你在這兒幹什麼? What are you doing here?
喬吉娜走了半個小時了 你會錯過的 Georgianna went a half hour ago. You're gonna miss it.
記在我帳上 Put that on my tab.
你的帳單 Your bill.
聽起來好像有一天你會付帳似的 "Tab" sounds like y'all might pay it someday.
時間從來就不是鮑比‧朗的朋友 Time was never a friend to Bobby Long.
它會設計陷害他 It would conspire against him...
使他相信上天的仁慈 然後每次都奪走他的一切 allow him to believe in a generous nature, then rob him blind every time.
我們失去了蘿瑞, 我們所有人... We had lost Lorraine, all of us...
早在她辭世之前 but long before she died.
你不能停在這，你又要吃罰單了 You can't park here. You'll get another ticket.
我沒看見任何標誌, 大小姐 l don't see no signs, Miss Daisy.
沒關係 我可以從這裡走到對面去 it's all right. l can walk to the curb from here.
給我拿瓶啤酒 Get me a beer.
你找到工作了? You find a job?
你打掃過了? You clean the fuck up?
那個叫鮑比的家伙今天又來電話了 That Bobby guy called again today.
- 又? - 他几天前來過電話, 記得嗎? -Again? -He called a couple of days ago, remember?
不, 你沒告訴我 他想干嘛? No, you didn't tell me. What did he want?
他想告訴你蘿瑞的事 He wanted to tell you about Lorraine.
她怎么了? What about her?
她死了 She died.
她什麼? She what?
她死了, 行了吧? 他打電話過來, 因為他認為你會想要知道的 She's dead, all right? He called because he thought you'd wanna know.
蘿瑞死了而你卻不告訴我? Lorraine died and you didn't tell me?
為了蘿瑞 願她早日安息 To Lorraine. May she finally find peace.
所以, 現在怎么辦? 蘿瑞終于把你們都踢出來了 So, now what? Lorraine finally kick y'all out?
不 No.
她永遠不會這么做的 此外, 上帝也不會允許那樣的 She never would. Besides, God wouldn't let that happen.
真的嗎? 為什麼不呢? Really? And why not?
因為上帝認識我, 而我也認識上帝 'Cause God knows me, and l know God.
走吧 Go.
塞西爾一定餓壞了 確保他吃完 Cecil's pretty torn up. Make sure he eats.
稍後見 I'll see you later.
一直以來你都對她漠不關心 She never meant nothing to you...
而她也一直不把你當回事 所以我想你不會在意的 and you didn't mean a damn thing to her. l didn't think you would care.
別這樣, 寶貝 停下 Come on, baby, stop.
聽著, 我很抱歉, 行了嗎? Look, I'm sorry, all right?
你為什麼不為我煮頓晚餐 然後我去租盤黃帶回來看呢? Why don't you just cook me some dinner and I'll go rent us a porno?
我一定要參加葬禮, 李 l have to go to a funeral, Lee...
除非我錯過了 因為你忘了告訴我... unless l missed it because you forgot to tell me...
我媽媽死了! 該死的混球, 我要離開這裡 that my mother is dead! Fucking asshole. l am so out of here.
她從來就不是你的媽媽! She was never your mother!
帕斯琳? 還是我, 鮑比‧朗 Purslane? This is Bobby Long again.
不知道你是不是還記得我... l don't know if you remember me...
但你錯過了你媽媽的葬禮 but you missed your mama's funeral.
再見 So long.
你有煙嗎? You got any smokes?
對不起, 先生 Sorry, sir.
- 你們都要去塞西爾家嗎? - 馬上就去 -Y'all going down to Cecil's? -In a minute.
- 待會兒見 - 待會兒見 -I'll see you guys. -See you there.
你有火嗎? You got a light?
- 我還以為你沒有呢 - 我沒有 -l thought you didn't have any. -l don't.
... 沒有給晚輩的 Not for Junior.
他要少吸點 他有嚴重的肺氣腫 He's got to cut down. He's got fierce emphysema.
那咳嗽把我嚇得背都發涼了 That cough sends shivers of mortality down my spine.
「他要死的像樣」但我不會幫忙的 "He'd make a lovely corpse," but I'll make no contribution.
我的座右銘是「只為自己的死盡力」 Of course not. "Contribute only to one's own death." That's my motto.
你聯絡到那女孩了嗎? 她了解狀況嗎? Did you get the girl? She know anything?
-「他要死的像樣」 - 查爾斯‧狄更斯說的 -"He'd make a lovely corpse." -Come on, man. Charles Dickens.
你當真？ 是馬丁‧查梭威特說的 Are you serious? it's Martin Chuzzlewit.
混蛋腦子不錯 Smart-ass.
新奧爾良是城市的警報器 New Orleans is a siren of a city.
一個充滿童話幻想的地方 A place of fables and illusion.
一個蘿瑞不得不逃離的地方... A place Lorraine had to escape from...
倒是鮑比和我的避風港 and Bobby and I had to escape to.
躲開阿拉巴馬州... Away from Alabama...
躲開不再屬于我們的生活 away from lives that no longer belonged to us.
我還以為上次她的情況有所好轉 我真的這么想 l thought she was getting better that last time, l really did.
那是什麼時候的事? When was that?
- 至少几年前 - 到十月就滿六年了 -A few years ago, at least. -it'll be six years, October.
有那么久嗎? Was it that long since we seen her?
從你上一次見她算起 Since you seen her.
我們本來應該和你一起去醫院探望她的 We should have gone to the hospital with you.
你們本應該做許多事情 You should have done a lot of things.
來了 Coming.
這是蘿瑞的房子? This Lorraine's house?
你是誰? And who are you?
誰也不是 我只是住在這 No one. l just live here.
進來吧 Come on in.
這地方不錯 Nice place.
謝謝 我們努力維持 Thanks. We try.
- 你這么年輕, 不可能是鮑比 - 我是勞森 -You're not old enough to be Bobby. -That's because I'm Lawson.
好的 Okay.
你母親的事我很抱歉 你和她像極了 I'm sorry about your mother. You look a lot like her.
一早把你吵醒我很抱歉... 還沒到中午呢 Sorry to wake you so early. it's barely noon.
鮑比 有客人來了 伙計 醒醒! Bobby. We got company, man. Wake up!
親愛的, 把包放下 我們不會咬人的 Honey, put your bags down. We don't bite.
- 果汁? - 不用了 -Juice? -No.
- 鮑比 起床了 她來了 - 誰? -Bobby, get up. She's here. -Who?
- 珀熙 - 誰? -Pursey. -Who?
那女孩來了 快起床 The girl is here. Get up.
嗯, 葬禮是什麼時候? So, when's the funeral?
昨天 辦得真的很好 it was yesterday. it was real nice.
你應該去的, 女士 You should have been there, young lady.
那是你的看法 That's your opinion.
你一定有什麼事才來這的 You must be here for some reason.
我想你已經知道關于這個房子的交易了 l guess you already know the deal on the house.
什麼交易? What deal?
- 這個房子是你媽媽的 - 交易! -The house. Your mother owned it-- -The deal!
讓我來告訴你交易是什麼 Let me tell you what the deal is.
交易就是蘿瑞把房子留給了我們3個人 The deal is that Lorraine left the three of us the house.
勞森和我三分之二 你只有三分之一 Lawson and l are two-thirds, and you are only one-third.
她做了什麼? She did what?
勞森和我以前住在這裡 Lawson and l have been living here for some time.
你媽媽許多年前就不在這住了 Your mother hasn't lived here for years.
她以為你不會感興趣的 And l don't believe that she thought you'd be interested.
蘿瑞的判斷一直就有問題 Lorraine was great at being wrong.
帕斯琳, 親愛的 我們住在這 這是我們的家 Purslane, honey, we are here to stay. This is our home.
這不是什麼大事... it's no big deal...
蘿瑞認為我應該和2個酗酒的 陌生人分享這個狗屎洞 Lorraine thinking I'd share this shithole with two alcoholic strangers.
你們是酗酒者, 不是嗎? You are alcoholics, aren't you?
但我們不是陌生人 我們是她的朋友 But we are not strangers. We were her friends.
我們照顧過她 We took care of her.
這個狗屎洞對我們來說正好 And this shithole is just fine for us.
它不適合一個像你一樣的女孩 it's not suited for a girl like you.
我要起床了 你隨意 I'm getting up out of bed now. You can watch if you want.
我不介意 it don't matter to me.
真讓人難以相信... it seems hard to believe...
你以前從沒看過男人光著身子 that you haven't seen a man naked before.
沒看過老男人的 Not an old one.
我知道你不單純 l know that you're no innocent...
因為我和你的男朋友通過電話... because l spoke to that boyfriend of yours...
Over on the Redneck Riviera.
你當然不是因為他的大腦才選擇了他 You certainly didn't choose him for his brains.
你對我很了解嘛 You don't know nothing about me.
我想如果我們成為室友, 那是會改變的, 對嗎? l guess that will change if we all became roommates, wouldn't it?
稍後見 我沒煙了 I'll see you later. I'm out of cigarettes.
我抽的煙在特賣中 My brand is on sale.
很高興再次見到你, 帕斯琳 Good to see you again, Purslane.
長大了 All growed up.
他平常不是這樣的 他只是為蘿瑞難過 我們都是 He's not usually such a jackass. He's just upset about Lorraine. We all are.
他是對的 你知道 我不能待在這 He's right, you know. l can't stay here.
這真的很滑稽, 事實上 我的祖母經常談起... it's pretty funny, actually. My grandma was always talking about...
蘿瑞為我修繕的漂亮小屋 the pretty little house Lorraine was fixing up for me...
我想那只是騙小孩的鬼話吧 and l guess that was the Ernest & Julio talking.
這樣很好 it's fine.
- 這裡沒有真正的驚喜 - 醫院送來的她的東西 -There's no real surprises here. -The hospital sent her stuff.
蘿瑞想把這些給你 Lorraine would want you to have these.
他們一直跟著她 They went everywhere she did.
她愛這些書 She loved those books.
我想我可以在廉價市場或是 什麼地方把他們賣掉 l guess l could unload them at a flea market or something.
- 我來幫你 - 不, 我一個人可以 -Here, I'll help you out. -No, I'm fine.
我真的想去參加葬禮的 我只是沒收到他的消息 l really did want to come to the funeral. l just never got his message.
那女孩看起來和蘿瑞如此相像 That girl looks so much like Lorraine.
我還記得你第一次帶我去看她唱歌 l remember the first time you took me to see her sing.
那是我在新奧爾良的第一次 it was my first time in New Orleans.
是如此令人印象深刻 l was so taken.
你有點被蒙蔽了 You were kind of sheltered.
被那筆巨大的財富給迷住了 Choked by that silver spoon.
她是如此美麗 l thought she was so beautiful.
沒錯 She was.
你們還要什麼？ What else can l get you boys?
以前有人告訴過你 你笑起來就像春天的巴黎女人嗎？ Did anyone ever tell you that you smell like a Parisian woman in springtime?
每天至少一次 你們都要吃嗎？ Every day, at least once. Y'all gonna eat?
律師隨時可以找到她 The lawyer could get to her at any time.
那又怎么樣？ 遺囑上說我們可以待一年 So what? The will says we can stay for a year.
我可以走了嗎？ Should l just come back?
你知道春天巴黎女人的氣味是多么致命嗎？ Do you know how lethal the smell of a Parisian woman in springtime is?
那遠沒有一個不屑一顧的 路易斯安那州的女人致命 Not nearly as lethal as a Louisiana woman who don't give a shit.
-雞蛋和熏肉, 女士 2份 - 請在上面加點奶酪, 親愛的 -Eggs and bacon, ma'am. Both of us. -Cheese on our grits, darling. Please.
你真他媽的無恥 You are fucking shameless.
你為什麼不睡在床上, 甜心 Why didn't you use the bed, sweetheart?
- 哦, 天哪 - 我本來可以進來偎依著你的 -Oh, God. -l could have come in and cuddled with you.
那樣真不錯 That would have been fine with me.
