[ Flute ]
老妇人记得多年前于上海 [ Woman ] The old woman remembered a swan she had bought
曾花费不赀买下一只天鹅 many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.
“这牲畜…”市场鹅贩吹嘘着 "This bird," boasted the market vendor,
“本是只鸭子” "was once a duck"
“伸长脖子企盼化鹅” "that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose."
“你瞧，它美得令人不忍下肚” "And now look! lt is too beautiful to eat."
片名：喜福会
然后这妇人抱着鹅 Then the woman and the swan
漂洋过海 sailed across an ocean many thousands of li wide,
满怀期盼地前往美国 stretching their necks toward America.
旅途中，她告诉天鹅说 On her journey, she cooed to the swan,
“在美国我会有个像我的女儿” "In America, I wiII have a daughter just like me.
“在那儿…” "But over there,
“没人会以她丈夫饱嗝的声响 来衡量她” "nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch."
“没人会看低她” "Over there, nobody will look down on her
“因为她将说得一口 流利的英文” "because l will make her speak only perfect American English.
“她将衣食无缺 不必忍辱负重” "And over there, she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow."
“她会了解我的苦心,因为我会把这只好命的天鹅” "She will know my meaning because l will give her this swan,
原著：谭恩美
“送给她” "a creature that became more than what was hoped for."
编剧：谭恩美 隆纳贝斯
制片：王穎 谭恩美
隆纳贝斯 派屈克马奇
但当她抵达新国度 But when she arrived in the new country,
移民关员夺走她的鹅 the immigration officials pulled the swan away from her,
妇人惊惶地挥舞手臂 leaving the woman fluttering her arms
只抢得一片羽毛作纪念 and with only one swan feather for a memory.
很久以后的现在,这妇人想给她女儿这羽毛 For a long time now, the woman had wanted to give her daughter
并告诉她 the single swan feather and tell her,
“这羽毛虽不值钱” "This feather may look worthless,
“却是来自遥远的国度,一直载负着我的期盼” "'but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions."
导演：王穎
珍妮佛！ -Hi! -Oh, Jennifer! Oh!
君！ Hi, June.
君，你好吗 -[ Man ] Yeah. That's it. -How are you, June?
[ Speaking In Chinese ]
[ TV Football Game ]
[ Man ] Come on! Do or die! Come on! Do or die.
好耶，他们直线传球，加油 All right, all right! They're lining up for a pass!
Here we go, baby. Here we go. Oakland.
-[ Man ] All right! Go! -Go!
-Go! Yeah! -[ Cheering ]
I told you! Yeah! You owe me five bucks!
Whoo!
[ Woman ] Everybody! Wave, wave, Waverly-a!
[ Chattering ]
I do not sound like...
Did you say I sound like my... I do not...
我怎么会和我妈一样？ How could I be like my mother?
[ Chattering Continues ]
她说得对 She is right, you know.
沙拉里别放大白菜 Don't put Chinese cabbage in the salad.
会有苦味 -I boil the Chinese cabbage... -It's bitter.
[ Women Arguing ]
爸，好香 -Mmm, Dad, that smells good. -Thanks.
你瞧，她们竟然还吵个不停 [ Sighs ] Can you believe they're still arguing?
拍照啦，我要替孩子们拍照 -Picture time! Picture time! -Waverly loves it! Everybody loves it!
罗丝人呢？罗丝！ -[ Chattering Continues ] -Where's Rose? Rose! Rose!
快来 -Come on! -Picture! Picture!
-You're never ready. Come on. -Oh, June.
君，快过来… -June, come here! -Come on, June!
-Get over here! -Come on!
我不拍，李娜 -No, that's all right, Lena. -[ Chattering Continues ]
没关系的，去吧… -It's all right. You go ahead. -No, really.
去吧 Go ahead. Go ahead.
June, come closer, darling. Come closer.
Enough. Time to take the picture now.
好啦，拍照啦
-站过来一点 -让我看看你的头发 -Get close to me some more. -All right, let me check your hair.
你头发很漂亮，笑得自然一点，妈 Okay, it looks nice. Now smile naturally, Ma.
我一向很自然，薇莉 -才怪 -I always do, Waverly. -No, you don't. Do a nice, friendly one.
-你一直都不显老 -你遗传了我的好皮肤 -You look younger all the time. -I gave you my good skin.
等你到我这年纪也会一样 You will look like me when you get older.
真的？ You promise?
-妈，我很靠近了 -别压到我的头发 -I'm close, Mom! I won't. -But don't crush my hair.
笑一个 Cheese!
莺莺，拿着这个 Ying Ying, take this.
我母亲四个月前过世了 [ June Narrating ] My mother died four months ago.
我第一次察觉到，她们要我取代我母亲的位置 l realized for the first time they wanted me to take my mother's place.
所以我在东首坐下 So I sat down on the East where things begin,
和我母亲的好友一起打麻将 with my mother's best friends.
我母亲召集喜福会 My mother started the Joy Luck Club
好和她教堂认识的朋友聚会 having met all these women in church,
安美阿姨 Auntie An Mei,
林多阿姨 Auntie Lindo,
莺莺阿姨 Auntie Ying Ying.
三十年来，这些妇人们聚会 For 30 years, these women feasted,
把陈年辛酸抛诸脑后，嬉笑怒骂， forgot past wrongs, laughed and played,
赢或输地，争相夸耀得意事 lost and won and told the best stories.
每周，她们期盼幸运临身 Each week, they hoped to be lucky,
期盼是她们仅剩的喜悦 and that hope was their only joy.
她们聚会并不是为了赢钱 Their connection with each other had more to do with hope than joy or luck.
[ Groaning ]
你的手气和你母亲一样好嘛 You win like your mother?
我只在大学和犹太同学玩过 Uh, I only played once with some Jewish friends in college.
犹太麻将？那不一样 [ Lindo ] Hmmph! Jewish mah jong, not the same thing.
完全不一样，中国麻将讲究技巧 Entirely different. Now, Chinese mah jong very tricky.
你得看清楚每家扔出的牌 You have to watch what everybody throw out
把它们全牢记在心 and you keep all this in your head.
若四个人都很蹩脚 And if nobody play well,
那就和犹太麻将没二样了，没有技巧可言 then the game is just like Jewish mah jong, no strategy.
你们美国女孩一定认为，中国人、犹太人，不同吗 You American girls play Chinese, Jewish. What's the difference?
[ All Laughing ]
她们忧心忡忡。从我身上，她们看到自己女儿 [ June Narrating ] They were worried. In me, they see their own daughters,
轻忽她们来到美国的梦想 just as ignorant of all the hopes and dreams our mothers brought to this country.
[ Aunties Speaking In Chinese ]
-Ai-ya! -[ June ] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
不准说中文 -No talking in Chinese. -Huh?
-我怎知道你们没有作弊 -我们才不会 -How do I know you're not cheating? -We would not cheat.
你是不知道，但我们是你阿姨，都很诚实 You don't know, but we are your auntie and we are very honest people.
我们不会骗你的 We would not cheat you.
[ Playing Single Notes On Piano ]
君，你何不把钢琴搬回家 Hey, June, why you not take the piano home?
你是唯一会弹的人 You only one who play.
[ Classical Piano ]
我九岁时，我妈对我信心十足 When l was nine years old, my mother's version of believing in me
认为我前途无量 was believing that l could be anything,
可以成为她希望中的天才 anything she wanted,
名满中国海外的顶尖钢琴家 the best piano prodigy this side of China.
我从未私下练琴 -[ Hitting Wrong Notes ] -l never practiced.
很幸运地钢琴老师并未察觉 Lucky for me, old Mr. Chong couldn't tell the difference.
他早在几年前就耳聋了 He'd gone stone-deaf over the years.
我和贝多芬都是乐由心生 Me and Beethoven, we both hear it in our head!
很好 Okey dokey. Now...
几个升记号？几个降记号？ Now how many sharps, how many flats?
-我们在什么调？ -“Z”大调 -What key are we in? -Z major.
-什么？-“Z”大调 -What? -Z major!
好极了 Good.
现在独奏 -Now, for the recital, -[ Resumes Playing Piano ]
多带点感情 more feeling!
轻快一点 More gusto!
l'm a girl, and by me that's only great
l am proud that my silhouette is curvy
过去，林多阿姨 [ June Narrating ] When l was young, Auntie Lindo was
是母亲最好的朋友兼主要敌人 my mother's best friend and arch enemy.
他们以子女作为较量的武器 Their weapons of choice were comparing their children.
母亲最痛恨听林多夸赞 Mom was sick of hearing Auntie Lindo brag about her daughter Waverly,
她女儿薇莉是棋赛冠军 who was Chinatown's chess champion.
那天晚上，母亲以为 That night, Mom figured l'd redeem her
我的钢琴处女秀能挣回点面子 with my international piano debut.
我要我女儿帮我提东西 I ask my daughter, "Help me carry grocery."
她认为这要求太过份 She think this too much ask.
她一整天就只知道下棋 All day long she play chess.
我替她的奖杯拂尘，她感谢我吗？才怪 I dust off all her trophy. Appreciate me? No.
你真幸运没这种问题 You lucky you don't have the same problem.
我的问题比你还糟 My problem worser than yours.
我告诉君说，该洗碗了 If I tell June time to wash dish,
她置若未闻，满心只有音乐 she hear nothing but music.
她有天份，还真拿她没办法 It's like you can't stop this natural talent.
Being a girl
在那晚之前，我不自认是天才 [ June Narrating ] Until that night, l didn't believe l was a prodigy.
笨蛋 Twerp.
事实上，我努力地想证实母亲错了 ln fact, l used to go out of my way to prove my mother wrong,
我不是什么天才，我只是平凡的我 that I wasn't cut out to be the best anything, l could only be me.
但不可思议地，我的手指恍如莫札特再世 It was incredible. It was like my hands were possessed by Mozart.
每个人都瞧见，听见了 And everybody could see this, could hear this.
我是个天才，我一鸣惊人了 l was a genius. l had been discovered.
结果…出了状况 And then I heard it.
[ Bad note ]
[ Stumbling Over Keys ]
[ Bad Note ]
[ Bad Notes ]
[ Bad Notes, Tempo Slows Down ]
或许…他们并未察觉 Maybe they didn't notice.
太棒了…安可…弹得好 Bravo! Bravo! Encore! Well done!
[ Audience Laughing, Reluctantly Applauding ]
[ TV: "The Monkees' Theme" playing ]
Here we come
Walking down the street
在那场演出失败后 After the taIent show fiasco,
我猜想我再也不用弹琴了 l figured l never had to play the piano again.
From everyone we meet
四点了，关掉电视 -Hey, hey, we're the Monkees -4:00. Turn off TV.
练琴去 -Some people say we monkey around -Practice piano time.
我无法置信 l couldn't believe what she was saying.
我又得再经历相同的折磨 Like l was supposed to go through the same torture again.
-算了吧 -听见没？ -Forget it. -What I say?
四点了 -To be friendly -4:00.
我再也不弹琴了 -Come and watch us sing and play -I'm not going to play anymore.
我为何要弹 -Why should I? -We're the young generation
你说什么 -What did you say? -And we've got something to say
我又不是你的奴隶，这儿不是中国 I'm not your slave. This isn't China.
You can't make me! 你逼不了我
起来 不要… -Get up! -No! No, I won't.
不要 No!
不要 No! No, I won't.
[ Banging Keys ]
你要我成为你希望中的女儿 You want me to be someone I'm not!
但那是永远不可能的 I'll never be the kind of daughter that you want me to be.
女儿只有二种 There two kinds of daughter:
服从母命和随心所欲的 obedient or follow own mind.
但这房子只容得下服从的 Only one kind of daughter could live in this house, obedient kind.
那么我希望自己不是你女儿！你不是我妈！ Then I wish I wasn't your daughter! I wish you weren't my mom!
[ Gasps ]
没办法改变了 Too late to change this.
突然间我想起某个禁忌 That's when I remembered what we could never talk about.
