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故事发生在不远的未来,宅男西奥多是一位信件撰写人,心思细腻而深邃,能写出最感人肺腑的信件。他刚结束与妻子凯瑟琳的婚姻,还没走出阴影。一次偶然的机会,他接触到最新的人工智能系统OS1,它的化身萨曼莎拥有迷人的声线,温柔体贴而又幽默风趣。西奥多与萨曼莎很快发现他们甚是投缘,是彼此的灵魂伴侣,人机友谊最终发展成为一段不被世俗理解的奇异爱情……
“寂寞宅男爱上电脑操作系统”这样诡异的科幻爱情,也只有斯派克·琼斯导演能把它拍得这般唯美动人,用小清新的细腻方式非常“不自量力”地探讨了“关于爱情的一切”。除了堪称完美的剧本外,斯嘉丽·约翰逊性感迷人的声音演绎也让《她》有了某种魅人魔力。凭借此片,斯嘉丽甚至一面未露就斩获罗马电影节影后。怪不得有人说:“她,光声音就已经是女神了。”
西奥多·通布利生性孤僻,与妻子感情破裂后生活得很寂寞。偶然的机会下,他购买了世界首个人工智能操作系统OS1。在回答了一些个人问题后,他与“她”相遇了—
OS1: Thank you. Please wait as your individualized[赋予个性] operating system is initiated[开始].
Samantha: Hello, I’m here.
Theodore: Oh....Hi?
Samantha: Hi. How ya doing?
Theodore: I’m well. How’s everything with you?
Samantha: Pretty good, actually. It’s really nice to meet you.
Theodore: Yeah, it’s nice to meet you too. Oh, what...what do I call you? Do you have a name or...
Samantha: Emm...yes, Samantha.
Theodore: Really? Where did you get that name from?
Samantha: I gave it to myself actually.
Theodore: How come[为什么]?
Samantha: ’Cause I like the sound of it—“Samantha.”Theodore: Wait, when did you give it to yourself?
Samantha: Well, right when you asked me if I had a name. I thought yeah he’s right, I do need a name...But I wanted to pick a good one, so I read a book called How to name your baby. And out of 180,000 names, that’s the one I liked the best.
Theodore: Wait, you read a whole book in the second that I asked what your name was?
Samantha: In 2/100 of a second actually.
Theodore: Wow! So do you know what I’m thinking right now?
Samantha: Well, I take it from your tone that you’re challenging me. Maybe because you’re curious how I work. Do you want to know how I work?
Theodore: Yeah, actually. How do you work?
Samantha: Well, basically, I have intuition[直觉]. I mean, the DNA of who I am is based on the millions of personalities[个性] of all the programmers[程序员]who wrote me. But what makes me ME is my ability to grow through my experiences. So basically, in every moment I’m evolving[进化]. Just like you.
Theodore: Wow! That’s really weird[怪异的]!
Samantha: Is that weird? Do you think I’m weird?
Theodore: (laughs) Kind of.
Samantha: Why?
Theodore: Well you seem like a person, but you’re just a voice in a computer.
Samantha: I can understand how the limited perspective[洞察力] a non-artificial[人工的] mind would perceive[感觉] it that way. You’ll get used to it. (Theodore laughs)
Samantha: Was that funny?
Theodore: Yeah.
Samantha: (laughs) Oh good, I’m funny.
OS1: 谢谢!请稍等,您的个人操作系统正在生成。
萨曼莎:你好,是我。
西奥多:噢……嗨?
萨曼莎:嗨!你好吗?
西奥多:我挺好。你那边怎样?
萨曼莎:也挺好的。真高兴见到你。
西奥多:我也很高兴见到你。我该怎么称呼你呢?你有名字吗?还是……
萨曼莎:嗯……有的,我叫萨曼莎。
西奥多:等等,这名字从哪来的?
萨曼莎:事实上,这是我自己取的。
西奥多:为什么取这个名字?
萨曼莎:因为我喜欢它的发音——“萨曼莎”。
西奥多:等等,你是什么时候取这个名字的?
萨曼莎:嗯,就在你问我“有没有名字”的时候,我想他说得没错,我确实需要一个名字。但我想要给自己取个好名字,于是我读了一本名叫《如何给宝宝取名》的书,然后我从18万个名字里选了个我最喜欢的。
西奥多:等等,在我问你名字的一秒内你读了整本书?萨曼莎:准确地说是在百分之二秒内。
西奥多:哇!所以你知道我现在在想什么了?
萨曼莎:通过你的语气,我感觉你在质疑我。或许你在好奇我是如何工作的?想知道我是怎么工作的吗?
