我叫艾丽西亚 My name is Alithea.
我的故事是真的 My story is true.
然而 你更有可能相信我 You're more likely to believe me however,
如果把故事当做童话来讲 if I tell it as a fairy tale.
所以 在很久很久以前 So once upon a time,
当人类用金属翅膀飞过天空时 when humans hurtled across the sky on metal wings,
当他们穿着鳍脚的时候 when they wore webbed feet
而在海底行走 and walked on the bottom of the sea,
当他们手里拿着玻璃瓷砖 when they held in their hands glass tiles
能从空中发出情歌 that could coax love songs from the air...
有一个女人 很幸福 也很孤单 there was a woman adequately happy and alone.
选择独自一人 Alone by choice.
开心是因为她是独立的 Happy because she was independent,
靠她的学术头脑的锻链为生 living off the exercise of her scholarly mind.
她的工作是讲故事 Her business was story.
她是一位叙述学家 She was a narratologist
致力于寻找人类 who sought to find the truths
所有故事的共同真相 common to all the stories of humankind.
因此 一年一两次 To this end once or twice a year,
她冒险去了陌生的地方 she ventured to strange lands.
去中国 南海 To China the South Seas,
以及沿岸诸国在内地区的永恒的城市 and the timeless cities of the Levant...
在那里她的同类聚集在一起讲故事 where her kind gathered to tell stories about stories.
往这边 This way.
不好意思 这边请 女士 Excuse me. This way lady.
你干什么呢 你能放手吗 拜托 What are you doing? Can you let go please?
伊斯坦布尔的奥秘 The mysteries of Istanbul.
艾丽西亚 Alithea!
欢迎 Welcome!
终于大驾光临 啊 冈汉 Welcome at last! Aw. Gunhan!
我亲爱的朋友 My dear friend.
哦 太棒了 对不起 Oh how wonderful! I'm sorry.
这是阿米娜 阿米娜 This is Amina. Amina.
来自英国文化协会 From the British Council.
机场的那个家伙粗暴地搬运我的行李 That fellow at the airport manhandling my luggage,
你看见了吗 did you see him?
什么家伙 What fellow?
你们一出现他就跑了 He scuttled off when you arrived.
矮矮的 穿羊皮大衣 粉红色的领子 Small sheepskin jacket pink collar.
有意思 Interesting.
他摸起来很热 He was hot to touch.
有麝香气味的 Musky.
也许他是个精灵 Perhaps he was a djinn.
更有可能是非法计程车司机 An illegal taxi driver more likely.
喷了太多古龙水 Wearing too much cologne.
所以 教授 So Professor,
你是说你相信精灵的存在 you saying you believe in djinn?
我相信有些人需要相信他们 I believe there are those who need to believe in them.
包括我吗 Including me?
精灵 鬼魂 Djinn ghosts,
外星人 只要有帮助就行 aliens whatever helps.
酒店为您安排了一个可爱的惊喜 The hotel's arranged a lovely surprise for you.
这是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的房间 It's the Agatha Christie room.
在这个房间里 In this room,
她写了《东方快车谋杀案》 she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
所以 你怎么解释 So how would you explain
大雷雨的力量 the power of a thunderstorm
如果你没有办法 if you don't have the means
对气象数据进行测量和建模 to measure and model meteorological data?
你怎么解释季节呢 How can you explain the seasons?
从秋天到冬天 再到春天和夏天 Autumn through winter to spring and summer,
如果你不知道地球 if you don't know that the Earth
绕着太阳旋转 而地球倾斜在一个轴上 orbits the Sun while tilted on an axis?
一切都是个谜 Everything was mystery.
季节 海啸 微生物疾病 The seasons tsunamis microbial disease...
除了述诸于故事 我们还能做什么呢 What else could we do but resort to stories?
正如宾尼博士鼓励我们理解的那样 As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us to understand,
故事曾经是让我们 stories were once the only way
困惑的存在变得连贯的唯一途径 to make our bewildering existence coherent.
那是完全正确的 That's exactly right.
我们为所有奇迹和灾难 We gave name to the unknown forces
背后的未知力量命名 behind all wonder and catastrophe,
藉着告诉彼此 by telling each other...
藉着给彼此讲故事 By telling each other stories.
让我来给你展示 Let me show you.
我们讲述了在所有文化 所有神话中 We told tales of specific powerful relatable gods
出现过的特定的 强大的 相关的神的故事 ever present in all cultures in all mythologies,
从希腊人 到罗马人 再到北欧人 from the Greeks to the Romans to the Norse,
等等 等等 and so on and so on.
我们熟悉的宙斯 波塞冬 雅典娜的后裔 The familiar descendant of Zeus Poseidon Athena,
索尔 整个帮派 Thor the whole gang,
即使在今天也能找到表达方式 find expression even today.
这些是他们的遗迹 These are their vestiges.
问题仍然是 他们的目的是什么 The question remains what is their purpose?
我们现在对他们有什么要求 What do we require of them now?
这里面有神话 也有科学 There is mythos and there is science.
噢 抱歉 Oh. Sorry.
神话是我们当时所知道的 Mythology is what we knew back then.
科学是我们到目前为止所知道的 Science is what we know so far.
迟早 Sooner or later,
我们的创世故事 our creation stories are replaced
被科学的叙述所取代 by the narratives of science.
艰苦的科学 Painstaking science.
而所有的神灵和怪物 And all gods and monsters
比他们最初的目的活得更长久 outlive their original purpose
并被简化为隐喻 and are reduced to metaphor.
胡扯 Rubbish!
艾丽西亚 Alithea!
艾丽西亚 Alithea.
发生了什么事 What happened?
我不知道 她就这么摔倒了 I don't know. She just fell.
她就这么摔倒了 She just fell.
天啊 Gosh.
你还好吗 Are you okay?
你是不是应该去看医生 Shouldn't you see a doctor?
为什么 当我感觉这么好的时候 Why? When I feel so well?
不好意思 艾丽西亚 你确定吗 Forgive me Alithea. Are you sure?
除了平常的疼痛外 Apart from the usual aches and pains,
没有什么不顺遂的事 there is nothing untoward.
没有理由大惊小怪 There's no reason to make a fuss.
所以 刚才发生了什么事 So what happened back there?
最近 我的想像力战胜了我 Lately my imagination's been getting the better of me.
伏击了我 Ambushing me.
我认为这是一个警告 I think it's a warning.
关于什么 About what?
别太自满 Not to be complacent.
让我保持警觉 To keep on my toes.
它时不时地粗鲁地表现出来 It manifests rudely from time to time.
我试着不抗拒它 I try not to fight it off.
它控制了一下 然后就消失了 It takes charge for a moment and then it steps back.
什么消失了 What steps back?
哦 冈汉 这太荒谬了 别在意它了 Oh Gunhan it's irrational. Pay it no mind.
你的行为举止像个孩子 你知道吗 You are behaving like a child. Do you know that?
你知道 我其实还是个孩子 You know I am actually a child.
如果这就是命运 我们能逃避它吗 If there is fate can we escape it?
谁能说得准呢 Who can say?
但我告诉你 But I tell you this,
在伊斯坦堡的大巴扎 in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul,
有62条街道和4,000家商店 there are 62 streets and 4,000 shops.
而在其中一家商店里 有三个房间 And in one of those shops there are three rooms.
在这些房间中最小的一间里 In the smallest of those rooms,
有一堆东西没有分类 there was a pile of things unsorted,
有旧的也有新的 old and new.
从那堆东西的底部 From the bottom of that pile,
我选了一件纪念品 I chose a memento.
你知道这是什么吗 Do you know what this is?
我不确定 但可能是土耳其传统瓶饰 I'm not sure but it could be Cesm-i Bulbul,
一个“夜莺之眼” a "Nightingale's Eye."
大约在1845年 印基尔科伊有这样的玻璃制造商 Around 1845 there were these glassmakers in Incirkoy.
他们以这种螺旋状的蓝白色图案而闻名 They were famous for this spiral blue-white pattern.
哦 别这样 这是我送给你的礼物 Oh please. It's a gift from me.
别选择一些被遗弃的东西 Choose something less forlorn.
而且 呃 如果这是土耳其传统瓶饰 And uh if this is Cesm-i Bulbul,
呃 有什么方法可以监定它吗 uh is there a way of authenticating it?
噢 他们说如果它是真的 Well they say that if it is genuine,
有时你可以看到 sometimes you can see specks of blood
上面会留着玻璃吹制工人肺里的血迹点 from the lungs of the glassblowers.
但这更像是现代的仿制品 But this is more likely a recent imitation.
它已经被火烧毁了 选其他的吧 It's been damaged by fire. Pick something else.
不用了 谢谢你 冈汉 No thank you Gunhan.
我喜欢它 I like it.
