你在这儿干什么? What are you doing here?
乔吉娜走了半个小时了 你会错过的 Georgianna went a half hour ago. You're gonna miss it.
记在我帐上 Put that on my tab.
你的账单 Your bill.
听起来好像有一天你会付帐似的 "Tab" sounds like y'all might pay it someday.
时间从来就不是鲍比‧朗的朋友 Time was never a friend to Bobby Long.
它会设计陷害他 It would conspire against him...
使他相信上天的仁慈 然后每次都夺走他的一切 allow him to believe in a generous nature, then rob him blind every time.
我们失去了萝瑞, 我们所有人... We had lost Lorraine, all of us...
早在她辞世之前 but long before she died.
你不能停在这，你又要吃罚单了 You can't park here. You'll get another ticket.
我没看见任何标志, 大小姐 l don't see no signs, Miss Daisy.
没关系 我可以从这里走到对面去 it's all right. l can walk to the curb from here.
给我拿瓶啤酒 Get me a beer.
你找到工作了? You find a job?
你打扫过了? You clean the fuck up?
那个叫鲍比的家伙今天又来电话了 That Bobby guy called again today.
- 又? - 他几天前来过电话, 记得吗? -Again? -He called a couple of days ago, remember?
不, 你没告诉我 他想干嘛? No, you didn't tell me. What did he want?
他想告诉你萝瑞的事 He wanted to tell you about Lorraine.
她怎么了? What about her?
她死了 She died.
她什么? She what?
她死了, 行了吧? 他打电话过来, 因为他认为你会想要知道的 She's dead, all right? He called because he thought you'd wanna know.
萝瑞死了而你却不告诉我? Lorraine died and you didn't tell me?
为了萝瑞 愿她早日安息 To Lorraine. May she finally find peace.
所以, 现在怎么办? 萝瑞终于把你们都踢出来了 So, now what? Lorraine finally kick y'all out?
不 No.
她永远不会这么做的 此外, 上帝也不会允许那样的 She never would. Besides, God wouldn't let that happen.
真的吗? 为什么不呢? Really? And why not?
因为上帝认识我, 而我也认识上帝 'Cause God knows me, and l know God.
走吧 Go.
塞西尔一定饿坏了 确保他吃完 Cecil's pretty torn up. Make sure he eats.
稍后见 I'll see you later.
一直以来你都对她漠不关心 She never meant nothing to you...
而她也一直不把你当回事 所以我想你不会在意的 and you didn't mean a damn thing to her. l didn't think you would care.
别这样, 宝贝 停下 Come on, baby, stop.
听着, 我很抱歉, 行了吗? Look, I'm sorry, all right?
你为什么不为我煮顿晚餐 然后我去租盘黄带回来看呢? Why don't you just cook me some dinner and I'll go rent us a porno?
我一定要参加葬礼, 李 l have to go to a funeral, Lee...
除非我错过了 因为你忘了告诉我... unless l missed it because you forgot to tell me...
我妈妈死了! 该死的混球, 我要离开这里 that my mother is dead! Fucking asshole. l am so out of here.
她从来就不是你的妈妈! She was never your mother!
帕斯琳? 还是我, 鲍比‧朗 Purslane? This is Bobby Long again.
不知道你是不是还记得我... l don't know if you remember me...
但你错过了你妈妈的葬礼 but you missed your mama's funeral.
再见 So long.
你有烟吗? You got any smokes?
对不起, 先生 Sorry, sir.
- 你们都要去塞西尔家吗? - 马上就去 -Y'all going down to Cecil's? -In a minute.
- 待会儿见 - 待会儿见 -I'll see you guys. -See you there.
你有火吗? You got a light?
- 我还以为你没有呢 - 我没有 -l thought you didn't have any. -l don't.
... 没有给晚辈的 Not for Junior.
他要少吸点 他有严重的肺气肿 He's got to cut down. He's got fierce emphysema.
那咳嗽把我吓得背都发凉了 That cough sends shivers of mortality down my spine.
「他要死的象样」但我不会帮忙的 "He'd make a lovely corpse," but I'll make no contribution.
我的座右铭是「只为自己的死尽力」 Of course not. "Contribute only to one's own death." That's my motto.
你联络到那女孩了吗? 她了解状况吗? Did you get the girl? She know anything?
-「他要死的象样」 - 查尔斯‧狄更斯说的 -"He'd make a lovely corpse." -Come on, man. Charles Dickens.
你当真？ 是马丁‧查梭威特说的 Are you serious? it's Martin Chuzzlewit.
混蛋脑子不错 Smart-ass.
新奥尔良是城市的警报器 New Orleans is a siren of a city.
一个充满童话幻想的地方 A place of fables and illusion.
一个萝瑞不得不逃离的地方... A place Lorraine had to escape from...
倒是鲍比和我的避风港 and Bobby and I had to escape to.
躲开亚拉巴马州... Away from Alabama...
躲开不再属于我们的生活 away from lives that no longer belonged to us.
我还以为上次她的情况有所好转 我真的这么想 l thought she was getting better that last time, l really did.
那是什么时候的事? When was that?
- 至少几年前 - 到十月就满六年了 -A few years ago, at least. -it'll be six years, October.
有那么久吗? Was it that long since we seen her?
从你上一次见她算起 Since you seen her.
我们本来应该和你一起去医院探望她的 We should have gone to the hospital with you.
你们本应该做许多事情 You should have done a lot of things.
来了 Coming.
这是萝瑞的房子? This Lorraine's house?
你是谁? And who are you?
谁也不是 我只是住在这 No one. l just live here.
进来吧 Come on in.
这地方不错 Nice place.
谢谢 我们努力维持 Thanks. We try.
- 你这么年轻, 不可能是鲍比 - 我是劳森 -You're not old enough to be Bobby. -That's because I'm Lawson.
好的 Okay.
你母亲的事我很抱歉 你和她像极了 I'm sorry about your mother. You look a lot like her.
一早把你吵醒我很抱歉... 还没到中午呢 Sorry to wake you so early. it's barely noon.
鲍比 有客人来了 伙计 醒醒! Bobby. We got company, man. Wake up!
亲爱的, 把包放下 我们不会咬人的 Honey, put your bags down. We don't bite.
- 果汁? - 不用了 -Juice? -No.
- 鲍比 起床了 她来了 - 谁? -Bobby, get up. She's here. -Who?
- 珀熙 - 谁? -Pursey. -Who?
那女孩来了 快起床 The girl is here. Get up.
嗯, 葬礼是什么时候? So, when's the funeral?
昨天 办得真的很好 it was yesterday. it was real nice.
你应该去的, 女士 You should have been there, young lady.
那是你的看法 That's your opinion.
你一定有什么事才来这的 You must be here for some reason.
我想你已经知道关于这个房子的交易了 l guess you already know the deal on the house.
什么交易? What deal?
- 这个房子是你妈妈的 - 交易! -The house. Your mother owned it-- -The deal!
让我来告诉你交易是什么 Let me tell you what the deal is.
交易就是萝瑞把房子留给了我们3个人 The deal is that Lorraine left the three of us the house.
劳森和我三分之二 你只有三分之一 Lawson and l are two-thirds, and you are only one-third.
她做了什么? She did what?
劳森和我以前住在这里 Lawson and l have been living here for some time.
你妈妈许多年前就不在这住了 Your mother hasn't lived here for years.
她以为你不会感兴趣的 And l don't believe that she thought you'd be interested.
萝瑞的判断一直就有问题 Lorraine was great at being wrong.
帕斯琳, 亲爱的 我们住在这 这是我们的家 Purslane, honey, we are here to stay. This is our home.
这不是什么大事... it's no big deal...
萝瑞认为我应该和2个酗酒的 陌生人分享这个狗屎洞 Lorraine thinking I'd share this shithole with two alcoholic strangers.
你们是酗酒者, 不是吗? You are alcoholics, aren't you?
但我们不是陌生人 我们是她的朋友 But we are not strangers. We were her friends.
我们照顾过她 We took care of her.
这个狗屎洞对我们来说正好 And this shithole is just fine for us.
它不适合一个像你一样的女孩 it's not suited for a girl like you.
我要起床了 你随意 I'm getting up out of bed now. You can watch if you want.
我不介意 it don't matter to me.
真让人难以相信... it seems hard to believe...
你以前从没看过男人光着身子 that you haven't seen a man naked before.
没看过老男人的 Not an old one.
我知道你不单纯 l know that you're no innocent...
因为我和你的男朋友通过电话... because l spoke to that boyfriend of yours...
Over on the Redneck Riviera.
你当然不是因为他的大脑才选择了他 You certainly didn't choose him for his brains.
你对我很了解嘛 You don't know nothing about me.
我想如果我们成为室友, 那是会改变的, 对吗? l guess that will change if we all became roommates, wouldn't it?
稍后见 我没烟了 I'll see you later. I'm out of cigarettes.
我抽的烟在特卖中 My brand is on sale.
很高兴再次见到你, 帕斯琳 Good to see you again, Purslane.
长大了 All growed up.
他平常不是这样的 他只是为萝瑞难过 我们都是 He's not usually such a jackass. He's just upset about Lorraine. We all are.
他是对的 你知道 我不能待在这 He's right, you know. l can't stay here.
这真的很滑稽, 事实上 我的祖母经常谈起... it's pretty funny, actually. My grandma was always talking about...
萝瑞为我修缮的漂亮小屋 the pretty little house Lorraine was fixing up for me...
我想那只是骗小孩的鬼话吧 and l guess that was the Ernest & Julio talking.
这样很好 it's fine.
- 这里没有真正的惊喜 - 医院送来的她的东西 -There's no real surprises here. -The hospital sent her stuff.
萝瑞想把这些给你 Lorraine would want you to have these.
他们一直跟着她 They went everywhere she did.
她爱这些书 She loved those books.
我想我可以在廉价市场或是 什么地方把他们卖掉 l guess l could unload them at a flea market or something.
- 我来帮你 - 不, 我一个人可以 -Here, I'll help you out. -No, I'm fine.
我真的想去参加葬礼的 我只是没收到他的消息 l really did want to come to the funeral. l just never got his message.
那女孩看起来和萝瑞如此相像 That girl looks so much like Lorraine.
我还记得你第一次带我去看她唱歌 l remember the first time you took me to see her sing.
那是我在新奥尔良的第一次 it was my first time in New Orleans.
是如此令人印象深刻 l was so taken.
你有点被蒙蔽了 You were kind of sheltered.
被那笔巨大的财富给迷住了 Choked by that silver spoon.
她是如此美丽 l thought she was so beautiful.
没错 She was.
你们还要什么？ What else can l get you boys?
以前有人告诉过你 你笑起来就像春天的巴黎女人吗？ Did anyone ever tell you that you smell like a Parisian woman in springtime?
每天至少一次 你们都要吃吗？ Every day, at least once. Y'all gonna eat?
律师随时可以找到她 The lawyer could get to her at any time.
那又怎么样？ 遗嘱上说我们可以待一年 So what? The will says we can stay for a year.
我可以走了吗？ Should l just come back?
你知道春天巴黎女人的气味是多么致命吗？ Do you know how lethal the smell of a Parisian woman in springtime is?
那远没有一个不屑一顾的 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.
-鸡蛋和熏肉, 女士 2份 - 请在上面加点奶酪, 亲爱的 -Eggs and bacon, ma'am. Both of us. -Cheese on our grits, darling. Please.
你真他妈的无耻 You are fucking shameless.
你为什么不睡在床上, 甜心 Why didn't you use the bed, sweetheart?
