeopardize our security?
你有没有想过如果出了岔子
Now, how do you think we would manage
我们该怎么办
if anything happened—
听我说 妈
Listen, mother.
你以为我就那么喜欢在鞋厂工作吗？
Do you think I'm crazy about the warehouse?
你以为我爱上了大陆制鞋厂吗？
Wo you think I am in love with the continental shoemakers?
你以为我想在那个挂着日光灯的
Do you think I want to spend 55 years
小板房里待上五十五年吗？
down in that celotex interior with fluorescent tubes?
妈 我跟你说
Look, mother.
我宁愿有人拿撬棒
I would just rather somebody pick up a crowbar
给我脑袋来上一棍 也不愿一大早去那
and batter out my brains than go back mornings,
但我去了
but I go.
你每天早上进来
Every morning that you come in yelling
喊那该死的 “打起精神 起床啦”
that goddamned, "Rise and shine.
“打起精神 起床啦”
Rise and shine."
我心里都想 死人得有多幸运
I think to myself how lucky dead people are.
但是我起来了
But I get up.
我去上班
I go.
为了一个月65块钱
For $65 a month,
我放弃了我曾经梦想要做的一切
I give up all that I ever dreamed of doing
以及曾经想成为的一切
and being ever,
而你却说
and yet you say that
我只在意我自己？
self, self is all I think of?
听着 妈
Listen to me, mother.
如果我只在意我自己 我就会和爸一样
If self is what I thought of, I would be where he is:
一走了之
Gone,
走得越远越好
as far as the system of transportation reaches.
别抓我 妈
Don't grab at me, mother.
我没抓你
I'm not grabbing at you.
我就想知道你要去哪儿
I just want to know where you're going.
我去看电影
I am going to the movies.
你又在撒谎！
I don't believe that lie!
撒谎
No?
你说对了 妈
Well, you're right, mother.
我要去鸦片馆
I'm going to opium dens.
对 妈 鸦片窝
Yes, mother. Opium dens.
流氓罪犯混杂的贼窝
Dens of vice and criminals' hangouts.
妈 我是个赏金杀手
Mother, I am a hired assassin.
我加入了霍根帮
I joined the Hogan gang.
我用小提琴盒装了一把冲锋枪
I carry a tommy gun in a violin case
我在山谷里经营着连锁妓院
and I run a stream of cathouses in the valley.
他们叫我杀手
They call me killer.
杀手温菲尔德
Killer Wingfield.
看到吗 我过着双重人生
See, I'm leading a double life, really.
白天是老实巴交的鞋厂工人
A simple, honest warehouse worker by day,
晚上是让人胆寒的黑帮皇帝
but by night a dynamic czar of the underworld, mother.
我去赌场
I go to gambling casinos.
在轮盘的赌桌上一掷千金
I just spin away a fortune on the roulette table, mother.
我一只眼戴着眼罩
I wear a patch over one eye
戴着假胡子
and a false mustache
有时套着绿色的络腮胡
and sometimes I put on green whiskers.
这种时候 他们叫我恶魔
On those occasions, they call me El Diablo.
我能跟你说很多让你听了睡不着的事 妈
I could tell you many things to make you sleepless, mother.
我的仇人计划在哪天晚上把这炸了
My enemies plan to dynamite this place some night.
他们要把我们炸上天去！
They are going to blow us all sky-high!
我会乐意吗？
And will I be glad?
我会非常乐意
I'll be very happy.
你也会很乐意
And so will you be.
你会飞上天去 一直飞
You will go up, up, up
跟你那十七个相好骑着扫帚
over Blue Mountain on a broomstick
飞到蓝山天上去！
with 17 gentlemen callers!
你个又丑又唠叨的老巫婆！
You ugly, babbling old witch!
我只要还有一口气 就不会再跟你说一句话
I will never speak to you again as long as I live
除非你向我道歉
unless you apologize to me.
汤姆
Tom?
汤姆
Tom?
汤姆
Tom?
你在干嘛？
What are you doing?
找门钥匙
Looking for a door key.
你这么长时间跑哪儿去了？
Where have you been all this time?
我去看电影了
I have been to the movies.
一直在看电影？
All this time at the movies?
有很多要看的
This was a very long program.
有一部嘉宝主演的影片 还有新闻短片
There was a Garbo picture and a newsreel
还有一部米老鼠 一部旅行纪录片
and a Mickey Mouse and a Travelogue
还有新片预告
and a preview of coming attractions.
那一边有管风琴独奏
There was an organ solo
一边还在为牛奶基金募捐
and a collection for the milk fund, simultaneously.
最后在一个胖女人
which ended up in a terrible fight
和一个招待大打出手中结束了
between a fat lady and an usher.
你非要从头到尾看完吗？
Did you have to stay through everything?
当然
Of course.
哦 我忘了
Oh, and I forgot.
有场舞台演出
There was a stage show.
演出的重头戏是
Now, the headliner on this stage show
魔术师马尔福利奥
was Malvolio the magician.
他变的很多魔术都很精彩
He performed wonderful tricks, many of them,
比如把两个罐子里的水倒来倒去
such as pouring water back and forth between two pitchers.
水先是变成了葡萄酒 然后又变成啤酒
First it turned into wine, then it turned into beer,
然后又变成威士忌
then it turned into whisky.
我知道他最后要变成威士忌
Now, I know that it was whisky that it finally turned into,
因为他需要观众里
because he needed someone to come up
有个人上去帮他
out of the audience to help him,
于是我上台了
so I came up.
演了两次
Both shows.
纯正的肯塔基波旁威士忌
It was Kentucky straight bourbon.
真是个大方的人
Very generous fellow.
他还给了纪念品
He gave souvenirs.
这
This
是他的魔法丝巾
is his magic scarf.
你留着吧 劳拉
You can have it, Laura.
你在金丝雀笼前
You wave it over
这么一挥
a canary cage.
它们就会变成一缸金鱼
they turn into a bowl of goldfish.
你再在金鱼缸前一挥
And you wave it over a goldfish bowl
它们就变回金丝雀飞走
and they fly away canaries.
但是最精彩的把戏
But the wonderfullest trick of all
还得是棺材魔术
was the coffin trick.
我们把他钉进一口棺材里
Now, we nailed him into a coffin,
然后他一个钉子都没动 就从棺材里出来了
and he got himself out without removing one nail.
这倒是个对我很有用的把戏
Now, there is a trick that would come in handy for me.
让我摆脱这种像在棺材里一样的困境
Get me out of this 2x4 situation.
嘘 汤姆
Shh! Tom.
你嘘我干嘛？
What are you shushing me for?
嘘 你会把妈妈吵醒的
Shh. You'll wake up mother.
好啊 好得很
Goody, goody.
正好报答她那些
Pay her back for all those
“打起精神 起床啦 打起精神 起床啦”
Rise and shines, rise and shines.
你也知道 劳拉
You know, Laura,
躺进钉好的棺材里
it don't take much intelligence
是不用多少脑子的
to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin.
但能一根钉子不动地
But who ever got himself out of one
从里面爬出来就不一样了
without removing at least one nail?
打起精神 起床啦
Rise and shine.
我会起来的 但我没那个精神
I will rise, but I won't shine.
劳拉 去叫你弟弟打起精神快起床
Laura, go tell your brother to rise and shine.
告诉他咖啡好了
Go tell your brother his coffee's ready.
汤姆？
Tom?
汤姆
Tom.
快七点了
It's nearly 7:00.
别让妈妈担心了
Don't make mother nervous.
汤姆
Tom.
早上跟妈好好谈谈
Speak to mother this morning.
跟她和好
Make up with her.
道个歉
Apologize.
跟她说说话
Speak to her.
她不会搭理我的
She won't to me.
是她先拒绝沟通的
It's her that started not speaking.
你只要先道歉
If you would only say that you're sorry,
她就会开口的
she'd start speaking.
她要不开口就是世界末日了吗？
Her not speaking is that such a tragedy?
– 求你了 汤姆 – 劳拉
– Please, Tom. – Laura,
你是要自己去
are you going to do what I asked,
还是要我穿上衣服去？
or do I have to get dressed and go out myself?
来了 来了
Going, going.
我穿上大衣就好
I..I Just have to get on my coat.
除了黄油 还有别的什么吗?
Butter and what else?
就黄油 让他们先记账上
Just butter. And tell them to charge it.
妈妈 我一说要赊账 他们就给我脸色看
Mother, they make such faces when I do that.
棍子和石头会伤人
Sticks and stones may break our bones,
加芬克尔的先生的脸色又不会伤人
but the expression on Mr. Garfinkel's face won't harm us.
告诉你弟弟他的咖啡要凉了
Tell your brother his coffee's getting cold.
汤姆 照我说的做 好吗？
Tom, do what I ask, will you?
– 劳拉！现在不走就别去了 – 好吗 汤姆？
– Laura! Go now or just don't go at all. – Will you, Tom?
来了 来了
Going, going.
啊！
Ahh!
劳拉！
Laura!
劳拉！
Laura!
我没事
I'm all right.
我滑了一下 但是没事
I slipped, but I'm all right.
哦
Ooh.
上帝啊 谁要是在这过道
Lord, If anybody falls down this landing
摔断了腿
and breaks their leg,
房东就该被起诉 让他赔个精光！
the landlord ought to be sued for every cent he's got.
哦 你是谁啊？
Well. Who are you?
妈？
Mother?
我向你道歉
I apologize, mother.
我为我说过的
I'm sorry for what I said—
每句话道歉
for everything that I said.
我不是有意的
I didn't mean it.
我的付出反倒让我成了老巫婆
My devotion has made me a witch,
连我的孩子们都恨我
so I make myself hateful to my children.
没有啊 我们不恨你
No, you don't.
我操心操到睡不着觉
Well, I worry so much, I can't sleep,
人都变得神经兮兮的了
so it just makes me nervous.
我懂的 妈
I know that, mother.
汤姆
Tom.
你知道我这么多年
Now, you know I have had
都是单枪匹马地闯生活
to fight a solitary battle all these years.
可你一直是我的左膀右臂
But you are my right-hand bower.
你可别让我失望
Now, don't you fail me.
别掉链子
Don't you fall down.
但我尽力了 妈
But I try, mother.
你要真尽力了 你就会成功的
Tom, if you try, you will succeed.
你的天资这么出众
You are just full of natural endowments.
我两个孩子都这么出色
Honey, both of my children are.
你们都是我的宝贝
They're just very precious children,
天知道我有多感恩
and I have so much to be thankful for.
现在 你能答应我一件事吗？
Now, would you just promise me one thing?
什么事 妈？
What, mother?
答应我
Will you promise me
永远不要当酒鬼好吗？
that you won't ever become a drunkard?
妈 我保证我永远不会当酒鬼
I promise I'll never become a drunkard, mother.
好了 来吃点早点
Come on, have some Purina.
不用了 妈 咖啡就行了
No, thanks, mother. Just coffee.
那来点烤面包？
Uh, some Post Toasties?
呃 或者麦片呢？
Some, uh, uh, Wheaties?
不用
No.
谢谢 妈
No, thanks, mother.
咖啡就行了
Just coffee's fine.
亲爱的 你不能饿着肚子
Honey, you can't work all day long
工作一整天啊
on an empty stomach.
现在你还有十分钟时间
Now, you've got 10 minutes.
汤姆 慢点喝 宝贝
Tom, now don't go, honey.
喝太烫的东西小心得胃癌啊
Drinking too-hot liquids makes cancer of the stomach.
来 给你加点牛奶
Now, here, put some milk in it.
不用了 谢谢
No, thanks.
就是让它凉一点
Well, just to cool it off.
不用 谢谢你 妈 我就想喝黑咖啡
No, no, thank you, mother. I want it black.
我知道 但这样对你身体不好
I know, but it's not good for you like that.
你知道 我们得注意自己的身体
Well, you know we have to build ourselves up
尤其现在世道又不好
in these trying times we live in,
我们能依靠的就只有彼此
when all we have to depend on is each other.
所以身体好才那么重要不是
And that's why it's so important to...
汤姆
Tom.
坐下
Sit down.
你先坐下 宝贝
Come sit down, honey.
把咖啡挪过去
Move your coffee.
汤姆
Tom.
现在
Now,
我把你姐姐支出去了
I sent out your sister
因为有件事我想跟你单独谈谈
because I wanted to discuss something with you.
就算你不搭理我 我也会跟你说的
You ain't spoke to me, I was going to speak to you.
好吧 所以要谈什么事呢 妈？
Well, what is it, mother, that you want to discuss?
劳拉
Laura.
劳拉？
Laura?
汤姆 你知道劳拉是什么样的人
Tom, now, you know how Laura is.
她是不爱说话 但她内秀于心
She's so quiet, but still waters run deep.
她也很敏感
And she notices things,
总是忧心忡忡地
and I think she broods about them.
我前几天在这还看见她哭来着
Now, I came here the other day, and she was crying.
她为什么哭？
What about?
为了你
You.
我？
Me?
她觉得
Now, she has this idea
你在家里不开心
that you are not happy here.
她为什么会这么想呢？
What gave her that idea?
她为什么不会这么想呢？
What gives her any idea?
但是 亲爱的
But, honey,
你最近确实表现地很奇怪
you have been acting kind of strange lately.
汤姆 要知道我不是在批评你
Tom, I am not criticizing, mind you.
我知道你的志向
Now, I know that your ambitions
不在这个鞋厂里
do not lie at the warehouse,
你也和世界上所有人一样
and like everybody else in the whole wide world,
不得不做出牺牲
you, too, have had to make sacrifices.
但是
But,
汤姆 生活不易啊
Tom, life is not easy.
你得有斯巴达人那样的韧劲
It calls for spartan endurance.
汤姆
Tom.
汤姆 我..
Tom, I—
我心里有好多事
there are just so many things in my heart
不知道怎么跟你说
that I cannot describe to you.
我从来没跟你说过 但
Now, I never told you, but
我真的很爱你爸爸
I did love your father.
我知道 妈妈
I know that, mother.
而当我看到
But when I see you,
你在走他的老路
and you're taking after his ways,
你彻夜不归
and you're staying out all night
那天晚上还在喝酒
and you had been drinking the other night
整个人状态那么差
when you were in that terrifying condition—
现在劳拉又跟我说你厌恶这个家
and now Laura tells me that you hate this apartment
每天晚上都要躲到外面去
and you go out nights to get away from it.
