所以你是在动物园里长大的吗 So, you were raised in a zoo?
生我养我的地方...是本地治里 Born and raised...in Pondicherry,
那里曾是法国殖民地 in what was the French part of India.
我父亲曾买下一座动物园 My father owned the zoo.
给我接生的是名爬虫学者 当时情况紧急 And I was delivered on short notice by a herpetologist,
他当时是来检查孟加拉蜥蜴的 who was there to check on the Bengal monitor lizard.
我们母子二人都很健康 Mother and I were both healthy,
但那只蜥蜴却溜了 but the poor lizard escaped,
结果某个体型巨大的物种把它给踩扁了 and was trampled by a frightening category.
这是因果报应吧 The way of Karma, huh?
也是神的意志 The way of God.
这故事挺不错的 That's quite a story.
光看你名字 I'd assumed your father
我以为你父亲是位数学家 was a mathematician, because of your name.
差不多吧 我的名字取源于游泳池 Not far from it, I was named after a swimming pool.
有叫"Pi"的游泳池吗 There was a pool named "Pi"?
话说我叔叔Francis You see, my uncle Francis
刚出生时肺积水很严重 was born with too much water in his lungs.
听人说医生抓住他脚踝 They say the doctor swung Francis
倒过来晃来晃去 才把水给清干净 around by the ankle, to clear the water out.
也因为这样 And that's what gives him
他才四肢纤细却有着硕大的胸肌 his huge chest and skinny legs,
他靠着身材成了游泳健将 that made him such a great swimmer.
Francis是你亲叔叔吗 Is Francis actually your uncle,
他说自己只是你父亲的朋友罢了 he said he was friend with your father?
我们亲如叔侄 我叫他"Mamaji" Well, he's my "Honorary" Uncle. I call him "Mamaji".
他是我父亲的挚友 也是我的游泳导师 My father's best friend, my swimming guru.
在阿什顿 他教我游泳 每周三次 I trained with him three times a week at the Ashton.
他的谆谆教导最后救了我一命 His lessons would save my life in the end.
呛口水不会让你沉入海底 A mouthful of water will not harden you.
但惊慌就会 But panic will.
记得现在先呼吸 别憋着 And remember to breath now, don't hold your breath.
好孩子 Good boy.
我吃素食 你不介意吧 I hope you don't mind vegetarian.
一点也没关系 No, no. Not at all.
-那名字的事呢 -啥 - And your name? - Uh?
你刚打算告诉我自己名字的由来 You were going to tell me how you got your name, I think.
对了 Oh yes!
我这名字是Mamaji跟我父亲说起的 I got it from something Mamaji once told my father.
旅客一般喜欢收集明信片 You see, most travelers collect postcards
茶杯 珠宝之类的东西 or tea cups and their jewelries,
但Mamaji不同 but not Mamaji.
他喜欢收集游泳池 Mamaji collects swimming pools.
每到一处 他就去当地的游泳池 He swims in every pool he comes upon.
有一天 Mamaji对我父亲说 One day, Mamaji said to my father,
放眼各地的游泳池 that of all the pools in the world,
当属巴黎的公共游泳池最美 the most beautiful was a public pool in Paris.
那里的水清澈至极 That the water there was so clear,
你甚至可以拿里面的水煮早咖啡 you could make your morning coffee with it.
就是这次游泳改变了他一生 That a single swim there changed his life.
我出生之前 他说道: Before I was born, he said:
"要想让你儿子有颗纯洁的心灵 "If you want your son to have a clean soul,
以后必须带她去"Piscine Molitor"游次泳 you must take him one day to swim in the "Piscine Molitor".
我一直没搞懂父亲为何对这句话如此上心 I never understood why my father took this so much too heart.
但事实如此 But he did.
所以我就取名为"Piscine Molitor Patel" And I was named "Piscine Molitor Patel".
你想想 光解释名字就够累的 Imagine me trying to explain that name.
好不容易熬到11岁 I barely made it to the age of eleven.
那时... before...
"Pissing" Hey, "Pissing"!
你在小便吗 Are you pissing right now?
瞧 他在小便呢 Look at him, he is pissing.