无论它是什么 我相信它都有一个有趣的故事 Whatever it is I'm sure it has an interesting story.
哈罗 Hello?
早上好 宾尼博士 Good morning Dr. Binnie.
早上好 这是客房服务 Good morning. This is room service.
是的 您的鸡蛋要几分熟 Yes. How do you like your eggs?
呃 松软的 麻烦你 Er runny please.
那加吐司呢 是的 但没有面包皮 And with toast? Yes but no crusts.
两颗蛋吗 一颗就好 Two eggs? Just one.
好的 谢谢 谢谢 Okay thank you. Thank you.
我要闭上眼睛并数到三 I'm going to close my eyes and count to three,
之后我将不胜感激 after which I would be grateful
如果你能离开 if you would be gone.
一 One,
二 two,
三 three.
四 Four,
五 five,
六 six,
七 八 seven eight,
九 十 nine ten.
我想你不会说英语吧 I don't suppose you speak English?
德语 Deutsch?
西班牙语 Espanol?
希腊语 Ellinika?
爱因斯坦 Einstein.
电视 Television.
发射台 Transmitters.
我是一个谦虚的精灵 I am a djinn of modest power,
但我开始理解这些传输方式 but I begin to understand these transmissions.
噢 Oh!
你已经学会了说我的语言 You've learned to speak my language.
这种英语是直截了当的 This English is straightforward.
我发现 它的规则学得很快 Its rules quickly learn I find.
不 不 不 Nein nein nein.
你自己想要这个小艾伯特吗 Would you like this little Albert for yourself?
不 不 不 No no no.
这对他来说肯定不是好事 把他放回去 That can't be good for him. Put him back.
我可以开朗他 怎么做 I could expand him. How?
我们可以和他谈谈 We could speak with him.
这怎么可能 不 把他放回去 How is this possible? No put him back.
那是你的愿望吗 这是不可能的 Is that your wish? This is not possible.
不 这是你的责任 No. It's your obligation.
所以 你会许什么愿呢 So what will you wish for?
你内心的愿望是什么 What is your heart's desire?
现在 让我们 呃 不要操之过急 Now let's uh not get ahead of ourselves.
我得慢慢来 I need to take this slow.
我有世界上所有的时间 I have all the time in the world.
跟我说说你自己吧 Tell me about yourself.
我叫艾丽西亚·宾尼 My name is Alithea Binnie.
我在土耳其参加一个会议 I am in Turkey for a conference.
一天后我就会回到我的祖国 And I return to my homeland in a day's time.
而且 Also?
而且 我有一件事要坦白 Also I have a confession to make.
一件我从未告诉过任何人的事 Something I've never told anybody.
太棒了 Excellent.
当我小的时候 有一个男孩 When I was young there was a boy.
你的初恋情人 Your first lover?
不 不 不 他不是血肉之躯 No no no. He was not of flesh and blood.
一个精灵 A djinn?
不是 No.
那时 我发现自己在一所女子学校 At that time I found myself in a school for girls.
一群张口结舌的女孩 Gaggles of girls.
我是 噢 我天生就是个孤独的人 I was...Well I am a solitary creature by nature.
而这个男孩 恩佐 And this boy Enzo,
他从一片空虚中向我走来 he came to me out of an emptiness.
出于想像的需要 Out of a need to imagine.
他用一种 He told me stories in a language
只有我们两个人说的语言给我讲故事 that only we two spoke.
当我头疼的时候他总是消失 And he always disappeared when I had a headache,
但他从未远离过 but he was never far away
当我因为哮喘不能动弹的时候 when I couldn't move for asthma.
他就像这个小艾伯特 He was like this little Albert
你不会让我给你吧 you would not let me give you?
一种散发 An emanation?
只是缺席的一种流露 Only an emanation of an absence.
我害怕他会离开 所以我把他写了下来 I feared he would leave and so I wrote him down.
而且我写满了这本日记 充斥着事实 And I filled this journal bulging with facts.
但我试图插入的现实主义越多 But the more realism I tried to insert,
我越是怀疑 the more I began to doubt,
然后 呃 一切都开始让人觉得很傻了 and uh it all began to feel silly.
我觉得自己很傻 I felt silly.
所以 过了一段时间后 So after a time,
我在学校的炉子里把它全烧了 I burned it all in the school furnace.
而在那之后 他就完全消失了 And after that he disappeared altogether.
然而 我在这里 And yet I am here.
有违常理 是的 Contrary to reason yes.
我在这里 而且我们有工作要做 I am here and we have work to do.
你能晚点再来吗 拜托 Can you come back later please?
这是客房服务 宾尼博士 It's room service Dr. Binnie.
我给你准备好早餐了 I have your breakfast.
请稍等 Just a minute!
必须关上门 Must close door.
早上好 Good morning.
你想把它放在哪里 宾尼博士 Where would you like it Dr. Binnie?
谢谢 哦 让我来 Thank you. Oh I can take it.
拜托 让我来 不 不 我能应付得来 Please allow me. No. No I can manage it.
很好 宾尼博士 我希望你好好休息 Jolly good Dr. Binnie. I hope you are well rested.
哦 那看起来很好吃 是的 我是 Oh that looks delicious. Yes I am.
在这个美好的日子里你打算做什么 What do you plan to do on this fine day?
呃 我不确定 我是随兴的 Uh I'm not sure. I'm improvising.
噢 我想告知你去看一个漂亮的美术馆 Well I'd like to show you a beautiful art gallery...
真是太好了 谢谢 That's so kind. Thank you.
今天下午 当你有机会的时候 This afternoon when you get a chance.
也许改天吧 一定会很棒的 Maybe another time. It will be great.
谢谢 祝你有美好的一天 Thank you. Have a beautiful day.
好的 太好了 好好享受吧 Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.
谢谢 Thank you!
变更适当的尺寸了 我明白了 A more convenient size I see.
我会尽我所能融入其中 I do what I can to fit in.
请用 Please.
我本不需要点早餐的 I needn't have ordered breakfast.
这是南艾·诺霍迪奇 鹰嘴豆 丁香 开心果 It's nan-e nokhodchi. Chickpeas cloves pistachio.
它会在你嘴里融化 It will melt in your mouth.
我可以问你一件事吗 May I ask you something?
什么都行 Anything.
你是怎么钻进我的瓶子里的 How come you found your way into my bottle?
啊 说来话长 Ah it's quite a story.
那是我第三次被监禁 That was my third incarceration.
你被困在瓶子里三次了 You've been trapped in a bottle three times?
我也许是个精灵 但我也是个傻瓜 I may be a djinn but I'm also a fool
对女人的谈话太热衷了 with too great a fondness for the conversation of women.
我以后需要更加小心 I need to be more careful in the future.
一开始你是怎么被抓到的 How were you caught in the first place?
因为欲望 By desire.
还有别的办法吗 How else?
她是谁 Who was she?
示巴 Sheba.
示巴女王 The Queen of Sheba?
她是我的亲人 She was my kin.
她是个精灵 She was a djinn?
她的母亲是个精灵 Her mother was a djinn.
这有可能吗 Is that possible?
有法律允许 There are laws that allow
精灵和凡人的结合 the union of djinn and mortals,
但他们不能生出不朽的后代 but they cannot produce an immortal scion
就像一头驴和一匹马 the way a donkey and a horse
只能生出一头无籽骡子 can only produce a seedless mule.
所以 她长得什么样 So what did she look like?
除了她腿上浓密的黑发之外 Other than a thick glade of black hair on her legs,
她看上去和其他人没什么两样 she looked like any other human being,
除了 当然 她是示巴 except of course she was Sheba.
所有人都说 她长得很漂亮 By all accounts she was very beautiful.
她并不漂亮 她本身就是美 She was not beautiful. She was beauty itself.
我到哪都来去自如 I was in every way free.
我会进进出出她的睡房 I would come in and out of her sleeping chamber.
示巴 Sheba...
我和她的女奴一样了解 I knew as well as any of her female slaves
那些让她幸福得发抖的抚摸 the touches that made her shiver with bliss.
我从来没有这么想要一个人 Never have I wanted a creature so.
而她想要你作为回报吗 And she desired you in return?
我是她的玩物 她的红颜知己 I was her plaything. Her confidante.
要不是所罗门 我可能会变得更厉害 I might have become more but for Solomon.
所罗门王吗 King Solomon?
祝福他的记忆 Blessed be his memory.
他穿越沙漠来追求她 He came from across the deserts to woo her.
她不是去找他吗 Didn't she go to him?
不 从来没有 No. Never.
但圣经上有写着 But it's in all the holy books.
所有的故事和画 All the stories and the paintings.
而且韩德尔为此创作了音乐 And Handel wrote music about it.
女士 我当时在场 Madam I was there.
所罗门来到她面前 Solomon came to her.
他从音乐开始 He began with music.