是这样吗？
Now, is that true?
不是的
No.
妈 你说你有很多心事
Mother, you say there's so much in your heart
没法跟我说
that you can't describe to me.
我也一样 妈
Well, that's true of me, too, mother.
我也有很多没法跟你说的心事
there's so much in my heart that I can't describe to you.
就让我们互相尊重吧…
So let's just respect each other's—
亲爱的
Honey.
你为什么这么不安呢？
Why are you so restless?
你晚上都上哪去了？
Where do you go to nights?
我去看电影了
I go to the movies.
你怎么老去看电影？
Why do you go to the movies so much?
我去看电影是因为我喜欢冒险
I go to the movies because I like adventure,
而我在工作中实在没什么冒险的机会
and adventure is something I don't get much of at work,
所以我去电影里找
so I go to the movies.
亲爱的 你去看电影的次数实在是太多了
Honey, you go to the movies entirely too much.
我喜欢不断地冒险
I like a lot of adventure.
很多年轻人在他们干的那一行就能找到刺激
Well, most young men find adventure in their careers.
很多年轻人也不是在鞋厂里干活
Most young men are not employed at warehouses.
这世界上多得是
The world is full of young men
在鞋厂 在办公室干活的年轻人
who are employed at warehouses, and offices—
难道他们都能在工作中找到激情吗？
and do all of them find adventure in their careers?
管他们能不能找到
Well, they do or they do without.
这世界上又不是人人
Not everybody in the whole wide world
都爱冒险
has a craze for adventure.
妈 一个男人天生就该是一个情人
Mother, man is by instinct a lover,
一个猎人 一个战士
a hunter and a fighter,
这些天性没多少是能在鞋厂里释放的
and none of those instincts get much play at a warehouse.
– 男人的本能就是... – 对！
– Man is by instinct... – Yes!
别跟我说什么本能！
Don't you quote instinct to me!
本能是人类已经抛弃的东西
Now, instinct is something people have got away from;
它属于动物
It belongs to animals.
信基督教的成年人不需要它
Christian adults don't want it.
那 信基督的成年人想要什么呢 妈？
What do Christian adults want, then, mother?
心灵和精神方面的东西
Things of the mind and of the spirit.
只有动物才需要满足它们的本能
Only animals have to satisfy their instincts.
你的标准总得比动物高吧
Now, surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs.
比猴子 猪这些
They're monkeys and pigs.
我没觉得我比它们高
Well, I reckon they're not.
汤姆 你开什么玩笑
Tom, you must be joking.
我不是想跟你说这些
That's not what I wanted to talk to you about.
我没时间了
I haven't got time.
你还有五分钟
You've got five minutes.
你想让我上班迟到吗？
You want me to punch in red at the warehouse?
汤姆 我必须得跟你谈谈劳拉
Tom, I must talk to you about Laura.
行吧 劳拉怎么了？
All right. What about Laura?
我们必须得给她
We have got to be making
做些打算了
some plans and provisions for her.
毕竟 她岁数比你大
Well, she's older than you.
汤姆 她什么都没经历过
And Tom, nothing is happening for her.
她就这么 昏昏噩噩
She just drifts along
一事无成
doing nothing.
我觉得她就是人们说的那种 闺中小姐
Well, I reckon she's the type that people call home girls.
亲爱的 根本就没有这种人
Honey, there's no such type.
就算真有的话 那也太可怜了
And if there is, it's a pity
除非那个闺是她的 里面还得有个丈夫
unless the home is hers with a husband in it.
什么？
What?
哦 汤姆啊
Oh, Tom.
汤姆 我觉得有些苗头
Tom, I can see the handwriting on the wall
已经明显很不对劲了
As plain as I can see the nose on my face.
我觉得你越来越像你爸爸了
More and more, You remind me of your father.
你看
Well, well.
他一出去就是一整晚
He was going out all night long
也不说去干什么
without any explanation,
然后有一天 他就人间蒸发了
and then one day he was just gone,
没了
goodbye,
留下这副重担给我
and leaving me with the bag to hold.
我看了那些
Now, I saw that letter you got
商船公司给你的信
from the merchant Marines.
对 我看了
Well, I saw it.
我知道你有什么梦想
And I know what you're dreaming of.
我不是站在这两眼一抹黑
I'm not standing here blindfolded.
行啊 那你去吧
All right. Do it,
但要先找个人代替你的位置
but not until you have somebody to take your place.
你这是什么意思？
What do you mean?
我的意思是
I mean
等到劳拉有人照顾了
when Laura has somebody to take care of her,
等到她结婚了 有了一个自己的家
when she's married, with a home of her own,
完全独立了
independent.
然后你想去哪儿都行
Then you can go wherever you like:
陆上 海上 随便什么地方
On land, on sea, wherever the wind blows you.
但在这之前
But until that time,
你必须得照顾好你姐姐
you have got to take care of your sister.
汤姆 我没说要照顾我
Now, Tom, I don't say me
因为我已经老了 无关紧要
because I'm old and I don't matter.
但我是说为了你姐姐
But I say your sister,
因为她还年轻 还得依靠别人
because she's young and she's dependent.
但 妈 我能做什么呢？
But, mother, what can I do about it?
你可以不那么自私
You can overcome selfishness.
汤姆！
Tom!
自己 自己 自己
Self, self, self!
你脑子里就只有自己
That's all you ever think about.
汤姆！
Tom!
汤姆 站住 汤姆
Tom, now, wait. Tom
别走 汤姆 等等
No, Tom. Wait, wait.
我还没问想要问你的事呢
I didn't say what I was in mind to ask you.
妈 我快迟到了
Mother, I'm too late to—
戴上你的围巾
Put on your muffler.
汤姆 汤姆 汤姆
Tom, Tom, Tom.
听我说 难道鞋厂里面
Now, down at the warehouse,
就没有优秀的小伙子吗？
aren't there some nice young men?
没有！
No!
哦 肯定有的
Oh, there must be some.
就 找一个生活检点
Just, please, find one who's clean-living,
不酗酒的
Who doesn't drink,
让他来约你姐姐
and ask him out for your sister.
什么？
What?
为了你姐姐 为了我
For your sister. For me.
先混个脸熟
To get acquainted.
老天啊
Oh, my gosh.
行不行？
Oh, will you?
Will you?
答应我？
好吗 亲爱的？
Will you, dear?
行
Yes.
艾拉？
Ella?
是艾拉·卡莱特吗？
Ella Cartwright?
我是阿曼达·温菲尔德
Well, this is Amanda Wingfield!
那个 艾拉
Well, now, first, Ella,
你的肾好些了吗？
how is your kidney problem?
又复发了？
It's come back?
天哪 艾拉 你真是太可怜了
Oh, Ella, you are a Christian martyr.
不 不 真的
No, no. That is what you are.
你真是太可怜了
You are a Christian martyr.
艾拉
Well, now, Ella,
我正在翻我的小红册子
I have been looking through my little red book here,
刚好看到你的《妇女之友》的订阅
and I see where your subscription
已经到期了
to the companion has run out.
好巧不巧 贝西·梅·霍珀的精彩小说
And it's just when that wonderful serial
马上要开始连载了
by Bessie Mae Harper is starting.
这篇讲的是
It's the one that's all about
长岛赛马圈
the horsey set on Long Island and—
是吗？
you have?
你已经看过了？
You've already read it?
你觉得情节会怎样发展呢？
Well, how do you think it turns out?
不会 贝西·梅·霍珀从不让人失望
No. Bessie Mae Harper never lets you down.
艾拉 你得
Well, Ella, you have to—
艾拉 剧情得有起伏对吧
Ella, you have to have complications.
哪有故事没有起伏转折的
You can't have a story without complications.
但是贝西·梅·霍珀总能让故事
But Bessie Mae Harper always leaves you
高潮迭起
with such an uplift.
艾拉 你怎么了？
Ella, what's the matter?
你听起来好像很生气
Well, you sound so mad.
你是说因为现在才早上七点钟？
You mean because it's only 7:00 in the morning?
哦 艾拉
Oh, Ella.
不好意思 我忘了你从来不在九点前起床
I'm sorry. I forgot you never got up before 9:00.
我忘了这世界上还有人
Well, I forgot anybody in the whole wide world
能睡到这么晚
was allowed to sleep as late as that.
我不知道该说什么了 真的很抱歉 行吗？
Well, I can't say anything but I'm sorry, can I?
你要订吗？
You will?
你还是愿意从我这订阅吗？
You will take that subscription from me anyhow?
上帝保佑你
Well, bless you.
祝福你
Bless you.
上帝会保佑你的 艾拉 祝福你 保佑你
Bless you, Ella. Bless you, Bless you.
我们家巷子对面 有一个叫天堂舞厅的地方
Across the alley from us was the Paradise Dance Hall.
春日的夜里
On evenings in spring
那儿的门窗都开着
the windows and doors would be open
里面传出音乐声
and the music would come outside.
有时候 他们会把灯都关上
Sometimes they would turn out all the lights
只剩一个挂在天花板上的大玻璃球
except for a large glass sphere which hung from the ceiling.
它缓慢地旋转
And it would turn slowly about
给飞尘染上柔和的 彩虹一样的颜色
and filter the dust with delicate rainbow colors.
然后乐队会开始演奏一曲华尔兹或探戈
Then the orchestra would strike up a waltz or a tango,
节奏舒缓 令人愉悦
something that had a slow and sensuous rhythm.
情侣们会出来
Couples would come outside
去更私密的小巷子里
to the relative privacy of the alley.
你可以看着他们在
You could see them kissing
灰坑和电话线杆后接吻
behind ash pits and telephone poles.
这是给那些像我一样
This was compensation for lives that passed like mine,
生活毫无激情的人的一种补偿
without any change or adventure.
这一年 冒险和变革迫在眉睫
Adventure and change were imminent in this year.
它们在拐角伺机而动 等待着孩子们
They were waiting around the corner for all these kids.
它们也漂浮在贝希特斯加登的薄雾中
Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden,
被张伯伦伞下的阴霾所笼罩
caught in the folds of Chamberlain's umbrella.
西班牙正在内战
In Spain there was civil war;
而这里只有劲歌 烈酒
here there was only hot swing music and liquor,
舞厅 酒吧 电影 和性爱
dance halls, bars and movies and sex,
如同摇曳在阴影中的吊灯
which hung in the gloom like a chandelier
用转瞬即逝的幻彩点缀着世界
and fluttered the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.
世界正在等待轰炸来临
all the world was waiting for bombardments.
汤姆
Tom.
汤姆
Tom!
你在哪儿？
Where are you?
我出来抽根烟 妈
I came out to smoke, mother.
你烟抽的太多了
Well, you smoke too much.
每天一包 每包15美分？
A pack a day at 15¢ a pack?
那一个月得花多少烟钱？
Now, how much would that be in a month?
15乘以30
15 times 30.
嗯 虽然不算多
Well, it wouldn't be too much,
但应该足够让你上一门
but it would be enough to go towards
华盛顿大学的
a night school course in accounting
会计夜校课程了
at the Washington U.
这该多好啊？
Now, wouldn't that be lovely?
我宁愿抽烟
I'd rather smoke.
我知道
I know.
这就是你的不幸所在
That's the tragedy of you.
这消防梯的小台子哪比得上
This fire escape landing is a poor excuse
咱家以前那个门廊啊
for that porch we used to have.
你在看什么呢？
What you looking at?
月亮
Moon.
今晚有月亮吗？
Is there a moon this evening?
哦 在那儿
Oh, So there is.
漏了点小小的银边
just a little silver slip of a moon.
你对它许愿了吗？
Well, did you make a wish on it?
许了
Mm-hmm.
你许了什么愿？
What did you wish for?
这是秘密
That's a secret.
行 那我也不告诉你我许了什么愿
All right, I won't tell you what I wished for.
我也可以跟你一样神神秘秘
I can be just as mysterious as you can.
但我能猜的出你许了什么愿
But I can guess what you wish.
凭什么 我的脑袋是透明的吗？
Why, now, is my head transparent?
你又不是狮身人面像
You're not a sphinx.
对啊 我没什么秘密
No, I don't keep secrets.
我告诉你我许的愿吧
I'll tell you what I wished for.
我希望我的孩子们都能
I wished for success and happiness
成功 幸福
for my precious children.
只要看到月亮 我就会许这个愿望
That's what I wish for every time there's a moon,
没有月亮的时候 我也这么许
and when there isn't a moon, I wish for it too.
我猜的是你许愿想要一位追求者
I thought perhaps you wished for a gentleman caller.
你这话怎么说？
Now, what makes you say that?
你不记得你叫我请一位过来吗？
Oh, you don't remember asking me to fetch one?
我记得的是想让你带个好小伙子回来
I remember suggesting it would be nice for your sister
这对你姐姐有好处
if you brought home some nice young man.
还跟你提了不止一次
I think I made that suggestion more than once.
可不 你提了很多遍了
Yes, you made it repeatedly.
那人呢？
Well?
的确有这么个人
We are going to have one.
什么人？
What?
好小伙啊
A gentleman caller.
你是说你已经邀请了
Do you mean that you have asked
一个好小伙儿过来吗？
some nice young man to come over?
是啊
Yep.
我叫他来吃晚餐
I have asked him to dinner.
你真请了？
You really did?
对啊
I do.
他接受了吗？
Did he accept?
接受了
He did.
真接受了？
He did?
真接受了
He did.
哦 这真是太好啦
Oh, isn't that lovely?
是啊 我估计你肯定会很高兴的
Yes. I thought you would be pleased.
等会 这事定了吗？
Well, now, this is definite?
应该定了
Pretty definite.
那他什么时候来？
Well, how soon?
很快就来
Pretty soon.
有多快呢？
Well, how soon?
相当快
Quite soon.
到底多快？
How soon?
非常快
Very soon.
汤姆 每次我问你正事的时候
Tom, every time I want to know something,
你都没个正型
you go on like that.
妈 你想知道什么?
Mother, What do you want to know?
你猜啊 猜猜看啊
Well, guess. Just go on and guess.
你想知道
You want to know
那个小伙子什么时候来吃晚餐？
when the gentleman caller's coming to dinner?
他明天就来
He's coming tomorrow.
明天？
Tomorrow?