就因为这一个词 With one word,
我的名字从优雅的法国游泳池名 my name went from an elegant French swimming pool
沦为了肮脏的印度公厕 to a stinking Indian latrine.
我到那儿都成了"小便" I was "Pissing" Everywhere.
操场里不准随地小便 No pissing in the schoolyard!
就连老师也这么开我玩笑 Even the teacher started doing it.
当然 他不是故意的 Not deliberately, of course.
那么... So then...
是什么让壶里的气体快速蒸发呢 What made the kettle to release gas too quickly?
小便 Pissing?
听啊 老师也叫他小便 He said pissing, guys.
小便 Pissing!
够了 That's enough!
等到明年开学第一天 When we returned the next year for our first day of school,
我早有准备 I was prepared.
到 Present, sir!
Piscine Patel Piscine Patel.
早上好 Good Morning.
我名叫Piscine Molitor Patel I am Piscine Molitor Patel.
大家都叫我 Know to all as:
"Pi" "Pi"
是希腊字母表的第16个字母 The sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
也在数学领域用来表示 Which is also used in mathematics to represent
圆周与直径之比 the ratio of any circle circcomference to its diameter.
也是个无限不循环小数 An irrational number of infinite length,
常取小数点后两位 usually rounded to three digits,
记为3.14 as 3.14,
"Pi" Pi.
很让人眼前一亮...派 Very impressive... Pi.
回座吧 Now sit down.
-Arvelu Sami -到 - Arvelu Sami? - Present.
之后你就成了"Pi"吗 And from then on, you were Pi?
也不尽然 Well no, not quite.
得了吧 小便 Nice try, Pissing.
但我还有一整天时间 But I still had the whole day ahead of me.
接着是法语课 French class was next.
我叫Piscine Molitor Patel Je m'appelle Piscine Molitor Patel.
"派" Pi.
接着是地理课 Then geography.
这是"派"的前20位小数点 These are the first twenty decimal places of Pi.
最后一堂课是数学 My last class of the day was mathematics.
4... 4...
3... 3...
7... 7...
5... 5...
8... 8...
5... 5...
8... 8...
5... 5...
8... 8...
没错 他真背出来了 It's right! He's really doing this!
等放学的时候 By the end of that day,
我就成了学校的传奇人物"Pi Patel" I was "Pi Patel", school legend.
Mamaji跟我说你有段传奇的海上经历 是吗 Mamaji tells me you're a legend among sailors, do you?
在海上 只身一人 Out there, all alone.
我都不懂何为航海 Oh, I don't even know how to sail.
再说我也不是一个人 还有Richard Parker And I wasn't alone out there, Richard Parker was with me.
Richard Parker Richard Parker?
Mamaji没跟我细说 Mamaji, he didn't tell me everything,
只说等我回蒙特利尔的时候来找你 he just said I should look you up when I got back to Montreal.
那你在本地治里的时候都干些什么呢 So what were you doing in Pondicherry?
写小说 Writing a novel.
顺带一提 我很喜欢你第一部小说 By the way, I enjoyed your first book.
新书打算以印度为背景吗 So this new one is set in India?
其实是葡萄牙 No, Portugal actually.
只不过印度生活开销更便宜 But it's cheaper living in India.
好吧 我很期待你的新书 Well, I look forward to reading it.
等不到了 You can't.
我放弃了 I threw it out.
我花了两年世界构思小说 Two years I was trying to bring these things to life,
结果有天...Spattered Caughin去世了 and they one day... Spattered Caughin died.
节哀顺变 Oh, I'm sorry.
接着某天下午 So I was sitting
我坐在本地治里的咖啡屋 in this coffee house in Pondicherry
悼念老板去世 one afternoon mourning my boss,
就在那时 when this
一位旁桌的老伙计跟我攀谈起来 old man at the table next to me, struck up a conversation.
Mamaji就喜欢这么做 Yeah, Mamaji he does that.
等我说起放弃的写书计划 他说道: When I told him my abandoned book, he said:
"原来是加拿大人 一起去法属印度吧 "So, a Canadian. Let's come to French India,
到那里搜集故事 and seach for a story.
