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看电影学英语 Legend of 1900 《海上钢琴师》

-Max: “I still ask myself if I did the right thing

我还在问自己是否做的对，

when I abandoned his floating city. And I don't mean only for the work. Fact is,

abandon: 放弃，遗弃?floating: 漂流的；浮动的

当我离开了他漂泊的城市，我指的不仅是工作，事实是

a friend like that, a real friend, you won't meet one again.

那样才是真正的朋友，你再也不会见到他这样的人。

If you just decide to hang up your sea legs,

hang up: [常用被动语态]中止，搁置

如果你不想出海，

if you just want to feel something more solid beneath your feet,

solid: 固体的，结实的?beneath: 在…之下

如果你只想站在陆地上，

and if then you no loner hear the music of the gods around you. But like he used to say…

no longer: 不再?

如果你不再想听见天籁之音，但是像他常说过的一样…

You're never really done for as long as you got a good story and someone to tell it to.

done for: 完蛋的，破灭的?as long as: 只要?

只要你有个好故事，你就永远不会被人忘记，一个值得告诉别人的故事，

Trouble is nobody believe a single word of my story. It happened every time someone would look up and see her

look up: 抬头看

可问题是没人相信我的故事。每次都是这样，某人一抬头就看到她。

It's difficult to understand there would be more than a thousand of us on that ship,

很难理解，那船上有上千人，

Traveling rich folks, immigrants and strange people, and us

immigrant: 移民?

有富人，移民，陌生人和我们。

Yet there was always one guy alone who would see her first.

但是总会有一个人一眼就看到她的单身汉。

Maybe he was just sitting there, eating or walking on the deck.

deck: 甲板

或许他只是坐在那吃东西或是在甲板上散步，

Maybe he was just fixing his pants. He'd look up for a second,

fix: 修理?pants: 裤子

或许他正在缝补裤子。他抬起头，

a quick glance out to sea and he'd see her.

glance: 一瞥

很快地向海上望去，便看到了她。

Then he'd just stand there rooted to the spot, his heart racing.

root: 生根，扎根?spot:: 地点?race: 疾行【这里指心脏快速跳动】

他的脚像生了根，心也悸动不安。

And every time every damn time, I swear he'd turn to us, towards the ship towards everybody and scream.”

damn: 该死的【表强调】?swear: 发誓?scream: 大喊

每次，每一次，我发誓，他转向我冲着船朝着每个人大喊…

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-Man: America!

美国！

-Max: New York, The one who sees America first .There's one on every ship.

纽约，先看到美国的人每个船上都有一个。

And don't be thinking it's an accident or some optical illusion, it's destiny.

accident: 意外的事?optical: 视觉的?illusion: 幻觉?destiny: 命运?

不要以为这是偶然，或是视觉幻想，那是命运。

Those are people who always have that precise instant stamped on their life.

precise: 精确的，准确的?instant: 瞬间?stamp: 使被铭记?

这些人他们的生命中总是有准确的被打上烙印的时刻。

And when they were kids you could look into their eyes and if you looked carefully enough you'd already see her－

America.

当他们是孩子的时候你看他们眼睛，如果你仔细观察你就会看到她—美国。

And I've seen a few Americans. Six years on that ship five crossings a year.

crossing: 横渡

我没见过多少美国人，呆在那船上六年，一年横跨五次欧洲和美国。

When you stepped on land you couldn't even piss straight in the john.

step on: 踩，踏?piss: 撒尿?straight: 笔直地?john: 厕所

当你踏上大陆，你在上厕所的时候都会感觉晃。

It was steady. The john, I mean. But you'd keep bobbing like an idiot.

steady: 固定的?bob: 上下跳动?idiot: 白痴

我的意思是，厕所是不动的，你却像个白痴一样不停的晃。

You can get off a ship all right but off the ocean”

get off: 从…上下来?but: 除…以外

你可以安然无恙的离开船，但是却不可能离开大海。

-Pops: I was just closing. What can I do for you?

马上要关门了。需要点什么？

-Max: [when I boarded, I was 24 years old and I only cared about one thing in life－playing the trumpet.] I'm selling it.

board: 登（飞机，车，船）?care about: 关心?trumpet: 小号

当我登上这船的时候才24岁，一生中我只在乎一件事，演奏小号。我要卖这个。

-Pops: Conn, not bad.

康恩，不错。

-Max: Best brass money can buy.

brass: 黄铜，铜管（乐器）

黄铜是最好的。

-Pops: Six pounds, ten shillings. Best I can do

pound: 英镑?shilling: 先令，面值5便士的硬币

最高出六磅七先令。

-Max: That horn's my whole life, mister. Even being nobody has got to be worth more than twenty lousy bucks

horn: 喇叭?mister: 先生?lousy: [美国俚语]低贱的?buck: 钱

先生，这是我的全部。即使我不是什么名人，至少也值20美元。

-Pops: It… that's how things are, I suppose it's barely worth half a crown. Shut the door when you leave please

suppose: 认为?barely: 几乎不?crown: (英国旧币制的)五先令硬币

事情就是这样，我认为连二先令都不值。走后请关门。

-Max: Okay, pops you win. You just bought yourself a piece of musical history 好吧，老爹，你赢了。你刚买了一部分音乐史。

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