阮莳。 Phuong.
你知道他在哪儿吗? Do you know where he is?
他让我在这里等着。 He told me to wait here.
他会在和你吃完晚饭后见我。 He would meet me after he had dinner with you.
是的，他应该说的，但他没有。 Yes, he was supposed to, but he didn't.
也许他还在美国公使馆。 Perhaps he's still at the American legation.
我去过公使馆。没有人在那里。 I have been to the legation. No one is there.
那么多最后的事情要做。 Well, so many last minute things to do.
我知道你们很快就要去美国了。 I understand you're both leaving for America very soon.
他不会再呆太久了。 Well, he can't be much longer.
上楼来等着。 Come upstairs and wait.
我可以在这里等。 I can wait here.
这没什么不合适的。 There's nothing improper about it.
我相信他会同意的。 I'm sure he would approve.
我在这里等。 I will wait here.
当然，他也有可能在河边看着美军的补给卸货。 Of course, there's always the chance that he might be at the river front watching the American supplies unload.
也许。 Perhaps.
有些可能是他的。 Well, some of them might be his.
现在他要回家了，他会想确保它们落入正确的人手中。 Now he's going home, he'll want to make sure that they fall into the right hands.
-你怎么跟他们说的?-我将在哪里。 - What did you tell them? - Where I shall be.
如果他在我不在的时候回来。 If he should return while I'm gone.
你们在叽叽喳喳地笑什么? What's all the chatter and giggling about?
他们以为我回到你身边了。 They think I have come back to you.
-福勒先生?-我是福勒。 - Mr. Fowler? - I'm Fowler.
我的眼睛不再年轻。你能帮我认出她吗? My eyes are no longer young. Can you identify her for me?
我的不比你的年轻。 Mine are no younger than yours.
你知道是谁。他们不让她和我一起进去。 You know who it is. They wouldn't let her come in with me.
有些人抱怨被关在里面，有些人抗议被关在外面。 There are those who complain about being kept in, and those who protest at being kept out.
在寻求正义的过程中，一个人会因为不受欢迎而变得沮丧。 In the search for justice, one becomes depressed at the unpopularity of the pursuant.
你不可能在凌晨一点把我带到这里来缓解你的抑郁。 You can't have brought me here at 1:00 in the morning to ease your depression.
你今晚和她在一起多久了? How long have you been with her tonight?
我刚才在我的公寓外面发现了她。 I found her outside my flat a short time ago.
-她在等人。——谁? - She was waiting for someone. - Who?
你为什么不问问她? Why don't you ask her?
在那之前她去过哪里? Where had she been before that?
我只准备回答关于我自己的问题。 I'm prepared to answer questions only about myself.
我不是线人。 I'm not an informant.
6点的时候，你在大陆酒店喝了一杯。服务员记得。 Uh, at 6:00, you had a drink at the Continental. The waiters remember.
七点半，你和同事一起散步。 At 7:30, you walked with a colleague.
《纽约时报》的记者，显然是个品格高尚的人，去了雄伟酒店。他回忆说。 The correspondent of The New York Times, obviously a man of high character, to the Majestic Hotel. He remembers.
然后你雇了个假律师。司机记得。 Then you hired a cyclo-pousse. The driver remembers.
8点20分左右到达老磨坊餐厅。 And arrived at the Vieux Moulin restaurant about 8:20.
你一个人吃了晚饭，十点差一刻离开的。 You had dinner by yourself, you left about a quarter to 10:00.
几位老太太记得你大约10点到家。 Several old ladies remember that you arrived at your home about 10:00.
而且你直到不久前才出来。 And that you did not come out until after a short time ago.
维高，太晚了，我也累得玩猜字游戏了。 Vigot, it's far too late and I'm much too weary to play at charades.
你想要什么? What do you want?
可以。 Entrez.
谢谢。 Merci.
糖吗? Sugar?
不。 No.
在餐厅里，你对服务员迟迟不给你结账感到不耐烦。 At the restaurant, you were impatient about the, uh, waiter's slowness in bringing the bill.
是的，我在我的公寓有一个10点的约会。 Yes, I had a 10:00 appointment at my flat.
与谁? With whom?
这应该不关你的事。 That should be none of your business.
媒体的神圣。 Sanctity of the press.
当然了。你可以收回我的身份证，不让我参加新闻发布会。 Well, of course. You could withdraw my card of identity and bar me from news conferences.
国家处于战争状态，要维持法制是不容易的，你知道。 The country at war, it is not easy to maintain legality, you know.
我尽我所能。 I do my best.
10点的时候，我在我的公寓等一个年轻的美国人。 Well, at 10:00, I was expecting a young American at my flat.
他在下午晚些时候发了一条信息。 He'd sent a message late in the afternoon.
他有重要的事要见我。 He wants to see me about something important.
你知道是什么吗? Have you any idea what?
对这个年轻的美国人来说，一切都很重要，但他没有出现。 Everything is important to this young American but he didn't show up.
你在公寓外发现她的时候，她正在等…还是那个年轻的美国人? And, uh, when you found her outside your flat, she was waiting for the... The same young American?
她很担心他。 She's worried about him.
人们听说他们是，怎么说呢，甜心，他们要结婚了，这是真的吗? Is it true what one hears that they were, how do you say, sweethearts, and they were going to be married?
据我所知，他们要结婚了。 They are going to be married as far as I know.
是的。 Yes.
然而，就在不到一个月前，请原谅一个警察的失礼，这位年轻女士同样对你忠心耿耿于怀。 Yet, up to no more than a month ago, forgive the indelicacy of a policeman, the same young lady was equally devoted to you.
我必须强调，这不关你的事。 That, I must insist, is none of your business.
两年多来，直到一个月前，这位年轻女士和你之间的深厚感情是众所周知的。 For more than two years, up to a month ago, the deep mutual devotion of this young lady and you was very well known.
福勒先生，你对那个美国年轻人了解多少? Mr. Fowler, what do you know about the young American?
现在请回答我的问题。相信我，这是很严重的。 Now please answer my questions. Believe me, it is serious.
你知道的和我一样多。可能更多。 You know as much as I do. Probably more.
国籍,美国人。年龄,年轻。 Nationality, American. Age, young.
很年轻。 Very young.
职业，我从来没搞清楚它是什么。 Occupation, I've never clearly understood what it is.
其中一个美国组织，似乎有数百个这样的组织，在世界各地伸出援助之手，传递希望。 One of those American groups, there seem to be hundreds of them, that stretch helping hands around the world, holding out packages of hope.
他的名字我想不起来了。 The name of his escapes me.
自由亚洲之友。 Friends for Free Asia.
哦，很有可能。 Oh, very likely.
他真的相信了。 And he believed it literally.
他以友谊为职业，就像从事法律或医学一样。 He'd work at the profession of friendship as if it were law or medicine.
那么他是个友好的年轻人了? He was a friendly young man, then?
不是大陆酒吧里那些吵吵嚷嚷的小伙子。 Not one of those noisy, bellowing lads at the Continental bar.
一个安静的美国人。 A quiet American.
非常安静。 Very quiet.
Un AmÃ©rican bien tranquille。 Un AmÃ©rican bien tranquille.
他是怎么死的? How did he die?
你凭什么认为他死了? What makes you think he's dead?
一个愚蠢的警察的问题，维戈。 A foolish policeman's question, Vigot.
首先，你刚才用的是过去时。 For one thing, you just spoke of him in the past tense.
他是在水中被发现的。在通往达科的桥下。 He was found in the water. Under the bridge to Dakow.
他是自然死亡吗? Did he die what's called a natural death?
非常不自然。 Highly unnatural.
老磨坊餐厅就在桥的旁边。 The Vieux Moulin restaurant is right beside the bridge.
你确定我没有溜出去杀了他吗? Are you sure I didn't slip out long enough to have killed him?
这一点我很确定。 I'm sure of that.
不是她干的。 She didn't do it.
过来看看。她还在等他。 Come and see. She's waiting for him still.
我…的原因之一是…她邀请你来是想说，如果你私下告诉她，她的震惊就不会那么大了。 Now one of my reasons to... For asking you to come was to suggest that the shock would be more gentle if you were to tell her in private.
远离警察的视线。 Away from the eye of a policeman.
这就是你的人性。 That's human of you.
人总有得意的时候。 One has one's moments.
福勒先生，你能指认他吗? Mr. Fowler, would you mind identifying him?
不是很愉快，但这是必要的功能。 Uh, it's not very pleasant, but it's a necessary function.
我觉得你应该找个医务人员来确认他的身份。 I would think you'd ask some medical official to identify him properly.
也许你不像你说的那样肯定我是无辜的。 Perhaps you're not as sure as you say of my innocence.
你的方法很有戏剧性，维果，但有点过时。 Your methods are dramatic, Vigot, but a little old-fashioned.
面对自己的罪行，中世纪的罪犯观念会暴露自己。 The medieval concept of the criminal confronted by his crime will betray himself.
楼梯灯光很暗。小心别滑倒了。 The stairs are badly lighted. Be careful you do not slip.
你看，他们不会在我面前重新开门。 You see, they don't reopen in my presence.
伤口。他们应该在罪人面前再流一次血。 The wounds. They're supposed to bleed again before the eyes of the guilty.
但是，它们被冻结了。 But then, they're frozen.
中世纪的时候还没有冰箱。 They didn't have refrigeration in the Middle Ages.
他没有死于伤口。 He did not die from his wounds.
他被淹死了。 He was drowned.
我们在他的肺里发现了河泥。 We found the mud of the river in his lungs.
他们应该让它快点发生。 They should have let it happen quickly.
他们吗? They?
谁。 Whoever.
你一点也不能帮我们吗? You cannot help us at all?
在这里抽烟可以吗? Is it all right to smoke in here?
谁会反对呢? Who's there to object?
你认得他吗? You recognize him?
原谅我。 Excuse me.
他下定决心要做好事。 He was so determined to do good.
对人民，对国家，对大陆。 To people, to countries, to continents.
献给世界。 To the world.
好吧，他现在很得心应手了。 Well, he was in his element now.
随着整个宇宙的改善。 With the whole universe to improve.
什么时候的事?就在几个月前。 When was it? Only a few months ago.
有人可能会说，那是一辈子以前的事了。 A lifetime ago, one might say.
我记得是在大陆酒店。 It was at the Continental, I remember.
在一天的工作结束后，西贡短暂的凉爽中。 In the momentary cool which comes to Saigon when the working day is done.
芳正在延长她晚餐前常喝的奶昔。 Phuong was prolonging her usual pre-dinner milkshake.
我在比较国内报纸上报道的印度支那战争的胜利和法国在北方输掉的战争。 I was comparing the Indochinese war being won in the newspapers at home with the one being lost by the French in the north.
我们沉默地坐着。 We sat in silence.
满足于在一起。 Content to be together.
-福勒先生?-哦，你好。 - Mr. Fowler? - Oh, hello.
乔·莫顿和我在露台上喝酒。 Joe Morton and I are having a drink up on the terrace.
你和这位小姐愿意加入我们吗? Would you and young lady care to join us?
当然。 Of course.
哦，我是黑女士。芳喜女士。 Oh, this is Ms. Hei. Ms. Phuong Hei.
——EnchantA©e。-你好! - EnchantÃ©e. - How do you do?
她没喝完的奶昔似乎是问题所在。 Her unfinished milkshake seems to be the problem.
我可以吗? May I?
你试过街对面的牛奶吧吗? Have you tried the milk bar across the street?
那里的奶昔比这里的好多了。 The milkshakes are much better than here.
每天早上11点，我去那里喝奶昔。 Uh, each morning at 11 hours, I go there to have milkshake.
每天晚上6点，我们去这里。 Each night at six hours, we go here.
我喜欢那里，那里的奶昔更好。 I like there, the milkshake more better.
万岁! Bravo!
到目前为止，这是她几乎用英语写的最长的连续文章。 To date, her longest consecutive passage in almost English.
它肯定比我的法语好。 It's certainly better than my French.
当然，这个主题可能启发了她。 Of course, the subject may have inspired her.
奶昔。 Milkshakes.
你们俩这么快就找到了共同点，真是太好了。 It's nice that the two of you find something in common so quickly.
好了，上来吧，伙计们，很高兴你们上船了。 Well, step right up, folks, glad to have you aboard.
随便坐。那么，你喜欢什么? Just sit anywhere. So, what's your pleasure?
苦艾酒黑醋栗。 Vermouth cassis.
芳小姐呢? And Miss Phuong?
你自己带了吗? Oh, you brought your own, eh?
我总是说，欢迎篮子派对。 Well, basket parties welcome, I always say.
就喝一杯，孩子。 Uh, just the one drink, son.
你总是说什么? Well, what do you always say?
说什么? Say?
哦，我在想。 Oh, I was thinking.
芳是个可爱的名字。 Phuong's a lovely name.
怎么拼? How do you spell it?
P-H-U-O-N-G。这是越南语“凤凰”的意思。 P-H-U-O-N-G. It's the Vietnamese word for "phoenix."
凤凰城。 Phoenix.
令人难以置信的鸟。 Fabulous bird.
从自己的灰烬中重生，变得更加美丽。 Rises from its own ashes and lives on even more beautiful.
除了现在没有什么是神话般的，没有什么能从灰烬中重生。 Except that nothing nowadays is fabulous and nothing rises from its ashes.