那么我希望自己死掉，就像在中国被你弄死的娃娃 Then I wish I were dead, like them, the babies that you killed in China!
我妈曾告诉我 My mother had once told me this strange story,
她在中国的经历的一件事 what happened to her in China.
当时她要前往重庆，和她的丈夫会面 She said she was going to Chungking to meet the man who was her husband.
我首次听到她曾嫁过别人 That was the first time I ever heard she was married before my father.
她照应不来她的双胞胎女儿 She barely had time to grab her babies, twin girls.
我首次知悉她有别的孩子 That was the first time I heard she had other babies.
[ Babies Crying ]
我努力想像这过程 l always try to picture in my mind what really happened,
但她从未解释过 but she would never explain.
她只说，等到了重庆的时候 She would only say by the time she reached Chungking
她失去一切 she had lost everything.
我说“一切，什么意思？” And I said, "Wait, what do you mean 'everything'?
“娃娃们呢？” "What happened to those babies?"
我妈有许多事，我无法理解 There were so many things about my mother l never understood.
但这是唯一我无法忘怀的 -[ Crying ] -This is the only one l never forgave.
娃娃们 The babies.
你知道的？二个娃娃？ You know? Two babies?
娃娃们？我们以为她们死了 [ June Narrating ] The babies? We all thought that the babies had died.
但上个月的一次教堂餐会… -But last month at a church picnic... -You know,
你妈留在路边的娃娃们？战争那时候？ two babies your mother leave on the roadside, in war time?
真是奇迹，我们找到她们了 It's miracle, but we find them.
你想得到吗？她们还活着 Yes! Can you imagine? They're still alive!
什么？还活着 What are you saying? They're alive?
你母亲一直想找到她们，她长期以来的心愿 I think your mother always want to find them, her long-cherished wish.
所以她死后，我们替她找，不停地写信… So after she died, we tried for her, writing, writing, writing.
"My..."
这是她们写来的吗？娃娃们 This is from them, those babies?
不再是娃娃了 [ Lindo ] No baby anymore!
她们还活着 They're alive!
信上写些什么，什么意思 What does it say? What does it mean?
信上说…照这上头写的 It say... See here?
她们很高兴，不… They are very glad... No, no, no, no, no.
不敢置信 Overjoyed beyond belief
意然找到你，她们的小妹了 at last find you, their little sister.
她们还说…照这上头说 And they say... See here?
真遗憾… How sad, how very sad
没能见到母亲一面 too late to meet their mother
她已经不在人世了 now she no longer in this world.
对…对 Yes, yes.
还写着…这里 It says... See here?
你得到中国去和她们见面 You must come to China and meet them
告诉她们你母亲的事 and tell them all about their mother.
我能告诉她们什么 What could I tell them?
我又不了解她 I didn't know anything about her. She was...
什么？
-她是我母亲 -你怎么这么说呢 -She was my mother. -[ Lindo ] What do you mean?
告诉她们，母亲聪明善良 Tell them how smart she was, how kind she was.
大家都很喜欢她 Everyone loves her.
待人诚恳做事勤劳 How sincere, how hard-working she was.
-烧得一手好菜 -比我还好 -And the excellent dishes she cooked. -Even better than mine.
唱歌也很好听，你不记得了吗 [ Ying Ying ] And how beautiful she sang. Don't you remember?
怎有女儿不了解自己母亲的 How can a daughter not know her own mother?
你们说的对，我会告诉她们 You're right. I will tell them.
我应该告诉她们，我也想 I... I should. I want to.
君… [ Lindo ] June? June.
你在想什么 What're you thinking?
当然是想娃娃的事，双胞胎 Those babies, of course. The twins.
不敢相信，我就快见到他们 I can't believe I'm actually going to meet them.
她们知道妈去世一定很难过 How sad they must've been when you told them Mom died.
一定很难下笔告诉她们 That must've been the hardest letter for you to write.
花生没了 Oh, peanut bowl empty.
我再去拿 Oh! Oh, I'll get us some.
你怎么可以呢 [ Chinese ]
长久以来一直不告诉她真相，今天必须告诉她 All this time never telling her the truth. Must tell her today.
你怎能不告诉她 How can you not tell her?
我怎么告诉她信上写的话 How can I tell her what the letter really say?
那她会不肯去中国见她姐姐 Then she never go to China, never go to see her sister.
我没说错吧？一定的 Am I right? Yes, of course.
我还是觉得不妥 [ Ying Ying ] Lindo, I still think it's wrong.
娃娃们好可怜 [ Lindo Thinking ] It's so sad for those babies.
苏怎么可以遗弃她们 How could Suyuan give them up?
这么小就失去母亲 To lose a mother so young.
真搞不懂 To wonder why.
[ Rooster Crowing ]
即使到了今天 Even to this day l wonder
我还是不懂我妈怎舍得不要我 how my own mother could give me up.
那年，我只有四岁 That day, when l was only four years old,
我走向大人们的谈话的地方 l came upon a meeting
它改变了我的一生 that would change my life forever.
[ Chinese ]
快过来 Come here quick.
来呀 Come here.
黄太太，这就是我的女儿 Huang Tai Tai, this is my daughter.
过来，过来 Come here, Lindo.
快过来 Come over here.
到妈这儿来 Come to Mama.
过来，别让黄太太等着 Don't keep Huang Tai Tai waiting.
我看这孩子脾气不好，太任性 She looks like a brat.
黄太太，她平时倒是挺听话 She's usually very obedient.
今天有点陌生 She's just shy today.
我并不知道 [ Lindo Narrating ] l didn't know it,
那天我妈承诺了 but that day my mother made a promise,
等我15岁，我就得到这妇人的家中生活 that when I became 15, l would go live in this woman's house...
她太瘦了 She looks so skinny.
黄太太，你别看她瘦啊 Don't go by her looks.
你瞧那小脸，长得多俊多好 Look at that lucky face.
将来势必是多子多孙 She'll give you many grandsons.
实践老媒婆多子多孙的保证 ...and fulfill the old matchmaker's guarantee to have many sons
嫁一位从未谋面的丈夫 with a husband I had never met before.
[ Mother Speaking ]
过来，过来 Come here! Come here!
过来给黄太太看看，乖孩子，过来啊 Have Huang Tai Tai take a closer look at you.
吃慢点啊 Stop stuffing yourself!
谁家的女孩像你吃得这么快 No girl should eat so fast.
慢慢吃
接下来的十年中 For the next 10 years,
我妈把我当黄家人对待 my mother treated me as if l already belonged to Huang Tai Tai.
耳朵后面怎么这么脏 Look at those dirty spots!
谁家会要你这样的丫头做媳妇 Who would want such a dirty daughter-in-law?
以后注意点 Always be careful.
到了黄家 Otherwise when you go to Huang Tai Tai's,
以后再这样，人家可不喜欢你 she will disapprove of you.
我妈说这些话并非她不爱我 My mother did not say these things because she didn't love me.
她这么说 She said these things
她就不会对… so she would not wish for something
不属于她的东西心存指望 that was no longer hers.
有一天 And then one day,
我妈说我们全家将迁到南方 my mother said our whole family was moving to the south.
每个人都去… Everyone
除了我 except me.
你记住 Remember...
到了黄家 when you see Huang Tai Tai,
做出高高兴兴的样子 act happy.
知道你已经够幸运的了 Really, you are very lucky.
[ Sobbing ]
[ Sniffling ]
[ Guests Chattering ]
新人来了，新人来了
恭请新人开始拜堂 The marriage ceremony has begun.
夫妻对拜 Bride and groom, pay respect to each other.
再拜高堂 Pay respect to the ancestors.
富贵双全 Be blessed with prosperity!
连生贵子 Be blessed with many sons!
[ Applause ]
[ Applause Fading ]
[ Thunder Rumbling ]
当天晚上我首次见到我丈夫 That night l would meet my husband for the first time,
那个将主宰我命运 the one who would control my destiny,
决定我一生悲喜的人 decide whether l was happy or not.
[ Thunder Continues ]
[ Thunderclap ]
这一刻决定了我的一生 This one moment would decide for my whole life
是由恐惧或我自己所主宰 whether fear would rule or I would.
[ Gasps ]
我暗下决心 I decided
在我内心中我知道自己是谁 underneath I knew who I was.
我向自己承诺永不妥协 l promised myself never to forget.
[ Thunderclap ]
[ Door Opens ]
[ Footsteps ]
[ Thunderclap ]
多少天来我一直在菩萨面前为你祝祷 I have prayed to the gods many days for you,
许愿但愿你不是个丑八怪 so that you were not too ugly,
也不是个老头子 or too old.
我一定是求菩萨求过了头 I must have prayed too hard.
-[ Laughing ] -[ Screaming ]
吓死你吧 Ha! Scared you to death!
我是丈夫 I am the husband.
是当家的，一切由我说了算了 I make all the decisions.
你可以在地上睡 You sleep on the floor.
去吧，去吧 Do it! Do it now!
[ Animal Scurrying ]
[ Croaking ]
[ Loud Slap ]
接下来几年 The next few years l tried to accept my life,
做个贤妻，我试着接受命运 to act like an obedient wife.
婆婆，喝汤
[ Chinese ]
每晚，我熬黄太太最爱吃的汤 Every night, l made Huang Tai Tai's special soup,
孝敬她 good for mother-in-laws.
但她仍然不高兴 Still, she was not pleased.
我问你，我孙子在哪？ Where are my grandsons?
我儿子说 My son says...
不知道多少次了 you often refuse...
你不肯跟他睡觉 to sleep with him.
你这算当哪门子媳妇啊？ What kind of a wife are you?
[ Giggling ]
你可以睡在你自己那一边 You sleep on your side.
[ Grunting ]
之后，我和我丈夫同床共忱 After that, l slept with my husband.
每晚，我和他同榻而眠 -[ Snoring ] -Every night l slept with him,
一如兄妹 just like brother and sister.
[ Glass Shattering ]
我的孙子在哪？ Where are my grandsons?
Huh?
我儿子说 My son says
他给你栽下的种子有一大箩筐 he's planted enough seeds in you to fill a basket.
够你给我生一万个孙子了 Plenty for ten thousand grandsons!
怪谁呀，这都怪你自己 It's all your fault!
东跑西跑的 Always running around,
把我儿子给你留下的种子，都流失了 letting my son's seeds spill out.
从现在起 From now on,
你在床上给我躺着！ you lie in bed all day.
躺着！躺着！ Lie down!
直到我抱上孙子为止 Until my grandson comes!
听见了没有 Do you hear me?
可恶 Disgusting little thing!
把窗子都关上 Close all the windows!
[ Man Speaking In Chinese ]
[ Talking Continues ]
[ Woman Speaking In Chinese ]
看，是你的 Feel this. I'm pregnant.
不…绝对不是我的 That's impossible.
是你的 It's yours!
[ Arguing In Chinese ]
[ Anguished Cry ]
[ Ripping ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Knife Drops ]
[ Screaming ]
疯疯颠颠的 What'd I tell you?
有什么办法 She's like this all the time.
[ Screaming ]
怎么回事呀 What the hell's happening?
[ Huang Tai Tai Speaking ]
怎么回事呀？怎么回事呀？ What's wrong?
哎呀，你倒是快说呀 Tell me quick!
吓死我了 It's so scary.
我不敢说 It's too terrible to say.
是个恶梦 I had a bad dream.
我看到我们的老祖宗了 Our ancestors came to me!
他们很生气 So angry!
老祖宗说 They told me
如果我们这段婚姻 if Tyan-Yu stays...
继续下去的话 in this marriage,
天裕就一定活不成了 he will die.
你在胡说八道 What's this bullshit?
蠢丫头，什么恶梦不恶梦的 What a stupid girl to have bad dreams!
可是老祖宗说 The ancestors said...
如果这件事不马上解决的话 if the matter is not settled immediately,
他们就要把灭顶之灾 they will begin...
降到我们家里 the cycle of destruction!
他告诉我一共有三个不祥预兆 There are three signs, he said.
第一个，他在天裕的背后画了一个黑痣 First, he has drawn a spot on Tyan-Yu's back.