对
Yes.
可是 明天来不及啊
I can't do anything by tomorrow.
什么准备都做不了啊
I can't do anything about tomorrow.
为什么来不及？
Why not?
时间来不及啊
That doesn't give me any time.
什么时间？
Time for what?
准备的时间
Preparations.
他接受邀请的那一刻
You should have called me the minute you invited him,
你就该打电话告诉我
the minute he accepted.
妈 你用不着大操大办
Mother, you don't have to make any fuss.
我可不得大操大办吗
Of course I have to make a fuss.
我可不能让客人看见咱们家
I can't have a man coming into a place
乱七八糟的
that's all sloppy.
家里必须收拾得井井有条
It has to be thrown together properly.
我得赶紧为明天晚上做准备
I have to do some vast thing about tomorrow night.
妈 我不明白你在担心些什么
Mother, I don't see why you have to think at all.
因为你不明白
That's because you just don't know.
你就是不明白
You just don't know, that's all.
我可不能让他到一个猪圈里来做客
I cannot have a gentleman caller coming into a pigsty.
哦 我看看
Oh! Let me see.
哦 不知道这旧花边桌布
Oh! I wonder how that old lace tablecloth
都用了这么多年 还行不行
is holding up after all these years.
哦
Oh!
哦
Oh!
汤姆 我们没有衣服
Tom, we can't wear anything.
没有
We haven't got it.
我们都没有像样的衣服穿
We haven't got anything to wear. We haven't got it.
妈 没必要为了他大张旗鼓
Mother, this is no boy to make a fuss over.
你怎么能这么说
I don't know how you can say that
这是你姐姐迄今为止
when this is the first gentleman caller
第一位追求者
your little sister has ever had.
快进来
Now, come on inside.
有什么必要呢？
What for?
我得问你点事儿
Because I want to ask you a few things.
妈 你要非得这么小题大做
Mother, if you are going to make a fuss,
我就不跟他约了
I will call the whole thing off.
妈 我就让他别来了
Mother, I will tell him not to come.
你可别
You can't do that.
谁都不喜欢被爽约
People hate broken engagements.
弄得他们都没地方可去
Then they've got no place to go.
快进来
Now, come on inside.
坐着
Now, sit down.
你要我坐在什么指定的位置吗？
Any particular place that you'd like me to sit?
坐哪儿都行
Sit anywhere.
你看看这
Now, look at that.
这些不就是你这辈子见过最可悲的东西吗？
Isn't that the saddest thing you've ever seen in your life?
我要拿它们怎么办？
What am I going to do with that?
哦 我知道了
Oh, I know.
我可以弄一块亮色的大花帘布
I can get a bright piece of cretonne.
也不用花多少钱
Now, that won't cost too much.
而且我已经订了一盏落地灯
And I made the down payment on a floor lamp,
这样那边就有东西放了
So I have that set out.
然后我还能给那把椅子提点亮
And I can put a bright color on that chair and—
噢 要是有时间再贴一下墙纸就好了
Oh, I wish I had time to paper the walls.
对了 他叫什么名字？
Now, what is his name?
他叫奥康纳
His name is O'Connor.
奥康纳
O'Connor?
他是爱尔兰人?
He's Irish?
明天是礼拜五 得吃鱼
Tomorrow's Friday, that means fish.
我要做那个三文鱼面包 配上蛋黄酱汁
I'll make that salmon loaf with the mayonnaise dressing.
你在哪儿认识他的？
Now, where did you meet him?
当然是在鞋厂认识的
At the warehouse, of course.
不然呢？
Where else would I meet him?
我又不知道
I don't know.
他酗酒吗？
Does he drink?
你问这个干嘛？
Why do you ask me that?
因为你爸爸酗酒
Because your father did.
妈 别往这儿扯
Mother, Don't get started on that.
他酗酒 然后..
He drinks, then.
我又不是不知道
Not that I know of.
这事你可得问清楚
Well, You have got to find out.
我最不希望我女儿碰到的
The one thing I do not want for my daughter
就是酒鬼
Is a man who drinks.
你不觉得说这个有点太早了吗？
You're not being the tiniest bit premature?
奥康纳先生都还没来呢
Mr. O'Connor has not yet arrived on the scene.
他明天晚上就要见你姐姐了
He will tomorrow night to meet your sister.
而我对他是个什么样的人都不了解
And what do I know about his character?
你在干嘛？
What are you doing?
我看不惯你那头发
I hate that cowlick.
你得把它梳到后面
I wish it would stay back by—
哦 汤姆 能不能
oh, Tom, will you—
妈
mother,
很多男孩跟姑娘约会都不是奔着结婚去的
lots of boys meet girls who they don't marry.
你总是让我很费解
You know, you have always had me puzzled
因为你都不能专注聊一个话题
because you cannot stay on one subject.
现在我想知道
Now, what I want to know is
他在鞋厂是干什么的？
what is his position down at the warehouse?
他是个调度员
His position is that of a shipping clerk.
调度员？
Shipping clerk?
听起来是个角色
Well, that sounds pretty important to me.
你要是上进一点的话 你也能当
Well, that's what you'd be if you had any get-up.
他工资有多少？
Now, how much does he earn?
我估计他一个月
I would judge his salary to be
差不多能赚八十五块钱
approximately $85 per month.
一个月八十五块？
$85 a month?
那也不多啊
Well, that's not princely.
比我多二十块呢
20 more than I make.
嚯 还用得着你说
Oh-hoo, how well I know that.
一个月八十五块
$85 a month.
成家的男人可不能只靠每个月八十五块过日子
Family man can't get by on $85 a month.
那个 奥康纳先生还没有成家呢
Um, Mr. O'Connor is not a family man.
他总有一天得成家 不是吗？
Well, he might be one day, mightn't he?
嗯 我明白了
Emm, I see.
要未雨绸缪
Plans and provisions.
你知道吗 汤姆
You know, Tom,
我认识的年轻人里面
you are the only young man I know
只有你不懂什么叫
that ignores the fact
明日复明日
that the future becomes the present,
明日何其多
the present the past,
我生待明日
and the past turns into everlasting regret
万事成蹉跎
unless you plan for it.
我去想想 看能不能想明白
I'll think that over and see what I can make of it.
别对你妈这么趾高气昂
Don't be supercilious with your mother.
再给我讲讲奥康纳先生
Now, tell me some more about Mr. O'Connor.
奥康纳先生
Mr. O'Connor.
除了这姓以外 他叫啥呢
We've got to have another name besides mister.
詹姆斯·迪·奥康纳
James D. O'Connor.
迪是迪拉尼的简称
The "D" is for Delaney.
迪拉尼
Delaney?
他父母都是爱尔兰人 他还不喝酒？
He's Irish on both sides and he doesn't drink?
要不我打电话问问他？
Shall I call him up and ask him?
汤姆！
Tom!
– 我打电话问问他 – 这可不行
– No, I'll call him and ask him. – You can't do that.
这种问题可不能随便问
You've got to be discreet about that subject.
我还是蓝山姑娘的时候
Well, when I was a girl in Blue Mountain,
如果有人怀疑一个年轻小伙子酗酒
and it was suspected that a young man was drinking
然后他想追求哪个姑娘
and some girl was receiving his attentions,
然后那个女孩想接受他的追求
then if some girl was receiving his attentions,
她就会去跟他那边教堂的牧师
she would go to the minister of his church
打听他的品行
and ask about his character.
或者是她爸爸去
Or her father.
如果她爸爸还在的话
If her father were living,
那去跟教堂里的牧师打听这小伙的品行
it was his duty to go to the minister of his church
就是她爸爸的责任
and ask about his character.
这就是蓝山的姑娘们
Now, that is how young girls from Blue Mountain
避免自己嫁错郎的方法
were kept from making tragic mistakes.
那你是怎么
Then, how did it happen
嫁错郎的呢 妈？
that you made such a tragic mistake, Mother?
他那张脸把所有人都迷住了
That face fooled everybody.
他只要一笑
All he had to do was grin
世界都得为他倾倒
and the world was bewitched.
我觉得没什么比
I think there's nothing more tragic
一个只在乎男人外表
than a young girl just putting herself
的小姑娘更糟糕了
at the mercy of a handsome appearance.
我希望奥康纳先生长得别太俊了
And I hope that Mr. O'Connor is not too good-looking.
你别说 他长得还真不太行
As a matter of fact, he isn't.
他光鼻子长得大
He has rather a large nose, which he
下巴却很短
compensates for by not having much of a chin.
那他不会很难看吧？
He's not right-down homely, is he?
不是很难看
Not right-down homely.
只是有点难看
Medium homely, I'd say.
一个女孩但凡有点脑子
Well, if a girl had any sense,
她都会更看重一个男人的内在
she would look for character in a man anyway.
我一直是这么说的
That's what I've always said.
还你一直这么说的
You always said that.
你一直这么说的吗？
You have always said that?
是啊
Yes.
那如果你从来都没这么想过
Well, now, how could you always say that
怎么会一直这么说呢？
If you never even thought about it?
妈 别这么疑神疑鬼的
Mother, don't be so suspicious.
我确实怀疑
I am.
你跟我说话的时候
I am suspicious of every word that comes
从你嘴里出来的每个字我都得怀疑
out of your mouth when you're talking to me.
再跟我多讲讲这个小伙子呗
Now, tell me some more about this young man.
他算有前途吗？
Now, is he up-and-coming?
有的 我觉得他在很努力地提升自己
Yes, I think he really goes in for self-improvement.
为什么这么说？
What makes you say that?
他去夜校上课
He goes to night school.
夜校？
Night school?
他在夜校学些什么？
What does he do at night school?
无线电工程和公共演讲
He studies radio engineering and public speaking.
公共演讲？
Public speaking?
这说明他打算当领导
Now that shows he intends to be an executive.
还有无线电工程
And radio engineering.
这个前景很不错 对吧?
Well, that's coming, hmm?
算是吧
I'm afraid it's here.
这两件事都是非常说明问题的
Those are very illuminating facts,
是每个妈妈都得在她女儿的追求者
facts that any mother should know about
来拜访前应该了解的事情
any young man who's coming to call on her daughter,
不管是不是认真的
serious or not.
妈 我得提个醒
One little warning, mother.
我没告诉他劳拉的事
I didn't tell him about Laura.
我没让他知道我们有些动机不纯
I didn't let on that we had dark ulterior motives.
我只是说
I simply said,
“能不能过来吃顿晚饭？”
"Why don't you come over for dinner?"
他说“可以”
He said, "okay."
整个过程就是这样
And that was the whole conversation.
我觉得也是
I bet it was too.
有时候你像个牡蛎一样能说会道
Sometimes you can be eloquent as an oyster.
不过 当他看到劳拉是这么温柔
However, when he sees how sweet
这么美丽的姑娘的时候
and how pretty that child is,
他会很庆幸自己能
He's going to be so glad
被邀请来吃晚餐
he was invited over here to have some dinner.
妈
Mother,
你不会对劳拉有太多期待吧？
You won't expect too much of Laura, will you?
你这话什么意思
I don't know what you mean.
妈 我们把劳拉捧在手心里
Mother, Laura seems all those things to us
是因为我们是亲人 我们爱她
because she's ours and we love her.
我们都忘了她是瘸子了
We don't even notice she's crippled anymore.
嘘 不要用那个词
Hush. Don't use that word.
劳拉确实是瘸子 她瘸了
Laura is crippled. She is.
面对现实吧 她还不止瘸了呢
Face facts and that's not all.
什么叫还不止瘸了？
What do you mean, that's not all?
劳拉跟别的女孩很不一样
Laura is very different from other girls.
我知道 我觉得这些不同都是她的优点
I know that, and I think the difference is all in her favor.
不 不是的
No, not quite all.
妈 在别人的眼里
Mother, in the eyes of others,
陌生人眼里
strangers,
她太内向了
she is terribly shy.
只能躲在自己的世界里
She lives in a world of her own,
这会让其他人觉得她有点古怪
and that can make her seem peculiar to other people.
别说古怪这个词
Don't use that word "peculiar."
她就是有点古怪
She is peculiar.
我不知道她哪里古怪了
Well, I don't know in what way she's peculiar.
妈 她的世界里只有那些小玻璃摆件
Mother, she lives in a world of little glass ornaments.
她整天坐在那 放着那些旧唱片
She sits and plays those old phonograph records.
这些就够了
That's about all.
你要去哪儿？
Where are you going?
我去看电影
I'm going to the movies.
劳拉
Laura?
劳拉
Laura?
妈妈 怎么了？
Yes, mother?
宝贝 别熨衣服了 出来吧
Honey, leave that ironing and come on out here.
来
Come on.
宝贝 出来对月亮许个愿吧
Honey, come on out and make a wish on the moon.
对月亮？
The moon?
看到了吗 月亮露出的那一点银边？
See? Just a little silver slip of the moon.
宝贝 过来
Now, honey, here.
看左边 许个愿
Look over your left shoulder and make a wish.
现在
Now, honey.
许愿
Wish.
妈 许什么愿望呢？
What shall I wish for, mother?
幸福
Happiness.
还有一点好运
Just a little bit of good fortune.
第二天晚上 我带吉姆回家吃晚餐
The following evening I brought Jim home to dinner.
我只在高中时略微和他有点交情
I had known Jim slightly in high school.
吉姆也是鞋厂里唯一一个
And Jim was the only person at the warehouse
我能称之为朋友的人
with whom I was on friendly terms.
我对他来说很重要
I was valuable to him
因为我能记着他的光辉岁月
as someone who could remember his former glory,
比如看过他赢了场篮球赛
who had seen him win basketball games
辩论赛拿了银奖之类的
and the silver cup in debating.
他知道我有个秘密
He knew of my secret practice of
就是在会厂里生意冷清的时候
retiring to a cabinet of the washroom
躲到厕所的柜子里
to work on poems
练习写诗
when business was slack at the warehouse.
他叫我莎士比亚
He called me Shakespeare.
当鞋厂里其他小伙子
And while the other boys in the warehouse
对我有些微妙的敌意的时候
regarded me with a suspicious hostility,
吉姆却对我抱着一种幽默的态度
Jim took a humorous attitude towards me.
