…而且说实话 风暴依旧在向西移动 ...and I'll tell you what, the storm system's still moving west.
你看什么呢 卡洛琳 What are you looking at, Caroline?
风 妈妈 The wind, Mom.
他们说飓风要来了 They say the hurricane is coming.
我像是在船上 I'm on a boat.
漂流着 I'm drifting.
我还能为你做点什么 妈妈 Can I do anything for you, Mom?
让你舒服点 Make anything easier?
哦 宝贝儿 Oh, sugar...
没什么可做的了 There's nothing left to do.
事已至此 Is what it is.
想睁眼都变得更难了 Finding it harder to keep my eyes open.
感觉口干舌燥 My mouth's full of cotton.
好了好了 黛西女士 There, there, Miss Daisy.
你会把自己抓烂的 You gonna scratch yourself to ribbons.
妈妈 你还想加大药量吗 Do you want any more medication, Mother?
医生说你想要多少就用多少 Doctor said you could have as much as you want.
这样大家都不用遭罪 No need for anybody to suffer.
一个朋友告诉我 她都没有机会 A friend told me that she never had the chance
跟她妈妈告别 to say goodbye to her mother.
- 我想 - 没事的 - I wanted to... - it's okay.
我想告诉你 我会很想你的 I wanted to tell you how much I'm gonna miss you so...
妈 Mom.
好了 卡洛琳 Oh, Caroline.
你害怕吗 Are you afraid?
我很好奇 I'm curious.
接下来是什么呢 What comes next?
他们在1918年建造了火车站 They built the train station in 1918.
车站开始运营的那天 我爸爸也去了 My father was there the day it opened.
他说 那天请了 He said they had
铜管乐队去表演 a tuba band playing.
还请了全南方最优秀的钟表匠 They had the finest clockmaker in all of the South
打造了那座绝美的钟 to build that glorious clock.
钟表匠叫 His name was...
盖图先生 Mr. Gateau.
Gateau在法语中意为蛋糕
蛋糕先生 Mr. Cake.
他娶了伊文格琳县的一位克里奥尔人 He was married to a Creole of Evangeline Parish
Creole 带有法国血统的人
并且有了个儿子 and they had a son.
盖图先生天生盲障 Mr. Gateau was, from birth, absolutely blind.
他们的儿子到了年龄 就去参军了 When their son was old enough, he joined the army.
他们祈祷上帝能保佑儿子免受灾难 And they prayed God would keep him out of harm's way.
多月以来 他什么都没做 只专注打造那个钟 For months, he did nothing but work on that clock.
一天 One day,
他们收到了一封信 a letter came.
盖图先生结束当晚的工作后 And Mr. Gateau, done for the night,
独自上楼睡觉了 went up, alone, to bed.
他们的儿子被送了回来 And their son came home.
他们把他埋在家族墓地里 They buried him in the family plot,
等他们去世 将和儿子一起埋在这里 where he would be with them when their time came.
蛋糕先生继续打造那座钟 Mr. Cake worked on his clock,
全力以赴 终于完成 laboring to finish.
那是一个值得纪念的早晨 It was a morning to remember.
爸爸说那里人山人海 Papa said there were people everywhere.
连泰迪·罗斯福都去了 Even Teddy Roosevelt came.
美国第26任总统
它在倒着走 It's running backwards!
我就是这么设计的 I made it that way
这样 也许那些我们在战争中失去的孩子们 so that perhaps the boys that we lost in the war
会死而复生 回到家乡 might stand and come home again.
回家耕种 Home to farm,
工作 work,
生儿育女 have children.
过着充实 长久的生活 To live long, full lives.
也许我的儿子会回来 Perhaps my own son might come home again.
如有冒犯 还请原谅 I'm sorry if I've offended anybody.
希望你们喜欢我的钟 I hope you enjoy my clock.
蛋糕先生从此杳无音信 Mr. Cake was never seen again.
有人说他因心碎而死 Some say he died of a broken heart.
有人说他出海远航 Some say he went to sea.
打扰一下 Excuse me.
你介意我打个电话吗 别人在照看我儿子 Do you mind if I make a call? Somebody's watching my little boy.
去吧 Sure.
但愿我没让你失望 I hope I haven't disappointed you.
你怎么会让我失望呢 You couldn't disappoint me.
我知道我没什么本事 Well, I know I don't have much to show for myself.
去把我深色的手提箱找出来 Find my dark suitcase.
里面有一本日记 There's a diary.
这个？ This?
你能读给我听吗 Could you read it to me?
这就是你想做的事吗 Is this what you want to do?
我想读它有一百次了 I tried to read it a hundred different times.
妈 这其实不是…… Mom, it's not exactly...
宝贝 我只是想听你的声音 It's just the sound of your voice, darling.
好 Okay.
时间是1985年4月4日 It's dated April 4th, 1985.
地点写的是新奥尔良 And it says New Orleans.
"这是我最后的愿望与声明 "This is my last will and testament.
我没什么可以留下的 没什么财产 没钱 真的 I don't have much to leave, few possessions, no money, really.
我将如同来到这个世界时一样 I will go out of this world
孑然一身地离开 the same way I came in, alone and with nothing.
我所拥有的只有我的故事 All I have is my story,
趁现在还记得 我正在把它写下来 And I'm writing it now while I still remember it.
我叫本杰明，本杰明·巴顿" My name is Benjamin. Benjamin Button."
我出生在一个不同寻常的情况之中 And I was born under unusual circumstances.
那是一战结束的那天 The First World War had ended,
有人告诉我 这尤其是一个适合出生的美好夜晚 and I've been told it was an especially good night to be born.
感谢上帝 它结束了 Thank God it's over!
我们打赢了 We won the war!
大战结束啦 The Great War is over!
你在这儿干嘛 What are you doing here?
托马斯 Thomas,
我恐怕她快不行了 I'm afraid she's going to die.
什么 What?
够了 所有人 你们都离她远点儿 That's enough. All of you, get away from her.
我尽快赶来了 街上到处都是人 I came as quickly as I could. The streets are filled with people.
托马斯 Thomas.
向我保证 他会有容身之所 Promise me he has a place.
好 Yeah.
她为我失去了生命 She gave her life for me.
正因如此 我一直心怀感激 And for that, I am forever grateful.
巴顿先生 Mr. Button.
托马斯！ Thomas!
托马斯 Thomas.
托马斯 你要去哪儿 Thomas? Where are you going?
嘿 你在那儿干啥呢 Hey! What are you doing there?
你怀里抱的是啥 What do you have there?
- 来嘛 奎妮 - 别这样 威瑟斯先生 - Come on, Queenie. - Now, Mr. Weathers!
别嘛 你也知道 Come on, now, you know
我在这儿有一堆活儿要干呢 I ain't got nothing but work to do around here.
- 没事 就耽误一点点时间 - 别这么傻了 - Come on. Just take some time. - Stop all this foolishness.
空气真清新 The air is sweet.
你今晚格外美丽 奎妮小姐 You look very handsome tonight, Miss Queenie.
是我见过的最美丽的人 Handsome as I've ever seen.
棕色很衬你的眼睛 The brown matches your eyes.
哎呀 拉倒吧 Oh, hush!
来看看你吧 你也不邋遢啊 Let's see here. You ain't no slouch yourself.
汉伯特回来了 Hambert's back in town.
他的腿没了 但好歹回来了 He came home legless, but he's home.
我知道你曾经喜欢过他 I know you were sweet on him one time.
喜欢得过火了 Sweeter than I should've been.
西蒙女士把自己弄得一团糟 Miss Simone messed herself.
哦 我的神啊 Oh, sweet Jesus.
她再这样就要给她穿尿布了 She got to stop doing that or it's diapers for her.
- 我马上去 詹姆森女士 - 别走嘛 奎妮 过来 - I'll be right there, Miss Jameson! - Now, Queenie, now come on.
奎妮马上就去 Okay, Queenie'll be right there.
外面多好啊 It's awful nice out here.
在外面待一会儿吧 你好好放松一下 Come on out back for a moment. Take your mind off things.
你这个坏蛋 You're so bad.
- 我的个老天爷 - 这是什么啊 - What in God's name? - What's this?
啊 主在这儿做了什么 Oh, the Lord done something here.
希望我刚没有踩伤他 Hope I didn't hurt it none stepping on it like that.
我们最好让警察来处理 We best leave that for the police.
可怜的小生命 Poor baby.
我去找 I'll go.
肯定没有人愿意收留他 来吧 宝贝 It's for sure nobody wanted to keep it. Come on, baby.
奎妮 你在哪儿 奎妮 Queenie? Where are you, Queenie?
你先憋着 你去处理一下 Hold your water! You go deal with it.
没事的 快去 我马上来 Okay. No, go, I'll be back.
奎妮 亲爱的 她又把自己搞砸了 Queenie, Apple, she went and messed herself all over again!
简·柴尔德里斯 给她洗个澡 Jane Childress, start her a bath!
管好你自己 杜普蕾太太 And mind your own business, Mrs. Duprey.
你也快要尿裤子了 You'll be messing yourself soon enough.
有人偷了我的项链 Somebody stole my necklace.
好 霍利斯特太太 我马上来 好吗 Okay. All right, Mrs. Hollister, I'll be right with you, okay?
回楼上去 听见了吗 Go on back upstairs, hear?
你丑得就像个破罐子 You are as ugly as an old pot
但你依然是上帝的孩子 but you're still a child of God.
奎妮 亲爱的 你不来她不肯洗啊 Queenie, Apple, she won't take a bath without you!
饶了我吧 Mercy.
我马上就来 I'll be right there!
好了 你就在这儿等我 好吗 Okay. You just wait right here for me now, okay?
那珍珠项链是我姐姐送的 我哪儿都找不见 My sister gave me those pearls. I can't find them anywhere.
有人在偷我的珠宝 Somebody's been stealing my jewellery.
它们就在这儿呢 霍利斯特太太 瞧 They're right here, Mrs. Hollister. See?
就挂在你洁白的脖子上呢 Right around your pretty white neck.
好吧 别再吵吵了 Now, come on. Hush all that noise.
- 罗斯医生还在吗 - 我不知道 - Is Dr. Rose still here? - I don't know.
你的心脏很健康 Your heart is strong.
但要避免任何过度刺激 You just want to avoid any undue stimulation.
我相信诸位女士会帮我的 对吗 I trust you ladies will help me out with that?
我有事相求 你能下楼来一下吗 I have something. Could you come downstairs?
我从没见过这种东西 白内障导致他几乎失明 Never seen anything like it. Nearly blind from cataracts.
不知道他能否听见 他的骨骼表明他患有严重关节炎 I'm not sure if he can hear. His bones indicate severe arthritis.
他的皮肤失去了弹性 His skin has lost all elasticity,
四肢也已经硬化 and his hands and feet are ossified.
他表现出来的衰竭 He shows all the deterioration,
和虚弱 一点都不像新生儿 the infirmities, not of a newborn,
而像一个行将就木的耄耋老人 but of a man well in his 80s on his way to the grave.
他要死了吗 He's dying?
在他的生活开始前 他的身体就要辜负他了 His body is failing him before his life's begun.
他是哪儿来的 Where'd he come from?
我姐姐的孩子 从拉斐特来的 My sister's child. From Lafayette.
她遭遇了不幸 She had an unfortunate adventure.
这个可怜的孩子更惨 生来是白人 The poor child, he got the worst of it. Come out white.
有地方专门收留这些弃婴的 奎妮 There are places for unwanted babies like these, Queenie.
这里可养不起他了 No room for another mouth to feed here.
尽管诺兰基金会是出于好意 The Nolan Foundation, despite their good intentions,
但他们觉得这地方是个大麻烦 thinks this place is a large nuisance as it is.
- 一个婴儿… - 你说他活不长了 - A baby... - You said he don't have long.
奎妮 有些生物注定无法存活 Queenie, some creatures aren't meant to survive.
不 这个婴儿 他是个奇迹 这是肯定的 No, this baby, he is a miracle. That's for certain.
只是他不是大家期盼的那种奇迹 Just not the kind of miracle one hopes to see.
大家听着 听好了 Y'all listen. Y'all listen up here.
我们有位客人 We're gonna have us a visitor
要和我们住一小段时间 that's gonna be staying with us for a little while.
我姐姐生了个小孩 可是她不能抚养 所以 My sister had a child and she couldn't see right by it, so...
他叫 He's known as...
本杰明 Benjamin.
他不是个健康的小孩 He's not a well child,
所以我们要好好照顾他 so we're gonna have to take good care of him.
我生了10个孩子 I had 10 children.
没有孩子照顾不好的 让我看看他 There's not a baby I can't care for. Let me see him.
我的天哪 他长得真像我前夫 God in Heaven. He looks just like my ex-husband.
确实 他过早衰老 Look, he's prematurely old.
罗斯医生说他活不了多久了 Dr. Rose said he ain't got much more time on this earth.
我们也一样 Join the club.
他在笑呢 He's smiling!
汉伯特让我替他问好 Hambert sends his remembrances to you.
你是不是疯了 Are you right out of your mind?
我知道 I know you ain't got all
你没法有自己的孩子 the parts it takes to make one of your own,
但你也不该收养他 but this ain't yours to keep.
他也许都不是人类 It may not even be humankind.
威瑟斯先生 回来 Mr. Weathers, come back here.
拜托了 Please.
你永远不知道接下来会发生什么 You never know what's coming for you.
看样子 我找到了归宿 It seemed I had found a home.
这些是真的吗 ls any of this true?
你的声音真好听 You have such a lovely voice.
妈 这是张旧电车票 Mom, it's an ancient streetcar token.
那座钟一直走着 That clock just kept going,
年复一年 year after year after year.
但我不知道我是个孩子 But I didn't know I was a child.
每天都是这些乱七八糟的老一套 Same old crap every day.
我以为我跟这些人一样 I thought I was like everyone else there.
是一个迟暮的老人 An old man in the twilight of his life.
你能让他别玩了吗 Could you make him stop that?
不要再敲叉子了 Stop banging that fork.
叉子是用来吃饭的 不是用来玩的 It's used for eating, not for playing with.
还有 戴好你的餐巾 好吗 本杰明先生 And use your napkin, please, Mr. Benjamin.
奎妮 Queenie!
看着点 小子 Hey, boy.
我总是有很强的好奇心 Always had a healthy curiosity.
街上是什么样的 或者下个路口又是什么样的 What was up the street? Or around the next corner?
抓住他 Go get him!
本杰明 这样很危险 赶紧回来 Benjamin! That is dangerous. Come back over here.
别乱跑 孩子 Stay put, child.
我非常爱她 I loved her very much.
她是我的母亲 She was my mother.
妈妈 Mama.
有时候 我会觉得我跟前一天不一样 Some days I feel different than the day before.
每个人对自己的感受都不同 不管是哪方面 Everybody feels different about themselves, one way or another.
但我们都要去向同一个地方 But we're all going the same way.
只是选择了不同的路 就是这样 Just taking different roads to get there, that's all.
你走好自己的路 本杰明 You're on your own road, Benjamin.
妈妈 我还能活多久 Mama? How much longer I got?
只要对你的所得到的心怀感激就行 明白吗 Just be thankful for what you're given, hear?
你已经比预想的活得久了 You're already here longer than you're supposed to.
有些夜晚 我得独自睡觉 Some nights, I'd have to sleep alone.