这个痣会使天裕的肉烂掉 And this spot will eat away Tyan-Yu's flesh,
就像他老爷爷的脸 just as it ate away
事先会烂掉一样耶 our ancestor's face.
这黑痣其实就是晚上睡觉时 [ Lindo Narrating ] The same mole l had seen during all those nights
在他背上看到的那一颗 of sleeping just like brother and sister.
接着老祖宗又摸了摸我的嘴 Next, our ancestor touched my mouth.
老祖宗说 Our ancestor said...
如果我不离开这里，我的牙就会掉得一个不剩 if I don't leave this marriage, all my teeth will fall out.
可是我怎么能够离开 这个幸福的婚姻呢 But how could I leave this family I love so much?
我生是黄家的人，死是黄家的鬼呀 I live and die for this family.
Ai-ya.
我嘴里的缺口 [ Lindo Narrating ] The open spot in my mouth
是多年前掉牙时留下来的 where a rotted tooth fell out four years ago.
老祖宗还说这姑娘 Our ancestor also said this girl here...
才是天裕真正的老婆 is Tyan-Yu's true spiritual wife...
她肚子里已经怀了天裕的儿子 already growing his son!
是真的呀 It's true!
这是老祖宗精心安排的，他已将天裕的种子，种在她的肚子里 To prove it, our ancestor planted the seed in her womb.
你看，就要瓜熟地落了 Already ripe in one day.
[ Huang Tai Tai Speaking ]
阿萍，过来 Ah Ping! Come over here!
过来 Come over here!
如果你不相信我的话 If you don't believe me,
你问问媒婆 ask the matchmaker.
我说她乱撮合姻缘 I told them the matchmaker had made the wrong match
是为了钱 on purpose just for money.
[ Young Lindo Weeping ]
[ Weeping ]
[ Weeping Continues ]
徐奶奶，你为什么给我找了 Matchmaker, how could you?
你说呀…你说呀 How could you?
对不起，黄太太，对不起… Well...
好…算了…
你们都下去吧，都下去吧 Get out! All of you!
黄太太得到她的孙子 Huang Tai Tai got her grandson.
女仆得到婚姻 The servant girl got her marriage.
我则得到往上海的车票 I got a rail ticket to Shanghai.
你瞧，我仍信守对我妈的承诺 So, you see, I still kept my promise to my mother.
几年后，筹备薇莉的婚礼 But years later, things were somewhat different
有些事就变得不一样 -with my daughter Waverly's wedding. -Way?
媽？是我 -[ Waverly ] Ma, it's me. -Waverly-a.
-薇莉，你到美容院了吗 -没有 -You already at the beauty parlor? No? -No. No.
-我头痛 -头痛？ -[ Sighs ] l'm... l have a headache. -Headache?
所以你就不管对你妈的承诺 You have a headache? So you cannot keep your promise to your mother?
你不想来干嘛勉强 Why should l want you to come
不来就算了 when all you're telling me you don't want to come?
妈，我不是这个意思 Ma, that's not what I said!
我现在这模样也没什么不好 What's wrong with the way l look now?
就这旧发型参加婚礼好了 l just go to wedding with old hair.
[ Dial Tone ]
该死，她总是这样 Shit! She always does this!
我妈老是这样 [ Waverly Narrating ] My mom always does this.
不管我说什么，做什么 Whatever l say, whatever l do,
或想什么 whatever I think,
她总是唱反调 she always has the perfect countermove.
好像她才是棋赛冠军似的 As if she had been the chess champion.
[ Clock Ticking ]
即使当时年纪小，我知道自己有惊人的天份 Even at that age, l knew l had an amazing gift,
一种力量，相信自己 this power, this belief in myself
可以下得比别人好 to be better than anyone else.
即使对方较大较长，都无所谓 lf someone was bigger than me, oIder than me, it didn't matter.
若他们不客气，绝占不了便宜 And if they were mean, l could make 'em sorry.
[ Timer Clicks ]
将军 Checkmate.
[ Applause ]
恭喜 Congratulations.
但到今天为止 lt was the only part of my life to this day
那仍是我唯一有自信的事 where l trusted myself completely.
谢谢你… -[ Indistinct ] Good work. -Thank you. Thank you.
我在那当儿很安全 -[ Waverly Narrating ] l was safe there. -Very nice.
一想起那事，我仍会哭泣 -We're very lucky. Thank you. -l still cry remembering that.
[ "One Fine Day" playing ]
你看过生活杂志了吗 没有 -You not see Life magazine? -[ Man ] No.
我告诉我女儿 I told my daughter, "Use your horses
“派遣你的武士攻克敌人” "to run over the enemy."
-她一下子就赢了 -很好 -She won very quickly this way. -Good.
再见，说再见 -Bye-bye. Say bye-bye. -Bye-bye.
And you will know our love was meant to be
再见 Bye-bye.
-One fine day -Hi.
朱太太，你好 Ah, Mrs. Chew!
你认得我女儿吗 Oh, you know my daughter,
薇莉.钟，棋赛冠军 Waverly Jong,chess champion?
好聪明的女孩，再见 Smart girl!
谢谢你，再见 -Bye. -Thank you. Bye-bye.
你别这样，逢人就说 我是你女儿 I wish you wouldn't do that, telling everyone I'm your daughter.
你什么意思？ What you mean?
你妈很丢人吗 You so ashamed to be with your mother?
不是，只是这样… It's not that. It's just that it's so
-很不好意思 -什么？ -embarrassing, that's all. -What? Embarrassed
-因为你是我女儿吗？ -我不是这个意思 -to be my daughter? -That's not what I said.
那你是什么意思？看着我！ Then what you say? Look at me.
看着我！ Look at me!
你为何老拿我向人夸耀 Why do you have to use me to show off?
若你想夸耀 If you wanna show off,
干嘛不自己下棋 then why don't you learn to play chess?
One fine day
You're gonna want me for your girl
[ Grunting ]
薇莉…你给我回来 [ Lindo ] Waverly! Waverly! You come back!
[ Heavy Footsteps ]
终于回来了，老天，你完了 About time. Boy, are you in trouble.
坐下，吃 Sit down. Eat.
这女孩不在意这个家 This girl not have concerning for us.
我们也不必在意她 We not concerning this girl.
[ Thudding, Footsteps ]
我再也不下棋了 I'm never gonna play chess again.
你无法逼我就范 You can't make me.
你可以想办法折磨我 You can torture me all you want,
但我就是不下了 I still won't.
你们听见我说的话了吗？ Did you hear what I said?
几个月来，我一直期待妈来求我继续下棋 For months l kept expecting Ma to beg me to play chess again,
但她再也不曾提及，好像我从未下过棋似的 but she never mentioned it, as if l had never played at all.
知道嘛？我决定继续下棋了 Guess what? I've decided to play chess again.
你以为这么简单 You think it is so easy.
有一天决定不下了，隔天又要下 One day quit, next day play.
你以为都是这样 Everything for you is this way.
聪明就事事简单 So smart, so easy,
手到擒来 so fast.
没那么简单了 Not so easy anymore.
她这番话，宛如一道咒语 [ Waverly Narrating ] What she said,it was like a curse.
我拥有的那股信心力量 This power l had, this belief in myself,
正一点一滴地流逝着 l could actually feel it draining away.
我可以察觉自己变得… l could feel myself becoming so
如此平凡 ordinary.
我窥破敌手心意的能力 AII the secrets I once saw,
消失无踪 l couldn't see them anymore.
举目所见 AII I couId see was,
尽是自己的错误，我的弱点 were my mistakes, my weaknesses.
我最好的一面… -The best part of me just... - [ Timer Clicks ]
将军 Check.
不见了 ...disappeared.
但这不能怪我母亲 But l can't put it all on my mother.
是我自作自受 l did it to myself.
我再也不曾下棋 l never played chess again.
她需要剪和烫 She needs a cut and a perm, Trevor.
这发色 And this color of hers,
是家中的廉价药水染的 it's from that cheap black dye she's been using at home.
好像上美容院会遭天譴似的 God forbid she'd pay to have anything professionally done.
我为何要花这种钱？干嘛呀？ Why I should pay? What for?
我为何要花90元变成你那样 Why I should pay $90? To act like you? So important.
穿破牛仔裤来美容院 Go to fancy barber with torn-up jeans.
黛琳，这位要洗头 Darlene, we need a shampoo here.
我是说，我甚至…嫁了个中国男人来取悦她 [ Waverly Narrating ] l mean, l even married a Chinese guy to please her.
他很不错，给了她一个孙女 He was gorgeous. He gave her a granddaughter.
但她满意了吗 But was she satisfied?
当我们离婚时，她沮丧的恍若全是我的错 When we got divorced, she got all upset like it was my fault.
我有东西给你看，在楼上… I just want to show you something. It's upstairs.
当我终于又开始约会 [ Waverly Narrating ] And when l finally started dating again,
我试着暗示她有关理查的事 when I tried to hint to her about Rich,
我们已经同居了 that we were living together...
她怎可能没察觉 How could she not notice?
即使她作无言的抗议也没用了 This was not going to go away, even with her silent treatment.
这就是我要给你看的东西 This is what I wanted to show you.
你知道理查？我常提的那人 You know Rich, the guy I told you about?
是他买的，但天气不够冷 I don't know why he got it for me. It's really never cold enough to wear.
你要试试吗 You wanna try it?
[ Groaning ]
这质料不是很好 This not so good.
全是用剩皮毛拼凑的 Only leftover strips.
毛太短 See? Fur too short.
没有长的毛 No long hairs.
你怎么这么挑剔一件礼物 How can you criticize a gift?
是他诚心送我的 He gave this to me with all his heart.
这就是我说不是很好的原因 That's why I told you. Not so good.
这次我再也不饶她了 [ Waverly Narrating ] l wasn't gonna let her get away with it this time,
令我觉得理查上不了台面 making me feel bad about Rich,
我爱的男人，一个视我如珍宝的男人 the love of my life who treated me like l was perfect.
你没有别的话要说吗 Well, aren't you gonna say anything else?
我该说什么 What I should say?
有关这公寓，和这些 About the apartment, about this!
或是这些 And this!
或是这些 Or this!
所有这些 All of this!
我们回来了，人都到哪去了 We're here! Where is everybody?
隔周，我带理查出席妈的生日 The next week, l brought Rich to Mom's birthday dinner,
给她惊喜 sort of a surprise present.
逼她面对理查 l figured she was going to have to accept Rich, like it or not.
理查，这是我父亲 -Uh, Rich, this is my father. -How're ya doin'?
-生日快乐，妈 -你好 -Happy birthday, Mom. -How are you?
妈，这是理查 -I'm good, thank you. -And, Ma, this is Rich.
幸会 [ Rich ] Great to meet you.
味道好香 Boy, something smells wonderful.
我就知道我们找对地方了 I guess we came to the right place, huh?
给你 Here you are.
薇莉一直说你是烹饪好手 You know, Waverly has been telling me that you are the best cook.
我想我们赢得她的赞同了 I think maybe we got her.
他脸上好多雀斑 So many spots on his face.
当然，现在还言之过早 [ Waverly Narrating ] Ofcourse, the night was still young.
幸好我有替理查恶补中国礼仪 Thank God I already prepped him on the Emily Post of Chinese manners.
How are you?
我敬你一杯酒 [ Man Speaking Chinese ]
但有些事我还是忘了提醒 Actually, there were a few things l forgot to mention.
我敬各位一杯 [ Rich ] Let me make a toast.
他不该喝第二杯 He shouldn't have had that second glass
其他人都只是浅尝一二口 when everyone else had had only half an inch just for taste.
虾子，我的最爱 Shrimp. My favorite.
他应该先取少许 He should have taken only a small spoonful of the best dish
等大家都拿了才能多拿 until everyone had had a helping.
他的胃口奇佳 He has good appetite.
他不该吹嘘他领悟力快 He shouldn't have bragged he was a fast learner.