渐渐地 他的态度影响了其他人
Gradually his attitude affected the others,
最后消除了他们的敌意
and their hostility wore off,
他们也开始冲我微笑
and they also began to smile at me,
就像在笑一只奇形怪状的狗
as people smile at an oddly fashioned dog
在他们前面跑过一样
who trots across their path at some distance.
我知道吉姆和劳拉
I knew that Jim and Laura
在高中就认识了
had known each other in high school,
我也听劳拉说过她喜欢吉姆的嗓音
and I had heard Laura speak admiringly of Jim's voice.
我不知道吉姆是否还记得她
I didn't know whether Jim remembered her or not,
因为劳拉在高中时就很不起眼了
for in high school Laura had been as unobtrusive
而吉姆则非常引人注目
as Jim had been astonishing.
就算他还记得劳拉
if he did remember her at all,
那也肯定不记得她是我的妹妹
it was not as my sister,
因为当我邀请他来吃晚餐时 他咧嘴一笑说
for when I asked him to dinner he grinned and said,
你知道吗 莎士比亚
"You know, Shakespeare,
我从没想到你还有家人啊
I never thought of you as having folks."
他马上就会知道我确实有家人了
He was about to discover that I did.
别动
Now, hold still.
宝贝 你为什么一直在发抖？
Honey, why are you trembling so?
妈妈 你弄得我太紧张了
Mother, you have made me so nervous.
我哪让你紧张了？
How have I made you nervous?
你太小题大做了
By all this fuss.
弄得好像这是多大事一样
You make it seem so important.
劳拉 我真搞不懂你
Laura, I don't understand you.
每次我想给你
Every time I try to do anything
稍微做一点改变的时候
that is the least bit different for you,
你就老大不乐意
you just seem to set yourself against it.
现在 转过来
Now, turn around.
照照镜子看看自己
Look at yourself in the mirror.
瞧瞧
Come on, look.
哦 对 等等
Oh, no. Wait, wait.
我忘了个东西
I forgot something.
那是什么
What is it?
一点小小的改进
A couple of little improvements.
我还是个姑娘的时候
Now, when I was a girl,
管这个叫“自信小妙招”
we called these "gay deceivers."
妈妈 我不要戴这东西
Mother, I won't wear these.
你当然要戴
Of course you'll wear them.
为什么非戴不可呢？
Well, why should I?
亲爱的 说实话
Honey, to tell you the truth,
你有点平胸
you are a little bit flat-chested.
你说得好像我们在设圈套一样
Well, you make it sound like we're setting a trap.
我们的确在设圈套
We are setting a trap.
所有的漂亮姑娘都是圈套
All pretty girls are a trap,
可男人也都愿往里跳不是
and all men expect them to be.
好了 转过来
Now, come on. Turn around.
照照镜子吧
Look at yourself in the mirror.
看 看呀
Now, look. Look.
多漂亮呀
Now, isn't that lovely?
你美得就像明信片上的天使
You look just like an angel on a postcard.
现在 你可以出去了
Now. You run on out,
我要开始打扮打扮自己了
and I'm going to dress myself all up.
你会对妈妈的美貌大吃一惊的
You gonna be astonished at your mother's appearance.
你知道吗 我在箱子里找到一条旧裙子
You know, I found an old dress in a trunk.
废了挺大劲捯饬它
I had to do a lot work to it.
你知道吗 劳拉
You know, laura,
把裙子改大的时侯 我都心疼死了
It broke my heart when I had to let it out.
哦 天啊 打雷了吗？
Oh, my! Is that thunder?
哦 天哪
Oh, my lord.
好了
All right.
劳拉 现在看看妈妈
Now, Laura, take a look at your mother.
哦 不 等一下
Oh, no. Wait.
现在看
Now look.
现在看看妈妈
Take a look at your mother now.
哦 妈妈
Oh, mother.
你真漂亮
How lovely.
现在不行了 以前很美
Well, it used to be, used to be.
裙子上原来是有很多花的
It had a lot of flowers all over it,
但有点褪色了
but they got kind of tired,
没办法 我就把它们都摘了
so I had to take them all off.
这是我当年领交谊舞的时候穿的
I led the cotillion in this dress
很多年以前了
a long time ago,
我还在日落山赢了两场步态舞会
and I won the cakewalk twice at Sunset Hill.
我还穿着这身去了杰克逊 参加州长的舞会
And I wore it to the governor's ball in Jackson.
哦 劳拉
Oh, laura.
你当时要是在场就好了
You should have seen your mother.
我就这样在舞厅里翩翩起舞
She just sashayed around that ballroom just like that.
遇见你爸爸的那天晚上 我也穿着它
I had it on the night I met your father.
我那时也染上了疟疾热
I had malarial fever too.
东田纳西到三角洲的气候变化
The change of climate from east Tennessee to the delta
减弱了我的抵抗力
had weakened my resistance.
说不上太严重
Not enough to be dangerous,
可也够让我心烦头晕的了
but just enough to make me restless and giddy.
那时候多好啊
Oh, it was lovely.
到处都有请帖送过来
Invitations just poured in from all over.
我妈妈说
And my mother said,
“亲爱的 你哪儿都不能去”
"Honey, you can't go any place.
“你还发着烧呢”
"You've got a fever.
“你必须呆在床上”
You've got to stay in bed."
可我说我不愿意
And I said I wouldn't,
吃了奎宁
and I just took quinine,
就一直往外跑啊 跑啊
and I kept on going and going.
每晚都出去跳舞
Dances every evening,
午后
and in the afternoons,
在乡间开车漫游
long drives in the country.
还有野餐
picnics.
哦 劳拉
Oh, Laura.
那乡间风景
That country, That country.
在五月的时候简直美极了
So lovely in May,
到处都是山茱萸
all lacy with dogwood
遍地都是黄水仙
and simply flooded with jonquils.
妈妈说
And my mother said,
“亲爱的 不能再往家里拿黄水仙了”
"Honey, you can't bring any more jonquils in the house."
我说“好”
And I said, "I will."
可我还是不停地往家里带
And I just kept on bringing them in.
每次我看见它们 我就说
Every time I saw them, I'd say,
“停一停 我看到黄水仙了”
"Stop. I see jonquils."
然后我就让那些追求我的小伙子们下马车
I'd make my gentlemen callers get out of the carriage
帮我去摘黄水仙
and help me to gather some.
这事后来成了一个笑话
Kind of become a joke.
他们会说 “看”
They'd say, "Look out.
“那姑娘来了”
"Here's comes that girl.
“我们又得花一整个下午摘黄水仙了”
"We're going to have to spend the rest of the afternoon picking jonquils."
我妈妈说
My mother said,
“亲爱的 别再往家里带黄水仙了”
"Honey, you can't bring any more jonquils in the house.
“家里都没有花瓶能插了”
We don't have enough vases to hold them all.
我说 “没关系”
I said, "That's all right.
“那我就自己捧着”
I'll hold some myself."
疟疾 发烧
Malaria, fever,
你爸爸
your father
黄水仙
Jonquils.
哦 哦
Ooh. Oh.
我希望他们能在下雨前回来
I hope they get here before it starts to rain.
我多给了你弟弟点零钱
I gave your brother a little extra change
让他和奥康纳先生可以叫车回家
so he and Mr. O'Connor could take the service car home.
妈妈
Mother?
嗯？
Mm?
你说他姓什么来着？
What did you say his name is?
额 姓奥康纳 怎么了？
Uh, O'Connor. Why?
他叫什么名字？
What is his first name?
亲爱的 我不记得
Ooh, honey, I don't remember—
哦 我想起来了
Oh, yes, I do.
他叫吉姆
It was Jim.
他是汤姆以前的高中同学吗？
Is he the one that Tom used to go to high school with?
他没说
He didn't say.
我想他们是在鞋厂认识的吧
I think he just met him at the warehouse.
我和汤姆以前在高中
Tom and I both used to know Jim O'Connor
都认识吉姆·奥康纳
in high school.
要是汤姆带回家来吃饭的那个人就是他的话
if that is the one Tom is bringing home to dinner,
那你就得原谅我
you will have to excuse me.
我是不会来吃饭的
I won't come to the table.
你在胡说些什么？
Now, what kind of silly talk is this?
你之前问我
You asked me once
有没有喜欢过哪个男孩
if I ever liked a boy.
记得吗 我还给你看了他的照片？
Remember, I showed you his picture?
就是年鉴上的那个男孩吗？
You mean the boy in the yearbook?
是的 妈妈
Yes, mother.
就是他
That boy.
哦 劳拉
Oh, Laura.
你那时候爱上那小伙子了吗？
Were you in love with that boy?
妈妈 我不知道
I don't know, mother.
我只知道如果是他的话
I just know that if it was him,
我是没法上桌的
I couldn't sit at the table.
不会是他的
Well, it won't be him.
根本不可能
it's not in the least bit likely.
不过就算是他 你也得来吃饭
But even if it were, you will come to the table.
不许说不
You will not be excused.
我必须拒绝 妈妈
I would have to be, mother.
劳拉 我不能由着你犯傻
Laura, I don't intend to humor your silliness.
你和你弟弟 已经够我受的了
Now, I've had enough from you and your brother.
你现在就过来
Now, you just come on over here
坐在这
and sit yourself down
安静地等他们来
and compose yourself until they get here.
你弟弟忘记带钥匙了
Now, your brother has forgotten his key,
所以他们回来时你得去开门
So you're going to have to let them in when they arrive.
啊 不 妈妈
Oh, no, mother, please.
你去开门吧
You answer the door.
我还没做好
But how can I...I haven't even finished
三文鱼面包的蛋黄酱汁呢
the mayonnaise dressing for the salmon.
妈 求求你去开门吧
Mother, please, you answer it.
别让我去
Don't make me do it.
劳拉 劳拉
Laura, Laura.
亲爱的 理智一点
Honey, please, be reasonable.
这有什么可大惊小怪的？
What is all this fuss about?
他只是个追求者啊 亲爱的 仅此而已
He's just one gentleman caller, darling, that's all.
就是个小伙子
Just one.
妈妈
Mother.
妈妈
Mother.
劳拉 亲爱的！
Laura, honey!
去开门
The door.
妈妈 你..
Mother, you—
你去开门吧
You answer the door.
你这傻丫头 怎么回事？
What is the matter with you, you silly thing?
妈妈 求求了 你去开门吧
Mother, please, you answer it.
求你了
Please.
你干嘛偏挑这会儿发神经？
Why have you taken this moment to lose your mind?
快去开门
Now, go to the door.
我不行
I can't.
为什么不行？
Why can't you?
我生病了
I'm sick.
你生病了吗？
You're sick?
我病了吗？
Am I sick?
你和你弟弟真是搞得我一头雾水
You and your brother have me puzzled to death.
永远都不能像两个正常孩子一样
You could never act like normal children.
你能给我一个
Will you give me one good reason
害怕去开门的理由吗？
why you should be afraid to go to a door?
劳拉 快去开门
Now Laura, go to the door!
劳拉·温菲尔德
Laura Wingfield,
你立刻给我去开门！
you march straight to that door!
好的 妈妈
Yes, mother.
亲爱的 我得这么给你加油打气
Honey, I have to put courage in you for living.
劳拉
Laura,
这是吉姆
This is Jim.
吉姆 这是我姐姐劳拉
Jim, this is my sister, Laura.
我都不知道莎士比亚还有个姐姐
I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.
你好吗 劳拉？
How are you, laura?
你怎么样？
How do you do?
挺好的
Well, I'm okay.
你的手好冷啊 劳拉
Your hand is cold, Laura.
是的
Yes, well,
我刚才在 放唱片
I've been playing the Victrola and—
哦 那你刚肯定是在放古典音乐
Oh, You must have been playing classical music on it.
你得放点热情的摇摆乐 让你暖和起来
You ought to put a little hot swing on to warm you up.
怎么了
What's the matter?
劳拉吗？
With Laura?
她腼腆的很
Laura's terribly shy.
腼腆吗？
Shy, huh?
现在难得碰到腼腆的姑娘了
You know, it is unusual to meet a shy girl nowadays.
你从来没跟我说过你还有个姐姐
I don't believe you ever told me you had a sister.
现在知道了吧
Now you know.
我有个姐姐
I have one.
这有《快邮报》
Here's the post dispatch.
你要看一张吗？
You want a piece of it?
好啊
Yeah.
要看哪一张？连环画？
What piece? Comics?
连环画 体育新闻都行
Comics, Sports.
噢
Oh, well.
我看到糊涂迪恩又出洋相了
I see that dizzy dean is on his bad behavior.
是吗
Mm-hmm.
你去哪儿？
Where are you going?
到外面平台上抽根烟去
Out on the terrace to smoke.
莎士比亚
Shakespeare.
我要向你推荐一样好东西
I'm going to sell you a bill of goods.
什么东西？
What goods?
我正在念的一门课
Course I'm taking.
嗯？
Hmm?
公共演讲课
Course in public speaking.
你知道
You know,
我们俩可不是在鞋厂干活的那种人
you and me, we're not the warehouse type.
谢谢 这话不错
Thanks. That's good news.
但是这跟公共演讲有什么关系呢？
But what has public speaking got to do with it?
学会公共演讲能让你更适合当领导
It fits you for executive positions.
相信我 它帮了我很多忙
I tell you, it's done a hell of a lot for me.
在哪方面？
In what respect?
所有方面
In all respects.
你自己想想
Ask yourself,
我们跟前面坐办公室的那些人
what's the difference between you and me
有什么差别吗？
and the guys in the office down front?
是脑筋吗？不是
Brains? No.
是能力吗？ 也不是
Ability? No.
那差在哪？
Then what?
总的来说 莎士比亚
Well, primarily, Shakespeare,
归根结底就是一件事
It amounts to just one single thing.
是什么事？
What is that single thing?
社交风范
Social poise—
能在任何社交场合谈笑风生
the ability to be able to square up to somebody
并且保持自信大方的能力
and hold your own on any social level.
– 汤姆？
– Tom?
怎么了 妈妈
Yes, mother?
– 是你和奥康纳先生在那儿吗？
– Is that you and Mr. O'Connor?
是的 妈妈
Yes, mother.
你们可千万别拘束
You all make yourselves comfortable.
好的 妈妈
Yes, mother.
– 问问奥康纳先生
– Ask Mr. O'Connor if he'd like
– 他要不要洗手？
– to wash his hands.