连奶昔都没有。 Not even a milkshake.
听起来很绝望。这是你的意见吗，福勒先生? It sounds pretty hopeless. Is that an opinion, Mr. Fowler?
-怎么样?——常规。 - How was it? - Routine.
你去过北边的战场吗，多明格斯? You've been up north to the war, Dominguez?
比尔·格兰杰呢?他说他会在这里和我们见面。 Well, where's Bill Granger? He said he'd meet us here.
我把车停在机场了。他吃了一顿。 I had my car at the airport. He took a pousse-pousse.
他不会回来太久的。 He should not be long.
哦。芳小姐，现在来杯奶昔怎么样? Oh. How about that milkshake now, Miss Phuong?
——再来一个吗?-好的，谢谢。 - Encore? - Oui, merci.
如果你不介意我问的话，福勒，你为什么不跟其他记者一起去河内? If you don't mind my asking, Fowler, how come you didn't go up to Hanoi with the rest of the correspondents?
我是说，让你的助手上去，我想你会像其他男孩一样想闻到战争的味道。 Well, I mean, sending your assistant up instead, I should think you'd wanna get the smell of battle the way the other boys do.
谢谢，但我已经不是你们的人了。 Oh, thank you, but I'm not longer one of the boys.
我从学生时代就没去过了。 I haven't been since my school days.
我不觉得战争有味道，真的。 I don't think the battle smells, really.
它很臭。我不喜欢它。 It stinks. I don't like it.
你还没有回答我的问题。 You haven't answered my question yet.
恐怕我已经忘了。 Which, I'm afraid I've forgotten.
你说现在没有什么能从灰烬中重生，不管是观点还是事实。 You were saying that nothing rises from its ashes nowadays, whether that was opinion or fact.
我建议你去问死人。 I suggest that you ask the dead.
法国人还是共产主义者，都无所谓。 French or communist, it doesn't matter.
他们的骨灰无法分辨。 Their ashes can't be told apart.
活着的人呢? What about the living?
他们不想死。 They want not to be dead.
他们的生活方式重要吗? Does it matter how they live?
如果你的意思是他们是在法国殖民统治下还是在中国共产主义统治下活着有关系吗?答案是，不，没有关系。 If you mean does it matter whether they stay alive under French colonialism or Chinese communism, the answer is, no, it does not.
我问的是一种生活方式，不是活下去。 I was asking about a way of life, not staying alive.
我不认为芳，举个例子，能告诉你其中的区别。 I don't think that Phuong, for example, could tell you the difference.
哦，她当然能分辨出法国人和共产党人。 Oh, she can tell the French from the communists, of course.
共产主义者看起来像她自己的人民，但不要要求她区分概念。 The communists look like her own people, but don't ask her to separate the concepts.
别指望她能理解你的想法。 Don't expect her to understand ideas.
她忙着在一个满是人的世界里为生存而战。 She's far too busy fighting for existence in a world too full of people.
这不是一个可怕的假设吗? Isn't that a frightening assumption?
2200万人只满足于活着? That 22 million people are content only to stay alive?
他们是否能在这样或那样的力量下生存对他们来说一点也不重要? That whether they stay alive under one force or another shouldn't matter to them in the least?
他们什么都不知道，他们不知道的事也不会伤害他们? They've never known anything else and what they don't know won't hurt them?
难道就没有第三种选择吗? Isn't it just possible that there's a third choice?
第三种力量? A third force?
第三势力? Third force?
2200万越南人自己决定他们想要怎样生活。 Twenty-two million Vietnamese deciding for themselves how they wanna live.
你必须记住，对美国人来说，数字有着神奇的含义。 You must remember that for Americans, figures have magical meanings.
第三种力量。五个自由。幸运七，买一送一。 A third force. Five freedoms. Um, lucky seven, and two for the price of one.
晚饭前再来一轮吧。 Well, time for just one more round before supper.
福勒? Fowler?
恐怕我们得自己料理晚餐了。 I'm afraid we must be seeing to our own dinner.
-你愿意和我一起吃吗?——嗯…我没去过，但我听说交会酒吧的食物很好吃。 - Will you have it with me? - Well... I've never been, but I hear the food's good at the Rendezvous.
Le会合! Le Rendezvous!
看来我们很乐意与您共进晚餐。 It seems that we will be happy to dine with you.
乔? Joe?
我也想，孩子，但莫顿夫人不吃任何不是从美国运来的东西，无论是冷冻的还是罐装的。 Oh, I wish I could, son, but Mrs. Morton won't eat anything that isn't shipped from the States, frozen or canned.
-多明格斯?-原谅我的饮食。 - Dominguez? - Forgive me, my diet.
不久的一天晚上，我们必须在麦田里一起吃饭。 One evening, soon, we must all dine together in a wheat field.
再来一杯新鲜的苏格兰威士忌和苏打水。 Encore a fresh scotch and soda.
你确定这次不会崩溃吗，多明格斯? You sure you won't break down just this once, Dominguez?
橙汁。 Orange juice.
晚上好，先生。您是一个人吗? Good evening, sir. Are you alone?
不。也就是说，我和这些人在一起。 No. That is, I'm with these people here.
我看你没有女朋友。 I see you have no lady.
请允许我介绍伊薇特小姐，伊莎贝尔小姐? May I introduce Miss Yvette, Miss Isabel?
非常好的舞者。他们说法语和一点英语。 Very good dancers. They speak French and a little English.
呃，非常感谢，但我是来和朋友们一起吃晚饭的……你需要搭档。 Uh, thank you very much, but I've come in to have dinner with my friends... You will require partner.
三人一桌跳舞是很尴尬的。 It is embarrassing to dance when there are three at a table.
一个总是被忽视。 One is always neglected.
我不介意，真的。事实上，我们有很多事要谈。 I don't mind, really. Actually, we've got a lot to talk about.
当这位女士有另一位女士可以交谈时，两位先生可以更自由地交谈。 And two gentlemen can speak much more freely when the lady has another lady to talk to.
如果你不介意的话，我宁愿不要。 I'd rather not, if you don't mind.
显然，她是介意的。 Well, obviously, she does mind.
她在说什么? What's she saying?
我一点头绪都没有。可能是同一个主题。 I haven't a clue. Probably the same subject.
——阮莳。-不，不。别把她扯进来。 - Phuong. - No, no. Just keep her out of this.
芳，把他弄出去。 Phuong, get him out of this.
不，不，她不能卷进来。 No, no, she mustn't get involved.
我是怎么进入这个行业的? How did I get into this?
我们为什么不离开?我不想让芳小姐卷进这种事。 Why don't we leave? I don't want Miss Phuong mixed up in a thing like this.
芳，你不能阻止中国代表吗? Phuong, can't you stop the Chinese delegate?
我肯定她在重复她的话。 I'm sure she's repeating herself.
我不知道她在说什么。 I don't know what she's saying.
我说普通话，她说粤语。 I speak Mandarin, she speak Canto.
情况非常严重，先生。 It is most serious, sir.
有一场战争，你知道。 There's a war, you know.
生意不太好。 Business has not been very good.
士兵不会到这种地方来的。 The soldiers will not come to a place like this.
这些女人不是给士兵的。 These ladies are not for soldiers.
请在这里。 Here, please.
神奇的公式是什么? What was the magic formula?
我们多买了一顿晚餐，多买了一瓶酒。 We buy one extra dinner, one extra bottle of wine.
他们，就像你说的，掷骰子决定谁有功劳。 They, how you say, throw the dice who has the credit.
——好吗?——好的。 - Okay? - Okay.
芳小姐，我想道歉。 Miss Phuong, I want to apologize.
道歉? Apologize?
我们没有权利把你和那样的女孩扯在一起。 We had no right to involve you with girls like that.
他们是我的好朋友。我和许多人一起上学。 They are my good friends. I have go to school with many.
我想你应该知道，两年前我第一次见到芳时，她在这里工作。 I think you should know, when I first met Phuong two years ago, she worked here.
作为其中之一? As one of those?
你为什么一直说"其中之一" Why do you keep saying "one of those"?
他们是非常值得尊敬的用餐和跳舞伙伴。 They're perfectly respectable dining and dancing partners.
用女主人的话来说，不是给士兵的。 Not, in the words of the hostess, not for soldiers.
但那是不可能的…我的意思是，他们的未来是什么? But that's no way to... I mean, what's their future?
随着时间的推移，他们中的一些人会形成一种或另一种更持久的联系。 In time, some of them form a more permanent association of one kind or the other.
剩下的呢? And the rest?
当这里不再需要他们的时候，退休的年龄还很年轻，我想应该是参军了。 Well, when they're no longer wanted here, the age of retirement is rather young, I suppose a military career is indicated.
毕竟，这是一个以某种方式继续存在的问题。 It is a matter, after all, of somehow to continue to exist.
你现在想问她一种生活方式和活着的区别吗? Would you like to ask her now the difference between a way of life and staying alive?
你愿意和我跳舞吗? Will you dance with me?
我现在要为三个人点菜吗，也就是我们四个人? Shall I order now for the three, that is, four of us?
也许是因为他们走得太快了，我很快就孤独了，但突然间，我看到了自己，也许就像他们看到我一样。 Perhaps it was because they were gone so quickly and I was so quickly alone, but suddenly I saw myself as perhaps they saw me.
一个中年男人，可以理解他更关心菜单而不是音乐。 A man of middle-age, understandably concerned more with the menu than the music.
他把她抱得很好，不要太紧。 And he held her properly, not too close.
按照规则，你应该抱着别人的女人。 The way you're supposed to hold another man's girl, according to the rules.
福勒先生。 Mr. Fowler.
请不要站起来。我可以坐下吗? Please, don't get up. May I sit down?
看来你已经这么做了。 It seems you already have.
我不知道你在这里。 I didn't know you were here.
我和朋友一起吃饭。 I am dining with friends.
和我妹妹跳舞的那个人是谁? Who is the man dancing with my sister?
一个美国人。 An American.
他富有吗? Is he wealthy?
你得去问他。 That you'll have to ask him.
他看起来安静而可靠。 He looks quiet and reliable.
他结婚了吗? Is he married?
这一点，你也得问他。 That, too, you will have to ask him.
我不这么认为。 I would think not.
当一个美国人结婚了，他看起来很已婚。 When an American is married, he looks married.
这是芳的妹妹，黑小姐。 This is Phuong's sister, Miss Hei.
你好，黑小姐。 How do you do, Miss Hei?
你是纽约人吗? Do you come from New York?
不，是德州。 No, uh, Texas.
为什么不去纽约? Why not New York?
没有特别的原因。我只是碰巧来自德克萨斯州。 No particular reason. I just happen to come from Texas.
我有一本纽约的图画书。 I have a picture book of New York.
乔治·华盛顿的桥就住在那里。 The bridge of George Washington live there.
你父亲是一个成功的商人吗? Is your father a successful businessman?
恐怕不行。他……他是个教授。 I'm afraid not. He... He's a professor.
一个老师。但是一个重要的人呢? A teacher. But a man of importance?
对少数重视教学的人来说。 To the few who consider teaching important.
他要来这里吗?我很想认识他。 Is he coming here? I would like to make his acquaintance.
你还有妹妹吗? Do you have another sister?
你知道我没有。为什么? You know I have not. Why?
因为你像个饥饿的婚姻经纪人一样盘问这个年轻人。 Because you're cross-examining this young man like a hungry marriage broker.
你心中有什么特别的新娘吗? Do you have any particular bride in mind?
我只有一个妹妹。 I have only one sister.
完全正确。 Exactly.
她需要安全感。 She needs to be secure.
她应该有安全感。 She deserves to be secure.
她很好，而且非常非常忠诚。 She is good and very, very loyal.
我得回去找我的朋友了。 Well, I must be going back to my friends.
我希望能再见到你。 I would like to meet you again.
也许福勒先生从北方回来后，我们可以一起吃晚餐。 Well, maybe we could all have dinner together, when Mr. Fowler gets back from the north.
你什么时候去北方? When are you going to the north?
很快。多明格斯认为我应该去看看战争。 Very soon. Dominguez thinks I ought to take a look at the war.
那么福勒先生不在的时候，你必须跟我和我妹妹一起吃晚饭。晚安，各位。 Then you must have dinner with me and my sister when Mr. Fowler is away. Good night.
她英语说得很好。 She certainly speaks English well.
她让别人明白她的意思。 She makes herself understood.
如果你愿意，我们现在可以跳完舞了。 We could finish to dance now, if you like.
如果我喜欢的话? If I like?
好吧，晚餐随时都可以上桌。 Well, uh, dinner will be served at any instant.
现在应该到了。 It should be here by now.
当它到达时，我们就完成了。 When it will arrive, we will finish.
我很可能在那里做监护人。 I might very well have been there as a chaperone.
那是我不想扮演的角色。 It was a role I didn't want to play.
带着微笑，带着一种“玩得开心”的表情。我喜欢看你跳舞。” To wear a smile and a look that said, "Enjoy yourselves. I like to watch you dance. "
突然，我感到一阵不安。 Suddenly, I felt an uneasiness.
我真希望我从没听说过北境之战的谣言。 I wished I'd never heard the rumor about the battle in the north.