最糟的是 But the worst
理查批评我妈的料理 was when Rich criticized my mother's cooking,
却不知自己做了什么 and he didn't even know what he had done.
基于中国烹饪习惯 As is the Chinese cook's custom,
我妈常贬低自己的料理 my mother always insults her own cooking,
尤其是在她端出拿手菜时 but only with the dishes she serves with special pride.
这菜不够咸 This dish not salty enough.
没味道，不好吃 No flavor. It's too bad to eat.
请包涵 But please.
Oh! Uh.
我们得顺意吃一点 That was our cue to eat some
然后直呼从未吃过这么好吃的 and proclaim it the best she'd ever made.
这菜只要再加点酱油就行了 You know, Lindo,
all this needs is a little soy sauce.
[ Gasping ] Oh!
你妈对婚礼的事怎么说 So, how'd your mom react when you told her about the wedding?
我没和她提 It never came up.
怎么可能 How come?
她宁可得直肠癌 She'd rather get rectal cancer.
Oh.
稍微烫一下 Ma! Soft wave for body?
你觉得如何 What do you think?
她不想剪太短或烫太卷 Look, she doesn't want it too short.
Otherwise it'll be too tight for the wedding.
也不要太怪异或毛毛的 And we don't want it looking too weird or kinky.
对吧，妈？不要太卷 [ Shouting ] Isn't that right, Ma? Not too kinky?
为什么我女儿认为 [ Lindo Thinking ] Why does my daughter
她得替我翻译 think she's translating English for me?
或许我不去了 Maybe I don't go.
-什么？ -或许我不去参加你的婚礼 -What do you mean? -Maybe I don't go to your wedding.
-别荒谬了 -或许我已经够荒谬 -Oh, don't be ridiculous. -Maybe already ridiculous.
发型这么怪异有失亲家颜面 Hair too ridiculous for future husband's family.
我知道她望着我 [ Narrating ] l could see her face looking at me,
但却没在看我 but not seeing me.
她很羞愧 She was ashamed,
羞愧她是我的女儿 so ashamed to be my daughter.
妈 Ma?
-怎么回事 -没什么 -What's wrong? -Nothing.
[ Sniffling ]
没什么，我… Nothing. I...
我只是 I only thinking, thinking
想到我母亲 about my mother,
我很渴盼自己能像她 how much I wanted to be like her.
你的母亲 Your mother?
她告诉我 She told me
她对我的期许 all the hopes she had for me,
我永远谨记在心 words l would never forget.
你会比我有福气 You're so lucky.
耳朵长得和我的不一样 You don't have ears like mine.
可是听人家说话要小心 You'll have a better life!
自己要有主见 But listen carefully to what is calling.
我跟你说的这些 Can you feel in your heart...
你都往心里去了吗？ what I am saying?
都能真正记住不忘吗？ Will you always keep it there?
你要知道 You know...
过了明天 after today...
我可再也没有机会 I will never...
和你说这些了 give you any more advice.
在我记忆中… [ Lindo ] ln my memory, my...
我母亲对我很重要 My mother's very important to me,
一如她那番话 just like her words.
懂得惜福 Easy to appreciate [ Sniffles ] memory.
妈 Ma?
你为何不喜欢理查 Why don't you like Rich?
你怕我不喜欢他吗 Is Rich you afraid I not like?
若我不喜欢理查，我会客气 If I don't like your Rich,
一言不发 I act polite, say nothing,
诅咒他得癌症 let him have big cancer,
让我的女儿当寡妇 let my daughter be a widow.
我当然喜欢理查 I like Rich. Of course I do.
准他娶这样的女儿 To allow him to marry such a daughter.
你不了解 You don't know...
你对我的影响力 [ Crying ] You don't know the power you have over me.
你的一句话，一个眼神… One word from you, one look,
我又回到四岁，哭着入睡 and I'm four years old again, crying myself to sleep.
因为我无论做什么 Because nothing I do
都得不到你的欢心 could ever, ever please you.
[ Sniffling ]
现在 Now...
你令我很快乐 Now you make me happy.
你瞧，妈，莺阿姨 Look, look, look, look, Ma, Ma, Auntie Ying, Auntie Ying.
我做到了 -I did it. -Rich!
Where'd it go? Did it go inside? Oh, come on.
老天，我真受不了你 [ Waverly ] God, I can't take you anywhere.
李娜，你要吃吗 -谢谢你 -Lena, do you wanna eat? -Thank you.
这儿有叉子 -Oh, here's a fork. -Okay.
-Ta-la! -[ All ] Ohh!
好漂亮 Wow! That's beautiful, huh?
Oh, oh.
谢谢，好了，好了
怎么了？贵客应该多吃点 -What's the matter, guest of honor? -Yeah!
多吃点，多吃点，你太瘦了 Should eat more! Should eat more! Too skinny!
你说过我长胖了 I thought you said I was getting fat.
是安美说的，你为何老搞混 Auntie An Mei said that. Why you always confusing us?
你瞧 Oh, look.
君要去中国好开心 June's so happy, going to China,
终于要姐妹重逢了 see her sisters at last.
是蒸的 Only steamed.
吃不胖的 Can't get you fat.
谢谢 [ June ] Xie xie.
苏真是太惨了 How terrible for Suyuan.
失去自己的孩子 To lose your babies,
不知是生抑死 never know if they are alive or dead.
只有一件事比这更惨 [ Ying Ying Narrating ] Only one thing's worse.
[ Girls Giggling ]
当时我才16岁 l was only 16.
[ Chinese ]
不要瞧他 Stop looking!
[ Guffawing ]
[ Girls Giggling ]
莺莺 Ying Ying.
[ Men Laughing, Speaking In Chinese ]
[ Men Laughing ]
开瓜！ Open the watermelon!
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
狗屁 Dog fart!
-[ Girls Giggling ] -[ Men Laughing ]
[ Woman Singing In Chinese ]
Ah, Lin Xiao...
[ Chinese ]
Lin Xiao.
[ Woman Singing In Chinese ]
[ Song Fades ]
[ Heavy Breathing ]
之后，一切就像作梦一样 [ Ying Ying Narrating ] After that, everything like this dream.
我们的婚礼 Our wedding,
我们的儿子 our son.
[ Microphone Feedback ]
尊敬的先生们女士们 Honored guests!
谢谢你们的光临 Thank you for coming.
现在我请著名的白燕小姐 I have persuaded the famous diva, Miss Bai Yen,
[ Ying Ying ] There he was
为我的儿子唱一首歌 to sing in honor of my son.
他和他唱大戏的女人 with his opera singer.
这不是他第一次有女人 This was not his first conquest.
但我第一次准许自己在意 Only the first l permitted myself to recognize.
那时，我了解到嫁了什么男人 By then l knew what kind of man I had married.
以虐人为乐 Happiest when he was cruel.
[ Baby Crying ]
[ Crying ]
[ Baby Crying ]
我来，我来 Let me have him.
[ Crying Continues ]
他变得健忘 He became forgetful.
放着那别动 Don't touch it!
常常隔天早上才回家 So forgetful he had not returned by the next morning.
或是隔天晚上 Or the next evening.
[ Keys Rattling ]
[ Baby Crying ]
她是谁呀 Who's this?
这个人是个妓女 This person is a whore.
和你一样 Just like you.
[ Crying Continues ]
[ Lin Xiao Laughing ]
[ Crying Continues ]
我的儿子，我的儿子 My son!
听他的声音 Listen to that voice!
和我一样响亮有力 Strong...like his father!
瞧你这样子 Look at you!
看了叫人恶心 Disgusting!You make me sick!
一副贱相
[ Crying Continues ]
把这些收拾掉 Clean up this mess!
你听见了吗？ You hear me?
[ Crying Stops ]
[ Door Slams ]
[ Sobbing ]
这一刻我的人生整个改变了 My whole life turned in this moment.
若我是离开他或杀了他 If I had Ieft him or kiIIed him,
我不会失去生命中最重要的 I would not have lost the one thing that mattered.
[ Water Rippling ]
[ Baby Cooing ]
[ Cooing ]
我心中只有一个念头 My mind kept repeating a single thought.
他夺走了我的无邪 He had taken from me my innocence,
青春和心 my youth, my heart,
以及所有一切 everything.
[ Water Splashing ]
[ Splashing Continues ]
我也要夺走我唯一能夺走的 So I took from him the only thing l could.
[ Screaming ]
[ Sobbing ]
我孩子轻盈地躺在怀中 My baby was so light in my arms,
因为他的魂魄已然远去 because his little spirit had flown away.
我的魂魄也随它走了 And with his, my spirit had also gone.
数年后，我移居美国 Years Iater, I moved to America.
但中国的一切永远跟着我 But what I had done in China was always with me.
不久我再婚 In time, I remarried
有了女儿 and l had a daughter.
但李娜没有魂 But Lena had no spirit,
因为我没有好给她的了 because l had none to give her.
妈咪？妈咪 Mommy?
你饿了吗？ Are you hungry yet?
妈咪 Mom?
妈咪？请回答我 Mommy, please answer me.
妈咪… Mommy? Oh, Mom!
在我成长过程中 [ Lena Narrating ] As l was growing up
好几次母亲陷入极度沮丧 there were times when Mom went through these bad spells.
她看来惊惶、悲哀 She often seemed scared and sad.
但她从未谈过这事 But she would never talk about it
只提过她在中国嫁过坏男人 except to say that she had been married to a bad man in China.
这几年，妈的状况好多了 Over the years, Mom got better,
虽然她似乎开始为我耽忧 although it seemed like all her fears turned into worries about me.
所以当我结婚，她来作客 So now that I'm married and she's visiting our new house,
我希望她能为我高兴 l hope she can finally be happy for me.
放心，一切都很好 Don't worry. Everything's fine.
他对我很好 He's very nice to me.
很好，很好 Nice. Nice.
非常好 Very nice.
妈 Oh, Mom?
-这是什么？ -你何不去客厅坐坐？ -What's this? -Why don't you rest in the living room?
我煮点茶 I'll make you some tea, okay?
我有菊花茶 I've got some chrysanthemum tea.
-这写些什么？ -没什么 -What's this writing? -Mom! It's nothing.
不过是一些我们合买的东西 You know. It's just things we share.
至少这是哈洛对它的说法 [ Lena Narrating ] At least that's what Harold calls it.
所有费用都是平均分担 Sharing. Everything 50-50.
所以我们的爱也相当 So our love is always equal.
讽刺的是，是我起意平分的 The irony is, l was the one who started it that way.
41元 $41 .
-总共吗？ -每个人 -Oh, total? -Each.
什么？你不够钱 What, you don't have enough?
不… No, it's...
只是我数学一向不好 It's just, I was never very good at math.
譬如我点沙拉他点三份大餐 [ Lena Narrating ] So what ifl had a salad and he had three courses?
我们一切平等 We were equals.
除了我在他公司上班 Except that l work in his firm and he pays himself
他领的薪水是我的七倍 seven times more than he pays me.
七倍半 Seven and a half.
去年，我们终于决定结婚 And then last year, when we finally decided to get married,
我们达成了共识：爱情，要！错误的依赖，不要！ we agreed, love, yes, false dependencies, no.
我们仍然维持旧例 With most everything, we keep track of what we spend,
平分一切费用 then split it 50-50.
我们同意个人用品除外 Of course, we agreed early on not to include personal stuff
譬如我的卫生棉、妇洁液 like my tampons and feminine hygiene spray
和他的刮胡水、足爽 and his shaving lotion and foot powder.
甜心，就没有普通猫食吗 Honey, isn't there a generic brand of cat food?
猫儿怎分辨得出好坏？老天，一共是34.76 I mean, do they know the difference? For crying out loud, $34.76.
但我们仍有吵不完的灰色地带 [ Lena Narrating ] But we still have these philosophical arguments about the gray areas.
譬如我订的杂志他也看 Like magazines l subscribe to, which he reads,
但却强调不过随手翻翻 but only because they're there.
还有那只猫 And the cat!
[ Meowing ]
甚至那该死的猫跳蚤 Even the goddamn cat's fleas.