我尽我所能去劝阻她 I did all that I could to dissuade her.
但当她使用 But when she used
贾巴沙蜜蜂的香味蜡 the scented wax of the Jabassa Bee
去掉她腿上的毛发 to remove the hair from her legs,
我知道我迷失了 I knew that I was lost.
但我 像个傻瓜一样 继续告诉她 But I like a fool, went on telling her
她的身体丰润又可爱 that her body was rich and lovely,
但她的思想是更丰富 更可爱 but her mind was richer and lovelier,
而且更持久的 and more durable.
而她同意我说的一切 And she agreed with all that I said,
并掉下了一滴热泪 and dropped a hot tear.
她开始给他布置任务 这似乎是不可能的 She began to set him tasks, which seemed impossible,
来找到一根特殊的红色丝线 to find a particular thread of red silk
在一千个房间的宫殿里 in the palace of a thousand rooms,
来猜出她母亲精灵的秘密名字 to guess the secret name of her mother djinn,
来告诉她女人最想要的是什么 to tell her what women most desire.
那似乎是不可能的 That does seem impossible.
对他来说不是 Not for him.
他能和大地上的野兽说话 He could speak to the beasts of the earth,
和微妙之火幻化的精灵说话 and to the djinn made of subtle fire.
他找到蚂蚁来寻找丝线 He found ants to discover the thread of silk,
并找到了一只妖精来低语母亲的名字 and an ifrit to whisper the mother's name.
然后他看着她的眼睛 Then he looked into her eyes
并且告诉她女人最渴望的是什么 and told her what women most desire.
她很惊讶 She was astonished,
并告诉他他是对的 and told him he was right.
所以她给了他他最渴望的东西 And so she granted him what he most desired,
那就是娶她并与她同床共枕 which was to wed her and be taken to her bed.
他是一个伟大的魔术师 He was a great magician...
并把我关进了黄铜瓶 and imprisoned me
用一句权力的话 with a word of power into a brass bottle.
她没有为我求情 She made no plea for me.
我对她来说什么都不是 I was nothing to her.
只是瓶子里的一口气 A breath in a bottle.
就这样 我被扔进了红海 And so I was cast into the Red Sea
并在2,500年里备受煎熬 and languished for 2,500 years.
除了睡觉 Apart from sleep,
一个人在瓶子里2,500年能做什么 what does one do in a bottle for 2,500 years?
精灵不睡觉 Djinn don't sleep.
所以 你怎么打发时间 So how do you manage then?
噢 在最初的100年里 我对我的命运感到愤怒 Well for the first 100 years, I rage against my fate.
我向博施科洛祈祷释放我 I pray to Boschkolo for my release,
而当这不起作用时 and when that does not work,
我向我认识的神祈祷 I pray to any god I know,
然后向我不认识的神祈祷 and then to any god I may not know.
而且当 仍然 我没有找到答案的时候 And when still, I find no answers,
我把时间花在做白日梦 I spend my time in waking dreams
重温我过去的所有故事 revisiting all the stories of my life.
而当我筋疲力尽这很多 很多次时 And when I have exhausted this many many times,
我就会回到我的祈祷和愤怒中 I return to my prayer and my rage.
然后 最后 And then finally,
我对自己开了个玩笑 I play a trick on myself.
我祈祷留在瓶子里 I pray to remain in the bottle.
我祈求博斯科洛让我永远待在瓶子里 I beseech Boschkolo to keep me always in the bottle.
而那有用吗 And does that work?
渴望一无所有 To yearn for nothing?
假装什么都不想要 To pretend to want nothing more
只想待在瓶子里 than to be contained in a bottle?
不 No.
对于精灵来说 这是我们离死亡最近的一次 For a djinn it is the closest we ever come to death.
你知道她问题的答案吗 Do you know the answer to her question?
女人最想要的是什么 What women most desire?
是的 Yeah.
你不知道吗 Do you not know?
如果你不知道 我也不能告诉你 If you do not know, I cannot tell you.
噢 当然 我们想要的东西不都是一样的 Well surely we don't all want the same thing.
女士 你的渴望我一点也不清楚 Madam your yearnings are not at all clear to me.
我 我正处在一个拥有一切所需的人生阶段 I...I'm at a point in my life where I have all I need.
我敢说我很满意 而且很感激 I dare say I'm content, and gratefully so.
告诉我 Tell me.
你是一位妻子 还是寡妇 Are you a wife? A widow?
嗯 也许是个母亲 Um...A mother perhaps?
我没有孩子 没有兄弟姐妹 没有父母 I have no children, no siblings no parents.
我曾经有一个丈夫 I did once have a husband.
啊 Ah.
那这位丈夫的气色如何呢 And what was the complexion of this husband?
他的气色吗 His complexion?
一开始 意气风发 In the beginning, it was glowing.
而最后呢 And in the ending?
这算不上什么故事 It's not much of a story.
但这是一个故事 这是你的故事 But it is a story. It is your story,
而且了解那些控制你的人 and it is always wise
总是明智的 to understand those who have a hold on you.
拜托 Please.
噢 好吧 嗯 Well okay um...
我们从年轻的时候就认识了 We'd known each other since our youth.
我们 呃 很早就结婚了 We uh married early.
一开始 我们 In the beginning, we took pleasure
喜欢彼此的想法和身体 in each other's minds and bodies.
嗯 Um...
我们安逸地度过了这几年 We passed the years comfortably,
而当它发生的时候 and then as it happens,
一切都蒸发了 it all evaporated,
而 呃 而我们就成了 and uh...and we became
越少 less.
而他在哪里 And where is he?
他跟艾米琳·波特在哈克尼 He's in Hackney, with Emmeline Porter.
嗯 Mmm.
他告诉说我 He told me I...
我没有读懂感情的能力 I was incapable of reading feelings.
我无法读懂他的感受 I was incapable of reading his feelings.
会有一个解决方案的 Gonna have a resolution.
这真令人兴奋 This is exciting!
这真令人兴奋 不 不是的 It is exciting! No it's not.
让我猜一猜 没有人死在里面 Let me guess. No one dies in it.
不 No!
我大脑连接的方式是 是 The way my brain is wired is...is the...
我力量的源泉 the source both of my power
以及 呃 还有我的孤独 and uh and my solitude.
我想这就是我喜欢故事的原因 I suspect that's why I like stories.
我透过故事找到感觉 I find feelings through stories.
也许你可以祈求他能回来 Perhaps you could wish for him back.
哦 不 不 不 不 不 不 Oh no no no. No no no.
不 No.
我 我想 嗯 I...I thought um,
我可能会为失去和背叛而悲伤 但是 呃 I might grieve a loss and betrayal but uh,
不 事实上 我自由了 no in fact I was free.
我就像一个囚犯 I was like a prisoner
从地牢里出来 走到阳光下 emerging from a dungeon into the sunlight.
我扩展到了我自己的生活空间 I expanded into the space of my own life.
不 我不能要求更多了 No I could not wish for more.
你是个聪明又谨慎的女人 艾丽西亚 You are a wise and cautious woman Alithea.
但我们都有欲望 But we all have desires,
即使他们对我们隐藏着 even if they remain hidden from us.
那是有可能的 That's as maybe.
但我也是一个叙事学家 But I am also a narratologist,
而这将是一个问题 and that is going to be a problem.
这将是一个非常大的问题 It's going to be a very big problem.
你看 我知道所有 See I know all the stories there are
关于魔术师精灵的故事 about trickster djinn,
以及他们为了自己的目的 and the ways in which they manipulate wishing
而操纵自己的方式 to their own ends.
我不是他们中的一员 I am not one of them.
我敬畏上帝而且我是光荣的 I am god-fearing and honorable,
而且只有在这里才能满足你内心的渴望 and only here to grant your heart's desire.
噢 即使这是真的 Well even if that's true,
你怎么能依靠那些被召唤来许愿的人呢 how can you rely on those called upon to wish?
你怎么知道你能信任我呢 How do you know you can rely on me?
噢 我希望如此 Well I hope so.
对你来说 我当然希望如此 With you I certainly hope so.
那有一个 There's a...
有趣的小故事 我是说 你可能知道 funny little story. I mean you probably know it.
三个朋友乘坐一艘小船在海上迷失了 Three friends lost at sea in a tiny boat.
他们拉起一条神奇的鱼 They pull up a magic fish,
它能满足他们每个人的一个愿望 who grants each of them one wish.
第一个说 The first one,
“我希望我和我的妻子待在家里” "I wish I were at home with my wife."
他就消失了 He vanishes.
第二个说 “我希望我” The second one, "I wish I were playing"
“陪我的孩子们在田野里游玩” "in the fields with my children."
他也消失了 Off he goes.
而第三个说 “我想念我的朋友” And the third one, "I miss my friends..."
“我希望他们在这里” "I wish they were here."
你对了 You've got it.