伙计 我认识个朋友在法属加拿大 Well, my friend, i know an Indian
还是个印度人 in French Canada,
他有故事素材 听了一定难以置信 with the most incredible story to tell.
肯定是命运让你们俩相遇的 It must be fate that the two of you should meet.
我已经好多年没说起过Richard Parker的事了 Well I haven't spoken about Richard Parker in so many years.
Mamaji都跟你说些什么呢 So what has Mamaji already told you?
他说听了你的故事 就会相信神的存在 He said you had a story that would make me believe in God.
他怎么没说还有一桌好菜 He would say that about a nice meal.
至于神的存在 我只负责讲故事 As for God, I can only tell you my story.
信不信由你自己决定 You'll decide for yourself what you believe.
可以 Fair enough.
那么 从哪儿说起呢 Let's see then. Where to begin?
本地治里... Pondicherry...
当时为法属印度 is the French Bureau of India.
因为这地方离海最近 In this place, closest to the ocean,
若置身其中 你会误以为身处法国南部 you might think you are in the south of France.
几个街区后有条运河 A few blocks inland, there's a canal.
过了运河 就是本地治里 Just beyond that, is Indian Pondicherry.
往西就是穆斯林地区 And the Muslim quarter is just to the west.
1954年法国归还了本地治里 When the French handed Pondicherry back to us in 1954,
小镇决定按计划举行庆典 the town decided that some sort of commemoration was in order.
我父亲很有商业头脑 My father was a clever businessman.
他突发灵感 He came up with one.
本来经营旅馆 He ran a hotel,
但还是决定 and he got the idea to
在当地的植物园里开家动物园 open a zoo in the local botanical gardens instead.
真是无巧不成书 As it also happened,
我母亲当时是植物园里的植物学家 my mother was a botanist in the gardens.
他们在那里相识 结为连理 They met, married, and a year later,
一年后 我哥哥Ravi出生了 my brother Ravi was born.
两年后我出生了 I came two years after that.
听起来真不可思议 生长在... Sounds magical. Growing up in...
阿门 Amen.
好了 可以开吃了 Yeah, let's eat.
没想到印度教徒会说阿门 I did not know Hindus said Amen.
天主教派的印度教徒才会这样 Catholics Hindus do
还有天主教派的印度教徒吗 Catholic Hindus?
我们不只信奉一个神 We get to feel guilty before hundreds of gods,
还有成百上千的神 instead of just one.
但你一开始是印度教徒吧 But you're a Hindu first.
我们都是经由教派引荐接近神的 None of us knows God until someone introduces us.
刚开始引荐我的是印度教 I was first introduced to God as a Hindu.
印度教中三千三百万个神 There are 33 million gods in the Hindu regilion.
对所有神 我怎会不略知一二呢 How can I not come to know a few of them?
Krishna 婆罗门教-印度教最重要的神祇之一
我先认识Krishna I met Krishna, first.
Yashoda Krishna的母亲
Yashoda曾责备年幼的克利须那神吃尘土
"你怎么如此调皮 不该吃泥土"
"但他没有吃"
Krishna是这么说的
"我没有吃泥土"
Yashoda说:"没有吗 既然这样..."
"把嘴张开"
于是克利须那把嘴张开
你猜Yashoda看到了什么
看到什么呢
她看到Krishna的嘴里蕴含着整个宇宙
神成了我的英雄 形象不断壮大 The gods were my superheroes, growing up.
神猴Hanuman Hanuman, the monkey god,
抬起整座山 只为拯救自己的朋友 lifting an entire mountain to save his friend, Laksh woman.
Ganesh 万象之首 Ganesh, the elephant headed,
甘冒风险为自己的母亲Parvati辩护 risking his life to defend the honor of his mother, Parvati.
至高之灵Vishnu Vishnu, the supreme soul,
乃是万物之源 the source of all things.
传说Vishnu入睡 漂浮于无边的浩瀚宇宙 Vishnu sleeps, floating on the shoreless cosmic ocean,
我们不过是他梦境的产物 and we are the stuff of his dreaming.
真是奇观 Spectacle.
别被这些故事和谎言给忽悠了 孩子们 Don't let the stories and pretty lies fool you, boys.