- 哦, 天哪 - 我本来可以进来偎依着你的 -Oh, God. -l could have come in and cuddled with you.
那样真不错 That would have been fine with me.
- 我们可以亲热亲热 - 省省吧 -We could have spooned together. -Save it.
你为什么给她这个? Why'd you give her this?
这故事很棒... This is stories of misfits...
看不见的人物 很漂亮 invisible people. it's beautiful.
你读过了吗? Have you ever read it?
你读过任何书吗? Have you ever read any book?
萝瑞不知道她自己是个很棒的诗人 Lorraine didn't know she was a poet.
我真的很喜欢... l really do enjoy...
培养灵感 fostering inspiration.
劳森是个作家, 也很棒 Lawson's a writer. A fine one, too.
真的? Really?
他正在写一本关于我的书 He's writing a book about me.
真不错 That's fascinating.
"第一章: 我起床, 喝个酩酊大醉, 然后昏倒 "Chapter 1 : l got up, l got drunk, l passed out.
- "第二章: 我起床, 喝个酩酊大醉--" - 你真聪明可爱 -"Chapter 2: l got up, l got drunk--" -Lovely and witty.
你能使富人难堪, 小女孩 You're an embarrassment of riches, little girl.
哪间房是我的? Which room is mine?
我需要一个住的地方 你们说我有这个权利 I'll need a place to stay, and y'all said l had a right.
我想我会一直住到你们厌烦离开的那天 Just figured I'd stay here until you get fed up and leave.
我们不会离开, 永远不会! We are never leaving. Never!
- 你最好想都别想 - 她应该用萝瑞的房间 -And don't even get it in your mind. -She should have Lorraine's room.
- 我就待在这里和你凑或一下 - 好的, 很好 -I'll stay out here. I'll bunk with you. -Okay, fine.
你他妈的疯了吗? Are you fucking crazy?
这样总比她到处瞎窜 最后发现真相好 Better than her poking around and finding out the truth.
她撑不了多久的 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.
你对我来说太瘦了 You're too skinny for me.
- 嗯, 你们真是住在书堆里了? - 大多数都是鲍比的 -So, y'all are really into books? -They're mostly Bobby's.
- 英文教授的家当 - 他? -That's the plumage of an English professor. -Him?
- 教授? - 是的, 他是个很好的教授 -A professor? -Yeah, he was a good one.
那你, 你真是作家? And you, you're really a writer?
鲍比认为我是 Bobby likes to think l am.
这些盒子都是萝瑞的, 所以... These boxes are all Lorraine's, so....
所以怎么样? So what?
- 我很了解你的母亲 - 有多了解? -l knew your mother pretty well. -How well?
她是个很难懂的女人 但她始终把通向她心灵的那扇大门敞开着 She was hard to understand, but she kept the door to her heart open.
我听说那更像一扇旋转门, 对吗? The way l heard it, it was more of a revolving door, wasn't it?
帕斯琳‧霍米尼‧威尔 Purslane Hominy Will.
你怎么知道我的名字? How come you know my name?
我知道很多关于你的事 l know a lot about you.
你妈妈和我从小就很亲近 Your mama and l were close since we were young.
我还帮忙给你取的名字 l helped name you.
你妈妈认为你是金色的太阳 Your mama thought you were golden...
所以我们就以黄花和小麦给你取了名字 so we named you after yellow flowers and corn.
就是这里的你 This is you here:
漂亮的, 金色的帕斯琳 pretty, golden purslane.
帕斯琳实际上是杂草, 你知道 Purslane's really a weed, you know.
我9岁的时候一个邻居告诉我的 然后我把他地里的西红柿都踩烂了 A neighbor told me when l was 9 and l ran over his tomato plants.
他说所有的园丁都恨帕斯琳 He said all gardeners hate purslane.
是的, 还有蒲公英 Yeah, and dandelions.
那并没有阻止孩子们向他们许愿 it doesn't stop kids from making wishes on them.
帕斯琳是腋生的花 Purslane's an axillary bloom.
太阳下山的时候它就凋谢了 it closes up when the sun goes down.
谢谢 Thanks.
天啊 Damn.
我上次见你的时候, 你还是个孩子 Last time l saw you, you were teeny.
这里有谁不记得我和萝瑞的关系吗？ 我是唯一的例外吗？ ls there anyone here who doesn't remember me with Lorraine, or am l the only one?
我在你这个年纪的时候, 她在这里唱歌 那时她真算得上个人物 She used to sing here. l was about your age. She was something.
- 我真抱歉 - 别这样 -I'm so sorry. -Don't be.
我要红豆、饭和一杯啤酒, 谢谢 I'll have red beans and rice and a beer, please.
我听说你要住在鲍比和劳森那里一段时间? l hear you'll be staying at Bobby and Lawson's for a while?
不, 我会无限期的住在萝瑞的家 No, I'll be staying at Lorraine's indefinitely.
- 你9月份开学吗? - 不 -Will you be starting school in September? -No.
我不上学, 我做服务生 你这里需要一个吗? l don't go to school. l waitress. You need one?
不, 这里就我和鄂尔叔叔 No, just me and Uncle Earl.
他们知道你不上学? They know you're not going to school?
他们都精疲力尽了 只会在那里抱怨没有伏特加和香烟 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, 这是萝瑞的女儿 珀熙 她要和我们住一阵子 Y'all, this is Lorraine's daughter, Pursey. She's gonna stay with us for a while.
过来吧 Come on in.
- 你长得真漂亮 - 谢谢 -You grew up real pretty. -Thank you.
自在点, 亲爱的 Make yourself at home, darling.
我是露茜 这是我的好朋友, 雷 I'm Ruthie. My gentleman friend, Ray.
26年了 Here 26 years.
放松, 宝贝 喝杯啤酒 Go on and relax, baby. Drink your beer.
找到什么了吗? Find anything?
我填了一些申请书 l filled out a few applications.
你让那个新来的年轻小妞和你一起住? You let that fresh young thing live with you?
她是新来的, 没错 She's fresh, all right.
我记得每天晚上有新人来时 你就成了女人私处的磁石 l remember when there was a new one every night. Y'all was pussy magnets.
你们是谁打呼就像个火车？ Which one of y'all snores like a goddamn train?
鲍比, 如果他平躺着 你就得把他转个身 Bobby. if he's on his back, you have to turn him over.
我在健康频道看到... 要治好打鼾的人... l saw this program on the Medical Channel that you can cure people of snoring...
可以把他们的喉咙切开 by cutting their throats open.
我真想给你们讲个故事 l believe that l do have a story for you gentlemen.
安静 鲍比要讲故事了 Quiet. Bobby's gonna tell a story.
我小时候, 总和比我年长的男孩混在一起 When l was growing up, l always hung around boys a couple years older than me.
有一个夏天 我不知道10还是11岁 And this one summer, l was, l don't know, 10 or 11 .
我们像阿拉巴马的男孩们一样 And we were doing all the normal things that boys in Alabama do.
钓鱼... We were fishing...
打球, 游泳, 打架 and playing ball, and swimming, and beating off.
但除了这些单纯童年的活动外... But in addition to these activities of an innocent childhood...
还说了许多... mine included a lot of talk...
那无从捉摸的 "pussy" (与珀熙谐音, 本意为女人私处) about this wonderfully elusive something called pussy.
我不知道那是什么 l wasn't sure exactly what it was...
但我知道它很神奇、很特别，因为人们谈论它的方式 but l knew it was magical and very special because of the way it was spoken about.
一直都是窃窃私语 Always in a whisper.
我也在心中反复说着这个词"pussy" I'd go through the fields saying it to myself: "Pussy."
一天, 我们都... One day, we was all...
在外面玩 playing ball out in a broom sage field.
Leroy Tuberville 骑车过来 And up rode Leroy Tuberville.
Leroy是个强壮的少年犯, 12岁 Now, Leroy was an upstanding delinquent. Twelve.
他的肩膀非常宽阔 他的手指留着烟草的痕迹 And his shoulders were already broad, and his fingers were stained with tobacco.
然后Leroy, 他不经意的停在了三垒的位置 随后他把手伸进他的口袋... And Leroy, he parked himself casually by third base, and he went in his pocket...
他掏出了某样东西 他开始把它往空中高高扔起, 就像这样 and he pulled out something. He started throwing it high in the air like that.
我看着他耍酷... And l watched him play it cool...
他神秘的宝石上上下下 his mysterious jewel going up and down.
我再也忍不住了 我一定要问一问 l couldn't take it any longer. l had to ask.
"那个是什么, Leroy?" "What's that you got there, Leroy?"
然后每个人都鸦雀无声 And everyone fell silent.
Leroy 看着我 令人作呕的咧嘴笑着... And Leroy looked at me with that nasty sideways grin...
他说 "这是一个pussy, 朗, 我自己的" and he said, "it's a piece of pussy, Long. My very own."
我的脸开始发烫 我的心跳加速 My face got hot, my breath quickened.
他在那里, 将那完美的东西 扔到空中 There he was, with this perfect piece of girl, tossing her up in the air.
我看着, 知道自己第一次见到了上帝 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 从齿间亮出他的宝贝... But old Leroy popped his treasure between his teeth...
跳上他的自行车，咧嘴对着我笑 然后骑走了 jumped on his bike grinning at me, and rode off...
把我们留在一片尘土和渴望之中 leaving us in a cloud of dust and desire.
那是在折磨人的朦胧期 10岁的时候... And it was in that tormented haze, at the age of 10...
当我把我余下的生命都致力于... when l dedicated the rest of my life...
找寻我自己的一丝爱情和奇迹 to finding my very own tiny piece of love and wonder...
让我可以永远带在身上 that l could carry with me for eternity.
好吧, 够了 我要回家了 All right, that's it. I'm going home.
回佛罗里达? To Florida?
当心点 Now, look, be careful.
我们不能撕下生活中的任何一页... "We cannot tear out a single page of our lives...
"但我们可以把整本书都仍进火堆里" "but we can throw the whole book in the fire."
乔治‧桑德 George Sand.
我以为那会很难的 l thought that would be a hard one.
我觉得对她撒谎不太好 l don't feel right about lying to her.
一个年轻的轻佻女子在这种地方还想得到什么? What would a teenage hussy want with this place, anyway?
她自己说这里是个狗屎洞 她最好离开 Said herself it was a shithole. She's better off.
此外, 当你卖那本书的时候 一切都将改变 Besides, when you sell that book, everything will change--
改变? Change?
我们将去巴黎, 喝着 '61 Latour We'll go to Paris, drink '61 Latour...
写些烂诗 一切都会很完美 write bad poetry. Yes, everything will be just perfect.
"我们只会死一次，却要死那么久" "We die only once, and for such a long time."
莫里哀 Molière.
她来了, 亲爱的 She's here, honey.
我这次会好好照顾她 I'll take better care of her this time.
明天见, 亲爱的 See you tomorrow, darling.
以前你妈妈常来这儿 Your mama used to come here a lot.
你为什么一直说她的事? Why do you talk about her so much?
我想是因为我想念她 Because l miss her, l guess.
你爱恋她还是怎么了? Were you in love with her or something?
我们都爱她 We all loved her.
- 她知道怎样关心人, 你知道吗? - 不, 不了解 -She knew how to reach people, you know? -No, not really.
我外婆过世的前一夜... The night before my grandma died...
她告诉我萝瑞一直都很自私 she warned me that Lorraine would always be selfish.
她最后还说了我爸爸的事 She finally told me about my father.