每个许愿故事都是一个警世故事 There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale.
没有一个是美满的结局 None end happily.
即使是那些本该是笑话的 Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
但你和我是这个故事的作者 But you and I are the authors of this story,
而且我们可以避开所有陷阱 and we can avoid all traps.
噢 如果我根本没有许愿呢 Well what if I made no wish at all?
您说什么 Pardon?
如果我没有许愿呢 What if I made no wish?
那将是一个 That would be an...
那将是 That would be
灾难性的 catastrophic!
好吧 All right.
我要告诉你我第二次被关的事 I need to tell you about my next incarceration.
我洗耳恭听 I'm all ears.
我永远也不知道 I will never know
我的瓶子是怎么从红海底出来的 how my bottle came from the bottom of the Red Sea...
去君士坦丁堡的一座宫殿 to a palace in Constantinople.
但我猜想这与奥斯曼帝国的 But I fancy somehow it involved
一名战士被杀有关 the killing of an Ottoman warrior.
一个帝国的灭亡 The fall of an empire.
和一个恋爱中的女孩 And a girl in love.
梅尔哈巴 Merhaba.
古尔登像奴隶一样 Gulten lived as a slave
在后宫的妃子院子里 in the courtyard of the concubines
在萨拉格里奥 in the seraglio.
当我出现在她面前时 When I appeared to her...
她晕倒了 she fainted.
而我费了很大的劲才把她叫醒 And I had great trouble rousing her.
我明确表示我对她并无恶意 I made it clear that I meant her no harm,
因为我被监禁在这瓶子 for I was condemned to the bottle.
直到你实现你的三个愿望 Until you got your three wishes.
直到她拿到了她的三个愿望 Until she got hers.
拜托 好吧 Please. Okay.
现在 那个可怜的女孩告诉我 Now the poor girl told me
她心烦意乱地爱上了一个漂亮的男人 she was distractedly in love with a beautiful man...
而她希望立刻 and she wished immediately
得到他的赏识 to find favor in his eyes.
刚好 As it happens,
她最想要的就是华丽的穆斯塔法 the one she most desired was the splendid Mustafa.
穆斯塔法王子 Prince Mustafa.
伟大的苏莱曼的长子 Eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent,
而且很可能会继承他强大的王位 and likely heir to his mighty throne.
如果我知道接下来会发生什么 Had I known what was to come,
我就会冒着惹怒伊布利斯的危险 I would've risked the furies of Iblis
来强烈地分散她对她愿望的注意力 to vehemently distract her from her wish.
但不假思索 But without thinking,
就拿起我的瓶子变出油来 I took my bottle and conjured oils
为她准备 to prepare her.
魔法之油 Oils of enchantment
曾经只有示巴使用过 once used only by Sheba.
我告诫她把瓶子藏起来 I cautioned her to hide the bottle
以免它的法力落入他人之手 lest its powers fall into other hands.
我去找穆斯塔法 I went to Mustafa.
古尔登 Gulten.
我低声说出了她的名字 I whispered her name.
他派人去找她 He sent for her.
这太容易了 It was so easy.
身为精灵 我对人类的 As a djinn, I am endlessly curious
生活方式充满好奇 about the ways of humans.
所以 在我的闲暇之余 So in my spare time,
我开始在宫殿里闲逛 寻找它的奥秘 I took to wandering the palace in search of its intrigues.
而在那里 在太监中间 And there among the eunuchs,
王妃和妃子们 the consorts, and the concubines,
我第一次看见霍莱姆 I first saw Hurrem.
微笑的那位 The Laughing One.
她 也是 一个奴隶 She too was a slave
从他们中间崛起 who had risen through the center of them all
成为苏丹的宠儿 to become the Sultan's favorite.
智者苏莱曼眼中只有她 Suleiman the Wise saw none but her.
而她试图保护他的王位 And she sought to protect his throne
让自己的儿子取代他心爱的穆斯塔法 in favor of her own sons over his beloved Mustafa.
而为此 她派了许多 And to this end, she had the prince watched
窥探的眼睛盯着王子 by many probing eyes.
当我看到霍莱姆 When I saw how Hurrem
如何成功地完成了她的杰作时 made a masterpiece of her manipulations,
我担心我的古尔登可能会被困在这张网里 I worried that my Gulten might be caught in this web.
我试着警告她要小心 I tried to warn her to be careful.
但她已经决定了她的第二个愿望 But she had already decided on her second wish.
真是一个错误 Such a mistake.
因为此时此刻 Because at this moment,
苏莱曼 愿上帝保佑他的名字 Suleiman blessed be his name,
正在被削弱 is being undermined.
他的战士们认为他正在变得软弱 His warriors believe he is going soft,
对他的诗歌更感兴趣 more interested in his poetry
而不是强势统治 than ruling with a strong hand.
霍莱姆助长了谣言 Hurrem fuels the rumors
军队想要夺取他的王位 that the military want to take his throne
而用穆斯塔法取代他 and replace him with Mustafa.
王子已成为一枚棋子 The prince has become a pawn
在无休无止的权力游戏中 in the ceaseless game of power.
伟大的苏莱曼 Suleiman the Magnificent,
征服者苏莱曼 Suleiman the Conqueror,
帝国的守护神和保护者 patron and protector of empires,
开国者苏莱曼 Suleiman the Father,
面临着一个选择 was left with a choice
他知道会让他心碎的选择 that he knows will break his heart.
古尔登 与此同时 看不出有什么理由 Gulten meantime saw no reason
为什么她不能露面 why she should remain unseen.
鉴于她怀的是下一任苏丹的儿子 Given she was carrying the son of the next Sultan.
不顾我所有的警告 Despite all my warnings,
她炫耀着自己刚刚隆起的胸部和腹部 she parades her newly swollen breasts and belly.
而耳语很快传遍了整个宫廷 And the whispers soon spread throughout the seraglio.
可怕的阴谋进展得太快了 The terrible plottings move all too quickly.
穆斯塔法王子天真地 Prince Mustafa comes innocently
来到他父亲面前 into the presence of his father,
来向他保证自己的忠诚 to reassure him of his loyalty.
而等着他的是寂静 And the mutes are waiting for him.
他呼喊他的禁卫军士兵 He cried out to his Janissaries,
爱戴他的 who loved him,
但他的声音被压碎了而且他的呼吸 but his voice was crushed and his breath stopped
被他父亲弓上的琴弦打断了 by the string of his father's bow.
古尔登 Gulten!
“许个愿吧” "Make a wish!"
“救救你自己吧 古尔登” "Save yourself Gulten!"
只要说几句话而她就可以安全地 Just a few words and she could have been free
生下她的孩子了 to bear her child in safety,
而我也可以逃到精灵的王国去了 and I to spirit away at last to the Realm of Djinn.
但她跑到刺客手里了 But she ran into the hands of the assassins.
我正打算用武力拿下他们 I was about to take them by force,
却被伊布利斯的一个部下挡住了 when I was blocked by a follower of Iblis.
古尔登 Gulten!
她没有许愿来解救她自己 She made no wish to save herself.
没有许下拯救我们俩的愿望 No wish was made to save us both.
所以 我就在那里 So there I was,
或者我不在那里 你可能会说 or there I was not, might you say,
几乎被释放并来到这个世界 almost emancipated and tethered to this world
因为第三个未实现的愿望 by a third wish unperformed.
但你知道 对吧 But you realize don't you,
你刚刚给我讲了一个女人 that you've just told me the story of a woman who was doomed
因为许愿而注定要死的故事 as a consequence of the wishes she made?
是的 但她没能完成愿望 Yes but her failure to complete the wishes
也注定了我的命运 also doomed me.
没人能完成这个愿望吗 Could nobody else complete the wish?
那是我的希望 That was my hope.
而那你就终于自由了吗 And that would finally liberate you?
那是我唯一的希望 That was my only hope.
但你被隐形了 But you were rendered invisible.
像一个幽灵 Like a ghost.
在看不见的地方徘徊 Wandering unseen.
还有你的瓶子 And your bottle,
藏在松动的石板下 hidden under the loosened stone
只有死去的古尔登才知道 known only to the dead Gulten.
是的 这是一个尴尬的处境 Yes it was a predicament.
我试图引起某人的注意 I tried to attract the attention of someone,
任何能帮助我的人 anyone that could help me.
我的星星 我多么努力 My stars how I tried.
我跟随着他们的气味 他们的每一步 I followed their scent, their every step.
心甘情愿 恳求 尖叫 Willing pleading screaming.
任何能把他们吸引到我身边的东西 Anything to draw them to me.
而我这样凄惨地做了100年 And I do this piteously for 100 years,
而每一次失败 我的意志就开始消退 and with every failure, my will begins to fade.
而然后在1620年 And then in 1620,
一个手持剑的男孩带来了希望 hope comes in the form of a boy with a sword.