它是你送我的生日礼物 You gave her to me as a birthday gift.
你现在却要我付钱替它除蚤 And now you want me to pay to get rid of her fleas?
[ Tea Kettle Whistling ]
[ Whistling ]
[ Whistling Grows Louder ]
[ Whistling Stops ]
冰淇淋，你没出钱吧 [ Ying Ying ] Ice cream you don't share.
你不吃冰淇淋的 You don't eat ice cream.
自从上回 Ever since that time you got sick
你厌烦草莓和巧克力口味起 on strawberry and chocolate flavor together.
我记得的 I remember.
现在你替他出一半的钱 Now you must pay for half of his ice cream?
为何要这么做 Why do you do this?
李娜 Lena?
[ Harold Sighing ]
Hmm.
你买木炭就得买点火石 Lena, when you buy charcoal, you have to buy lighter fluid.
你不知道吗？每次都得提醒 Don't you know that yet? Do I have to remind you every time?
李娜不吃冰淇淋 Lena cannot eat ice cream.
什么？ What?
我们在说什么 What are we talking about?
是真的 It's true.
我一直痛恨冰淇淋 I've hated ice cream all my life.
从来不碰的 I don't touch the stuff.
我以为你是在节食 Well, I assumed you were always trying to diet or something.
是呀，她瘦了这么多，你却看不出 Oh, yes, she's lost so much weight you can't see her anymore.
[ Chuckles ] Hmm.
花了百万，墙仍没砌正 One million dollars, and the walls are still crooked.
真是背 It's bad luck.
哈洛认为这样效果好 Harold wanted to keep it that way for the effect.
效果？这里就像棺材一样 For effect? A person has to lie here thinking she's in a coffin?
Oh!
小心点，它不是很稳 Careful. It's not too sturdy.
哈洛在大学时代做的 Harold made it back in college.
你为何留着它 Why do you keep it?
再放一样东西，整个就垮了 You put one more thing on top and everything falls down.
你还需要什么吗 Do you need anything else?
不用了 -No. -Okay.
不用了 No, nothing.
[ Door Closes ]
[ Man On TV ] Competition.
真是个笨蛋 -[ Man #2 On TV ] What is a drag race? -What an idiot!
是“赛舟会”，而不是赛车 Regatta, not drag race!
胡说八道 I don't believe this guy.
好冷 It's cold.
你说什么 Excuse me?
请你关窗好吗？好冷 I said, would you close the window, please? It's cold.
[ Sighing ]
[ Window Closes ]
[ TV Volume Increases ] That's right for 1,000.
Takes you to an even 6,000.
[ Bell Chiming On TV ] There's the bell for "Final Jeopardy." You have 30 sec...
甜心，走开。怎么回事？ Honey, move. What's going on?
你不能再把冰淇淋列在上头 I don't think you should get credit for your ice cream anymore.
好 [ Sighing ] Fine.
我同意，讨论到此结束 You got it. End of discussion.
你为何得这么斤斤计较 Why do you have to be so goddamn fair?
[ TV Off ]
你到底想说什么 Just what is this about exactly?
我不知道，或许是这一切 I don't know. Maybe everything.
我们什么都计算得清清楚楚 The way we account for everything.
哪些要算，哪些不要算，我受不了 What we share, what we don't share. I'm sick of it.
加加减减，即使不公平，也要二者平分 Adding things up, subtracting. Making it come out even when it's not.
我受不了 I'm sick of it.
想养猫的人是你 You're the one who wanted the cat!
你说什么 What are you talking about?
好，若你认为我不公平，除蚤钱平分好了 All right. If you think I'm being unfair, we'll both pay for the fleas.
不是除蚤的事，这不是重点 This is not about fleas. That is not the point.
那你告诉我呀 Then, please, tell me.
什么才是重点 What is the point?
我想我们得改变一下 I... I just think that we need to change things.
想想这场婚姻是基于什么 We need to think about what this marriage is based on.
不是这张单子 Not this balance sheet.
我知道基于什么 Well, I know what our marriage is based upon.
若你不知道，你最好在改变前先想清楚 And if you don't, then you better think about it before you start to change things.
这房子周围处处是讯号 [ Ying Ying Narrating ] All around this house, l see the signs.
我女儿瞧见了却不了解 My daughter looks, but she does not see.
这是栋会分崩离析的房子 This is a house that will break into pieces.
一副贱相 [ Chinese ]
[ Crashing ]
妈 Mom?
还不太迟 It's not too late.
我的所有苦楚、悔恨 All my pains, my regrets,
我会把它们汇集起来 l will gather them together.
[ Cooing ]
我女儿会听见我的呼唤 My daughter will hear me calling,
即使我一言不发 even though l've said no words.
她会爬上楼来找我 -She will climb the stairs to find me. -Mom?
她会很恐惧 She wiII be scared, because at first
因为眼前一片漆黑 her eyes will see nothing.
但她内心将会察觉 -She will feel in her heart... -Mom?
她的恐惧藏匿何处 ...this place where she hides her fears.
她会知道… She will know I am waiting
我像守株待兔的老虎 like a tiger in the trees
准备好释放她的灵魂 now ready to leap out and cut her spirit loose.
[ Crying ]
你知道自己想要什么 Do you know what you want?
我是说从他身上 I mean, from him.
尊敬 Respect.
温柔 Tenderness.
那么去告诉他 Then tell him now.
离开这倾斜的房子 And leave this lopsided house.
除非他给你这些，否则别回来 Do not come back until he will give you those things.
诚心地去要 With both hands open.
我不能 I can't.
失去他没什么大不了 Losing him does not matter.
而你会被爱 It is you who will be found
被珍惜 and cherished.
我妈瞧见镜子摆在床脚 So my mom sees this mirror at the foot of our bed.
她说“镜子摆这会带来霉运” She says, "Ai-ya, a mirror there is bad luck.
“爱情会消逝无踪” "All the romance will hit the mirror, poom, go back the opposite direction."
-你怎么办 -搬开它 -[ Waverly ] So what'd you do? -We moved it.
把那东西安在天花板 [ Rich ] Yeah, put that baby right on the ceiling.
薇莉最喜欢了 -Waverly loved it. -[ Woman ] So I've heard.
这家伙肯为我妈做任何事，他们是同国的 This guy will do anything for her. But they're allies.
他太超过了，今晚… But now it's getting out of hand, because after the party,
我们要去坦荷湖，他也邀她去 we're going to Lake Tahoe, and he actually asked her to come with us.
她会玩得很高兴 -[ Woman ] Okay! -She'd have a great time!
我宁可是我 Choosing between the two of us, I'd rather I had the great time.
-你也会玩得很高兴 -别急，牛仔 -You'll have a good time. -Easy, cowboy.
留点肚子吃点心 Ah, ah, ah, save some room for dessert.
我妈的蛋糕快好了 My mom's cake is coming out,
每人至少要吃二块 and I'm counting on you guys for two slices apiece.
她可以吃五块 十块 -[ Ken ] She'll eat five. -[ Lena ] Ten.
我得用筷子吃吗？那很花时间 [ Rich ] Do I have to use chopsticks? Because it could take a while.
[ Laughing ]
珍妮佛呢 Where's Jennifer?
她君阿姨带她去睡午觉了 Her Auntie June is putting her down for a nap.
我去看看她 I'll go check on her.
现在妇人老了 [ June ] And now the woman was old.
有个只说英文 And she had a daughter who grew up speaking
吞可乐而不吞苦楚的女儿 only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow.
-什么是苦楚？ -悲哀 -What's "sorrow"? -Sadness.
长久以来，妇人一直 [ June ] For a long time now, the woman wanted to give her daughter
想把天鹅羽毛给她女儿，告诉她 the single swan feather and tell her...
是真的天鹅？真有天鹅吗 Is the swan real? Is there really a swan?
我不知道，这是我妈的故事 I don't know, baby. It's my mama's story.
我们无法问她，她已经过世了 And we can't ask her, 'cause she's dead.
妇人会告诉她女儿 And the woman would tell her daughter,
“这羽毛虽不值钱” "This feather may look worthless,
“却是来自遥远的国度，载负着我的期盼” "but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions."
-什么是“期盼” -期盼是 -What's "intentions"? -Oh, a good intention means
你母亲对你的希望 -everything your mommy wants for you. -Oh.
就像吹熄你生日蛋糕的蜡烛 Like blowing out candles on your birthday cake.
喜欢吗 好漂亮 -Like it? -It's great.
君要到中国太好了 It's gonna be great for June.
那双胞胎现在在中国 I bet the twins are in China right now,
一定很渴盼见到她们的美国小妹 dreaming about their little American sister.
是的，但她们更想见到母亲 Yes, but their mother,
她们等待多年的母亲 that's who they waited for all these years.
她们一定会很伤心 -她们已经知道了 -They will be so sad. -They already know.
林多阿姨写信告诉她们了 Auntie Lindo wrote them.
小时候，我每天都在想 [ An Mei Narrating ] As a little girl, l wondered every day.
更糟的是,我得偷偷地想 Worst of all, I had to wonder in secret.
记忆中没有母亲的身影 l had no memory of my mother,
在我四岁时她被逐出家门 because she was kicked out of the house when l was four years old.
这个鬼是谁啊 [ Woman Shouting In Chinese ]
安美，快跟妈咪一起走 An Mei.
[ Chinese ]
我不承认你是我女儿 You are not my daughter.
安美跟了你就会跟你一样 [ Shouting Continues ]
你若是对可怜的妈，还有一点尊敬的话 If you have any self-respect,
你就去死吧 you should kill yourself.
你不要以为吴清有钱,就能买回你的脸 [ Banging, Shouting ]
你丈夫的坟土未干 [ Man Speaking ]Your husband just died,
你就做了别人的媳妇 and you've become another man's concubine.
照我说她就应该 从我们家的家谱拿掉
你给我听着… 安美！
[ Baby An Mei Screaming ]
热汤烙下的伤疤 The scar from the soup
是我对母亲唯一的记忆 was all l had left of my mother.
我外婆和舅舅阿姨们 My grandmother, my uncle and my aunties,
教我要恨她 they taught me to hate her.
他们责骂她违背守寡誓言 They accused her of breaking her vow as a widow
改嫁富人 and running away to marry a rich man,
他已有一妻二妾，子女无数 who already had a wife, two concubines and other children.
有一天,在我外婆即将临终时… Then one day, as my grandmother was lying in her deathbed,
你看
这个不要脸的女人回来了 [ Woman Shouting In Chinese ]
哎呀，你怎么回来了
真是卑鄙无耻 [ Shouting Continues ]
连鬼见了你都要啐你一口
[ Shouting In Chinese ]
你背叛了我们祖宗
你要是有点廉耻就别来搅和 If you have any dignity, leave right away.
让妈平平静静地归天 Let your mother go to heaven in peace.
妈已经不认你这个女儿了 You are no longer her daughter.
我瞧见自己的脸看着我 l saw my own face looking back at me.
这是一项旧习俗 It was an old tradition.
只有至亲的女儿 Only the most dutiful of daughters would put her own flesh in a soup...
才能剜肉煮汤救母命 -[ An Mei's Mother ] Ma. -...to save her mother's life.
我妈是出于志愿 My mother did this with her whoIe heart,
即使我外婆根本不承认她 even though my grandmother had disowned her.
这是女儿还报母恩的方式 This is how a daughter honors her mother.
Ma.
肉体上的苦楚算什么 The pain of the flesh is nothing.
你得忘却它 The pain you must forget.
这是一项女儿能为母亲 This is the most important sacrifice
所做的重大牺牲 a daughter can make for her mother.
妈，你别走！妈，你别走！ Mama, don't leave.
安美，妈走了 An Mei, Mama's leaving.
记住在家好好听舅舅舅妈的话 Respect your uncle and your aunties.
要乖哦 Remember, be obedient!
别把妈给忘了 Don't forget your mama.
你要把孩子领走 If you take this child away,
那她就会跟你一样 she will become like you.
没脸见人 Never able to face anyone.