我希望多明格斯能告诉我这只是个谣言，这样我就不用去了。 I wished for Dominguez to tell me it was only a rumor after all and I didn't have to go.
但我还是来了，大约是在我们在幽会地点共进晚餐一周后。 But there I was, about a week after our dinner at the Rendezvous.
我想知道芳的姐姐等了多久才打电话来。 I wondered how long Phuong's sister had waited before she called.
哦，对不起。 Oh, I'm sorry.
迫击炮的响声把你吵醒了。 The noise of the mortar fire has made you awake.
我没有睡着。 I wasn't sleeping.
无论如何，他们今晚不会进攻。 They will not attack tonight in any case.
天太近了。 It is too close to daylight.
但是我们继续分解它们的浓度。 But we continue to break up their concentrations.
浓度，我的眼睛。 Concentrations, my eye.
你的眼睛，格兰杰先生? Your eye, Monsieur Granger?
共产党人完全集中在一棵树上，像活靶子一样击倒你的迫击炮队。 Commies are concentrated exactly one to a tree, knocking off your mortar teams like sitting ducks.
让他们打自己的仗吧，格兰杰，死的是法国人。 Let them run their own war, Granger, it's the French who are dying.
有太多本不该死的法国人正在死去。 Too many French are dying that don't have to die.
他们是我的朋友。我不能不关心朋友们无谓的死亡。 They're my friends. I can't be unconcerned about friends who die unnecessary deaths.
不必要的? Unnecessary?
你是什么意思? What do you mean?
我指的是这个国家的防御，从19世纪开始构思，到20世纪开始战斗，从比凡尔登战壕早一代人建造的博盖斯堡开始。 I mean the defense of this country that was conceived in the 19th century and being fought in the 20th, from Beau Geste forts that were built a generation before the trenches of Verdun.
我不知道你是个军事分析师。 I had no idea you were, um, a military analyst.
我相信我们的作战指挥部在制定进一步的计划之前会征求你的意见。 I am sure our battle command will want to consult you before making further plans.
你的指挥部无权制定计划。 Your command here has no authority to make plans.
它们是在巴黎制造的，就像它们在19世纪一样，然后传给了你，不是吗? They're made in Paris, just as they were in the 19th century and transmitted to you, isn't that so?
黎明后不久，将为记者进行低空考察飞行。 Shortly after dawn, there will be a low altitude inspection flight for the journalists.
你需要一些睡眠。 You will require some sleep.
换句话说，解雇。 In other words, dismissed.
这就是我工作时不喝酒的下场。 That's what I get for not drinking on the job.
如果你没注意到，我是清醒的。 In case you haven't noticed, I'm sober.
谁也不会知道。你很能保持清醒。 One would never know. You carry sobriety well.
你忠实的英国保姆呢? Where's your faithful English nanny?
我可能得买个新的了。 I may have to get a new one.
这个保姆喝得太多了。 This nanny drinks too much.
嘿! Hey!
醒醒，表弟。该上床睡觉了。 Wake up, cousin. It's time to go beddy-bye.
洋基猪。 Yankee swine.
这才是我的孩子。你上去吧。 That's my boy. Up you go.
顺便问一下，你正在看的那本书是什么? By the way, what is that book you were reading?
我在想。 I was wondering.
拉马丁的诗。 The poetry of Lamartine.
这对我是一种安慰。 It is a comfort to me.
一种逃避，比如威士忌，或者……它是19世纪的。 An escape, like whiskey, or... It is of the 19th century.
你觉得他们想干什么? What do you suppose they're up to?
为什么他们偏偏派一个美国人来? And why would they send an American of all people?
你好,在那里。 Hello, there.
-你认识这个人吗，福勒先生?-我想我知道。 - Do you know this man, Monsieur Fowler? - I think I do.
我很高兴你没睡着。花的时间比我想象的要长。 I'm sure glad you're not asleep. It took me longer than I figured.
我得在早上之前把吉普车开回河内。 I've got to get that jeep back to Hanoi by morning.
你在河内做什么? What were you doing in Hanoi?
说实话，我是偷渡者，是我们医疗队的一员。 I was a stowaway, to tell the truth, of one of our medical aid teams.
还记得我告诉过你我想上来亲眼看看吗。 Remember I told you I wanted to come up and get a look at it for myself firsthand.
很遗憾我不能提供向导。 I regret that I cannot supply a guide.
你为什么从河内来这里? And, um, why did you come here from Hanoi?
我只是想开车过来。 I just thought I'd drive down.
见福勒先生。 See Mr. Fowler.
你只是觉得……你开车经过了我不知道有多少共产主义巡逻队。 You just thought... You drove past I do not know how many communist patrols.
通过我们对道路的轰炸。 Through our own bombardment of roads.
这是可信的吗? Is this to be believed?
这是值得相信的。 It is to be believed.
是法国人的轰炸吗? Was that the French bombardment?
嗯，它确实是准确的。有些地方整条路都没了。 Well, it sure is accurate. Some places the whole road was gone.
我不得不再次猜测它是从哪里开始的。 I had to guess where it picked up again.
谢谢你的夸奖。 Thank you for the compliment.
有一天，当有时间和和平的时候，也许你会牵着我的手和我一起走过这片水域去美国。 And, uh, someday, when there is peace and time for it, perhaps you will take my hand and walk with me across the water to America.
共产党在晚上控制道路。 Well, the communists control the roads at night.
如果他们抓住了你，割断了你的喉咙呢? What if they'd caught you and cut your throat?
所以我借了一辆吉普车，上面画着大大的红十字。 That's why I borrowed a jeep with a big red cross painted on it.
他们肯定会知道我不是战斗员。 They'd be sure to know I was a non-combatant.
当然。 Of course.
你跟上校散步的时候，让我牵着你的另一只手。 Well, when you go on that walk with the Colonel, let me take your other hand.
-不管怎样，我来了。-是的，来看我。关于什么? - Well, anyway, I'm here. - Yes, to see me. What about?
这是什么意思? What does that mean?
天很快就要亮了。 It'll be dawn pretty soon.
共产党军队在白天消失。 The communist troops vanish in the daytime.
他们把制服藏起来，变成了爱好和平、中立的第三势力农民。 They hide their uniforms and become peace-loving, neutral third force peasants.
我不是来谈政治的。 I didn't come to talk politics.
好。 Good.
突然间很安静。 It's so quiet suddenly.
我…我想我爱上芳了。 I... I think I'm in love with Phuong.
你来就是为了跟我说这个吗? Is that what you came here to tell me?
我必须这么做。 I had to.
就不能等我回到西贡再说吗? Couldn't it have waited till I got back to Saigon?
我不可能离开她那么久。 I couldn't have stayed away from her for that long.
你是说你已经离开了? You mean you have stayed away?
我想先告诉你。 I wanted to tell you about it first.
否则就不公平了。 Wouldn't be fair otherwise.
爱情和战争是不择手段的。 And all's fair in love and war.
共产主义者不会朝吉普车上的红十字会开枪，而且…… Communists don't fire at the red cross on jeeps, and...
你以为你是什么时候坠入爱河的? When did you think you fell in love?
那晚在约会地点，和她跳舞。 That night at the Rendezvous, dancing with her.
我想这是从她和酒吧里的女孩们混在一起开始的。 I guess it really started earlier when she got mixed up with the girls at the bar.
想到她那样结束，我就觉得恶心。 I felt sick thinking about her winding up like that.
我走后，她姐姐邀请你出去了，对吧? Her sister invited you out, didn't she, after I left?
是的，但我远离了。这并不容易。 Yes, but I kept away. It wasn't easy.
但这样才公平。 But it was only fair.
当然，如果你嫁给芳，情况就不一样了。 Naturally, if you were married to Phuong, it would be different.
我不会介入夫妻之间。 I wouldn't come between a man and his wife.
你似乎很确定你可以介于两者之间。 You seem pretty certain that you can come between.
那得由她来决定。 That's for her to decide.
你有烟吗? You got a cigarette?
你留着吧，我还有一些。 Keep the pack, I've got some more.
我要的是一根烟，不是经济援助。 I asked for one cigarette, not economic aid.
我可不想被你有多少包给打动。 I don't want to be impressed by how many packs you've got.
只是我在河内还有半盒，你们已经用完了。 It's just that I still have half a carton back in Hanoi and you've run out.
我不能娶她。我家里有妻子。 I can't marry her. I have a wife at home.
她永远不会和我离婚。 She would never divorce me.
她很高尚，你懂我的意思吧。 She's high church, if you know what I mean.
美国圣公会教徒。我也是。 Episcopalian. I am too.
这是我们的共同点。 We've got that in common.
对我没有，你没有。 Not with me, you haven't.
你和我妻子。 You and my wife.
我没有教堂。 I have no church.
你会嫁给芳吗? Would you marry Phuong?
当然。 Of course.
女人有权享有婚姻的保障。 A woman's entitled to the security of marriage.
她姐姐的话。 Her sister's words.
她姐姐说的话不一定都是错的。 Everything her sister says is not automatically wrong.
因为她觉得你有钱我很穷。 Because she thinks you're rich and I'm poor.
她错了，好吧。 She's wrong there, all right.
我一分钱都没有。 Haven't got a nickel.
哦，但你有无限的财富，体面和年轻。 Oh, but you have the infinite riches of respectability and youth.
我真羡慕你。 I envy you that.
但我打算留下芳。 But I intend to keep Phuong.
我打算留下她。 I intend to keep her.
好吧，不管结果如何。 Well, however it works out.
我们都为她的利益着想。 We both have her interests at heart.
我听腻了你们那些隐藏在皮肤下的兄弟们关于未来原子安全的玻璃纸包裹的空话。 I'm fed to the teeth with your brothers-under-the-skin dribble about cellophane-wrapped security for the atomic future.
我不在乎芳的利益，你可以得到她的利益。 I don't care that about Phuong's interest, you can have her interest.
我要她。我要她和我在一起。 I want her. I want her with me.
我宁愿毁了她，和她在一起也不愿担心她的兴趣。 I'd rather ruin her and be with her than worry about her interest.
黎明即将来临。我最好回去了。 Dawn any minute. I better be starting back.
-你走之前我请你喝一杯吧。-嗯，我想要一个。 - Let me buy you a drink before you go. - Well, I could use one.
两个威士忌。 Two whiskeys.
德国人。 German.
外籍军团。这个支队有很多这样的人。 Foreign legion. This detachment has quite a lot of them.
顺便说一下，我给你准备了一份电报。 By the way, I've got a cable for ya.
你刚离开西贡就来了。多明格斯让我带来的。 Came just after you left Saigon. Dominguez asked me to bring it along.
你有没有想过芳可能会选择和我在一起? Has it occurred to you that Phuong might just possibly choose to remain with me?
真奇怪，我们俩都不会说"祝你好运" You know it's a strange thing that neither one of us can say "good luck."
在红十字上涂点泥。 Put some mud on that red cross.
即使在白天，它也是一个诱人的目标。 Even in daytime, it's a tempting target.
谢谢你的饮料。西贡见。 Thanks for the drink. See you in Saigon.
他不知道，但他已经把胜利带来了。 He didn't know it, but he'd brought his victory with him.
我伦敦总部发来的电报。 That cable from my home office in London.
祝贺晋升的电报。 The congratulatory cable of promotion.
芳和我的终结。 The end of Phuong and me.
我要回来当新的外国编辑，住在伦敦。 I was to come back to be the new foreign editor, to live in London.
在布卢姆斯伯里广场、73路公共汽车和新闻俱乐部度过的时光。 What passed for life in Bloomsbury Square and the 73 bus and The Press Club.
他们可以留着它。 They could keep it.
不再喝威士忌了? No more whiskey?
差不多过了两个星期，我才从北方回到西贡。 Almost two weeks passed before I could return from the north to Saigon.
似乎无望。即使芳还在等我。 Seemed hopeless. Even if Phuong was still waiting for me.
似乎没有希望了。 It seemed hopeless.
我发的电报，很重要吗? The cable I sent up, was it important?
你怎么知道它送到了? How did you know it was delivered?
从那个年轻的美国人回来的那天起。 From the young American the day he returned.
他很客气地邀请我去磅礴酒店和芳女士和她妹妹一起喝茶。 He was kind enough to invite me to tea at the Majestic, with Ms. Phuong and her sister.
磅礴酒店的奶昔很差。 Milkshakes are very poor at the Majestic.
我想我应该告诉你，我已经开始收集，怎么说呢，关于谣言的谣言。 I think I should tell you, I've begun to pick up, how shall I put it, rumors about rumors.
这是意料之中的。 That was to be expected.
据推测，除了他的组织，他似乎还进口个人用品、书籍和文件以供学习。 It seems that apart from his organization, he imports personal supplies, books and documents for his studies, it was assumed.
我想他和芳是形影不离的。 I imagine that he and Phuong have been inseparable.
最近，他的一箱物资被误打开了。 Recently a box of his supplies was opened by mistake.
里面有什么? What was in it?
美国的塑料。 American plastic.
他要塑料做什么? What would he want with plastics?
我怕你跟我打招呼，如果你是来跟我打招呼的话，只会说"嗨"。 I was afraid that you'd greet me, if you were here to greet me at all, with "Hi".
这是一个美国词，用来形容那些没有足够时间说“你好”的人。 It's an American word for those who don't have enough time to say "Hello".