穆拉德 穆拉德 Murad! Murad!
穆拉德 Murad!
不知怎的 这个男孩感觉到了我 By some means, this boy senses me.
我能把他引到石头那里 I'm able to draw him to the stone.
易卜拉辛 Ibrahim!
过来 Gel.
穆拉德 Murad!
易卜拉辛 Ibrahim!
而就在我要被送到 And just as I am about to be delivered
他们手里的时候 into their hands,
他们的母亲找到了他们 their mother finds them.
她叫科瑟姆 She is Kosem,
苏丹 艾哈迈德一世的遗孀 a widow of the Sultan, Ahmed the First.
而男孩们是王位的下一任继承人 And the boys are next in line for the throne.
当我看到他腿上的毛发时 When I see the hair on his legs,
我就知道穆拉德的血统中 I know that somewhere in Murad's bloodline
蕴藏着精灵的力量 pulses the power of a djinn.
我到处跟着他 I follow him everywhere,
决心把他拉回石头那里 determined to draw him back to the stone.
但在11岁时 他登上了王位 But at the age of 11, he ascends the throne
而成为苏丹穆拉德四世 and becomes Sultan Murad the Fourth.
而他又陷入了惯常的阴谋诡计 And caught up by the usual intrigues,
他跟我就更疏远了 he is even more lost to me.
20岁时 他率领他的军队参战 At 20 he leads his armies to war.
他与他的部下并肩作战 He battles alongside his men
在高加索和美索不达米亚 in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
关于他的鲁莽都有很多故事 Stories are told of his recklessness,
甚至是他自己的生活 even with his own life.
我绝望到再也不想见到他 I despair of ever seeing him again.
希望是个怪物 艾丽西亚 而我是它的玩物 Hope is a monster Alithea, and I am its plaything.
所以他死了吗 So he died?
不是在战场上 Not in battle.
回到伊斯坦堡 Back in Istanbul,
科瑟姆需要保护王位 Kosem needs to protect the throne.
她需要保护易卜拉辛 She needs to protect Ibrahim.
那个小弟弟 是的 The little brother? Yes.
他是奥斯曼帝国的最后一位 He is last of the Ottoman line.
他必须生男孩 He has to produce male children.
所以 科瑟姆将他锁在一个完全用貂皮做衬里的笼子里 So Kosem locks him in a cage lined entirely with sable.
真是个监狱 Quite the prison.
而且一个他永远不想离开的地方 And one he will never want to leave.
这让他沉溺于王室之中 It debauches him royally.
他相信肉体越丰满 He believes the greater the expanse of flesh,
快感就越强烈 the more intense the pleasure.
所以 科瑟姆寻找性感而巨大的美女 So Kosem seeks out beauties voluptuous and immense,
并把她们带到他的沙发上 and brings them to his couch.
我的命运被这个恋物癖掌控 My fate turns specifically on this fetish.
怎会这样 How's that?
你终究会明白的 You'll see.
穆拉德回来了 Murad is back.
而虽然他以征服者的身份归来 And though he returns a conqueror,
他不能脱下他的鲜血长袍 he cannot shed his robes of blood.
战争确实腐蚀了他的灵魂 War had truly rotted his soul.
我一直等到他一个人的时候 I wait until he is alone.
我决心把他拉回石头那里 I am determined to draw him back to the stone.
我不想打断你 但我确实有个问题 I don't want to interrupt, but I do have a question.
你会在意这样的人 Did it matter to you what kind of wish
许什么样的愿吗 such a man might make?
一个如此贪得无厌的人 One so insatiable.
不会 No.
即使它是极其邪恶的也不会 Not even if it were profoundly evil?
如果那意味着我的自由就不会 Not if it meant my freedom.
事实是他在想别的事 The truth is he has other things on his mind.
他相信他是无敌的 He believes he is invincible,
而要想无限期地统治 他必须摆脱所有对手 and to rule indefinitely, he must be rid of all rivals.
易卜拉辛 Ibrahim.
科瑟姆必须阻止他 Kosem needs to stop him.
无论如何 她需要用其他的满足 Somehow she needed to distract him
来分散他对杀戮欲望的注意力 from his bloodlust with other gratifications.
首先 她设法让他一直处于宿醉之中 First she arranges for him to be perpetually drunk.
而然后她做了件非常精明的事 And then she tries something very shrewd.
你可能会喜欢的东西 Something that you might enjoy.
她派人去找 She sends to find,
从帝国的各个角落 from all corners of the empire,
找最会讲故事的人 the best storytellers.
那些没有说服力的人要嘛在恐惧中逃跑 Those who are not persuasive
要嘛落入他的不耐烦之中 flee in fear or fall to his impatience.
只有一个人 There is only one
有能力迷惑他 who has the ability to enchant him.
用故事来抚慰 To soothe with stories,
让他被故事困住 to hold him hostage to their unfolding.
这是他唯一的朋友 This is his only friend.
而那种友谊变成了爱 And that friendship turns to love.
既然我没别的事可做 Since there is nothing else for me to do,
我感激地听着 I listen gratefully,
因为我 也 喜欢沉浸在他的故事里 for I too love being lost in his stories.
当老人死后 When the old man dies,
王宫里的所有人都逃到街上 all in the palace flee to the streets,
因为他们害怕穆拉德的悲伤会招致新的杀戮 for they fear Murad's grief will incur fresh murder.
但他只是坐着 嚎叫着 并喝着酒直到喝光为止 But he just sits and howls, and drinks until he is empty.
而我的耐心得到了回报 And my patience is rewarded.
因为在这种情况下 For in this state,
我终于能引起他的注意 I am finally able to get his attention
而把他拉回到秘密浴室 and draw him back to the secret bathroom.
哦 我知道这是怎么回事 Oh I know where this is going.
他会太虚弱了 搬不动那块石头 He's going to be too weak to lift the stone.
太虚弱了 连门闩都拧不动 Too weak even to turn the latch.
所以 他离开了 喝着酒永远睡着了 So he leaves and drinks himself to permanent sleep.
噢 Oh!
而我就在那里 And there I am,
留给我自己的遗忘 left to my own oblivion,
没有人能听到我的声音 with no one to hear my voice,
没有人认识我 感觉不到我 意识不到我 no one to know me, nor feel me nor sense me.
你无法想像 You can't imagine.
噢 事实上 我可以 Well actually I can.
你能想像那种孤独吗 Can you imagine the loneliness?
它是如何压倒一切 How it might overwhelm?
我能 I can.
只有当我们对他人真实时 我们才会存在 We exist only if we are real to others.
你同意吗 Do you agree?
我同意 I do.
这 那么 就是我们的命运 艾丽西亚 This then, is our fate Alithea.
如果你一个愿都不许 If you make no wish at all,
我就会被困在两个世界之间 I will be caught between worlds,
在所有的时间里 看不见的 孤独的 invisible and alone, for all of time.
许个愿吧 艾莉西亚 Make a wish Alithea.
让它成为你内心的愿望 Make it your heart's desire.
如果我是你我会更小心 I'd be more careful if I were you.
显然地 你设法找到了出去的路 Obviously you managed to find your way out.
或多或少 More or less.
我开始觉得我面对的是 I'm beginning to think I'm in the presence
一个骗子 of a trickster.
那就好多了 That would be so much better.
我的工作会容易得多 My work would be so much easier.
但事实是 我只是一个白痴 But the truth is, I am just an idiot
一直非常不走运 who has been extravagantly unlucky.
噢 我不得不相信你的话 Well I have to take your word for that.
所以 So?
易卜拉辛 我想 会成为苏丹王 Ibrahim I suppose, becomes Sultan?
易卜拉辛必须被推上王位 Ibrahim has to be dragged to the throne.
他任命他的一个妃子 He appoints one of his concubines
为大马士革的总督 Governor of Damascus.
她的名字叫“糖块” Her name is Sugar Lump.
无论从哪方面来看 都是他的最爱 By every measure his favorite.
如果她不能自由闲晃 Had she not been free to roam,
她就不会发现那个秘密浴室 she would not have found the secret bathroom.
要不是她决定洗个澡 Had she not decided to take a bath,
水就不会溢满了 it would not have overfilled.
如果她不是笨手笨脚地 Had she not been clumsy
当她走过地板 as she walked across the floor,
她不会滑倒 砸碎石头 she would not have slipped, smashed the stone,
并发现我的瓶子 啊 是的 and found my bottle. Ah yeah.
说实话 我应该更有尊严 To be honest I should have been more dignified.
但我开始乞讨 无耻地 But I began to beg shamelessly.
“我希望你滚回” "I wish you were back"
“你的瓶子里沉在博斯普鲁斯海底” "in your bottle at the bottom of the Bosphorus."
所以我在这里 So here I am,
落入你小心翼翼的手中 fallen into your careful hands.