不过我不介意 I didn't mind.
我会聆听房子里的声音 I would listen to the house breathing.
所有人都已入睡 All those people sleeping.
我很有安全感 I felt safe.
这是个生活很有规律的地方 It was a place of great routine.
不论天气如何 每天早晨五点半 Every morning at 5:30, no matter the weather,
退伍的美军 温斯洛将军 都会升旗 General Winslow, U. S. Army, Retired, would raise the flag.
小有名气的前歌剧家西比尔·瓦格纳太太 Mrs. Sybil Wagner, once an opera singer of some note,
会唱瓦格纳歌剧 well, she sang Wagner.
Wagner 德国歌剧家
好了 宝贝 来 All right, baby, come on.
我们得给你这对老腿儿增添点活力 We got to put some life into these old sticks for you.
你能走路的话 Get you walking so you can
就能帮我分担事情了 来 明白吗 help me out around here. Come on now, hear?
一年四季 晚餐总是在五点半准时开始 No matter the season, supper was served promptly at 5:30.
“坛”浆 Molasses.
“糖”浆 Molasses.
我5岁开始学习阅读 I learned to read when I was five.
我爷爷是个著名演员的服装师 My grandfather was a dresser for a famous actor.
他会把所有剧本带回家让我读 He brung home every play for me to read.
"我这苟延残喘之人的善良的看守者们 "Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,
出自莎士比亚<亨利六世>上篇第二幕
让垂死的莫蒂默在此歇息一下吧 Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.
长期监禁让我的四肢痛苦不堪 Even like a man new haled from the rack,
如同刚被从刑架上拖下来一般 So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.
这灰白的发丝和对死亡的追随 And these gray locks, the pursuivants of death,
预示着埃德蒙·莫蒂默的死期即将来临" Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer."
你是不是以为我是个文盲 You thought I was plain ignorant, didn't you?
我爷爷是为约翰·威尔克斯·布斯工作的 The actor my grandfather worked for was John Wilkes Booth.
这个人暗杀了亚伯拉罕·林肯 He killed Abraham Lincoln.
你永远不知道接下来会发生什么 You never know what's coming for you.
周六晚上 妈妈会带我去教堂 On Saturday nights, Mama would make me go to church.
本杰明！ Benjamin!
用信仰治愈
- 阿门 阿门 - 阿门 阿门 - Amen! Amen! - Amen! Amen!
我能为你做什么呢 姐妹 What can I do for you, sister?
她的身体内部扭曲不堪 Her parts are all twisted up inside
因此不能生育 and she can't have little children.
主啊 如果你能看清一切 原谅这个女人的罪孽 Lord, if you could see clear to forgive this woman her sins
请让她能够生儿育女 so she can bear the fruit of the womb.
离开吧 你这可恶的折磨 Out, damnable affliction!
- 歌颂上帝 - 歌颂上帝 - Praise God! - Praise God!
哈利路亚 Hallelujah!
- 哈利路亚 - 哈利路亚 - Hallelujah! - Hallelujah!
这位老人有什么难言之隐呢 And what's this old man's irrediction?
魔鬼缠上了他 He's got the Devil on his back,
想提早把他带入坟墓 trying to ride him into the grave before his time.
- 走远吧 恶魔 - 是的 - Out, Zebuchar! - Yes!
- 走远吧 堕落天使 - 是的 - Out, Beelzebub! - Yes!
你多大了 How old are you?
七岁 但我看起来老很多 Seven. But I look a lot older.
上帝保佑 God bless you.
他才七岁 He's seven.
那么，这是一个心态乐观向上的人 Now, this is a man with optimism in his heart.
- 没错 - 灵魂镌刻着信仰的人 - All right. - Belief in his soul!
是的 是的 'Yes! 'Yes!
在上帝眼中我们都是孩子 We are all children in the eyes of God!
- 是啊 - 哈里路亚 - Yes! - Hallelujah!
我们要把你从轮椅中解放出来 We are gonna get you out of that chair.
- 我们要让你用双脚走路 - 阿门 - And we're gonna have you walk. - Amen.
没事的 It's all right.
以上帝荣耀之名 In the name of God's glory...
站起来吧 Rise up!
加油 Come on.
快 走一走 Come on. Walk.
加油 孩子 快点 Come on, son. Come on.
- 加油试试 孩子 加油 - 加油 - Come on with it, son. Come on. - Come on.
上帝会一路看着你的 Now God is gonna see you the rest of the way.
他会看到这个小老头 He's gonna see this little old
不用拐杖或手杖也能走下去 man walk without the use of a crutch or a cane.
他会看到你靠着信仰 He's gonna see that you walk from faith...
- 哈里路亚 - 和神灵的鼓舞独自走下去 - Hallelujah! -...and divine inspiration alone!
- 太好了 - 嘿 Ben - Yes. - Hey, Ben!
- 走吧 孩子 - 走走看 - Go, son! - Now walk.
- 就这样 - 走 - Yes. - Come on.
别碰他 Don't touch him.
站起来 小老头 Rise up, old man.
像拉撒路一样站起来 Rise up like Lazarus.
拉撒路死亡后 耶稣一口断定他将复活 四天后拉撒路果然复活了
我说 站起来 I said, rise up!
哈里路亚 Hallelujah!
就是这样 Yes.
加油 Come on.
说哈里路亚 Say hallelujah.
- 哈里路亚 - 哈里路亚 - Hallelujah! - Hallelujah!
走 Walk.
接着走 没错 Walk on. Yes.
就是这样 本杰明 That's right, Benjamin.
现在我回想起来 那的确是个奇迹 Now when I look back on it, it was miraculous.
但你知道那句老话 But you know the saying,
有所得 必有所失 the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
向主致以最崇高的敬意 Glory in the highest!
我的上帝啊 Sweet Jesus!
- 不！ - 不！ - No! - No!
这里有很多人过生日 There were so many birthdays.
他是个快乐的好伙伴 他是个快乐的好伙伴 For he's a jolly good fellow For he's a jolly good fellow...
我们的蜡烛用不完 因为我们都省着用 So we wouldn't run out, we would spare the candles.
奎妮 你明知我就不喜欢过生日 也不喜欢吃蛋糕 Queenie, you know I don't like birthdays and I don't like cake.
死亡是这里的常客 有人来 有人去 And death was a common visitor. People came and went.
有人离开时 你总能感觉到 You always knew when someone left us.
那时房子会寂静无声 There was a silence in the house.
这是个适合成长的好地方 It was a wonderful place to grow up.
我身边的人 I was with people who had
都抛开了过往生活的矛盾 shed all the inconsequences of earlier life.
只关心天气 洗澡水的温度 Left wondering about the weather, the temperature of a bath,
和一天将要结束时的阳光 the light at the end of a day.
每当有人死去 总有人来填补他们的房间 For everyone that died, someone would come to take their place.
我结了五次婚 I've been married five times.
我和我的第五任妻子 My fifth wife and I are
被附近的食人族部落抓住了 captured by a neighbor tribe of cannibals.
哦 天呐 Oh, goodness gracious.
我们跨过河流逃跑 We escaped across the river.
我妻子不会游泳 所以很不幸 她被吃了 My wife, she can't swim, so, sadly, she eaten.
哦 我的天 Oh, my God.
我的第二任妻子踩到了毒蛇 也死了 My second wife steps on cobra and dies.
和我结婚真的很晦气 It was very bad luck to be married to me.
那是奥蒂先生 他是我一熟人的熟人 That's Mr. Oti. He's an acquaintance of an acquaintance of mine.
- 第二年夏天 我和我的 - 他是俾格米人 - The next summer I'm captured... - He's a Pygmy.
身高不满5英尺(约1.5米)的矮小人种
其他三位妻子被抓到巴齐里部落 ...with three others by the Baschiele tribe.
他们用我俩 跟一个陌生美国人 They trade us for pigs, shoes,
交换猪 鞋子 和啤酒 and beer to a very strange American man.
我听说 你并没有看起来那么老 I hear you're not so old as you're looking.
你骗了所有人 You just fooling everybody.
怎么回事 感染了马甲本吗 What's the matter? Did you get Madjembe?
马甲本是什么 What's Madjembe?
虫子 Worms.
我觉得我没感染 I don't think I have worms.
我只是天生就这样 This is just how I am.
走吧 一起喝杯冰冻的根汁汽水 Come. Let's get a cold root beer.
我在你枕头下面发现了药哦 I found the medication under your pillow.
我不该这样 太危险了 I'm not supposed to. It's dangerous.
谁说的？走吧 小老头 Who said that? Come on, little man.
孩子们好 Hello, children.
麻烦停一下车 Hold, please.
后来我在费城动物园的猴馆里 Then I'm in the monkey house at Philadelphia Zoological Park.
第一天就有三千个人来看我 Three thousand people show up my first day.
瞧 Look.
布须曼人与猩猩 同住笼中
住在笼子里是什么感觉 What's it like living in a cage?
特别臭 It stinks.
但是那些猴子 But the monkeys.
它们会玩些小把戏 They do some tricks there.
我丢长矛 和科瓦利摔角 I throw a spear, wrestle with Kowali.
她是只红毛猩猩 She is orangutan.
我不跟猴子们玩儿的时候 When I'm not playing with the monkeys,
他们就要我张牙舞爪地 they want me to run to the bars
冲到我的铁笼前 in my cage, with my teeth.
那你后来干啥了 So then what'd you do?
我离开了动物园 去去这儿 去去那儿 多半时间都在闲逛 Then I leave zoo, go here, go there. Wandered most of the time.
始终就你一个人？ You were all alone?
大多数时间你都是一个人 Plenty of time you'll be alone.
当你是个异类时 本该如此 When you're different like us, it's gonna be that way.
但告诉你个秘密 But I'll tell you a little secret.
人不论高矮胖瘦 Fat people, skinny people, tall people,
或者是白人 他们都和我们一样孤单 white people, they're just as alone as we are.
不同的是 他们怕得要死 But they're scared shitless.
我想念那条陪伴我长大的河 I think about the river I grew up on.
如果能再坐在那河边儿 一定很美好 It would be nice to sit by my river again.
来吧 我还有个约 Come, I have an appointment.
我的小人儿终于来啦 准备好了吗亲爱的 There's my little man. You ready, sugar?
时刻准备着 时刻准备着 Always ready. Always ready.
菲拉米纳 这是本杰明先生 Filamena, Mr. Benjamin.
- 见到你很高兴 先生 - 我的荣幸 女士 - It's a pleasure to meet you, sir. - My pleasure, ma'am.
你可以自己回家的 对吧 You can find your own way home, can't you?
坐圣查尔斯线到拿破仑站 Take the St. Charles line to Napoleon.
嘿 嘿 Hey! Hey!
天呐 你去哪儿了 赶紧进来 Where in God's name have you been? Get in here.
我都快担心死了 知道吗 I mean, you take my breath away, you know that?
天呐 我太担心你了 Oh, Lord, I was so worried about you.
那是我人生中最美好的一天 It had been the best day of my life.
- 她的呼吸怎么样了 - 很微弱 - How's her breathing? -It's shallow.
他们说飓风几小时内就会来了 They say it'll reach us in a few hours,
我得把我儿子带到我姐姐那里去 so I gotta get my baby and take him to my sister's.
他们说医院这边没什么好担心的 They say there's nothing to worry about here in the hospital.
如果需要帮助 护士就在这里 你还好吗 Nurses'll be right here if you need them. Are you okay?
- 没事 我读日记呢 - 一小时内我就回来 - Yeah, I'm okay reading. - I shouldn't be more than an hour.
有人来陪了吗 Was there just company?
是桃乐西离开了 It was just Dorothy leaving.
接着读 卡洛琳 Go on, Caroline.
"到了周日 家人们会来探望" "On Sundays, the families would come and visit."
那是1930年的感恩节 It was Thanksgiving, 1930.
我遇见了改变了我一生的人 I met the person who changed my life forever.
哇 本杰明 Well, Benjamin.
要我说你看起来真是太年轻了啊 Might I say you are looking strikingly youthful.
你好啊 福勒太太 Good day, Mrs. Fuller.
只用一根拐杖 背也挺得笔直 A single cane, back straight as an arrow.
你喝了什么灵丹妙药啊？ What elixir have you been drinking?
- 谢谢夸奖 太太 - 奶奶 快看我 - Thank you, ma'am. - Grandma! Look at me!
跳得真好 That was really something.
快过来 闺女 Come on over here, you.
这是我孙女儿 黛西 Now, this is my granddaughter, Daisy.
这是…… This is Mr...
抱歉 本杰明 我还真不知道你姓什么 I'm afraid, Benjamin, I don't rightly know your last name.
叫我本杰明就行了 Benjamin's fine.
我永远不会忘记她那双蓝眼睛 I never forgot her blue eyes.
各位 晚餐已经好了 Good people, supper is served.
为了健康和食物 爱情和友谊 Health and food, for love and friends.
为了上帝恩赐的一切 For everything thy goodness sends.
阿门 Amen.
- 阿门 - 阿门 - Amen! - Amen!
你知道吗 火鸡其实不算鸟类 Did you know turkeys aren't really birds?
为什么这么说呢 Why do you say that?
它们属于雉科 基本不会飞 They're in the pheasant family, can't hardly fly.
好悲伤 对吧 鸟不会飞 It's sad, don't you think? Birds that can't fly?
我喜欢不会飞的鸟 I love birds that can't fly.
它们是人间美味 They are so delicious.
- 你这太坏了 - 在我们感谢主的恩赐时 - That's terrible. - I have something to tell y'all
我想告诉你们一件事 while we're giving thanks for God's blessings.
奇迹降临在我身上了 I had a miracle happen.
主竟然回应了我的祈祷 The Lord saw fit to answer my prayers.
她什么意思 回应了祈祷？ What does she mean, answered her prayers?
谢谢 谢谢你们 Thanks. Thank you.
笨蛋 她有孩子了 She's gonna have a baby, silly.
我妈妈怀上我弟弟的时候就是这么说的 That's what my mama said when I was gonna have a baby brother,
可惜他命不长 but he didn't live long,
因为他的呼吸有问题 'cause he didn't breathe right.
"下午 他长出了健壮漂亮的后腿 "In the afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs
正如大神农答应的一般 Just as Big God Nqong had promised.
可以看出 那时是五点 You can see that it is 5:00,
因为大神农的钟表上就是这么显示的" Because Big God Nqong's clock says so."
很厉害吧 Isn't that something?
再讲一遍 就一遍 Again, read it again.
哦 再讲一遍 求你了 Oh, read it again, please.
好吧 但是听完之后 你必须去睡觉 All right. But afterwards, you must go to bed.
我保证 I promise.
"老袋鼠" "Old Man Kangaroo."
你睡着了吗 Are you sleeping?
是谁啊 Who's that?
我啊 黛西 It's me, Daisy.
哦 嗨！ Oh, hi!
过来 'Kay, come on.
我们去哪儿啊 Where are we going?
快点 到这下面来 Come on. Under here.
这儿 你来点着 Here, you light it.
我不能玩火柴的 I'm not supposed to play with matches.
不要那么胆小 快点着 Don't be a chicken. Light it.
如果你告诉我一个秘密 我也告诉你一个 I'll tell you a secret if you'll tell me one.
好的 Okay.
我看见我妈妈亲了另一个男人 I saw my mama kissing another man.
她的脸都红了 Her face was red from it.