- 我們可以親熱親熱 - 省省吧 -We could have spooned together. -Save it.
你為什麼給她這個? Why'd you give her this?
這故事很棒... This is stories of misfits...
看不見的人物 很漂亮 invisible people. it's beautiful.
你讀過了嗎? Have you ever read it?
你讀過任何書嗎? Have you ever read any book?
蘿瑞不知道她自己是個很棒的詩人 Lorraine didn't know she was a poet.
我真的很喜歡... l really do enjoy...
培養靈感 fostering inspiration.
勞森是個作家, 也很棒 Lawson's a writer. A fine one, too.
真的? Really?
他正在寫一本關于我的書 He's writing a book about me.
真不錯 That's fascinating.
"第一章: 我起床, 喝個酩酊大醉, 然後昏倒 "Chapter 1 : l got up, l got drunk, l passed out.
- "第二章: 我起床, 喝個酩酊大醉--" - 你真聰明可愛 -"Chapter 2: l got up, l got drunk--" -Lovely and witty.
你能使富人難堪, 小女孩 You're an embarrassment of riches, little girl.
哪間房是我的? Which room is mine?
我需要一個住的地方 你們說我有這個權利 I'll need a place to stay, and y'all said l had a right.
我想我會一直住到你們厭煩離開的那天 Just figured I'd stay here until you get fed up and leave.
我們不會離開, 永遠不會! We are never leaving. Never!
- 你最好想都別想 - 她應該用蘿瑞的房間 -And don't even get it in your mind. -She should have Lorraine's room.
- 我就待在這裡和你湊或一下 - 好的, 很好 -I'll stay out here. I'll bunk with you. -Okay, fine.
你他媽的瘋了嗎? Are you fucking crazy?
這樣總比她到處瞎竄 最後發現真相好 Better than her poking around and finding out the truth.
她撐不了多久的 你要相信我 She won't last. You're gonna make sure of that.
此外, 你一直抱怨你的床太冷了 Besides, you're always complaining how your bed is so cold.
你對我來說太瘦了 You're too skinny for me.
- 嗯, 你們真是住在書堆裡了? - 大多數都是鮑比的 -So, y'all are really into books? -They're mostly Bobby's.
- 英文教授的家當 - 他? -That's the plumage of an English professor. -Him?
- 教授? - 是的, 他是個很好的教授 -A professor? -Yeah, he was a good one.
那你, 你真是作家? And you, you're really a writer?
鮑比認為我是 Bobby likes to think l am.
這些盒子都是蘿瑞的, 所以... These boxes are all Lorraine's, so....
所以怎么樣? So what?
- 我很了解你的母親 - 有多了解? -l knew your mother pretty well. -How well?
她是個很難懂的女人 但她始終把通向她心靈的那扇大門敞開著 She was hard to understand, but she kept the door to her heart open.
我聽說那更像一扇旋轉門, 對嗎? The way l heard it, it was more of a revolving door, wasn't it?
帕斯琳‧霍米尼‧威爾 Purslane Hominy Will.
你怎么知道我的名字? How come you know my name?
我知道很多關于你的事 l know a lot about you.
你媽媽和我從小就很親近 Your mama and l were close since we were young.
我還幫忙給你取的名字 l helped name you.
你媽媽認為你是金色的太陽 Your mama thought you were golden...
所以我們就以黃花和小麥給你取了名字 so we named you after yellow flowers and corn.
就是這裡的你 This is you here:
漂亮的, 金色的帕斯琳 pretty, golden purslane.
帕斯琳實際上是雜草, 你知道 Purslane's really a weed, you know.
我9歲的時候一個鄰居告訴我的 然後我把他地裡的番茄都踩爛了 A neighbor told me when l was 9 and l ran over his tomato plants.
他說所有的園丁都恨帕斯琳 He said all gardeners hate purslane.
是的, 還有蒲公英 Yeah, and dandelions.
那并沒有阻止孩子們向他們許愿 it doesn't stop kids from making wishes on them.
帕斯琳是腋生的花 Purslane's an axillary bloom.
太陽下山的時候它就凋謝了 it closes up when the sun goes down.
謝謝 Thanks.
天啊 Damn.
我上次見你的時候, 你還是個孩子 Last time l saw you, you were teeny.
這裡有誰不記得我和蘿瑞的關係嗎？ 我是唯一的例外嗎？ ls there anyone here who doesn't remember me with Lorraine, or am l the only one?
我在你這個年紀的時候, 她在這裡唱歌 那時她真算得上個人物 She used to sing here. l was about your age. She was something.
- 我真抱歉 - 別這樣 -I'm so sorry. -Don't be.
我要紅豆、飯和一杯啤酒, 謝謝 I'll have red beans and rice and a beer, please.
我聽說你要住在鮑比和勞森那裡一段時間? l hear you'll be staying at Bobby and Lawson's for a while?
不, 我會無限期的住在蘿瑞的家 No, I'll be staying at Lorraine's indefinitely.
- 你9月份開學嗎? - 不 -Will you be starting school in September? -No.
我不上學, 我做服務生 你這裡需要一個嗎? l don't go to school. l waitress. You need one?
不, 這裡就我和鄂爾叔叔 No, just me and Uncle Earl.
他們知道你不上學? They know you're not going to school?
他們都精疲力盡了 只會在那裡抱怨沒有伏特加和香煙 They're all torn up about it. Ranks up there with being out of vodka and cigarettes.
Mother, go make my bed
Make it long and narrow
My true love died for me yesterday
I shall die for him tomorrow
She was buried in the church house yard
And he was buried there beside her
And from his grave grew roses red
From hers grew greenbriers
They grew and they grew so very high
Till they could grow no higher
And at the top grew a true lover's knot
Twined with greenbriers
各位, 這是蘿瑞的女兒 珀熙 她要和我們住一陣子 Y'all, this is Lorraine's daughter, Pursey. She's gonna stay with us for a while.
過來吧 Come on in.
- 你長得真漂亮 - 謝謝 -You grew up real pretty. -Thank you.
自在點, 親愛的 Make yourself at home, darling.
我是露茜 這是我的好朋友, 雷 I'm Ruthie. My gentleman friend, Ray.
26年了 Here 26 years.
放松, 寶貝 喝杯啤酒 Go on and relax, baby. Drink your beer.
找到什麼了嗎? Find anything?
我填了一些申請書 l filled out a few applications.
你讓那個新來的年輕小妞和你一起住? You let that fresh young thing live with you?
她是新來的, 沒錯 She's fresh, all right.
我記得每天晚上有新人來時 你就成了女人私處的磁石 l remember when there was a new one every night. Y'all was pussy magnets.
你們是誰打呼就像個火車？ Which one of y'all snores like a goddamn train?
鮑比, 如果他平躺著 你就得把他轉個身 Bobby. if he's on his back, you have to turn him over.
我在健康頻道看到... 要治好打鼾的人... l saw this program on the Medical Channel that you can cure people of snoring...
可以把他們的喉嚨切開 by cutting their throats open.
我真想給你們講個故事 l believe that l do have a story for you gentlemen.
安靜 鮑比要講故事了 Quiet. Bobby's gonna tell a story.
我小時候, 總和比我年長的男孩混在一起 When l was growing up, l always hung around boys a couple years older than me.
有一個夏天 我不知道10還是11歲 And this one summer, l was, l don't know, 10 or 11 .
我們像阿拉巴馬的男孩們一樣 And we were doing all the normal things that boys in Alabama do.
釣魚... We were fishing...
打球, 游泳, 打架 and playing ball, and swimming, and beating off.
但除了這些單純童年的活動外... But in addition to these activities of an innocent childhood...
還說了許多... mine included a lot of talk...
那無從捉摸的 "pussy" (與珀熙諧音, 本意為女人私處) about this wonderfully elusive something called pussy.
我不知道那是什麼 l wasn't sure exactly what it was...
但我知道它很神奇、很特別，因為人們談論它的方式 but l knew it was magical and very special because of the way it was spoken about.
一直都是竊竊私語 Always in a whisper.
我也在心中反復說著這個詞"pussy" I'd go through the fields saying it to myself: "Pussy."
一天, 我們都... One day, we was all...
在外面玩 playing ball out in a broom sage field.
Leroy Tuberville 騎車過來 And up rode Leroy Tuberville.
Leroy是個強壯的少年犯, 12歲 Now, Leroy was an upstanding delinquent. Twelve.
他的肩膀非常寬闊 他的手指留著煙草的痕跡 And his shoulders were already broad, and his fingers were stained with tobacco.
然後Leroy, 他不經意的停在了三壘的位置 隨後他把手伸進他的口袋... And Leroy, he parked himself casually by third base, and he went in his pocket...
他掏出了某樣東西 他開始把它往空中高高扔起, 就像這樣 and he pulled out something. He started throwing it high in the air like that.
我看著他耍酷... And l watched him play it cool...
他神秘的寶石上上下下 his mysterious jewel going up and down.
我再也忍不住了 我一定要問一問 l couldn't take it any longer. l had to ask.
"那個是什麼, Leroy?" "What's that you got there, Leroy?"
然後每個人都鴉雀無聲 And everyone fell silent.
Leroy 看著我 令人作嘔的咧嘴笑著... And Leroy looked at me with that nasty sideways grin...
他說 "這是一個pussy, 朗, 我自己的" and he said, "it's a piece of pussy, Long. My very own."
我的臉開始發燙 我的心跳加速 My face got hot, my breath quickened.
他在那裡, 將那完美的東西 扔到空中 There he was, with this perfect piece of girl, tossing her up in the air.
我看著, 知道自己第一次見到了上帝 And l watched, knowing that l had seen God for the first time.
我渴望她就是我自己的 And l wanted her for my very own.
但Leroy 從齒間亮出他的寶貝... But old Leroy popped his treasure between his teeth...
跳上他的自行車，咧嘴對著我笑 然後騎走了 jumped on his bike grinning at me, and rode off...
把我們留在一片塵土和渴望之中 leaving us in a cloud of dust and desire.
那是在折磨人的朦朧期 10歲的時候... And it was in that tormented haze, at the age of 10...
當我把我余下的生命都致力于... when l dedicated the rest of my life...
找尋我自己的一絲愛情和奇跡 to finding my very own tiny piece of love and wonder...
讓我可以永遠帶在身上 that l could carry with me for eternity.
好吧, 夠了 我要回家了 All right, that's it. I'm going home.
回佛羅里達? To Florida?
當心點 Now, look, be careful.
我們不能撕下生活中的任何一頁... "We cannot tear out a single page of our lives...
"但我們可以把整本書都仍進火堆裡" "but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
喬治‧桑德 George Sand.
我以為那會很難的 l thought that would be a hard one.
我覺得對她撒謊不太好 l don't feel right about lying to her.
一個年輕的輕佻女子在這種地方還想得到什麼? What would a teenage hussy want with this place, anyway?
她自己說這裡是個狗屎洞 她最好離開 Said herself it was a shithole. She's better off.
此外, 當你賣那本書的時候 一切都將改變 Besides, when you sell that book, everything will change--
改變? Change?
我們將去巴黎, 喝著 '61 Latour We'll go to Paris, drink '61 Latour...
寫些爛詩 一切都會很完美 write bad poetry. Yes, everything will be just perfect.
"我們只會死一次，卻要死那麼久" "We die only once, and for such a long time."
莫里哀 Molière.
她來了, 親愛的 She's here, honey.
我這次會好好照顧她 I'll take better care of her this time.
明天見, 親愛的 See you tomorrow, darling.
以前你媽媽常來這兒 Your mama used to come here a lot.
你為什麼一直說她的事? Why do you talk about her so much?
我想是因為我想念她 Because l miss her, l guess.
你愛戀她還是怎麼了? Were you in love with her or something?
我們都愛她 We all loved her.
- 她知道怎樣關心人, 你知道嗎? - 不, 不了解 -She knew how to reach people, you know? -No, not really.
我外婆過世的前一夜... The night before my grandma died...
她告訴我蘿瑞一直都很自私 she warned me that Lorraine would always be selfish.
她最後還說了我爸爸的事 She finally told me about my father.