她真的说了? She did, did she?
在孟菲斯的一个萨克斯风乐手 Some sax player in Memphis.
大概是一夜情 Pretty much a one-night stand.
我想外婆是想让我知道当她走了之后, 我将完全孤立无助 l think Gran wanted me to know that when she was gone, I'd be totally on my own.
她是对的... She was right.
在她死后, 我几乎完全没有萝瑞的音讯 After she died, l hardly ever heard from Lorraine.
甚至也没机会听她唱歌 Never even got a chance to hear her sing.
你妈妈爱你, 你知道吗? 你就是她的全世界 Your mama loved you, you know? You meant the world to her.
她过去常坐在你现在坐的地方 She used to sit right where you're sitting now.
总是在写东西 Always writing.
把这颗树叫作生命之树 Called this granddaddy the Tree of Life.
真俗 That's so corny.
- 你找错用具了 - 什么? -You're in the wrong appliance. -What?
要自杀成功 你得到炉子里去 To succeed in killing oneself, one must be in the oven.
天啊, 姑娘 你还真会做东西 God damn, girl. You woke up productive.
- 过来看看珀熙都做了些什么 -天啊! 别再大喊大叫了 -Come see what Pursey did. -Christ. Stop yelling.
我看到了她还没有做的: 离开 l see what she didn't do: leave.
她不会离开的 She ain't gonna leave.
你这身打扮真不错 That's a really good look for you, too.
你们也早上好 Good morning to y'all, too.
我听说你不上学 什么, 你跳级? No school, l hear. What, you skip a grade?
几年而已, 10年级, 11年级, 12年级 你介意吗? A few. The 10th, 11th, and 1 2th. Do you mind?
天啊, 我们竟和一个辍学生住在同一屋檐下 God, we are living under the same roof as a goddamn dropout.
嘲笑别人是要付出代价的 至少我可以养活自己 it takes one to mock one. At least l can support myself.
听着, 只要你不在这里懒散地打发时间... Look, as long as you're not lazing around here...
使劳森不能集中注意力 我不介意你做什么 making Lawson lose his concentration, l do not care what you do.
你有工作要做 You got work to do.
你一定要那样无情地对待她吗? Do you have to go after her like that, relentlessly?
你想要她粘在这里吗? 那就是你想要的吗? Do you want her to stick around? ls that what you want?
你有没有想过如果我们帮帮她 她或许就会离开? Has it ever occurred to you that if we help her get on her feet, she might move on?
怎么帮她? How help her?
你想帮她脱了那紧紧的小短裤 那就是你想做的 You want to help her out of them tight little pants. That's what you want.
- 别放在心上, 伙计, 好吗? - 我没放在心上 -Forget it, man, all right? -Forgotten.
新奥尔良的夏天 沉寂在粘稠和潮湿之中 A New Orleans summer drowns in thick, dank stillness.
来吧, 伙计, 玩果子酒 Come on, man, let's play gin.
-你难道没看见我们在这里做事? - 去死吧 -Can't you see us doing something here? -To hell with you.
萝瑞的房子每天都在收缩 墙变得越来越紧凑 Lorraine's house shrank with each passing day, straining uneasy walls closer.
把那音乐关了, 姑娘! 你难道没看见他正在工作吗? Turn that music off, girl! Can't you see he's working?
天啊 Jesus H. Christ.
你要在这里坐多久 想抽光我们的买烟钱? How long you gonna sit around here smoking up our cigarette money?
劳森说他不介意 Lawson said he didn't mind.
劳森的香烟是红色的, 我的是绿色的 Lawson's cigarettes are red. Mine are green.
你不可以抽绿色的 鲍比的 You may not smoke green. Bobby's.
你在喝什么鸟玩样儿? 天啊, 真臭 What is that shit you are drinking? God, it reeks.
这是啤酒西红柿汁 This is beer and tomato juice.
一流的早餐 Breakfast of champions.
一流的傻瓜, 或许 Champion fuckup, maybe.
你知道, 姑娘 我已经受够了你那恶劣的态度 You know, girl, l have had just about enough of your bad attitude.
不管你喜不喜欢 我是这房子里的长者... Whether you like it or not, l am the senior male in this house...
你应该尊重我! and you will respect me!
看在萝瑞的情份上 我们对你已经很容忍了... We have been very patient out of respect for Lorraine...
但你不能继续在这闲混... but you will not continue to lay around here...
靠我们的慷慨过活 and play parasite to our generosity.
现在, 你必须工作 就好像你要活100岁... Now, you must work as if you're gonna live 100 years...
并且像明天就要死了那样祈祷 and pray as if you're gonna die tomorrow.
- 你说什么? - 弗兰克林说的 -What did you say? -Ben Franklin said it.
他一定是想表达些什么意思 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, 你在做什么? 除了到处放屁 说你过去有多么聪明 God, what do you do? Except shit around and talk about how smart you used to be.
我是教授, 我是吟游诗人, 一个诗人 l am a professor. l am a troubadour. A poet.
我们怎样生活 不关你的鸟事 And it's none of your damn business how we live.
- 你要对你的那份负责 - 我的那份? -You are responsible for your share. -My share?
你已经免费住在我的房子了 You already live in my house for free.
- 天啊, 你应该很感激 - 这是我们的房子! -God, you should be grateful-- -This is our house!
或许你希望我带朋友回家 赚点钱 Maybe you'd rather l earn money bringing friends home.
萝瑞不是那样做的吗? 大多数伪君子做的那样 Didn't Lorraine have to do that for a while? Most junkies do.
该死! God damn it!
你对死者没有一点尊重吗? Have you no respect for the dead?
那是你妈妈, 珀熙 That was your mother, Pursey.
此外... Besides...
我们都知道你不是纯洁的天使... we all know that you ain't no angel of purity...
不是吗, 小帕斯琳? are you, little Purslane?
你不是曾经同时有2个男人吗? 不是吗? Did you ever have two men at once? Have you?
那会需要买许多香烟在我们的屋子里 是这样的, 不是吗? That would buy a lot of cigarettes in our house. it would, wouldn't it?
住嘴! Fuck you!
你应该是长者? 成年人 You're supposed to be the senior male? The grownup.
我只是个小女孩 你明白吗? I'm just a girl. Don't you get that?
你对死去的可怜的萝瑞 神气活现的态度 真恶心 I'm so sick of your high and mighty attitude about poor, dead Lorraine.
你要教我尊敬? 谁尊敬你? You wanna teach me about respect? Who respects you?
把你给甩了的聪明老婆 还是你从没见过的孩子? The wife who's smart enough to get rid of you, or the kids you never fucking see?
我早就说过的 What did l tell you about her?
噢, 天啊! Oh, God!
你知道, 我知道你们怎么看我 You know, l know what y'all think of me.
- 学校就像是浪费时间 - 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.
我想正常过日子 但那并不是我的人生 l wanna be normal. it's just not my life.
你的人生是什么? 你想要什么? What is your life? What do you want?
如果我能做什么吗? if l could do anything?
答应我你不会笑? Promise you won't laugh?
我不敢担保 l don't know if l can promise.
我想过在医院或是什么地方工作... Well, l thought about maybe working in a hospital or something...
做个X光技师什么的 like being an x-ray technician or something like that.
很好 Okay.
- 我可以问一下为什么吗? - 我不知道 -Can l ask why? -l don't know.
我喜欢骨头在灯箱上的样子 l like the way bones look on a light box.
他们就像肖像, 但只在透视时才显现 They're like portraits, but on the inside.
我知道这听起来很傻 l know it does sound totally stupid.
不, 这并不傻 No, it's not stupid.
喂? Hello?
喂? 有人在吗? Hello? Is anyone there?
- 对不起 - 没关系 -Sorry. -it's all right.
我总是忘了房子里还有个女人 l keep forgetting there's a woman in the house.
有他的消息吗？ Any sign of him?
听着, 珀熙, 我想告诉你些事 Listen, Pursey, l need to tell you something.
什么, 你担心他? What, you worried about him?
你今天干什么? What are you doing today?
我想我会去市广场... l thought I'd go down to the Quarter...
找工作 我还没试过那里 look for a job. l haven't tried there yet.
需要人带你逛逛吗? Want someone to show you around?
- 下个礼拜给我们电话 - 好的, 谢谢 -Give us a call next week. -All right, thanks.
怎么样? Well?
或许吧, 但只是份兼职 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.
我一整天都不想见到鲍比 加班时间也是 l need to get away from Bobby full-time. Overtime.
或许我可以帮你从骨头肖像开始 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！我还能进哈佛呢！ Sure l can. Then maybe l can go to Harvard.
也许 Maybe.
你的吃相真不雅 You know, you eat like shit?
你酒喝得太凶了 You drink too much.
好吧 Okay.
什么时候让我读一下你的书呢？ Would you let me read your book sometime?
- 我可不这么想 - 为什么不呢? -l don't think so. -Why not?
- 大部分都是垃圾 - 你写了多久了? -Most of it ends up in the trash. -How long you been writing it?
很久, 但还不够久 Too long, and not long enough.
- 你大学毕业了吗? - 是的, 小姐 -Did you graduate from college? -Yes, ma'am, l did.
而且还很荣幸，成了鲍比‧朗的助教 With the privilege of becoming Bobby Long's teaching assistant.
你们为什么离开学校? Why did y'all leave that school?
太复杂了 有许多原因 it's complicated. So many reasons.
说一个吧 Tell me one.
许多事都发生的太突然 A lot happened real fast...
新奥尔良, 所有的这一切... and New Orleans, all this...
现在看来 倒有几分浪漫 it sort of seemed romantic at the time.
是吗? ls it?
浪漫吗? ls it romantic?
你会感觉到的 it has its moments.
你真的会帮我得到GED? Would you really help me get my GED?
真的 Yes, l really would.
- 为什么? - 为什么不呢? -Why? -Why not?
没有其它事情可以做 Don't have anything else to do.
你可以不要喝这么多吗？ Would you quit drinking so much?
为什么? Why?
为什么不呢? 反正也没其它事可做 Why not? You don't have anything else to do.
好的 All right.
那么, 他在哪儿, 那个狗娘养的? So, where is he, the son of a bitch?
很可能在某个酒吧 咕哝着他是多么地被误解 Probably on some barstool somewhere, whining about how misunderstood he is.
除了为担心鲍比‧朗 你还有更重要的事情要做 You've better things to do than waste another day worrying about Bobby Long.
他没有 我们今天玩得很愉快，不是吗？ He didn't. We had a nice day, didn't we?
是的 Yeah.
来吧, 亲爱的, 我们最好回家了 Come on, darling, we better get home.
回家见 See you at home.
2间房 对你们来说一定太挤了 it must be getting pretty crowded for you, only two rooms.
你的工作怎么样, 甜心? 那里没有隐私 What about your work, sugar? There's no privacy there.
你可以待在我这里 You could stay at my place.
你能考虑一下吗? Will you think about it?
我回来了 I'm back.
你们见到我不高兴吗? Aren't you people glad to see me?
- 不 - 你应该来个电话 -No. -You might have called.
好吧, 那问问我 比如: Well, then ask me. Say:
"鲍比, 你给我带了什么?" "Bobby, what have you brought me?"
你在赌场赢钱了吗？ Biloxi?
你玩牌戏？还是吃角子老虎？ Video poker or nickel slots?
- 我的车呢? - 我卖了 -Man, where's my car? -l sold it.
珀熙, 放点音乐 我们要庆祝一下 Now, Pursey, go put some music on. We're gonna celebrate.