似乎我们无法逃脱彼此 Seems we cannot escape each other.
你让我听命于你 You have me at your mercy.
这个愿望 This wishing...
这是一门危险的艺术 It's a hazardous art.
“我希望”会带来无限的释放 "I wish" brings infinite unravelings.
不一定 Not necessarily.
噢 在你所有的故事里都有 Well it's there in all your own stories.
我知道 但是 I know but...
你说你不是骗子 You say you're not a trickster,
而且你说你和我是这个故事的作者 and you say that you and I are the authors of this story.
但我不能把自己写出来 But I'm not able to write myself out of it.
没错 Correct.
你为什么不回到你的瓶子里去 Why don't you just hop back into your bottle
而我会把它交给更容易上当受骗的人 and I'll give it to someone more gullible?
更绝望的人 更贪婪的人 Someone more desperate. Someone more greedy.
我不要再回到瓶子里了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
为什么不 Why not?
我不要再回到瓶子里了 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
噢 我可不会许三个愿望 Well I am not making three wishes.
那你是在把我送进我的遗忘之地 Then you are sending me to my oblivion.
哦 你真是不可理喻 Oh you're impossible.
而你让我头疼 And you are giving me a headache.
好的 好的 All right. All right.
这就是我要做的 我会许三个愿望 Here's what I'll do. I will make three wishes.
我会的 在你死之前 I will. Before you die?
现在 一个接一个 Right now. One after the other.
准备好的 嗯-嗯 Ready? Mmm-hmm.
第一个 我希望你的头痛消失了 Number one. I wish your headache were gone.
第二个 Number two.
我想喝一口这种茶 I wish for a sip of this tea.
而最后 我希望再来一个这样的 And finally I wish for another one of those.
你在嘲弄我 You mock me.
三个愿望 非常简单 Three wishes perfectly simple,
而且理论上也很安全 and theoretically safe.
我被所罗门囚禁正是 I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
因为我说出了内心的渴望 because I cried out my heart's desire.
只有把你的权利给你我才能获得释放 Only by granting you yours may I earn my release.
是的 噢 我很欣赏你对称的安排 Yes well, I appreciate the symmetry,
但问题是 but the thing is this,
我这辈子连一个合适的愿望都想不出 I cannot for the life of me summon up one eligible wish.
而你却向我要三个 And you're asking me for three.
你身上有生命吗 你甚至还活着吗 Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
你知道 在某些文化中 You know in some cultures,
没有欲望就意味着未开发 absence of desire means enlightenment.
那你就是个虔诚的傻瓜 Then you are a pious fool.
如果我满足了 为什么要去冒险 If I'm content why tempt fate?
而你是个懦夫 And you're a coward.
别刺激我 Don't goad me.
世上没有人类 没有天使 也没有精灵 There is no human, no angel nor djinn
不会抓住机会 that wouldn't grasp at the chance
来满足他们内心深处的渴望 to fulfill their deepest longings,
而我却要承担一个 and I am saddled with the one
自称什么都不想要的人 who claims to want nothing at all.
艾莉西亚·宾尼 你是个骗子 Alithea Binnie you are a liar!
你知道 我开始希望我们从未见过面 You know I am beginning to wish we never met.
不 不 No! Nyet!
别那样说 Don't say that!
所以 So...
你以前也发生过这种事 that's happened to you before.
而且这很糟糕 And it was bad.
太糟糕了 'Twas bad.
太痛苦的 'Twas bitter.
这是最残酷的愿望 'Twas the cruelest wish of all.
你又一次被愚蠢毁了 You were undone by silliness yet again.
我来这里是因为一个天才 I'm here because of a genius.
这次是谁 Who was it this time?
她是泽菲尔 She was Zefir.
人类中很少有这样的奇葩 Rarely among humankind has there been such a wonder.
但你在这里是因为她的愚蠢 But you're here because of her folly.
泽菲尔的事让我陷入了这样的境地 I ended up in this as a consequence of Zefir.
而这就是 And this is the story
你一直回避告诉我的故事 you've been avoiding telling me all along.
这就是甚至连我自己一直避免讲的故事 This is the story I've avoided telling even myself.
泽菲尔是一个弃婴 Zefir was a foundling,
12岁时嫁给了一个富商 married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.
他比她老很多 而且很善良 He was much older than her, and kind,
如果你认为把人像鸟一样关在笼子里算是善良的话 if you think keeping someone like a bird in a cage is kind.
有两个年长的妻子 她们不喜欢她 There were two older wives, who did not like her
而且根本不跟她说话 and did not talk to her at all.
每个人 包括仆人 Everyone, including the servants,
似乎都在嘲笑她 seemed to be mocking her.
她既没有礼仪 也没有学问 She had neither etiquette nor learning.
她长得不是很漂亮 She grew to no great beauty
而且不知道为什么就生气 and was angry without knowing why.
就像命运的安排 我的瓶子来到了她身边 As the fates would have it, my bottle came to her
作为她丈夫的爱的象征 as a love token from her husband.
而当她满足了他 And when she had finished satisfying him
而终于独自一人 and was finally alone,
她设法撬开瓶子 she managed to prise it open.
这就好像她正等着我 It was as if she was waiting for me.
我一眼就看出她很机灵 I saw at once that she was sharp,
而且她看到我非常渴望 and she saw that I was desperate
自由和对话 for freedom and conversation.
我把我的故事告诉了她 就像我告诉你的那样 I told her my story, as I have told you,
而她用自己做的东西向我介绍她自己 and she revealed herself to me by the things she had made.
过来 过来 Gel. Gel.
过来 Gel.
她本可以被人铭记 She could have been remembered
像天才达·芬奇一样 like the genius da Vinci,
他的飞行理论 whose theories on flight
成了苏丹和国王们的话题 were the talk of sultans and kings.
她是一位技艺高超的艺术家 但没人看过她的作品 She was a skilled artist, but no one saw her art.
她告诉我她被 She told me she was eaten up
未曾见过的能量所吞噬 with unused power.
她觉得她可能是个女巫 She thought she might be a witch.
不过 她说 如果她是个男人 Except she said, if she were a man,
她的聪明才智通常会被接受 her intellect would have been ordinarily accepted.
她是一个求知若渴的女人 She was a woman ardent for learning,
而我知道她的第一个愿望是什么 and I knew what her first wish would be.
而我很高兴 And it delighted me
来实现这个愿望 to fulfill this wish.
所以 我教她历史 哲学 So I taught her histories philosophies,
语言 诗歌 languages poetry.
我教她天文学 数学 I taught her astronomy mathematic,
这对她来说是一种福气 which was bliss to her.
我给她带来了书和作品 I brought her books and writings,
我们把它藏在她收集的瓶子里 which we hid in her collection of bottles.
沙巴 Sabah...
她总是可以找到亚里士多德 She could always call on Aristotle
从一个红色的玻璃罐中 from a red glass jar,
或是绿色罐中找到欧几里德 or Euclid from a green,
毕达哥拉斯 斯宾诺莎 Pythagoras Spinoza,
而不需要我重新唤出他们 without needing me to re-embody them.
我们有整个世界都在她的房间里 We had the whole world in her room,
而我却爱上了她 and I lost my heart to her.
让她开心是我的福气 'Twas my bliss to make her happy.
看着她茁壮成长 To see her flourish.
而她在各个方面都茁壮成长 And she flourished in every way.
完全地 Totalmente.
她开始反抗 She began to rebel
甚至反对做爱姿态 even against the gestures of submission
她丈夫所要求的 that her husband required,
因为她已经掌握了做爱的技巧 for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft,
这是任何一个没有 out of reach of any human
和精灵做爱过的人都无法达到的 that had not made love to a djinn.
他对她的渴望成了一种痴迷 His cravings for her became an obsession.
而当他来到她身边时 And when he would come to her,
我会离开她的房间并在天空中旅行 I would leave her room and journey the skies.
我看到了山脉 海洋 I saw the mountains, the oceans...
我看到了森林里的野兽 I saw the beasts of the forest,
那里人烟绝迹 where no man treads.
而当我回来的时候 她会等着我 And when I would return, she would be waiting for me.
我告诉她我的那一天 而她会高兴的晕倒 I would tell her of my day, and she would faint with joy
和失望 and disappointment.
她为什么不许个自由的愿望呢 Why did she not make a wish to be free?
对她来说还有更重要的事 There was something more important to her.
她设计了一种“数学” She had devised a "mathematica,"
一种语言来解释 a language to explain the forces
形成空间 时间和物质的力量 which bring space and time, and matter into being.
她是勇敢的普罗米修斯 She was Promethean brave.
但她无法解开这个谜题 But she could not solve this puzzle.
她需要一把钥匙 She needed a key,
一把打开她感知之门的钥匙 a key to open the doors of her perception.