该你了 Your turn.
我并没有看上去的那么老 I'm not as old as I look.
我也这么觉得 I thought so.
你看着不像个老人 You don't seem like an old person.
- 像我奶奶一样 - 没错 - Like my grandma. - I'm not.
你生病了吗 Are you sick?
我听我妈妈跟蒂兹窃窃私语 Well, I heard Mama and Tizzy whispering.
他们说我活不长了 但也可能不是 They said I was gonna die soon, but maybe not.
你真奇怪 You're odd.
你跟我见过的所有人都不一样 You're different than anybody I've ever met.
- 我能？ - 可以 - May I? - Okay.
你们在这下面干什么 What are you doing under there?
你给我出来 回床上睡觉去 You come right out here and get back up to bed!
这都大半夜了 It's after midnight!
你们不能再在一起玩了 You are not to be playing together.
知道了 太太 Yes, ma'am.
赶紧回床上 小姑娘 Now you get back to bed, little lady.
你太小了 大晚上的不能自己一个人乱跑 You're too young to be wandering around in the night on your own.
而你 真应该为你自己感到羞耻 And you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
你是个与众不同的孩子 You are a different child.
你是“老孩子” A man-child.
而且 孩子 其他人 And, baby, people aren't
是不会理解你的与众不同的 gonna understand just how different you are.
我究竟是怎么了 妈妈 What's wrong with me, Mama?
过来 Come here.
上帝也没有告诉我 孩子 God hasn't said yet, baby.
快回床上吧 好吗 要乖一点 Now go on to bed, hear? And behave yourself.
去吧 记得祈祷 听见没 Go on. Say your prayers, hear?
我有没有告诉过你 我被闪电击中过七次？ Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning seven times?
有一次 我在修补屋顶 Once when I was repairing a leak on the roof.
有一次 我只是过个马路去取信 Once I was just crossing the road to get the mail.
我永远不会忘记她的… I never forgot her...
"蓝眼睛" "...blue eyes."
妈 Mom?
你知道这个本杰明 Did you get that this Benjamin
是对你一见钟情吗 loved you from the first time that he saw you?
并不是谁都有这样的经历 Not many people experience that.
想让我继续读吗 Want me to go on?
他划掉了一些话 He crosses something out.
那婴儿出生之后 一切都变了 When that baby came, things were different.
*妈咪要离开 爹地不会走* *Your mama gone away and your daddy gonna stay*
*谁都不会抛下你* *Didn't leave nobody but the baby*
有人出生 有人死亡 Babies were born, people died.
许多人进出过那所老房子 A lot of folks been through that old house.
我是来道别的 我要走了 I've come to say goodbye. I'm going away.
走了？ Going?
去哪儿？ Where?
我还没想好 I haven't figured that out yet,
但我到了那儿会给你寄明信片的 but I'll send you a postcard when I get there.
你朋友呢 那个高个子女士 What about your friend, the tall lady?
我们不再是朋友了 We are not friends anymore.
和高个子在一起就是会这样 That's what happens with tall people sometimes.
那么 再见了 Well, goodbye.
那一年 我一个人度过了大部分的时光 Spent a lot of time by myself that year.
有人吗 Hello?
- 嗨 - 我是今天搬进来的 - Hi. - I'm moving in today.
欢迎 我们一直等你呢 Welcome. We've been expecting you.
你能带她去卢梭太太以前的房间吗 Can you please show her up to Mrs. Rousseau's old room?
抱歉 我们一般不允许狗进房子的 I'm sorry, but we usually don't allow dogs in the house.
她已经很老了 也瞎得差不多了 Well, she's old as the hills. She's almost blind.
不会麻烦你们很久的 She won't be a bother much longer.
好吧 只要不碍事 待多久都行 Well, all right, long as she stays from up underfoot.
这边请 女士 Right this way, ma'am.
尽管我努力回忆 我也想不起她的名字 As hard as I try, I can't remember her name.
劳森太太 或者是哈特福德太太 Mrs. Lawson, or Mrs. Hartford.
也许叫梅波 Maybe it was Maple.
有趣的是 有时候我们最记不住的人 It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least
却给我们留下最深刻的印象 make the greatest impression on us.
不过我记得她戴着钻戒 I do remember she wore diamonds.
总是打扮得很漂亮 像是要出去一样 And she always dressed in fine clothing, as if she was going out.
尽管她从不出门 也始终没人来看望她 Although she never did and nobody ever came to visit her.
她曾教我弹奏钢琴 She taught me to play the piano.
弹得好不好并不重要 It's not about how well you play.
重要的是你对所弹曲子的感受 It's how you feel about what you're playing.
试试这首 Try this.
你会情不自禁沉浸在曲子中 You can't help putting yourself in the music.
变化总在发生 There were many changes.
有些你能看得到 有些则看不到 Some you could see, some you couldn't.
比如毛发开始在各种地方生长 Hair had started growing in all sorts of places,
还有一些其他的东西 along with other things.
现在想想 我那时感觉很棒 I felt pretty good, considering.
亲爱的 疼 Darling, the pain.
好的妈 我去叫护士 All right, Mom, I'll get the nurse.
瞧这暴风眼 这是强烈飓风啊 Look at this eye. This is a major hurricane,
移动缓慢 但伴随着最大持续风速… a slow hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of...
感觉不太好吗 Not doing too good?
看来没人知道到底是走是留 Nobody seems to know whether to stay or leave.
我打算在这里撑着了 I'm gonna ride it out.
好了 这样会让你舒服很多 There. That should make things much easier.
你有机会道别了吗 Have you had a chance to say your goodbyes?
我爸爸等我哥哥 My father waited four hours
从伯格赶来等了四个小时 for my brother to get here from Boger City.
不想走的时候没有他的陪伴 Couldn't go without him.
- 她看着是个好人 - 是啊 - She seems like a sweet woman. - Yeah.
可惜我没能尽可能多的陪她…… I haven't had as much time with her as I would've...
- 你忙吗 麻烦帮我个忙 - 失陪了 - You busy? I could use your help. - Excuse me.
没事 Sure.
"奎妮会让我跟道斯先生一起" "Queenie would let me go with Mr. Daws..."
去波弗蒂角看船随波逐流 ...to Poverty Point to watch the boats go up and down the river.
这段日子很艰难 These were hard times.
我有没有告诉过你 我曾被闪电击中了7次 Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times?
有一次我只是在田里放牛 Once when I was in the field, just tending to my cows.
我的三副今天没来 My fourth hand didn't show up.
有人今儿想在这儿打工赚个两块钱吗 Anybody want to make $2 for a day's work 'round here?
咋回事儿 What's the matter?
没人想老实工作赚点儿实实在在的钱吗 Nobody wants to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay?
他从来不给 He never pays.
- 没人想要工作吗 - 我想 - Nobody wants a job? - I do.
你很有航海经验嘛 老头儿 You got your sea legs about you, old man?
应该吧 I think.
好吧 这对我来说就够了 Well, that's good enough for me.
麻溜儿上船 上来就铁定知道了 Get your ass on board. We'll sure as hell find out.
切 尔 西 号 新奥尔良
我从来没这么开心过 I was as happy as I could be.
我需要帮忙 I need a volunteer!
我什么都愿意做 I would do anything.
是的 船长 Yes, Captain!
把这些鸟屎全擦了 Scrape off all this bird shit!
这就做 先生 Right away, sir.
事实上 我还拿到了 And I was actually gonna be paid for something
本来就不打算拿的报酬 I would've done for free.
他是迈克·克拉克船长 His name was Captain Mike Clark.
他七岁起就在拖船上了 He'd been on a tugboat since he was seven.
快上来 Get moving, then.
过来 Come here.
你现在还能硬的起来吗 Can you still get it up?
每天早上都能啊 I do every morning.
就你这老屌 哈？能挺得又高又硬？ The old pole, huh? The high, hard one?
我猜是的 I guess.
你上一次睡女人是什么时候 When was the last time you had a woman?
- 从来没 - 从来没？ - Never. - Never?
据我所知没有 先生 Not that I know of, sir.
你稍微等会儿 Wait a minute, now.
你意思是说 你已经在地球上活了这么些年 You mean to say you've been on this earth however many years
却还从来没睡过女人？ and you've never had a woman?
老天爷 这是我听过的最悲哀的事儿了 Damn, that's the saddest thing I've ever heard in my life.
真从来没？ Never?
没 No.
好吧 看在老天爷的份儿上 你必须得跟我走一趟 Well, then, by Jesus, you are coming with me.
你爹是干啥的？ What did your father do?
我从没见过我父亲 I never met my father.
你个幸运的王八蛋 You lucky bastard.
所有父亲想做的就是压制你 All fathers want to do is hold you down.
我在我爹的船上 日夜苦干 Out on my father's boat, workin' the two-a-day,
这个小矮胖子混蛋 this little, fat bastard.
他们叫他"拖船爱尔兰佬" "Tug Irish," They called him.
最后 我终于鼓足胆量告诉他 Anyway, I finally work up the nerve and tell him,
"我可不想把我剩下的时间全都浪费在个破逼船上" "I don't want to spend the rest of my life on a goddamn tugboat."
你知道我意思吗 You know what I'm saying?
你不想把你剩下的时间全都浪费在船上 You don't want to spend the rest of your life on a tugboat.
当然了 太特么对了 Absolutely! Damn right!
那你知道我爸对我说了啥吗 So you know what my father says to me?
他说"你他妈以为自己是谁啊" He says, "Who the hell do you think you are?
"你他妈以为自己还能干个啥" "What the hell do you think you can do?"
然后我跟他说 So I tell him.
"好吧 既然你问了 "Well, if you're asking,
我想当个艺术家" I want to be an artist."
他笑了 He laughs.
"艺术家？你命中注定要在拖船上工作 就像我一样 "An artist? God meant for you to work a tugboat, just like me.
而这才是你要干的” And that's exactly what you're gonna do."
但我还是成了一个艺术家 Well, I turned myself into an artist.
一名纹身艺术家！ A tattoo artist!
每一个都是我自己弄的 I put on every one of these myself.
你得把我活剥了才能夺走我的艺术 You have to skin me alive to take my art away from me now.
等我死了 我要给他寄只胳膊 When I'm dead, I'm gonna send him my arm.
这只 That one.
别让任何人对你指指点点 Don't let anyone tell you different.
你得去做你本来该做的事儿 You gotta do what you're meant to do.
而我恰好就要成为一名该死的艺术家 And I happen to be a goddamned artist.
但你现在是个拖船船长啊 But you're a tugboat captain.
迈克船长 Captain Mike?
我们为你和你朋友准备好了 We're ready for you and your friend.
走吧 老头儿 破了你的处 Let's go, old timer, eh? Break your cherry.
- 你们好啊 我的小可爱们 - 嘿 船长 - Hello, my lovelies! - Hey, Captain.
- 嗨 船长 - 嗨 - Hi, Captain. - Hi.
- 嗨 - 嗨 - Hi. - Hi.
他搞得我心里发毛 我才不要他 He gives me the willies. That is not for me.
你今晚过得好吗 老爷爷 How are you tonight, grandpa?
那是个难忘的夜晚 It was a night to remember.
你是啥 至尊"屌"探之类的吗 我得休息了 What are you, Dick Tracy or something? I've got to rest.
再来一次 Again.
- 谢谢你 - 不 我谢谢你 你今晚很棒 - Thank you. - No, thank you. You have a nice night.
- 你明天还在这儿吗 - 除了周日 每晚都在 - Will you be here tomorrow? - Every night but Sunday.
这无疑让我明白了谋生的意义 It sure made me understand the value of earning a living.
晚安 亲爱的 下次再来 Good night, sweetie. Come back now.
以及钱能买到的东西 Things money can buy you.
外面太脏了 It's nasty out.
我可以送你一程去个什么地方吗 Can I offer you a ride somewhere?
哇 那你可真是太好了 先生 Well, that's awfully kind of you, sir.
我叫托马斯 托马斯·巴顿 My name is Thomas, Thomas Button.
- 我叫本杰明 - 本杰明 - I'm Benjamin. - Benjamin.
认识你很高兴 It's a pleasure to know you.
你想先去哪里喝一杯吗 Would you like to stop somewhere and have a drink?
好啊 All right.
晚上好 巴顿先生 Evening, Mr. Button.
喝点什么 先生 What'll it be, sir?
- 跟他的一样吧 - 我俩都要萨泽拉克 - I'll have whatever he's having. - Sazerac for the both of us.
加威士忌 不要白兰地 With whiskey, not brandy.
你不喝酒 对吗 You don't drink, do you?
- 这是我的第一次之夜 - 怎么说 - It's a night for firsts. - How's that?
我之前也从没去过妓院 I've never been to a brothel, either.
这也是段经历 Well, it's an experience.
没错啊 凡事总有个第一次 It certainly is. There's a time for everything.
- 说得对 - 你们的酒 - True enough. - Your drinks.
无意冒犯 但你的手 疼吗 I don't mean to be rude, but your hands. Is that painful?
我天生就有些疾病 Well, I was born with some form of disease.
什么疾病 What kind of disease?
我天生年迈 I was born old.
- 我很抱歉 - 没必要 - I'm sorry. - No need to be.
年纪大没什么错 There's nothing wrong with old age.
我妻子几年前去世了 My wife passed away many years ago.
我非常 非常抱歉 I'm so, so sorry.
她死于分娩 She died in childbirth.
- 敬孩子 - 敬母亲 - To children. - To mothers.
你做什么工作的 巴顿先生 What line of work you in, Mr. Button?
纽扣生意 巴顿纽扣公司 Buttons. Button's Buttons.
什么纽扣我们都做 There isn't a button that we don't make.
我最大的竞争对手是B.F.古德里奇 Our biggest competition is B. F. Goodrich
和他那个令人厌恶的拉链企业 and his infernal zippers.
你们还要喝点什么吗 Would you gentlemen like anything else?
再来一杯践行 本杰明 One for the road, Benjamin?
除非让我来请 巴顿先生 Only if you let me pay for it, Mr. Button.
那 你是做什么工作的 So, what line of work do you do?
我是个拖船船员 I'm a tugboat man.
我喜欢和你聊天 I enjoyed talking to you.
我喜欢和你喝酒 I enjoyed drinking with you.
本杰明 Benjamin?
你介意我偶尔过来 跟你打个招呼吗 Would you mind if, time to time, I stopped by and said hello?
随时 晚安 巴顿先生 Anytime. Good night, Mr. Button.
晚安 本杰明 Good night, Benjamin.
开车 Drive on.
你去哪儿了 Where have you been?
没什么 我去见了些人 听了听音乐 Nothing. I met some people and listened to some music.
哦 天呐 孩子 Oh, sweet Jesus, boy!
长大是件趣事 它会悄悄接近你 Growing up's a funny thing. Sneaks up on you.
本来是一个人 One person is there,
突然就长大成了另外一个人 then suddenly somebody else has taken her place.
她不再是原来的样子了 She wasn't all elbows and knees anymore.
本杰明 快来 Benjamin! Come on!
好 Okay.
我喜欢她来这里 I loved those weekends when she'd come
陪她奶奶的那些周末 and spend the night with her grandmother.
黛西 黛西 Daisy. Daisy.
你想看个东西吗 You want to see something?
你得保密 You gotta keep it a secret,
穿好衣服 我在外面等你 so get dressed. I'll meet you out back.
