看电影学英语 Legend of 1900 《海上钢琴师》
-Max: “I still ask myself if I did the right thing
我还在问自己是否做的对，
when I abandoned his floating city. And I don't mean only for the work. Fact is,
abandon: 放弃，遗弃?floating: 漂流的；浮动的
当我离开了他漂泊的城市，我指的不仅是工作，事实是
a friend like that, a real friend, you won't meet one again.
那样才是真正的朋友，你再也不会见到他这样的人。
If you just decide to hang up your sea legs,
hang up: [常用被动语态]中止，搁置
如果你不想出海，
if you just want to feel something more solid beneath your feet,
solid: 固体的，结实的?beneath: 在…之下
如果你只想站在陆地上，
and if then you no loner hear the music of the gods around you. But like he used to say…
no longer: 不再?
如果你不再想听见天籁之音，但是像他常说过的一样…
发誓的英文
You're never really done for as long as you got a good story and someone to tell it to.
done for: 完蛋的，破灭的?as long as: 只要?
只要你有个好故事，你就永远不会被人忘记，一个值得告诉别人的故事，
Trouble is nobody believe a single word of my story. It happened every time someone would look up and see her
look up: 抬头看
可问题是没人相信我的故事。每次都是这样，某人一抬头就看到她。
It's difficult to understand there would be more than a thousand of us on that ship,
很难理解，那船上有上千人，
Traveling rich folks, immigrants and strange people, and us
immigrant: 移民?
有富人，移民，陌生人和我们。
Yet there was always one guy alone who would see her first.
但是总会有一个人一眼就看到她的单身汉。
Maybe he was just sitting there, eating or walking on the deck.
deck: 甲板
或许他只是坐在那吃东西或是在甲板上散步，
Maybe he was just fixing his pants. He'd look up for a second,
fix: 修理?pants: 裤子
或许他正在缝补裤子。他抬起头，
a quick glance out to sea and he'd see her.
glance: 一瞥
很快地向海上望去，便看到了她。
Then he'd just stand there rooted to the spot, his heart racing.
root: 生根，扎根?spot:: 地点?race: 疾行【这里指心脏快速跳动】
他的脚像生了根，心也悸动不安。
And every time every damn time, I swear he'd turn to us, towards the ship towards everybody and scream.”
damn: 该死的【表强调】?swear: 发誓?scream: 大喊
每次，每一次，我发誓，他转向我冲着船朝着每个人大喊…
-Man: America!
美国！
-Max: New York, The one who sees America first .There's one on every ship.
纽约，先看到美国的人每个船上都有一个。
And don't be thinking it's an accident or some optical illusion, it's destiny.
accident: 意外的事?optical: 视觉的?illusion: 幻觉?destiny: 命运?
不要以为这是偶然，或是视觉幻想，那是命运。
Those are people who always have that precise instant stamped on their life.
precise: 精确的，准确的instant: 瞬间stamp: 使被铭记
这些人他们的生命中总是有准确的被打上烙印的时刻。
And when they were kids you could look into their eyes and if you looked carefully enough you'd already see her－America.
当他们是孩子的时候你看他们眼睛，如果你仔细观察你就会看到她—美国。
And I've seen a few Americans. Six years on that ship five crossings a year.
crossing: 横渡
我没见过多少美国人，呆在那船上六年，一年横跨五次欧洲和美国。
When you stepped on land you couldn't even piss straight in the john.
step on: 踩，踏?piss: 撒尿?straight: 笔直地?john: 厕所
当你踏上大陆，你在上厕所的时候都会感觉晃。
It was steady. The john, I mean. But you'd keep bobbing like an idiot.
steady: 固定的?bob: 上下跳动?idiot: 白痴
我的意思是，厕所是不动的，你却像个白痴一样不停的晃。
You can get off a ship all right but off the ocean”
get off: 从…上下来but: 除…以外
你可以安然无恙的离开船，但是却不可能离开大海。
-Pops: I was just closing. What can I do for you?
马上要关门了。需要点什么？
-Max: [when I boarded, I was 24 years old and I only cared about one thing in life－playing the trumpet.] I'm selling it.
board: 登（飞机，车，船）care about: 关心trumpet: 小号
当我登上这船的时候才24岁，一生中我只在乎一件事，演奏小号。我要卖这个。
-Pops: Conn, not bad.
康恩，不错。
-Max: Best brass money can buy.
brass: 黄铜，铜管（乐器）
黄铜是最好的。
-Pops: Six pounds, ten shillings. Best I can do
pound: 英镑shilling: 先令，面值5便士的硬币
最高出六磅七先令。
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Max: That horn's my whole life, mister. Even being nobody has got to be worth more than twenty lousy bucks
horn: 喇叭mister: 先生lousy: [美国俚语]低贱的buck: 钱
先生，这是我的全部。即使我不是什么名人，至少也值20美元。
-Pops: It… that's how things are, I suppose it's barely worth half a crown. Shut the door when you leave please
suppose: 认为barely: 几乎不crown: (英国旧币制的)五先令硬币
事情就是这样，我认为连二先令都不值。走后请关门。
-Max: Okay, pops you win. You just bought yourself a piece of musical history
好吧，老爹，你赢了。你刚买了一部分音乐史。
-Pops: Now if you want my advice. Go out, treat yourself to a decent meal
advice: 建议decent: 得体的，相当好的
如果你想要我的建议去吃顿好的。
-Max: At least let me play it one last time
至少让我在吹一次。
-Pops: Young man I don't have time to waste. All right. Hurry up, then. I'm closing
waste: 浪费hurry up: 赶快
我没有时间。好吧，那就快点。要关门了。
-Max: Thank you
谢谢！
-Pops: Two peas in a pod, wouldn't you say? It's the music you were just playing. What is it?
pea: 豌豆pod: 豆荚two peas in a pod: 一模一样【这里指胶片上的钢琴声跟铜管生配合起来是完美的乐章，如同一颗豆芽上的双生豆瓣是天作之合】
这样才完美，你说呢？这是你刚才吹的那段音乐，叫什么？