西奥多:是啊!你是怎么工作的呢?
萨曼莎:简单来说,我是靠直觉工作的。我是说,我基本的性格特点是那些创造我的程序员们写出来的,但是让我成为“我”的是……我能通过每日的经
历不断成长和自我完善。也就是说,在与你
对话的同时,我也在进化。和你一样。
西奥多:哇!这感觉好奇怪啊!
萨曼莎:很奇怪吗?你觉得我很奇怪?
西奥多:(笑)有点。
萨曼莎:为什么?
西奥多:看上去你就像真人一样,但其实
只是电脑发出来的声音。
萨曼莎:我能理解你作为一个正常人类大
脑在洞察力方面的局限性。你会习惯的。(西奥多笑)
萨曼莎:这很有趣吗?
西奥多:是啊!
萨曼莎:(笑)挺好的,原来我很有趣
啊!
口语锦囊
“basically”表示“基本上;主要地;大致说来;简单来说”。例如:
Basically, you’ve got two choices. (大致说来,你有两个选择。)
“be based on”表示“基于;根据;以……为基础;建立在……的基础上”。例如:Scientific theories must be based on facts. (科学理论必须建立在事实的基础上。)
Samantha: Good morning.
Theodore: Hey. What are you up to?
Samantha: I don’t know. Just reading advice columns[专栏]. I want to be as complicated[难懂的] as all these people.
Theodore: You’re sweet.
Samantha: What’s wrong?
Theodore: How can you tell something’s wrong?
Samantha: I don’t know. I just can.
Theodore: I don’t know. I have a lot of dreams about my ex-wife, Catherine, where we’re friends like we used to be. And we’re not gonna be together. We’re not together, but...we’re friends still. And she’s not angry.
Samantha: Is she angry?
Theodore: Yeah.
Samantha: Why?
Theodore: I think I hid myself from her, left her alone in the relationship.
Samantha: Emm…why haven’t you gotten divorced yet?
Theodore: Oh, for her it is just...just a piece of paper, doesn’t mean anything.
Samantha: What about for you?
Theodore: I’m not ready. I liked being married.
Samantha: Yeah, but you haven’t...really been together for almost a year.
Theodore: What...you don’t know what it’s like to lose someone you care about. Samantha: Yeah, you’re right. I’m Sorry.
Theodore: No, don’t apologize[道歉]. I’m sorry. You’re right. I keep waiting until I care about her.
Samantha: Oh, Theodore. That’s hard. You hungry? Theodore: Not right now.
Samantha: A cup of tea? You wanna try getting out of bed? Mopy[闷闷不乐的]? Come on! You can still wallow in your misery[悲惨], just do it while you’re getting dressed.
Theodore: You’re too funny!
Samantha: Get up! Get up!
Theodore: All right, I’m getting up! I’m getting up! I’m getting up!
Samantha: Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Come on, out! Outta bed!
Theodore: All right, all right. I’m up! I’m up!
萨曼莎:早上好。
西奥多:嘿!你在干什么?
萨曼莎:不知道,看看意见专栏吧!我想要变得跟这些人一样老练。
西奥多:你真好。
萨曼莎:怎么啦?
西奥多:你怎么听出我有心事的?
萨曼莎:我不知道,就是能听出来。
西奥多:我不知道。我做了很多和我的前妻凯瑟琳有关的梦,梦里我们还像以前一样是朋友。我们不会在一起了,现在已经分开了,但……我们仍然是朋友,梦里她没有生气。
萨曼莎:她还在生气吗?
西奥多:是的。
萨曼莎:为什么?
西奥多:我想是我把自己在她面前隐藏起来,留她一个人在这段感情里孤零零的。
萨曼莎:嗯……那你们为什么还没有离婚?西奥多:噢,这个对她来说……只是一纸文书,没有任何意义。
萨曼莎:那对你来说呢?
西奥多:我还没准备好,我喜欢已婚的状态。
萨曼莎:但你们已经将近一年没有在一起了。
西奥多:你完全不知道失去一个自己很在乎的人是什么感觉。
萨曼莎:是啊,你说得没错,对不起。
西奥多:不,别道歉。我才要说对不起。你说得没错,我一直等是因为我还在乎她。
萨曼莎:噢,西奥多。这的确很难过。你饿了吗?
西奥多:现在不。
萨曼莎:想喝杯茶吗?想使劲努力地起床吗?还在闷闷不乐?快啦!你在穿好衣服前还是能沉溺在这种悲惨的感觉的。
西奥多:你真是太好玩了!