[ Aunt Speaking ]
也就永远抬不起头来了 Never able to lift her head.
我曾失去她一次 [ An Mei Narrating ] I lost her once before.
这次，我再也不能错过了 This time l took my chance before it was too late.
妈… Ma! Ma!
她会毁在你手上 You are going to ruin her whole life!
[ Shouting In Chinese ]
安美，你要留下来呀
妈？妈？咱们走吧 [ Rose ] Mom? Mom? Let's go.
珍妮佛，把汤给妈，别洒出来 Jennifer, give the soup to Mommy. I'm afraid you'll spill it.
拿过来 There you go.
乖 Good girl.
泰德会来吃晚餐吗 Ted coming to dinner?
为何问这个 Why do you ask that?
你带了面粉、蛋、巧克力棒 You bought flour, egg, bittersweet Hershey bar.
花生奶油 Skippy Chunky.
只能做巧克力花生奶油派，还有谁要吃这个 Good for only chocolate peanut butter pie. Who else eat?
不是吃晚餐 Well, it's not a dinner exactly.
只不过是来商议一下 Just sort of a meeting at the house tonight.
-商议？ -我们俩觉得是时候 -Meeting? -Yeah, well, we both thought it was time
是该把财产分清楚了 to settle all the property stuff.
-你们俩的决定 -是的，那当然 -Both? -Yeah, both. Absolutely.
你想要多少 What you going to ask for?
[ Sighing ]
你在说什么 What are you talking about?
说你值多少 Talking about what you're worth.
那天他在校园自我介绍 [ Rose Narrating ] That first afternoon he introduced himself on campus,
想向我借笔记 he asked to borrow my notes.
我假装不知道他是谁 l pretended l didn't know who he was.
真好吃 This is so good. It is.
People look at the newspaper, and they see the articles...
我不知道为何说这些 I don't know why I'm saying this.
在你找我之前我早知你是谁 I knew who you were when you came up to me.
我望你看了好几周，你是许多女孩的白马王子 I've watched you for weeks, like all the girls watch you,
当你走向我时，我受宠若惊 and I was excited and flattered when you came on to me.
所以我烤了个派…和你吃晚餐 So I baked you this pie and we had dinner.
只是我不知你的为人 Only I don't know who you are.
我知道你的家世背景 I know who your family is and what they do.
我很怀疑我能适应 Suddenly, I'm starting to wonder whether I belong in this conversation.
我不喜欢那感觉 I don't like feeling that way.
Well.
Oh.
我喜欢你说的话 I love you said that.
我无意标榜自己很清高 I didn't say it to impress you.
但你做到了 That's why it did.
他父亲是出版界巨子 His dad owned a publishing empire.
他母亲家拥有许多酿酒厂 His mom's family had wineries.
我从未置身这种环境 l'd never been around people like this.
爸、妈 -Dad. Mom. -Hi.
这位是罗丝.苏，我的女友 This is Rose Hsu, my girlfriend.
这句话令我震惊无比 [ Rose Narrating ] The one word sent me into total shock,
久久无法自拔 from which, I'm afraid, l've never quite recovered.
-Hello. Hi. -[ Dad ] Hello.
你在沉思吗？不会打扰你吧 Is this a private reverie or can an old lady join you?
没问题 Sure.
你和泰德才认识不久吧 You and Ted haven't known each other long, have you?
是的 Actually, no.
我到今早才听到他提起你 I've never heard him speak of you until this morning.
他话语中的喜悦令我惊讶 But it's always a thrill for a mother to hear that sort of excitement in her son's voice.
希望你不会误会我要说的话 So I hope you won't misunderstand what I have to say.
我们是个门风自由的家族 I want you to know, Rose, that we're a very liberal family.
我无法置信她所说的话 [ Rose Narrating ] l couldn't believe what she was telling me.
就像“苏茜黄的世界”的翻版 lt was straight out of some awful racist movie, like The World of Suzie Wong.
泰德将来得协助他父亲 [ Ted's Mother ] Ted is going to be working with his father in the company.
他得面对不同阶层的人 He's going to be judged by people of a different standard.
出版商、作家和评论家 Publishers, authors, critics and their wives.
他们不会和我们一样谅解人 They won't be as understanding as we are.
佐丹太太，我们还没要结婚 Mrs. Jordan, you sound as if Ted and I are getting married.
八字都还没一撇 That's hardly the case.
我知道，这世界就是这样 Oh, I know, dear, it's just that, well, the way the world is.
越南人十分不受欢迎… How unpopular Vietnam was.
我不是越南人，我是美国人 I'm not Vietnamese. I'm American.
你当然是，只是… Of course you are. It's just...
我了解你…这就是我要说的 I understand you. That's all I'm trying to say.
你了解吗 妈 -Do you understand? -[ Ted ] Mom?
嗨，亲爱的 Hello, darling.
-我们在聊天 -We're having a wonderful visit. -"Hello, darling"?
我只知道你是个混蛋 You know, I always knew you were a jerk.
但今天第一次我以你为耻 But, shit, this is the first time in my life I am ashamed of you.
你怎敢对我说这种话 How dare you use that language.
你最好现在就道歉 I think you better apologize right now.
对不起，妈，你太丢人了 I'm sorry, Mom, you made a fuckin' asshole out of yourself
当着我女友的面 in front of the woman I love.
我们走吧 We're outta here.
我不难过他母亲的言行 [ Rose Narrating ] l wasn't sorry what his mother did.
不然我怎会知道 How eIse would I have known, if he hadn't rescued me,
他的为人 how wonderful he was?
还有他爱我 That he loved me.
六个月后，我们结婚了 In six months, we were married.
婚礼过后，恐惧逐渐浮现 After the wedding, the fears began to sink in, take hold.
我成为他家族的一份子 Everything l had married into.
无形的压力与日遽增 The pressure, the weight of it.
我向自己承诺我能克服它 l promised myself that l could handle it.
没有什么能改变我 That nothing, nothing could ever change me.
或是我们 Or us.
韦恩，能把这切小一点吗 [ Rose ] Wayne, could you chop this up into smaller slices?
上一次的太大块了，谢谢 Last time they were way too big. Thanks.
还有魔鬼蛋上加点蕃茄 Also, could you dress the deviled eggs with tomatoes...
起初我只做些服侍丈夫的小事 [ Rose Narrating ] At first, it was just a bunch of little things,
在他的背后默默帮他 loving things a wife would do behind the scenes without him even knowing.
譬如替他付帐单 You know, like paying the househoId biIIs,
送点代表爱意的礼物给他 buying him special gifts that showed my love.
还是有点太咸 It's still too salty.
最棒的是他从不用开口要求 The beautiful part was, he never had to ask for any of this.
或甚至视为理所当然 In fact, he never even knew.
我告诉自己这是为爱奉献 l told myself that was the selfless way, the loving way,
而不是怯懦 instead of the chickenshit way.
我获得爱达荷大学的奖学金 l was offered a fellowship in fine arts to this school I admired in Idaho.
当然，我不可能接受 Of course, that was out of the question.
有趣的是我从未问过自己 The interesting part was, l never asked the question,
是否应该接受 not even of myself.
[ Ted ] I really don't understand.
他现在掌管二种杂志 [ Rose Narrating ] He was running two of his family's magazines now.
一周有4到5次的应酬 There were four or five business affairs each week.
我很高兴能帮忙，他也很感激 l was glad to help and knew he appreciated it.
我真搞不懂… -I just don't understand that at all. -[ Liquid Splashing ]
I don't... I really don't.
我真搞不懂
-[ Ted ] If you can explain to me... -[ Woman ] Because...
我发现泰德愈来愈无聊 [ Rose Narrating ] And, over time, I could see that Ted was becoming bored.
俩人愈来愈没话说 We said less and less.
我更是努力 So I tried harder.
我怀孕了，想藉此保住婚姻 l got pregnant for the worst reason imaginable, a last attempt to hang on.
但当时我并没意识到这点 Of course, I never thought of it that way at the time.
幸好，他很钟爱女儿 -[ Baby Crying ] -The good news was, he adored her.
甜心？我们今晚要出去吃吗 Honey, should we eat in or out tonight?
你决定 -You decide. -Well,
若在家里吃的话有羊排 if we eat in, I've got lamb chops.
-或是打电话要外送 -随便你 -Or I could call Ernie's or Square One. -Whatever you want.
都好 Really, it'll be great.
好，我无意打扰你工作 Okay. I didn't mean to interrupt your work.
-我会作决定的 -你没有打扰我 -I'll figure something out. -You're not interrupting me.
我是说真的，想听听你的意见 Really, I meant what I said. I want to hear what you want.
我可以烤只鸡取代羊排 'Cause I could defrost a chicken if the lamb chops are too heavy.
你今天辛苦了，我无所谓 You've had a hard day. I don't really care.
我只是想要你… I just want you to
快乐 [ Sighs ] be happy.
甜心，怎么了 Honey, what's wrong?
我说错什么了 Did I say something wrong?
我想… It's just that once in a while,
我喜欢听你说自己的意见 I would like to hear what you want.
-什么意思 -我喜欢听你的声音 -What do you mean? -I mean, I'd like to hear your voice.
即使我们意见相左 Even if we disagree.
-你以前不是这样子的 -不是？ -You used to be different. -Different?
你一向很有意见，我们常争吵 You used to have an opinion. We used to argue.
你想要这样？想吵架？ That's what you want? You want us to argue?
我要你在这里 I want you to be here.
甜心，我在你身边，你只须… Honey, I'm here. I'm here for you. You just have to...
[ Sighs ]
告诉我你要什么 Just tell me what you want.
我去弄鸡 I told you, I'll do the chicken.
你快乐吗 Are you happy?
[ Sighs ]
我当然快乐 Of course I am.
[ Thunder Rumbling ]
她叫什么名字 What's her name?
她漂亮吗 Is she beautiful?
我们得卖了这房子 Look. I think that we have to sell the house.
你有什么需求尽管告诉我 But anything that you want, any special things that you need, you let me know.
-她叫什么鬼名字 -I mean, any cash, call Barry and he... -What's her fucking name?
这重要吗 What's the difference?
她不是导火线 She's not the reason.
他吃剩下的怎么办 What you going to do with leftovers after he eat one slice?
大概是扔掉吧 Throw it away, I guess.
你问自己为何要做这个派 You ask yourself why you make this?
你若不知道，我知道 Because I know, even if you don't.
妈，我喜欢自怜自哀 I like being tragic, Ma.
这是向你学的 I learned it from you.
你以为他看到这个派 You think he sees this pie,
会遗憾自己不珍惜你 now he's so sorry take you for granted.
你这么想…你就太傻了 You think this, you the foolish one.
你每次给他礼物都像在求他 Every time you give him gift, like begging.
“请收下这个，对不起” "Take this. Oh, sorry.
“请原谅我” "Please forgive me.
“我不如你重要” "I'm not worth as much as you."
他只会更视你为理所当然 So he only take you more for granted.
你就像我母亲 You're just like my mother.
从不懂自己的价值 Never know what you're worth.
直到无法挽回 Until too late.
[ Dogs Barking ]
[ Chinese ]
当我和我妈一起生活 [ An Mei Narrating ] When l went to live with my mother,
享受到前所未有的快乐娇宠 l thought l had become so happy, so important.
之后我的新家人从乡下回来 Then my new family returned from the countryside.
吴清，他的妻妾和孩子们 Wu Tsing, his other wives and children.
我不知自己在这家是何地位 Now l wondered what my place in this family would be.
大太太是个魔鬼般的妇人 First Wife was a ghost of a woman.
对她女儿们的过错视若无睹 She blinded herself to the faults of her daughters.
三太太未给老爷生下半子 Third Wife never gave Wu Tsing a son
常常恐惧自己会被踢出门 and lived in fear she'd be kicked out.
但她还是略胜我妈一筹 But even she outranked my mother,
她不过是四姨太 who was only Fourth Wife,
新入门的 the newest one.
最后是二太太 And finally, Second Wife,
家中真正的女主人 the empress of the household,
拥有吴清的独子 with Wu Tsing's only son.