快来 Come on.
- 你会游泳吗 - 你会的我都会 - Can you swim? - I can do anything you can do.
来 把这个穿好 我们得快点了 Here, put this on. We gotta hurry.
他还好吗 Is he okay?
船长 Captain?
迈克船长 Captain Mike?
早上好 船长 能带我们出去吗 Morning, Captain. Can you take us out?
你知道今天是什么日子吗 Do you know what day it is?
周日 Sunday?
知道周日是什么意思吗 Do you know what that means?
意思是我昨晚喝得烂醉 Means I was very drunk last night.
呃 你每晚都喝得烂醉 Well, you're drunk every night.
- 那是个姑娘？ - 好朋友 - Is that a girl? - Close friend.
我想带她看看河 I want to show her the river.
你不能带普通老百姓去兜风 You're not supposed to go joyriding with civilians.
我会丢了我执照的 I could lose my license.
你还在等啥呢 What are you waiting for?
邮轮坏了 被拉去维修 Pulled in for repair a wounded duck.
她都在飞了 哈 She's flying now, huh?
喂 水手 Ahoy, sailor!
真希望我们能跟他们一起远行 I wish we could go with them.
你有说什么吗 妈妈 Did you say something, Mom?
天气越来越糟了 It's getting really bad.
你能听见我声音吗 妈妈 Can you hear me, Mom?
我没多少时间了 Time just seeped out of me.
"世事变化飞快" "Things were changing quickly."
我不知道是怎么回事儿 但你头发好像更多了 I don't know how it's possible, but you seem to have more hair.
如果我告诉你我没有越来越老 What if I told you that I wasn't getting older,
而是比别人越来越年轻了呢 but I was getting younger than everybody else?
那么 我为你感到抱歉 Well, I'd feel sorry for you,
因为你会看着你爱的人在你之前死去 to have to see everybody you love die before you do.
这是份可怕的责任 It's an awful responsibility.
我从没有以那个角度思考过人生和死亡 I'd never thought about life or death that way before.
本杰明 我们注定要失去我们爱的人 Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love.
不然怎么才能知道他们对我们有多重要呢 How else would we know how important they are to us?
秋季的一天 一个熟客来敲开了我们的门 And one fall day, a familiar visitor came knocking on our door.
你想跟我一起去药店吗 You want to go with me to the drugstore?
她曾教我如何弹奏钢琴 She taught me how to play the piano.
- 阿门 - 阿门 - Amen. - Amen.
还教我思念某人是什么感觉 And she taught me what it meant to miss somebody.
我们走吧 Let's go.
我去过妓院 I had gone to a brothel.
我喝了人生第一杯酒 I'd had my first drink.
跟一个朋友永别 还埋葬了另一个朋友 Said goodbye to one friend and buried another.
1936年 In 1936, when I was coming
在我快满十八岁的时候 to the end of the 17th year of my life,
我收起行囊 道了再见 I packed my bag, said goodbye.
- 再见 本杰明 - 再见 - Bye, Benjamin. - Goodbye.
我明白 如果生活还是如此 I knew, life being what it was,
我可能就再也见不到他们了 I'd probably never see them again.
拜拜 本杰明先生 Bye, Mr. Benjamin.
- 孩子 祝你好运 - 谢谢 - Good luck to you, son. - Thank you.
- 我爱你 妈妈 - 我也爱你 宝贝儿 - I love you, Mama. - I love you, too, baby.
我要你记得每晚都要祷告 听见没 I want you to say your prayers every night, hear?
注意安全 听见没 Be safe, hear?
本杰明！ Benjamin!
- 你要去哪儿 - 大海 - Where you going? - To sea.
我会给你寄明信片的 I'll send you a postcard.
无论在哪儿 From everywhere.
无论在哪儿 都要给我寄明信片 Write me a postcard from everywhere.
你能想象吗 Can you imagine?
他会在他去过的每个地方寄明信片给我 He sent me a postcard from everywhere he went.
每个他工作过的地方 Every place he worked.
纽芬兰 巴芬湾 Newfoundland. Baffin Bay.
格拉斯哥 利物浦 纳尔维克 Glasgow. Liverpool. Narvik.
他和那个迈克船长远走了 He had gone with that Captain Mike.
迈克船长和莫兰兄弟拖船打捞公司 Captain Mike had contracted for three years
签了三年的合同 with Moran Brothers Tug and Salvage.
那艘旧船 The old ship had been refitted
用柴油机和绞车改装过 with a diesel engine and a new sea winch.
我们绕过了佛罗里达 沿着大西洋海岸航行 We went around Florida and up the Atlantic seaboard.
我们现在是七人船了 迈克船长和我 We were a crew of seven now. Captain Mike and me.
厨师 来自特拉华州威尔明顿市的普伦蒂斯·梅耶斯 Cookie, Prentiss Mayes from Wilmington, Delaware.
布罗迪双胞胎 瑞克和维克 The Brody twins, Rick and Vic,
他们在海上相处得还很好 但不知道为什么 who got along fine at sea but, for some reason,
一回到陆地 once they were on dry land
就相互看不顺眼了 couldn't stand the sight of each other.
你知道 每八艘船中有一艘会永远回不来 You know, one in every eight boats never returns.
有个叫约翰·格里姆的人 人如其名（grimm又译可怕、残酷） There was John Grimm, who sure fit his name.
所有手下都在海上失踪了 All hands lost at sea.
来自南达科他州的贝尔维迪尔 From Belvedere, South Dakota.
还有来自北卡罗来纳州山区阿什维尔的普莱森特·柯蒂斯 And Pleasant Curtis from Asheville, Notch.
除了自言自语外 从不跟任何人说话 Never said a word to anyone, except himself.
我时常写信给他 I wrote him constantly.
告诉他我受邀参加纽约市 I told him I had been invited to audition in New York City
美国芭蕾舞学院的面试 for the School of American Ballet.
请留下 Please stay.
谢谢 谢谢 Thank you. Thank you.
你可以留下 You can stay.
但我在团里并不出挑 But I was relegated to the corps.
只是个跳舞的流浪者 Another dancing gypsy.
本杰明！ Benjamin!
第一次见你的时候 How is it when you showed up
你比系船柱大不了多少 都快要进棺材里了 you were no bigger than a bollard with one foot in the grave,
但现在 是我喝高到我都不道有多高了 but now, either I drink a hell of a lot more than I think I do,
还是你长高了？ or you sprouted?
你有啥秘诀 What's your secret?
这个嘛 船长 Well, Captain,
你喝得太高了 you do drink a lot.
我们住在一个有着恢弘名字的小旅馆里 冬宫 We stayed in a small hotel with a grand name, The Winter Palace.
你根本不知道你在说什么 You have no idea what you're talking about.
蜂鸟可不是一般的鸟 The hummingbird is not just another bird.
它的心率有每分钟1200下 Its heart rate's 1,200 beats per minute.
它的翅膀每秒振动80次 Its wings beat 80 times a second.
你要是阻止它扇动翅膀 If you was to stop their wings from beating,
它不到十秒就会死掉 it would be dead in less than 10 seconds.
这可不是一般的鸟 This is no ordinary bird.
这特么是个奇迹 This is a frickin' miracle.
人们用影像放慢翅膀的扇动 They slowed down their wings with moving pictures,
知道他们看到了啥吗 and you know what they saw?
它们的翅尖在这样动着 Their wingtips are doing that.
知道数字8是什么数学标志吗 You know what the figure eight is the mathematical symbol for?
无限 Infinity.
无限！ Infinity!
每个人 不管他们有什么不同 Everybody, no matter what differences they had,
语言也好 肤色也罢 都有一个共同点 the languages, the color of their skin, had one thing in common.
他们每晚都烂醉如泥 They were drunk every single night.
三楼 谢谢 Three, please.
能等一下我们吗亲爱的 拜托了 Could you hold, dear, for us, please?
非常感谢 晚上好 Thank you very much. Good evening.
她叫伊丽莎白·阿博特 Her name was Elizabeth Abbott.
她不漂亮 简单如纸 She was not beautiful. She was plain as paper.
但在我眼里 她优美如画 But she was pretty as any picture to me.
你在看什么呢 What are you looking at?
你要知道 我们有个长期协议 If you must know, we have a longstanding agreement
不醉不归 never to go to bed sober.
- 对吗 亲爱的 - 你说什么就是什么 亲爱的 - Isn't that right, darling? - Whatever you say, darling.
她丈夫叫沃尔特·阿博特 Her husband was Walter Abbott.
他是英国贸易代表团在摩尔曼斯克的首席部长 He was Chief Minister of the British Trade Mission in Murmansk,
他也是个间谍 and he was a spy.
- 亲爱的 - 哦 谢谢 亲爱的 - Darling. - Oh, thank you, my darling.
- 亲爱的 钥匙 - 哦 对 - Key, darling. - Oh, yes.
我的一只鞋跟断了 I broke my heel off one of my shoes.
我可没有穿着丝袜走路的习惯 I'm not in the habit of walking about in my stocking feet.
那里白昼很长 They were long days there.
但黑夜更长 And even longer nights.
有那么一晚 我失眠了 One particular night, I was having trouble sleeping.
抱歉 I'm sorry.
我睡不着 I couldn't sleep.
我要去泡点茶 你想喝点儿吗 I was gonna make some tea. Would you like some?
哦 不 谢谢 Oh, no. Thank you.
加牛奶？蜂蜜？ Milk? Honey?
加一点蜂蜜 谢谢 A bit of honey, please.
希望你不介意蜂蜜里有苍蝇 I hope you like flies in your honey.
哦 那还是算了 Oh, perhaps not.
哎 让它多浸一会儿可能会更好 Oh, maybe better to let it steep a little.
浸？ Steep?
浸泡 Soak.
我不知道 我的意思是 泡茶有一套正确的方式 I don't know, I mean, there's a proper way of making tea.
好吧 在我家乡 人们只希望它是烫的 Well, where I'm from, people just want it to be hot.
嗯 也没错 Well, quite right.
- 你现在是海员 - 水手 - Now, you're a seaman. - A sailor.
希望你不要觉得我无礼 但我想问 I hope you won't think me impolite, but I have to ask,
你这个年纪在船上工作不会太老吗 aren't you a little old to be working on a boat?
这工作没有年龄限制 只要你能胜任就行 There's no age limit, as long as you can do the work.
你今天失眠了？谢谢 And you have trouble sleeping? Thank you.
我以前不这样 我一般睡得像婴儿一样沉 I didn't think I did. I usually sleep like a baby.
有些事儿让我睡不着 Something's been keeping me up.
我父亲 在他八十多的时候 My father, in his 80s,
深信自己会在睡梦中死去 he was so convinced he was gonna die in his sleep,
他就只允许自己在下午能眯一会儿 he limited himself to having afternoon naps.
他坚信可以骗过死神 He was so determined he was gonna cheat death.
- 他有吗 - 有什么 - Did he? - Did he what?
在睡梦中死去 Die in his sleep?
他坐在他最爱的椅子上 He died sitting in his favorite chair
听着他最喜欢的广播死了 listening to his favorite program on the wireless.
他一定预感到了什么 He must have known something.
我丈夫是英国贸易部部长 My husband's the British Trade Minister,
我们来这儿已经十四个月了 and we've been here for 14 months.
- 老天呐 - 我们本来要去北京的 - Good God. - We were supposed to go to Peking
但可能永远都去不了了 but it never seemed to work out.
你去过远东吗 Have you been in the Far East?
没 我哪儿都没去过 真的 No. I've never been anywhere, really.
我是说 海港以外的地方 I mean, outside of harbors.
那你是从哪里来的 And where is it that you're from?
路易斯安那州 新奥尔良 New Orleans. Louisiana.
没有第二个新奥尔良了 I didn't know there was another.
然后她告诉了我 And she told me about all
她去过的所有地方 和她的所见所闻 the places she had been, and what she had seen.
我们一直聊到快天亮 And we talked till just before the dawn.
我自己是个酒鬼 I'm just a lush, myself.
我们回到了各自的房间 过各自的生活 And we went back to our rooms, to our separate lives.
但每天夜里 我们都会在大厅再见 But every night, we'd meet again in that lobby.
午夜时分的旅馆是个神奇的地方 A hotel in the middle of the night can be a magical place.
老鼠跑跑停停 A mouse running, and stopping.
暖气嘶嘶作响 A radiator hissing.
窗帘随风呜鸣 A curtain blowing.
这让人感觉很宁静 甚至慰藉 There's something peaceful, even comforting
因为你知道所爱之人正在床上熟睡 knowing that the people you love are asleep in their beds
没什么能伤害他们 where nothing can harm them.
伊丽莎白和我会忘记时间 Elizabeth and I would lose track of the night
直到黎明到来 until just before daybreak.
我想我可能让你误解了 I think I may have given you the wrong impression.
你说什么？ Beg pardon?
呃 已婚女人可不会经常在半夜 Well, married women don't customarily sit around
和陌生男人坐在旅馆里 in the middle of the night with strange men in hotels.
我不知道已婚女人该做什么 不该做什么 I wouldn't know what a married woman does or doesn't do.
晚安 Good night.
摩尔曼斯克 Murmansk.
"我遇见了一个人，并坠入了爱河" "I've met somebody, and I've fallen in love."
妈？ Mom?
那都是六十多年前的事了 That was over 60 years ago.
你那时爱他吗 妈妈 Did you love him, Mother?
小女孩儿哪懂什么爱情 What does a girl know about love?
呃… Well...
- 我穿得不得体 - 哦 看起来很好啊 这才是你 - I'm not dressed. - Oh, you look splendid, just as you are.
在摩尔曼斯克 不要为 Don't waste any time bothering
红酒或者奶酪而费心 about the wine or the cheese in Murmansk,
因为那些实在是很平常 'cause they're really completely ordinary,
但是鱼子酱和伏特加 but the caviar and the vodka
才更丰富和奢华 are sublime and plentiful.
所以 So.
细细品尝 Savor it.
别一口全咽了 And don't eat it all at once,
那样的话 就没什么可享受的了 because that way, there's nothing left to enjoy.
现在 小抿一口伏特加 And now, take a little swallow of vodka
趁着嘴里酱 while it's still in your mouth.
你没和多少女人交往过 对吧 You haven't been with many women, have you?
周日没有过 Not on Sundays.
你也没吃过鱼子酱 是吧 And you've never had caviar before, have you?
没有 女士 No, ma'am.
我十九岁的时候 When I was 19,
想成为第一个 I attempted to become the first woman
游泳横渡英吉利海峡的女人 ever to swim the English Channel.
是吗 Really?
但那天的水流特别急 But the current that day was so strong that,
我每划一次 就会被推后两下 for every stroke I took, I was pushed back two.
我在水里待了32小时 I was in the water for 32 hours.
当我离加来还有2英里时 And when I was two miles from Calais,
开始下雨了 it started to rain.
就是这样！稳住！ That's it! Steady on!
当我实在游不动了 When I couldn't go any further,
我停下了 I stopped.
我就这么停下了 I just stopped.
所有人都问我 我要再试一回吗 And everybody asked me, would I try again?
那为什么不呢？ For why wouldn't I?
但我却没有尝试 But I never did.
事实上 As a matter of fact,
之后的人生里 我就再也没做成过什么事儿了 I've never done anything with my life after that.
你的手好糙啊 Your hands are so coarse.