她真的說了? She did, did she?
在孟菲斯的一個薩克斯風樂手 Some sax player in Memphis.
大概是一夜情 Pretty much a one-night stand.
我想外婆是想讓我知道當她走了之後, 我將完全孤立無助 l think Gran wanted me to know that when she was gone, I'd be totally on my own.
她是對的... She was right.
在她死後, 我几乎完全沒有蘿瑞的音訊 After she died, l hardly ever heard from Lorraine.
甚至也沒機會聽她唱歌 Never even got a chance to hear her sing.
你媽媽愛你, 你知道嗎? 你就是她的全世界 Your mama loved you, you know? You meant the world to her.
她過去常坐在你現在坐的地方 She used to sit right where you're sitting now.
總是在寫東西 Always writing.
把這顆樹叫作生命之樹 Called this granddaddy the Tree of Life.
真俗 That's so corny.
- 你找錯用具了 - 什麼? -You're in the wrong appliance. -What?
要自殺成功 你得到爐子裡去 To succeed in killing oneself, one must be in the oven.
天啊, 姑娘 你還真會做東西 God damn, girl. You woke up productive.
- 過來看看珀熙都做了些什麼 -天啊! 別再大喊大叫了 -Come see what Pursey did. -Christ. Stop yelling.
我看到了她還沒有做的: 離開 l see what she didn't do: leave.
她不會離開的 She ain't gonna leave.
你這身打扮真不錯 That's a really good look for you, too.
你們也早上好 Good morning to y'all, too.
我聽說你不上學 什麼, 你跳級? No school, l hear. What, you skip a grade?
几年而已, 10年級, 11年級, 12年級 你介意嗎? A few. The 10th, 11th, and 1 2th. Do you mind?
天啊, 我們竟和一個輟學生住在同一屋檐下 God, we are living under the same roof as a goddamn dropout.
嘲笑別人是要付出代價的 至少我可以養活自己 it takes one to mock one. At least l can support myself.
聽著, 只要你不在這裡懶散地打發時間... Look, as long as you're not lazing around here...
使勞森不能集中注意力 我不介意你做什麼 making Lawson lose his concentration, l do not care what you do.
你有工作要做 You got work to do.
你一定要那樣無情地對待她嗎? Do you have to go after her like that, relentlessly?
你想要她粘在這裡嗎? 那就是你想要的嗎? Do you want her to stick around? ls that what you want?
你有沒有想過如果我們幫幫她 她或許就會離開? Has it ever occurred to you that if we help her get on her feet, she might move on?
怎么幫她? How help her?
你想幫她脫了那緊緊的小短褲 那就是你想做的 You want to help her out of them tight little pants. That's what you want.
- 別放在心上, 伙計, 好嗎? - 我沒放在心上 -Forget it, man, all right? -Forgotten.
新奧爾良的夏天 沉寂在粘稠和潮濕之中 A New Orleans summer drowns in thick, dank stillness.
來吧, 伙計, 玩果子酒 Come on, man, let's play gin.
-你難道沒看見我們在這裡做事? - 去死吧 -Can't you see us doing something here? -To hell with you.
蘿瑞的房子每天都在收縮 牆變得越來越緊湊 Lorraine's house shrank with each passing day, straining uneasy walls closer.
把那音樂關了, 姑娘! 你難道沒看見他正在工作嗎? Turn that music off, girl! Can't you see he's working?
天啊 Jesus H. Christ.
你要在這裡坐多久 想抽光我們的買煙錢? How long you gonna sit around here smoking up our cigarette money?
勞森說他不介意 Lawson said he didn't mind.
勞森的香煙是紅色的, 我的是綠色的 Lawson's cigarettes are red. Mine are green.
你不可以抽綠色的 鮑比的 You may not smoke green. Bobby's.
你在喝什麼鳥玩樣兒? 天啊, 真臭 What is that shit you are drinking? God, it reeks.
這是啤酒番茄汁 This is beer and tomato juice.
一流的早餐 Breakfast of champions.
一流的傻瓜, 或許 Champion fuckup, maybe.
你知道, 姑娘 我已經受夠了你那惡劣的態度 You know, girl, l have had just about enough of your bad attitude.
不管你喜不喜歡 我是這房子裡的長者... Whether you like it or not, l am the senior male in this house...
你應該尊重我! and you will respect me!
看在蘿瑞的情份上 我們對你已經很容忍了... We have been very patient out of respect for Lorraine...
但你不能繼續在這閑混... but you will not continue to lay around here...
靠我們的慷慨過活 and play parasite to our generosity.
現在, 你必須工作 就好像你要活100歲... Now, you must work as if you're gonna live 100 years...
並且像明天就要死了那樣祈禱 and pray as if you're gonna die tomorrow.
- 你說什麼? - 弗蘭克林說的 -What did you say? -Ben Franklin said it.
他一定是想表達些什麼意思 it probably meant something coming from him.
你知道 我一直在找工作 You know damn well I've been looking for a job.
天啊, 你在做什麼? 除了到處放屁 說你過去有多么聰明 God, what do you do? Except shit around and talk about how smart you used to be.
我是教授, 我是吟游詩人, 一個詩人 l am a professor. l am a troubadour. A poet.
我們怎樣生活 不關你的鳥事 And it's none of your damn business how we live.
- 你要對你的那份負責 - 我的那份? -You are responsible for your share. -My share?
你已經免費住在我的房子了 You already live in my house for free.
- 天啊, 你應該很感激 - 這是我們的房子! -God, you should be grateful-- -This is our house!
或許你希望我帶朋友回家 賺點錢 Maybe you'd rather l earn money bringing friends home.
蘿瑞不是那樣做的嗎? 大多數偽君子做的那樣 Didn't Lorraine have to do that for a while? Most junkies do.
該死! God damn it!
你對死者沒有一點尊重嗎? Have you no respect for the dead?
那是你媽媽, 珀熙 That was your mother, Pursey.
此外... Besides...
我們都知道你不是純潔的天使... we all know that you ain't no angel of purity...
不是嗎, 小帕斯琳? are you, little Purslane?
你不是曾經同時有2個男人嗎? 不是嗎? Did you ever have two men at once? Have you?
那會需要買許多香煙在我們的屋子裡 是這樣的, 不是嗎? That would buy a lot of cigarettes in our house. it would, wouldn't it?
住嘴! Fuck you!
你應該是長者? 成年人 You're supposed to be the senior male? The grownup.
我只是個小女孩 你明白嗎? I'm just a girl. Don't you get that?
你對死去的可憐的蘿瑞 神氣活現的態度 真噁心 I'm so sick of your high and mighty attitude about poor, dead Lorraine.
你要教我尊敬? 誰尊敬你? You wanna teach me about respect? Who respects you?
把你給甩了的聰明老婆 還是你從沒見過的孩子? The wife who's smart enough to get rid of you, or the kids you never fucking see?
我早就說過的 What did l tell you about her?
噢, 天啊! Oh, God!
你知道, 我知道你們怎么看我 You know, l know what y'all think of me.
- 學校就像是浪費時間 - 不是的 -School just seemed like a waste of time. -it's not.
我知道 我不是笨小孩, 你知道 l know that. I'm not some dumb kid, you know.
我想正常過日子 但那並不是我的人生 l wanna be normal. it's just not my life.
你的人生是什麼? 你想要什麼? What is your life? What do you want?
如果我能做什麼嗎? if l could do anything?
答應我你不會笑? Promise you won't laugh?
我不敢擔保 l don't know if l can promise.
我想過在醫院或是什麼地方工作... Well, l thought about maybe working in a hospital or something...
做個X光技師什麼的 like being an x-ray technician or something like that.
很好 Okay.
- 我可以問一下為什麼嗎? - 我不知道 -Can l ask why? -l don't know.
我喜歡骨頭在燈箱上的樣子 l like the way bones look on a light box.
他們就像肖像, 但只在透視時才顯現 They're like portraits, but on the inside.
我知道這聽起來很傻 l know it does sound totally stupid.
不, 這并不傻 No, it's not stupid.
喂? Hello?
喂? 有人在嗎? Hello? Is anyone there?
- 對不起 - 沒關係 -Sorry. -it's all right.
我總是忘了房子裡還有個女人 l keep forgetting there's a woman in the house.
有他的消息嗎？ Any sign of him?
聽著, 珀熙, 我想告訴你些事 Listen, Pursey, l need to tell you something.
什麼, 你擔心他? What, you worried about him?
你今天幹什麼? What are you doing today?
我想我會去市廣場... l thought I'd go down to the Quarter...
找工作 我還沒試過那裡 look for a job. l haven't tried there yet.
需要人帶你逛逛嗎? Want someone to show you around?
- 下個禮拜給我們電話 - 好的, 謝謝 -Give us a call next week. -All right, thanks.
怎么樣? Well?
或許吧, 但只是份兼職 Maybe, but only part-time.
你又不是租的房子 你不必全天工作 it's not like you have rent. You don't have to work full-time.
我一整天都不想見到鮑比 加班時間也是 l need to get away from Bobby full-time. Overtime.
或許我可以幫你從骨頭肖像開始 Maybe l could help you get started on those bone portraits.
你可以得到 GED, 你知道 You can get your GED, you know.
是啊！我還能進哈佛呢！ Sure l can. Then maybe l can go to Harvard.
也許 Maybe.
你的吃相真不雅 You know, you eat like shit?
你酒喝得太兇了 You drink too much.
好吧 Okay.
什麼時候讓我讀一下你的書呢？ Would you let me read your book sometime?
- 我可不這么想 - 為什麼不呢? -l don't think so. -Why not?
- 大部分都是垃圾 - 你寫了多久了? -Most of it ends up in the trash. -How long you been writing it?
很久, 但還不夠久 Too long, and not long enough.
- 你大學畢業了嗎? - 是的, 小姐 -Did you graduate from college? -Yes, ma'am, l did.
而且還很榮幸，成了鮑比‧朗的助教 With the privilege of becoming Bobby Long's teaching assistant.
你們為什麼離開學校? Why did y'all leave that school?
太復雜了 有許多原因 it's complicated. So many reasons.
說一個吧 Tell me one.
許多事都發生的太突然 A lot happened real fast...
新奧爾良, 所有的這一切... and New Orleans, all this...
現在看來 倒有幾分浪漫 it sort of seemed romantic at the time.
是嗎? ls it?
浪漫嗎? ls it romantic?
你會感覺到的 it has its moments.
你真的會幫我得到GED? Would you really help me get my GED?
真的 Yes, l really would.
- 為什麼? - 為什麼不呢? -Why? -Why not?
沒有其它事情可以做 Don't have anything else to do.
你可以不要喝這么多嗎？ Would you quit drinking so much?
為什麼? Why?
為什麼不呢? 反正也沒其它事可做 Why not? You don't have anything else to do.
好的 All right.
那么, 他在哪兒, 那個狗娘養的? So, where is he, the son of a bitch?
很可能在某個酒吧 咕噥著他是多么地被誤解 Probably on some barstool somewhere, whining about how misunderstood he is.
除了為擔心鮑比‧朗 你還有更重要的事情要做 You've better things to do than waste another day worrying about Bobby Long.
他沒有 我們今天玩得很愉快，不是嗎？ He didn't. We had a nice day, didn't we?
是的 Yeah.
來吧, 親愛的, 我們最好回家了 Come on, darling, we better get home.
回家見 See you at home.
2間房 對你們來說一定太擠了 it must be getting pretty crowded for you, only two rooms.
你的工作怎么樣, 甜心? 那裡沒有隱私 What about your work, sugar? There's no privacy there.
你可以待在我這裡 You could stay at my place.
你能考慮一下嗎? Will you think about it?
我回來了 I'm back.
你們見到我不高興嗎? Aren't you people glad to see me?
- 不 - 你應該來個電話 -No. -You might have called.
好吧, 那問問我 比如: Well, then ask me. Say:
"鮑比, 你給我帶了什麼?" "Bobby, what have you brought me?"
你在賭場贏錢了嗎？ Biloxi?
你玩牌戲？還是吃角子老虎？ Video poker or nickel slots?