我观察我妈注视这孩子的眼神 l watched how my mother looked at this boy.
十分奇怪 And l wondered why.
汽车坐久了，他的胃不舒服
[ Chinese ]
来，来吧…
你倒已经回来了 So you've come back already.
这就是你的女儿 This is the daughter you wanted permission to bring?
是的，她叫安美 Yes. Her name is An Mei.
把这个戴上 Put this on.
二太太,你不要把 这么贵重的东西给小孩子, Second Wife, this is too expensive...for a small child.
她不配 She is not worthy of it.
别听你妈 什么配不配 Who is she to say who is worthy?
像你这样的千金小姐 A treasure like you,
就要用珍珠来陪衬着 needs precious pearls to light up your face.
以后你就叫我大妈好了 You may call me Big Mother.
安美，听话
把珍珠项链还给二太太 Give them back. Hurry now.
安美，你要是不谢谢大妈 If you don't thank Big Mother,
我可是要生气的 you will make me very angry.
谢谢大妈 Thank you Big Mother.
安美，把珠子给妈妈 An-Mei, give me the necklace!
我知道你不愿意 I know you don't want to.
可是妈不能让你 就这么轻易给人收买了 But I will not have her buy you for such a cheap price.
这珍贵珍珠的项链 My precious pearl necklace
几乎收买我心 that had almost bought my mind and heart,
竟是玻璃做的 it was made out of glass.
你凭什么要相信我？ Why should you believe me?
我只不过是别人的四姨太 I have become nothing，A Fourth Wife!
一个下贱的东西 A low-class concubine.
可是，安美… But An-Mei,
你妈以前可不是这样的 I was not always like this.
你妈以前是个大太太 I was a First Wife.
你要记住了 Never forget that!
你是个大太太的女儿 You are a daughter of a First Wife.
老爷，这可不行 You can't!
我女儿在 My daughter is with me.
让她走，要不就让她看着 Then send her away. Or let her watch!
安美，听话，去燕姐那儿睡吧 An-Mei, go to your nanny's room.
去吧 Please.
[ Fire Crackling ]
安美 An-Mei
干什么一个人躲在这 why are you here alone?
我到处找你 I've been looking for you everywhere.
是他的味道吗 Is that his smell?
那我干嘛还要到这来呢 Why did you bring me here?
是燕姐说的，她都告诉我了 Nanny told me. She told me everything.
你到西湖的寺庙去烧香 You went to West Lake Temple,
祭奠我爸爸 to make offerings in memory of my father.
在那儿，吴清看上你了 Wu Tsing saw you there.
他的二太太 Second Wife invited you over...
请你到她那儿去打麻将 to play mah jong.
那天晚上 That night,
你就沾上他的背了 Wu Tsing came to your room...
[ Robe Snapping ]
你干什么？不要… [ Gasping ]
[ Shouting In Chinese ]
不要！
我很快地把话说完 [ An Mei Narrating ] I toId her the rest so fast,
好像这样就能减低对她的伤害 as if it would hurt her less.
妈，我求求你把我留下嘛 [ Crying ]
你不要脸，你给我滚
[ Angrily Speaking In Chinese ]
妈… Ma! Ma! Ma!
没人相信她是被强暴的 No one believed she was raped.
即使是她亲妈 -Not even her own mother. -[ Sobbing ]
她一无所有，没人会收容她 She had nothing. No one would take her in.
没人会给她工作做 No one would give her work.
而她又怀了吴清的孩子 And she was carrying Wu Tsing's child.
为了孩子，她只有一个地方去 To save her baby, there was only one place she could go.
当我的小弟出生时 And when he was born, my little brother,
[ Protesting In Chinese ]
Give me back my son!
二太太竟据为己有 Second Wife claimed him as her reward.
Give me back my son!
[ Fire Crackling ]
安美 An Mei.
妈没有死 I stayed alive,
就是为了有一天能再见到你 to keep my hope of seeing you again one day.
那么这些都是真的 So it's all true!
安美，妈带你来这里,是希望给你一个新生活 An Mei. I brought you here to give you a better life.
现在我知道该怎么做了 But now...I know what I really have to do.
[ An Mei Crying ]
妈妈，你快醒醒
[ Speaking In Chinese ]
妈妈，你醒来呀，妈妈 Mama? Mama? [ Crying, Pleading In Chinese ]
妈妈，你快醒醒 Mama! Wake up!
妈妈，你醒来呀，妈妈 Hurry, wake up!
妈妈，你快醒醒… Mama! [ Crying ]
他们无动于衷 [ An Mei Narrating ] They were doing nothing,
坐视我母亲逐渐死去 only waiting for my mother to die.
二太太说我妈死于意外 Second Wife told me my mother had died by accident,
吞多了鸦片… taking too much opium.
谎话！我知道我妈是自杀 Lies! l know my mother killed herself on purpose.
她吃了裹着鸦片的甜面团 She had eaten sticky sweet dumplings,
一个接一个 one after the other, filled with opium.
在毒素侵入她体内时 When the poison broke into her body,
她耳语地对我说她宁可死去 she whispered to me that she would rather kill her own weak spirit
把魂魄给我，令我更坚强 so she could give me a stronger one.
妈… [ Crying ] Mama! Mama!
[ Man Singing In Chinese ]
妈妈，你看见了吗 Mama? Can you see?
你看见我了吗 Can you see I am no longer scared?
我已经坚强起来了 I am strong now.
分的清楚 I see clearly now...
真的和假的 what's true and what's false.
我妈挑选那一天死去 [ An Mei Narrating ] My mother chose the date of her death
赐给我对抗敌人的力量 to give me the power over her enemies.
[ Singing Continues ]
你们知道 My mother's ghost will return...
三天后是大年初一 in three days to settle scores.
我妈的鬼魂会回来算帐 That day will be the Lunar New Year.
你们不还债 All debts must be paid by then.
就给我等家破人亡吧 Or horrible tragedies will befall you.
大慈大悲的菩萨，我愿意将安美的母亲… Lord Buddha, forgive me.
那一天，吴清答应将我妈扶正 So, on that day, Wu Tsing promised to revere my mother
视她为大太太，唯一的妻子 as if she had been First Wife, his only wife.
他答应扶养我和我母亲的儿子 He promised to raise me and my mother's son as his honored children,
视为己出，百般呵护 the highest position.
你给我滚… [ Angrily Shouting In Chinese ]
你给我…滚！
那一天起 And on that day,
二太太的头发开始转白 Second Wife hair began to turn white.
妈妈！ [ Shouting ] Mama!
那一天起我学会哀嚎 And on that day, I learned to shout.
妈，有什么意义？ Mom, what does it mean?
这对我有特殊意义吗 What does it mean, Mommy?
我说这故事是因为我长于中国 I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way.
从小被教导要无欲无求 I was taught to desire nothing,
忍受他人的侮蔑 to swallow other people's misery
吞忍一切的苦楚 and to eat my own bitterness.
即使我以另一种方式教育女儿 And even though I taught my daughter the opposite,
她仍不脱自怜自哀 but still she came out the same way.
或许是因为她是我生的女儿 Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl.
一如我是我母亲生的女儿 And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl.
我们宛如上阶梯 All of us like stairs,
一步又一步，或上或下 one step after another, going up, going down,
永远重复着相同的宿命 but always going the same way.
但，不要，不能这样 But, no, this cannot be.
不懂自己的价值 This, this not knowing what you're worth.
不是自你开始的 This not begin with you.
我妈一直到临死 My mother not know her worth
才了解自己的价值 until too late.
对她而言太迟了，但对我可不迟 Too late for her, but not for me.
现在就看对你是否太迟了 Now, we will see if not too late for you, hmm?
[ Thunder Rumbling ]
罗丝！ [ Ted ] Rose, I'm...
我站在大雨中，按了好久电铃 I'm standing out in the rain, ringing the bell for 15 minutes.
你没事吧 Are you okay?
甜心 Honey?
你没事吧 Are you okay?
甜心 Honey?
滚出我的房子 Get out of my house.
你听见了，滚出去 You heard me. Get out!
甜心，是我们的房子 Honey, it's our house.
我们说好要卖掉它，这是我来的目的 We agreed to sell it. That's why I'm here.
你不能拿走我的房子 You're not taking my house.
不能带走我的女儿 You're not taking my daughter.
你不能夺走我的任何一部份 You're not taking any part of me.
因为你不知道我是谁 'Cause you don't know who I am.
我六十年前就死了 I died 60 years ago.
我吞下鸦片，毒发而亡 I ate opium, and I died
为了我女儿 for my daughter's sake.
现在就滚出去 Now get out of my house!
-我在听 -这不是你的错，一点都不是 -I'm listening. -It's not your fault. None of it.
我曾说过 I was the one who told you that
我的爱无足轻重 my love wasn't good enough,
你的爱才珍贵 that your love was worth more than mine.
全是一派胡言 I was so full of shit.
[ Chattering ]
-很好吃 -[ Sighs ] -Mmm, very good.
才不呢 No.
-能让我吃一口么？ -这块是给君的 -Can I have a bit? -It's Auntie June's piece.
-It is? -Yeah.
谢谢你 -Mmm. Thank you. -Sure.
Oh.
这真是太棒了，大家全到了 It's so wonderful, Rosie, how everybody's here.
你妈一直很引以为傲 Yeah. Your mom would've been so proud.
少了她的蟹，菜就逊色多了 No meal's ever gonna be the same without your mom's famous crab.
去年农历年 [ June Thinking ] Last Chinese New Year,
邀林多阿姨一家人前来围炉 we had Auntie Lindo's family to dinner.
我母亲最后一次做她的拿手蟹 lt was the last time my mom would ever cook her famous crab.
[ Girl ] Mmm, yummy.
老钟，一切还好吧 Old Chong, everything all right?
一切还好吧 [ Shouting ] How is everything?
不错，好极了 Oh... Excellent. Bravo.
太棒了，一流的 Best, best quality.
谢谢 [ Chuckles ] Thank you.
听见没？一流的 You see? Best quality.
这就是我妈 [ June Narrating ] That's how my mother was.
什么都要最好 Everything had to be the best.
她对我也有同样信心,认为我前途无量 She beIieved the same about me, that l could be anything.
很遗憾的 Instead
[ Sighs ]
我是她一生中最大的遗憾 l was the biggest disappointment in my mother's life.
淑娜，别再玩食物了 [ Waverly ] Shoshana, stop playing with your food.
你不再弹琴了吗 Say, didn't you play the piano once?
-也不是 -我猜也是 -No, not really. -Yeah, I could've sworn.
多年后她仍卑鄙如昔 [ June Narrating ] After all these years, she was still so sneaky.
君,你的工作如何了？ [ Lindo ] Hey, June, how your business go?
你妈说你一直很忙很忙 Your mother tell me you're busy, busy, busy.
很不错 It's going pretty good.
除了有些顾客自认是朋友 Although one of my clients seems to think
往往会占便宜不付钱 that freelance means free just because we're friends.
君,我不知道怎么对你说 Listen, June, I don't know how to tell you this.
但你写的广告案 But that stuff you wrote...
公司决定不用 Well, the firm decided it was unacceptable.
好了，好了，不要多讲了 [ Chinese ]
你说谎 You're lying.
你说过它很棒的 You... You said... You said it was terrific. You said that...
我不想伤你的自尊 I didn't want to hurt your feelings. I was trying to see
想重新改写它，但还是不行 if I could fix it somehow, but it just won't work.
所有文案都是需要精心修改的 Look. All copy needs fine-tuning.
改写是不收费的 Rewrites are free, of course.
我和你一样，希望文案是完美的 I'm just as concerned about making it perfect as you are.
君，我不认为 June, I really don't think...
告诉我你上司哪不满意 Just tell me what they want to have changed.
下周我们再联络 I'll give you a call next week, okay?
慢慢修改它 We'll go over it, line by line.
君，我办不到 June, I can't.
它不够…精致 It's just not, well, sophisticated.
你其他广告文案是很棒 I'm sure what you do for your other clients is wonderful.