- 什么? - 我把它卖了, 我们不需要车 -You what? -l sold it. We didn't need a car.
这是瓶纯麦芽酒 你上次喝这个是多久以前的事了? This is a single malt. When was the last time you had a single malt?
- 多少钱? - 300美金 -For how much? -$300.
你把我的车卖了 就为了这300块? You fucking sold my car for fucking $300?
你是不是真的疯了? Have you lost your goddamn mind completely?
收起你的拳头 Just hold that punch.
现在, 你记住... Now, you remember...
我的脸破了 l have a broken face.
现在, 我没钱 Now, l didn't have any money.
因为你的支票在这 That's because your check is here.
还有这个, 律师给的 是时候告诉她了 And this, too. From the lawyer. it's time to tell her.
我等你来.... 你他妈的在干什么? l waited for you to get the.... What the fuck are you doing?
给我5分钟，然后再做你认为正确的事 You give me five minutes, and then you do what you think is right.
看看你把一切变得多好！ Well, look how nice you changed everything.
早知道没有电视，你就会读书，我该早点把它砸掉的 I'd have destroyed that TV weeks ago if I'd known it would drive you to Steinbeck.
好吧, 现在有件事要告诉你们 All right, now, l have something to tell y'all.
来吧, 坐下 Come on in, sit down.
来吧, 伙计, 坐... Come on, man, sit....
别再想那辆破车了, 坐下吧！ Will you stop grieving about that hunk of shit and sit down?
我要站着 I'll stand.
好吧, 闭上眼睛 All right, close your eyes.
- 闭上眼睛, 伙计 - 我不会闭上眼睛的 -Close your eyes, man. -I'm not closing my goddamn eyes.
别这样, 劳森 Come on, Lawson. Christ.
好吧, 现在 All right, now.
可以睁开眼睛了, 亲爱的 You can open them now, darling.
感谢一位好老师... Courtesy of a lovely teacher...
曾经深受鲍比‧朗作品的感动 Whose heart once found Bobby Long cause enough to skip a beat or two.
"兹证明帕斯琳‧霍米尼‧威尔... "To certify that Purslane Hominy Will...
"已经完成了11年级... "has successfully completed the 11th grade...
"现在被推荐进入12年级" "and is recommended to the 12th grade."
"除了成长, 我们活着何益?" "Why stay we on earth except to grow?"
罗伯特‧布朗宁 Robert Browning.
你在高年级课程中，一定会读到他的诗 He's definitely your run-of-the-mill senior-year poet.
你是为了道歉... ls this really your idea of an apology...
还是想打败他的GED的主意? or are you just trying to one-up his GED offer?
做的好 Great minds.
拜托！她当然得修一门语言课 Come on, man. Of course she takes a language.
- 你想学法语, 对吧? - 别傻了 -You want to speak French, don't you? -Don't be an ass.
她这年龄不能选初级法语的 You know that she can't take French 1 as a senior.
好吧 All right.
我们已经有英国文学, 欧洲历史, 地理学, 心理学 So we got English Lit, European History, Geography, Psychology.
我们还需要一门 We need one more.
- 艺术鉴赏不错 - 音乐 -l think Art Appreciation. -Music.
- 我想她会喜欢音乐的 - 我不去 -l think she'd like music. -I'm not going.
该死, 都说好了 Well, God damn, it's already set up.
你知道为了让你读书，我花了多大工夫吗? Do you know how much l had to go through for you for this?
为了我? 你期望我.... 得了吧, 你有什么好处? For me? You expect me to.... Come on. What's in it for you?
首先, 你去读书，我图个清静 Firstly, it'll get you out of the house, for my sanity.
- 那正是我想的 - 不, 听着 -That's what l thought. -No, look.
你说的话，点醒了我 You said something to me recently. it got me thinking.
你说, "我只是个小女孩" You said, "I'm just a girl."
或许我已经变得太无情了, 但你只是个小女孩 Maybe I've grown too calloused over the years, but you are just a girl.
和许多年前 我课堂的学生没什么不同 Not unlike the students that flowed through my classes years ago.
我知道对你来说, 我们一定看起来很可怕... And l know that we must seem horrible to you...
但我们还有能力帮你 我们一定要这么做 but we still got something to offer. We must.
另外 我认为这是我们欠你妈妈的 And besides, l think we owe it to your mother.
虽然难以置信... And as hard is it is to believe...
但我们也曾是无辜的孩子 we, too, once were innocent children.
你真无耻 You are such a shameless ham.
你凭什么认为我能这么做? What makes you think l could do this?
因为我们认识上帝, 上帝也认识我们 Because we know God, and God knows us.
他和萝瑞把你带到这来 肯定是有理由的 And he and Lorraine brought you here for a reason.
学校一个月后开课 School starts in a month.
试试看 会很有趣的 You can give us a chance. it might be fun.
"乐趣" 是种徒刑, 你不这么认为吗? "Fun" is a stretch, don't you think?
听听, 甜心 那是你妈妈的歌 Listen, sweetheart, that's one of your mama's songs.
真美 That's beautiful.
她会很骄傲的 She'd be so proud.
你怎么看我的脸? What do you think of my face?
看到这个骨头了吗? 它断了 See this bone? it's broken.
你可以移动它 But you can move it.
怎么会这样的? How'd that happen?
"绝对不要和陌生人讲道理" 阿瑟‧米勒说的 "Never fight fair with a stranger." Arthur Miller.
是打架造成的? 你打输了? That happened in a fight? You lost?
嗯, 我输掉了很多东西, 不仅仅是打架 Well, l lost a lot more than the fight.
它是不是有损于我的外观？ 小姐，您觉得呢？ Does it take away from my appearance, in your opinion, miss?
我觉得你仍然很帅 l think you're still handsome.
多会讲话 Well, aren't y'all sweet?
你们有过性关系吗? Are you having sexual intercourse with one another?
- 好了, 鲁斯教授, 我们走吧 -有的话，也没关系 -Okay, Dr. Ruth, let's go. -it's all right if you are.
性爱是好事 Sex is nice.
要记住对彼此温柔一点 Just remember to be kind to one another.
要尽量保持年轻 你们的青春是短暂的 要善待之 And stay young as long as you can. Your youth is fleeting. Be kind.
我们应该从记诵开始 We should start with memorization.
我想我们应该坚持苏格拉底的方法 l think we should stick to the Socratic method.
你真的这样想? 谁是柏拉图, 谁是苏格拉底... You do? Just exactly who is Plato and who is Socrates...
在这次安排中? 因为我不参与 in this arrangement? Because I'll just stay out.
你是苏格拉底, 当然 You are Socrates, of course.
- 你是老师 -非常正确 -You are the Teacher. -You're goddamn right l am.
我希望你们都闭嘴... l wish y'all would just shut up...
因为如果这样的话 我什么都学不到 because if it's gonna be like this, l ain't learning nothing.
姑娘, 你的英语真是遭透了 Girl, your English is fucking atrocious.
帕斯琳‧霍米尼, 坐好了 Purslane Hominy, sit up.
我为什么不能躺在床上读书? Why can't l study in bed?
太热了 这张椅子太不舒服了 it's so hot, and this chair is so uncomfortable.
它不应该舒服 那会使你昏昏欲睡 坐好了 it is not supposed to be comfortable. It'll put your brain to sleep. Sit up.
- 真是个坏习惯 - 你跟我谈坏习惯? -it's just bad habits. -You're talking to me about bad habits?
别和老师胡搅蛮缠, 好吗? Don't fuck with the Teacher, okay?
告诉我内布拉斯加在美国文学上的地位 Just tell me what is Nebraska's role in American Literature? Go.
-我不是应该学学首都什么的吗? -胡说, 你要学重要的东西 -Shouldn't l be learning the state capitals? -Bullshit. You'll learn what matters.
别再延宕了！ Don't procrastinate.
盐荡？盐巴要用什么来荡啊？ By whatever do you mean, l don't have a card for procrastinate.
你真是不可救药 You are just incorrigible.
"延宕者.... "Procrastinate.
"以可悲之步调蠕行... "To drag one's ass in such a pathetic manner...
"乃至... 注定窝囊终身也。" "as to ensure one's place in life as a loser."
嘿, 谁是窝囊癈？ Hey, who are you calling a loser?
- 操 - 开始 -Fuck. -Go.
好吧, 内布拉斯加 All right, Nebraska.
我们首批女性作家之一 乌伊拉‧西泽的家乡 Home state of Willa Cather, one of our first successful female authors.
我是不是该东移到密苏里 马克‧吐温在那里出生... Or should l move east to Missouri, where Mark Twain...
他又名撒缪尔‧克莱门斯 还是往南到堪萨斯州... alias Samuel Clemens, was born, or down south to Kansas...
威廉‧勃若斯 在那里渡过他的晚年生活 where William Burroughs spent his last years?
- 住手! - 嘿... -Stop! -Hey, man...
天主教学校应该不会教这个 l don't think they'll teach Burroughs at Catholic school.
嗯, 他们应该教的 Well, they ought to.
怎么不给你的老哥们倒一杯? Why don't you pour your old buddy a drink?
-我们没果汁了 -嗯, 那杯子里的是什么? -We're out of juice. -Well, what's in that glass?
没有味道 it doesn't have a smell.
该死 那就倒些伏特加进去 Well, God damn it, pour some vodka in it then.
- 来吧 - 我们该戒酒了 -Go ahead. -We gotta quit.
我答应过珀熙，只要她读书，我就... 看看我们，两个废人！ l promised Pursey if she'd study. l mean, look at us. We're worthless.
你什么时候戒的？ And when was that, that you quit?
19个小时之前, 我们在考试的时候 Nineteen hours ago, when we were quizzing.
- 你睡过觉吗? - 没有 -Did you get some sleep? -No.
对她、对我们来说，都不急... There's no rush for her or for us...
你要戒的话，慢慢来吧！ so if you want to quit, take it slow.
信我一回 Now, trust me on this.
无酒气者，无才气也！ Take away the bottle, take away the genie.
嘿, 你在这干什么? Hey, what are you doing here?
我只是想让劳森休息一会儿 l just thought I'd give Lawson a break.
让他在卧室睡一下 来吧, 坐 Let him use the bedroom. Come on, sit down.
你今天看起来非常漂亮, 帕斯琳 You look very pretty today, Purslane.
只有外婆那样叫我，不过，谢谢你 No one calls me that but my dead grandmother, but thanks.
你记得怎么去吗？ Now, you remember how to get there?
我知道位置，应该找得到 l know where it is all right, so l guess l should be going.
紧张吗? You nervous?
不 No.
是的 Yeah.
要我和你一起乘电车吗? Want me to take the streetcar with you?
不, 我一个人可以 No, I'll be okay.
好吧, 我知道你行的 Well, l know you'll just do fine.
你从学校回来的时候，我们会在这里... And we'll be right here when you get back from school...
帮助你做功课 to help you with your homework.
天啊, 你真能掰 Christ, you're really living in some parallel universe.
把我和「功课」扯到一块儿了 Me and "homework" in the same sentence.
你快要跟「迟到」扯到一块儿了, 所以.... it's about to become you and "tardy" in the same sentence, so....
你想她会直接回家吗? Think she'll come right home?
直接回来，找她妙趣无穷的中年室友.... Where else would a teenage girl go but straight home...
除此而外，一个小女孩还能去哪儿？ to her endlessly entertaining middle-aged roommates?
她可不是省油的灯，用那种噪音折磨我 She's no picnic. Tortures me with that noise.