- 我的車呢? - 我賣了 -Man, where's my car? -l sold it.
珀熙, 放點音樂 我們要慶祝一下 Now, Pursey, go put some music on. We're gonna celebrate.
- 什麼? - 我把它賣了, 我們不需要車 -You what? -l sold it. We didn't need a car.
這是瓶純麥芽酒 你上次喝這個是多久以前的事了? This is a single malt. When was the last time you had a single malt?
- 多少錢? - 300美金 -For how much? -$300.
你把我的車賣了 就為了這300塊? You fucking sold my car for fucking $300?
你是不是真的瘋了? Have you lost your goddamn mind completely?
收起你的拳頭 Just hold that punch.
現在, 你記住... Now, you remember...
我的臉破了 l have a broken face.
現在, 我沒錢 Now, l didn't have any money.
因為你的支票在這 That's because your check is here.
還有這個, 律師給的 是時候告訴她了 And this, too. From the lawyer. it's time to tell her.
我等你來.... 你他媽的在幹什麼? l waited for you to get the.... What the fuck are you doing?
給我5分鐘，然後再做你認為正確的事 You give me five minutes, and then you do what you think is right.
看看你把一切變得多好！ Well, look how nice you changed everything.
早知道沒有電視，你就會讀書，我該早點把它砸掉的 I'd have destroyed that TV weeks ago if I'd known it would drive you to Steinbeck.
好吧, 現在有件事要告訴你們 All right, now, l have something to tell y'all.
來吧, 坐下 Come on in, sit down.
來吧, 伙計, 坐... Come on, man, sit....
別再想那輛破車了, 坐下吧！ Will you stop grieving about that hunk of shit and sit down?
我要站著 I'll stand.
好吧, 閉上眼睛 All right, close your eyes.
- 閉上眼睛, 伙計 - 我不會閉上眼睛的 -Close your eyes, man. -I'm not closing my goddamn eyes.
別這樣, 勞森 Come on, Lawson. Christ.
好吧, 現在 All right, now.
可以睜開眼睛了, 親愛的 You can open them now, darling.
感謝一位好老師... Courtesy of a lovely teacher...
曾經深受鮑比‧朗作品的感動 Whose heart once found Bobby Long cause enough to skip a beat or two.
"茲証明帕斯琳‧霍米尼‧威爾... "To certify that Purslane Hominy Will...
"已經完成了11年級... "has successfully completed the 11th grade...
"現在被推荐進入12年級" "and is recommended to the 12th grade."
"除了成長, 我們活著何益?" "Why stay we on earth except to grow?"
羅伯特‧布朗寧 Robert Browning.
你在高年級課程中，一定會讀到他的詩 He's definitely your run-of-the-mill senior-year poet.
你是為了道歉... ls this really your idea of an apology...
還是想打敗他的GED的主意? or are you just trying to one-up his GED offer?
做的好 Great minds.
拜託！她當然得修一門語言課 Come on, man. Of course she takes a language.
- 你想學法語, 對吧? - 別傻了 -You want to speak French, don't you? -Don't be an ass.
她這年齡不能選初級法語的 You know that she can't take French 1 as a senior.
好吧 All right.
我們已經有英國文學, 歐洲歷史, 地理學, 心理學 So we got English Lit, European History, Geography, Psychology.
我們還需要一門 We need one more.
- 藝術鑒賞不錯 - 音樂 -l think Art Appreciation. -Music.
- 我想她會喜歡音樂的 - 我不去 -l think she'd like music. -I'm not going.
該死, 都說好了 Well, God damn, it's already set up.
你知道為了讓你讀書，我花了多大工夫嗎? Do you know how much l had to go through for you for this?
為了我? 你期望我.... 得了吧, 你有什麼好處? For me? You expect me to.... Come on. What's in it for you?
首先, 你去讀書，我圖個清靜 Firstly, it'll get you out of the house, for my sanity.
- 那正是我想的 - 不, 聽著 -That's what l thought. -No, look.
你說的話，點醒了我 You said something to me recently. it got me thinking.
你說, "我只是個小女孩" You said, "I'm just a girl."
或許我已經變得太無情了, 但你只是個小女孩 Maybe I've grown too calloused over the years, but you are just a girl.
和許多年前 我課堂的學生沒什麼不同 Not unlike the students that flowed through my classes years ago.
我知道對你來說, 我們一定看起來很可怕... And l know that we must seem horrible to you...
但我們還有能力幫你 我們一定要這么做 but we still got something to offer. We must.
另外 我認為這是我們欠你媽媽的 And besides, l think we owe it to your mother.
雖然難以置信... And as hard is it is to believe...
但我們也曾是無辜的孩子 we, too, once were innocent children.
你真無恥 You are such a shameless ham.
你憑什麼認為我能這么做? What makes you think l could do this?
因為我們認識上帝, 上帝也認識我們 Because we know God, and God knows us.
他和蘿瑞把你帶到這來 肯定是有理由的 And he and Lorraine brought you here for a reason.
學校一個月後開課 School starts in a month.
試試看 會很有趣的 You can give us a chance. it might be fun.
"樂趣" 是種徒刑, 你不這么認為嗎? "Fun" is a stretch, don't you think?
聽聽, 甜心 那是你媽媽的歌 Listen, sweetheart, that's one of your mama's songs.
真美 That's beautiful.
她會很驕傲的 She'd be so proud.
你怎么看我的臉? What do you think of my face?
看到這個骨頭了嗎? 它斷了 See this bone? it's broken.
你可以移動它 But you can move it.
怎么會這樣的? How'd that happen?
"絕對不要和陌生人講道理" 亞瑟‧米勒說的 "Never fight fair with a stranger." Arthur Miller.
是打架造成的? 你打輸了? That happened in a fight? You lost?
嗯, 我輸掉了很多東西, 不僅僅是打架 Well, l lost a lot more than the fight.
它是不是有損於我的外觀？ 小姐，您覺得呢？ Does it take away from my appearance, in your opinion, miss?
我覺得你仍然很帥 l think you're still handsome.
多會講話 Well, aren't y'all sweet?
你們有過性關係嗎? Are you having sexual intercourse with one another?
- 好了, 魯斯教授, 我們走吧 -有的話，也沒關係 -Okay, Dr. Ruth, let's go. -it's all right if you are.
性愛是好事 Sex is nice.
要記住對彼此溫柔一點 Just remember to be kind to one another.
要盡量保持年輕 你們的青春是短暫的 要善待之 And stay young as long as you can. Your youth is fleeting. Be kind.
我們應該從記誦開始 We should start with memorization.
我想我們應該堅持蘇格拉底的方法 l think we should stick to the Socratic method.
你真的這樣想? 誰是柏拉圖, 誰是蘇格拉底... You do? Just exactly who is Plato and who is Socrates...
在這次安排中? 因為我不參與 in this arrangement? Because I'll just stay out.
你是蘇格拉底, 當然 You are Socrates, of course.
- 你是老師 -非常正確 -You are the Teacher. -You're goddamn right l am.
我希望你們都閉嘴... l wish y'all would just shut up...
因為如果這樣的話 我什麼都學不到 because if it's gonna be like this, l ain't learning nothing.
姑娘, 你的英語真是遭透了 Girl, your English is fucking atrocious.
帕斯琳‧霍米尼, 坐好了 Purslane Hominy, sit up.
我為什麼不能躺在床上讀書? Why can't l study in bed?
太熱了 這張椅子太不舒服了 it's so hot, and this chair is so uncomfortable.
它不應該舒服 那會使你昏昏欲睡 坐好了 it is not supposed to be comfortable. It'll put your brain to sleep. Sit up.
- 真是個壞習慣 - 你跟我談壞習慣? -it's just bad habits. -You're talking to me about bad habits?
別和老師胡攪蠻纏, 好嗎? Don't fuck with the Teacher, okay?
告訴我內布拉斯加在美國文學上的地位 Just tell me what is Nebraska's role in American Literature? Go.
-我不是應該學學首都什麼的嗎? -胡說, 你要學重要的東西 -Shouldn't l be learning the state capitals? -Bullshit. You'll learn what matters.
別再延宕了！ Don't procrastinate.
鹽盪？鹽巴要用什麼來盪啊？ By whatever do you mean, l don't have a card for procrastinate.
你真是不可救藥 You are just incorrigible.
"延宕者.... "Procrastinate.
"以可悲之步調蠕行... "To drag one's ass in such a pathetic manner...
"乃至... 注定窩囊終身也。" "as to ensure one's place in life as a loser."
嘿, 誰是窩囊癈？ Hey, who are you calling a loser?
- 操 - 開始 -Fuck. -Go.
好吧, 內布拉斯加 All right, Nebraska.
我們首批女性作家之一 威拉‧凱撒的家鄉 Home state of Willa Cather, one of our first successful female authors.
我是不是該東移到密蘇里 馬克‧吐溫在那裡出生... Or should l move east to Missouri, where Mark Twain...
他又名撒繆爾‧克萊門斯 還是往南到堪薩斯州... alias Samuel Clemens, was born, or down south to Kansas...
威廉‧勃若斯 在那裡渡過他的晚年生活 where William Burroughs spent his last years?
- 住手! - 嘿... -Stop! -Hey, man...
天主教學校應該不會教這個 l don't think they'll teach Burroughs at Catholic school.
嗯, 他們應該教的 Well, they ought to.
怎麼不給你的老哥們倒一杯? Why don't you pour your old buddy a drink?
-我們沒果汁了 -嗯, 那杯子裡的是什麼? -We're out of juice. -Well, what's in that glass?
沒有味道 it doesn't have a smell.
該死 那就倒些伏特加進去 Well, God damn it, pour some vodka in it then.
- 來吧 - 我們該戒酒了 -Go ahead. -We gotta quit.
我答應過珀熙，只要她讀書，我就... 看看我們，兩個廢人！ l promised Pursey if she'd study. l mean, look at us. We're worthless.
你什麼時候戒的？ And when was that, that you quit?
19個小時之前, 我們在考試的時候 Nineteen hours ago, when we were quizzing.
- 你睡過覺嗎? - 沒有 -Did you get some sleep? -No.
對她、對我們來說，都不急... There's no rush for her or for us...
你要戒的話，慢慢來吧！ so if you want to quit, take it slow.
信我一回 Now, trust me on this.
無酒氣者，無才氣也！ Take away the bottle, take away the genie.
嘿, 你在這幹什麼? Hey, what are you doing here?
我只是想讓勞森休息一會兒 l just thought I'd give Lawson a break.
讓他在臥室睡一下 來吧, 坐 Let him use the bedroom. Come on, sit down.
你今天看起來非常漂亮, 帕斯琳 You look very pretty today, Purslane.
只有外婆那樣叫我，不過，謝謝你 No one calls me that but my dead grandmother, but thanks.
你記得怎麼去嗎？ Now, you remember how to get there?
我知道位置，應該找得到 l know where it is all right, so l guess l should be going.
緊張嗎? You nervous?
不 No.
是的 Yeah.
要我和你一起乘電車嗎? Want me to take the streetcar with you?
不, 我一個人可以 No, I'll be okay.
好吧, 我知道你行的 Well, l know you'll just do fine.
你從學校回來的時候，我們會在這裡... And we'll be right here when you get back from school...
幫助你做功課 to help you with your homework.
天啊, 你真能掰 Christ, you're really living in some parallel universe.
把我和「功課」扯到一塊兒了 Me and "homework" in the same sentence.
你快要跟「遲到」扯到一塊兒了, 所以.... it's about to become you and "tardy" in the same sentence, so....
你想她會直接回家嗎? Think she'll come right home?
直接回來，找她妙趣無窮的中年室友.... Where else would a teenage girl go but straight home...
除此而外，一個小女孩還能去哪兒？ to her endlessly entertaining middle-aged roommates?
她可不是省油的燈，用那種噪音折磨我 She's no picnic. Tortures me with that noise.
那孩子應該知道，真正值得聽的音樂，來自黑膠唱片 That child should know anything worth listening to is on vinyl.
我的孩子們就知道這點 My kids knew it.