你们两个 [ Waverly's Father ] You girls.
算了 [ Chinese ]
妈 Ma!
我们是大公司 And we are a big firm.
需要的是 And we need somebody who understands that.
-能了解公司风格的人 -这和风格有什么关系 -Who understands our style. -What does style have to do with it?
老天，君，你想想，三大好处，三大需求 [ Chuckles ] I mean, really, June. "Three benefits. Three needs.
三个购买理由 "Three reasons to buy. Satisfaction guaranteed.
更可节税 "For today's and tomorrow's tax needs."
这只是一部份 That's just part of it.
是呀，最糟的一部份 Yeah, the bad part.
[ Piano Playing ]
没错，风格是教不来的 True. Cannot teach style.
君不像薇莉 June not like Waverly.
八成是天生的 Must be born this way.
我真的是很惭愧 [ June Narrating ] l was so humiliated.
被薇莉占尽便宜不算，还遭我妈落井下石 Outsmarted by Waverly and betrayed by my own mother.
你没吃你做的蟹 I see you didn't touch your crab.
我方才说过了，我不饿 Like I said at dinner, not hungry.
怎么了？还在生薇莉的气？ What? Still mad at Waverly?
我怎么敢气这么有风格的人 How could I be mad at someone with all that style?
只怪自己天生不长进 It's just a shame that I wasn't born that way.
-那你是在我气了 -不是 -So it's me you're mad at? -No.
只是遗憾你生了个废物 I'm just sorry that you got stuck with such a loser.
我很替你失望 That I've always been so disappointing.
你说失望是什么意思？ What do you mean, disappoint?
-钢琴？ - 一切，我的成绩、工作 -Piano? -Everything. My grades, my job.
[ Sighing ]
也没结婚 Not getting married.
-你的期许都落空了 -我没期许什么 -Everything you expected of me. -Not expect anything!
从未期许你什么 Never expect!
只有期盼 Only hope.
期盼你拥有最好的 Only hoping best for you.
-这样没什么不对 -没有吗 -It's not wrong to hope. -No?
但却伤害了我 Well, it hurts.
每次无法达到你的期盼，就是伤害 Because every time you hoped for something I couldn't deliver, it hurt.
我深深受到伤害 [ Crying ] It hurt me, Mommy.
不管你期盼什么 And no matter what you hoped for,
我不可能超越现在的我 I'll never be more than what I am.
但你却看不出 And you never see that!
我是什么样的人 What I really am.
[ Sobbing ]
Uh-uh.
你拿着，自你小时候 June, since your baby time,
我就配戴着它 I wear this next to my heart.
现在给你戴着 Now you wear next to yours.
它有助于让你知道 It will help you know.
[ Crying Continues ]
我了解你 I see you.
我了解你 [ Whispering ] I see you.
那只烂蟹，只有你才会吃它 That bad crab, only you tried to take it.
别人都要好的 Everybody else want best quality.
你却和人不一样 You, your thinking different.
薇莉吃最好的蟹 Waverly took best-quality crab.
你却吃最糟的 You took worst.
因为你有颗善良的心 Because you have best-quality heart.
你有种独特的风格 You have style no one can teach.
八成是天生的 Must be born this way.
我了解你 I see you.
-[ Horn Blowing ] -[ Cheering, Applause ]
All right.
我的天 [ Champagne Cork Pops, Laughing ] My God.
-Oh! -Oh!
敬君 -To June. -[ Together ] To June.
-[ All Gasping ] -Oh!
谢谢 -Oh, God. -Thank you.
今晚大家祝你一路顺风 Well, take all of this love with you to China tonight.
说几句话… -Ohh. -[ Lindo ] Speech, speech.
-No, no, no. -Louder, louder.
Hurry up.
她把香槟洒在我头发上 -[ Girl #1 ] Well, she spilled on my hair. -Shhh, shhh, shhh.
-[ Girl #2 ] Not on me. -Shhh, shhh, shhh.
我们相识很久了 I've known all of you for so long.
罗丝、李娜、薇莉 -Rose, Lena, Waverly. -[ Laughing ]
自小争玩具到大 Since we were babies and kids fighting over dolls.
很惊人，不是吗 It's amazing, isn't it?
林多阿姨,莺莺阿姨 Auntie Lindo, Auntie Ying Ying,
安美阿姨 Auntie An Mei,
是我妈的老友 longtime friends of my mother,
你们在某些方面,有如我的第二位母亲 you are like second mothers to me
真心话 Truly.
你们替我找到失散的姐妹 I mean, you gave her back to me by finding my sisters.
让我仍能为她做点事 You've given me something I can still do for her.
我想永远不会太迟的 Here I thought it was too late. Well, it isn't.
-[ Sighs ] -[ Baby Crying ]
[ Laughing ]
[ Crying Continues ]
晚安… [ June ] All right. Well, good night, T.C. Good night, Daisy.
你们慢慢走啊 [ Chinese ]
好，再见 -Thank you. Bye-bye. -Okay. Good-bye.
[ Door Closes ]
[ Footsteps ]
林多阿姨 Auntie Lindo?
我有话对你说 I have something I must tell you.
有件事我忘了告诉你 One little thing I forget tell you.
我写信给你的姐姐们 You know I write letter to your sisters
说你有多高兴找到她们 telling them how happy you are to find them,
你有多高兴即将见到亲人 how happy you are you go to China to see them...
你已经告诉过我了 Yes, Auntie Lindo, you've already told me this.
但我在信上签上你妈的名字 And then I signed it, from your mother.
什么？ What?
你签我妈的名字 You signed the letter in my mother's name?
我试过写一封信 I try write different letter
表达你母亲已过世的遗憾 telling them, "So sad, too late. Mother gone, dead."
但我怎写得下手 But how can I write such letter? No.
我的想法是,最好由她妹妹亲口告诉她们 This is my thinking, better hear from own sister.
这重大的消息，你是唯一能… Important news. You only one who can...
你是说她们以为她还在世 You... You mean, they think that she's still alive?
我的天 Oh, my God. My God.
我的天… My God.
快写信去说她过世了.我说不出口 You have to write back. Tell them that she's dead. I can't tell them that.
林多阿姨，你得再写封信 Auntie Lindo, you have to write another letter!
太迟了，来不及了 Too late. No way to do this.
你今晚出发，你去告诉她们 You leaving tonight. You must go. You tell them.
这是最好的方式,也是我的看法 Anyway, this is best way. That my thinking.
自你妈过世 [ June's Father ] You know, ever since Mommy died,
东西都神秘失踪了 it's like a mystery where everything is.
她把东西都藏起来,不管真假 She hides everything. Jewelry, even the fake stuff.
三年来她一直想告诉我藏在哪 For three years she tried to tell me
预防她先走一步 where she hide everything in case she die.
我大概都没在听 I guess I wasn't listening.
我收拾点你妈的遗物给她们 I picked some things for them.
若她们收了，你告诉我一声 You tell me if they're okay.
这是我送的礼物 This one is from me.
你妈在中国拍的照片 Old photos of Mom in China.
我不需要藉相片来怀念她,我有太多的回忆 I don't need old photos for memory. I have lots.
你也有,她们也该有一些 You have lots. Now they should have her.
对吧 -Am I right? -Yeah.
或许看到相中年轻、美丽的妈, Maybe when they see picture of Mom
她们会记起她的面貌 so young, so beautiful, they can still remember her.
而不是遗弃她们时的病容 Not like the way she looked when she left them.
病容？ The way she looked?
是的 Oh, yes.
赤痢 Very bad dysentery.
当时没药，没医生 Back then, no medicine, no doctors.
她差点死去 She almost died, you know.
她没告诉过你？ She never told you?
[ Explosions, Shouting ]
[ Shouting, Explosions Continue ]
[ Shouting ]
[ Explosions Continue ]
[ Wheel Squeaking ]
[ Gasps ]
-[ Gasps ] -[ Babies Crying ]
[ Crying Continues ]
[ Sighing ] Ohhh.
Ohhh.
[ Crying Continues ]
[ Grunting ]
-[ Suyuan Sobbing ] -[ Babies Crying ]
[ Shouting In Chinese ]
[ Crying, Sobbing Continue ]
她认为,最好别死在孩子身边 [ June's Father Narrating ] She thought, "Better not die next to my babies.
没人会救助这样不幸的婴儿 "Nobody saves babies with such bad luck.
谁肯连带收容病危的母亲 "Who wants two babies with ghost mother following them?
会不吉利的 "Very bad luck. Very."
[ Sobbing Continues ]
她倾其所有留在娃娃身旁 You know, everything she had she left with those babies.
所有值钱的东西 Everything worth anything.
并留下一张纸和黄金 She left a note with all her gold,
若将娃娃送到重庆必重酬相谢 promising more if babies brought to their father in Chungking.
如此地不幸 [ June's Father Narrating ] So much bad luck.
但谁知不幸还在后头 Then she thought even worser luck,
在她遗弃她们后，她获救了 someone save her after she left them.
把她放在卡车上 Put her in a truck.
她在医院中醒来,痛不欲生 She woke up in the hospital, screaming, wanting to die.
来，坐下 Come, sit.
还有一件事,我找到妈的珠宝盒了 One more thing. I found this in Mommy's jewelry box.
这是她为你准备的 I know she was saving it for you.
想有一天交给你，是时候了 Someday she was going to give to you. I think now.
快，打开它 Go ahead, open it.
帮助你一路顺利到中国 It's good luck for China.
瞧？这是根天鹅羽毛 See? It's a swan feather.
天鹅羽毛 -Swan feather? -She decided
她决定不把它交给你,还不是时候 she couldn't give that feather to you, not yet.
她认为你不会了解它的意义 She didn't think you would understand.
我不曾好好聆听她说话 Well, I guess I was never very good at listening to her.
不…她认为 No! No, no, no. She thought
她不够格交这给你 she wasn't worthy enough mother to give it to you.
不够格？ Worthy enough for me?
因为她放弃对二个女儿的希望 Because she gave up hope about her other daughters,
在失望之余 how can she show you how to hope big
又怎么教你抱持希望 when she had lost hope?
身为母亲是永远不能放弃对子女的期望 A mother, mother can never give up her hope for her own children.
永远不能 -Never. -[ Sobbing ] Never.
但她却没做到 But she never did.
自你出生的那一天起 On the day you're born,
她把所有希望全移到你身上 she transfer all her hope to you,
包括对双胞胎的期许 all hope from those babies.
[ Sobbing Continues ]
全移到我身上？ She transferred all her hopes to me?
还有我的 Mine too.
我爱你，爸爸 I love you, Daddy.
我会告诉她们,这羽毛虽不值钱 [ Thinking ] l will tell them this feather may look worthless,
却是来自遥远的国度 but it comes from afar
载负着我的期盼 and carries with it all my good intentions.
[ P.A., Chinese ]
-[ Sighs ] -[ P.A. Continues ]
[ Chattering ]
[ Ship Horn Blowing ]
[ Shouting In Chinese ]
Hey, hey, hey!
[ Chinese ]
[ Squealing, Giggling ]
[ Sighs ]
妈妈已经过世了 Mama's gone to heaven.
妈妈过世了？ Gone? Mama's dead?
I'm sorry.
什么时候？ 不可能 When?
四个月以前 Four months ago.
我很抱歉 I'm so sorry.
她很疼你们 She loved you very much.
我是你的妹妹，曾梅 I'm your sister. June.
我们的小妹妹 Our little sister.
我代表我们的妈妈 I've come to take our mother's place.
我带了她的希望 I've come to bring you her hopes...
妹妹 Our sister.
妹妹
我们是一家人了 Our family.
姐姐 [ Chinese ]
妹妹
对她们或对我而言，都了无遗憾了 [ June Narrating ] lt was enough for them and for me.
因为她与我们同在，我终于为她做了件事 Because really she was there and l'd finally done something for her.
我也找到我最好的一面 l'd found the best of myself,
不辜负她长久以来对我们的期盼 what she kept for all of us, her long-cherished wish.
剧终