那孩子应该知道，真正值得听的音乐，来自黑胶唱片 That child should know anything worth listening to is on vinyl.
我的孩子们就知道这点 My kids knew it.
我教的，我是他们的爸爸 l taught them. l was their father.
你仍然是的 You still are.
当你完成那本书的时候，他们就会明白了 One day they'll understand, when you finish that book.
我的孩子们甚至都不认识我 My kids don't even know me.
靠, 我们就不能做点别的事情? Shit, can we do anything besides this?
- 比如什么? - 我也他妈的不知道 -Like what? -Fuck if l know.
- 我们可以去钓鱼 - 你不会钓鱼 -We could go fishing. -You don't fish.
或许我应该开始... Maybe l should start...
做点什么 something.
或许你应该开始那本书的工作 Maybe you should start working on your damn book.
我还不知道故事的结局呢 l don't know the end of the story yet.
将军 我们走吧，我要闷死了！ Checkmate. Let's get out of here. We're depressing me.
你知道吗？我想说... You know, l wanna say something...
有关人生的问题 因为未经检证的人生... about life, because an unexamined life...
- 不过是个... - 不值得活的人生 -is simply a life... -Not worth living.
帕斯琳, 我们的神童回来了 Purslane, our prodigy has returned.
告诉我们一切 Now, tell us everything.
亲爱的, 怎么这么早就离开学校了? Honey, why did you leave school early?
我不属于那里 l didn't belong there.
我很感激你们为我所做的，但我不会再回去了 l appreciate what y'all are doing, but I'm not going back.
什么? What?
我真的需要一份工作 l really need a job.
- 你可以周末来这工作, 甜心 - 真的? -You can work here on the weekends, sugar. -Really?
- 只要你在学校读书 - 好样的, 鄂尔 -Only if you're in school, though. -Good one, Earl.
秋天慢慢的降临新奥尔良 Autumn comes slowly in New Orleans.
小草仍然坚持青绿... The grass remains a stubborn green...
但天气已不再炎热 but the heat gives way to a gentle warmth.
珀熙开始跟上课业了 Pursey did begin to catch on in school.
她很惊讶 但我们没有 She was surprised. We weren't.
我们尚未发觉日照渐短，冬季已悄然来到 Winter arrived before we realized the sunlit hours of summer had waned.
不知怎么的, 酒却傲然长存... 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.
应该有人告诉那些乡巴佬，我们路易斯安那有样东西叫冬天 Someone should have told them Creoles we got something called winter in Louisiana.
我们或许能补救他们的疏失... We might have improved on their oversight...
因为有这个新发明，叫做「热气」 with this cool new invention called heat.
- 珀熙, 你把伏特加放哪儿了? - 你叫我藏起来的 -Pursey, where'd you put the vodka? -You told me to hide it.
没错 但你把它藏哪儿了? l did. But where did you hide it?
我不可以告诉你的 还记得吗? I'm not supposed to tell you, remember?
别的事 你可没这么听话呀！它在哪儿? You don't do anything else l tell you to do. Where is it?
劳森, 鲍比又叫我告诉他伏特加在哪儿了 Lawson, Bobby's trying to get me to tell him where the vodka is again.
- 今天是圣诞节 - 好吧, 在后面楼梯的下面 -it is Christmas. -Whatever. it's under the back stairs.
我敢发誓该轮到你洗衣服了 And l could have sworn it was your turn to do the laundry.
别忘了用那可爱的小熊 Don't forget to use the cuddly bear stuff.
你不是处女, 对吗? But you aren't a virgin, are you?
你知道, 像这样的性骚扰... You know, some people would call you a disgusting old man...
人家会说你是"恶老头" for your constant sexual harassment.
我想应该是"老色鬼"；而不是"恶老头" l believe the term is "dirty old man," not "disgusting."
你正是青春绽放的年纪 And you are a young, blooming bud.
- 让我把你当自己的孩子看吧！ - 是吗？ -Let me live vicariously. You aren't, are you? -Are you?
我有孩子 Well, l have children.
你怎么从来不看他们? Why don't you ever see them?
嗯, 问得好 但你还没回答我的问题 Well, that's a good question. But you haven't answered mine.
这次我可是真的想知道，别乎攸我 You know, I'm trying to be serious for once, Bobby. God.
事实是, 我希望能见他们 我想死他们了 The truth is, l wish l could see them. l miss them like hell.
在我看来 如果某人真想见自己的孩子... it seems to me if someone wanted to see their kids...
那他就一定会去 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?
你还记得你妈妈和你一起住的那段日子吗? Do you remember your mother when y'all were living together?
不怎么记得 No, not really.
我以前常常试着记起她 l used to try to remember her.
任何关于她的事 Anything about her.
像她的声音, 她身上的味道, 任何事 Like her voice, the way she smelled, you know, anything.
尽我所能的去想她... l used to think real hard....
想要记忆 wanting memories.
于是我开始编造记忆 And l just started making them up.
她刷上眼影 在镜子里对我说话... That she was putting on her eye shadow and talking to me in the mirror...
有时，我假装... or I'd pretend that...
她为我做了烤奶酪 上面还裹着面包脆皮 she'd make me these perfect grilled cheeses with the crusts cut off.
我曾有过各种各样编造的记忆 l had all kinds of made-up memories.
我最喜欢的一个是 她带我去看她的演出... My favorite one was that she'd take me to see her shows...
我坐在一位绅士身边... and l would be sitting on the side with this nice man...
他给我好喝的莎利谭宝（无酒精鸡尾酒） who'd give me all the Shirley Temples l wanted.
我编造了许多记忆... l made up so many memories...
我甚至开始相信 我真的记得她 l actually started to believe l was really remembering her.
但她从没来看我 所以我也忘了 But she never came for me, so l just forgot.
你知道... You know...
停止假装 stopped pretending.
Ho, ho, ho!
- 那是真的树吗? - 天哪, 你从哪儿搞来的? -ls that a real tree? -Lord, where did you get that?
是从一辆卡车上掉下来的 it fell off the back of a truck.
- 鬼才相信 - 好吧, 大概是Volvo车上的 -Like hell it did. -All right, maybe it was a Volvo.
我们应该把它放在显眼的地方 We should put it right up front where everybody could see.
当然了 Sure.
劳森, 洗好的衣服在哪儿? Lawson, where's the laundry?
靠 Shit.
"我记得和他成为密友的那天 "l remember the day l graduated from protégé to confidant.
"他从来都不让我知道他的秘密 "He never meant to let me in on his secrets.
"他陶醉于自己的神秘 "He thrived on his own mystery.
但第一个秘密一旦揭开... "But once the first one was discovered...
"没有多久，我们就能无所不谈了 "it wasn't long before there were none left between us.
"在图书馆的后面... "l was on the back steps of the library...
"我看到了他的制服... 那是刚洗好的衬衫... "when l spotted his uniform, a freshly laundered shirt...
"复活节的颜色, 还有那该死的帽子 "the color of Easter, and that damn hat.
"他故意在校园里溜达 "He strode across campus with purpose.
"汤米显然是有备而来" "Everything about Tommy said ready."
- 汤米就是我, 这样你可以听懂 - 听得出来是你 -I'm Tommy, just so you can follow. -Sounds just like you.
"他差点从我身边闪过 "He almost skipped right passed me.
"帽子不错啊", 我说... "'Nice hat,' l said...
"引来了汤米的招牌笑容 "eliciting Tommy's notorious smile.
"他见到顺眼的女人，就会露出这个笑容 "it was the same smile that he granted to each woman that caught his eye.
"这个笑容，也是他响应无聊问题的方式 "The smile that served as an answer to all undesirable questions.
"也是孩子们的小手追寻他时... "Or the smile for one of his children...
“他给予孩子的一瞥” "whenever he found a tiny hand reaching for his."
不错... That's nice...
- 但我认为那是个病句 - 我想全都是 -but l think that might be a bad sentence. -l think they all are.
那就是他们吊在圣诞树上的原因 That's why they're hanging from the goddamn Christmas tree.
不, 只不过一般来说... 不太... No, but it's just that, normally, it's just not on....
"汤米踏上阶梯, 一步二阶，吼着 '可恶... "Tommy took the stairs, two at a time, bellowing, 'Well, God damn...
'如果不是南方的好儿女' "if it isn't the South's next great native son.'
"我跟其它数百人一样虔敬，每周2次... "l was only one of hundreds who came religiously twice a week...
"让教授搞得目眩神驰，他的演出，处处值得喝彩 "to be dazzled by the Professor, each performance worthy of applause.
"汤米在讲堂前 振臂疾呼... "Tommy, at the front of the hall, waving his arms wildly...
"彷佛挥动着一条假想的套索" "as if mastering an imaginary lasso."
- 我比较喜欢「绳索」, 我想你... - 我喜欢「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, 你比较让人相信 Years ago, you were easier to trust.
非常感谢你们 圣诞节快乐 Thank y'all very much. Have a Merry Christmas.
谈到阿拉巴马舞，没人比得上鲍比‧朗 Nobody can do the Alabama shuffle as good as Bobby Long...
但这个美眉 真的很会跳 but this sweet thing, she can move.
- 你为什么不一直这么讨人喜欢? - 那样我能得到什么? -Why can't you be this sweet all the time? -Sure, and what would that get me?
纯粹的喜乐 Pure, unadulterated joy.
- 你淫荡的双眼别死盯着我们美眉 - 什么? -You keep your lecherous eyes off our girl. -What?
她不喜欢我 她比较喜欢劳森 She don't like me. She likes Lawson better than she likes me.
你喜欢劳森胜过我, 不是吗? You like Lawson better than me, don't you?
你喝醉了 You're drunk.
说真的，我的确醉了 You know what, l am. l really am.
没关系，劳森会带我们回家 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.
你告诉他们了吗, 亲爱的? You told them about the news, honey?
我们正考虑或许在假期之后... We were just thinking that maybe after the holidays...
他可以搬来和我一起住 做些正经事 he could move in with me and get some more work done.
这是我们想了很久的事 it's just something that we kicked around.
劳森不爱你 Lawson is not in love with you.
鲍比 这不关你的鸟事 Bobby, l don't think that's any of your damn business.
我见过他为之无法自拔的女子 I've seen him with a woman that he can't get enough of.
她侵入他每一个细胞... A woman that's crawled into every molecule of his being...
占据了他全部的心思 that consumed his every thought...
让他全心投入、魂牵梦萦 and turned him into a creation of devotion and obsession.
我脸上有那种爱的疤痕 l have the scars of that love on my face.
你告诉过她吗? Have you told her about that?
你告诉过她没有？ 什么是真爱... Have you told her about the difference between true love...
什么是排遣寂莫的床友 and a warm bed to pass the time away?
冷静点 别针对她 我从没说过我要去哪里 Cool it. Don't go after her. l never said l was going anywhere.
我只是说实话 l only speak the truth.
女人有权知道真相 The woman deserves to know the truth.
而你，有权做你喜欢的事 And you, you're free to do as you please.
真的吗? Am l, really?
终于自由了？ Finally free?
我要在此告诉你们 l want to say something on this occasion...
在此我们为爱和友谊庆贺 where we're celebrating our love and friendships with one another.