我教的，我是他們的爸爸 l taught them. l was their father.
你仍然是的 You still are.
當你完成那本書的時候，他們就會明白了 One day they'll understand, when you finish that book.
我的孩子們甚至都不認識我 My kids don't even know me.
靠, 我們就不能做點別的事情? Shit, can we do anything besides this?
- 比如什麼? - 我也他媽的不知道 -Like what? -Fuck if l know.
- 我們可以去釣魚 - 你不會釣魚 -We could go fishing. -You don't fish.
或許我應該開始... Maybe l should start...
做點什麼 something.
或許你應該開始那本書的工作 Maybe you should start working on your damn book.
我還不知道故事的結局呢 l don't know the end of the story yet.
將軍 我們走吧，我要悶死了！ Checkmate. Let's get out of here. We're depressing me.
你知道嗎？我想說... You know, l wanna say something...
有關人生的問題 因為未經檢證的人生... about life, because an unexamined life...
- 不過是個... - 不值得活的人生 -is simply a life... -Not worth living.
帕斯琳, 我們的神童回來了 Purslane, our prodigy has returned.
告訴我們一切 Now, tell us everything.
親愛的, 怎麼這么早就離開學校了? Honey, why did you leave school early?
我不屬于那裡 l didn't belong there.
我很感激你們為我所做的，但我不會再回去了 l appreciate what y'all are doing, but I'm not going back.
什麼? What?
我真的需要一份工作 l really need a job.
- 你可以周末來這工作, 甜心 - 真的? -You can work here on the weekends, sugar. -Really?
- 只要你在學校讀書 - 好樣的, 鄂爾 -Only if you're in school, though. -Good one, Earl.
秋天慢慢的降臨新奧爾良 Autumn comes slowly in New Orleans.
小草仍然堅持青綠... The grass remains a stubborn green...
但天氣已不再炎熱 but the heat gives way to a gentle warmth.
珀熙開始跟上課業了 Pursey did begin to catch on in school.
她很驚訝 但我們沒有 She was surprised. We weren't.
我們尚未發覺日照漸短，冬季已悄然來到 Winter arrived before we realized the sunlit hours of summer had waned.
不知怎麼的, 酒卻傲然長存... Somehow, the wine began to outlast the day...
存活之久，超乎大家的期盼 and that was more than anyone could have asked for.
應該有人告訴那些鄉巴佬，我們路易斯安那有樣東西叫冬天 Someone should have told them Creoles we got something called winter in Louisiana.
我們或許能補救他們的疏失... We might have improved on their oversight...
因為有這個新發明，叫做「熱氣」 with this cool new invention called heat.
- 珀熙, 你把伏特加放哪兒了? - 你叫我藏起來的 -Pursey, where'd you put the vodka? -You told me to hide it.
沒錯 但你把它藏哪兒了? l did. But where did you hide it?
我不可以告訴你的 還記得嗎? I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
別的事 你可沒這么聽話呀！它在哪兒? You don't do anything else l tell you to do. Where is it?
勞森, 鮑比又叫我告訴他伏特加在哪兒了 Lawson, Bobby's trying to get me to tell him where the vodka is again.
- 今天是聖誕節 - 好吧, 在後面樓梯的下面 -it is Christmas. -Whatever. it's under the back stairs.
我敢發誓該輪到你洗衣服了 And l could have sworn it was your turn to do the laundry.
別忘了用那可愛的小熊 Don't forget to use the cuddly bear stuff.
你不是處女, 對嗎? But you aren't a virgin, are you?
你知道, 像這樣的性騷擾... You know, some people would call you a disgusting old man...
人家會說你是"噁老頭" for your constant sexual harassment.
我想應該是"老色鬼"；而不是"噁老頭" l believe the term is "dirty old man," not "disgusting."
你正是青春綻放的年紀 And you are a young, blooming bud.
- 讓我把你當自己的孩子看吧！ - 是嗎？ -Let me live vicariously. You aren't, are you? -Are you?
我有孩子 Well, l have children.
你怎麼從來不看他們? Why don't you ever see them?
嗯, 問得好 但你還沒回答我的問題 Well, that's a good question. But you haven't answered mine.
這次我可是真的想知道，別乎攸我 You know, I'm trying to be serious for once, Bobby. God.
事實是, 我希望能見他們 我想死他們了 The truth is, l wish l could see them. l miss them like hell.
在我看來 如果某人真想見自己的孩子... it seems to me if someone wanted to see their kids...
那他就一定會去 除非他根本不在乎 then they damn well would, unless they didn't give a shit.
你呢？ How about you?
你還記得你媽媽和你一起住的那段日子嗎? Do you remember your mother when y'all were living together?
不怎麼記得 No, not really.
我以前常常試著記起她 l used to try to remember her.
任何關于她的事 Anything about her.
像她的聲音, 她身上的味道, 任何事 Like her voice, the way she smelled, you know, anything.
盡我所能的去想她... l used to think real hard....
想要記憶 wanting memories.
於是我開始編造記憶 And l just started making them up.
她刷上眼影 在鏡子裡對我說話... That she was putting on her eye shadow and talking to me in the mirror...
有時，我假裝... or I'd pretend that...
她為我做了烤奶酪 上面還裹著麵包脆皮 she'd make me these perfect grilled cheeses with the crusts cut off.
我曾有過各種各樣編造的記憶 l had all kinds of made-up memories.
我最喜歡的一個是 她帶我去看她的演出... My favorite one was that she'd take me to see her shows...
我坐在一位紳士身邊... and l would be sitting on the side with this nice man...
他給我好喝的莎利譚寶（無酒精雞尾酒） who'd give me all the Shirley Temples l wanted.
我編造了許多記憶... l made up so many memories...
我甚至開始相信 我真的記得她 l actually started to believe l was really remembering her.
但她從沒來看我 所以我也忘了 But she never came for me, so l just forgot.
你知道... You know...
停止假裝 stopped pretending.
Ho, ho, ho!
- 那是真的樹嗎? - 天哪, 你從哪兒搞來的? -ls that a real tree? -Lord, where did you get that?
是從一輛卡車上掉下來的 it fell off the back of a truck.
- 鬼才相信 - 好吧, 大概是Volvo車上的 -Like hell it did. -All right, maybe it was a Volvo.
我們應該把它放在顯眼的地方 We should put it right up front where everybody could see.
當然了 Sure.
勞森, 洗好的衣服在哪兒? Lawson, where's the laundry?
靠 Shit.
"我記得和他成為密友的那天 "l remember the day l graduated from protégé to confidant.
"他從來都不讓我知道他的秘密 "He never meant to let me in on his secrets.
"他陶醉於自己的神秘 "He thrived on his own mystery.
但第一個秘密一旦揭開... "But once the first one was discovered...
"沒有多久，我們就能無所不談了 "it wasn't long before there were none left between us.
"在圖書館的後面... "l was on the back steps of the library...
"我看到了他的制服... 那是剛洗好的襯衫... "when l spotted his uniform, a freshly laundered shirt...
"復活節的顏色, 還有那該死的帽子 "the color of Easter, and that damn hat.
"他故意在校園裡溜達 "He strode across campus with purpose.
"湯米顯然是有備而來" "Everything about Tommy said ready."
- 湯米就是我, 這樣你可以聽懂 - 聽得出來是你 -I'm Tommy, just so you can follow. -Sounds just like you.
"他差點從我身邊閃過 "He almost skipped right passed me.
"帽子不錯啊", 我說... "'Nice hat,' l said...
"引來了湯米的招牌笑容 "eliciting Tommy's notorious smile.
"他見到順眼的女人，就會露出這個笑容 "it was the same smile that he granted to each woman that caught his eye.
"這個笑容，也是他回應無聊問題的方式 "The smile that served as an answer to all undesirable questions.
"也是孩子們的小手追尋他時... "Or the smile for one of his children...
“他給予孩子的一瞥” "whenever he found a tiny hand reaching for his."
不錯... That's nice...
- 但我認為那是個病句 - 我想全都是 -but l think that might be a bad sentence. -l think they all are.
那就是他們吊在聖誕樹上的原因 That's why they're hanging from the goddamn Christmas tree.
不, 只不過一般來說... 不太... No, but it's just that, normally, it's just not on....
"湯米踏上階梯, 一步二階，吼著 '可惡... "Tommy took the stairs, two at a time, bellowing, 'Well, God damn...
'如果不是南方的好兒女' "if it isn't the South's next great native son.'
"我跟其他數百人一樣虔敬，每週2次... "l was only one of hundreds who came religiously twice a week...
"讓教授搞得目眩神馳，他的演出，處處值得喝彩 "to be dazzled by the Professor, each performance worthy of applause.
"湯米在講堂前 振臂疾呼... "Tommy, at the front of the hall, waving his arms wildly...
"彷彿揮動著一條假想的套索" "as if mastering an imaginary lasso."
- 我比較喜歡「繩索」, 我想你... - 我喜歡「套索」 -l like "lariat" better. l think you... -l like "lasso."
几年前, 你相信我的看法 Years ago, you trusted my opinion.
以前, 你比較讓人相信 Years ago, you were easier to trust.
非常感謝你們 聖誕節快樂 Thank y'all very much. Have a Merry Christmas.
談到阿拉巴馬舞，沒人比得上鮑比‧朗 Nobody can do the Alabama shuffle as good as Bobby Long...
但這個美眉 真的很會跳 but this sweet thing, she can move.
- 你為什麼不一直這么討人喜歡? - 那樣我能得到什麼? -Why can't you be this sweet all the time? -Sure, and what would that get me?
純粹的喜樂 Pure, unadulterated joy.
- 你淫蕩的雙眼別死盯著我們美眉 - 什麼? -You keep your lecherous eyes off our girl. -What?
她不喜歡我 她比較喜歡勞森 She don't like me. She likes Lawson better than she likes me.
你喜歡勞森勝過我, 不是嗎? You like Lawson better than me, don't you?
你喝醉了 You're drunk.
說真的，我的確醉了 You know what, l am. l really am.
沒關係，勞森會帶我們回家 But it's all right, because Lawson is gonna take us home.
今晚不行，他今晚是我的 Not tonight. l got him all to myself.
你告訴他們了嗎, 親愛的? You told them about the news, honey?
我們正考慮或許在假期之後... We were just thinking that maybe after the holidays...
他可以搬來和我一起住 做些正經事 he could move in with me and get some more work done.
這是我們想了很久的事 it's just something that we kicked around.
勞森不愛你 Lawson is not in love with you.
鮑比 這不關你的鳥事 Bobby, l don't think that's any of your damn business.
我見過他為之無法自拔的女子 I've seen him with a woman that he can't get enough of.
她侵入他每一個細胞... A woman that's crawled into every molecule of his being...
占據了他全部的心思 that consumed his every thought...
讓他全心投入、魂牽夢縈 and turned him into a creation of devotion and obsession.
我臉上有那種愛的疤痕 l have the scars of that love on my face.
你告訴過她嗎? Have you told her about that?
你告訴過她沒有？ 什麼是真愛... Have you told her about the difference between true love...
什麼是排遣寂莫的床友 and a warm bed to pass the time away?
冷靜點 別針對她 我從沒說過我要去哪裡 Cool it. Don't go after her. l never said l was going anywhere.
我只是說實話 l only speak the truth.
女人有權知道真相 The woman deserves to know the truth.
而你，有權做你喜歡的事 And you, you're free to do as you please.
真的嗎? Am l, really?
終於自由了？ Finally free?
我要在此告訴你們 l want to say something on this occasion...
在此我們為愛和友誼慶賀 where we're celebrating our love and friendships with one another.
"朋友，我以敵人之名喚你 "Friend by enemy l call you out
"你, 行頭中有一枚劣幣 "You there, with a bad coin in your socket
"我一臉得意的朋友 "You there, my friend with a winning air
"你無情窺探我的私秘，卻對我撒謊 "Who palmed the lie on me when you looked brassily at my shyest secret
"我的心粉碎在你的錘下 "With my whole heart under your hammer
"雖然我為他的短處愛他 "That though l loved him for his faults
"如我愛他的長處一樣 "As much as for his good
"我的朋友是高蹺上的敵人 "My friend were an enemy on stilts
"頭上頂著狡猾的光環 "With his head in a cunning cloud"
好極了, 伙計 Bravo, man.