不用了 谢谢你 夫人
Oh, no, thank you, ma'am.
我在鞋厂那边洗过了
Took care of that already down at the warehouse.
汤姆
Tom.
嗯？
Mm-hmm?
门多萨先生跟我提到你了
Mr. Mendoza's been speaking to me about you.
是好话吗？
Favorably?
你觉得呢？
What do you think?
呃
Well—
汤姆 你再不上进点的话 工作就要不保了
Tom, You're going to be out of a job if you don't wake up.
我一直很上进
I am waking up.
一点都看不出来
You show no signs.
这是由内而外的
The signs are interior.
我在计划一次改变
I'm planning a change.
我正要创造一个未来
I am right at the point of committing myself
一个没有门多萨先生
to a future which doesn't include Mr. Mendoza
没有鞋厂
or the warehouse
也没有夜校公共演讲课的未来
or even a night-school course in public speaking.
你在说什么梦话呢？
What are you gassing about?
我受够电影了
I'm tired of the movies.
电影吗？
The movies?
对 电影
Yes, movies.
看看电影里的人
Look at them.
都是各种俊男靓女过着各种精彩生活
All those glamorous people out there having adventures,
贪得无厌
hogging it all,
吃干抹净还嫌不够
gobbling the whole thing up.
然后呢？
You know what happens?
人们自己不行动 光去看电影了
People go to the movies instead of moving.
好莱坞电影里的角色本该是
Hollywood characters are supposed to have
每个美国人精彩生活的缩影
The adventure for everyone in America,
而现在 所有美国人都只坐在一个小黑屋里
While everyone in America just sits in a dark room
看着这些角色替他们精彩
and watches them have them
直到战争爆发
until there's a war.
到那时 大众才明白什么叫精彩
That's when adventure becomes available to the masses.
这戏不光克拉克·盖博 人人都有份
everyone's dish, not only Gable's.
然后小黑屋里的人们
Then the people in the dark room
才能走出来
can come out of the dark room
稍微给他们自己的生活来点刺激
and have a little adventure for themselves.
妙极了
Goody-goody.
现在终于轮到我们来整点异域风情了
It's our turn now to be exotic, from far off.
但是 我没那个耐心
But, uh, I am not patient,
我也不会等到那个时候
and I'm not going to wait until then.
我已经厌倦了电影 我要采取行动了
I am tired of the movies and I am about to move.
行动？
Move?
– 对 – 什么时候？
– Yes. – When?
快了
Soon.
去哪儿？在哪行动？
Where? Where?
我感觉五内俱焚了
I am starting to boil inside.
我知道 我看上去心不在焉
I know that I seem dreamy,
但每次我拿起一只鞋的时候
but whenever I pick up a shoe,
我都会打个冷颤 想着生命如此短暂
I just shudder a little, thinking how short life is
而我在这干嘛呢？
and what am I doing?
我觉得 不管生命的意义是什么
You know, whatever that means,
我敢肯定不是跟鞋子打交道
I know it does not mean shoes,
除非那是一双能行万里路的鞋
except as something to wear on the traveller's feet.
瞧
Look.
商船船员工会
"The Union of Merchant seamen"?
对 上个月我拿电费付了会费
Yes. I paid my dues last month instead of the light bill.
等他们断你电的时候 你会后悔的
You're going to regret it when they turn the lights off.
到那时我已经走了
I won't be here.
那你妈妈怎么办？
What about your mother?
我随我爸
I'm like my father.
有其父必有其子
The bastard son of a bastard.
你看到他在那张照片上笑得有多开心吗？
Did you notice how he's grinning in his picture in there?
他已经走了16年了
He's been absent going on 16 years.
你就是说说罢了
You're just talking,
你这傻子
You drip.
你妈知道了会怎么说？
What is your mother going to say about that?
我不准备告诉她我的计划
Mother is not acquainted with my plans.
汤姆
Tom?
怎么了 妈妈？
Yes, mother?
你们在哪儿？
Where are you all?
妈妈 我们在平台上
We're on the terrace, mother.
快进来吧
Well, why don't you all come on inside?
妈妈 你真漂亮
Mother, you look so pretty.
你知道吗
You know,
这是你第一次赞美我
that is the first compliment you have ever paid me.
我希望你在要说好话的时候
I wish you'd look pleasant
能看上去高兴些
when you're about to say something pleasant,
这样我就能有点准备了
so i'd know to expect it.
奥康纳先生
Mr. O'Connor.
您好吗 夫人？
Well, how do you do, ma'am?
瞧瞧
Well, well.
这就是奥康纳先生啊
So this is Mr. O'Connor.
你不必自我介绍了
Well, introductions are entirely unnecessary,
因为我儿子已经跟我提过你很多次了
because I've heard so much about you from my boy.
我最后对他说
I finally said to him, I said,
“汤姆 你为什么不把这个好小伙”
"Tom, why don't you bring this paragon
“请来家里吃晚饭呢？”
home to supper finally?"
“我想亲眼看看这位鞋厂的年轻人”
"I want to meet this nice young man from the warehouse
“而不仅仅是听你一直夸他”
instead of just hearing you sing his praises all the time."
我不明白我儿子怎么这么不周到
I don't know why my son is so standoffish.
这可不是南方的待客之道
That is not southern behavior.
咱们坐吧
Well, let's sit down.
咱们坐
Let's sit down.
汤姆
You know, Tom,
我觉得我们需要透透气
I think we could use a little air in here.
你能把门打开吗？
You want to leave the door open?
我刚才感到一阵神清气爽的微风
I felt a nice fresh breeze a while ago.
现在不知道哪儿去了
I don't know where it's gone to.
都还没到夏天呢 就已经这么热了
It's so warm already, and it's not even summer yet.
真要到了夏天 我们肯定都得熟了
We're going to burn up when summer finally gets here.
不过 今晚我们就吃点清淡的晚餐
However, we are having a light supper this evening.
我认为这个季节吃点清淡的东西比较好
I think light things are better for this time of year,
就像穿轻薄的衣服一样
like light clothes are
清淡的食物
and light food.
轻薄的衣服
Light clothes—
热天可不就需要这些吗
What warm weather calls for.
因为你看 我们的血液在冬天会变得很浓稠
Because, you see, our blood gets so thick in the winter
所以夏天到来时
that it takes a little while for us
我们得花点时间适应
to re-adjust ourselves when summer comes.
但夏天来得太快了
But it comes so quickly.
我压根没准备好
I just wasn't prepared for it.
老天啊
Just good heavens!
突然间就到夏天了
All of a sudden it was summertime.
于是我就跑去衣柜
So I just ran to the trunk
把这件轻薄的连衣裙拿了出来
and pulled out this light dress.
这是老古董了
It's terribly old.
都快成文物了
It's practically historical.
但是你看 它穿上舒服又凉快
But it feels so good and cool, you know?
– 妈妈？
– Mother?
嗯？
Hmm?
晚饭准备好了吗？
How about supper?
哦 亲爱的
Well, honey,
晚饭的事你得问问你姐姐
You have to ask sister about supper.
你知道的 你姐姐负责晚饭
Well, you know sister is in full charge of supper.
你就告诉她
You just tell her
有两个小伙子正饿着等饭呢
you hungry boys are waiting for her, hmm?
快去吧 亲爱的
Well, run on, sweetie.
你见过劳拉了吗？
Did you meet Laura?
嗯 是她开的门吧
Well, she came to the door.
她开的门 是吧？
She let you in, hmm?
是的 夫人
Yes, ma'am.
她挺漂亮吧？
She is pretty, isn't she?
哦 是的 夫人
Oh, yes, ma'am.
你知道 在年轻姑娘里面
You know, it is so rare for a young girl
像劳拉这样既贴心又漂亮
who is as sweet and as pretty as Laura is
还顾家的女孩实在是太难找了
to also be domestic.
但谢天谢地 劳拉就是这么好
But Laura is, thank heavens.
不仅贴心又漂亮
Not only sweet and pretty,
还特别会持家
but also very, very domestic,
这点跟我恰好相反
because I am not at all.
我除了天使蛋糕之外 什么都做不来
I could never make a thing but angel food cake.
不过当然 你知道在南方
But, of course, in the South, you know,
我们有那么多仆人
we had so many servants.
没了 都没了
Gone, gone, gone.
所有曾经的优渥生活
All vestiges of gracious living
都了无痕迹了
just gone completely.
要知道 我对我人生中
See, I wasn't prepared
将要面对的一切毫无准备
for what life had in store for me,
因为所有追求我的小伙子
because all my gentlemen callers
都是种植园主或者园主的儿子
were planters and sons of planters,
所以我自然以为我会嫁给其中一个
so naturally I thought I would marry one,
然后在一大片土地上
and I was just going to raise my family
建立自己的家庭 有很多很多仆人
on a large plot of land with lots and lots of servants.
俗话说男婚女嫁
But man proposes
天经地义
and woman accepts the proposal,
可俗话也不都对
to vary that old saying a little bit.
你看 我也没嫁给种植园主
Well, I married no planter.
而是嫁给了一个在电话公司上班的男人
I married a man who worked for the telephone company,
就是那边那位笑的很礼貌的先生
that gallantly smiling gentleman over there.
一个梦想要去远方的电话接线员
Telephone man who fell in love with long distance.
眼下他去旅行了
And now he travels,
我都不知道是去哪儿
and I don't even know where.
哦 算了
Oh, well.
我干嘛在这跟你倒苦水呢？
Now, why am I going on about my tribulation?
现在 换你来跟我倒苦水
Now, you tell me about yours.
希望你没有苦水能倒
Because I hope you don't have any.
汤姆
Tom!
嗯 妈妈？
Yes, mother?
晚饭好了吗？
Well, honey, what about supper?
我看好像
Well, it appears to me
晚饭已经摆在桌子上了
that supper's on the table, mother.
我来看看
Well, so it is.
哦
Oh!
真不错
Oh, now, isn't that lovely?
劳拉呢？
Now, where's Laura?
那个 劳拉不太舒服
Well, Laura's not feeling too well.
她觉得
She says she thinks
她还是不来吃饭了
she'd better not come to the table.
劳拉
Laura!
奥康纳先生？
Mr. O'Connor?
您坐这
Right here.
劳拉？
Laura?
亲爱的？
Honey?
你要是不来
We can't say grace
我们可没法做饭前祷告
until you come to the table.
哦 天啊！
Oh, my lord!
哦 不！
Oh, no!
汤姆 把她抱到沙发上去
Tom, take her over to the sofa.
哦 劳拉
Oh, Laura.
亲爱的 你确实病了
Honey, you are ill.
哦 心肝啊
Oh, sweetheart.
她肯定是在炉灶前面
Standing over that hot stove
站太久热着了
has just made her ill.
我跟她说了那太热了
I told her it was just too warm, but—
哦 奥康纳先生
Oh, Mr. O'Connor. here.
那个
You just—
哦 请你
Oh, please.
回来坐着吧
Come sit down.
你想喝点蒲公英酒吗？
Would you like a little dandelion wine?
好的 夫人 谢谢你
Well, all right, ma'am. Thank you.
汤姆 她好点了吗？
Tom, is she all right?
好点了 妈妈
Yes, mother.
哦 看来要下雨了
Ooh! Looks like we're going to have some rain.
汤姆
Tom.
你能来说祷词吗？
Would you say grace?
不了 妈妈
No, thanks, mother.
亲爱的
Honey, now,
我们吃晚饭之前都要干什么？
what do we say before we sit and have some dinner?
要做祷告 不是么？
We say grace, don't we?
就是这个意思
That's the kind of thing.
哦 奥康纳先生
Oh, Mr. O'Connor.
我已经很久没有过
I haven't had such a lovely evening
这么开心的晚上了
in a very long time.
温菲尔德夫人
Well, well, Mrs. wingfield.
让我敬您杯酒
Let me give you a toast.
这杯敬那些南方岁月
Here is to the old South.
敬南方岁月
To the old South.
嘿 灯泡先生怎么了
Hey, Mr. Lightbulb.
那么
Well.
当停电的时候 摩西会在哪呢？
Now, where was Moses when the lights went out?
奥康纳先生 你知道答案吗？
You know the answer to that one, Mr. O'Connor?
不 夫人 我不知道
No, ma'am, I don't.
答案是什么呢？
What is the answer to that one?
我知道一个回答 但是那个不够好
Well, I used to know one answer, but it wasn't very nice,
所以我想或许你知道另一个答案
so I thought maybe you might know another one.
不 夫人 我不知道
No, ma'am, I don't.
放这个蜡烛在桌上真是个好主意
Well, it's a good thing I put this candle on the table.
我本来只是为了装饰
I just put it on for decoration,
但是派上用场了 也不错
but it's nice when it proves useful too.
现在如果你们两位谁能给我根火柴
Now, if one of you gentlemen could provide me with a match,
我们就能有点光了
then we can have a little illumination.
哦 我好像有火柴 夫人
Well, I believe I can do that, ma'am.
额 我觉得肯定是保险丝烧了
Well, uh, I guess it must be a burnt-out fuse.
你知道保险丝烧了该怎么办吗
Do you know anything about burnt-out fuses,
奥康纳先生？
Mr. O'Connor?
说实话 我还真懂 夫人
As a matter of fact, I do, ma'am.
保险丝盒在哪里？
Where's the fuse box?
哦 你还懂这个？
Oh, you have to know that too?
它在厨房那边
Well, it's over there in the kitchen.
别被绊着了 那边很黑
Don't stumble over anything, because it's dark out there.
哦 我的天哪
Oh, my Lord.
要是他摔着了怎么办？
Wouldn't it be awful if we lost him?
奥康纳先生 你没事吧？
Mr. O'Connor, are you all right?
我没事 夫人
Yes, ma'am. I'm all right.
你知道 奥康纳先生
You know, Mr. O'Connor,
我觉得电真是个非常神秘的东西
I think electricity is a very mysterious thing.
当然 你知道
Of course, you know,
对我来说 整个宇宙都充满了神秘
the whole universe is mysterious to me.
本杰明·富兰克林不是在风筝上绑了把钥匙吗？
Now, wasn't it Benjamin Franklin that tied a key to a kite?
我真希望能亲眼看看
I would love to have seen that.
他那样一定很滑稽
He must have looked pretty silly.
你找到了吗？
Did you find it all right?