你的英语应该比现在更流利。 Your English should be more fluent than it is.
这一定是个障碍。 It must be a handicap.
你是如何沟通的? How do you communicate?
你们会给对方看你们的图画书吗? Do you show each other your picture books?
沟通? Communicate?
和美国人一起。你怎么说话? With the American. How do you talk?
我妹妹和他，他们说话最多。 My sister and he, they talk most.
他很严肃。 He's very serious.
非常安静。 Very quiet.
他的感情已经够强烈了。 Well, his feelings are loud enough.
你们俩单独在一起的时候一定要听听。 You must hear them when you're alone together.
我们在一起从不孤单。 We are never alone together.
——从来没有。——从来没有? - Never. - Never?
只有当我们跳舞的时候。 Only when we dance.
但坐在餐桌旁的总是我妹妹。 But sitting at the table is always my sister.
我们去的地方，有时我姐姐和别人，但总是我姐姐。 Where we go, sometimes my sister and other people, but always my sister.
我姐姐说他爱我。 My sister says he loves me.
你说呢? What do you say?
谁能被爱，谁总要那么多人。 Who can be loved, who wants always so many people.
他有一条很好的狗。 He has a fine dog.
-标准设备。-狗爱我。 - Standard equipment. - The dog loves me.
我想我也喜欢狗，也许吧。 I think I love the dog too, maybe.
我得照看那只狗。他可能是第三股势力。 I shall have to watch that dog. He may be the third force.
公平竞争，人类最好的朋友，妈妈的苹果派。 Fair play, man's best friend, mom's apple pie.
泡点茶。 Make some tea.
进来。 Come in.
我希望我没有打扰你们。 I hope I am not interrupting.
一点也不请坐，好吗? Not at all. Sit down, won't you?
你正好赶上喝茶的时间。 You are just in time for tea.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
我在想，你能不能让你的狗把爪子从我身上拿开? I wonder, could you ask your dog to take his paws off me?
我还以为英国人很爱狗呢。 I thought the British were great dog lovers.
不，我们认为美国人喜欢美元，但也有例外。 No, we think the Americans love dollars, but there must be exceptions.
我承认，你是一个杰出的英国人。 You are an exceptional Englishman, I'll grant that.
我以为你要叫停他。他有名字，不是吗? I thought you were gonna call him off. He has a name, hasn't he?
拜托，杜克。 Come on, Duke.
我猜她告诉你了，我们最近经常见面。 I guess she told you, we've been seeing a lot of each other.
她就是这么说的。 Seeing was precisely the way she put it.
穿过拥挤的房间。 Across crowded rooms.
不是有一首关于它的歌吗? Isn't there a song about it?
不过，我猜想那些夜晚并没有被施上魔法。 I gather however that the evenings were not enchanted.
你没让我好过一点。 You're not making this any easier for me.
第一，为什么我要让你更容易，第二，什么? A, why should I make anything easier for you, and B, what?
我一听说你回来就赶过来了。 I came over as soon as I heard you were back.
你有什么要讨论的吗? Well, you have something to discuss?
你知道的。 You know I have.
哦，让我猜猜，塑料? Oh, let me guess, plastics?
你打算做什么？做一个完美的国家民主的塑料模型? What are you going to do? Make a plastic model of a perfect national democracy?
你是怎么听说塑料的? How did you hear about the plastics?
还是你打算结婚，进入玩具行业? Or are you planning to get married and go into the toy business?
你差一点就击中了。 You almost hit it.
当地玩具业已开始为春节生产玩具。 Local toy industry has started its output for Chinese new year.
只有几个月的时间了。 It's only a couple of months off.
我有了一个想法，如果我们帮助他们开始使用塑料来制作面具、喇叭之类的东西，它们的制造成本就会降低，更多的人也能买得起。 I got the idea that if we help them get started on use of plastics for masks, horns, things like that, they'd cost less to make and more people could afford to buy them.
我确实有结婚的打算，这就是我来这的目的。 And I do plan on getting married, that's what I came here to talk about.
我记得，芳要在我们之间做出选择。 As I recall it, Phuong is to choose between us.
哦，不，还没有。 Oh, no, not yet.
我现在一点机会都没有。 I wouldn't stand a chance right now.
我只是想让她知道我的感受。 I just want her to know how I feel.
那我们该怎么做呢? Well, how do we go about it?
毕竟，你们是客队。 After all, you're the visiting team.
按照板球规则，你应该先打。 It's only cricket that you should have first whack.
这对我来说是个很大的障碍。 Gonna be one terrific handicap for me.
我的法语糟透了。 My French is just awful.
我在上课，但今天对我没用。 I'm taking lessons, but that's no good to me here today.
是的，你在这方面处于不利地位。芳的英语不好。 Yes, you are at a disadvantage there. Phuong's English is not good.
比我的法语还好。 Still better than my French.
事实上，她可能没听懂我们说的话。 Actually, she's probably understood very little of what we were saying.
我们说得太快了，但如果你说得够慢，她会明白的。大部分。 We've been talking much too quickly, but if you speak slowly enough, she will understand. Most of it.
如果她说得够慢，我就能听懂她说的大部分法语。 And if she speaks slowly enough, I can manage to understand most of her French.
如果有什么疑问，我很乐意当翻译。 And if there is any confusion, I'll be happy to act as interpreter.
这是一个荒谬的情况，但谢谢。 It's a ridiculous situation, but thanks.
是的，它是，但一点也不。 Yes, it is, but not at all.
我告诉她你有重要的事要对她说，你会说得很慢，她必须认真听。 I've told her that you had some important things to say to her, that you'll talk very slowly, and that she must listen well.
芳，我爱上你了。 Phuong, I am in love with you.
我明白了。 I understand.
他不在的时候，我好不容易才不告诉你。 It has not been easy to keep from telling you while he was away.
我不想让你觉得我会背着他跟你做爱。 I did not want you to think that I would make love to you behind his back.
我不希望任何人说你对他做了不光彩的事。 And I did not want anyone to say that you were behaving dishonorably toward him.
卑劣地? Dishonorably?
我明白了。 I understand.
这里关于"不光彩"这个词有点混淆， There's a little confusion here about the word "dishonorably,"
她认为这意味着荣誉。 she thought it meant honor.
我把它弄清楚了。 I straightened it out.
所以你对我了解甚少。 So you know very little about me.
时间不多，机会更少，你明白吗? There's not been much time and even less opportunity, do you understand that?
我希望你也爱我。 I want you to love me too.
因为我想娶你。 Because I want to marry you.
跟我结婚? Make marriage with me?
让你幸福，让你的未来有保障。 To make you happy, and secure for the future.
恐怕我们真的遇到麻烦了。 I'm afraid we've run into a real block here.
未来对她来说毫无意义，即使在法语中也是如此。 Future means nothing to her, not even in French.
我怀疑她是否能听懂越南语。 I doubt whether she would understand it in Vietnamese.
未来是一个……外交紧张。每天生活的人对它没什么用。 Future is a... Foreign tense. People who exist from day to day have little use for it.
但我能让你明白，芳。 But I can make you understand it, Phuong.
我可以让你看到，你的未来会是幸福的。 I can make you see that the future will be happy for you.
所以现在他回来了，他能听到我说话，我请求你见我，和我在一起，尽可能多地单独待在一起。 That's why now that he's back, so he can hear me, I'm asking you to see me, to be with me, alone and as often as possible.
我想我明白了。 I understand, I think.
你有威士忌吗?-请自便。 - Have you got any whiskey? - Help yourself.
我想该轮到我击球了。 I assume that it's my turn to bat.
既然我们公平对待这件事，我就不利用你说法语了。 Since we are being fair about it, I won't take advantage of you by talking French.
请继续。 Go right ahead.
哦，不，我很久没打板球了。 Oh, no, it's so long since I've played cricket.
我想看看我能做些什么。 I want to see what I can do.
芳，你要为了他离开我吗? Phuong, are you going to leave me for him?
他可能会娶你。我不能。你知道为什么。 He might marry you. I can't. You know why.
你要离开我吗? Are you going to leave me?
——没有。——从来没有? - No. - Never?
在我看来，她对未来非常了解。 Seems to me she understands about the future very well.
没人能保证，芳。 Nobody can promise that, Phuong.
就连他也不能。婚姻破裂。 Even he can't. Marriages break.
他们通常比我们的关系更容易破裂。 Often they break easier than relationships like ours.
-我不想离开。——但? - I do not want to leave. - But?
你不应该在这个时候拿出你的银行存款余额吗? Shouldn't you whip out your bank balance at this point?
我没有。她在等着你来安慰她。 I haven't got one. It's you she's waiting to be reassured by.
继续，让她感到被需要和安全。 Go ahead, make her feel wanted and secure.
她从我这里得到这个已经两年了。这让她很开心。 She's had that from me for two years. It's made her happy.
她怎么能让它嫁给你? How would she get it married to you?
当你不在办公室的时候从你的司机那里得到的吗? From your chauffeur when your away at the office?
告诉阮莳。当你决定向前看时，你会给她留下什么? Tell Phuong. When you decide to move on, what will you leave her with?
还是她不想要家具了? Or does she get passed on with the furniture?
事实上，这些家具不是我的。 Actually, the furniture isn't mine.
事实上，她也不是。 Actually, neither is she.
你愿意嫁给我吗? Will you marry me?
用法语说，自己说。 Say it in French and say it for yourself.
芳，你愿意嫁给我吗? Will you marry me, Phuong?
叫你的狗别叫了。-跟我来。 - Tell your dog to stop barking. - Come with me now.
不。 No.
现在，我突然不明白了。 Now, all at once, I do not understand.
她以自己的方式面对各种情况。她在准备晚饭。 She faces situations in her own way. She's getting the supper.
你想留下来吗? Would you like to stay?
不,谢谢。 No, thanks.
我真希望你能娶她。 You know, I wish you could marry her.
真的吗? Do you really?
约会地点的那些女孩，别太确定她不会在意。 Those girls at the Rendezvous, don't be too sure it wouldn't matter to her.
再见,莳。 Goodbye, Phuong.
“亲爱的海伦，”我写道。 "Dear Helen, " I wrote.
“我很快就要回英国做外文编辑了。 "I'm coming back to England soon to take the job of foreign editor.
“你可以想象我对此很不高兴。 "You can imagine I'm not really happy about it.
“对我来说，英国是我失败的地方。 "England is to me the scene of my failure.
"我希望我们的婚姻能像"如果我和你一样信仰基督教"一样长久" "I had intended our marriage to last quite as much as "if I had shared your Christian beliefs. "
你写过北方的战斗吗? You write about the fight in the north?
不。 No.
这是一场古老的战争。 This is about an old war.
在我们结婚之前，你警告我“永远不能离婚”。 "Before we were married you warned me that "there can never be a divorce.
“我接受了这个风险。我没有什么可抱怨的。”同时，我现在也在要求。 "I accepted the risk. I have nothing to complain of "At the same time, I'm asking for one now.
"两年多来，"有人对我非常忠诚。 "For more than two years, "someone has been very loyal to me.
“我真愚蠢，竟然告诉你这些。 "It's stupid of me to tell you this.
“我要把回答放进你嘴里。 "I'm putting a reply into your mouth.
"但请相信我，失去她对我来说就是"死亡的开始" "But please believe me, to lose her will be for me "the beginning of death. "
——完成?——完成。 - Finish? - Finished.
我刚向我妻子提出离婚。 I just asked my wife to divorce me.
从来没问过。 Never asked before.
有机会吗? There's a chance?
一个小的。 A small one.
-他还年轻。——谁? - He's young. - Who?
美国。 The American.
这并不重要。 It is not important.
我骗了你，芳。 I lied to you, Phuong.
我的论文马上要送我回家了。 My paper is sending me home soon.
我可以和你一起去。我想去看看伦敦。 I could come with you. I would like to see London.
如果我们不结婚，你会很不舒服的。 It would be very uncomfortable for you if we were not married.
反正我可以和你一起去。 I could come with you anyway.
伦敦有摩天大楼吗? Are skyscrapers in London?
不,美国。 No, America.
自由女神像呢? And the Statue of Liberty?
这也是美国。 That's America, too.
曹代教于1926年由一位越南公务员创立。 The Cao Dai religion was invented in 1926 by a Vietnamese civil servant.
它是佛教、基督教和儒家思想的结合。 It's a combination of Buddhism, Christianity and Confucianism.
有一个教皇。有雄性和雌性的红雀。 There is a pope. There are both male and female cardinals.
到1951年，它的会众中有200多万信徒。 By 1951, there were more than two million faithful in its congregation.
每年至少一次，曹代人会在位于西贡西北80公里处的德宁(Tay Ninh)圣地举行节日。 At least once a year, the Cao Dai hold a festival at their holy see in Tay Ninh, which lies 80 kilometers to the northwest of Saigon.
出席这些庆祝活动的人很多。 The attendance at these celebrations was good.
主要的吸引力，与其说是充满活力的年轻宗教，不如说是充满活力的年轻的两万五千人的高教军队。 The chief attraction being, not so much the vigorous young religion, as the vigorous young Caodist army of 25,000 men.
他们目前是中立的。 They were neutral at the moment.
但人们总能抱有希望。 But one could always hope.
最重要的是必须在日落前赶回西贡。 Most important of all was the urgency of getting back to Saigon before sunset.