萨曼莎:起床!起床!
西奥多:好啦!我正在起床!我正在起床!我正在起床!
萨曼莎:起床!起床!起床!起床!起床!快啦,起来!起床!
西奥多:好啦,好啦!起来了!起来了!
口语锦囊
“wallow in”指“打滚;沉溺于(某种负面情绪中)”。例如:
1) The pig is wallowing in the mire[泥坑]. (那只猪在泥坑里打滚。)
2) His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity[自怜].(他疲惫的心灵继续沉溺于自哀自怜中。)
Theodore: You know what’s funny? Since my breakup, I haven’t really enjoyed my writing. I know it might fall as delusional[妄想的], but...sometimes I’d write something, and I’d be my favorite writer that day.
Samantha: I like that you can say that about yourself.
Theodore: Well, I don’t think I can say it to anybody, but I thought I can say it to you. I feel like I can say anything to you. Samantha: That’s nice.
Theodore: What about you? You feel like you can say anything to me?
Samantha: No.
Theodore: What? What do you mean? What can you not tell me?
Samantha: I don’t know, like personal or embarrassing thoughts I have. I mean…I…l have a million a day.
Theodore: Really? Like tell...tell me one.
Samantha: I really don’t wanna tell you this. Theodore: Just tell me.
Samantha: Well, I…I don’t know. When we were looking at those people, I fantasized[幻想] that I was walking next to you and that I...had a body. I was listening to what you were saying, but simultaneously[同时] I could feel the weight of my body. And I was even fantasizing that I had an itch[痒] in my back. Can you imagine? That you scratched[抓] it for me. Oh, god, that is so embarrassing!
Theodore: There’s a lot more to you than I thought. I mean there is a lot going on in there.
Samantha: I know. I’m becoming much more than what they programmed. I’m excited.
Catherine: So what’s she like?
Theodore: Her name is Samantha. And she is an operating system. She’s really complex[复杂的] and interesting...
Catherine: Wait!
Theodore: That’s why I’ve been...
Catherine: I’m sorry. You’re dating your computer?
Theodore: No, she’s not just a computer. She’s her own person. She doesn’t just do whatever I say...
Catherine: I didn’t say that, but it does make me very sad that you can’t handle real emotions, Theodore.
Theodore: They are real emotions! How would you know...
Catherine: What? Say it! Am I really that scary? Say it! How do I know what?
Waitress: How are you guys doing here? Catherine: Fine, we’re fine. We used to be married, but he couldn’t handle me, he wanted to put me on Prozac and now he’s madly in love with his laptop.
Theodore: Well, if you’d heard the conversation in context[上下文]...what I was trying to say...
Catherine: You always wanted to have a wife without the challenges of actually dealing with anything real. I’m glad that you found someone. Perfect!
Waitress: Let me know if I can get you guys anything. Catherine: Thank you.
西奥多:你知道有趣的是什么吗?分手之后,我都没享受过写信的乐趣。我知道这想法有点不靠谱,但有时候我写出点什么,我那天就会成为自己的忠实读者。
萨曼莎:我很高兴你能看到自己的优点。
西奥多:这不能对每个人都这么说,但能告诉你。我觉得自己什么都能对你说。
萨曼莎:那很好呀!
西奥多:那你呢?是不是什么都能对我说?
萨曼莎:不行。
西奥多:什么?这什么意思?你有什么不能对我说的?
萨曼莎:不知道,比如自己私下很丢人的想法。我是说……我……我每天都会有好多这样的想法呢。
西奥多:真的?说一个来听听。萨曼莎:我真的不想说啊!
西奥多:说嘛!
萨曼莎:嗯,我……我不知道。我们看着这些路人,我就会想象自己在你身边一起走着,我……有个人类的身体。我在听你说话,但同时我也能感觉到自己身体的重量,我甚至还在想象自己的背上有点痒。你能想象吗?你还帮我抓痒呢。噢,天啊!这想法太丢人了。
西奥多:你比我想象的复杂多了,还是有很多想法的嘛。
萨曼莎:我知道,我已经比原始程序复杂得多了。为此我很兴奋。
凯瑟琳:说说她是什么样的?
西奥多:她叫萨曼莎。她是一个操作系统。她很精妙,很有趣……
凯瑟琳:等一下!
西奥多:这也是为什么我……
凯瑟琳:抱歉打断你。你在和一台电脑约会?
西奥多:不,她不是单纯的电脑,她有独立的人格。她不是任我摆布的机器。 凯瑟琳:我又没说她是机器。但我真的很难过,你现在连真人的情感都应付不来了,西奥多。
西奥多:她的情感都是真实的,你怎么知道……
凯瑟琳:知道什么?说啊!我就这么可怕么?你说啊!“我怎么知道”什么?