現在, 你為什麼不直接了當的說你的想法呢? Now, why don't you come out and fucking say what you really mean?
你嘴裡出來的每個字 都得要這么有個性... Does every word out of your mouth have to be in character...
還是你一定要借他人之口，從不暴露自己？ or is that the idea: just to be anybody but who you really are?
你想告訴我你對我很失望? You want to tell me that you're disappointed in me?
'因為也許我對你很失望 'Cause maybe I'm disappointed in you.
我從沒要求幫你寫什麼該死的書 You know, l never asked to write your damn book.
你的贖罪和我的懺悔, 是嗎? Your redemption and my penance, right?
我豈未付出贖價？ Haven't l paid?
他媽的9年了 Nine fucking years.
我很抱歉, 行了嗎? l am sorry, all right?
我真他媽抱歉 l am so fucking sorry.
是廸倫‧湯馬斯寫的 it's Dylan Thomas.
〈致某人〉 To Others Than You.
這首算簡單的 That's an easy one.
晚安, 鮑比 Good night, Bobby.
可惡 Shit.
你還好嗎? 我可以進來嗎? You okay? Can l come in?
你這次是自找難堪了 You really did a number on yourself this time.
勞森要丟下我一個人了 Lawson's gonna leave me right by myself.
我早就知道了 l always knew it.
我應得的 l deserve it.
我要孤獨的死去了 I'm gonna die alone.
他不會離開你的 He's not gonna leave you.
- 不, 他會的 - 不 -Yes, he is. -No.
他一直會在你身邊的 He'll always be there for you.
他剪碎了我的故事 它挂在聖誕樹上 He cut up my story and hung it on the Christmas tree.
親愛的, 我尿在自己身上了 Honey, l peed myself.
好吧, 上床睡覺了 來吧 All right, let's get you into bed. Come on.
噢, 天哪 Oh, God.
真是太冷了 it's so damn cold.
他怎么樣? How is he?
- 我想他尿血了 - 該死 -l think he peed blood. -God damn it.
我知道他今晚不對勁 l knew he wasn't himself tonight.
他害怕醫生 He's afraid of doctors.
很可能是細菌之類的引起的 沒事的 it's probably some bacterial thing. it's nothing.
- 你要搬出去嗎? - 不 -Are you gonna move out? -No.
你愛她嗎? Are you in love with her?
不 No.
她真的很好 She's really nice.
是的 Yeah, she is.
你擔心他嗎? Are you worried about him?
出什麼事了, 勞森? What happened, Lawson?
當我認識鮑比的時候 他似乎玩世不恭 When l met Bobby, he seemed absolutely larger than life.
為所欲為... Did whatever the hell he wanted...
但仍有美麗的妻子和孩子 but still he had the beautiful wife and kids.
學生愛戴他 教員嫉妒他 Students loved him. Faculty hated him.
女人想要他 Women wanted him.
天哪, 他讓我對自己的天命深信不疑... Christ, he had me so convinced of my own grand destiny...
我可能都有點自戀了 l may have fallen a little in love myself.
我們一直到處瞎混 We hung out all the time.
有一個我想娶的女人 There was a woman who l wanted to marry.
她的朋友非常迷戀鮑比 Her friend fell for Bobby pretty hard.
他開始花更多的時間和我們鬼混 冷落了妻小 He started spending more time with us than he was at home.
一天晚上 他們最小的孩子有一場少兒聯盟球賽 One night, their youngest had a Little League game.
是2場連賽 it was a double-header.
所以我讓他放心, 先和姑娘們喝几杯 So l convinced him to have drinks with the girls first.
說我稍後會和他一起去看比賽 Said I'd go to the game with him later.
他一直說他要離開了 He kept on saying he had to leave.
不知怎么的, 一杯接著一杯 Somehow one drink became two, and then three.
然後... And then...
那個白痴, 教務長的侄子... this idiot, the dean's nephew...
進來宣稱... came in and announced...
他和我的女友同床 that he was sleeping with my girlfriend...
除了我每個人都知道 and everyone knew but me.
我追打他 l went after him.
他揮起一拳 He took a swing.
鮑比進來了... Bobby stepped in...
他把鮑比的臉打了一個大口子 and he cracked Bobby's face wide open.
鮑比把那個小鬼狠狠地揍了一頓 Bobby went crazy. He beat up that kid pretty bad.
那時很晚了 lt'd just gotten so late.
我知道班一定會等我們的 l knew Ben would be waiting.
但當我們到的時候, 他已經不見了 But when we got there, he was gone.
每個人都離開了 Everyone was.
他不該一個人去的 He should never have been by himself.
他那麼小 天又那麼黑 He was just a little boy, and it was so dark.
人那麼多... There's too many people...
在那條路上來去匆匆 in such a damn hurry on that road.
司機當然看不見他 There's no way a driver could have seen him.
他個子這麼小 l mean, he was so little.
天哪, 他崇拜他的父親 And, God, he worshipped his dad.
朱麗葉叫鮑比離開 再也別回來 Juliette told Bobby to leave and never come back.
她需要一個更好的男人 She needed a better man.
她是那麼說的 That's how she put it.
所以你們來這? So you came here?
似乎是個寫作的好地方 遠走他鄉... Seemed like a good place to write. it was far away...
有好大學 good universities.
鮑比可以重新開始 Bobby could start over.
我想我應該和他一起待著 l thought l should be here with him.
那晚 要不是我... l mean, if it wasn't for me that night...
就不會... things might have....
我真不知怎麼會這樣 l don't know what happened, really.
我們讀了太多該死的書 We read too many damn books.
這座城市有迷人之處 There's something about this city.
就是這樣 That's all.
你該睡一會 You should get some sleep.
我幫你做了臥床早餐 l made you breakfast in mattress.
謝謝, 女士 Thank you, ma'am.
有那個男人的消息嗎？ Have we heard from the man yet?
沒有 要先把他叫起來嗎? No. Should we get him up first?
把那件襯衫給我好嗎? Can you give me that shirt, please?
謝謝 Thank you.
帽子不錯 Nice hat.
起來, 老先生 聽說我們要帶你去看醫生 Get up, old man. l hear we gotta take you to a doctor.
把那個從你的"小鳥"上拿走 And get that off your pecker.
你操什麼心？ 你反正要撕碎了 What do you care? You're slicing it up, anyway.
但我不想讓我的作品染上花柳病 it doesn't mean l want my book getting the clap.
我突然想讀一些我自己可愛的事 l had the urge to read something likable about myself.
發現什麼了嗎? Find anything?
沒有 Not really.
我并不想把你和喬吉安娜的事搞的一團糟 l didn't mean to mess things up between you and Georgianna.
我那些話真的不是有意的 l didn't mean what l said.
噢, 天哪 Oh, Christ.
昨晚真亂 我們到底說了些什麼？ Last night was a blur. l don't know what was said.
我也不想記起來 And l don't want to remember.
- 來吧 - 好啊, 禮物來啦！ -Come on. -Good, presents. Yay!
聖誕節快樂! Merry Christmas!
那一晚 那裡是我們所有人的家 It was our home that night, all of ours.
我們都知道應該告訴她真相... We both knew we should tell her the truth...
但每天都感覺不是時候 but every day felt like the wrong day.
聖誕節是個相信童話故事的好日子 And Christmas is as good a day as any to believe in fairy tales.
那晚勾起了鮑比和我的回憶起... That night reminded Bobby and me of a time in our lives...
在她出現之前 我們都不願記起的往事 we'd both chosen to forget until she arrived.
回憶的感覺真好... It felt good to remember...
只要一下下就好 if just for a little while.
我吃的真飽 I'm so full.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
我真希望會下雪 l wish it would snow.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
但我喜歡雨 But l love the rain.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
快點, 你總要小便的 Come on, man. You gotta piss sometime.
你看著我 我尿不出來 Christ, l can't do it while you're watching me.
我看過你小便一千遍了 I've seen you piss a thousand times.
嗯, 我突然害羞了,行了吧? Well, suddenly l am shy, okay?
快尿 Piss right now.
搞不好根本沒事嘛！ Christ, it's probably nothing, man.
我也活得夠久了 I've lived long enough anyhow.
天哪, 真冷 Lord, it's cold.
很乾淨，什麼都沒有 it's clear. l pissed clear.
見鬼了，少騙人了 Like hell you did. Don't lie to me.
只是一點點淡紅 我不去 So it was a little pink. I'm not going.
你還有沒有沒燒掉或剪掉的短篇故事？ You got any short stories you haven't destroyed by fire or scissor?
我的英語期末考, 我得寫點東西... My English final, l gotta write something...
還要在全班面前朗讀 每個人都要 and read it in front of the entire class, and there's no exceptions.
- 靠！ - 你英語沒問題 -Fuck! -So you're doing okay in English.
我會讀 但我不是作家 I'm doing okay reading English. I'm not a writer.
- 你穿的什麼啊? - 關你屁事? -What the hell are you wearing? -What do you care?
是蘿瑞的 你讓她的東西放在那養灰 it's Lorraine's. You just let her stuff collect dust in there.
你寧願凍死 也不穿你媽的衣服 You'd rather freeze than wear your mama's clothes.
這件睡袍和它的主人... This robe and the person who wore it...
比一百個不懂得欣賞的人要強 is worth more than a hundred people who don't appreciate them.
出什麼事了? ls something wrong?
- 你要告訴她嗎? - 告訴她什麼? -You gonna tell her? -Tell her what?
我們要帶鮑比去看醫生 他還在尿血 We gotta take Bobby to the doctor. He's still pissing blood.
已經拖了好几個禮拜了 He's been putting it off for weeks.
好的 Okay.
你不會穿著女性內衣吧？ l hope you're not wearing them lady underwear.
我肯定是穿了，會招好運的 l most certainly am. They're good luck.
反正是得脫掉的 Besides, they're gonna take them off anyway...
還得套上帶號碼的病人服 and put one of them backless numbers on me.
還得讓大家看我的小弟弟 Everybody's seen my peter.
是哦 人人都想看你小弟弟喲 That's right. Everyone just wants to see your peter.
還有我的屁股 And my ass.
走吧 Let's go.
我就說嘛 我屁股上掛著該死的繩子 What did l tell you? Goddamn string draped over my ass.
鮑比呢? 我做了他喜歡的燻肉雞湯 Where's Bobby? l made him that andouille gumbo shit he loves.
他們還要做一些檢驗 They needed him for some more tests.
- 沒事吧? - 醫生說應該沒事 -ls he all right? -They think so.
他們要檢查腳趾再確定 They just gotta look at his toe and make sure.
你可以請喬吉安娜過來吃晚飯 Well, then, maybe you might wanna invite Georgianna over for dinner.
她應該要工作 有什麼我不知道的活動嗎? l think she's working. ls there an occasion l don't know about?
我有個約會 l have a date.
真的? 第一次 Really? That's a first.
我想該是我過自己生活的時候了 l figured it was about time l got a life.
很高興聽你這么說 Great to hear it.
- 新衣服嗎? - 是的 -ls that a new dress? -Yeah.
嗯, 算是吧 Well, sort of.
鮑比說的對 沒有理由讓蘿瑞的衣服放在那裡養灰 l mean, Bobby's right. There's no reason to let Lorraine's clothes collect dust.
她真的很嬌小 你不知道我癈了多大的事才把拉鏈拉上 She was really tiny. You should have seen me trying to zip it up.
讓它一直拉上吧！ Just make sure it stays zipped up.
我長大了, 勞森 我老早就長大了 I'm a big girl, Lawson. l have been for quite some time now.
嘿, 那是SAT申請表嗎? Hey, is that an SAT application?
是的, 咨商老師給我的 我打算扔了 Yeah. My guidance counselor gave it to me. l meant to throw it out.
什麼? What?
既然她認為你的成績可以上大學 你就能上 if she thinks your grades are good enough for college, you go to college.