所以 她使用了她的第二个愿望 So she used her second wish.
我教她像精灵一样做梦 醒着 I taught her to dream as djinn do awake.
而以这种方式 她找到了答案 And this way, the solutions came to her.
她能够解释无形的力量 She was able to explain powers invisible,
电磁场和电力 electromagnetic fields and forces...
精灵就是用这种材料制成的 The very stuff of which djinn are made.
你是电磁的 You're electromagnetic?
因为你是尘土 我是由细微的火构成的 As you are dust, I am made of subtle fire.
而当她要生孩子的时候 And when she was to bear a child,
我被幸福所困扰 I was plagued with happiness,
因为我知道这会增强我们的力量 for I knew it would strengthen us.
她怀了你的孩子 She was carrying your child?
一个烈火与尘土的孩子 A child of fire and dust.
所以 到底哪里出了问题呢 So where did it go wrong?
艾莉西亚 我爱她 Alithea I loved her.
我喜欢她内心的热情 I loved the fervor of her mind.
我喜欢她的愤怒 I loved her anger.
我爱我把她的 I loved my power
皱眉变成微笑的能力 to turn her frowns into smiles.
我爱她胜过爱示巴 I loved her more than Sheba.
比你自己的自由更重要 More than your own freedom?
是的 Yes.
这成了我最大的愿望来 来留下她 It became my greatest desire to...to keep her,
来囚禁她 to remain her prisoner.
一想到要被释放 我就心烦意乱 The thought of being set free sickened my heart.
我不自主地阻止了她 以免她许她的第三个愿 I caught myself stopping her lest she make her third wish.
哦 天哪 Oh gosh.
我把事情搞砸了 I made a mess of it.
她开始指责我陷害她 She began to accuse me of trapping her,
就像她丈夫一样 like her husband.
我试着去弥补 I tried to make amends.
为了赎罪 我会把自己放进瓶子里 To atone I would put myself in the bottle.
将被封存 To be sealed.
那样的话 她就能对我有更大的权力 That way she could have more power over me.
在瓶子里什么都不是 To be nothing in a bottle.
我可以为她这么做 I could do that for her.
而每一次 它都会安抚 And every time, it would appease.
每一次 除了最后一次 Every time except for the last.
当 就像一场突然的狂风 所有雷电交加 When like a sudden squall, all thunder and lightning,
她开始嚎啕大哭 并说 she began to weep and wail, and said,
“我希望我能忘记我曾经见过你” "I wish I could forget I ever met you."
而她做了 就在瞬间 And she did on the instant.
她在外 我在内 She was out. I was in.
她已忘了我 She'd forgotten me.
艾丽西亚 这怎么可能是 Alithea how can it be...
全心全意爱一个人是错误的吗 a mistake to love someone entirely?
我有一个愿望 I have a wish.
然而 我担心这可能要求太高了 However I'm afraid it may be too much to ask.
这在我的能力范围内吗 Is it within my power?
我希望如此 我真的希望如此 I hope so. I do hope so.
这是你内心的愿望吗 Is it your heart's desire?
是的 我很确定 Yeah I'm certain of it.
你看 呃 See erm,
我是来爱你的 I'm here to love you.
而且 呃 And uh,
我希望你爱我作为回报 I wish for you to love me in return.
你想让我们做爱吗 You want us to make love-craft?
是啊 那也是 Yeah that too.
全部 All of it.
而你会沉溺你自己于此吗 And you would abandon yourself to this?
是的 Yes.
我希望我们的孤独合在一起 I want our solitudes to be together.
我想让那份爱在永恒的故事中流露出来 I want that love professed in ageless tales.
我想要你对示巴女王的渴望 I want that longing you felt for the Queen of Sheba,
以及你对天才泽菲尔的爱 and that love you gave to your genius Zefir.
我想要它 I want it.
我 Me?
你 You.
你 You?
我 Me.
是不是太多了 Is it too much?
这是不是要求太多了 Is it all too much to ask?
来吧 Come.
我们该如何面对被唤醒的渴望 What are we to do with longings awoken?
我怎么才能说服你 How can I persuade you
我曾经和一个精灵相爱了 that I once found love with a djinn?
无论如何 很少有人会相信我 In any case, few would believe me.
爱情不是我们凭理性得出的东西 Love is not something we come to by reason.
它更像是一种蒸汽 It's more like a vapor,
一个梦 也许是 a dream perhaps,
来引诱我们进入 to lure us into the enchantment
我们自己的故事的魔力 of our own stories.
如果是这样 If that's so,
我们怎么知道这是不是真的 how are we to know if it's ever real?
这是事实 还是仅仅是一种疯狂 Is it a truth, or simply a madness?
我今天要回伦敦 I leave for London today.
你愿意和我一起回家吗 Will you come home with me?
如今 这不是一个容易混的地方 It's not such an easy place nowadays.
但如果你在那里就更好了 But it'll be better if you're there.
到这边来 请 Over here please.
手举起来 Hands up.
请出来 Please step out.
你口袋里有什么 What is in your pockets?
噢 Oh.
呃 是个空瓶子和盖子 Uh it's an empty bottle and a top.
请将它通过X光检查 Please put it through X-ray.
它非常精致 It is very delicate,
而我不想它被损坏 and I don't want it to get damaged.
它不会被损坏的 请将它通过X光 It will not be damaged. Please put through X-ray.
我不希望它进入 I would prefer that it didn't go in the...
护照 登机证 Passport. Boarding pass.
谢谢你 Thank you.
它非常易碎 It's quite fragile.
夫人 Madam.
这是一个盐瓶 It's a saltshaker.
噢 Oh.
不 不用照X光 拜托 No! No X-ray! Please!
停下 夫人 停下 Stop madam stop.
夫人 Madam.
噢 Oh.
在你自己的时间 In your own time.
这里的空气很浓 The air is thick here.
充满持续的声音和匆忙的面孔 Full of insistent voices and rushing faces.
噢 Oh?
像小爱因斯坦 Like Tiny Einstein?
电视 电话塔等等 Television and phone towers, and such?
是的 Yes.
是的 你所有的巧妙装置 Yes. All your ingenious devices
一下子都在喃喃低语 all murmuring at once.
低下你的头 Bend your head.
你都听到那了吗 You hear all that?
我也看到并感受到了它 I also see it and feel it.
我是一个传输机 I am a transmitter.
这是不是太过分了 Isn't it all too much?
我是个精灵 I am a djinn.
我可以适应 I can adapt.
我很快就会习惯的 I'll soon get used to it.
她回来了 She's back.
我相信她回来了 I believe she's back.
她和别人在一起吗 Is she with someone?
不 我想她又在自言自语了 No I think she's talking to herself again.
你好 克莱门泰 Hello Clementine.
芬妮 你好吗 Fanny. Are you well?
你遇到什么麻烦了吗 Did you have any trouble?
麻烦 什么样的麻烦 Trouble? What kind of trouble?
和你的外国朋友 With your foreign friends.
因为我们经常问自己 Because we often ask ourselves,
“为什么宾尼博士要浪费她的时间和智慧” "Why would Dr. Binnie waste her time and intelligence"
“学习别人的方式 而不是坚持我们自己的方式” "studying the ways of others instead of upholding our own?"
我们为我们的英国文化感到尴尬 是吗 Embarrassed by our British culture are we?
不是 不是 No. No.
我更容易感到尴尬 因为任何人 I am rather more likely to be embarrassed by anybody
反射性地害怕任何不同的人 reflexly frightened of anybody different.
你到底在说什么 What exactly are you saying?
她说我们是偏执狂 She's calling us bigots.
你说的 不是我说的 Your word not mine.
你误解了 You misunderstand.
噢 不是他们看起来的样子 亲爱的 Oh? It's not how they look dear.
这是他们生活的方式 他们所相信的 It's how they live. What they believe.
他们所吃的 你在胡扯些什么 What they eat. What are you on about?
无论走到哪里 都有种族问题 Everywhere one goes ethnics.
我们正在不知所措 我们正在招致我们的厄运 We are being overwhelmed, and we're inviting our doom.
这很不自然 It's not natural.
鸟儿应该飞在空中 鱼属于大海 Birds belong in the air. Fish belong in the sea.
而那就是仁慈的主希望我们成为的样子 And that is how the good Lord meant us to be.
你们从头到尾都在胡言乱语 You're just spouting rubbish from start to finish.
这是科学 这是科学事实 It's science. It's a scientific fact.
这是一个错误的类比 It's a false analogy.
我是说 动物确实有自然栖息地 I mean animals do have a natural habitat.
这是真的 但人类有能力 It's true, but human beings are capable
生活在他们当然选择的任何环境中 of living in any environment they bloody well choose.
那不是事实 That's not a fact.
你在说什么呀 这只是一种观点 What are you saying? It's an opinion.