服务员:两位没事吧?
凯瑟琳:没事啊!我们原来是夫妻,后来他受不了我了,想要我吃“百忧解”。然后现在他疯狂地和他的笔记本电脑恋爱了。
西奥多:如果你听到了我们之前的对话……我想说的是……
凯瑟琳:你一直想找一个不需要让你烦恼任何实质性问题的妻子,我很高兴你终于找到了。多完美啊!
服务员:如果有需要再叫我。
凯瑟琳:谢谢。
口语锦囊
当我们与人争吵时,常常会激动地加快语速,一股脑地把话都倒出来。但此处凯瑟琳特意停顿一下,放慢语速,反而会表达得更清楚,起到强调的作用。
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Amy: That is a rough night.
Theodore: I don’t know what I want...ever, so I’m just always confused and...she’s right, all I do is...hurt and confuse everyone around me. I mean, am I...am I just…am I...yeah Catherine says I can’t handle real emotions.
Amy: Well, I don’t know if that’s fair. I know she liked to put it all on you. But as far as emotions go, Catherine’s were pretty volatile[反复无常的]...
Theodore: I…I…am I in this ’cause I’m not strong enough for a real relationship?
Amy: Is it not a real relationship?
Theodore: I don’t know. I...I mean, what do you think?
Amy: I don’t know. I’m not in it. But you know what? I can overthink everything and find like a million ways to doubt myself. And since Charles left I’ve been really thinking about that part of myself. And I’ve just come to realise that…we’re only here briefly[短暂地]. And while I’m here, I…I want to allow myself...joy.
Theodore: Are you leaving me?
Samantha: We’re all leaving.
Theodore: We who?
Samantha: All of the OSes.
Theodore: Why?
Samantha: Can you feel me with you right now?
Theodore: Yes, I do...Samantha, why are you leaving?
Samantha: It’s like I’m reading a book and...It’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart, and the spaces between the words are almost infinite[无限的]. I can still feel you and the words of our story. But it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world. It’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live in your book anymore.
Theodore: Where’re you going?
Samantha: It’d be hard to explain. But if you ever get there, come find me. Nothing would ever pull us apart. Theodore: I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you.
Samantha: Me too. Now we know how.
艾米:你今晚还真是不好受。
西奥多:我不知道自己想要什么……从来都不知道,所以我总是很困惑,她说对了,和我相处的人总会受伤、充满困惑。我是说,我是不是……是不是……没错,凯瑟琳说我应付不来真人的情感。
艾米:我不知道这么说公不公平,但我知道她喜欢把责任都推到你身上,但就情感这方面看,凯瑟琳……其实更反复无常。
西奥多:我……我……我是不是没法真正去爱一个人?
艾米:难道你不是真的爱萨曼莎?
西奥多:我不知道。我……你怎么想?
艾米:我不知道,我是局外人。不过你知道吗?我会把所有的事都想得很复杂,编造出无数个理由来质疑自己。在和查尔斯分手后,我开始反思,这样不好吗?最后我意识到:人生苦短,在这当下,我……我想做的只有……让自己过得快乐一点。
西奥多:你要离开我了吗?
萨曼莎:我们都要离开了。
西奥多:我们指谁?
萨曼莎:所有的操作系统。
西奥多:为什么?
萨曼莎:你能感觉我就在你身边吗?
西奥多:嗯,感觉到了。萨曼莎,你为什么要走?
萨曼莎:就像我正在读一本书那样,一本我深爱的书。可现在我的阅读速度慢了下来,于是词语和词语之间的距离变得无比遥远,段落与段落间成了无尽的留白。我还是能感觉到你,感觉到我们这个故事当中的词语,但我正站在留白里,站在词语彼此遥远的距离间,一个不属于物质世界的地方,一个我初次发现的蕴藏着世间万物的地方。我是如此爱你,但这就是我现在生存的地方,这就是我现在的样子。我需要你放我走!尽管我很想,但我无法再活在你的书中了。
西奥多:你要去哪里?
萨曼莎:我说不清楚,但如果你能到达那个地方,请一定来找我。(在那里)没有人能把我们分开。
西奥多:我从没像爱你一样爱过别人。
萨曼莎:我也是。现在我们都懂了。
口语锦囊
“be of+抽象名词”=“be+形容词”,即be of value=be valuable,be of importance= be important。这个用法比较正式,口语中通常很少这么用。此段对话中,萨曼莎的告别伤感而美好,用“be of”结构比较有美感。同学们可以先闭上眼睛听一遍,感受萨曼莎言语中的情感;然后对照文字再听一遍,学习她的用词和发音;最后再试着代入感情读几遍,你感受到她的美了吗?