穿过稻田的那条孤独的路白天被保护起来了。 The lonely road through the rice fields was protected during the day.
晚上，这条路和其他所有的路一样，都属于共产党人。 At night, together with all other roads, it belonged to the communists.
影子已经到达了圣山，在那里，将军坚持，直到最近的曹岱参谋长。 The shadows had already reached the holy mountain, where General The held out, up to recently the Cao Dai Chief of Staff.
他不再是中立的。 He was no longer neutral.
但那天谁也没有多提起他。 But no one spoke of him much that day.
到现在为止，每个人都看完了演出，都想尽快离开。 By now, everyone had seen the show and wanted to leave as quickly as possible.
赶回西贡的人流开始了。 The stampede back to Saigon had begun.
当上帝的眼睛盯着我们几个人想从教皇的副手那里得到最后一刻的消息时。 While the eye of God looked down upon a few of us who were trying to get a last-minute story out of the Pope's deputy.
主教大人，这位将军是真的在让您的人和他一起到山上与法国人和共产党人作战吗? Your Eminence, is it true that General The is getting your men to join him in the hills to fight both the French and the communists?
他们会回来的。我们是中立的。 They will return. We are neutral.
我们有宗教信仰。 We are a religious faith.
我们不承认战争。 We do not recognize war.
带着一支25000人的军队? With an army of 25,000 men?
将军请求您支持一个既不亲法也不亲共的全国民主政府，这是真的吗? Is it true that General The has asked for your support of a national democratic government that is neither pro-French nor pro-communist?
第三势力政府。 Um, a third force government.
爱是唯一真正的力量，它最终会团结全世界。 Love is the one true force, which in time, will unite the world.
告诉我结果如何。 Let me know how it all turns out.
主教大人，我们知道您对爱的看法。 Your Eminence, we know how you feel about love.
你觉得The将军怎么样? How do you feel about General The?
我们是中立的，不承认战争。 We are neutral, we do not recognize war.
我认出他是曹操司令。 I recognized the Caodist commandant.
他曾是将军最亲密的助手之一，在他逃到山里之前。 He'd been one of General The's closest assistants, before The took to the hills.
我走过去时，他们停止了谈话。 They stopped talking as I came over.
在我看来，我打断了一场非常私人的谈话。 It seemed to me that I'd interrupted a very private conversation.
你好，指挥官，将军还好吗? Hello, Commandant, how is the General?
哪个将军? Which general?
哦，在高教主义者的信仰中，所有的将军都是团结一致的，即使是将军。 Oh, surely in the Caodist faith all generals are united, even General The.
我的车出毛病了。发动不起来。 Something has gone wrong with my car. Can't get it to start.
我已经派人去兵营找一个机械师。 I have sent to the barracks for a mechanic.
他很快就会来。 He will come soon.
哦，我希望如此。是时候回西贡了。 Oh, I hope so. It's time to be starting back to Saigon.
好吧，我要去大教堂凉快一会儿。 Well, I'll go and cool off in the cathedral for a bit.
我走之前见你。 I'll see you before I go.
据说，这座大教堂的整个概念是在它的创始人的梦中产生的。 The entire concept of the cathedral, so the story went, had come to its founder in a dream.
迪斯尼的东方幻想曲。 A Walt Disney Fantasia of the east.
龙和蛇，窗户没有玻璃。 Dragons and snakes, no glass in the windows.
到处都有上帝的眼睛盯着你。 And everywhere, the eye of God upon you.
哦,汽油。 Oh, petrol.
曹代一定是在上帝的眼睛注视着我的时候把它吸了出来。 The Cao Dais must have siphoned it out while the eye of God watched over me.
我想知道为什么只有你的车，而有几十辆更大的坦克更容易到达。 I wonder why just your car when there were dozens of others with larger tanks easier to get to.
你怀疑什么?国际间谍网。 What do you suspect? An international spy ring.
巧合太多了，仅此而已。 Too much coincidence, that's all.
首先，我的车无缘无故抛锚。 First, my car conks out for no good reason.
你是一个人来的。你是顺理成章送我回去的人。 You came up alone. You'd be the logical one to give me a lift back.
你的车还剩下足够的油。 And your car has just enough gas left to run out here.
那样的话，艾娃·加德纳应该在瞭望塔等我们。 Well, in that case, Ava Gardner should be waiting for us in the watch tower.
如果没有，警卫们可能会有一点多余的汽油。 If not, the guards may have a little petrol to spare.
好吧，至少我们到达了越南军队的地盘。 Well, at least we reached the territory of the Vietnamese army.
天很快就要黑了。那哪面旗掩护我们就不重要了。 It'll be getting dark pretty soon. Then it won't matter which flag covers us.
-有人注意吗?——没有。 - Anybody look out? - No.
如果可以上来，我就喊一声。 I'll call out if it's all right to come up.
一个字也没说。 Not a bloody word.
一滴汽油也没有。 Not a drop of petrol.
现在把枪收起来。 Now put those guns away.
坐下来。 Sit down.
他们肯定会发现你的车。 They'd be sure to spot your car.
反正我设法把车开离了马路。 I managed to get it off the road anyway.
你差点把我的头轰掉。出现。 You nearly managed to get my head blown off. Come up.
来见见两位民主斗士。 Meet a couple of fellow warriors for democracy.
他们只是孩子。 They are just kids.
现在，如果共产党进攻，他们该怎么办呢? Now what could they be expected to do if the communists attack?
可能开一枪，然后试图消失在稻田里。 Fire one shot possibly, and then try and disappear into the rice paddies.
非常明智的。 Very sensible.
恐怕这将是一个漫长的夜晚。 Well, it's going to be a long night, I'm afraid.
尽管如此，在我们和西贡之间仍有40座这样的塔。 Still, there are 40 of these towers between us and Saigon.
比轮盘赌胜算大。 Better odds than roulette.
如果我们有牌，我们可以教他们打桥牌。 If we had some cards, we could teach them to play bridge.
为什么不给他们上一堂关于国家民主的课呢? Why not give them a lecture on national democracy?
他们是完美的观众。被困。 They are the perfect audience. Trapped.
你就是一点都不相信，对吧? You just don't believe in it at all, do you?
我相信这堵墙就在我背后。 I believe that this wall is behind my back.
我相信那些枪是上膛的。 I believe that those guns are loaded.
两个信仰。 Two beliefs.
两人现在都被关在这个小屋里。都可怕。 Both confined to this hut at this minute. Both frightening.
香烟，还是我在炫耀? Cigarette, or am I being ostentatious?
好吧,我……我会把那对夫妇交给警卫。 Well, I'd... I'd give that couple to the guards.
我们最好和他们做朋友。 We'd better stay friends with them.
没想到你会建议用经济援助买朋友。 Wouldn't have thought you would suggest using economic aid to buy friends.
他们很害怕。 They are scared.
如果他们把我们交给共产党，我也不会怪他们。 I wouldn't blame them if they handed us over to the communists.
他们也不相信任何东西。 They don't believe in anything either.
他们只是想要足够的大米。 They just want enough rice.
他们希望每一天都和往常一样。 They want one day to be much the same as another.
他们不希望我们这些白种人告诉他们他们想要什么。 They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.
你在告诉他们他们不想要的东西，这是一回事。 You're telling them what they don't want, which is the same thing.
俄罗斯的皮肤仍然是白色的。 The skins in Russia are still white too.
-整个印度支那都去。-我知道那张唱片。 - All of Indochina goes. - I know that record.
缅甸去了，马来亚去了，印度尼西亚去了。 Burma goes, Malaya goes, Indonesia goes.
但是go是什么意思呢? But what does go mean?
我不知道我为什么要谈政治。我对他们不感兴趣。 Well, I don't know what I'm talking politics for. They don't interest me.
我是记者，与此事无关。 I'm a reporter, I'm not involved.
我的朋友，你参与了很多。 My friend, you are a mass of involvement.
我不偏袒任何一方。 I don't take sides.
我还是会报道谁赢了。 I'd be still reporting whoever wins.
如果他们赢了，你甚至不能假装相信你所报道的。 If they win, you won't even be able to pretend you believe what you report.
个人和他的自由突然变得重要起来。 This sudden importance of the individual and his freedom.
为什么我们才刚刚发现它?50年前，没人提起过它。 Why have we only just discovered it? 50 years ago, no one ever spoke of it.
当时它并没有受到威胁。 It wasn't threatened then.
我们的没有受到威胁，但谁在乎他们的呢? Ours wasn't threatened then, no, but who cared then about theirs?
哦，不要到东方来哭诉个人灵魂受到的威胁，除非你准备为此做点什么。 Oh, don't come to the east with that cry about the threat about the individual soul, not unless you are prepared to do something about it.
此时此刻，对这些人来说，是其他人代表了个人。 At this moment to these people, it's the others who stand for the individual.
对我们来说，它们只是某些人的全球战略概念中的许多单元。 To us, they are just so many units in somebody's concept of global strategy.
其中一些是非常不幸的事实。 Some of that is very unhappily true.
你准备怎么做呢? And what are you prepared to do about it?
我吗? Me?
我来自一个存在不到200年的国家，在一个非常古老的世界里。 I'm from a country that's been in existence for less than 200 years in a very old world.
同样是在50年前，我们几乎没有被当作一个国家来对待，更不用说作为一支智慧和决策的强大力量了。 That same 50 years ago, we were barely taken seriously as a nation, much less a great force for wisdom and decision.
但是突然之间，在历史的一段时间之后，世界愤怒地等待着我们提供它在50个世纪里都没能找到的答案。 But suddenly now, a watch-tick of history later, the world waits angrily for us to provide the answers it hasn't been able to find in 50 centuries.
法国巡逻坦克。 French patrol tank.
没我想的那么聪明把你的车开走。 It wasn't as smart as I thought getting your car off the road.
也许我们可以在他们回来的路上给他们发信号。 Maybe we can signal them on their way back.
如果他们回来。 If they come back.
好吧，在此期间，我们没有什么比睡觉更好的了。 Well, in the meantime, there is nothing better we can do than try and sleep.
你不困吗? Aren't you sleepy?
只是思考。 Just thinking.
你觉得芳现在在干什么? What do you suppose Phuong is doing right now?
现在?也许，她躺在床上，点着一根香来驱赶蚊子，背诵她收集的图画书。 Now? Probably, sprawled on the bed, a joss stick burning to keep away the mosquitoes, memorizing her collection of picture books.
她比我更了解王室。 She knows more about the royal family than I do.
她可以带你去大峡谷游览。 She can take you on a tour of the Grand Canyon.
我希望她会。 I wish she would.
听起来像地雷。 Sounded like a mine.
我想那辆坦克不会再回来了。 I guess that tank won't be coming back.
不。 No.
恐怕我们要倒霉了。 We're in for it, I'm afraid.
他在说什么，你能猜到吗? What's he saying, can you guess?
可能是给这些家伙的最后通牒，让他们投降。 Probably an ultimatum to these chaps to surrender.
听起来像留声机的唱片。 Sounds like a gramophone record.
他们有多亲密? How close are they?
看不见他们。 Can't see them.
大概200码吧。 About 200 yards, I should say.
我们帮不了这两个人。我们离开这里吧。 We're no help to these two. Let's get out of here.
径直向田野走去。瞄准米饭。 Make straight for the field. Aim for the rice.
我不知道水有多深。 I don't know how deep the water is.
等我们到了就知道了。 We'll find out when we get there.
我的脚!我跳的时候有东西碎了。 My foot! Something broken when I jumped.
-别这样。-别逞英雄了 - Come on. - Don't be a bloody hero.
就像德州人说的那样，朝高高的草丛走去。 Head for the tall grass, as they say in Texas.
我不想让你帮我。 I don't want to be helped by you.
就此事给《泰晤士报》写封信。 Write a letter about it to The Times.
你知道那些孩子最有趣的是什么吗，他们没有逃跑。 You know what's the funny thing about those kids, they didn't run.
我想留下来。我宁愿死在陆地上。 I wanted to stay. I prefer to die on dry land.
省省吧。 Save your breath.
谁让你救我的命? Who the hell asked you to save my life?
我们不是电影里的海军陆战队员。 We are not a couple of movie marines.
你最后连那个女孩都得不到。 You're not even gonna get the girl in the end.
这辆车真可惜。 It's a shame about the car.
我希望它投保了。 I hope it was insured.
你想得真周到。 Thoughtful of you.
的特点。 Characteristic.
真讨厌看到一辆汽车发生了什么事，却没有保险公司为它买单。 Hate to see anything happen to an automobile without an insurance company getting stuck for it.
如果你不介意的话，我想回到沟里去。 If you don't mind, I think I'd like to go back to the ditch.
躺平。这是相当痛苦的。 Lie flat. This is quite painful.
这是消防员的电梯。我在童子军里学的。 This is the fireman's lift. I learned it in the Boy Scouts.
他们教你错误的东西。 They taught you the wrong things.
你应该让我躺在原地。 You should have left me lying where I was.
我今天做的好事。 My good deed for today.
芳可能会想念你的善良和偶尔的礼物。 Phuong might miss your kindness and occasional gifts.
你这么做是为了芳? So, you did it for Phuong?
此外,特征。 Also, characteristic.
美国人认为女人爱英雄。 The American belief that women love heroes.