宗教深不见底 Religion is darkness.
我敬爱的父亲认为自己算是个新印度人 My dear Apa believed himself part of the new India.
他小时候得过小儿麻痹症 As a child, he'd had polio.
他曾躺在床上疼痛难忍 He used to lie in bed wracked with pain,
想知道神这时在哪里 wondering where God was.
最终 神没能救他 In the end, God didn't save him.
救他的是西方医学 Western medecine did.
我母亲读过大学 My Amma went to college
也觉得我们算是新印度人 and thought our familly was part of the new India as well,
但她和自己的父母断绝了往来 But then her parents cut her off,
因为他们觉得自己女儿嫁给了Benito because they thought she was marrying Benito.
宗教是她与过去的唯一联系 Our religion was the only link she had to her past.
我是在山上遇见基督的 当时12岁 I met Christ in the mountains when I was 12.
当时去亲戚 住在Monar的Pigroes一家 We were visiting relatives, Pigroes in Monar.
到那的第三天 Ravi和我无聊至极 It was a third there, Ravi and I were terribly bored.
跟你赌两卢比 Challenge. I give you two rupees.
你敢不敢跑进那座教堂偷喝圣水 Run into that church, and drink the holy water.
想必是渴了吧 You must be thirsty.
给 Here.
我给你带了杯水 I brought you this.
神为何这样做 Why would a God do that?
神为何把自己的儿子下放人间 Why would he send his own son
为凡人遭罪受呢 to suffer for the sins of ordinary people?
因为神爱世人 Because he loves us.
神通过耶稣接近我们 即世人 God made himself approachable to us -- human,
这样我们才能理解神 so we could understand him.
我们无法了解神以及神的完美 We can't understand God nor his perfection.
但我们可以理解神的孩子 But we can understand God son,
了解他的苦难 就如手足一般 and his suffering, as we would of brothers.
这说不通啊 That made no sense!
让无辜者牺牲 以此救赎罪人 Sacrificing the innocent, to atone for the sins of the guilty,
这算哪门子爱 what kind of love is that?
但圣子的说法 一直萦绕在我心里 But this son, I couldn't get him out of my head.
如果我们不完美 而神却如此完美 If God is so perfect, and we are not,
神又为何要创造这一切呢 why would he want to create all this?
神又为何需要我们存在呢 Why does he need us at all?
你只需知道神爱世人 All you have to know is that he loves us.
正是神挚爱这世界 才会牺牲自己的孩子 God so loved his world that he gave his only son.
听牧师说得越多 The longer I listened to the priest,
我就开始越发喜欢神的孩子 the more I came to like the son of God.
谢谢你Vishnu 是你让我认识了基督 Thank you Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ.
我通过印度教产生信仰 I came to faith through Hinduism,
又通过基督教发现了神对世人的爱 and I found God's love through Christ.
但神与我之间的故事还未完结 But God wasn't finished with me yet.
神的显现变幻莫测 God works in mysterious ways.
也因此他又以不同的身份出现在我面前 And so it was he introduced him to me again,
这次是以真主教现身 this time by the name of Allah.
我阿拉伯语一直不太好 My Arabic was never very good.
但阿拉伯语的音调使我与神更接近 But the sound and feel of the words brought me closer to God.
在做礼拜时 我触碰的地面成了圣地 In performing "Salah", the ground I touched became holly ground,
从中感受到一丝宁静与手足之情 and I found a feeling of serenity and brotherhood.
这羊肉真是棒极了 This lamb is exquisite.
可谓餐桌上的最佳美味 It's the best dish on the table.
你不吃就错过了 You're all missing out.
Piscine 你要是再信奉三个教 You only need to convert to three more religions, Piscine,
那你这辈子都能放假了 and you'll spend your life on holiday.
Mecca 伊斯兰教的第一圣地
耶稣大人 你今年要去Mecca吗 Are you going to Mecca this year, Swami Jesus?
还是打算去罗马加冕当教皇啊 Or to Rome for your coronation as Popeius?
别犯傻了 Yourself, don't be silly.
就像你喜欢板球 派也有自己的兴趣 Just like you like cricket, Pi has his own interest.