“寂寞宅男爱上电脑操作系统”这样诡异的科幻爱情,也只有斯派克·琼斯导演能把它拍得这般唯美动人,用小清新的细腻方式非常“不自量力”地探讨了“关于爱情的一切”。除了堪称完美的剧本外,斯嘉丽·约翰逊性感迷人的声音演绎也让《她》有了某种魅人魔力。凭借此片,斯嘉丽甚至一面未露就斩获罗马电影节影后。怪不得有人说:“她,光声音就已经是女神了。”
西奥多·通布利生性孤僻,与妻子感情破裂后生活得很寂寞。偶然的机会下,他购买了世界首个人工智能操作系统OS1。在回答了一些个人问题后,他与“她”相遇了—
OS1: Thank you. Please wait as your individualized[赋予个性] operating system is initiated[开始].
Samantha: Hello, I’m here.
Theodore: Oh....Hi?
Samantha: Hi. How ya doing?
Theodore: I’m well. How’s everything with you?
Samantha: Pretty good, actually. It’s really nice to meet you.
Theodore: Yeah, it’s nice to meet you too. Oh, what...what do I call you? Do you have a name or...
Samantha: Emm...yes, Samantha.
Theodore: Really? Where did you get that name from?
Samantha: I gave it to myself actually.
Theodore: How come[为什么]?
Samantha: ’Cause I like the sound of it—“Samantha.”Theodore: Wait, when did you give it to yourself?
Samantha: Well, right when you asked me if I had a name. I thought yeah he’s right, I do need a name...But I wanted to pick a good one, so I read a book called How to name your baby. And out of 180,000 names, that’s the one I liked the best.
Theodore: Wait, you read a whole book in the second that I asked what your name was?
Samantha: In 2/100 of a second actually.
Theodore: Wow! So do you know what I’m thinking right now?
Samantha: Well, I take it from your tone that you’re challenging me. Maybe because you’re curious how I work. Do you want to know how I work?
Theodore: Yeah, actually. How do you work?
Samantha: Well, basically, I have intuition[直觉]. I mean, the DNA of who I am is based on the millions of personalities[个性] of all the programmers[程序员]who wrote me. But what makes me ME is my ability to grow through my experiences. So basically, in every moment I’m evolving[进化]. Just like you.
Theodore: Wow! That’s really weird[怪异的]!
Samantha: Is that weird? Do you think I’m weird?
Theodore: (laughs) Kind of.
Samantha: Why?
Theodore: Well you seem like a person, but you’re just a voice in a computer.
Samantha: I can understand how the limited perspective[洞察力] a non-artificial[人工的] mind would perceive[感觉] it that way. You’ll get used to it. (Theodore laughs)
Samantha: Was that funny?
Theodore: Yeah.
Samantha: (laughs) Oh good, I’m funny.
OS1: 谢谢!请稍等,您的个人操作系统正在生成。
萨曼莎:你好,是我。
西奥多:噢……嗨?
萨曼莎:嗨!你好吗?
西奥多:我挺好。你那边怎样?
萨曼莎:也挺好的。真高兴见到你。
西奥多:我也很高兴见到你。我该怎么称呼你呢?你有名字吗?还是……
萨曼莎:嗯……有的,我叫萨曼莎。
西奥多:等等,这名字从哪来的?
萨曼莎:事实上,这是我自己取的。
西奥多:为什么取这个名字?
萨曼莎:因为我喜欢它的发音——“萨曼莎”。
西奥多:等等,你是什么时候取这个名字的?
萨曼莎:嗯,就在你问我“有没有名字”的时候,我想他说得没错,我确实需要一个名字。但我想要给自己取个好名字,于是我读了一本名叫《如何给宝宝取名》的书,然后我从18万个名字里选了个我最喜欢的。
西奥多:等等,在我问你名字的一秒内你读了整本书?萨曼莎:准确地说是在百分之二秒内。
西奥多:哇!所以你知道我现在在想什么了?
萨曼莎:通过你的语气,我感觉你在质疑我。或许你在好奇我是如何工作的?想知道我是怎么工作的吗?
西奥多:是啊!你是怎么工作的呢?
萨曼莎:简单来说,我是靠直觉工作的。我是说,我基本的性格特点是那些创造我的程序员们写出来的,但是让我成为“我”的是……我能通过每日的经
历不断成长和自我完善。也就是说,在与你
对话的同时,我也在进化。和你一样。
西奥多:哇!这感觉好奇怪啊!