不总是正确的。 Not always.
如果我死了，你就能得到她了。 You could have had her if I were dead.
-你的腿尽量不要动太多。-如果是你，我早就离开你了 - Try not to move that leg too much. - If it'd been you, I'd have left you.
不，你不会的。 No, you wouldn't.
我一会儿就回来。 I'll be back in a little while.
你想去哪儿? Where do you think you're going?
去找法国巡逻队了。 Down the road to look for a French patrol.
别傻了。他们在知道你是谁之前就会杀了你。 Don't be a fool. They'll shoot you before they know who you are.
-如果其他人没先抓到你。-再见。 - If the others don't get you first. - I'll see ya.
他的行动就像一个男孩冒险故事中的英雄，他的英雄主义就像童子军的徽章一样，完全没有意识到他的冒险是荒谬的和不可能的。 He moved like a hero in a boy's adventure story, wearing his heroism like a Scout's badge and quite unaware of the absurdity and improbability of his adventure.
但荒谬和不可能的事情，比如童子军和海军陆战队，最终往往比我们想象的要多。 But the absurd and the improbable, like the Boy Scouts and Marines win in the end more often than we like to think.
几周后，是我从西贡医院回家的日子。 And a few weeks later, it was my day for going home from the hospital in Saigon.
“亲爱的托马斯，收到你的来信我并不感到惊讶。 "Dear Thomas, I was not surprised to get your letter.
“你不是一个人，你不会一个人呆太久吧?” "You're not a man, are you, to remain alone for very long.
“你喜欢女人，就像你的外套喜欢灰尘一样。” "You seem to pick up women like your coat picks up dust. "
-她允许你嫁给我吗?-她还没说 - Does she permit that you marry me? - She doesn't say yet.
“你真的会娶她吗?” "Would you actually marry her?
“也许，你会的。 "Perhaps, you would.
“我想，你和我们其他人一样，也上了年纪，不喜欢一个人住。 "I suppose, like the rest of us, you're getting on and don't like living alone.
“有时候，我自己也感到非常孤独。 "I feel very lonely myself, at times.
“即使是一个女人，如果她走得足够早，也能找到另一个伴侣。 "Even a woman, if she's left early enough, can find another companion.
“但是你没有及时离开我。” "But you didn't leave me in time. "
那是什么? What was that?
这是干邑白兰地。 It is fini, the cognac.
“结婚并不能阻止你离开一个女人，是吗?” "And marriage doesn't prevent you from leaving a woman, does it?
“这只会拖延进程。 "It only delays the process.
“你说失去这个女孩就是生命的终结。 "You say it will be the end of life to lose this girl.
你曾经对我说过同样的话。 "Once you used exactly that phrase to me.
“我想我不是第一个听到这个消息的人，她也不会是最后一个。 "I don't suppose I was the first to hear it nor will she be the last.
"你总是把真相看得那么重要，托马斯"但你的真相总是那么短暂。 "You've always attached so much importance to the truth, Thomas, "but your truth is always so temporary.
“我从来没能和你争论，也没能说服你。 "And I've never been able to argue with you or to convince you.
"所以，按照我的信仰行事更容易"简单地写，我不赞成离婚。 "So, it's easier to act as my faith tells me to act "and simply to write, I don't believe in divorce.
“我的宗教禁止这样做。 "My religion forbids it.
“答案是否定的。” "The answer is no. "
信坏了? The letter's bad?
她不同意? She says no?
没有这回事。 Nothing of the kind.
这很有帮助。 It's very helpful.
她正在咨询律师。 She's consulting a lawyer.
那就是最幸福的信了。 Then it is the most happiest letter.
你读的时候还拉长了脸。 And you read it with such a long face.
可能需要一些时间。安排很复杂。 May take some time. The arrangements are complicated.
你可以和解。 You could make a settlement.
我没有钱。 I have no money.
我姐姐说你可以把…你生命的保证。 My sister says you could take out... Assurance of your life.
你妹妹骨子里是个诗人。 Your sister is a poet at heart.
我可以买两条新的丝巾吗? May I buy two new scarves of silk?
我的嫁妆? For my trousseau?
三个，如果你喜欢的话。 Three, if you like.
这是一笔足够普通的世俗财富。 It's a modest enough endowment of worldly goods.
进来。 Come in.
- - - - - -你好。-你感觉怎么样? - Hello. - How are you feeling?
哦，来了。事实上，我正准备回家。 Oh, coming along. Actually, I was in process of going home.
我知道。我就是为此而来的。 I know. That's why I'm here.
哦，我忘了告诉你。 Oh, I forget to tell you.
因为他有大开的美国汽车，我让我妹妹问他，他会来这里接你吗? Because he have big open American auto, I ask my sister to ask him, would he come here to fetch you?
在小型汽车里，你的腿放不下。 In a little auto, your leg would not fit.
她不应该那样做。 She shouldn't have done that.
她想得真周到。不麻烦我。 Very thoughtful of her. No trouble for me.
-这是你的包吗?-哦，不用担心了。 - Is this your bag? - Oh, don't bother about that.
你拄着拐杖就能应付一切了。 You have all you can handle with those crutches.
我在这儿的时候一直想写信给你，向你表示感谢。 I've been meaning to write to you while I was here to say thank you.
你确实把我从一个不舒服的结局中救了出来。 You certainly saved me from an uncomfortable end.
准备好了吗? Ready to go?
顺便说一下，我有个消息要告诉你，我知道你会很高兴听到的。 By the way, I have news for you that I know you'll be glad to hear.
你总是说芳的利益是我们的共同利益。 You've always said that Phuong's interests are what we both had at heart.
我刚收到我妻子的一封信。 I just received a letter from my wife.
她差不多同意和我离婚了。 She's more or less agreed to divorce me.
祝你俩幸福美满。 I wish you both every happiness.
你太公平了。 That's very fair of you.
我无情地对他们俩撒了谎。 I had lied cruelly to them both.
但我想，至少现在她不会离开我，在我不得不离开之前。 But I thought, at least, she won't leave me now, before I have to go.
你在中国新年的时候布置圣诞树是不是有点早了? Aren't you setting up the tree a little early for the Chinese new year?
还有几个星期呢。 It's weeks off.
如果等待，最好的花也会凋零。 If one waits, the best blossom are gone.
你决定留下哪条围巾? Which scarf did you decide to keep?
黄色的。 The yellow.
你为什么不给我看? Why didn't you show it to me?
它和其他东西放在一起。 It is put away with the others.
我想看看。 I want to see it.
进来。 Come in.
-早上好。我打扰你了吗?-一点也不。 - Good morning. Do I disturb? - Not at all.
正如你所看到的，我们从中国新年开始就有六个星期的假期。 As you see, we're getting a six weeks' running start on the Chinese new year.
你真好。 You are very kind.
-你的腿怎么样了?-哦，来了。 - How is your leg? - Oh, coming along.
我再也不需要这根棍子了。 I shan't require even this stick much longer.
哦，请坐，好吗?一些咖啡吗? Oh, sit down, won't you? Some coffee?
如果不麻烦的话，可以喝苏打水。 Perhaps soda, if it is no trouble.
Phuong…… Phuong...
有什么事吗? Uh, what's the story?
你总是这么快就明白我的意思。 How quickly you always come to my point.
如果这是一个故事，它只属于你一个人。 If it a story, it is one only for you.
如果落入不客观的人之手，可能会被歪曲成丑陋的诽谤。 In the wrong hands, someone less objective, it could be distorted into an ugly slander.
-听起来很重要。-可能吧。 - Oh, it sounds important. - It might be.
非常感谢。 Thank you most kindly.
我想带你去见我的一位中国朋友。恒先生。 I would like to take you to meet a Chinese friend of mine. Mr. Heng.
当然，你一定忘了他的名字，也忘了你曾经见过他。 You must forget his name, of course, and that you have ever seen him.
是关于什么的? What's it about?
我宁愿你接到他的电话。 I would rather you heard from him.
你最近经常见到那个美国年轻人吗? Have you seen much lately of the young American?
从他开车送我从医院回家那天起就没见过了。 Well, not since the morning he drove me home from the hospital.
那是多久以前的事了?两个星期吗?三个? How long ago is that? Two weeks? Three?
我不记得了。 I do not remember.
在我看来你应该这么做。 Seems to me you should.
你说的每一个迹象都表明这是非常快乐的一天。 You gave every indication that it was quite a happy day.
但你已经很了解他了? But you had come to know him well?
-在某些方面。为什么?-他的活动。 - In some ways. Why? - His activities.
除了他的慈善组织和他的学业。 Apart from his charitable organization and his studies.
我只是听你说的。关于塑料的废话。 Only what I heard from you. This nonsense about plastics.
第三种力量。 The third force.
每个人都听他说过那件事。 Everybody's heard him sounding off about that.
有人听说，这已经成为他的执念。 One hears it has now become an obsession with him.
是啊，他来的时候就这么说了。 Yes, well, he was preaching that when he got here.
这只能说明他什么都没学到。 It just shows that he hasn't learned anything.
必须为这第三股势力找到一个领袖。 And that a leader must be found for this third force.
他可能找到了他的领袖。 He may have found his leader.
这有关系吗? Does it matter?
我不知道。 I don't know.
我可以带你去见我的朋友了吗? May I take you now to my friend?
好吧，如果你觉得，值得继续调查。 Well, if you think, it's worth following up.
-我会回来吃午饭的。-会准备好的。 - I'll be back for lunch. - It will be prepared.
再见。 Au revoir.
-你的朋友好像不在这里。-他说让你进去。 - Your friend doesn't seem to be here. - He said for you to enter.
他会去见你。 And that he would meet you.
-哦，那我怎么认识他呢?-他会认识你的。 - Oh, well, how shall I know him? - He will know you.
-福勒先生?-我和多明格斯一起来的。 - Mr. Fowler? - I've come with the Dominguez.
他说你有事要告诉我。 He said you had something to tell me.
我不认识什么多明格斯。 I do not know any Dominguez.
当然。 Of course.
哦，请跟我来好吗? Oh, will you come with me, please?
-你看到了吗?-怎么了? - Do you see this? - What about it?
Diolacton。 Diolacton.
恐怕这对我来说毫无意义。 Afraid that doesn't mean anything to me.
我这里有两个这样的鼓。 I had two of these drums here.
它们和其他垃圾一起被意外地在莫方然先生的车库里捡到了。 They were picked up accidentally with other junk at a garage of Mr. Fangran Moi.
你认识他吗? Do you know him?
莫伊吗?不，我不这么认为。 Moi? No, I don't think so.
他的妻子是将军的亲戚。 His wife is a relation of General The.
嗯，我还是不太明白…… Well, I still don't quite see...
你知道这是什么吗? Would you know what this is?
可能是浴室的固定装置。 Might be a bathroom fixture.
这是一个模子。 It is a mold.
这个模具是美国制造的。 This mold was made in the USA.
Diolacton是美国的商标名。 Diolacton is an American trade name.
你开始明白了吗? Do you begin to understand?
坦率地说,没有。 Frankly, no.
模具上有个缺陷。 There was a flaw in the mold.
这就是为什么它被扔掉了，但它不应该被扔掉。 That was why it was thrown away, but it should not have been thrown away.
那两个空的Diolacton鼓，是个错误。 Now, the two empty Diolacton drums, that was a mistake.
莫伊先生是亲自来的。 Mr. Moi came here personally.
当然，我找不到模具，只找到了两个鼓中的一个。 Naturally, I could not find the mold and only one of the two drums.
从这里，莫伊直接去了一个年轻美国人的公寓。 From here, Mr. Moi went directly to the flat of a young American.
好吧，也许，他正在他的车库里修理美国人的车。 Well, perhaps, he was repairing the American's car in his garage.
他不是，也从来没有。 He was not and he never has.
莫伊的来访是私人性质的。 Mr. Moi's visit was a private one.
你似乎在那个美国人和将军之间建立了某种联系。 You seem to have established some sort of connection between the American and General The.
一个非常细长的。当然不是新闻。 A very slender one. Certainly not a news story.
也许还没有。 Not yet, perhaps.
然而，美国人认为鸦片会使人上瘾。 And yet the Americans consider opium habit-forming.
福勒先生，你的中立是众所周知的，所以你才来这里。 Uh, Mr. Fowler, your neutrality is well known, that is why you're here.
如果我们中的一些人强烈支持任何一方，你都可以同情。 You can sympathize if some of us feel strongly on whatever side.
如果你是在暗示你是一个共产主义者，别担心，我没有政治。 If you're hinting that you're a communist, don't worry, I have no politics.
对我的委员会来说，有人持公正的观点是很重要的。 It's important to my committee that someone will take a fair view.
这就是我给你们看这个和这个的原因。 That is why I've shown you this and this.
什么是Diolacton ?听起来像炼乳。 Just what is Diolacton. It sounds like condensed milk.
这与牛奶无关。 It has nothing to do with milk.
你看到底部细小的白色灰尘了吗? Do you see the fine white dust on the bottom?
这是美国的一种塑料。 It's one of the American plastics.
是的，他告诉我他在进口塑料来做玩具。 Yes, he told me he was importing plastics for making toys.
不是为了玩具。 Not for toys.
我们只想让你记住你所看到的。 We only want you to remember what you have seen.