"朋友，我以敌人之名唤你 "Friend by enemy l call you out
"你, 行头中有一枚劣币 "You there, with a bad coin in your socket
"我一脸得意的朋友 "You there, my friend with a winning air
"你无情窥探我的私秘，却对我撒谎 "Who palmed the lie on me when you looked brassily at my shyest secret
"我的心粉碎在你的锤下 "With my whole heart under your hammer
"虽然我为他的短处爱他 "That though l loved him for his faults
"如我爱他的长处一样 "As much as for his good
"我的朋友是高跷上的敌人 "My friend were an enemy on stilts
"头上顶着狡猾的光环 "With his head in a cunning cloud"
好极了, 伙计 Bravo, man.
现在, 你为什么不直接了当的说你的想法呢? Now, why don't you come out and fucking say what you really mean?
你嘴里出来的每个字 都得要这么有个性... Does every word out of your mouth have to be in character...
还是你一定要借他人之口，从不暴露自己？ or is that the idea: just to be anybody but who you really are?
你想告诉我你对我很失望? You want to tell me that you're disappointed in me?
'因为也许我对你很失望 'Cause maybe I'm disappointed in you.
我从没要求帮你写什么该死的书 You know, l never asked to write your damn book.
你的赎罪和我的忏悔, 是吗? Your redemption and my penance, right?
我岂未付出赎价？ Haven't l paid?
他妈的9年了 Nine fucking years.
我很抱歉, 行了吗? l am sorry, all right?
我真他妈抱歉 l am so fucking sorry.
是廸伦‧汤马斯写的 it's Dylan Thomas.
〈致某人〉 To Others Than You.
这首算简单的 That's an easy one.
晚安, 鲍比 Good night, Bobby.
可恶 Shit.
你还好吗? 我可以进来吗? You okay? Can l come in?
你这次是自找难堪了 You really did a number on yourself this time.
劳森要丢下我一个人了 Lawson's gonna leave me right by myself.
我早就知道了 l always knew it.
我应得的 l deserve it.
我要孤独的死去了 I'm gonna die alone.
他不会离开你的 He's not gonna leave you.
- 不, 他会的 - 不 -Yes, he is. -No.
他一直会在你身边的 He'll always be there for you.
他剪碎了我的故事 它挂在圣诞树上 He cut up my story and hung it on the Christmas tree.
亲爱的, 我尿在自己身上了 Honey, l peed myself.
好吧, 上床睡觉了 来吧 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.
他怎么样? How is he?
- 我想他尿血了 - 该死 -l think he peed blood. -God damn it.
我知道他今晚不对劲 l knew he wasn't himself tonight.
他害怕医生 He's afraid of doctors.
很可能是细菌之类的引起的 没事的 it's probably some bacterial thing. it's nothing.
- 你要搬出去吗? - 不 -Are you gonna move out? -No.
你爱她吗? Are you in love with her?
不 No.
她真的很好 She's really nice.
是的 Yeah, she is.
你担心他吗? Are you worried about him?
出什么事了, 劳森? What happened, Lawson?
当我认识鲍比的时候 他似乎玩世不恭 When l met Bobby, he seemed absolutely larger than life.
为所欲为... Did whatever the hell he wanted...
但仍有美丽的妻子和孩子 but still he had the beautiful wife and kids.
学生爱戴他 教员嫉妒他 Students loved him. Faculty hated him.
女人想要他 Women wanted him.
天哪, 他让我对自己的天命深信不疑... Christ, he had me so convinced of my own grand destiny...
我可能都有点自恋了 l may have fallen a little in love myself.
我们一直到处瞎混 We hung out all the time.
有一个我想娶的女人 There was a woman who l wanted to marry.
她的朋友非常迷恋鲍比 Her friend fell for Bobby pretty hard.
他开始花更多的时间和我们鬼混 冷落了妻小 He started spending more time with us than he was at home.
一天晚上 他们最小的孩子有一场少儿联盟球赛 One night, their youngest had a Little League game.
是2场连赛 it was a double-header.
所以我让他放心, 先和姑娘们喝几杯 So l convinced him to have drinks with the girls first.
说我稍后会和他一起去看比赛 Said I'd go to the game with him later.
他一直说他要离开了 He kept on saying he had to leave.
不知怎么的, 一杯接着一杯 Somehow one drink became two, and then three.
然后... And then...
那个白痴, 教务长的侄子... this idiot, the dean's nephew...
进来宣称... came in and announced...
他和我的女友同床 that he was sleeping with my girlfriend...
除了我每个人都知道 and everyone knew but me.
我追打他 l went after him.
他挥起一拳 He took a swing.
鲍比进来了... Bobby stepped in...
他把鲍比的脸打了一个大口子 and he cracked Bobby's face wide open.
鲍比把那个小鬼狠狠地揍了一顿 Bobby went crazy. He beat up that kid pretty bad.
那时很晚了 lt'd just gotten so late.
我知道班一定会等我们的 l knew Ben would be waiting.
但当我们到的时候, 他已经不见了 But when we got there, he was gone.
每个人都离开了 Everyone was.
他不该一个人去的 He should never have been by himself.
他那么小 天又那么黑 He was just a little boy, and it was so dark.
人那么多... There's too many people...
在那条路上来去匆匆 in such a damn hurry on that road.
司机当然看不见他 There's no way a driver could have seen him.
他个子这么小 l mean, he was so little.
天哪, 他崇拜他的父亲 And, God, he worshipped his dad.
朱丽叶叫鲍比离开 再也别回来 Juliette told Bobby to leave and never come back.
她需要一个更好的男人 She needed a better man.
她是那么说的 That's how she put it.
所以你们来这? So you came here?
似乎是个写作的好地方 远走他乡... Seemed like a good place to write. it was far away...
有好大学 good universities.
鲍比可以重新开始 Bobby could start over.
我想我应该和他一起待着 l thought l should be here with him.
那晚 要不是我... l mean, if it wasn't for me that night...
就不会... things might have....
我真不知怎么会这样 l don't know what happened, really.
我们读了太多该死的书 We read too many damn books.
这座城市有迷人之处 There's something about this city.
就是这样 That's all.
你该睡一会 You should get some sleep.
我帮你做了卧床早餐 l made you breakfast in mattress.
谢谢, 女士 Thank you, ma'am.
有那个男人的消息吗？ Have we heard from the man yet?
没有 要先把他叫起来吗? No. Should we get him up first?
把那件衬衫给我好吗? Can you give me that shirt, please?
谢谢 Thank you.
帽子不错 Nice hat.
起来, 老先生 听说我们要带你去看医生 Get up, old man. l hear we gotta take you to a doctor.
把那个从你的"小鸟"上拿走 And get that off your pecker.
你操什么心？ 你反正要撕碎了 What do you care? You're slicing it up, anyway.
但我不想让我的作品染上花柳病 it doesn't mean l want my book getting the clap.
我突然想读一些我自己可爱的事 l had the urge to read something likable about myself.
发现什么了吗? Find anything?
没有 Not really.
我并不想把你和乔吉安娜的事搞的一团糟 l didn't mean to mess things up between you and Georgianna.
我那些话真的不是有意的 l didn't mean what l said.
噢, 天哪 Oh, Christ.
昨晚真乱 我们到底说了些什么？ Last night was a blur. l don't know what was said.
我也不想记起来 And l don't want to remember.
- 来吧 - 好啊, 礼物来啦！ -Come on. -Good, presents. Yay!
圣诞节快乐! Merry Christmas!
那一晚 那里是我们所有人的家 It was our home that night, all of ours.
我们都知道应该告诉她真相... We both knew we should tell her the truth...
但每天都感觉不是时候 but every day felt like the wrong day.
圣诞节是个相信童话故事的好日子 And Christmas is as good a day as any to believe in fairy tales.
那晚勾起了鲍比和我的回忆起... That night reminded Bobby and me of a time in our lives...
在她出现之前 我们都不愿记起的往事 we'd both chosen to forget until she arrived.
回忆的感觉真好... It felt good to remember...
只要一下下就好 if just for a little while.
我吃的真饱 I'm so full.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
我真希望会下雪 l wish it would snow.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
但我喜欢雨 But l love the rain.
- 我也是 - 我也是 -Me, too. -Me, too.
快点, 你总要小便的 Come on, man. You gotta piss sometime.
你看着我 我尿不出来 Christ, l can't do it while you're watching me.
我看过你小便一千遍了 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.
搞不好根本没事嘛！ Christ, it's probably nothing, man.
我也活得够久了 I've lived long enough anyhow.
天哪, 真冷 Lord, it's cold.
很干净，什么都没有 it's clear. l pissed clear.
见鬼了，少骗人了 Like hell you did. Don't lie to me.
只是一点点淡红 我不去 So it was a little pink. I'm not going.
你还有没有没烧掉或剪掉的短篇故事？ You got any short stories you haven't destroyed by fire or scissor?
我的英语期末考, 我得写点东西... My English final, l gotta write something...
还要在全班面前朗读 每个人都要 and read it in front of the entire class, and there's no exceptions.
- 靠！ - 你英语没问题 -Fuck! -So you're doing okay in English.
我会读 但我不是作家 I'm doing okay reading English. I'm not a writer.
- 你穿的什么啊? - 关你屁事? -What the hell are you wearing? -What do you care?
是萝瑞的 你让她的东西放在那养灰 it's Lorraine's. You just let her stuff collect dust in there.
你宁愿冻死 也不穿你妈的衣服 You'd rather freeze than wear your mama's clothes.
这件睡袍和它的主人... This robe and the person who wore it...
比一百个不懂得欣赏的人要强 is worth more than a hundred people who don't appreciate them.
出什么事了? ls something wrong?
- 你要告诉她吗? - 告诉她什么? -You gonna tell her? -Tell her what?
我们要带鲍比去看医生 他还在尿血 We gotta take Bobby to the doctor. He's still pissing blood.
已经拖了好几个礼拜了 He's been putting it off for weeks.
好的 Okay.
你不会穿着女性内衣吧？ l hope you're not wearing them lady underwear.
我肯定是穿了，会招好运的 l most certainly am. They're good luck.
反正是得脱掉的 Besides, they're gonna take them off anyway...
还得套上带号码的病人服 and put one of them backless numbers on me.
还得让大家看我的小弟弟 Everybody's seen my peter.
是哦 人人都想看你小弟弟哟 That's right. Everyone just wants to see your peter.
还有我的屁股 And my ass.
走吧 Let's go.
我就说嘛 我屁股上挂着该死的绳子 What did l tell you? Goddamn string draped over my ass.
鲍比呢? 我做了他喜欢的熏肉鸡汤 Where's Bobby? l made him that andouille gumbo shit he loves.
他们还要做一些检验 They needed him for some more tests.
- 没事吧? - 医生说应该没事 -ls he all right? -They think so.
他们要检查脚趾再确定 They just gotta look at his toe and make sure.
你可以请乔吉安娜过来吃晚饭 Well, then, maybe you might wanna invite Georgianna over for dinner.
她应该要工作 有什么我不知道的活动吗? l think she's working. ls there an occasion l don't know about?
我有个约会 l have a date.
真的? 第一次 Really? That's a first.
我想该是我过自己生活的时候了 l figured it was about time l got a life.
很高兴听你这么说 Great to hear it.
- 新衣服吗? - 是的 -ls that a new dress? -Yeah.
嗯, 算是吧 Well, sort of.
鲍比说的对 没有理由让萝瑞的衣服放在那里养灰 l mean, Bobby's right. There's no reason to let Lorraine's clothes collect dust.
她真的很娇小 你不知道我癈了多大的事才把拉链拉上 She was really tiny. You should have seen me trying to zip it up.
让它一直拉上吧！ Just make sure it stays zipped up.
我长大了, 劳森 我老早就长大了 I'm a big girl, Lawson. l have been for quite some time now.