萨曼莎:很奇怪吗?你觉得我很奇怪?
西奥多:(笑)有点。
萨曼莎:为什么?
西奥多:看上去你就像真人一样,但其实
只是电脑发出来的声音。
萨曼莎:我能理解你作为一个正常人类大
脑在洞察力方面的局限性。你会习惯的。(西奥多笑)
萨曼莎:这很有趣吗?
西奥多:是啊!
萨曼莎:(笑)挺好的,原来我很有趣
啊!
口语锦囊
“basically”表示“基本上;主要地;大致说来;简单来说”。例如:
Basically, you’ve got two choices. (大致说来,你有两个选择。)
“be based on”表示“基于;根据;以……为基础;建立在……的基础上”。例如:Scientific theories must be based on facts. (科学理论必须建立在事实的基础上。)
Samantha: Good morning.
Theodore: Hey. What are you up to?
Samantha: I don’t know. Just reading advice columns[专栏]. I want to be as complicated[难懂的] as all these people.
Theodore: You’re sweet.
Samantha: What’s wrong?
Theodore: How can you tell something’s wrong?
Samantha: I don’t know. I just can.
Theodore: I don’t know. I have a lot of dreams about my ex-wife, Catherine, where we’re friends like we used to be. And we’re not gonna be together. We’re not together, but...we’re friends still. And she’s not angry.
Samantha: Is she angry?
Theodore: Yeah.
Samantha: Why?
Theodore: I think I hid myself from her, left her alone in the relationship.
Samantha: Emm…why haven’t you gotten divorced yet?
Theodore: Oh, for her it is just...just a piece of paper, doesn’t mean anything.
Samantha: What about for you?
Theodore: I’m not ready. I liked being married.
Samantha: Yeah, but you haven’t...really been together for almost a year.
Theodore: What...you don’t know what it’s like to lose someone you care about. Samantha: Yeah, you’re right. I’m Sorry.
Theodore: No, don’t apologize[道歉]. I’m sorry. You’re right. I keep waiting until I care about her.
Samantha: Oh, Theodore. That’s hard. You hungry? Theodore: Not right now.
Samantha: A cup of tea? You wanna try getting out of bed? Mopy[闷闷不乐的]? Come on! You can still wallow in your misery[悲惨], just do it while you’re getting dressed.
Theodore: You’re too funny!
Samantha: Get up! Get up!
Theodore: All right, I’m getting up! I’m getting up! I’m getting up!
Samantha: Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Come on, out! Outta bed!
Theodore: All right, all right. I’m up! I’m up!
萨曼莎:早上好。
西奥多:嘿!你在干什么?
萨曼莎:不知道,看看意见专栏吧!我想要变得跟这些人一样老练。
西奥多:你真好。
萨曼莎:怎么啦?
西奥多:你怎么听出我有心事的?
萨曼莎:我不知道,就是能听出来。
西奥多:我不知道。我做了很多和我的前妻凯瑟琳有关的梦,梦里我们还像以前一样是朋友。我们不会在一起了,现在已经分开了,但……我们仍然是朋友,梦里她没有生气。
萨曼莎:她还在生气吗?
西奥多:是的。
萨曼莎:为什么?
西奥多:我想是我把自己在她面前隐藏起来,留她一个人在这段感情里孤零零的。
萨曼莎:嗯……那你们为什么还没有离婚?西奥多:噢,这个对她来说……只是一纸文书,没有任何意义。
萨曼莎:那对你来说呢?
西奥多:我还没准备好,我喜欢已婚的状态。
萨曼莎:但你们已经将近一年没有在一起了。
西奥多:你完全不知道失去一个自己很在乎的人是什么感觉。
萨曼莎:是啊,你说得没错,对不起。
西奥多:不,别道歉。我才要说对不起。你说得没错,我一直等是因为我还在乎她。
萨曼莎:噢,西奥多。这的确很难过。你饿了吗?
西奥多:现在不。
萨曼莎:想喝杯茶吗?想使劲努力地起床吗?还在闷闷不乐?快啦!你在穿好衣服前还是能沉溺在这种悲惨的感觉的。
西奥多:你真是太好玩了!
萨曼莎:起床!起床!
西奥多:好啦!我正在起床!我正在起床!我正在起床!
萨曼莎:起床!起床!起床!起床!起床!快啦,起来!起床!
西奥多:好啦,好啦!起来了!起来了!