而且你错了 And you're wrong.
我再也不能忍受这种事了 I'm not putting up with any more of this.
来吧 克莱姆 别管那个疯女人了 Come away Clem. Let the crazy lady be.
我们永远不会从她那里得到任何理智 We're never gonna get any sense out of her.
你知道 我以前从来没跟你说过这个 You know I've never said this to you before.
但你们两个都很可怜 But you're both pitiful.
闭上你的臭嘴 Shut your cakehole!
脑残而且可怜 Pea-brained and pitiful.
你 他妈的 You fuckface!
你的常春藤不准再长过我们的墙 Stop your ivy growing on our side of the wall!
为什么我要让他们影响我 Why do I let them get to me?
我应该为他们感到可惜 I should feel sorry for them.
但这是我的家 这是我的避难所 But this is my home. It's my sanctuary.
我可以希望他们 I could wish them...
顺便说一句 那不是一个愿望 That's not a wish by the way.
我知道 I know.
我的精灵 My Djinn.
你今天过得怎么样 How was your day?
每一个倾听的耳朵都是你的 Every listening ear was yours.
每一个声音 每一种气味 以及触摸 Every voice every scent, and touch.
你无处不在 You were everywhere.
马上回来 Back in a minute.
这个时候会是谁呢 Whoever could that be at this hour?
可能是她 It could be her.
克雷姆 芬妮 Clem. Fanny.
鹰嘴豆 丁香 开心果 Chickpeas cloves pistachio.
它们会在你嘴里融化 They melt in your mouth.
这是我的朋友 This is my friend.
他将要待一段时间 He'll be staying for a while.
你好 Hello.
你好 你好 Hello. Hello.
我的精灵告诉我 My Djinn told me,
当他们在精灵王国相遇时 when they come together in the Realm of Djinn,
他们会跟彼此讲故事 they tell each other stories.
故事对他们来说就像呼吸一样 Stories are like breath to them.
他们创造了意义 They make meaning.
“是的”我说 "Yes " I said.
“我们就是这样” "That's just how it is with us."
我们讲述的每个故事 Each story we tell is a fragment
都是无尽变形马赛克中的一个片段 in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.
而这块小鹅卵石 就像所有的故事一样 必须结束 And this small pebble, like all stories must end.
如果是关于许愿的 那就是一个警世故事 If it's about wishing, it's a cautionary tale.
所以 它怎么会出错呢 So how will it go wrong?
也许 它已经错了 Perhaps it already has.
即使真理赤身裸体地站在他们面前 Even though Truth stood before them naked,
他们转过他们的身去 they turned their backs.
所以 真理走到一边并在阴影中等待 So Truth moved to the side and waited in the shadows.
接下来的日子里 In the days that followed,
精灵会陪着叙事家去做她的工作 the Djinn would accompany the narratologist to her work.
而当他不和她在一起的时候 And when he wasn't with her,
他会热切地探索这个世界 he would go in eager exploration of the world.
今天我度过了如此美妙的一天 Today I had such a marvelous day.
我看到了很多东西 I saw many things.
我看到一个人在观察另一个人的大脑时 I watched a human look into the living brain of another
并止住了致命的出血 and arrest a fatal bleeding.
我参观了分子对撞器 I visited the Collider.
一个探索物质原子的巨大装置 A vast gizmo which probed the essence of matter.
而然后我看到了一个盘子 一个巨大的盘子 And then I saw a dish, a great dish
它倾听着早已死去的星星的低语 that listens to the whispers of stars long dead.
人类是 Humankind is...
是个奇迹 艾丽西亚 is a wonder Alithea.
我很高兴你这么想 I'm happy you think so.
从我被困在泽菲尔的瓶子里开始 All of this since I was trapped in Zefir's bottle.
在不到200年的时间里 所有这些令人震惊的事情 All these astonishments, in less than 200 years.
是的 但是 我是说 Yes but I mean,
那只是工程和技术 that's just engineering and technology.
尽管有那么多惊天动地的事情 Despite all the whiz-bang,
我们仍然感到困惑 we remain bewildered.
当我们无法控制混乱的时候 When we can't contain the chaos,
我们就会充满恐惧和恐慌 we are filled with dread and panic,
而我们就会相互攻击 and we turn on each other.
但当然 你是人类 But of course you are human.
那是你的本性 That is your nature.
是的 所以 故事永远不会改变 Yeah. So the story never changes.
仇恨盛行 Hate prevails.
它会转移而且比爱更长久 It metastasizes and outlives love.
我只想谈谈爱 I just want to talk about love.
你们所有人 真是一团乱 Such a mess of contradictions all of you.
非常感谢 Thank you very much.
人类 真是个难题 Humankind what a conundrum.
你在黑暗中摸索 You fumble around in the dark,
然而 你把你的智慧发挥了很大的效用 and yet you herd your intelligence to great effect.
这是一个很有意思的故事 It is quite a story.
等不及要看它会怎么发展 Cannot wait to see where it goes.
或者它会如何结束 Or how it might end.
那也是 That too.
凡人永远不会知道 但精灵可能知道 A mortal will never know, but a djinn might.
精灵拥有世界上所有的时间 A djinn has all the time in the world.
你不是那个幸运的人吗 Aren't you the lucky one?
也许吧 Maybe.
但你们这些尘埃生物已经 But you creatures of dust have...
已经超越了 have managed to eclipse
精灵和天使的力量和目的 the power and purpose of djinn and angel.
你对我们没有任何用处 You have no use for us.
也许 我们会枯萎然后 Perhaps we will wither and...
然后消失 是的 And fade away? Yes.
是的 噢 这曾经是 Yeah. Well that used to be the subject
我所有讲座和论文的主题 of all my lectures and papers.
我知道 I know.
然而 你却在这里 And yet here you are.
我的无可救药 My impossible.
是的 Yes.
哈罗 Hello?
我回来了 I'm home!
哈罗 Hello?
精灵 Djinn?
我的爱 My love?
精灵 Djinn.
这是什么 What's this?
你能听到我说话吗 Can you hear me?
精灵 跟我说话 Djinn speak to me.
试着跟我说话 Try to speak to me.
我希望你跟我说话 I wish you to speak to me.
噢 Oh...
我正在睡觉 I was sleeping.
睡觉 Sleeping.
精灵不要睡觉 Djinn don't sleep.
让我们去散步吧 Let's go for a walk.
一个长的 令人振奋的步行 A long bracing walk.
我为我们准备了一些东西 I have prepared something for us.
我都计划好了 I have it all planned.
对我们来说这是一个美妙的夜晚 A wonderous night for us.
这将是令人惊叹的 It will be amazing.
我们生命中最美好的时光 等一下 The best time of our lives. Stop!
这些电磁场 我可以把它们从我的头上推走 These electromagnetic fields, I can push them from my head.
我可以把它们推开 I can push them away.
我们要去野餐 We'll go for a picnic.
啊 我们要演奏乌克丽丽 Ah we'll play the ukulele.
艾丽西亚 这里有我的位置 Alithea there is a place for me here.
这些力量 These forces,
它门永远不会消失 不会从这个世界上消失 they will never go away, not from this world.
我会克服它们的 我可以帮你做到这一点 I will overcome them. I can do that for you.
你是我的艾莉西亚 而且我爱你 You are my Alithea, and I love you.
谢谢你 谢谢你 谢谢你的努力 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for trying.
你以为我不爱你吗 You don't think that I love you?
爱是一份礼物 Love is a gift.
这是自己免费赠送的礼物 It's a gift of oneself given freely.
这不是一个人能要求得到的 It's not something one can ever ask for.
我把我俩都骗了 I tricked us both.
我说出那个愿望的那一刻 The moment I spoke that wish,
我就剥夺了你实现它的能力 I took away your power to grant it.
我 比任何人都更应该知道这一点 I more than anybody, I should've known that.
我不会再把这搞砸了 I'm not going to screw this up again.
我的精灵 如果这个世界不适合你 My Djinn if this world is not for you,
我希望你回到属于你的地方 I wish that you return to where you belong.
不管它在哪里 Wherever that may be.
妈妈 Mommy!
过来这里 小猴子 Come here little monkey.
那不是妈妈 That's not Mommy.
嘿 嘿 嘿 啊 不 Hey hey hey! Ah no!
看 联盟第一前锋 Watch it. Top striker in the league.
你看到了吗 Did you see that?
他会时不时地来拜访 He would visit from time to time,
而且他们会抓住每一个生动的时刻 and they would grasp each vivid moment.
尽管喧闹的天空令人痛苦 Despite the pain of the raucous skies,
他总是待得比他应该待的时间长 he always stayed longer than he should,
在她恳求他离开很久以后 long after she begged him to leave.
他答应在她有生之年回来 He promised to return in her lifetime,
而对她来说 这已经足够了 and for her, that was more than enough.