嘿, 那是SAT申请表吗? Hey, is that an SAT application?
是的, 咨商老师给我的 我打算扔了 Yeah. My guidance counselor gave it to me. l meant to throw it out.
什么? What?
既然她认为你的成绩可以上大学 你就能上 if she thinks your grades are good enough for college, you go to college.
- 嗯, 上大学要钱 - 有助学贷款 -Well, college costs money. -There's financial aid.
可能还得离开家 l might have to go away.
没错 You might.
- 我要走了 - 他不来接你吗? -l have to go. -isn't he picking you up?
不, 我和他约了地方见面 No. I'm meeting him somewhere.
不要一个人从车站走回家 You can't walk home from the streetcar alone.
- 打电话到雷和鲁思那里找我, 我会... - 我会搭便车 -Call me at Ray and Ruthie's and I'll... -No, I'll get a ride.
你应该多花点时间和乔吉安娜在一起 Besides, you should spend time alone with Georgianna.
从圣诞节前开始，你就没陪她了, 对吗? You haven't stayed over there since before Christmas, right?
你说你想多看看新奥尔良的音乐场所 You said you wanted to see more of the New Orleans music scene.
我想这里是个开始的好地方 l figure this is a good place to start.
- 我认识他 - 真的? -l know him. -Really?
嘿, 甜心, 你在这做什么? Hey, sugar, what are you doing here?
我的朋友肖恩带我来的 肖恩, 这是朱尼奥 My friend Sean brought me. Sean, this is Junior.
很高兴认识你 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.
我怎么不知道你是个疯狂的萨克斯手? How come l didn't know you were a badass sax player?
嗯, 我现在很少吹了 Well, l don't play much anymore, you know.
我的气... l mean, l don't have....
...不太足了 Don't got the lungs for it.
- 鲍比怎么样? - 听起来比你好些 -How's Bobby? -Better than you sound.
-你又开始偷懒了? - 泰尼, 有个人要让你见见 -You sitting in again, or what? -Tiny, there's somebody l want you to meet.
不会是那个讨人喜欢的小女孩帕斯琳吧？ This can't be that sweet baby girl, Purslane.
- 你不记得我了吗? - 嗯, 对不起 -You don't remember me, do you? -No, sorry.
你妈妈以前在这演出... When your mama used to play here...
她常把你放在那里的凳子上 she used to sit you right over there on that stool.
你好可爱 And you was so cute.
我的责任，就是让你一直有莎利谭宝酒可以喝 See, my job was to keep you full of Shirley Temples.
你还记得吗? You remember that?
那时你和朱利奥都帮萝瑞的演奏 With Junior. You used to play with Lorraine back then.
你们一起在乐团吧？ You were in the band, weren't you?
她和朱利奥是我们这里最强的晚场，斗嘴的时候不算 Yeah, she and Junior was our best night here, when they wasn't bickering.
小帕斯琳 Little Purslane.
真高兴 你回来看老泰尼... Look, you come back and see old Tiny again, all right?
还有免费招待的莎利谭宝酒 And the Shirley Temples on the house.
待会儿见 See you later, man.
你真的在萝瑞的乐队里待过? You were really in Lorraine's band?
当然了 Of course l was.
那时候每个人都是，很普通 l mean, everybody was at that time. That's just how it was.
萝瑞和我... Lorraine and me...
我们曾经很亲近 we were close at one time.
我还记得看过她穿这件衣服 l remember the last time she wore that dress.
就和你穿起来一样漂亮 it looks just as pretty on you.
我得失陪了 l gotta go.
很高兴你来这, 亲爱的 Glad you came, honey.
为什么不告诉我你妈妈是个歌手? 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.
你要一杯吗? 我准备好了 You want a drink? I'm ready.
天哪 你这么急着回家? 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.
你终于看出来了 You finally figured us out.
- 判决是什么? - 我得了肾炎 -What's the verdict? -l got a kidney infection.
他们给了我一些药 They gave me some medicine.
说我必须戒酒 Said l got to dry out.
脚趾怎么样? What about the toe?
只是真菌感染 粘糊糊的 it's just a fungus. Got goop.
你命好，没事的 You're a lucky man. You're gonna be all right.
当然没事 万一有事呢？ Of course l am. But what if l wasn't?
什么意思? What do you mean?
我圣诞夜看到你和帕斯琳在一起 l saw you with Purslane on Christmas Eve.
- 你和她同床了吗, 劳森? - 不, 你怎么会那样想? -Are you sleeping with her, Lawson? -No. How could you think that?
因为她一天比一天迷人 Because she's becoming more fetching every day.
因为她是个年轻女人 Because she's a young woman.
情窦初开的女子，你我都清楚那有多好 She's got a crush, and we both know how nice that is.
- 她只是个孩子, 鲍比 - 她18了 -She's a kid, Bobby. -She's 18.
我认识我太太时, 她也才有18岁 My wife was 18 when l met her.
是一见钟情 it was love at first sight.
什么事也没发 那晚... Nothing happened. That night...
事情有点闹僵了... things had gotten a little out of hand...
她大概有点被吓着了 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... 寂寞的不只是她一个人吧 Well, my guess is that she wasn't the only one.
记住, 她是萝瑞的女儿 Just remember, she's Lorraine's daughter.
- 你是在嫉妒 - 那当然 -You're jealous. -Absolutely.
靠, 我不值得花这么多钱 Shit, l ain't worth this much.
靠, 不会吧 Fuck, no.
新奥尔良不是寒冬恣意为虐的地方 Winter never feels truly at home in New Orleans.
它像个不速之客，赖着不走... An unwelcome visitor that shows up long enough...
教人想起 我们缺了什么... to remind us of what we're missing...
却又马上离去，再次被人遗忘 and leaves us just in time for us to forget again.
春天了, 我们还在 Spring, and we're still here.
我说, 不如我们带瓶酒... How about we grab a bottle of wine...
去河边，像以前那样，怎么样？ and go down to the river like we used to? What do you think of that?
还记得那个裸泳的大方女孩吗？ Remember that very generous girl who used to skinny-dip?
- 她叫什么名字? - 不知道 -What was her name? -l don't know.
她又重生了 She's born-again now.
你想，我们上天堂以后，还会住在一起吗? Think we'll still be living together in heaven?
要是我们进得了天堂，那所有人都能进了 if we make it to heaven, then everybody will be there...
我就大可以随便挑... and I'll have my pick of goddamn debauchers:
拜伦, 萨德, 海明威 Byron, de Sade, Hemingway.
那些悲情诗人加起来，也不如我有趣 I'll be more fun than all of them whiners put together.
是啊，应该是吧 Yes, l guess you would.
- 我真的认为珀熙可以得到助学贷款 - 你能不能忘了那事? -l really think Pursey can get financial aid. -Will you forget that?
我们教了她一切，她就可以去读个名校 She's gonna go off to some fancy school after we taught her everything she knows.
我们却在这里变老、变丑... We'll still be sitting here getting older and uglier...
任何一个春天，说不定就是最后一个... and any spring could be our last....
可恶, 我现在就想去河边 God damn it, l wanna go to the river now.
你这老不死的干嘛这么激情？ Why are you such a dramatic old bastard?
"我只是想每天好好活着 "l just want to breathe in every day.
"幸福以高度 来弥补它的短暂" "Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length."
- 罗伯特‧弗斯特 - 走吧 -Robert Frost. -Come on.
你很清楚：她离开的话，就会想念我们 You know damn well she'll miss us if she leaves.
她走了就走了，完结篇，没戏了！ if she leaves, she's gone. Final chapter. End of story.
我想现在去河边 l want to go to the river now.
但我需要宁静 我有好多事要做... But l need peace and quiet. l got so much to do...
为了毕业，我得写短篇小说, 或是诗什么的 to pull off this graduation. l gotta write a short story, or poem, or something.
我脑筋一片空白 l can't think of anything.
- 我会搞砸的 - 我了解你 -I'm gonna blow the whole thing. -l know you.
- 你会做得很好的 - 再见 -You'll be fine. -I'll see you later.
嘿, 宝贝 Hey, babe.
我等你一整天了 I've been waiting for you all day.
李, 你在这里干嘛？你怎么找来的？ Lee, what are you doing here? How did you find me?
你好香啊 You smell nice.
你不请我进去吗? 我开了一整夜的车 Aren't you gonna ask me in? l drove all night.
我给你带了这个 And l got you this.
这地方真像你住的 This place really looks like you.
那些女性杂志 All those lady magazines--
我不看那些了 我没时间 l don't read those anymore. l don't have the time.
你现在做什么? 服务生? What are you doing now? You waitressing?
不, 我... 不关你的事 No, I'm.... it's none of your business.
你一定过得很好 没有房租... Man, you must be doing okay. No rent...
这里总比拖车要强 and this place definitely kicks ass over the trailer.
- 李, 你想怎么样？ - 你这是什么话？ -Lee, what do you want? -What do you mean?
我只是来看看你是不是安稳... l just came up here to make sure that you're safe...
- 把萝瑞的白痴朋友们赶走之后 -你在说什么? -once Lorraine's fool friends get the boot... -What are you talking about?
那些和你一起住的家伙 Those guys that you had to share this place with.
你怎么知道我跟谁一起住? How do you know who l live with?
有个律师寄给你一封信 Some lawyer sent you a letter.
当然, 你拆开了 Which you, of course, opened.
他们的期限快到了... 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 - 这封信说到7月1日为止... -I've missed you so much -This letter says as of July 1 ...
- 我是这房子的唯一拥有者 - 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!
- 那些卑鄙的窝囊废骗了你 -他们不是窝囊废, 他们是我的... -Those fucking scumbag losers lied-- -They are not losers. They're my....
- 是你的什么? -你不能叫他们窝囊废 -They're your what? -You cannot call them losers.
你想... 现在我过着正经的生活，我上学... You think that.... l have a real life now. l go to school--
- 正经的生活? - 对 -A real life? -Yeah.
和我们以前的狗屎生活大不同？ As opposed to the piece-of-shit life that we had?
你的正经生活里，大概也搞上了正经男人吧！ And l guess you got some real men in your real life, too.
骗骗小女孩，谋个安身之所的男人 Men who lie to girls so they can have a roof over their heads?
- 去你的! - 还是... -Fuck you! -Or what...
他们是不是还有其它好处？ Are they getting something else for their trouble?
他们利用了你, 帕斯琳 They used you, Purslane.
- 就像他们利用萝瑞那样 - 滚出去 -Just like they used Lorraine. -Get out.
很好! 我大老远来见你! That's just fine! l came all the way up here to see you!
你上学 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.
杂草永远是杂草... A weed is just a weed...
不管花有多漂亮 no matter how pretty the flower.
真他妈有学问, 李, 滚出去! That's just fucking brilliant, Lee. Get out!
究竟出什么事了? What the hell is going on?
她一定是在打扫或是什么 She must be cleaning or something.
她把门锁上了 She locked the door.
珀熙, 开门, 亲爱的 Pursey, open up, honey.
珀熙, 是我们 Pursey, it's us.
珀熙, 亲爱的, 开开门 Pursey, honey, open up.
- 你把门锁起来了 - 该死, 我说过 这种事迟早会发生的 -You locked the door. -God damn it, l told you this would happen.
噢, 天哪, 怎么会? No. Oh, God. How?
走吧, 她需要点时间 Let's go. She needs some time.
都2天了 没人见过她 Two goddamn days and no one's seen her.
她这周末请假了 She asked for the weekend off.