- 嗯, 上大學要錢 - 有助學貸款 -Well, college costs money. -There's financial aid.
可能還得離開家 l might have to go away.
沒錯 You might.
- 我要走了 - 他不來接你嗎? -l have to go. -isn't he picking you up?
不, 我和他約了地方見面 No. I'm meeting him somewhere.
不要一個人從車站走回家 You can't walk home from the streetcar alone.
- 打電話到雷和露絲那裡找我, 我會... - 我會搭便車 -Call me at Ray and Ruthie's and I'll... -No, I'll get a ride.
你應該多花點時間和喬吉安娜在一起 Besides, you should spend time alone with Georgianna.
從聖誕節前開始，你就沒陪她了, 對嗎? You haven't stayed over there since before Christmas, right?
你說你想多看看新奧爾良的音樂場所 You said you wanted to see more of the New Orleans music scene.
我想這裡是個開始的好地方 l figure this is a good place to start.
- 我認識他 - 真的? -l know him. -Really?
嘿, 甜心, 你在這做什麼? Hey, sugar, what are you doing here?
我的朋友肖恩帶我來的 肖恩, 這是朱尼奧 My friend Sean brought me. Sean, this is Junior.
很高興認識你 我常看你演奏 Great to meet you. I've seen you play around, man.
你真的很棒, 真的, 真的很棒 You are great, man. Really, really great.
我怎么不知道你是個瘋狂的薩克斯手? How come l didn't know you were a badass sax player?
嗯, 我現在很少吹了 Well, l don't play much anymore, you know.
我的氣... l mean, l don't have....
...不太足了 Don't got the lungs for it.
- 鮑比怎么樣? - 聽起來比你好些 -How's Bobby? -Better than you sound.
-你又開始偷懶了? - 泰尼, 有個人要讓你見見 -You sitting in again, or what? -Tiny, there's somebody l want you to meet.
不會是那個討人喜歡的小女孩帕斯琳吧？ This can't be that sweet baby girl, Purslane.
- 你不記得我了嗎? - 嗯, 對不起 -You don't remember me, do you? -No, sorry.
你媽媽以前在這演出... When your mama used to play here...
她常把你放在那裡的凳子上 she used to sit you right over there on that stool.
你好可愛 And you was so cute.
我的責任，就是讓你一直有莎利譚寶酒可以喝 See, my job was to keep you full of Shirley Temples.
你還記得嗎? You remember that?
那時你和朱利奧都幫蘿瑞的演奏 With Junior. You used to play with Lorraine back then.
你們一起在樂團吧？ You were in the band, weren't you?
她和朱利奧是我們這裡最強的晚場，鬥嘴的時候不算 Yeah, she and Junior was our best night here, when they wasn't bickering.
小帕斯琳 Little Purslane.
真高興 你回來看老泰尼... Look, you come back and see old Tiny again, all right?
還有免費招待的莎利譚寶酒 And the Shirley Temples on the house.
待會兒見 See you later, man.
你真的在蘿瑞的樂隊裡待過? You were really in Lorraine's band?
當然了 Of course l was.
那時候每個人都是，很普通 l mean, everybody was at that time. That's just how it was.
蘿瑞和我... Lorraine and me...
我們曾經很親近 we were close at one time.
我還記得看過她穿這件衣服 l remember the last time she wore that dress.
就和你穿起來一樣漂亮 it looks just as pretty on you.
我得失陪了 l gotta go.
很高興你來這, 親愛的 Glad you came, honey.
為什麼不告訴我你媽媽是個歌手? 太酷了 Why didn't you tell me your mama was a singer? That's so cool.
那是很久以前的事了 l don't know. it was a long time ago.
你要一杯嗎? 我准備好了 You want a drink? I'm ready.
天哪 你這么急著回家? Jesus. Are you anxious to get home?
除非你和帕斯琳不要我了 Unless you and Purslane don't want me around anymore.
你終於看出來了 You finally figured us out.
- 判決是什麼? - 我得了腎炎 -What's the verdict? -l got a kidney infection.
他們給了我一些藥 They gave me some medicine.
說我必須戒酒 Said l got to dry out.
腳趾怎么樣? What about the toe?
只是真菌感染 粘糊糊的 it's just a fungus. Got goop.
你命好，沒事的 You're a lucky man. You're gonna be all right.
當然沒事 萬一有事呢？ Of course l am. But what if l wasn't?
什麼意思? What do you mean?
我聖誕夜看到你和帕斯琳在一起 l saw you with Purslane on Christmas Eve.
- 你和她同床了嗎, 勞森? - 不, 你怎么會那樣想? -Are you sleeping with her, Lawson? -No. How could you think that?
因為她一天比一天迷人 Because she's becoming more fetching every day.
因為她是個年輕女人 Because she's a young woman.
情竇初開的女子，你我都清楚那有多好 She's got a crush, and we both know how nice that is.
- 她只是個孩子, 鮑比 - 她18了 -She's a kid, Bobby. -She's 18.
我認識我太太時, 她也才有18歲 My wife was 18 when l met her.
是一見鐘情 it was love at first sight.
什麼事也沒發 那晚... Nothing happened. That night...
事情有點鬧僵了... things had gotten a little out of hand...
她大概有點被嚇著了 and l think she was kind of frightened by it all.
她有些寒冷、寂寞 She was feeling a bit lonely and cold.
我看... 寂寞的不只是她一個人吧 Well, my guess is that she wasn't the only one.
記住, 她是蘿瑞的女兒 Just remember, she's Lorraine's daughter.
- 你是在嫉妒 - 那當然 -You're jealous. -Absolutely.
靠, 我不值得花這么多錢 Shit, l ain't worth this much.
靠, 不會吧 Fuck, no.
新奧爾良不是寒冬恣意為虐的地方 Winter never feels truly at home in New Orleans.
它像個不速之客，賴著不走... An unwelcome visitor that shows up long enough...
教人想起 我們缺了什麼... to remind us of what we're missing...
卻又馬上離去，再次被人遺忘 and leaves us just in time for us to forget again.
春天了, 我們還在 Spring, and we're still here.
我說, 不如我們帶瓶酒... How about we grab a bottle of wine...
去河邊，像以前那樣，怎麼樣？ and go down to the river like we used to? What do you think of that?
還記得那個裸泳的大方女孩嗎？ Remember that very generous girl who used to skinny-dip?
- 她叫什麼名字? - 不知道 -What was her name? -l don't know.
她又重生了 She's born-again now.
你想，我們上天堂以後，還會住在一起嗎? Think we'll still be living together in heaven?
要是我們進得了天堂，那所有人都能進了 if we make it to heaven, then everybody will be there...
我就大可以隨便挑... and I'll have my pick of goddamn debauchers:
拜倫, 薩德, 海明威 Byron, de Sade, Hemingway.
那些悲情詩人加起來，也不如我有趣 I'll be more fun than all of them whiners put together.
是啊，應該是吧 Yes, l guess you would.
- 我真的認為珀熙可以得到助學貸款 - 你能不能忘了那事? -l really think Pursey can get financial aid. -Will you forget that?
我們教了她一切，她就可以去讀個名校 She's gonna go off to some fancy school after we taught her everything she knows.
我們卻在這裡變老、變醜... We'll still be sitting here getting older and uglier...
任何一個春天，說不定就是最後一個... and any spring could be our last....
可惡, 我現在就想去河邊 God damn it, l wanna go to the river now.
你這老不死的幹嘛這麼激情？ Why are you such a dramatic old bastard?
"我只是想每天好好活著 "l just want to breathe in every day.
"幸福以高度 來彌補它的短暫" "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."
- 羅伯特‧弗斯特 - 走吧 -Robert Frost. -Come on.
你很清楚：她離開的話，就會想念我們 You know damn well she'll miss us if she leaves.
她走了就走了，完結篇，沒戲了！ if she leaves, she's gone. Final chapter. End of story.
我想現在去河邊 l want to go to the river now.
但我需要寧靜 我有好多事要做... But l need peace and quiet. l got so much to do...
為了畢業，我得寫短篇小說, 或是詩什麼的 to pull off this graduation. l gotta write a short story, or poem, or something.
我腦筋一片空白 l can't think of anything.
- 我會搞砸的 - 我了解你 -I'm gonna blow the whole thing. -l know you.
- 你會做得很好的 - 再見 -You'll be fine. -I'll see you later.
嘿, 寶貝 Hey, babe.
我等你一整天了 I've been waiting for you all day.
李, 你在這裡幹嘛？你怎麼找來的？ Lee, what are you doing here? How did you find me?
你好香啊 You smell nice.
你不請我進去嗎? 我開了一整夜的車 Aren't you gonna ask me in? l drove all night.
我給你帶了這個 And l got you this.
這地方真像你住的 This place really looks like you.
那些女性雜誌 All those lady magazines--
我不看那些了 我沒時間 l don't read those anymore. l don't have the time.
你現在做什麼? 服務生? What are you doing now? You waitressing?
不, 我... 不關你的事 No, I'm.... it's none of your business.
你一定過得很好 沒有房租... Man, you must be doing okay. No rent...
這裡總比拖車要強 and this place definitely kicks ass over the trailer.
- 李, 你想怎麼樣？ - 你這是什麼話？ -Lee, what do you want? -What do you mean?
我只是來看看你是不是安穩... l just came up here to make sure that you're safe...
- 把蘿瑞的白痴朋友們趕走之後 -你在說什麼? -once Lorraine's fool friends get the boot... -What are you talking about?
那些和你一起住的傢伙 Those guys that you had to share this place with.
你怎么知道我跟誰一起住? How do you know who l live with?
有個律師寄給你一封信 Some lawyer sent you a letter.
當然, 你拆開了 Which you, of course, opened.
他們的期限快到了... Their year is almost up...
我一直都努力向上 and I've been trying really hard to better myself.
- 我好想念你 - 這封信說到7月1日為止... -I've missed you so much -This letter says as of July 1 ...
- 我是這房子的唯一擁有者 - 是的, 我知道 -I'm the sole owner of this house. -Yeah, l know.
你不知道? 天哪! You didn't know that? Jesus Christ, man!
- 那些卑鄙的窩囊廢騙了你 -他們不是窩囊廢, 他們是我的... -Those fucking scumbag losers lied-- -They are not losers. They're my....
- 是你的什麼? -你不能叫他們窩囊廢 -They're your what? -You cannot call them losers.
你想... 現在我過著正經的生活，我上學... You think that.... l have a real life now. l go to school--
- 正經的生活? - 對 -A real life? -Yeah.
和我們以前的狗屎生活大不同？ As opposed to the piece-of-shit life that we had?
你的正經生活裡，大概也搞上了正經男人吧！ And l guess you got some real men in your real life, too.
騙騙小女孩，謀個安身之所的男人 Men who lie to girls so they can have a roof over their heads?
- 去你的! - 還是... -Fuck you! -Or what...
他們是不是還有其他好處？ Are they getting something else for their trouble?
他們利用了你, 帕斯琳 They used you, Purslane.
- 就像他們利用蘿瑞那樣 - 滾出去 -Just like they used Lorraine. -Get out.
很好! 我大老遠來見你! That's just fine! l came all the way up here to see you!
你上學 真是好笑 You're in school now. That's some funny stuff.
我要提醒你, 帕斯琳 l want you to remember something, Purslane.
雜草永遠是雜草... A weed is just a weed...
不管花有多漂亮 no matter how pretty the flower.
真他媽有學問, 李, 滾出去! That's just fucking brilliant, Lee. Get out!
究竟出什麼事了? What the hell is going on?
她一定是在打掃或是什麼 She must be cleaning or something.
她把門鎖上了 She locked the door.
珀熙, 開門, 親愛的 Pursey, open up, honey.
珀熙, 是我們 Pursey, it's us.
珀熙, 親愛的, 開開門 Pursey, honey, open up.
- 你把門鎖起來了 - 該死, 我說過 這種事遲早會發生的 -You locked the door. -God damn it, l told you this would happen.
噢, 天哪, 怎么會? No. Oh, God. How?
走吧, 她需要點時間 Let's go. She needs some time.