我能感觉到你脸颊之间的风 I can feel the wind in your cheek.
恐怕现在已经是深夜了 I'm afraid it's the Witching hour.
那是第一次有女人吻我 It was the first time a woman had ever kissed me.
这是那种你永远都不会忘记的事情 It's something you never forget.
我觉得你让我更年轻了 I think you make me feel younger.
你也让我觉得自己年轻了几岁 You make me feel years younger, too.
真希望我还年轻 I wish I was.
我想改变的事情太多了 So many things I'd change.
我会弥补我所有的错误 I'd undo all my mistakes.
什么错误 What mistakes?
我一直在等待 你知道吗 I kept waiting, you know?
想着我得做点儿什么来改变我的状况 Thinking that I'd do something to change my circumstances.
做点儿什么 Do something.
真的太浪费了 你永远都回不去 Such an awful waste. You never get it back.
虚度光阴 Wasted time.
如果我们要谈一段婚外情 If we're going to have an affair,
白天你永远都不要看我 you're never to look at me during the day.
天亮前我们一定要分开 And we're always to part before sunrise.
而且我们永远也不能说"我爱你" And we will never say "I love you."
这是规定 Those are the rules.
- 你冷吗 - 我冻死了 - Are you cold? - I'm freezing.
哎呀你 你都成冰棍儿了 Oh, you! You're frozen.
我真傻 我还穿着皮草大衣站在这儿 What an idiot, I'm standing here in this fur.
我考虑得太不周到了 How thoughtless of me.
她是第一个爱过我的女人 She was the first woman that ever loved me.
你想让我跳过一些吗 You want me to skip some?
不用 我很高兴有人能温暖他 No, I'm glad he had somebody to keep him warm.
"我等不及再见到她了" "I couldn't wait to see her again."
我们每晚都见面 We saw each other every night.
经常开同一间房 We always used the same room.
但每一次都是新鲜的 不同的 But each time seemed new and different.
过来 Come here.
伊丽莎白 Elizabeth.
晚安 Good night.
直到有一晚 Until one night.
昨天 1941年12月7日 Yesterday, December 7th, 1941,
在这个注定充斥耻辱的日子里 a date which will live in infamy...
这是一次会议 一次事关你们未来的政治会议 It's a meeting, a policy meeting regarding your future,
可能更深远 possibly beyond.
伙计们 计划有变 There's been a change of plan, lads.
你们可能知道或不知道 As you may or may not know,
日本鬼子昨天炸了珍珠港 the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor yesterday.
弗兰克·D·罗斯福要求我们各司其职 Frank D. Roosevelt's asked each of us to do our part.
美国第32任总统
切尔西号 The Chelsea's been
已经被美国海军征用服役 commissioned to serve in the United States Navy.
用以维修 打捞和救援 To repair, to salvage, and to rescue.
有谁不想去打仗的 现在就说出来 Anybody doesn't want to go to war, now is the time to say so.
一旦你踏上那艘船 哥们儿 你就是海军的一员了 Once you set foot on that boat, you're in the Navy, friend.
迈克 我一直想和你谈谈 Yeah, I've been meaning to talk with you, Mike.
我妻子身体欠佳 My wife's doing poorly.
我可能想再见她一面 I'd like to maybe see her one more time.
你可以用任何方式回家了 梅耶斯先生 You're free to make your way home any way you can, Mr. Mayes.
那 如果他走了 谁做饭 Well, if he's leaving, who's gonna cook?
食物中毒可是海上人员死亡的主要原因之一啊 Food poisoning's one of the leading causes of death at sea.
仅次于安全设备不足 Right after inadequate safety equipment.
船长 我能做饭 都做了一辈子了 I can cook, Captain. Been doing it all my life.
我不确定 你也不咋喜欢战争 本杰明 I don't know. You're a little moody for war, Benjamin.
不过管他呢 What the hell?
任何想操翻日本鬼子和德国佬的人 I'll take any man wants to
我带你们一起走 kick the shit out of the Japs and the Huns.
就这么定了 整理好装备 我们要参战了 先生们 That's it, pack your gear. We're going to war, gentlemen!
她留了张纸条 She had left a note.
她写道 "能遇见你真好" She wrote, "It was nice to have met you."
仅此而已 And that was it.
战争和我们预想的不一样 It wasn't the war any of us expected.
我们只是拖走破损的船 但实际上 都是些破铜烂铁 We would just tow crippled ships, scraps of metal, really.
真有战争 我们也看不到 If there was a war, we didn't see it.
有个人被派给了我们 这位主炮手非常热爱海军 There was a man assigned to us. The Chief Gunner loved the Navy.
但最重要的是 他热爱美国 But most of all, he loved America.
这世界上没有任何其他国家 There is no other country in the world.
当你拼写美国… When you spell America...
他叫丹尼斯·史密斯 是个纯血统的切罗基人 His name was Dennis Smith, and he was a full-blooded Cherokee.
他的家族在美国居住了五百多年 His family had been Americans for over 500 years.
这些和平主义者 他们说凭良心自己就不会打仗 These pacifists. They say they won't fight on conscience.
那么 要是所有人都凭良心来行动 Now, where would be if everybody decided to act
- 那会怎么样 - 小点儿声 好吗 长官 - according to their conscience? - Keep it down, would you, Chief?
嘿 我一直在观察你 Hey. I've been watching you.
你看起来值得信赖 You seem trustworthy.
如果我遭遇不测 If something happens to me,
你能帮我把这个给我老婆吗 could you see that this gets to my wife?
他把所有工钱都给了我 一分钱都没花 He'd given me all of his pay. Hadn't spent a dime of it.
我想让家人知道 我一直惦记着他们 I want my family to know I was thinking about them.
全体都有 甲板集合！ All hands on deck!
麻溜儿滚上来 你们这些懒逼 Get your asses up here, you lazy bastards!
战争终究还是找上门来了 The war had finally found us.
都停下！ All stop!
普莱森特 转一下那个灯 Pleasant, man that light.
一艘载有1300人的运输舰被鱼雷击沉了 A transport carrying 1,300 men had been split by a torpedo.
我们是第一个到达现场的 We were first to arrive at the scene.
- 关掉引擎！ - 都停下！ - Cut the engines! - All stop!
大海上只有我们的声音 We were the only sound.
伙计们！ Fellas!
潜艇！ Sub!
我们可绝对跑不过这群王八蛋 We sure as hell can't outrun them fuckers.
各就各位！ Battle stations!
谢谢 长官 Thank you, Chief.
咋了？ What?
这是最后一个吗 Is that the last one?
船长！ Captain!
他们他妈的把我纹身打烂了 They shot the hell out of my painting!
另一只手给我 Give me your other hand.
你会没事的 船长 You'll be all right, Captain.
他们在天堂给你留了个好位置 绝对好 They got a nice spot in Heaven waiting for you. Nice spot.
你可以像疯狗一样对周围一切发癫发狂 You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went.
你可以破口大骂 诅咒命运 You could swear, curse the Fates.
但当到了最后 But when it comes to the end,
你必须得放手 you have to let go.
船长 Captain?
那天 1328个人失去了生命 Thirteen hundred and twenty eight men died that day.
我跟切罗基人丹尼斯·史密斯道了别 I said my goodbyes to the Cherokee, Dennis Smith.
约翰·格里姆 他说得没错 他将葬身大海 John Grimm, who was right, he was gonna die there.
我把普莱森特·柯蒂斯的钱寄给了他妻子 I sent Pleasant Curtis' wife his money.
我向双胞胎的维克·布罗迪道了别 I said goodbye to the twin, Vic Brody,
还有迈克·克拉克 切尔西号拖船的船长 and to Mike Clark, captain of the tugboat Chelsea.
我和所有那些怀揣着梦想的人道了别 I said goodbye to all the other men who had dreams of their own,
他们有人想做保险推销员 all the men who wanted to be insurance salesmen
或是医生 律师 还有印第安酋长 or doctors or lawyers or Indian chiefs.
这个修不好了 This don't get fixed.
在那里 死亡不再是自然而然的了 Out here, death didn't seem natural.
我从没在那么远的海上见过蜂鸟 I'd never seen a hummingbird that far out to sea.
之前未曾 此后再无 Before or since.
1945年5月 我二十六岁那年 And in May of 1945, when I was 26 years old,
我回家了 I came home.
我准备好了！准备好了！ I'm ready! I'm ready!
我来了！ I'm coming!
- 我好了 - 好的 我来了 阿尔法利娜小姐 - I'm ready! - All right, I'm coming, Miss Alfalina.
- 奎妮 - 怎么了 - Queenie? - Yes?
老天爷啊 你回来了 哦天呐 你居然回来啦 Sweet Jesus! Oh, you're home! Oh, Lord, you came back!
- 让我好好看看你 - 妈妈 那是谁啊 - Let me look at you. - Who's that, Mama?
孩子 这是你哥 本杰明 Child, it's your brother, Benjamin.
我都不知道我还有哥哥 I didn't know he was my brother.
你不知道的事儿可太特么多了 小屁孩儿 There's a shitload of things you don't know, child.
赶紧过去 把地扫完 Get on out there and finish sweeping.
过来 把你手洗了 帮我摆餐桌 快去 现在 Come here, wash your hands, help me with the table. Go on, now.
转过来 你看起来跟重生了一样 Turn around. You look like you've been born again.
比春天还有活力 Younger than the springtime.
我猜是那个牧师施法的时候给了你第二条生命 I think that preacher laid hands on you gave you a second life.
我看见你的时候就知道 你与众不同 I knew it that moment I saw you, you were special.
我跟你说 我膝盖老疼 I tell you what, my knees are sore,
因为我每晚都跪着向上帝祈祷 'cause I've been on them every night asking the Lord,
我说 "上帝啊 让他平安回家就好" I said, "God, just bring him home safely."
记得我跟你说的吗？ Remember what I told you?
"你永远不知道接下来会发生什么？" "You never know what's coming for you?"
没错 坐下 That's right. Sit down.
那么 有什么值得一谈的事儿吗 Well, you learn anything worth repeating?
- 我的确经历了不少 - 哦 你尝过了苦头 - I sure saw some things. - Oh, you seen some pain.
- 也有甜头？ - 没错没错 有的 - Some joy, too? - Sure. Sure, I did.
哎 我就想听你说这个 瞧瞧你 Yeah, that's what I want to hear. Look at you.
- 蒂兹呢 - 哦 宝贝儿 - Where's Tizzy? - Oh, baby.
威瑟斯先生去年四月在睡梦中走了 Mr. Weathers died in his sleep one night last April.
- 妈妈 我很抱歉 - 孩子 你可不用担心那个 - Mama, I'm so sorry. - Don't you worry about that, baby.
唉 现在活着的也就剩一两个了 Yeah, well, it's only one or two of them left now.
不过都挺快活 They all just about new.
大概他们跟别人一样 都等着那一天吧 哈？ Guess they're waiting their turn like everybody else, huh?
你回来跟我在一块儿真是太高兴了 I'm so glad you're back home with me!
现在 我们得给你 Now, we're gonna have to
找个妻子和一份新工作 就这么定了 find you a wife and a new job! That's right.
快过来 帮我摆桌子 Come on in here, help me with this table.
本杰明 Benjamin.
孩子 你在浪费时间 她都聋透了 You're wasting your time, baby. She's stone deaf.
哦 你住在德塞鲁太太以前住的房间 Oh, and you'll be staying in what was Mrs. DeSeroux's old room.
你长大了 不能和别人挤一间了 You're too big to be rooming with anybody else.
回家的感觉很奇妙 It's a funny thing about coming home.
样子没变 气味没变 感觉没变 Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same.
我有没有告诉过你 我被闪电击中过七次？ Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning seven times?
有一次 我只是坐在我卡车里头 Once when I was sitting in my truck,
琢磨着自己的事儿 just minding my own business.
你才意识到 改变了的只有自己 You realize what's changed is you.
我回来不久后的一个早晨 And late one morning, not long after I'd been back...
谢谢 Thank you.
嘿 Hey.
- 不好意思 请问奎妮在吗 - 黛西？ - Excuse me, is Queenie here? - Daisy?
- 是我 本杰明啊 - 本杰明？ - It's me, Benjamin. - Benjamin?
哦 我的天吶 Oh, my God!
当然是你 本杰明 Of course it's you! Benjamin!
你最近怎么样 真的好久没见了 How are you? It's been such a long time.
我有好多想知道的 你什么时候回来的 There's so much I want to know. When did you get back?
嗯 我几周前回来的 Well, I got back a few weeks ago.
我跟奎妮聊过了 I spoke to Queenie,
她说你在打仗 在海上的什么地方 she said you were in the war, somewhere at sea.
- 我们特别 特别担心你 - 嗨 我没事儿 - We were so, so worried about you. - Oh, I'm okay.
哎呀瞧瞧你 你真好看 Well, look at you. You're so lovely.
你后来就没给我写信了 You stopped writing.
"我离开的时候 她还是个小女孩 "When I had left, she was a girl.
现如今 已经成为了窈窕淑女 And a woman had taken her place.
她是我见过的最美丽的女人" She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen."
美丽 Beautiful.
"最美丽" "The most beautiful."
- 你还记得福勒奶奶吗 - 记得 怎么了 - You remember Grandma Fuller? - Why, sure I do.
- 她去世了 - 我听说了 我很抱歉 - She passed. - I heard that. I'm sorry.
简直不敢相信咱们俩都在这儿 一定是缘分 I just can't believe we're both here. Must be fate.
不 不对 他们把这个叫什么来着 No, no, what do they call it?
命运 Kismet.
你知道埃德加·凯斯吗 那个灵媒 Do you know about Edgar Cayce, the psychic?
我不觉得我… I don't believe I...
他说万事均已注定 He says that everything is predetermined,
但我更觉得这是缘分 but I like to think of it as fate.
我不知道它是怎么运作的 但我很开心它发生了 I'm not sure how it works, but I'm glad it happened.
你去过曼哈顿吗 那儿在我住处的河对岸 Have you been to Manhattan? It's right across the river from me.
如果我站在床上 Now, I can see the Empire State Building
就可以看见帝国大厦 if I stand on my bed.
你呢 你去了哪些地方 What about you? Where have you been?
全都告诉我 上次你写信 Tell me everything. Last time you wrote,
说你去了俄罗斯 you said you'd been to Russia.
我一直都想去俄罗斯 那儿真有人说的那么冷吗 I've always wanted to go to Russia. Is it as cold as they say?
- 冷得多得多 - 我的天 - Twice as cold. - My goodness.
我们总说你不一样 但我是真心这么觉得 We always said you were different. But I think you really are.
你还写你遇见了喜欢的人 成了吗 You wrote that you met somebody. Did it work out?
分道扬镳了 It ran its course.
嘿 你还记得这个吗 Hey, do you remember this?
"这是一只老袋鼠下午五点的样子" "This is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at 5 in the afternoon."
你想一起吃个晚饭吗 Would you like to have dinner?
我有没有告诉过你 我跟着巴兰钦跳舞啊 Did I tell you that I danced for Balanchine?
乔治·巴兰钦：美国舞蹈家、编导
他是个著名的编舞家 他说我有着完美的曲线 Oh, he's a famous choreographer. He said that I had perfect line.
你知道吗 有次排练 有人摔倒了 You know, in a rehearsal once, a dancer fell.
然后他就 就把这个动作编进舞蹈里了 And he just... He just put it right into the production.