踪影全无 The trail is exhausted.
雷说她今天一早来过，打了电话 Ray said she came in early this morning. Used the phone.
- 避开了我们? - 八成是有意的 -She snuck past us? -Probably on purpose.
你们这样，可没带来什么温暖啊！ You have not been very supportive in this ordeal.
你现在不是住在我家吗？要另觅温暖的话，请自便！ You're staying with me, aren't you? You're welcome to go elsewhere.
我可以解决 l can rectify this.
明天她去上学，我设好闹钟，早点起床 Tomorrow she goes to school. I'll set the alarm. Get up early.
在路上和她谈谈 Talk to her on the way.
把事情摆平 Work this whole thing out.
我们没有闹钟 We don't have an alarm.
甜心, 我们一直在等你 Sweetheart, we've been waiting for you.
你觉得怎么样? 都是你喜欢的颜色 What do you think? it's all your favorite colors.
猜猜有谁帮了忙? 有雷, 艾克, 甚至鄂尔 And guess who helped? We had Ray, and lke, and even Earl.
卖的价钱大概可以提高一点，谢了 it'll probably add value to the selling price, so thanks.
我不知道为什么你这么快就要走 Don't know why you have to go so soon.
我们还是朋友 我只是不想见到他们 We'll still be friends. it's them l wanna get away from.
你知道他们不是有意伤害你的 You know they didn't mean to hurt you--
你为什么不从厨房开始呢? 我来收拾这里 Why don't you start off in the kitchen? I'll finish this.
"我亲爱的帕斯琳... "My sweet Purslane...
"我正在康复中，真等不及要见你 "I am getting well and can't wait to see you.
"时间在此似乎停滞不前... "Time seems to stand still in these places...
"但不管过了多久，还是有好多话要说 "but somehow too much of it has passed, and there's so much to say.
"我一直给你写信，但没有勇气寄出去 "I write to you always, but never have the courage to send my letters.
"现在我想让你看到，了解我们的过去 "I want you to have them now to give you our history.
"我想让你认识自己的父亲... "I'd like you to know your daddy...
"而且他还不认识你，全是我一个人的错 "and to know that only I'm to blame for the fact that he doesn't already know you.
"为你们父女二人，我写了这首歌" "I wrote this song for you both. "
亲爱的, 玻璃杯要放在哪里？ Honey, where do you want me to put your glasses?
出什么事了? What's wrong?
你一直谈着她，怎么从来没提这事？ How could you talk about her all the time and never tell me this?
是真的吗? ls this true?
"你的歌声感动了我 鲍比‧朗" "Your singing touched my soul. Bobby Long."
我也怀疑, 但她从来不告诉我 l always suspected, but she never told me.
我先爱上她的 l loved her first.
然后鲍比来了，一切就变了样 And Bobby got here, and all hell broke loose.
鲍比有妻眷 Bobby was still married.
他根本不明白她的感受 He never even knew how she felt.
她非常努力戒除酒瘾 She worked so hard to get clean.
成功之后，她回来在Howlin' Wolf开了演唱会 And when she did, she came home for a big show at the Howlin' Wolf.
这个演出? This show?
日期没错 The date's right.
她说外婆会带着你 She said your grandma would bring you up.
你没露面, 他也没有 You never did show. He never did, either.
你们都不在，她伤透了心 Boy, she was devastated neither one of you was there.
"给我亲爱的鲍比 "To my sweet Bobby.
"我好多了，回去为你唱首新歌 "l am feeling better and coming home to sing you a brand-new song.
"来吧，我爱的人会在，我想介绍你们认识 "Please come. Someone l love will be there and l want to introduce you."
这说的就是你 This was you, darling.
你和鲍比 You and Bobby.
我... l just....
我无法相信 l can't believe it.
你干嘛一直喝那鬼东西? Why do you keep drinking that shit?
酒能要你的命，你不知道吗? 萝瑞不就是个例子吗? Don't you know it's gonna kill you? Didn't you watch Lorraine?
天哪, 有时你真教我厌恶 God, sometimes you make me so fucking sick.
你活在幻想中... You're living in some fantasy world...
在那里，人生是本书，但没人在撰写 where life's a book and no one takes responsibility for writing.
傻瓜都知道，书比现实人生要强，所以它们才是书啊! Every idiot knows that books are better than life. That's why they're books!
珀熙, 亲爱的，随便你骂吧！ Pursey, honey, you go right ahead and be wicked.
我们活该 We deserve it.
等你骂完，我们何不坐下来谈谈，像一家人那样呢? 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.
就像你毁掉的那个家吗? Would that be like that family you destroyed?
就像那一家人吗? Are we just gonna be like that family?
'奇怪的是，据萝瑞说 我就是你的家人 'Cause the weird thing is that, according to Lorraine, l am your family.
你难道不会数9个月吗? Couldn't you count to nine months?
我一直不明白为什么她要我和你们住... l never understood why she would want me to live with y'all...
原来你是我爸爸 but you're my father.
我... l just....
你爱她吗? Did you love her?
- 你爱她吗? - 是的, 非常爱, 但我... -Did you love her? -Yes, very much. But l just....
我真希望我们从未见面 l wish we never knew.
别走, 珀熙 No. Don't go, Pursey.
别走 Don't walk away.
- 太晚了 - 不, 不晚 -it's too late. -No, it's not too late.
你有我, 亲爱的 你不再是孤独一人了 You got me now, honey. You're not alone anymore.
让我待在你身边 Let me be here.
我该做什么? 告诉我 What can l do? Tell me.
什么, 亲爱的? What, honey?
记得我说过，我编造有关她的记忆吗? Remember when l told you l made up memories about her?
是的 Yes.
可悲的是，我也虚构关于我自己的记忆 The really pathetic part was that l used to make up memories about myself.
像父母记得许多孩子的故事那样 Like parents got lots of stories about their kids.
就像, "苏西连骂人的话都说不好，可爱吧..." You know, like, "Wasn't it cute when Suzie couldn't say supercalifucking...."
诸如此类的 Whatever.
人们总记得一些芝麻绿豆的事 l mean, people remember a lot of weird shit.
你大概也有一卡车你孩子的故事, 对吗? Like you probably got a ton of stories about your kids, right?
是的 Yes, l do.
我想... 说不定... Well, l kind of felt that maybe...
我小时候，也做了些可爱有趣的事情 l used to do some cute or funny stuff when l was little.
但根本没有人在看, 对吧? But the truth is nobody was really there watching, were they?
亲爱的, 我看到了！我看到了！ Honey, l was there. Sweetheart, l was there.
虽然不是很久，但我在场 l saw. it was never very long, but l was there.
- 告诉我关于她的事，好吗? - 好的 -Will you tell me about her? -Yes.
- 她的一切? - 噢, 当然 -Every tiny thing about her? -Oh, yes.
还有我的，好吗? And about me, too?
'因为我真的需要知道... 'Cause l think l really need to know now.
我会的 Yes.
我并不想卖我们的房子，我爱我们的家，我只是... l don't want to sell our house. l love our house. l just....
对你太生气了 l was so mad at you.
我对不起你 I'm so sorry.
我不记得这个要怎么弄了 l don't remember how to do this.
我来 I'll do it for you.
靠, 老兄 你的脚瘀青了 Shit, man. Your foot's blue.
我一直在练习穿这鞋 脚都麻痹了 I've been practicing wearing this shoe. it's just numb, is all.
我可不要出任何状况，丢我女儿的脸 l don't want any reason for my daughter to be ashamed of her daddy.
- 我看起来怎么样? - 非常好 -Now, how do l look? -Damn good.
- 我看起来呢? - 嗯, 不错 -How do l look? -Well, pretty good.
你的头发翘起来了 Your hair's sticking up.
好了 There you go.
天啊, 你们看起来就像守法的纳税人 Good Lord, y'all look like regular taxpayers.
- 或许我穿得不怎么得体 - 没问题 -Maybe l ain't dressed appropriate. -You look fine.
你拉炼没拉好 快点, 我们要迟到了 Your fly is down. Come on, we're gonna be late.
准备好看我们的女儿毕业了吗? Are you ready to see our daughter graduate?
准备好了, 大人 Yes, l am, sir.
- 这是值得感恩的日子 - 是的 -it's a day to count our blessings. -Yes.
安静, 各位 安静一下 Quiet, everybody. Quiet down.
我想举杯... I'd like to propose a toast...
敬我美丽的女儿, 帕斯琳‧霍米尼... to my very beautiful daughter, Purslane Hominy...
我至爱的宝贝 who is my very own golden girl.
刚刚西塞尔说，今天是我们应该感恩的日子 Cecil mentioned earlier that today was a day we should count our blessings.
我四处张望了一下，看见许多... 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.
感谢上帝，我原以为祂已经弃我而去 l am thankful for a God that l had thought had given up on me...
还要感谢一个孩子的爱，蒙主眷顾... and the love of a child who, God willing...
她今年要上大学 will be in college this fall.
而且不是什么二流的野鸡学校，我家宝贝真棒！ And not no Vinegar Bend Junior College, neither. My baby's smart.
比她老爸强多了 Smarter than her old man.
那是肯定的 That's for goddamn sure.
珀熙, 亲爱的，你教我这乡巴老学到了不少 Pursey, honey, you have taught this old fool a thing or two.
借用 T.S.艾略特的大作来说： And in the glorious words of T.S. Eliot:
"我们不应停止探索 "We shall not cease exploration.
"在探索的尽头... "And at the end of all our exploring...
"我们将回到起点... "will be to arrive where we started...
"重新认识这个地方" "and know the place for the first time."
那就是你给老爸我的启示 And that's what you've given your old man.
老爸会永远感激 And he is forever grateful.
来吧 跟老爸跳一支阿拉巴马舞 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.
有些人很早就达到了一定的境界... Some people reach a place in time where they've gone as far as they can...
但家庭、工作却抵触着... the place where wives and jobs collide with desire...
心底那份虚缈的渴望和那些见不到的人 that which is unknowable, and those who remain out of sight.
"能察人之所未察，你就能下笔了" "See what is invisible, and you will see what to write. "
那是鲍比常说的 That's how Bobby used to put it.
他想面对的，是那些看不见的人 It was the invisible people he wanted to live with.
那些每天与我们擦身而过的人 The ones that we walk past every day.
而有时我们也成为那样的人 The ones we sometimes become.
那些只活在书里、只活在我们心里的人们 The ones in books who live only in someone's mind's eye.
他注定要深切刻骨地体验人生，而不是浑噩度日 He was a man who was destined to go through life and not around it.
他确信直入地狱 是通往天堂的快捷方式 A man who was sure the shortest path to heaven was straight through hell.
但他的缺憾就在于... But the truth of his handicap...
博识多闻造就了他，同时也瘫痪了他... lay only in a mind both exalted and crippled by too many stories...
也在于他所选择的器用之道 and the path he chose to become one.
鲍比‧朗致命的缺陷是 他处处流情的韵事 Bobby Long's tragic flaw was his romance with all that he saw.
如果有因果报应的话... And I guess if people want to believe in some form of justice...
鲍比‧朗得到的果报 就是那首献给他的歌 then Bobby Long got his for a song.
《献给鲍比‧朗的情歌》 作者：劳森‧潘
萝瑞‧威尔之墓
鲍比‧朗之墓
若要写我的幕志铭，我自己已经写了短短一则。 我会在自己的墓碑上写道：我和这世界曾有过像情人那样的争吵。 （引自：美国诗人 罗伯‧弗斯特）