都2天了 沒人見過她 Two goddamn days and no one's seen her.
她這周末請假了 She asked for the weekend off.
蹤影全無 The trail is exhausted.
雷說她今天一早來過，打了電話 Ray said she came in early this morning. Used the phone.
- 避開了我們? - 八成是有意的 -She snuck past us? -Probably on purpose.
你們這樣，可沒帶來什麼溫暖啊！ You have not been very supportive in this ordeal.
你現在不是住在我家嗎？要另覓溫暖的話，請自便！ You're staying with me, aren't you? You're welcome to go elsewhere.
我可以解決 l can rectify this.
明天她去上學，我設好鬧鐘，早點起床 Tomorrow she goes to school. I'll set the alarm. Get up early.
在路上和她談談 Talk to her on the way.
把事情擺平 Work this whole thing out.
我們沒有鬧鐘 We don't have an alarm.
甜心, 我們一直在等你 Sweetheart, we've been waiting for you.
你覺得怎么樣? 都是你喜歡的顏色 What do you think? it's all your favorite colors.
猜猜有誰幫了忙? 有雷, 艾克, 甚至鄂爾 And guess who helped? We had Ray, and lke, and even Earl.
賣的價錢大概可以提高一點，謝了 it'll probably add value to the selling price, so thanks.
我不知道為什麼你這么快就要走 Don't know why you have to go so soon.
我們還是朋友 我只是不想見到他們 We'll still be friends. it's them l wanna get away from.
你知道他們不是有意傷害你的 You know they didn't mean to hurt you--
你為什麼不從廚房開始呢? 我來收拾這裡 Why don't you start off in the kitchen? I'll finish this.
"我親愛的帕斯琳... "My sweet Purslane...
"我正在康復中，真等不及要見你 "I am getting well and can't wait to see you.
"時間在此似乎停滯不前... "Time seems to stand still in these places...
"但不管過了多久，還是有好多話要說 "but somehow too much of it has passed, and there's so much to say.
"我一直給你寫信，但沒有勇氣寄出去 "I write to you always, but never have the courage to send my letters.
"現在我想讓你看到，了解我們的過去 "I want you to have them now to give you our history.
"我想讓你認識自己的父親... "I'd like you to know your daddy...
"而且他還不認識你，全是我一個人的錯 "and to know that only I'm to blame for the fact that he doesn't already know you.
"為你們父女二人，我寫了這首歌" "I wrote this song for you both. "
親愛的, 玻璃杯要放在哪裡？ Honey, where do you want me to put your glasses?
出什麼事了? What's wrong?
你一直談着她，怎麼從來沒提這事？ How could you talk about her all the time and never tell me this?
是真的嗎? ls this true?
"你的歌聲感動了我 鮑比‧朗" "Your singing touched my soul. Bobby Long."
我也懷疑, 但她從來不告訴我 l always suspected, but she never told me.
我先愛上她的 l loved her first.
然後鮑比來了，一切就變了樣 And Bobby got here, and all hell broke loose.
鮑比有妻眷 Bobby was still married.
他根本不明白她的感受 He never even knew how she felt.
她非常努力戒除酒癮 She worked so hard to get clean.
成功之後，她回來在Howlin' Wolf開了演唱會 And when she did, she came home for a big show at the Howlin' Wolf.
這個演出? This show?
日期沒錯 The date's right.
她說外婆會帶著你 She said your grandma would bring you up.
你沒露面, 他也沒有 You never did show. He never did, either.
你們都不在，她傷透了心 Boy, she was devastated neither one of you was there.
"給我親愛的鮑比 "To my sweet Bobby.
"我好多了，回去為你唱首新歌 "l am feeling better and coming home to sing you a brand-new song.
"來吧，我愛的人會在，我想介紹你們認識 "Please come. Someone l love will be there and l want to introduce you."
這說的就是你 This was you, darling.
你和鮑比 You and Bobby.
我... l just....
我無法相信 l can't believe it.
你幹嘛一直喝那鬼東西? Why do you keep drinking that shit?
酒能要你的命，你不知道嗎? 蘿瑞不就是個例子嗎? Don't you know it's gonna kill you? Didn't you watch Lorraine?
天哪, 有時你真教我厭惡 God, sometimes you make me so fucking sick.
你活在幻想中... You're living in some fantasy world...
在那裡，人生是本書，但沒人在撰寫 where life's a book and no one takes responsibility for writing.
傻瓜都知道，書比現實人生要強，所以它們才是書啊! Every idiot knows that books are better than life. That's why they're books!
珀熙, 親愛的，隨便你罵吧！ Pursey, honey, you go right ahead and be wicked.
我們活該 We deserve it.
等你罵完，我們何不坐下來談談，像一家人那樣呢? But when you're finished, why don't we just all sit down and talk like a family?
像一家人 Like a family.
就像你毀掉的那個家嗎? Would that be like that family you destroyed?
就像那一家人嗎? Are we just gonna be like that family?
'奇怪的是，據蘿瑞說 我就是你的家人 'Cause the weird thing is that, according to Lorraine, l am your family.
你難道不會數9個月嗎? Couldn't you count to nine months?
我一直不明白為什麼她要我和你們住... l never understood why she would want me to live with y'all...
原來你是我爸爸 but you're my father.
我... l just....
你愛她嗎? Did you love her?
- 你愛她嗎? - 是的, 非常愛, 但我... -Did you love her? -Yes, very much. But l just....
我真希望我們從未見面 l wish we never knew.
別走, 珀熙 No. Don't go, Pursey.
別走 Don't walk away.
- 太晚了 - 不, 不晚 -it's too late. -No, it's not too late.
你有我, 親愛的 你不再是孤獨一人了 You got me now, honey. You're not alone anymore.
讓我待在你身邊 Let me be here.
我該做什麼? 告訴我 What can l do? Tell me.
什麼, 親愛的? What, honey?
記得我說過，我編造有關她的記憶嗎? Remember when l told you l made up memories about her?
是的 Yes.
可悲的是，我也虛構關於我自己的記憶 The really pathetic part was that l used to make up memories about myself.
像父母記得許多孩子的故事那樣 Like parents got lots of stories about their kids.
就像, "蘇西連罵人的話都說不好，可愛吧..." You know, like, "Wasn't it cute when Suzie couldn't say supercalifucking...."
諸如此類的 Whatever.
人們總記得一些芝麻綠豆的事 l mean, people remember a lot of weird shit.
你大概也有一卡車你孩子的故事, 對嗎? Like you probably got a ton of stories about your kids, right?
是的 Yes, l do.
我想... 說不定... Well, l kind of felt that maybe...
我小時候，也做了些可愛有趣的事情 l used to do some cute or funny stuff when l was little.
但根本沒有人在看, 對吧? But the truth is nobody was really there watching, were they?
親愛的, 我看到了！我看到了！ Honey, l was there. Sweetheart, l was there.
雖然不是很久，但我在場 l saw. it was never very long, but l was there.
- 告訴我關於她的事，好嗎? - 好的 -Will you tell me about her? -Yes.
- 她的一切? - 噢, 當然 -Every tiny thing about her? -Oh, yes.
還有我的，好嗎? And about me, too?
'因為我真的需要知道... 'Cause l think l really need to know now.
我會的 Yes.
我並不想賣我們的房子，我愛我們的家，我只是... l don't want to sell our house. l love our house. l just....
對你太生氣了 l was so mad at you.
我對不起你 I'm so sorry.
我不記得這個要怎麼弄了 l don't remember how to do this.
我來 I'll do it for you.
靠, 老兄 你的腳瘀青了 Shit, man. Your foot's blue.
我一直在練習穿這鞋 腳都麻痺了 I've been practicing wearing this shoe. it's just numb, is all.
我可不要出任何狀況，丟我女兒的臉 l don't want any reason for my daughter to be ashamed of her daddy.
- 我看起來怎麼樣? - 非常好 -Now, how do l look? -Damn good.
- 我看起來呢? - 嗯, 不錯 -How do l look? -Well, pretty good.
你的頭髮翹起來了 Your hair's sticking up.
好了 There you go.
天啊, 你們看起來就像守法的納稅人 Good Lord, y'all look like regular taxpayers.
- 或許我穿得不怎麼得體 - 沒問題 -Maybe l ain't dressed appropriate. -You look fine.
你拉鍊沒拉好 快點, 我們要遲到了 Your fly is down. Come on, we're gonna be late.
準備好看我們的女兒畢業了嗎? Are you ready to see our daughter graduate?
準備好了, 大人 Yes, l am, sir.
- 這是值得感恩的日子 - 是的 -it's a day to count our blessings. -Yes.
安靜, 各位 安靜一下 Quiet, everybody. Quiet down.
我想舉杯... I'd like to propose a toast...
敬我美麗的女兒, 帕斯琳‧霍米尼... to my very beautiful daughter, Purslane Hominy...
我至愛的寶貝 who is my very own golden girl.
剛剛西塞爾說，今天是我們應該感恩的日子 Cecil mentioned earlier that today was a day we should count our blessings.
我四處張望了一下，看見許多... And as l look around, l see that there are many...
我一直未曾相信的人 that l have not given credence to.
感謝上帝，我原以為祂已經棄我而去 l am thankful for a God that l had thought had given up on me...
還要感謝一個孩子的愛，蒙主眷顧... and the love of a child who, God willing...
她今年要上大學 will be in college this fall.
而且不是什麼二流的野雞學校，我家寶貝真棒！ And not no Vinegar Bend Junior College, neither. My baby's smart.
比她老爸強多了 Smarter than her old man.
那是肯定的 That's for goddamn sure.
珀熙, 親愛的，你教我這鄉巴老學到了不少 Pursey, honey, you have taught this old fool a thing or two.
借用 T.S.艾略特的大作來說： And in the glorious words of T.S. Eliot:
"我們不應停止探索 "We shall not cease exploration.
"在探索的盡頭... "And at the end of all our exploring...
"我們將回到起點... "will be to arrive where we started...
"重新認識這個地方" "and know the place for the first time."
那就是你給老爸我的啟示 And that's what you've given your old man.
老爸會永遠感激 And he is forever grateful.
來吧 跟老爸跳一支阿拉巴馬舞 Now, come on up and give your old man an Alabama shuffle.
演奏那首慢板的 Play that slow one that l asked for.
有些人很早就達到了一定的境界... Some people reach a place in time where they've gone as far as they can...
但家庭、工作卻抵觸著... the place where wives and jobs collide with desire...
心底那份虛緲的渴望和那些見不到的人 that which is unknowable, and those who remain out of sight.
"能察人之所未察，你就能下筆了" "See what is invisible, and you will see what to write. "
那是鮑比常說的 That's how Bobby used to put it.
他想面對的，是那些看不見的人 It was the invisible people he wanted to live with.
那些每天與我們擦身而過的人 The ones that we walk past every day.
而有時我們也成為那樣的人 The ones we sometimes become.
那些只活在書裡、只活在我們心裡的人們 The ones in books who live only in someone's mind's eye.
他注定要深切刻骨地體驗人生，而不是渾噩度日 He was a man who was destined to go through life and not around it.
他確信直入地獄 是通往天堂的捷徑 A man who was sure the shortest path to heaven was straight through hell.
但他的缺憾就在於... But the truth of his handicap...
博識多聞造就了他，同時也癱瘓了他... lay only in a mind both exalted and crippled by too many stories...
也在於他所選擇的器用之道 and the path he chose to become one.
鮑比‧朗致命的缺陷是 他處處流情的韻事 Bobby Long's tragic flaw was his romance with all that he saw.
如果有因果報應的話... And I guess if people want to believe in some form of justice...
鮑比‧朗得到的果報 就是那首獻給他的歌 then Bobby Long got his for a song.
《獻給鮑比‧朗的情歌》 作者：勞森‧潘
蘿瑞‧威爾之墓
鮑比‧朗之墓
若要寫我的幕誌銘，我自己已經寫了短短一則。 我會在自己的墓碑上寫道：我和這世界曾有過像情人那樣的爭吵。 （引自：美國詩人 羅伯‧弗斯特）