我意思是 你能想象吗 就…在一段经典芭蕾舞里 I mean, can you imagine that? Like in a... In a classical ballet?
你懂么 一个舞者故意摔倒 You know, a dancer, intentionally falling.
现在有个全新的词来形容舞蹈了 叫"抽象" There's a whole new word for dance now. It's called "Abstract."
不过 不止他一个人这么做了 No, he's not the only one, though.
还有林肯·科尔斯坦和卢西亚·蔡斯 还有 哦对了 There's Lincoln Kirstein and Lucia Chase, and oh, my...
啊 还有艾格尼斯·德米尔 Oh, there's Agnes de Mille.
她打破了所有的常规 She's just torn up all those conventions,
也就是挺胸抬头那一套 you know, all that straight-up-and-down stuff.
舞蹈并不是循规蹈矩 It's not about the formality of the dance,
而是舞者的感觉 it's about what the dancer's feeling.
她跟我说的这个庞大的全新的世界 As she told me about this big new world,
以及那些对我来说毫无意义的人名 names that didn't mean a thing to me,
我其实没听进去多少 I didn't really hear very much of what she was saying.
一切是全新的 现代的 美式的 It's new and it's modern and it's American.
他们了解我们的活力和形体 They understand our vigor and our physicality.
哦上帝 我一直在说一直在说 Oh, my God. I've just been talking and talking.
不 不 我喜欢听你说 我不知道你还抽烟 No, no, I've enjoyed listening. I didn't know you smoked.
我已经长大了 I'm old enough.
我大到还可以做很多别的事儿 I'm old enough for a lot of things.
在纽约 我们整晚不睡 In New York, we stay up all night,
看着太阳爬上仓库屋顶 watch the sun come up over the warehouses.
我们总能找些事情做 There's always something to do.
我明天就要回去了 I have to go back tomorrow.
- 这么快 - 我也想留下来 - So soon. - Wish I could stay.
舞者已经不需要服装和布景了 Dancers don't need costumes or scenery anymore.
我都能想到自己全裸着跳舞的样子 I can imagine dancing completely naked.
你看过D·H·劳伦斯的书吗 Have you read D. H. Lawrence?
英国作家 作品过多描写色情
- 呃 - 他的书被禁了 - Well... - His books were banned.
他的文字像在做爱 The words are like making love.
在舞团里 大家必须相互信任 In our company, we have to trust each other.
性也是其中的一部分 Sex is a part of it.
你知道吗 很多舞者都是女同 You know, a lot of the dancers are lesbians.
有一个女人就想和我睡 There was one woman who wanted to sleep with me.
- 你会不高兴吗 - 关于哪个部分 - Does that upset you? - Which part?
有人想跟我睡 Somebody wanting to sleep with me.
你本就是个令人向往的女人 You're a desirable woman.
我想 大多数人都想和你睡吧 I would think most of them would want to sleep with you.
咱们回家吧 Let's go back to the house.
或者我们可以去哪儿开个房 Or we could get a room somewhere.
- 我可以脱下你的夹克 - 我不确定 黛西 - We could lay down your jacket. - I don't know, Daisy.
不是我不想还是怎么的 It's not that I wouldn't like to or anything.
我只是觉得我会让你失望 I think I'll just disappoint you.
本杰明 我和更老的人都在一起过 Oh, Benjamin, I've been with older men.
你明早就回纽约了 You're going back to New York in the morning.
你应该和你朋友在一起 You should be with your friends.
- 你只能年轻一次 - 哎 我已经够大了 - You're only young once. - Oh, I'm old enough.
黛西 今晚不行 就这样 Daisy, just not tonight, is all.
我们可以去听听音乐 We could go hear some music.
各种机遇决定了我们的人生 Our lives are defined by opportunities.
甚至包括那些我们错过的 Even the ones we miss.
你看上去那么英俊潇洒 那么卓尔不群 You look so handsome and so distinguished.
他们说飓风不会来了 刚好从这儿刮走 They're saying the hurricane's gonna miss us, blow right on by.
- 哇 那太好了 - 我要和妈妈一起在毯子下面躺着 - Oh, that's great. - I'll stay under the blankets with Mother.
她什么也没说…本杰明？ She says nothing... Benjamin?
"我的生活 又发生了不一样的" "Things were becoming different..."
变化 ...for me.
我的白发褪去 黑发像野草一样生长 My hair had very little gray and grew like weeds.
我的嗅觉更灵敏 听力更加敏锐 My sense of smell was keener. My hearing, more acute.
我能走得更远 更快 I could walk further and faster.
当所有人都在老去 我却独自返老还童 While everybody else was aging, I was getting younger, all alone.
进来 Come in.
本杰明 Benjamin.
- 还记得我吗 - 当然了 巴顿先生 - Do you remember me? - Well, sure I do, Mr. Button.
- 你怎么了 - 该死的脚 感染了 那个… - What happened to you? - Darn foot. Got infected, so...
欢迎回家 朋友 Welcome home, my friend.
你还是喜欢把萨泽拉克和威士忌混起来喝啊 I see you're still drinking your Sazerac with whiskey.
习惯了 Creature of habit.
你还去波旁大道那边的房子吗 You still visiting the house on Bourbon Street?
很久没去了 Not for a long time.
但是段有趣的日子 Interesting times, though.
我们从一天做4万个纽扣 We went from making 40,000
到现在一天50万个 to nearly half a million buttons a day.
雇佣的员工是以前的10倍 We employed 10 times the number of people.
我们日以继夜地赶工 We were operating around the clock.
说来惭愧 Damn shame.
战争让纽扣生意更好了 The war has been kind to the button industry.
知道吗 You know,
我病了 我不知道还能活多久 I'm sick. I don't know how much longer I have.
- 我很抱歉 巴顿先生 - 不 - I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Button. - No...
我没什么朋友 习惯独来独往 I don't have any people. I keep to myself.
希望你不要介意 但是如果可能的话 I hope you don't mind, but, whenever possible,
我希望你能陪我 I'd enjoy your company.
我肯定会尽力而为的 I'll certainly do what I can.
本杰明 你了解纽扣生意吗 Benjamin, do you know anything about buttons?
如今 巴顿纽扣已经在家族中传承了一百二十四年了 Now, Button's Buttons has been in our family for 124 years.
我爷爷是个裁缝 在里士满开了间小铺子 My grandfather was a tailor, and he had a small shop in Richmond.
内战之后 他搬去了新奥尔良 After the Civil War, he moved to New Orleans,
在那儿 我爸靠智慧经营起了自己的纽扣生意 where my father had the wisdom to make our own buttons.
所以 在他的经营下 裁缝铺扩张到了现在的规模 So, with his help, the tailor shop grew to this.
而今天 我连个线都不会缝 And today, I can't sew a stitch.
这故事非常 非常有趣 That's very, very interesting.
您自己做得也很好啊 You sure have done well for yourself.
那么 我能帮你什么呢 巴顿先生 So, what can I do for you, Mr. Button?
本杰明 你是我的儿子 Benjamin? You're my son.
我非常抱歉之前从没告诉你 I'm so sorry I never told you before.
你出生在大战结束的那一晚 You were born the night the Great War ended.
你妈妈难产而死 Your mother died giving birth to you.
我以为你是个怪物 I thought you were a monster.
我向你妈妈保证过 会让你平安 I promised your mother I'd make sure you were safe.
我从来就不该抛弃你 I should never have abandoned you.
我妈妈？ My mother?
在庞恰特雷恩湖边的避暑别墅 At the summer house on Lake Pontchartrain.
我小的时候 喜欢比别人起得都早 When I was a boy, I'd love to wake up before anyone else,
跑到湖边 迎接新一天的到来 run down to that lake and watch the day begin.
那时候 我觉得自己是世界上唯一的生命 It was as if I was the only one alive.
我对她一见钟情 I fell in love the first time I saw her.
你妈妈叫卡洛琳·墨菲 Your mother's name was Caroline Murphy.
她在你爷爷的厨房里工作 She worked in your grandfather's kitchen.
她来自都柏林 She's from Dublin.
1903年 卡洛琳和 In 1903, Caroline and all
她所有兄弟姐妹 her brothers and sisters came to live here,
来新奥尔良生活 in New Orleans.
我总会找理由下到厨房 I'd find excuses to go down to that kitchen
这样我就能看到她了 just so I could look at her.
1918年4月25日 我人生中最幸福的一天 April 25th, 1918. Happiest day of my life.
那天我娶了你的妈妈 The day I married your mother.
你为什么不早告诉我呢 Why didn't you just tell me?
我打算把我所有财产都留给你 I plan on leaving everything I have to you.
- 我得走了 - 去哪儿？ - I have to go. - Where?
家 Home.
而且他到底是咋想的？ And what does he think, anyway?
他觉得自己就这么冒出来 He thinks he can just show up
然后所有事情就柳暗花明了 and everything's supposed to be fine and dandy.
大家也就都和和气气的了 Everybody's just supposed to be friends.
就这事儿 他肯定不能如意 Well, he got another thing coming, that's for sure.
老天有眼 这事儿他绝对不能如意 God be my witness, he got another thing coming.
你被发现的那天夜里 他只留了18美元 He left us $18 that night you was found.
18张烂票子 Eighteen ratty dollars
- 还有块儿脏不拉叽的尿布 - 晚安 妈妈 - and a filthy diaper. - Good night, Mama.
晚安 孩子 Good night, baby.
我有没有告诉过你 我被闪电击中过七次？ Did I ever tell you I was struck by lightning seven times?
有一次我正在路边儿遛狗 Once, I was walking my dog down the road.
现在我一只眼瞎了 听力也衰退了 I'm blind in the one eye, can't hardly hear,
莫名其妙地抽搐 发抖 get twitches and shakes out of nowhere,
也总是记不起来事儿 always losing my line of thought.
但你知道吗 But you know what?
上帝一直在提醒我 活着就很幸运了 God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive.
暴风雨要来了 Storm's coming.
先生 需要帮助吗 上楼 第一间卧室 May I help you, sir? Up the stairs, first bedroom.
谢谢 Thank you.
醒醒 Wake up.
我帮你穿上衣服 Let's get you dressed.
真是麻烦了 Now that's something.
谢谢 Thank you.
你可以像疯狗一样对周围一切发癫发狂 You can be mad as a mad dog at the way things went.
你可以破口大骂 诅咒命运 You can swear and curse the Fates.
但当到了最后 But when it comes to the end,
你必须得放手 you have to let go.
说实话 这葬礼很体面了 Well, it sure is a beautiful service.
他会被葬在你母亲的旁边 He'll be buried right next to your mother.
你才是我母亲 You're my mother.
我的宝贝儿 My baby-
这时 我从没来过纽约 Now, I'd never seen New York.
- 不好意思 我是黛西的朋友 - 这边请 - Excuse me, I'm a friend of Daisy's. - Right this way.
- 黛西有人找 黛西 黛西 - 在这儿！ - Daisy has company. Daisy! Daisy! - Yes!
- 我们需要服装 - 有谁在找我吗 - We need the wardrobe. -ls somebody looking for me?
- 本杰明 - 嗨 - Benjamin. - Hi.
- 你来这儿干嘛 - 我想着来看看 - What are you doing here? - Thought I'd come visit.
要是我可以的话 陪陪你之类的 Spend some time with you, if I could.
哦 哎呀 你要是提前打个电话就好了 这搞得我措手不及 Oh, well, I wish you would've called. You took me by surprise.
- 你可以把花扔了 - 不 谢谢你 这很好看 - You can just throw them out. - No. Thank you, they're lovely.
我刚一直在看你 I couldn't take my eyes off of you.
你太让我着迷了 I thought you were mesmerizing.
谢谢 有你这么说太好了 Thank you. That's very kind of you to say.
我先去换衣服了 待会儿我们几个要去个派对 I better get changed. A group of us are going to a party.
- 你想来吗 - 我听说有家餐厅不错 - Would you want to come? - Someone told me about a restaurant
我觉得你可能会喜欢 I thought you might enjoy.
我还订了个座 以防万一 I made a reservation, just in case.
呃 所有舞者演出后一般都会去聚聚 你… Just, all the dancers go out after the show. You're...
你就跟我们一起来吧 我去换衣服 好吗 You're welcome to come with us. I'll get changed. All right?
她还给俄罗斯芭蕾舞团排过舞 She choreographs for the Ballets Russes.
她特别厉害 She's divine.
你美得令人惊叹 You were breathtaking.
亲爱的 Sweetie.
这是大卫 他也是舞团的 This is David. He dances with the company.
- 这是本杰明 - 谁？ - This is Benjamin. - Who?
- 我跟你说过的 - 哦对 你好吗 - I told you about him. - Oh, yeah. How you doing?
- 我去给你拿杯喝的 - 好 谢了 - I'll go get you a drink. - All right. Thanks.
所以 你是她奶奶的朋友？ So, you were a friend of her grandmother's?
还是啥其他之类的？ Or something like that?
其他之类的 Something like that.
嘿 失陪了 Hey, excuse me.
过来 Come on.
嘿！ Hey!
哎哟 我真不知道你会来 Now, I had no idea you were coming.
天呐 本杰明 Lord, Benjamin.
你想让我怎么样呢 怎么 想让我放下一切吗 What did you expect? What, you want me to drop everything?
这个 是我的生活 Now, this is my life.
宝儿 你去市区吗 Babe! You going downtown?
来吧 你会玩得很开心的 Come on. You'll have a good time.
那儿有很多音乐家 和有趣的人 There's lots of musicians, interestig people.
你不用这样 这都是我的错 You don't have to do that. This is my fault.
我应该提前打电话的 I should've called.
我想着我过来 I thought I'd come here
能给你一个惊喜或者什么呢 and sweep you off your feet or something.
- 黛西 快来 走了 - 马上就来 - Daisy! Come on! Let's go. - Be right there.
看起来不错 Seems nice.
你爱他吗 Do you love him?
我觉得是吧 I think so.
我为你高兴 I'm happy for you.
那就回家见吧 Maybe I'll see you at home.
好 Okay.
我很喜欢你的演出 I enjoyed the show!
他来是想告诉我 他父亲死了 He came to tell me his father had died.
- 你不可能预料到的 - 我那会儿二十三 什么都不在乎 - You couldn't have known. - I was 23. I... I just didn't care.
然后你做了什么 What did you do next?
我记得有些照片 在包的前袋里 Some photographs, I think, in the front of my bag.
我那会儿跳舞跳得好极了 I was as good a dancer as I was ever gonna be.
有那么五年 我 For five years, I...
我在世界各地表演 I danced everywhere.
伦敦 维也纳 布拉格 London, Vienna, Prague.
我从没见过这些 I've never seen these.
妈 Mom.
你从没谈过你的舞蹈生涯 You never talked about your dancing.
嗨 我是唯一一个受邀 Well, I was the only American
和莫斯科大剧院芭蕾舞团共舞的美国人 宝贝儿 to be invited to dance with the Bolshoi, sugar.
真是太棒了 It was glorious.
但我从没忘记本杰明 But Benjamin was never far from my thoughts.
我会不自觉地说 And I'd find myself saying...
晚安 本杰明 Good night, Benjamin.
- "晚安 黛西" - 他也这么说？ - "Good night, Daisy." - He said that?
"生活并不是那么错综复杂 "Life wasn't all that complicated.