我找到了 夫人
Yes, ma'am, I did,
但是我看保险丝没什么问题
but them fuses looked okay to me.
汤姆
Tom.
怎么了 妈妈？
Yes, mother?
你还记得我几天前给你的那张电费单吗？
Do you remember that light bill I gave you a few days ago,
就是那张通知我要交的？
the one I got the notice about?
你是说上个月的账单？
You mean last month's bill?
你没忘了付 对吧？
You didn't neglect it, did you?
呃 我
Well, I—
你忘了付 我就知道
You did. I might have known.
也许莎士比亚在电费单上写了首诗呢
Well, maybe Shakespeare wrote a poem on that light bill.
也许吧
Maybe he did too.
不过 他们还算好 等我们吃完饭
However, it was nice of them to let us finish our dinner
才让我们陷入永恒的黑暗中
before they plunged us into everlasting darkness.
汤姆 作为对你疏忽的惩罚
Now, Tom, as a penalty to your negligence,
你得来帮我洗碗
you may help me with the dishes.
我能帮点忙吗 夫人？
Oh, can I be of some help, ma'am?
哦 不 那可不行
Oh, no. I couldn't have that.
我觉得我能帮上点忙
I ought to be good for something.
我听到了什么？
What did I hear?
我说 “我觉得我能帮上点忙”
I said "I ought to be good for something."
我就知道我没听错
Well, that's what I thought I heard.
劳拉一个人孤零零地在前面
Laura is all by her lonesome out there in the front.
你能去陪陪她吗？
Would you like to keep her company?
我可以拿这个
I can give you
漂亮的旧烛台给你照明
this lovely old candelabrum for light.
它以前是摆在
It used to stand on the altar
圣安息教堂圣坛上的
of the Church of the Heavenly Rest—
你拿着吧
Would you？
那座教堂被烧毁的时候
And it melted a little out of shape
它也被烧的有点走形了
when the church burnt down.
有一年春天 那个教堂被雷劈了
You see, the church was struck by lightning one spring.
吉普赛人琼斯
And Gypsy Jones,
当时正在村里主持复兴布道会
who was having a revival meeting in the village,
他说教堂之所以被雷击
said that the church was struck by lightning
是因为有教徒在教堂里
because the Episcopalians were having card parties
开牌局
right there in the church.
是吗 夫人？
Is that so, ma'am?
我从来不说假话
I never say anything that isn't so.
哦 是吗？
Oh, I beg your pardon?
我想让劳拉喝点蒲公英酒
Well, now, i'd like for Laura to have a little dandelion wine.
你能同时拿这两样东西吗?
You think you could manage both of those?
当然可以 夫人
I can sure try, ma'am.
好的 汤姆
Well, um, Tom.
你把围裙穿上
You get into your apron.
你感觉怎么样？
Well, how are you feeling?
好点了吗？
Any better?
好多了 谢谢
Yes. Thank you.
那就好
Good.
哦 这是给你的
Oh, here. This is for you.
一点蒲公英酒
it's a little dandelion wine.
哦 谢谢你
Oh. Thank you.
喝吧
You drink it,
但别喝醉了
but don't get drunk.
我要把蜡烛放在哪儿？
Say, where am I going to put these candles?
哦 哪都行
Oh, anywhere.
那就放地板上行吗？
Well, how about right here on the floor?
你同意吗？
You got any objections?
同意
No.
我就在这铺点报纸
I'll just spread some newspaper out here
接住蜡滴
to catch the drippings.
说起来 我喜欢坐在地板上
Say, I like to sit on the floor.
你介意吗？
Do you mind if I do?
不介意
No.
能递给我个枕头吗？
Would you hand me a pillow?
谢谢
Thanks.
你怎么了
Well, how about you?
不喜欢坐地板上吗？
Don't you like to sit on the floor?
喜欢
Yes.
那怎么不坐呢？
Well, why don't you, then?
我..会坐的
I will, I will.
来 拿个枕头
Here, take a pillow.
你坐的那么远 我都快看不见你了
Well, now, I can't even see you if you sit way over there.
我能看见你
I can see you.
我知道 但这样不太公平
Yeah, but that's not fair.
我坐在烛光边上呢
I'm right here in the limelight.
嗯 这样好多了
Yeah, that's better.
现在我能看见你了
Now I can see you.
你坐的舒服吗？
You comfortable?
嗯 谢谢你
Yes, thank you.
我也挺舒服
So am I.
舒服得跟头奶牛似的
I'm as comfortable as a cow.
劳拉
Say, Laura,
你想来块口香糖吗？
would you care for a stick of chewing gum?
不了 谢谢
No, thank you.
好吧 那我就不客气了
Well, I believe I will indulge.
想想看 第一个发明口香糖的人
Say, just imagine the fortune made
他赚了多少钱
by the guy that invented the first piece of chewing gum.
简直不敢想 是吧？
Amazing, huh?
你知道 箭牌口香糖的总部
You know that the Wrigley building
是芝加哥的著名景点之一
is one of the sights of Chicago.
我前年夏天去看世纪进步展览会的时候看过那栋楼
I saw it the summer before last at the century of progress.
你去过世纪进步展览会吗？
Did you take in the century of progress?
没 没去过
No, I didn't.
相信我 那是个非常精彩的展会
Well, it was a wonderful exposition, believe me.
你知道给我印象最深的是什么吗？
You know what impressed me the most?
是科学厅
The hall of science.
它能让你想象
It gives you an idea
未来的美国会是什么样子
of what the future will be like in America.
哦 那可比现在的美国
Oh, and it's a lot more wonderful
要有意思多了
than the present time is.
劳拉
Say, Laura.
你弟弟跟我说你很腼腆
Your brother tells me you're shy.
是吗？
Is that right?
呃 我不知道
Um, I don't know.
你知道 我觉得你
You know, I judge you to be
是个传统的姑娘
an old-fashioned type of girl.
喔 我觉得传统的姑娘挺好
Oh, and I think that's a wonderful type to be.
你不会觉得我太冒昧了吧
I hope you don't think I'm being too personal.
会吗？
Do you?
奥康纳先生
Mr. O'Connor,
我想 我还是来块口香糖吧
I believe that I will have a piece of chewing gum,
如果你不介意的话
if you don't mind.
当然不
Oh.
奥康纳先生
Mr. O'Connor,
你还在唱歌吗？
Have you kept up with your singing?
唱歌？ 我吗？
Singing? Me?
是的 我记得你的声音非常动听
Yes. I remember what a beautiful voice you had.
你听过我唱歌？
You heard me sing?
哦 是的 听过很多次
Oh, yes. Very often.
我猜你压根不记得我了
I don't suppose that you remember me at all.
你还别说
You know, as a matter of fact,
我真觉得在哪儿见过你
I did think I'd seen you somewhere before.
你知道 就像是
You know, it was almost like
你的名字都快到我嘴边了
I was about to remember your name,
结果发现那好像不是个人名
but the name I was about to remember wasn't a name,
所以我又把它咽回去了
so I stopped myself before I said it.
你想说的是不是 蓝玫瑰？
Wasn't it blue roses?
哦 天哪
Oh, my gosh.
对
Yes.
就是蓝玫瑰
Blue roses.
我怎么就没把你和高中联系起来呢
I didn't connect you with high school somehow or other,
偏偏就差在这
but that's where it was.
我们是高中同学 对吧？
It was high school, huh?
我不知道你还是莎士比亚的妹妹
I didn't know you were Shakespeare's sister.
哎呀 真是抱歉
Gee, I'm sorry.
哦 没关系
Oh, no. That's all right.
我也没指望你记得
I didn't expect you to.
我们以前也不太熟
We barely knew each other.
是啊 但是我们以前还是能聊上几句的
Yeah, but we did have a speaking acquaintance.
对 我们是能聊上几句
Yes, we spoke to each other.
我们是一起上过什么课吧 对吗？
Yeah, didn't we have a class in something or other together?
是的
Yes, we did.
那是什么课来着？
What class was that?
是声乐课
It was singing.
合唱
Chorus.
在礼堂里我就坐在你旁边
I sat across the aisle from you
隔着过道
in the auditorium
每周一 三 五三天
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
哦 我现在想起来了
Oh. I remember you now.
你是那个老迟到的女孩
You're the girl that used to always come in late.
对
Yes.
那时候我腿上穿着支架
Well, I had that brace on my leg back then.
上楼对我来说特别困难
It was so hard for me getting up the stairs.
那东西动静特别大
It clumped so loud.
我没听到过什么动静
I never heard any clumping.
在我听来像打雷一样
To me it sounded like thunder.
我从来都没注意过
I never even noticed.
我进教室的时候 大家都已经坐好了
Everybody was seated when I came in the room.
我还得当着所有人的面走到
I had to walk in front of all those people.
我后排的座位那去
My seat was in the back row.
我得一瘸一拐地走过过道
I had to go clumping up the aisle
所有人都在看着
with everybody watching.
哦 你不用这么自卑的
Oh, you shouldn't have been self-conscious.
我知道
I know.
但我就是这样
But I was.
是啊 我现在记起你来了
Yeah, I remember you now.
我以前叫你蓝玫瑰
I used to call you blue roses.
希望你不会介意
Well, I hope you didn't mind.
哦 不会
Oh, no.
我喜欢这个外号
I liked it.
你知道 我也不认识几个人
You see, I wasn't acquainted with many people.
对 我记得你总是独来独往
Yeah, I remember you kind of always stuck by yourself.
嗯 我的人缘向来都不太好
Well, I never had very much luck making friends.
我也不知道你为什么人缘不好
Well, I don't know why you wouldn't.
嗯 我给人的第一印象不太好
Well, I started out badly.
你是说因为
You mean being a—
是的
Yes, well,
那个 总是
it always, um,
让我很难和别人打交道
stood between me and other people.
你不该让它影响你的
Now, you shouldn't have let it.
我知道
I know.
但我做不到
But I did.
所以你跟别人在一起的时候很内向
So you were shy with people.
我是想过外向一点 可是从来就没能..
Well, I tried not to be, but I never could—
克服？
Overcome it?
对 从来没能克服
No, I never could.
我觉得内向是那种
Yeah, I guess being shy is one of those things
你得慢慢克服的问题
you kind of have to work out of gradually.
我想这需要花..
I guess that it takes...
很多时间
Time.
我说
Say.
你知道吗 劳拉？
You know something, Laura?
他人并不都那么可怕 只要你去了解他们
People aren't so dreadful when you get to know them.
你得记住这一点
That's what you have to remember.
而且不光是你 人人都有自己的问题
And everybody has problems, not just you.
基本上每个人都有自己的缺陷
Practically everybody has problems.
你以为只有你
See, you think of yourself
才是不如意的人
as being the only one who's disappointed.
那你就四周看看
Well, you look around you a little bit.
看到了什么？
What do you see?
很多人都和你一样不如意
A lot of people just as disappointed as you are.
就拿我举例吧
You take me, for instance.
劳拉 当我高中毕业的时候
Laura, when I graduated high school,
我真的以为自己会比现在成功得多
I sure thought I'd be a lot further along than I am now.
你还记得我发表在《火炬》上那篇自吹自擂的文章吗？
You remember that wonderful write-up I had in The Torch?
记得
Yes, I do.
还记得我在上面说无论我想做什么
Remember it said that I was bound to succeed
都一定能做成吗？
in anything that I wanted to?
那是什么？
What's that?
噢
Oh.
这是你在《彭赞斯海盗》里的照片
Here you are inThe Pirates of Penzance.
哦 天啊
Oh, my.
那些海盗
The Pirates.
哦 要活得精彩 也要死得潇洒
♪♪ Oh, Better far to live and die
我在英勇的海盗旗下飞翔
♪♪ Under the brave black flag I fly
行伪善之事
♪♪ To play a sanctimonious part
以海盗之名
♪♪ With a pirate head ♪♪
我在那部轻歌剧里唱主角
I sang lead in that operetta.
唱得真好
So beautifully.
哦
Oh.
真的 真的很好
Oh, yes, beautifully. Beautifully.
所以你去听我唱歌剧了 对吧？
You heard me, then, huh?
我听了三次
I heard you all three times.
不可能
No.
真的
Yes.
你是说三场歌剧你都去了？
You mean you saw all three performances?
对
Yes.
为什么呢？
What for?
我想让你 在节目单上给我签个名
Well, I wanted to ask you to autograph my program.
那你怎么没找我呢？
So, why didn't you ask me?
你身边总围着你那些朋友
Well, you were always surrounded by your own friends—
你应该直接走过来说
You should have just come right up and said,
“嘿 这是我的节目单”
"Hey, here's my program."
我以为你会把我看成
Well, I thought that you might think that I was—
以为我会把你看成什么？
Thought I might think you was what?
那种姑娘
Oh, um...
哦 我明白
Oh, oh. haha.
那时候女孩子都围着我转
Yeah, I was beleaguered by females in those days.
你那时候红得发紫
You were terribly popular.
是啊
Yeah.
却也很好打交道
You had such a friendly way.
哦 我高中的时候都不知天高地厚了
Oh, I was spoiled in high school.
谁都喜欢你
Everybody liked you.
你也喜欢吗？
Including you?
对
Yes.
我也喜欢你
Yes, I did too.
好吧 把那个节目单给我 劳拉
Well, hand me that program, Laura.
给你
There you are.
迟来总比不来好
Better late than never.
噢 天啊
Oh, my.
真是个惊喜
What a surprise.
那个 我的签名眼下可能不太值钱
Well, my signature's not worth very much right now,
但说不定哪天就升值了
but maybe some day it will increase in value.
你知道 伤心失意是一回事
You know, being disappointed is one thing;
灰心丧气就是另一回事了
being discouraged is something else.
我可能会失望 但我绝不会灰心
Well, I may be disappointed, but I am not discouraged.
所以
So.
你念完高中了
You finished high school.
我期末成绩太差了
Well, I got bad grades on my final examinations.
你是说你退学了？
You mean you dropped out?
我没有再回去
I didn't go back.
那个艾米莉·迈森巴赫现在怎么样了？
How's Emily Meisenbach getting along?
那个泡菜脑袋
That krauthead.
（注：迈森巴赫是德国人的姓氏，奥康纳看不起迈森巴赫，所以叫她泡菜脑袋）
你为什么这么叫她？
Why do you call her that?
因为她就是啊
That's what she was.