知道吗 Gita Ravi说得在理 No, Gita. Ravi has a point, you know?
Piscine 你不能同时信奉三种不同的宗教 You cannot follow three different religions at the same time, Piscine.
为什么不行 Why not?
因为 什么都相信 Because believing in everything at the same time
就跟什么都不信一样 is the same as not believing in anything at all.
Santosh 他还小 还在摸索中 He's young, Santosh. He's still finding his way.
但他如果没有选定道路 And how can he find his way,
又怎能摸索出路呢 if he does not choose a path?
听着 与其接连信奉不同宗教 Listen, instead of leaping from one region to the next,
为何不选择信奉理性 why not start with reason?
不到百年的时间 In few hundred years,
利用科学了解宇宙的进度 science has taken us farther in undertanding the universe,
远比利用宗教了解的程度更深入 than the regilon has in ten thousand.
这话在理 That is true.
你父亲说得没错 Your father is right.
科技更能教导我们发现外在的事物 Science can teach us more about what is out there,
而非内在心灵 but not what is in here.
确实 有人吃肉 也有人吃素 Yeah. Some eat meat, some eat vegetable,
我不奢望大家什么都意见一致 I do not expect us to all to agree about everything,
但我宁愿 but I would much prefer
你信奉的东西我不同意 they'll have you believe in something I don't agree with,
也不愿意你盲目信奉一切 than to accept everything blindly.
这就需要你从理性思考开始 And that begins with thinking rationally.
你听懂了吗 You understand?
好的 Good.
我想受洗 I would like to be baptised.
那么... So...
你既是基督教徒 又是穆斯林教徒 you're a Christian, and a Muslim.
还是个印度教徒 And an Hindu, of course.
估计还是犹太教徒 And a Jew, I suppose.
我在大学里也教授犹太哲学 Well I do teach the course on the Kabala at the University.
为什么不行呢 And why not?
信仰就像栋房子 里面有许多房间 Faith is a house with many rooms.
但没有怀疑的房间吗 But no room for doubt?
多的是 每层楼都有 Oh, plenty. On every floor.
怀疑很有用 Doubt is useful.
怀疑使得信仰充满生机 It keeps Faith a living thing.
毕竟只有经过考验 After all, you cannot know
才能明确自己的信仰是否足够坚定 the strength of your faith until it has been tested.
Sothom人呢 他不在我们不该进来的 Where's Sothom? We shouldn't be in here without him.
别担心 Stop worrying.
我都看过他们这样做好几百次了 I have seen him do this a thousand times.
我想见见新来的老虎 I want to meet our new tiger.
派 Pi!
Richard Parker 你在吗 Hello? Richard Parker?
老虎吗 Tiger?
Richard Parker是只老虎吗 Richard Parker was a tigre?
是啊 这名字的由来纯属笔误 Yeah, he got this name through a clerical error.
是名猎人趁它在河边饮水时捕获的 A hunter caught him drinking from a stream
当时还是个幼崽 when he was a cub,
取名"Thirsty" and named him "Thirsty".
等"Thirsty"长大了 When Thirsty got too big,
猎人就把它卖给了动物园 the hunter sold him to our zoo,
但在笔记时阴差阳错 but the name got switched on the paperwork.
猎人成了"Thirsty" The hunter was listed as Thirsty,
而老虎成了Richard Parker and the tiger was called Richard Parker.
大家都为这事大笑 We laughed about it.
名字就这样沿用下了 And the name stuck!
走吧... Let's go...
别等到时惹麻烦 Before we get into trouble!
我想好好瞧瞧他 I want to see him closer.
你又不是在逛动物园 You're not the zoo people!
走吧 Come on!
Richard Parker 就像这样 That's it Richard Parker.
这是给你吃的 It's for you.
住手 No!
你脑子怎么想的 What are you thinking?
你疯了吗 Are you out of your mind?
谁允许你回来的 Who gave you the permission to come back here?
你忘了我以前跟你说的话了吗 You just ignored everything I've ever taught you?
我...我只想跟它打声招呼 I-I just wanted to say Hello to him.
你以为那头狮子是你朋友吗 You think that tiger is your friend. �