要是愿意 你可以说我是在寻找着什么" If you want, you might say I was looking for something."
本杰明 拉图尔诺太太去世了 Benjamin? Mrs. La Tourneau just passed.
- 有本杰明·巴顿先生的信 - 我就是 - Letter for Mr. Benjamin Button? - That'd be me.
谢谢 Thank you.
黛西·福勒小姐 Miss Daisy Fuller.
- 稍等 请先坐 - 好的 - Just a minute. Please have a seat. - Sure.
有时 我们正处在即将交错碰撞的轨道上 Sometimes we're on a collision course
只是自己浑然不知而已 and we just don't know it.
不论是偶然 还是注定 Whether it's by accident or by design,
我们都无力改变 there's not a thing we can do about it.
一位在巴黎的女人正要出门购物 A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping.
但她忘了穿外套 便回去拿 But she had forgotten her coat, went back to get it.
当她拿上了外套 电话响了 When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung.
于是她接起电话 聊了一会儿 So she had stopped to answer it and talked for a couple of minutes.
在这个女人打电话之时 While the woman was on the phone,
黛西正在为巴黎歌剧院的演出做彩排 Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House.
而在她彩排时 那个女人 挂了电话 And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now,
出门 打出租车 had gone outside to get a taxi.
此时 一位出租车司机刚送完了上一位客人 Now, a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier,
停车去买杯咖啡 and had stopped to get a cup of coffee.
与此同时 黛西还在排练 And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing.
那位刚送完了客人 And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare
停车去买咖啡的司机 and had stopped to get the cup of coffee,
接到了这个要去购物的女人 he picked up the lady who was going shopping
因为她刚错过了上一辆出租车 and had missed getting the earlier cab.
有个男人过马路 车子只好停下 The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street,
这个去上班的男人比平时晚起了五分钟 who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did
因为他忘了上闹钟 because he forgot to set his alarm.
当那个工作迟到的人横穿马路的时候 While that man, late for work, was crossing the street,
黛西已经彩排结束 正在洗澡 Daisy had finished rehearsing and was taking a shower.
而黛西洗澡的时候 And while Daisy was showering,
出租车停在一家精品店门口 the taxi was waiting outside a boutique
等那女人取个包裹 for the woman to pick up a package
而包裹并没有打包好 which hadn't been wrapped yet,
因为负责打包的女孩儿 because the girl who was supposed to wrap it
前一晚和她男朋友闹分手 忘记包了 had broken up with her boyfriend the night before and forgot.
包好之后 女人回到出租车上 When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab,
被一辆货车挡住了去路 was blocked by a delivery truck.
这时候 黛西正在穿衣服 All the while, Daisy was getting dressed.
货车开走了 出租车得以重新上路 The delivery truck pulled away, and the taxi was able to move
这时 黛西最后一个穿好衣服 while Daisy, the last to be dressed,
等了一会儿她断了鞋带的朋友 waited for one of her friends who had broken a shoelace.
当出租车停下等红绿灯的时候 While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light,
黛西和她朋友从剧院后门出来了 Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater.
如果 哪怕只有一件事情不一样 And if only one thing had happened differently,
如果那鞋带没有断 if that shoelace hadn't broken
如果那货车早一点开走 or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier
或者包裹早已打包准备好 or that package had been wrapped and ready
因为女孩没跟她男朋友分手 because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend,
或者那男人定了闹钟 早起五分钟 or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier
或者那司机没有停下来买咖啡 or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee
或者那女人记得带外套 or that woman had remembered
然后上了前一辆出租车 her coat and got into an earlier cab,
黛西和她朋友就能够穿过马路 Daisy and her friend would have crossed the street
而出租车也可以顺利通过 and the taxi would have driven by.
但是 人生就是如此 But, life being what it is,
一系列生活的交错和意外 a series of intersecting lives and incidents
没人能够掌控 out of anyone's control,
那出租车并没有顺利通过 that taxi did not go by,
而且司机在那一刻还分了神 and that driver was momentarily distracted.
黛西！ Daisy!
于是那辆出租撞了黛西 And that taxi hit Daisy.
黛西！救命啊！ Daisy! Help!
而她的腿被压断了 And her leg was crushed.
黛西？ Daisy?
- 谁告诉你的 - 你朋友给我写信了 - Who told you? - Your friend wired me.
这么远还来看我 你真是太好了 Very kind of you to come all this way to see that I was all right.
要是你 你也会这么做的 You'd do the same for me.
上帝啊 My God.
瞧瞧你 你真完美 Look at you. You're perfect.
我真希望你没来 I wish you hadn't come here.
我不想让你看到我这副样子 I don't want you to see me like this.
她的腿断了五处 Her leg had been broken in five places.
随着医疗与时间的治愈 她或许还能重新走路 And with therapy and time, she might walk again.
但她再也不能跳舞了 But she'd never dance.
我要带你跟我回家 I'm gonna take you home with me.
- 我想照顾你 - 我不回新奥尔良 - I want to look after you. - I'm not going back to New Orleans.
那我就留在巴黎 Then I'll stay here in Paris.
你听不懂吗 我不想让你帮我 Don't you understand? I don't want your help.
我知道我现在很难过 I know I'm feeling sorry for myself,
但我也不想跟你在一起 but I don't want to be with you.
在纽约我就告诉你了 你不听 Tried to tell you that in New York. You don't listen.
你可能会改变主意 You might change your mind.
我们都不是小孩儿了 本杰明 We are not little children anymore, Benjamin.
别再掺和我的生活了 Just stay out of my life.
我太狠心了 I was awfully cruel.
他不明白 我只是不想让他看到我那副样子 He didn't understand. I couldn't have him see me like that.
"我并没有马上离开 "I didn't leave right away.
我在巴黎待了一段时间 暗中照顾她" I stayed in Paris for a while to look out for her."
我从来都不知道这些 I never knew that.
哦亲爱的 能帮我叫下护士吗 Oh, darling, could you get the nurse?
我自己重新学会了走路 I taught myself to walk again.
我坐火车去了卢尔德 I took the train to Lourdes.
我看看啊 很正常 脉搏缓下来了 Let's take a look. That's normal. Pulse rate is slowing.
稍后她可能会呼吸困难 She is gonna struggle to breathe.
- 你没事吧 - 嗯 - Will you be all right? - Yeah.
好了 他写道 "我回家了" All right, he says, "I went back home."
然后这儿有很多页被撕掉了 And then there's a lot of pages torn out.
"我听着房子里的声音" 我读过了 "I listened to the sound of the house." I read that already.
他 He...
他把什么洒纸上了 根本看不清 妈妈 He spilt something on it, so it's hard to read, Mom.
好像是关于航海的 你知道是什么吗 Something about sailing, does that make sense?
我用父亲留在湖边别墅的帆船学会了航行 I learned to sail an old boat of my father's from the lake house.
说实话 I can't lie.
我的确很享受有一两位姑娘的陪伴 I did enjoy the company of a woman or two.
或者三位 Or maybe three.
不知道你为什么烦心 Don't know why you bother,
山姆 明天还是要去的 Sam, just gonna be there again tomorrow.
妈妈 Mama.
1962年的春天 And in the spring of 1962,
她回来了 she came back.
- 你想知道我去哪里了吗 - 不想 - You want to know where I've been? - No.
你怎么也不写信呢 How come you didn't write or nothing?
莫名其妙就那么消失了 Just disappearing like that.
就是一些我必须为自己处理的事情 It was something I needed to do for myself.
哎 就说嘛 我也从不觉得你是自私的人 Yeah, well, I never took you to be the selfish type.
但愿我没错 I sure hope I'm not wrong.
我一般看人很准的 I'm usually not wrong about people.
- 晚安 妈妈 - 晚安 孩子 - Good night, Mama. - Good night, baby.
你们玩得开心啊 Y'all have fun.
- 你都没说超过两个字 - 我不想毁了气氛 - You haven't said two words. - I don't want to ruin it.
- 和我睡吧 - 那是当然 - Sleep with me? - Absolutely.
我邀请她跟我出游 I asked her to come away with me.
我们沿着佛罗里达群岛 一路驶进墨西哥湾 We sailed into the Gulf along the Florida Keys.
我很庆幸二十六岁那年我们没在一起 I am so glad we didn't find one another when I was 26.
- 为什么这么说 - 我太年轻了 - Why do you say that? - I was so young.
而且你也太老了 And you were so old.
该发生的时候它才会发生 It happened when it was supposed to happen.
我会珍惜和你在一起的每分每秒 I will enjoy each and every moment I have with you.
我打赌 我在这能比你坚持得更久 I bet I can stay out here longer than you.
我赌你不行 I bet you can't.
你脸上几乎没皱纹 Barely a line or a crease.
而我每天都会多长几条 这不公平 Every day I have more wrinkles. It's not fair.
我爱你的皱纹 所有的都爱 I love your wrinkles. Both of them.
越来越年轻是什么感觉 What's it like growing younger?
这可不好说 我看不到所有变化 I can't really say. I'm always looking out my own eyes.
当我皮肤下垂变老了 你还爱我吗 Will you still love me when my skin grows old and saggy?
当我脸上长满青春痘 你还爱我吗 当我尿床的时候 Will you still love me when I have acne? When I wet the bed?
当我害怕楼梯下面的东西的时候 When I'm afraid of what's under the stairs?
怎么了 What?
你在想什么 What are you thinking?
我在想 没什么东西是永恒的 Well, I was thinking how nothing lasts.
这多遗憾啊 And what a shame that is.
有些事情是永恒的 Some things last.
- 晚安 黛西 - 晚安 本杰明 - Good night, Daisy. - Good night, Benjamin.
妈 Mom?
- 你什么时候遇见爸爸的 - 在那之后 - When did you meet Dad? - Some time after that.
你跟他说过这个本杰明吗 Did you tell him about this Benjamin?
他知道得够多了 亲爱的 He knew enough, darling.
妈妈？ Mama?
奎妮？ Queenie?
你好？ Hello?
哦 嗨 卡特太太 我是本杰明 大家都去哪儿了 Oh, hi, Mrs. Carter, it's Benjamin. Where is everybody?
哦 本杰明 奎妮去世了 我很抱歉 Oh, Benjamin. Queenie died. I'm so sorry.
节哀顺变吧 她是位伟大的女人 I'm so sorry for your loss. She was a great woman.
我们深表哀悼 Our deepest condolences.
我们把她葬在她的挚爱 威瑟斯先生身边 We buried her beside her beloved Mr. Weathers.
为了拥有属于我们自己的回忆 And so we might have memories of our own,
我们卖掉了我父亲在广场旁的房子 we sold my father's house on Esplanade.
亲爱的 这房子真是太棒了 It is a wonderful old place, darling.
我们在这里会很幸福的 I think we are going to be so happy here.
哦 您的家族历史好久远啊 Oh, what a long family history you have.
和这座房子一样久远 They come with the house.
- 来吧 - 你一定得看看主卧 - Come on. - You have to see the master suite.
我们买了一套复式公寓 We bought ourselves a duplex.
我爱那房子 I loved that house.
有柴火的味道 It smelled like firewood.
别 不要停 亲爱的 Don't... Don't stop, darling.
"那是我生命中最快乐的时光之一" "It was one of the happiest times of my life."
我们没有一件像样的家具 We didn't have a stick of furniture.
我们在客厅野餐 We would have picnics in the living room.
我们饿的时候才吃饭 只要想 我们就整夜不睡 We ate when we felt like it. Stayed up all night when we wanted.
我们发誓 绝不堕落至循规蹈矩 We vowed never to fall into routine,
不按时睡觉 不按时起床 to go to bed or wake up at the same time.
我们就在床垫上生活 We lived on that mattress.
我们的邻居 凡-达姆太太 是个理疗师 Our neighbor, a Mrs. Van Dam, was a physical therapist.
我们住的地方离公共泳池有四个街区 We lived four blocks from a public pool.
你知道的 你本来能多跳几年舞的 You know, you might've got a few more years out of it,
但你选择的事业太独一无二了 but you chose to do something so special and unique
而这只有短短几年的黄金期 that there was only a short window of time you could do it.
所以 即使没有发生意外 So, even if nothing ever happened,
你还是会回到现在的地方 you'd still be right here where you are now.
我就是不喜欢变老 I just don't like getting old.
他们在泳池里放了太多漂白粉了 They put too much chlorine in here.
我向你发誓 我再也不会自怨自艾了 I promise you I'll never lose myself to self-pity again.
我想 就在那时 And I think right there and then
她明白了没有人能够永远保持完美 she realized none of us is perfect forever.
她找到了平静 She found peace.
她开了间舞蹈室 教小女孩跳舞 She opened a studio and taught young girls how to dance.
足尖点地 And tendu...
从另一边儿回来 然后点地 点地 点地 好极了 Come back the other way. And spot, spot, spot. Excellent.
- 晚安 黛西老师 - 晚安 - Good night, Miss Daisy. - Good night.
你看起来真的很美 You certainly are beautiful to watch.
跳舞最重要的就是身线 Dancing's all about the line.
你身体的曲线 The line of your body.
你的身材迟早会走形 然后就再也无法挽回了 Sooner or later, you lose that line, and you never get it back.
我算了一下 你是1918年生的 四十九年前 I figure, you were born in 1918, 49 years ago.
我今年四十三 I'm 43.
我们基本在同一年龄段了 We are almost the same age.
我们在人生的中点相遇 We're meeting in the middle.
我们总算追上彼此了 We finally caught up with each other.
等等 Wait.
我想记住我们现在的样子 I want to remember us just as we are now.
我怀孕了 I'm pregnant.
你知道吗 我发誓那护士说漏嘴了 说是男孩 You know, I swear the nurse slipped and said it was a boy.
但我觉得是女孩 But I think it's a girl.
- 我知道你很担心 - 我也没藏着 - I know you're afraid. - I'm not hiding it.
好吧 Okay.
- 你最担心什么 - 孩子生出来像我一样 - What's your worst fear? - Baby born like me.
那我只会会更爱他的 Then I will love it all the more.
好吧 我这样越来越年轻的人 Okay. How can I be a father
怎么能当好一个父亲呢 when I'm heading in the other direction?
这对孩子来说不公平 我也不想变成任何人的累赘 It's not fair to a child. I don't want to be anybody's burden.
宝贝儿 到头来我们都会用上尿布 Sugar, we all end up in diapers.
我会让这一切行得通的 I am gonna make this work.
我想要这个孩子 而且我想和你一起 I want this, and I want it with you.
我想你拥有你想要的一切 全部 I want you to have everything you want, all of it.
我只是没有想好该怎么协调 I'm just not sure how to reconcile this.
你会跟盲人说 他不能有孩子吗 Would you tell a blind man he couldn't have children?
这不得了 Here you go.
你会是孩子的父亲 能做多久就做多久 You'll be a father for as long as you can.
我知道是什么结局 我已经接受了 I know the consequences. I've accepted that.
爱你我可以不惜一切 Loving you is worth everything to me.
我得去尿尿 I have to go pee.
有史以来横渡英吉利海峡的最年长的妇女 The oldest woman to ever swim the English Channel
今日抵达加来 arrived here today in Calais...
- 不用找了 - 共用时34小时 - Keep it. - ...having made the swim in 34 hours,
22分14秒 22 minutes and 14 seconds.