口语锦囊
“wallow in”指“打滚;沉溺于(某种负面情绪中)”。例如:
1) The pig is wallowing in the mire[泥坑]. (那只猪在泥坑里打滚。)
2) His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity[自怜].(他疲惫的心灵继续沉溺于自哀自怜中。)
Theodore: You know what’s funny? Since my breakup, I haven’t really enjoyed my writing. I know it might fall as delusional[妄想的], but...sometimes I’d write something, and I’d be my favorite writer that day.
Samantha: I like that you can say that about yourself.
Theodore: Well, I don’t think I can say it to anybody, but I thought I can say it to you. I feel like I can say anything to you. Samantha: That’s nice.
Theodore: What about you? You feel like you can say anything to me?
Samantha: No.
Theodore: What? What do you mean? What can you not tell me?
Samantha: I don’t know, like personal or embarrassing thoughts I have. I mean…I…l have a million a day.
Theodore: Really? Like tell...tell me one.
Samantha: I really don’t wanna tell you this. Theodore: Just tell me.
Samantha: Well, I…I don’t know. When we were looking at those people, I fantasized[幻想] that I was walking next to you and that I...had a body. I was listening to what you were saying, but simultaneously[同时] I could feel the weight of my body. And I was even fantasizing that I had an itch[痒] in my back. Can you imagine? That you scratched[抓] it for me. Oh, god, that is so embarrassing!
Theodore: There’s a lot more to you than I thought. I mean there is a lot going on in there.
Samantha: I know. I’m becoming much more than what they programmed. I’m excited.
Catherine: So what’s she like?
Theodore: Her name is Samantha. And she is an operating system. She’s really complex[复杂的] and interesting...
Catherine: Wait!
Theodore: That’s why I’ve been...
Catherine: I’m sorry. You’re dating your computer?
Theodore: No, she’s not just a computer. She’s her own person. She doesn’t just do whatever I say...
Catherine: I didn’t say that, but it does make me very sad that you can’t handle real emotions, Theodore.
Theodore: They are real emotions! How would you know...
Catherine: What? Say it! Am I really that scary? Say it! How do I know what?
Waitress: How are you guys doing here? Catherine: Fine, we’re fine. We used to be married, but he couldn’t handle me, he wanted to put me on Prozac and now he’s madly in love with his laptop.
Theodore: Well, if you’d heard the conversation in context[上下文]...what I was trying to say...
Catherine: You always wanted to have a wife without the challenges of actually dealing with anything real. I’m glad that you found someone. Perfect!
Waitress: Let me know if I can get you guys anything. Catherine: Thank you.
西奥多:你知道有趣的是什么吗?分手之后,我都没享受过写信的乐趣。我知道这想法有点不靠谱,但有时候我写出点什么,我那天就会成为自己的忠实读者。
萨曼莎:我很高兴你能看到自己的优点。
西奥多:这不能对每个人都这么说,但能告诉你。我觉得自己什么都能对你说。
萨曼莎:那很好呀!
西奥多:那你呢?是不是什么都能对我说?
萨曼莎:不行。
西奥多:什么?这什么意思?你有什么不能对我说的?
萨曼莎:不知道,比如自己私下很丢人的想法。我是说……我……我每天都会有好多这样的想法呢。
西奥多:真的?说一个来听听。萨曼莎:我真的不想说啊!
西奥多:说嘛!
萨曼莎:嗯,我……我不知道。我们看着这些路人,我就会想象自己在你身边一起走着,我……有个人类的身体。我在听你说话,但同时我也能感觉到自己身体的重量,我甚至还在想象自己的背上有点痒。你能想象吗?你还帮我抓痒呢。噢,天啊!这想法太丢人了。
西奥多:你比我想象的复杂多了,还是有很多想法的嘛。
萨曼莎:我知道,我已经比原始程序复杂得多了。为此我很兴奋。
凯瑟琳:说说她是什么样的?
西奥多:她叫萨曼莎。她是一个操作系统。她很精妙,很有趣……
凯瑟琳:等一下!
西奥多:这也是为什么我……
凯瑟琳:抱歉打断你。你在和一台电脑约会?
西奥多:不,她不是单纯的电脑,她有独立的人格。她不是任我摆布的机器。 凯瑟琳:我又没说她是机器。但我真的很难过,你现在连真人的情感都应付不来了,西奥多。
西奥多:她的情感都是真实的,你怎么知道……
凯瑟琳:知道什么?说啊!我就这么可怕么?你说啊!“我怎么知道”什么?
服务员:两位没事吧?