也许，有一天你会有理由把它写下来。 Perhaps, one day you'll have a reason for writing about it.
但你绝对不能说你在这里看到了鼓。 But you must never say that you saw the drum here.
也不是霉菌。 Nor the mold.
尤其是霉菌。 Particularly not the mold.
这条路会把你直接带到你朋友等着你的地方。 That path will lead you directly to where your friend is waiting.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
福勒先生。 Mr. Fowler.
也许今天下午一点半整，你会在查纳大道的花摊附近。 Perhaps you will be near the flower stalls on Boulevard Charner at precisely half past 1:00 this afternoon.
一点半? Half past 1:00?
你的朋友，他住在西贡吗? Your friend, does he live here in Saigon?
他来了又走，我相信。 He comes and goes, I believe.
共产党有几个专门从事暗杀的委员会。他不会是其中之一，对吧? The communist have a couple of committees who specialize in assassination. His wouldn't be one of them, would it?
请原谅我的无知。 Forgive my ignorance.
一点半。 Half past 1:00.
几乎是一天中最热的时候。我希望这值得。 Almost the hottest time of the day. I hope it's worth it.
-哦，你好。-你好! - Oh, hello. - How do you do?
午饭前你不坐下来喝点什么吗? Won't you sit down and have a drink before lunch?
你不知道吗? Or don't you?
有时。我不会把它当成一种仪式。不管怎样，我都不想坐下。 Sometimes. I don't make a ritual of it. Either way, I don't wanna sit down.
-请原谅，如果我还坐着…-福勒，你为什么不去教堂? - Forgive me, if I remain seated... - Fowler, why don't you belong to a church?
我以为我们已经把这个话题讲完了。 I thought we'd exhausted that subject.
恐怕我不相信你的神。 I'm afraid I have no faith in your gods.
你对任何事都没有信心。 You have no faith in anything.
这不应该妨碍你去教堂。 That shouldn't keep you from belonging to a church.
由于社会优势，我相信，在美国，属于正统的新教徒……你得找个地方来发泄你的内疚 Because of the social advantages, I believe, that in America, to belong to the proper Protestant... You must need some repository for the guilt
以及你对自己作为人类的自我厌恶。 and self-loathing you feel about yourself as a human being.
我不知道我是否知道。 I don't know that I do.
你最大的才能在于转移你自己的注意力。 Your greatest talent lies in diverting your own attention from it.
我想你是在暗示什么吧。 I assume that you're getting at something.
当你选择一个教堂时，选择一个会听到你的罪恶，至少，你的版本，并给你赦免。 When you do pick a church, choose one that'll hear your sins, at least, your version of them, and give you absolution.
-滚出去。-等我写完。 - Get out of here. - When I have finished.
你可以对教堂撒谎，你知道吗。 You could lie to a church, you know.
然后欺骗它。就像你对待信任你的人一样。 And cheat it. Just as you do to human beings who trust you.
比如你? You, for instance?
一。 For one.
当案子里有女人的时候，你不应该相信任何人。 You should never trust anyone when there's a woman in the case.
你怕不骗芳就赢不了吗? Were you afraid you couldn't win without lying to Phuong?
欧洲的表里不一。 European duplicity.
我们必须弥补供应的不足。 We have to make up for our lack of supplies.
-你怎么知道的?-她妹妹。 - How did you find out? - Her sister.
她知道你被报社叫回家了。 She knows you've been called home by your paper.
哦,,。 Oh, that.
是的，我告诉芳了。她一定告诉了她妹妹。 Yes, I told Phuong about that. She must have told her sister.
那你妻子的信呢?关于离婚的谎言? And the letter from your wife? The lie about the divorce?
快到吃午饭的时间了。 It is almost time for lunch.
就吃一次半熟的牛排吧。 Have yourself a rare steak for once.
一个无聊的谎言，福勒。 A dreary lie, Fowler.
请原谅我的美国风格，老土。 If you'll pardon the Americanism, corny.
这是一个绝望的中年中产阶级丈夫最喜欢的谎言，他想留住一段业余恋情。 A favorite lie of a desperate, middle-aged, middle-class husband trying to hang on to an extracurricular fling.
芳的姐姐是怎么拿到这封信的? How did Phuong's sister get hold of the letter?
芳不知怎么弄到了。 Phuong had it somehow.
她带着骄傲和幸福把它翻译过来。 She brought it with pride and happiness to have it translated.
我可能已经猜到她知道了。 I might have guessed that she knew.
说谎的原因应该很明显了。 Well, the reason for the lie should be obvious enough.
我想留住她。 I wanted to keep her.
只是为了安慰一下。在你准备离开她之前，这是一种老式的安慰。 Just as a comfort. One of the old-fashioned comforts until you're ready to leave her.
与什么? With what?
当然不是用冷冻机和电视机。 Certainly not with a deep freeze and a television set.
你的反美主义也过时了。 Your anti-Americanisms are pretty worn out, too.
他们中的一些人现在已经反英了。 Some of them have become anti-British by now.
你有没有想过她可能想要一个家，一个归属的地方，孩子们? Have you thought she might want a home, a place to belong, children?
聪明年轻的美国公民，准备好作证了。这是最新的吗? Bright, young American citizens, ready to testify. Is that more up-to-date?
不多，但扭曲程度更大。 Not much, but the distortion is greater.
那就感谢我吧。 Well, then be grateful to me.
你现在也可以放下你的顾虑，不带顾虑地向前走了。 You can drop your scruples now too, and go ahead without them.
我不太确定你有多谨慎，远离宽屏的浪漫世界。 Not that I am too sure how scrupulous you are, away from the wide-screen world of romance.
-比如塑料制品?——塑料? - With plastics, for instance? - Plastics?
快一点了。 It's almost 1:00.
你在说什么? What are you talking about?
我希望你知道你在做什么。 I hope you know what you're doing there.
我认为你的动机是好的。嗯，他们总是这样。 I assume that your motives are good. Well, they always are.
有时候我真希望你有一些不好的动机。 I sometimes wish you had a few bad motives.
也许能帮你更了解人类。 Might help you to understand a little more about human beings.
你知道，对像你这样的人来说，某些词的使用应该得到许可，比如枪支。 You know, for people as expert with them as you are, the use of certain words should be licensed, like guns.
像人类和理解这样的词。 Words such as human beings and understanding.
在你手中，他们是社会的威胁。 In your hands, they are a menace to society.
Bicyclette操作。 Operation Bicyclette.
发生什么事情了?看起来像警察的芭蕾舞。 What's happening? It looks like a policemen's ballet.
现在还不到一点半。 It is not yet half past 1:00.
我的表准慢了四分钟。 My watch must be four minutes slow.
接下来会发生什么? What happens next?
就目前而言，仅此而已。 For the time being, that is all.
这到底是怎么回事? What's it all about?
我给你看样东西。 Let me show you something.
仔细观察。 Look carefully.
看泵。 Look at the pump.
这让你想起什么了吗? Does it remind you of anything?
是的，塑料模具。 Yes, the mold for the plastic.
它的形状就像自行车打气筒的一半。 That was shaped like the half-section of a bicycle pump.
我想你会感兴趣的。 I thought you would be interested.
来和我喝一杯吧，恒。我想多了解一些。 Come and have a drink with me, Heng. I'd like to know more about it.
抱歉，我可能会给你偏见。 Oh, I'm sorry, I might give you a prejudiced opinion.
莫伊先生的车库就在那里。 The garage of Mr. Moi is right there.
但莫伊目前身在他处。 But Mr. Moi is elsewhere at the moment.
在接下来的日子里，我偶尔瞥见他们在一起。 In the days that followed, I caught occasional glimpses of them together.
在电影院。 At the cinema.
当然是和他的狗在植物园里散步。 Strolling with his dog, of course, in the botanical gardens.
开着他的车经过欧陆，一起笑着年轻。 Driving past the Continental in his car, laughing at being young together.
我还没有准备好去冒险碰到他们。 I was not yet ready to risk the chance of running into them.
所以，我发现自己偶尔会去像乐亭这样的地方。 So, I found myself from time to time in places like Le Pavilion.
Le Pavilion是一个为非亚裔妻子提供咖啡和闲聊的中心，在街道上一层楼，被认为是廉价和卫生的。 Le Pavilion was a coffee and gossip center for non-Asiatic wives, one flight above the street, considered cheap and sanitary.
芳和那个美国人去那里的可能性都很小。 There was little likelihood that either Phuong or the American would come there.
再说了，当时是早上11点。 Besides, it was 11:00 in the morning.
我很清楚芳会在哪里。 And I knew precisely where Phuong would be.
在大陆酒吧对面的牛奶吧喝奶昔。 Having her milkshake at the milk bar, across from the Continental.
-怎么了?-炸弹，先生。 - What is it? - A bomb, monsieur.
一场大灾难。 A great disaster.
-靠近大陆酒店。——大陆? - Close to the Continental. - Continental?
Vigot !Vigot ! Vigot! Vigot!
我得去趟牛奶吧。我有个朋友在那里。 I've gotta get across to the milk bar. I've got a friend there.
这里的每个人都有朋友。 Everybody here has friends.
牛奶酒吧。芳在牛奶吧。 Milk bar. Phuong is at the milk bar.
-我们必须过去。-她不在那儿。 - We must get across to it. - She's not there.
-她一定是。她总是11点去。-今天早上没有。 - She must be. She always goes at 11:00. - Not this morning.
-为什么?你怎么知道的?-我警告过她不要这么做 - Why not? How'd you know? - I warned her not to.
你警告……-你警告过她是什么意思?-叫她离我远点 You warned... - What do you mean you warned her? - Told her to stay away.
本来应该有法国阅兵式的。在最后一刻取消了。 There was supposed to be a French military parade. It was canceled at the last minute.
我听说可能会有示威游行，就像那些自行车炸弹一样。 I heard rumors there might be a demonstration sometime, like those bicycle bombs.
-不是“那些”自行车炸弹。你的!——我的吗? - Not "those" bicycle bombs. Yours! - Mine?
看一看。好好看看周围。 Take a look. Take a good look around.
看一大鼓的Diolacton能做什么。 And see what full drum of Diolacton can do.
——Diolacton ?-不，我要你看! - Diolacton? - No, I want you to look!
为什么偏偏在购物时间，到处都是妇女和儿童? Why this of all hours, the shopping hour, when the place is filled with women and children?
你在说什么? What are you talking about?
你认为将军会因为阅兵式取消而取消轰炸吗? Do you think that General The would call off the bombing because the parade was canceled?
不，不，这比游行好多了。这是头版新闻。 No, no, this is much better than a parade. This is front page news.
妇女和儿童的鲜血。这才是真正的新闻。 The blood of women and children. That's real news.
你一定是疯了。 You must be out of your mind.
听着，你把你的将军放在地图上，好吗。 Look, you put your General The on the map, all right.
看，街上的红色。这是你的第三股力量。 Look, that red color on the street. There's your third force.
这些东西被担架抬着，这就是你们国家的民主。 And those things being carried by on stretchers, there's your national democracy.
你为什么不闭嘴? Why don't you shut up?
这辈子就这一次，你为什么不闭嘴帮帮别人呢? For once in your life, why don't you just shut up and help somebody?
回家去见芳，告诉她那些英勇牺牲的人。 Go home to Phuong, and tell her about the heroic dead.
福勒先生。 Mr. Fowler.
又少了几十个需要担心的同胞。 A few dozen less of her country people to worry about.
福勒先生。 Mr. Fowler.
有人要见你。 Someone wants to see you.
人吗?谁，你的朋友? Someone? Who, your friend?
如果你愿意，我可以带你去见他。 If you want, I can bring you to him.
我当时就在现场。 I was there in the middle of it.
-血…-我知道。 - Blood... - I know.
请原谅我带你来这里。 Forgive my bringing you here.
我们最好在他们最不可能搜寻我或我的同伙的地方见面。 It was thought best that we meet where they would be least likely to search for me or my associates.
这是一个奇怪的礼拜场所。 This place of strange worship.
不会比圣保罗教堂和圣彼得教堂更陌生。 No stranger than Saint Paul's or Saint Peter's.
警察今天将非常活跃。 The police will be very active today.
你跟这事一点关系都没有。又是那个美国人。 You had nothing to do with it. It was the American again.
他的将军不是一个控制欲很强的人。 His General The's not a very controlled character.
而且塑料不是德州男孩的专利…… And plastics are not for boys from Texas...
我能帮什么忙，恒?必须阻止他。 Look, how can I help, Heng? He's gotta be stopped.
你必须保持冷静，福勒先生。 You must try to be calm, Mr. Fowler.
你能从一鼓Diolacton中取出多少炸弹和死去的孩子? How many bombs and dead children can you get out of a drum of Diolacton?
如果你强烈认为必须阻止他，你愿意帮助我们吗? If you feel so strongly that he must be stopped, would you be prepared to help us?
他笨手笨脚地来到这里，其他人不得不因为他的错误而死。 He comes blundering in here and other people have to die because of his mistakes.
很遗憾你不知道那晚他在瞭望塔上。 It's a pity you didn't know he was in the watch tower that night.
你可以确保你的人抓到他。 You could have made sure that your people would get him.
这会对很多人的生活产生很大的影响。 It would've made a lot of difference to a lot of lives.
我们在一个地方站得太久了。 We have been standing in one place too long.