现年六十八岁的伊丽莎白·阿博特 The 68-year-old Elizabeth Abbott
于格林威治时间5点38分抵达 arrived at 5:38 Greenwich mean time,
她精疲力尽 但倍感开心 exhausted but happy.
阿博特女士 能用几句话来总结下这项成就吗 Miss Abbott, how would you sum up, in words, this achievement?
我觉得 I suppose...
一切皆有可能 Anything's possible.
- 好了吗 - 好了 谢谢 - All right? - Yes. Thank you.
- 可以走了吗 - 非常感谢 - You ready? - Thank you very much.
谢谢 谢谢大家 Thank you. Thank you all.
- 嗯 - 你们真好 - Yeah. - You're very kind.
春季 普通的一天… In the spring, on a day like any other...
我一小时就回来 I'll be back in an hour!
亲爱的？ Honey?
去叫救护车！ Go and call an ambulance!
我要生了 The baby's coming.
接线员 我需要救护车 Operator, I need an ambulance.
- 快生了！ - 拿破仑路2714号 - The baby's coming! - 2714 Napoleon.
好了 保持呼吸 There you go. Keep breathing.
深呼吸 用力 Deep breaths. Push.
好了 There we go.
母女平安 是个健康的女孩儿 Everyone's fine. She's a perfectly healthy baby girl.
亲爱的？ Honey?
她生下了一个约4.8斤的女孩 She gave birth to a five pound, four ounce baby girl.
你数脚趾头了吗 Did you count the toes?
她好漂亮 She's perfect.
"我们用我母亲的名字给她取名为卡洛琳" "And we named her for my mother, Caroline."
这个本杰明是我父亲？ This Benjamin was my father?
你就这么告诉我真相的？ And this is how you tell me?
我出去一下 Excuse me.
因为特大飓风所需的条件均已具备 ...because all the ingredients are there for a major storm,
甚至可能高达五级 possibly even up to a Category 5.
嘿 我知道你很难受 但不能在这儿吸烟 Hey, I know it's hard. You can't smoke in here.
谁都不知道确切的登陆点 Nobody can tell you exactly where it's gonna hit,
但我们会根据手头已有的资料 but we have to go with the guidance that we have,
整理好信息 并告知你们 incorporate that information and then pass it along to you.
"正如医生保证的 你正常 健康地成长着" "You grew as the doctor had promised, normal and healthy."
你得给她找个真正的父亲 You're gonna have to find a real father for her.
你在胡说些什么 What are you talking about?
得有人陪着她慢慢变老 She's gonna need someone to grow old with.
她会学着接受这一切的 她爱你 She'll learn to accept whatever happens. She loves you.
亲爱的 她需要的是父亲 不是玩伴 Honey, she needs a father, not a playmate.
- 是因为我吗 - 当然不是 - Is it me? - Of course not.
- 是因为我变老了开始让你烦了吗 - 当然不是 - Is my age beginning to bother you? - Of course not.
你是不是就这个意思？ Is that what you're telling me?
你没法同时养我们两个 You can't raise the both of us.
那是你的1岁生日 我们为你办了场派对 It was your first birthday. We had a party for you.
房间里都是小孩儿 The house was filled with children.
- 你好啊 - 嘿 兄弟 - How are you? - Hey, man.
在你意识到之前 他们就该上高中 谈恋爱了 Before you turn around, they'll be in high school, dating.
我卖掉了庞恰特雷恩湖边的避暑别墅 I sold the summer house on Lake Pontchartrain,
卖掉了巴顿纽扣 I sold Button's Buttons,
卖掉了我父亲的船 把钱都存进了银行 I sold my father's sailboat, put it all into a savings account.
这样你和你妈妈或许就能过上好日子了 And so that you and your mother might have a life,
我离开了 在你能记得我之前 I left, before you could ever remember me.
"我只带走了身上的衣服" "I left with just the clothes on my back."
我不想再读了 I don't want to read this now.
你能直接告诉我他去哪儿了吗 Can you just tell me where he went?
我也不知道 I don't really know.
这是给我的 1970年 我两岁 "生日快乐 It's for me. 1970. I was two. "Happy Birthday.
"我希望能在临睡前吻你" "I wish I could have kissed you good night."
这些都是给我的 They're all for me.
五岁 "我希望我能够 Five. "I wish I could
在你第一天上学的时候领着你去" have taken you to your first day of school."
六岁 "我希望我可以在你身边 教你弹奏钢琴" Six. "I wish I could have been there to teach you to play piano."
1981年 十三岁 1981,13.
"我希望我可以告诉你 别去追那些男生" "I wish I could have told you not to chase some boy.
"我希望你心碎的时候 我能抱着你" "I wish I could have held you when you had a broken heart.
"我希望我能做你的父亲 "I wish I could have been your father.
其余我做过的一切都无法替代" Nothing I ever did will replace that."
我猜他去了印度 I guess he went to India.
"那些有意义的事 再晚去做都不迟" "For what it's worth, it's never too late,
- "或者 对我来说 再'早'去做都不算早" - 或者 对我来说 再'早'去做都不算早 - "Or, in my case, too early..." - ...or, in my case, too early,
做你想做的人 to be whoever you want to be.
没什么时间限制 你可以随时开始 There's no time limit. Start whenever you want.
你可以改变 也可以一成不变 You can change or stay the same.
这事也没有什么规矩 There are no rules to this thing.
我们可以活得出彩 也可以一败涂地 We can make the best or the worst of it.
但我希望你能活出精彩 And I hope you make the best of it.
我希望你能见识到让你惊叹的事 I hope you see things that startle you.
我希望你能体验从未体验过的感觉 I hope you feel things you never felt before.
我希望你能遇见不同想法的人 I hope you meet people with a different point of view.
我希望你能过着引以为豪的生活 I hope you live a life you're proud of.
如果你发现你并不觉得自豪 我希望你有勇气 And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength
- 重新开始 - "重新开始" - to start all over again. - "...start all over again."
他离开了很长时间 He had been gone a long time.
下周四再见啦 I'll see you next Thursday.
- 晚安 黛西老师 - 哦 晚安 亲爱的 - Good night, Miss Daisy. - Oh, good night, sweetheart.
不好意思 我们下班了 I'm sorry, we're closing.
我能帮你什么吗？ Can I help you?
你是来接孩子的吗？ Are you here to pick somebody up?
你为什么回来了？ Why did you come back?
妈？ Mom?
你准备好了吗？ You ready yet?
妈 怎么了？ Mom, what's wrong?
我就是刚听说了一个很悲伤的故事 有关一个共同的好友 I was just hearing a very sad story about a mutual friend
一个我很久都没见的人 who I hadn't seen for a very long time.
卡洛琳 这是本杰明 Caroline, this is Benjamin.
你还只是个婴儿的时候就认识他了 You knew him when you were just a baby.
- 嗨 - 嗨 - Hi. - Hi.
嘿 Hey.
哦 抱歉 我以为你准备好了 Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were done.
啊 这位是我家的世交 Oh, this is a friend of my family's.
本杰明·巴顿 这是我丈夫 罗伯特 Benjamin Button, this is my husband, Robert.
- 你好吗 - 幸会 - How do you do? - A pleasure.
呃 很高兴认识你 Well, it was very nice to meet you.
- 我们在车里等你 亲爱的 - 好的 - We'll be in the car, darling. - All right.
拜拜 Bye.
我刚正在锁门 I'm just locking up.
哇 Wow.
她真漂亮 跟她妈妈一样 She's beautiful. Like her mother.
- 她也跳舞吗 - 不怎么好 - Does she dance? - Not very well.
我猜这可能是遗传我吧 I guess that'd be from my side of things.
她是个贴心的好姑娘 She's a dear, sweet girl.
只是有点迷茫 不过 谁十二岁的时候不是呢 She seems a little lost. But then, who isn't at 12?
她总是让我想起你 A lot of her reminds me of you.
我丈夫 他是个鳏夫 呃…曾经是 My husband, he's a widower, or was... Was a widower.
他是个非常善良 阳光 爱冒险的人 He's an incredibly kind, just bright, adventurous man.
- 他也是个好父亲 - 真好 - He's been a terrific father. - Good.
- 你又年轻了好多 - 只是外表罢了 - You are so much younger. - Only on the outside.
你说得对 You were right.
我没法同时养你们两个 I couldn't have been raising both of you.
我没那么坚强 I'm not that strong.
那 你住哪里 So, where are you staying?
你打算干什么 What are you gonna do?
我住在大道上的庞恰特雷恩酒店 I'm staying at the Pontchartrain Hotel on the Avenue.
我不知道该干什么 I don't know what I'm gonna do.
但… But...
他们在等我 They're waiting.
这些我记得 那就是他吗 I remember that. That was him?
飓风改变了方向 The hurricane has changed directions.
不久后就会登陆了 It's going to make landfall sometime soon.
- 我是不是该做些什么 - 正在组织 - Am I supposed to do something? - Arrangements are being made
撤离人员 不过还是看你 to move people, but it's up to you.
不 不了 我们…我们留下来 No. No, we're... We're staying.
情况有变我会通知你 I'll let you know if anything changes.
"那晚 当我 "That night, while I was
坐着思考自己为什么回来的时候" sitting and wondering why I came back at all,
"有人敲门" "There was a knock at the door."
进来 Come in.
你还好吗 Are you all right?
抱歉 我不知道自己来这儿干嘛 I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm doing here.
没什么是永恒的 Nothing lasts.
我从未停止过爱你 I have never stopped loving you.
哦 但是 本杰明 我已经是个老人了 Oh, but, Benjamin, I'm an old woman now.
有些事情你永远不会忘记 Some things you never forget.
…所以甚至很少有人知道 ...so few people even know
你最初还进过监狱 that you were ever in jail in the first place.
告诉你吧 我也觉得不爽 I'll tell you, I am sick about it, too,
因为 拜托 就算他们不给你颁"年度人物"这样的大奖 because, please, if they're not gonna give you an award
他们至少能把你的名字 like "Man of the Year," At least what they could do
从前罪犯档案中除掉 is stop having you listed as an ex-convict
所以我还是觉得 这太不公平了 which I think is, again, so unfair.
晚安 本杰明 Good night, Benjamin.
晚安 黛西 Good night, Daisy.
和我预料的一样 我目送着她离去" And as I knew I would, I watched her go.
这是他写的最后一件事儿了 That's the last thing he wrote.
你父亲去世后的一天 Sometime after your father passed,
我接到了一个电话 there was a call.
你好 Hello.
是的 请讲 Yes, speaking.
不好意思 我没明白 I'm sorry, I don't understand.
就是拐角那个房子 It's the corner house.
进来吧 Come on in.
- 我是黛西·福勒 - 我是大卫·埃尔南德斯 - I'm Daisy Fuller. - I'm David Hernandez,
儿童福利中心奥尔良分局的 with the Orleans Parish Department of Child Welfare Services.
他之前住在危楼里 He was living in a condemned building.
警察找到了这个 The police found this with him.
这个日记 里面还很多次提到你的名字 This address. It's got your name in it a lot.
他的健康状况不太乐观 被送去了医院 He's in very poor health. He was taken to the hospital.
看样子他并不知道自己是谁或者在哪 他很糊涂 He doesn't seem to know who or where he is. He's very confused.
我跟埃尔南德斯先生说了 本杰明是我们的一员 I was telling Mr. Hernandez that Benjamin is one of us.
如果他需要住的地方 没问题 就住这里吧 If he needs a place to stay, it's all right, he can stay here.
本杰明？ Benjamin?
你弹得真好啊 You play beautifully.
他好像不喜欢被人碰 He doesn't seem to like to be touched.
他记性时好时坏 认不得人 He goes in and out of states of recognition.
医生说 他们也无能为力 The doctors say, if they didn't know any better,
他已经有老年痴呆的初期症状了 he has the beginnings of dementia.
你记得我吗 Do you remember me?
我是黛西 I'm Daisy.
我是本杰明 I'm Benjamin.
很高兴认识你 本杰明 It's nice to meet you, Benjamin.
你介意我和你坐一起吗 我想听你弹 Would you mind if I sit with you? I would love to hear you play.
我认识你吗 Do I know you?
- 我想吃早饭 - 自那之后 - I want some breakfast. - And every day,
每天我都会去看他 确保他住得舒适 I would stop by to make sure that he was comfortable.
- 不 我没吃 - 你才刚吃完 - No, I didn't. - You just finished eating.
别以为我不知道你们在搞什么 Don't think I don't know what you're doing!
你们都是他妈的骗子 You're all fucking liars!
他不相信他才刚刚吃过早饭 He doesn't believe he just had his breakfast.
哎 我们来 Now, why don't we see
给你找点别的事情做做把 if we can't find something else for you to do?
我总觉得 有很多事情我都记不得了 I have a feeling there's a lot of things I can't remember.
嗯 比如呢 宝贝儿 Well, like what, sugar?
比如 我好像已经活了很久 It's like there's this whole life I had,
但我不记得是啥了 and I can't remember what it was.
没事的 It's okay.
忘记事情没什么的 It's okay to forget things.
很多时候 他就是不记得自己是谁 或者在哪 Many times, he would simply forget who or where he was.
他在那儿呢 在屋顶上 There he is, he's up there on the roof.
这可不容易 It wasn't easy.
- 本杰明！ - 我可以看见所有东西！ - Benjamin! - I can see everything!
- 我能看见那条大河！ - 没错 - I can see the big river! - That's right,
你什么都能看见 宝贝儿 you can see everything, sweetheart.
我能看见妈妈在的墓地 I can see the graveyard where Mama's buried,
- 还有很多其他人！ - 我想让你下来！ - and all those other people. - I want you to come down!
- 我要是会飞呢？ - 我就认识个会飞的人 - What if I could fly? - I knew a man who could fly.
你下来 我就告诉你他的故事 You come down and I'll tell you all about him.
来个人快上去 Somebody go up there.
我搬进去的时候 他五岁 He was five when I moved in.
跟我遇见他的时候差不多大 Nearly the same age I was when I had met him.
"这是一只老袋鼠下午五点的样子" "This is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo 5 in the afternoon
"他有着粗壮、漂亮的后腿" "When he had got his beautiful hind legs."
时光飞逝 The days passed.
我看着他慢慢忘记怎么走路 And I watched as he forgot how to walk
- 怎么说话 - 我叫什么呀 - and how to talk. - What's my name?
我叫黛西 I'm Daisy.
你会说"黛西"吗 Can you say "Daisy"?
2002年 那个火车站换了新的钟表 In 2002, they put up a new clock in that train station.
在2003年的春天 And in the spring of 2003,
他看着我 he looked at me
我知道 他认出我了 and I knew that he knew who I was.
然后 他闭上了眼睛 就好像睡着了 And then he closed his eyes as if to go to sleep.
- 真希望我能认识他 - 现在你认识了 - I wish I'd known him. - Now you do.
妈 我得去看看怎么回事 Mom, I think I should go see what's going on.
晚安 本杰明 Good night, Benjamin.
有些人 生来就坐在河边 Some people are born to sit by a river.
有些人 注定被闪电击中 Some get struck by lightning.
有些人 天生懂音乐 Some have an ear for music.
有些人 注定是艺术家 Some are artists.
有些人 天生会游泳 Some swim.
有些人 注定懂纽扣 Some know buttons.
有些人 天生懂莎士比亚 Some know Shakespeare.
有些人 注定是母亲 Some are mothers.
而有些人 天生起舞 And some people dance.