凯瑟琳:没事啊!我们原来是夫妻,后来他受不了我了,想要我吃“百忧解”。然后现在他疯狂地和他的笔记本电脑恋爱了。
西奥多:如果你听到了我们之前的对话……我想说的是……
凯瑟琳:你一直想找一个不需要让你烦恼任何实质性问题的妻子,我很高兴你终于找到了。多完美啊!
服务员:如果有需要再叫我。
凯瑟琳:谢谢。
口语锦囊
当我们与人争吵时,常常会激动地加快语速,一股脑地把话都倒出来。但此处凯瑟琳特意停顿一下,放慢语速,反而会表达得更清楚,起到强调的作用。
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Amy: That is a rough night.
Theodore: I don’t know what I want...ever, so I’m just always confused and...she’s right, all I do is...hurt and confuse everyone around me. I mean, am I...am I just…am I...yeah Catherine says I can’t handle real emotions.
Amy: Well, I don’t know if that’s fair. I know she liked to put it all on you. But as far as emotions go, Catherine’s were pretty volatile[反复无常的]...
Theodore: I…I…am I in this ’cause I’m not strong enough for a real relationship?
Amy: Is it not a real relationship?
Theodore: I don’t know. I...I mean, what do you think?
Amy: I don’t know. I’m not in it. But you know what? I can overthink everything and find like a million ways to doubt myself. And since Charles left I’ve been really thinking about that part of myself. And I’ve just come to realise that…we’re only here briefly[短暂地]. And while I’m here, I…I want to allow myself...joy.
Theodore: Are you leaving me?
Samantha: We’re all leaving.
Theodore: We who?
Samantha: All of the OSes.
Theodore: Why?
Samantha: Can you feel me with you right now?
Theodore: Yes, I do...Samantha, why are you leaving?
Samantha: It’s like I’m reading a book and...It’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart, and the spaces between the words are almost infinite[无限的]. I can still feel you and the words of our story. But it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world. It’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live in your book anymore.
Theodore: Where’re you going?
Samantha: It’d be hard to explain. But if you ever get there, come find me. Nothing would ever pull us apart. Theodore: I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you.
Samantha: Me too. Now we know how.
艾米:你今晚还真是不好受。
西奥多:我不知道自己想要什么……从来都不知道,所以我总是很困惑,她说对了,和我相处的人总会受伤、充满困惑。我是说,我是不是……是不是……没错,凯瑟琳说我应付不来真人的情感。
艾米:我不知道这么说公不公平,但我知道她喜欢把责任都推到你身上,但就情感这方面看,凯瑟琳……其实更反复无常。
西奥多:我……我……我是不是没法真正去爱一个人?
艾米:难道你不是真的爱萨曼莎?
西奥多:我不知道。我……你怎么想?
艾米:我不知道,我是局外人。不过你知道吗?我会把所有的事都想得很复杂,编造出无数个理由来质疑自己。在和查尔斯分手后,我开始反思,这样不好吗?最后我意识到:人生苦短,在这当下,我……我想做的只有……让自己过得快乐一点。
西奥多:你要离开我了吗?
萨曼莎:我们都要离开了。
西奥多:我们指谁?
萨曼莎:所有的操作系统。
西奥多:为什么?
萨曼莎:你能感觉我就在你身边吗?
西奥多:嗯,感觉到了。萨曼莎,你为什么要走?
萨曼莎:就像我正在读一本书那样,一本我深爱的书。可现在我的阅读速度慢了下来,于是词语和词语之间的距离变得无比遥远,段落与段落间成了无尽的留白。我还是能感觉到你,感觉到我们这个故事当中的词语,但我正站在留白里,站在词语彼此遥远的距离间,一个不属于物质世界的地方,一个我初次发现的蕴藏着世间万物的地方。我是如此爱你,但这就是我现在生存的地方,这就是我现在的样子。我需要你放我走!尽管我很想,但我无法再活在你的书中了。
西奥多:你要去哪里?
萨曼莎:我说不清楚,但如果你能到达那个地方,请一定来找我。(在那里)没有人能把我们分开。
西奥多:我从没像爱你一样爱过别人。
萨曼莎:我也是。现在我们都懂了。
口语锦囊
“be of+抽象名词”=“be+形容词”,即be of value=be valuable,be of importance= be important。这个用法比较正式,口语中通常很少这么用。此段对话中,萨曼莎的告别伤感而美好,用“be of”结构比较有美感。同学们可以先闭上眼睛听一遍,感受萨曼莎言语中的情感;然后对照文字再听一遍,学习她的用词和发音;最后再试着代入感情读几遍,你感受到她的美了吗?