你是说 你们俩没在一起了吗？
You mean you're not still going together?
哦 我压根就没再见过她了
Oh, I never even see her.
我在报纸上“个人信息”那一栏里
I read in the personal section
看到了你们订婚的消息
that you were engaged.
是吧
Yeah.
我对那个新闻可没什么印象
Well, I was not impressed by that propaganda.
所以 那是假新闻喽？
Then it wasn't the truth?
哦 只有天真的艾米丽才把它当真
Oh, it was only true in Emily's optimistic opinion.
那么 高中毕业后你都干了些什么？
So, what have you been doing since high school?
没干什么
Nothing much.
肯定有做点什么吧
Well, Must have been doing something.
是的
Yes.
比如说？
Well, then, such as what?
我去商学院
Well, I took a business course
上了一门商科课程
in business college.
真的吗 上的怎么样?
You did? How did that go?
不太好 我被迫退学了
Not very well. I had to drop out.
上得我反胃
It gave me indigestion.
噢
Oh.
是这样的
Yeah.
那你现在在做些什么呢？
So, what are you doing now?
哦 我现在没在做什么
Well, I don't do anything much.
噢 请别误会 我不是
Oh, please don't think that I just
只坐在那无所事事
sit around doing nothing.
我花了很多时间收集玻璃制品
My glass collection takes a good deal of time.
玻璃是你必须
Glass is something that
精心照料的东西
you have to take very good care of.
不好意思 你刚说玻璃什么？
I'm sorry, what did you say about glass?
收藏 我说我有一套玻璃收藏
Collection. I said that I have one.
劳拉
Laura,
你知道我觉得你的问题是什么吗？
you know what I judge to be the trouble with you?
你有自卑情结
Inferiority complex.
你知道那是什么吗？
You know what that is?
那是一个人总是贬低自己才产生的问题
That's what they call it when a fellow low rates himself.
哦 我理解 因为我也有过这个问题
Oh, I understand it because I had it too.
真的
Uh-huh.
只是我的情况没有你那么严重
Only my case was not as aggravated as yours seems to be.
我有过这问题 直到我
I had it until I took—
上了一个公开演讲的课之后 就解决了
I had it until I took a course in public speaking.
我训练了我的声音
I developed my voice
而且我发现我有科学方面的才能
and I learned that I had an aptitude for science.
要知道 在这之前
You know, until that time,
我根本没想过自己
I never thought of myself as being outstanding
会在任何方面有才能
in any way whatsoever.
我跟你说 有件事我虽然从来没仔细研究过
Now, I've never made a regular study of this, mind you
但我有个朋友说我分析人心的水平
but I have a friend who says I can analyze people
比正经的心理医生还高
better than doctors who make a profession of it.
这话不一定全对
I don't claim it's necessarily true,
但我的确善于揣摩别人的心理
but I can sure guess a person's psychology.
劳拉 请原谅
Excuse me, Laura.
口香糖要是没味儿了 我就会吐出来
I always take it out when the flavor's gone.
我就用张报纸包起来吧
I'll just wrap it up here in a piece of newspaper.
我很清楚口香糖
I know what it's like
黏在鞋子上是什么感觉
when you get it stuck on your shoe.
对
Yeah.
我判断 你最大的问题就在于
That is what I judge to be your principal trouble:
缺乏做人的信心
lack of confidence in yourself as a person.
我是根据一些你说的话
Now, I'm basing that fact on a number of your remarks
和我的一些观察做出的判断
and on certain observations I've made.
比如说
For instance,
你还记得你在高中时觉得非常可怕的脚步声吗？
you know that clumping you say was so awful in high school?
你说你上楼的时侯害怕极了
You say you dreaded going upstairs.
结果呢？
You see what you did?
嗯？
Hmm?
你直接辍学了
You dropped out of school.
你因为一点脚步声 就放弃了受教育的机会
You gave up an education all over a little clump,
而且就我所知 这声音压根就不存在
which, as far as I can see, is practically non-existent.
哦
Oh.
你只是有一点身体缺陷而已
A little physical defect is all you have.
几乎都看不出来
Hardly noticeable, even,
却被你自己的想象放大了一千倍
magnified 1,000 times by your imagination.
我强烈建议
My strong advice to you:
你得开始注意到
you've got to start thinking of yourself
自己在某些方面的优势
as superior in some way.
我该注意哪些方面呢？
In what way would I think?
哦 天啊
Oh, man alive.
劳拉 你看看周围
Laura, look around you a little.
嗯 看到了什么？
Hmm? What do you see, huh?
世上尽是普罗大众
Whole world full of common people,
生老病死 不外如是
all of them born, all of them going to die.
他们谁能比得上你优点的十分之一？
Now, which of them has 1/10 of your strong points?
或者我的优点？
Or mine, hmm?
或者任何人的优点？
Or anybody else's, for that matter?
你看 每个人总会在某方面闪光
You see, everybody excels in some one thing,
有的人还有很多闪光点
some in many.
比如说我
Take me, for instance.
我恰好对电动力学感兴趣
Now, my interest happens to lie in electrodynamics.
我在上无线电工程的课
I'm taking a course in radio engineering
同时也在鞋厂尽职尽责地工作
on top of a fairly responsible job in the warehouse.
那也是门学问
I'm taking that course
而且 我还在学公共演讲
and I'm studying public speaking.
因为我对电视的未来充满信心
because I believe in the future of television.
我得做好准备 跟上它发展的脚步
I want to be ready to go right on up with it.
你看
See,
我打算在发展初期就加入进来
I'm planning on getting in on the ground floor.
我已经在行业里找好了关系
I've already made all the right connections.
现在就等着
The only thing that remains now
这个产业开始全速发展了
is for the industry itself to get underway full steam.
你知道的 知识
You know, knowledge.
有了
Zip.
资金 有了
Money. Zip.
权力 就到手了！
Power. Wham!
所谓民主就是建立在这样的循环上的
It's the cycle that democracy's built on.
你肯定觉得我太以自我为中心了吧
You must think I think an awful lot of myself.
哦 不 我不觉得
Oh, no, I don't.
好的
Okay.
好 现在
Okay. Now,
你呢？
How about you?
你总会对某些事比对世界上其他任何事
There must be some one thing you take more interest in
更感兴趣
than anything else in the world.
有的
Yes.
那是什么呢？
Well, such as what?
嗯 我说过 我有我的玻璃收藏
Well, I do, as I said, have my glass collection.
是吗？
You do, huh?
那是些什么样的玻璃？
What kind of glass is that?
都是些小物件
Little articles of it.
大多是装饰品
Ornaments, mostly.
它们大部分是
Most of them are
玻璃做的小动物
little animals made out of glass.
世界上最小的小动物
The tiniest little animals in the world.
我妈妈管它们叫我的玻璃动物园
My mother calls them my glass menagerie.
这有一个
Here's an example of one,
如果你想看看的话
if you'd like to see it.
这是其中最老的一个
This is one of the oldest.
他快13岁了
He's nearly 13.
哦 小心点
Oh, be careful.
你喘口气 它都可能碎了
If you breathe, it breaks.
那我还是别碰他的好
Oh, I better not take him, then.
我拿东西总是毛手毛脚的
I'm kind of clumsy with things.
哦 没事 我相信你
Oh, no. I trust you with it.
瞧
There.
你可以拿得很小心
You're holding him gently.
把他放到灯光下面
Hold him up in the light.
他喜欢光线
He just loves light.
你看见他是怎么折射光线 闪闪发光的吗？
See how the light just shines through him?
看见了
Yeah.
他确实在闪闪发光
He sure does shine.
我虽然不该偏心
I shouldn't be partial,
但他是我最喜欢的一个
but he's my favorite one.
这是只什么动物？
What kind of animal is this supposed to be?
你没注意到他额头上的独角吗？
Haven't you noticed the single horn on his forehead?
是只独角兽 是吗？
A unicorn, huh?
是的
Uh-huh.
独角兽
A unicorn.
他们不是在当代都已经灭绝了吗？
Aren't they supposed to be extinct in the modern world?
我知道
I know.
可怜的小家伙
Poor little fellow.
他一定觉得很孤单
Must feel kind of lonesome.
唔 就算他觉得孤单 他也没抱怨过
Well, if he does, he doesn't complain about it.
他和其他那些没有角的马
He stays on the shelf
一起呆在架子上
with all the other horses that don't have horns.
他们看起来相处得很好
They seem to get along nicely together.
你怎么知道呢？
How do you know?
嗯 我从来没听过他们吵架
Well, I haven't heard any arguments.
没吵过架 是吗？
No arguments, huh?
那是个好兆头
Well, that's a good sign.
我该把他放哪儿？
Where will I put him?
哦 你放哪都行
Oh, you can put him anywhere.
他们都喜欢
They all like a change of scenery
偶尔换换环境
every once in a while.
确实
They do.
哦
Oh.
嘿
Hey.
看看我伸开胳膊时影子有多大
Look how big my shadow is when I stretch.
哦
Oh.
哦 天啊
Oh, my, yes.
都占满整个天花板了
It stretches clear across the ceiling.
这音乐是从哪儿来的？
Where's the music coming from?
是从巷子对面的天堂舞厅传来的
It comes from the Paradise Dance Hall, across the alley.
我们跳个舞如何 温菲尔德小姐？
Say, how about cutting a rug a little, Miss Wingfield?
还是请你跳舞的名单已经排满了？
Or is your program all filled up?
让我瞧瞧
Oh, let me have a look at it there.
哦 每支舞都有人约了
Oh, every dance is taken.
那我就得划掉一些人了
Well, I'll just have to scratch some of them out.
华尔兹
A waltz.
我不会跳舞
I can't dance.
你又开始说那些自卑的话了
There you go with that inferiority stuff.
不 我这辈子从没跳过舞
No. I never danced in my life.
来吧 试试看
Come on. Try.
我怕会踩到你
I'm afraid that I would step on you.
我又不是玻璃做的
Well, I'm not made out of glass.
我该怎么开始？
How do I start?
把你的手臂稍微伸出来一点
Well, you hold your arms out a little.
这样吗？
Like this?
再高一点
A little higher.
好了 劳拉
All right, Laura.
别紧张
Now, don't tighten up.
这是最要紧的
That's the principal thing about it.
放松就好
Just relax.
我怕你带不动我
I'm afraid that you can't budge me.
哦 相信我 我可以
Well, you bet I can.
我的天哪
My goodness.
你真的可以
Yes, you can.
好了
Okay.
放松自己 劳拉
Let yourself go, Laura.
放松自己
Just let yourself go.
我在放松
I'm trying.
别这么僵硬
Not so stiff, now.
轻松点
Easy does it.
你看
There you go.
哦 天啊
Oh, my.
老天啊
Oh, my.
我的天呐
Oh, my goodness.
就是这样
That's it.
你会跳舞了 劳拉
You're doing it now, Laura.
我会跳了
I am.
你看
There we go.
现在好多了
That's better.
哦
Oh.
就是这样 劳拉
That's it, Laura.
我们做到了
Now we're doing it.
是啊
I am.
我做到了
I am.
他碎了吗？
Is it broken?
他现在跟其他马一样了
Now he's just like all the other horses.
什么意思？他摔断了...
What do you mean? He lost his—
他摔断了角
He lost his horn.
不要紧
It doesn't matter.
也许这是因祸得福
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise.
你肯定不会原谅我的
I bet you'll never forgive me.
这是你最喜欢的玻璃动物
That was your favorite piece of glass.
我没有多少心爱的
I don't have favorites much.
这不要紧
It's no tragedy.
玻璃本来就是易碎的
Glass breaks so easily
无论你多么小心
no matter how careful you are.
架子上东西太挤 就容易掉下来
The traffic jars the shelves and things fall off.
我还是很抱歉 毕竟是我弄坏的
Still, I'm awful sorry that I was the cause of it.
我就当是他动了一次手术
I'll just imagine that he had an operation,
把那个让他看起来
and the horn was removed
很古怪的角给切掉了
to make him feel less freakish.
现在 他能更自在地和其他
But now, he'll feel more at home with the other horses.
没有角的马儿相处了
that was don't have horns.
很高兴看到你还能这么幽默
Well, I'm glad to see that you have a sense of humor.
你知道吗
You know,
你和我认识的其他人都不一样
You're different than anybody I know.
你介意我这么说吗？
Do you mind me saying that?
我是认真的 你让我感觉有些…
I mean it. You make me feel sort of—
我不知道该怎么说
I don't know how to say this.
我通常很能说会道的
I'm usually pretty good at expressing things.
但这次 我真的不知道该怎么说
This is something I don't know how to say.
有人跟你说过你很美吗？
Did anybody ever tell you that you were pretty?
你很美
You are,
而且是和别人不一样的美
and in a different way than anybody else,
甚至因为这种不同而更加迷人
and all the nicer because of the difference.
哦 你要是我姐姐就好了
Oh, I wish you were my sister.
我会教你怎么找回对自己的信心
I'd teach you to have confidence in yourself,
因为与众不同没什么可羞愧的
because being different is nothing to be ashamed of,
毕竟其他人也没什么了不起
because other people aren't such wonderful people.
他们都千篇一律
They're 100 times 1,000.
而你
You,
你是独一无二的
you're one times one.
他们到处游荡
They wander all over the earth.
而你就在这
You just stay right here.
他们平凡如野草
Why, they're as common as weeds.
但你
But you,
你是蓝玫瑰
you're blue roses.
蓝色对玫瑰来说是不好的
Blue is wrong for roses.
但对你恰如其分
But it's right for you.
你很美
You're pretty.
我哪里美？
In what respect am I pretty?
哦 哪里都美
Why, in all respects.
你的眼睛 头发 你的手都很美
Your eyes, your hair, your hands are pretty.
你以为我这么说
Do you think I'm saying this
只是因为我被邀请来吃晚饭
just because I was invited to supper
所以得说些好话吗？
and I have to be nice?
哦 我当然可以
Oh, I could do that.
我可以拍很多没诚意的马屁
I could tell you all kinds of things without being sincere.
但我跟你说的这些都是发自肺腑的
But I'm talking to you sincerely.
我注意到
I happened to notice
你有些自卑情结
You have this inferiority complex
让你在人际交往中感觉不自在
that keeps you from being comfortable with people.
得有人帮你增强信心
Somebody ought to build your confidence up.
大大地增强
Way up.
应当有人能让你感到骄傲
Somebody ought to make you proud
而不是害羞 回避 和脸红
instead of shy and turning away and blushing.
应该有人…
Somebody ought to...
应该有人来吻你 劳拉
Somebody ought to kiss you, Laura.
我不该这么做
I shouldn't have done that.
这太出格了
That was way off the beam.
你要来根烟吗？
Would you care for a cigarette?
你不抽烟的 对吧?
Oh, you don't smoke, do you?
要不来块薄荷糖？
How about a mint?
救生圈牌薄荷糖
Peppermint lifesaver.
看看 我的口袋里简直就是个药店
Look, my pocket's a regular drugstore.
给
Here.
劳拉 我要是有个像你一样的姐姐
Laura, if I had a sister like you,
我也会像汤姆一样
I'd do the same as Tom.
邀请一些朋友回家见你
I'd invite fellows home here to meet you.
呃 也许我不该这么说
Well, maybe I shouldn't be saying that.
可能邀请我来并不是出于这个目的
That might not have been the idea in having me over.
那又怎样呢？
Well, what if it was?
这又没什么不对
Now, there's nothing wrong with that.
只是...
It's just that...
我
in my case,
不能做
I'm not in a position
这样的事
to do the right thing.
我不能问你要电话号码 说我会打给你
I can't ask you for your number and say that I'll phone.
我不能约你出来
I can't call you and ask you for a date.
我只是觉得我得解释一下
Well, I just thought I'd better explain the situation
以免你误会 然后伤了你的心
in case you misunderstood and I hurt your feelings.
你不会再来了吗？
You won't call again?
是的
No.
不能来了 劳拉
I can't, Laura.
我有对象了
I've got strings on me.
我已经在一段稳定的感情里了
You see, I've been going steady.
我一直在和一个叫贝蒂的女孩约会
I go out all the time with a girl named Betty.
呃 那个
Oh, and, uh,
她是个文静 居家的好女孩 像你一样
she's a nice, quiet home girl, just like you.
她信天主教 是爱尔兰人
And she's Catholic and she's Irish,
我们相处得很好
so we get along fine.
去年夏天的一个月夜 我在去奥尔顿的
I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip
麦杰斯特号上遇到了她
up the River to Alton on the Majestic.
可以说是一见钟情
And right away from the start it was love.
哦 天啊
Oh, boy.
坠入爱河使我改头换面
And being in love has made a new man out of me.
爱情的力量是巨大的
The power of love is tremendous.
那是能彻底改变世界的力量
It's the kind of thing that just changes the whole world.
呃 那个
Well, uh,
贝蒂的姑妈病了
Betty's aunt took sick
她收到了电报 必须回森特雷利亚去
and she got a wire and had to go to Centralia.
所以当汤姆邀请我来吃晚饭的时候
So, naturally, when Tom invited me for dinner,
我想当然就接受了 没成想...
I accepted the invitation, not knowing—
我是说 呃
Well, I mean, um,
没想到
not knowing.
我希望你能说点什么
I wish you would say something.
你这是干什么？
What are you doing?
你要我收下这个吗？
You want me to have it?
为什么呢？
What for?
留作纪念吧
Souvenir.
– 孩子们 我来啦
– Children, I'm coming.
我来啦 我来啦
I'm coming. I'm coming.
我想你们可能想喝点新鲜饮料
I thought you all might like a little liquid refreshment.
亲爱的
Honey.
奥康纳先生
Mr. O'Connor.
奥康纳先生 你听过那首关于柠檬汁的歌吗？
Mr. O'Connor, have you heard that song about lemonade, Hmm?
柠檬汁
♪♪ Lemonade
阴凉处调制 铲子来搅拌
♪♪ Made in the shade and stirred with a spade
给老姑娘也不算赖
♪♪ and then it's good enough for any old maid ♪♪
没有 夫人 从来没听过
No, ma'am. I never heard that one.
亲爱的 你怎么看上去这么严肃？
Honey, why are you looking so serious?
我们只是在讨论严肃的话题
Well, we were just having a serious conversation.
我真是搞不懂你们现代年轻人
I don't understand you modern young people.
我年轻的时候 总是快快活活的
When I was a girl, I was just gay about everything.
您一点也没变 温菲尔德夫人
You haven't changed a bit, Mrs. Wingfield.
我想是今晚这样愉快的聚会
Well, I suppose it's the gaiety of the occasion
让我青春焕发了
That has rejuvenated me,
让我们为这愉快的聚会干杯
so here is to the gaiety of the occasion.
我给自己“洗礼”了
I baptized myself.
我在厨房找到了一些樱桃
Oh, I found some cherries back there in the kitchen,
在每杯饮料底下都放了一个
and I put one at the bottom of each glass.
您不必这么大费周章 夫人
Oh, you shouldn't have gone to all that trouble, ma'am.
根本不费事
It wasn't any trouble at all.
你没听见我们在厨房里聊得热火朝天吗？
Didn't you hear us cutting up out there in the kitchen?
我对汤姆很是恼火
I was so outdone with Tom
他也不早点带你过来
for not bringing you over sooner.
现在既然你知道怎么来了 我希望你能常来
But now that you know the way, I want you to come all the time.
不是偶尔来 而是经常来
Not just once in a while, but all the time.
我要回厨房忙去了
I'm going to run on back to the kitchen.
哦 不不 夫人
Oh, no, no, ma'am.
事实上 呃
Look, as a matter of fact, well,
我得走了
I have to be going.
噢 但是奥康纳先生
Oh, but Mr. O'Connor,
天刚刚才黑呀
It's only the shank of the evening.
呃 夫人 您也知道的
Well, you know how it is, ma'am.
哦 你是说因为你有工作
Oh, you mean because you are a young working man
所以得遵守工作时间
and you have to keep working men's hours.
是的 夫人
Yes, ma'am.
我们今晚放你早点走
We'll let you off early this time,
但是下回来你得待得更晚一些
but only on the condition that you stay later next time.
非常 非常晚
Now, much, much later.
你哪天晚上有空？
What's the best evening for you?
周六行吗？
Is it Saturday?
实话告诉您 温菲尔德夫人
Well, as a matter of fact, Mrs. Wingfield,
我得打卡
I have a couple of time clocks that I have to punch.
早上一次 晚上一次
One in the morning and another one at night.
噢 您真有上进心
Oh, you are so ambitious.
晚上也要工作吗？
You work nights too?
不 夫人
Well, no, ma'am.
并不是工作
Uh, not work,
而是 呃 贝蒂
But, uh, Betty.
贝蒂
Betty?
贝蒂是谁？
Who's Betty?
她是我的
She's just a girl,
我的正牌女友
a girl I go steady with.
这是真的吗？
Is it serious?
是的 夫人 是真的
Yes, ma'am, it is.
我们打算在六月的第二个星期天结婚
Well, we're going to be married the second Sunday in June.
汤姆一句也没提过
Tom didn't say anything at all about you
你要结婚的事
being engaged to be married.
呃 鞋厂那边
Well, uh, the cat's not out of the bag
还没人知道这事呢
down at the warehouse yet, ma'am.
您懂的
You know how it is.
大家都会拿你开玩笑 叫你罗密欧什么的
The fellows call you Romeo and stuff like that.
温菲尔德夫人 今晚真是太美妙了
Mrs. Wingfield, it's been a wonderful evening.
这肯定就是所谓南方人的热情好客吧
This must be what they mean by Southern hospitality.
哦
Oh.
这不算什么 不算什么
Nothing at all, nothing at all.
希望你们别误会
Well, I hope that you ladies don't think
我不是急着要走
that I'm rushing off, but I—
但是我答应了贝蒂要在瓦巴什车站接她
Well, I promised Betty i'd pick her up at the Wabash depot.
等我把车开到火车站时
By the time I get my jalopy down to the train,
她也该到了
she's going to be in.
你们知道的 有些女人你让她等太久
You know how some women get pretty upset
她们会发火的
when you keep them waiting.
我可太懂女人的暴脾气了
I know all about the tyranny of women.
再见 奥康纳先生
Goodbye, Mr. O'Connor.
我祝你幸福
And I want to wish you happiness
祝你好运
and good fortune.
劳拉也祝福你 是吗？
And you wish him that too, don't you, Laura?
对 妈妈 我也祝福他
Yes, mother, I do.
那 再见了 劳拉
Well, uh, bye, Laura.
这个纪念品 我会一直珍藏的
I'll always treasure this souvenir.
哦 再见 莎士比亚
Oh, uh, bye, Shakespeare.
再次感谢你们 女士们
Well, thank you again, ladies.
晚安
And, uh, good night.
劳拉
Laura,
别忘了我给你的忠告
Don't you forget that good advice I gave you.
好么
Well, well, well.
真是世事难料啊
Things have a way of turning out so badly.
哦 劳拉 别再放那个留声机了
Oh, Laura, I wouldn't play that Victrola anymore,
好吗?
would you?
真是啊
Well, well, well.
所以 咱们的好小伙已经要结婚了
So, our gentleman caller was engaged to be married.
汤姆
Tom!
怎么了 妈妈？
Yes, mother?
出来
Come on out here.
我得跟你说件非常有意思的事
I want to tell you something very funny.
咱们的客人已经走了吗？
Has the gentleman caller gone away already?
是的 他走得相当早
Yes. He made a very early departure,
这也是你给我们开的一个玩笑
and that was a funny joke you played on us too.
什么意思？
How do you mean?
你没跟我们说他已经订婚了
You didn't tell us he was engaged to be married.
吉姆吗？
Jim?
订婚了？
Engaged?
对 他刚就这么跟我们说的
Well, that's what he just informed us.
真是意外
Well, I'll be jiggered.
我都不知道这事
I didn't know about that.
那真是太奇怪了
Well, that seems very peculiar to me.
哪里奇怪了？
What's peculiar about it?
你不是说他是你在鞋厂
Didn't you tell me he was your best friend
最好的朋友吗？
down at the warehouse?
妈妈 他是的 但我怎么知道有这事呢？
Mother, he is, but how did I know?
那真是太奇怪了
Well, it seems very peculiar to me
你居然不知道你最好的朋友
that you didn't know that your best friend
马上就要结婚了？
was engaged to be married?
妈妈 鞋厂是我工作的地方
Mother, the warehouse is where I work,
不是我了解别人私事的地方
not where I know things about people.
你哪儿的事情都不知道！
You don't know things anywhere!
你活在梦里
You live in a dream world.
你在白日做梦
You just manufacture illusions.
你要去哪儿？ 你要去哪儿？
Where are you going? Where are you going?
我要去看电影
I'm going to the movies.
哦 可不是吗
Oh, that's right.
现在你让我们出了这么大的丑
Now that you have had us make such fools of ourselves.
所有的努力 所有的准备
Well, all the effort and all the preparation
这一切的开销
and all the expense.
新地毯 落地灯 还有劳拉的新衣服
The new rug and the floor lamp and the clothes for Laura.
这一切最后是为了什么？
And for what?
为了招待别的姑娘的未婚夫？
To entertain some other girl's fiancé?
哦 去吧 去看你的电影吧
Oh, go on and go to the movies.
别想我们了
Don't think about us:
一个被抛弃的母亲
A mother who is deserted,
一个未婚 残疾 没有工作的姐姐
an unmarried sister who is crippled and has no job.
不 别让任何事干扰你自娱自乐
No, don't let anything interfere with your selfish pleasures.
去吧 看你的电影去吧
Just go on and go to the movies.
好
All right.
我这就去
I will.
你越是对我大喊 说我自私
The more you shout about my selfishness to me,
我走得越快
the quicker I will go.
而且我也不去看电影了
And I won't go to the movies, either.
去啊！
Go!
快去啊！
Go, go, go, go!
滚到月亮上去吧 你这做白日梦的自私鬼！
Go to the moon, you selfish dreamer!
– 我没有滚到月亮上去
– I didn't go to the moon;
我去了比月亮还远的地方
I went much further.
因为时间才是两地之间
For time is the longest distance
最远的距离
between two places.
那之后不久 我就离开了圣路易斯
Not long after that, I left St. Louis.
最后一次从我们家的消防梯走下来
I descended the steps of our fire escape for a last time,
从那以后
and from then on
我走了父亲的老路
I followed in my father's footsteps,
尝试在运动中找到
attempting to find in motion
在空间中失去的东西
what was lost in space.
我居无定所 四处飘荡
I travelled around a great deal.
城市像枯叶一样掠过我
The city swept about me like dead leaves,
这些叶子曾经色泽鲜艳
leaves that were brightly colored
如今却被从枝头扯下
but torn away from the branches.
我本可以停下
I would have stopped,
但 某个东西在追逐我
but I was pursued by something.
它总是悄无声息地接近我
And it always came upon me unawares,
趁我不备 突然袭击
taking me altogether by surprise.
或许是一段熟悉的旋律
Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music.
或许仅仅是一块透明的玻璃
Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.
又或许是某个夜晚 我孤身一人
Perhaps I'm walking along the street at night
行走在某个
in some strange city
陌生城市的街头
before I have found companions.
我路过一家还在营业的
I pass the lighted window of a shop
香水店
where perfume is sold.
橱窗里摆满了五颜六色的玻璃
The window is filled with pieces of colored glass,
那些漂亮的透明小瓶子
tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors
像是一道道破碎的彩虹
like bits of a shattered rainbow.
然后 突然间
Then, all at once,
我的姐姐轻触我的肩膀
my sister touches my shoulder.
我转过身 望着她的眼睛
I turn around and look into her eyes.
劳拉
Laura?
劳拉
Laura?
我用尽所有力气 想要忘记你
I tried so hard to leave you behind me,
但
but
我低估了我对你的思念
I am more faithful than I intended to be.
我点上一根烟
I reach for a cigarette.
穿过街道
I cross the street.
跑进电影院或酒吧
I run into the movies or a bar.
点一杯酒
I buy a drink.
和最近的陌生人说话
I speak to the nearest stranger—
只要能把你的蜡烛吹灭 做任何事都行
anything that will blow your candles out.
因为如今 世界是被闪电照亮的
For nowadays, the world is lit by lightning.
吹灭你的蜡烛吧 劳拉
Blow out your candles, Laura.
就这样
And so...
再见了
Goodbye.
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