我们同意你的看法，他必须受到约束。 We agree with you that he has to be restrained.
如果你能邀请他今晚去老磨坊餐厅吃饭的话。 If you would invite him to dinner tonight at the Vieux Moulin restaurant.
八点半到九点半之间? Between 8:30 and 9:30?
我们会在路上和他谈谈。 We would talk to him on the way.
他可能不想这么做。他可能做不到。 Well, he may not want to. He may not be able to.
然后让他在6点之前到你的公寓来。 Then ask him to call at your flat sometime before 6:00.
他一定会来的。 He will certainly come.
如果他接受你的邀请共进晚餐，拿一本书到你的窗前，好像要抓住光。 If he accepts your invitation to dinner, take a book to your window as though to catch the light.
为什么是老磨坊餐厅? Why the Vieux Moulin restaurant?
它在通往达科的桥旁边。我们可以不受打扰地谈话了。 It is by the bridge to Dakow. We shall be able to talk undisturbed.
你会怎么做? What will you do?
我向你保证，在情况允许的情况下，我们会尽量温和行事。 I promise you, we will act as gently as the situation allows.
你会帮助我们吗，福勒先生? Will you help us, Mr. Fowler?
我不知道。 I don't know.
一个人迟早要站队。 Sooner or later, one has to take sides.
不是吗? Is that not so?
拿一本书到窗前，就好像你想抓住光一样。 Take a book to the window as though you want to catch the light.
恒先生的指示突然带着一种廉价的煽情的味道。 Mr. Heng's instructions smacked suddenly of cheap melodrama.
肯定有一本合适的书，一篇相关的文章。 Surely there must a proper book, a pertinent passage.
进来。 Come in.
我在门缝下发现了你的纸条。 I found your note under my door.
你能来真是太好了。 It is forgiving of you to come.
-我也这么认为。-你要喝点什么吗? - I thought so. - Will you have a drink?
我只能待一分钟。 I can only stay a minute.
那你今天一定很忙吧。 Well, you must be having a very busy day.
纸条上说你想见我。关于什么? The note said you wanted to see me. What about?
我想，如果你没有订婚，我们可以一起吃晚饭。 I thought, if you weren't engaged, we might have dinner together.
为什么? Why?
也许是为了谈谈。 Perhaps to talk.
好吧，我想我们应该。 All right, I think we should.
九点到九点半在老磨坊餐厅吗? The Vieux Moulin restaurant between 9:00 and 9:30?
你喜欢哪里都行。我想我们应该再试一次互相理解。 Wherever you like. I think we should try once more to understand each other.
我们晚餐的时候试试。 We'll try at dinner.
你从将军那里得到什么消息? What do you hear from General The?
-我最近没见到他。——不是吗? - I haven't seen him lately. - No?
我本以为他会到西贡来看看他的炸弹是如何工作的。 I should have thought he'd have come to Saigon to see how his bomb worked.
你为什么这么肯定炸弹是他的? What makes you so sure it was his bomb?
不是吗? Wasn't it?
他是个捉摸不透的人。我不知道。我不这么想。 He's an unpredictable man. I don't know. I don't think so.
我不应该太相信他。 I shouldn't trust him too much.
相信我，国际民主是书本里的东西。 Believe me, international democracy is something that comes out of a book.
这一个吗? That one?
不，我在回忆最喜欢的一段。 No, I was trying to recall a favorite passage.
将军只不过是一个带着几千人的土匪。 General The is nothing but a bandit with a few thousand men.
他不是你的第三势力的领袖。 He's not the leader for your third force.
这不是我的第三势力。谁说他是首领? It's not my third force. And whoever said he was the leader?
你的国家不能相信像。 Your country mustn't trust men like The.
答应我，你不会再帮他了。 Promise me, you won't help him anymore.
帮助他吗?我的国家吗?你承诺? Help him? My country? Promise you?
你这是在胡说八道。 You're talking cloak-and-dagger nonsense.
哦，我忘了，你是个学生。一个普通市民用奶粉，滴滴涕和消防电梯拯救了东部。 Oh, I had forgotten, you're a student. A private citizen saving the east with powdered milk, DDT and the fireman's lift.
将军会举办自我管理研讨会还是…还是专攻塑料? Does General The conduct a seminar in self-administration or... Or does he specialize in plastics?
塑料吗? Plastics again?
这顿晚餐可要漫长了。我们有很多事情要解决。 This is gonna be a long dinner. We've got a lot to straighten out.
不。我最好取消今晚的晚餐。 No. I'd better cancel dinner tonight.
也许下次吧。 Perhaps another time.
-下次可能不太合适。-那就待在这儿好好谈谈。 - Another time might be the wrong time. - Well, stay here and talk now.
后来……之后我们可以出去吃饭，去任何地方。 Afterward... Later we can go out to dinner, anywhere.
我去拿杯啤酒，餐厅见。 I'll grab a cyclo-pousse and meet you at the restaurant.
拜托，杜克。 Come on, Duke.
今天下午我的车又出毛病了。 My car went on the blink again this afternoon.
发动不起来。 Couldn't get it to start.
那晚从德宁来的路上，你现在还带枪吗? Do you carry a gun now, after that night on the road from Tay Ninh?
这是个奇怪的问题。 That's an odd question.
我为什么要这么做? Why should I?
我本来想留到晚餐吃的，但你拍的我的照片真的很奇怪。 You know, I was gonna keep it all for dinner, but you've really got a weird picture of me.
首先，我确实和将军有过联系。 To begin with, it's quite true that I have been in touch with General The.
-一根烟?——没有。 - A cigarette? - No.
但这一次，我们对真相的看法是一致的。 But for once our concept of the truth coincides.
大学毕业后，我在普林斯顿做了一些研究生的工作。 After I was graduated from college, I took some post-graduate work up at Princeton.
你的哪所大学提供公共关系和戏剧艺术学位? One of your universities that give degrees in public relations and theater craft?
爱因斯坦想得更多。 Einstein thought more of it.
当我在那里的时候，我遇到了一个在新泽西流亡的非常杰出的越南人。 While I was there, I met a very prominent Vietnamese living in exile in New Jersey.
他是谁? Who was he?
你知道或者应该和我一样清楚。 You know or should know as well as I.
因为如果一切顺利，如果越南成为一个独立的共和国，这个人将成为它的领导人。 Because if all goes well, if Vietnam becomes an independent republic, this man will be its leader.
这位未来的领袖派你去见将军? And this future leader sent you to General The?
你凭什么相信任何一个理智的政府或理智的人会派我去执行这样的任务? What makes you believe any sane government or sane man would send me on a mission like that?
那是谁派你去找将军的? Then who did send you to General The?
-是的。-你和他有什么关系? - I did. - What was your business with him?
我恰好非常相信这第三种力量。 I happen to believe very deeply in that third force.
所以我想知道，如果这个人回到越南，将军会忠于谁。 So I wanted to find out where the General's loyalties would lie, if and when this man returned home to Vietnam.
你呢? And did you?
真可惜你不能来。这将是一场精彩的表演。 Too bad you won't be here. It'll be quite a show.
你真以为我会相信吗? You seriously expect me to believe that?
不。 No.
我觉得你在情感上相信任何你需要相信的东西。 I think you believe whatever you need to believe emotionally.
你的政府有什么权利派你去执行这种愚蠢的任务? What right has your government to send you on an idiotic mission like this?
干涉别人的生活。 To meddle with the lives of other people.
我已经说了一遍又一遍，我的政府与此事无关。 I have told you and told you, my government has nothing to do with it.
不管是不是白痴，这都是我自己的主意。 Idiotic or not it was my own idea.
-那他们为什么不阻止你?-是的。 - Well, why haven't they stopped you? - They have.
他们对此不太高兴。 They weren't very pleasant about it.
这就是为什么我得赶紧结束。 That's why I've got to finish up in a hurry.
我下周就要被遣送回家了。 I'm being sent home next week.
芳和我一起去。我们要在家里结婚。 Phuong's going with me. We're going to be married at home.
然后，他第一次谈到了芳。 Then, for the first time, he spoke of Phuong.
把芳带走。 Of taking Phuong away with him.
只留下我一个人。 And leaving me behind alone.
现在看来我们可以请她妹妹来参加婚礼了。 Now, it looks as though we'll be able to bring her sister over for the wedding.
屋子里会挤满人的。 The house will be packed.
我能想象到我母亲现在正为把大家安置在哪里而烦恼。 I can see my mother now, stewing about where she's going to put everybody.
你还在找最喜欢的那一段吗? You still looking for that favorite passage?
我刚想起来…… I just remembered...
"虽然我猜得不对，"我承认，这是我天生的毛病" "Though I perchance, am vicious in my guess, "as, I confess, it is my nature's plague."
奥赛罗，是吗?不要停止。 Othello, isn't it? Don't stop.
"窥探恶行，"消除我的嫉妒。 "To spy into abuses, "and oft my jealousy.
“塑造错误，而不是……” "Shapes faults that are not..."
再也不会有像他那样的人了，对吧? There will never be another like him, will there?
想想以前从未想过的关于人类的想法。 Think thoughts about human beings that have never been thought before.
他继续记着《伊丽莎白时代戏剧概论》的课堂笔记。 He went on remembering his classroom notes from An Introduction to Elizabethan Drama.
突然，我觉得很累。 Suddenly, I was very tired.
我希望他快点离开，然后死去。 I wanted him to go away quickly and die.
这样芳和我，还有这个世界，就会恢复原样。 So that Phuong and I, and the world, would be as we were.
在他进来之前。 Before he came in.
我想，表达独特思想或独特话语的能力就是所谓的天才。 And I imagine that the ability to express the unique thought or the unique word is what's called genius.
我想是的。 I imagine so.
-你很有文字天赋。-谢谢。 - You've got a great talent for words. - Thank you.
你依赖他们。 You depend on them.
好像用一种有效的方式说出一件事就能让它成真似的。 As if saying a thing in an effective way made it true.
我们把真相留到晚餐时再说好吗? Shall we save the truth for dinner?
拜托，杜克。 Come on, Duke.
你到底在怕什么? What are you afraid of anyway?
就像一个青春期的男孩一直在说脏话，因为他不想让任何人思考，他不知道这是怎么回事。 Like an adolescent boy who keeps on using dirty words all the time because he doesn't want anyone to think, he doesn't know what it's all about.
你会讨厌这个的。 You're going to hate this.
但我觉得你是我见过的最无辜的人之一。 But I think you're one of the most truly innocent men I'll ever know.
晚饭时见。 See you at dinner.
我们可以另约时间。 We can make it another time.
那是什么? What's that?
如果你的工作花费的时间比你想象的要长。 If your work takes you longer than you think.
别费事和我共进晚餐了。 Don't bother about meeting me for dinner.
-我能做到。-但如果你觉得不舒服，稍后再来看看。 - I can make it. - But if you can't comfortably, look in here later.
如果你不来接我，我10点回来等你。 I'll come back at 10:00, if you don't meet me, and wait for you.
给他一次机会也无妨。 There was no harm in giving him that one chance.
但我希望的是什么? But what was I hoping for?
难道在所有人当中，我更希望出现奇迹吗? Did I, of all people, hope for some kind of miracle?
这是恒先生安排的讨论方式，不会……简单的死亡。 A method of discussion arranged by Mr. Heng which would not be... Simply death.
这不再是我的决定。 It was no longer my decision.
我把它交给了一个我不相信的人。 I had handed it over to that somebody in whom I didn't believe.
如果你愿意，你可以干预。 You can intervene if you want to.
在很多方面，他的办公桌上的电报，他的狗可能会生病。 In so many ways, a telegram on his desk, his dog can become ill.
部长可能要见他。 The minister can want to see him.
他的工作，不管是什么，都会占去时间。 His work, whatever it is, can take up the time.
除非你拥有改变未来的能力，否则你无法生存。 You cannot exist unless you have the power to alter the future.
今天下午5点47分。 It was exactly 5:47 this afternoon.
6点的时候，我会在大陆酒店喝一杯。 At 6:00, I would be having a drink at the Continental.
服务员会记得的。 The waiters would remember.
打开门。把门打开! Open the door. Open this door!
不可原谅的过失。我不知道你还在那里。 Inexcusable negligence. I had no idea you were still there.
你一定冷到骨头里了，福勒先生。 You must be chilled to the bone, Mr. Fowler.
你要来杯白兰地吗? Would you have a cognac?
如果你和我结束了，我现在要回家了。 I'll go home now, if you're finished with me.
当然了。我有个司机在待命。 Well, of course. I have a driver standing by.
最后一次看到一个朋友处于这样的状态，一定不愉快吧。 Cannot have been pleasant to see a friend for the last time in such a condition.
不。 No.
哦，这可能不完全合法，但你可能想把它作为纪念品。 Oh, this is perhaps not entirely legal, but you might want to have this as a keepsake.
对他更愉快的回忆。 A more agreeable memory of him.
这是在他的空钱包附近的河岸泥中发现的。 It was found near his empty wallet in the mud of the river bank.
有迹象表明谋杀的动机是抢劫。 An indication that the motive of the murder was robbery.
你真好，但我还有别的回忆。 Well, that's kind of you, but I have other memories.
顺便问一下那只狗怎么样了，你在找它吗? By the way what happened to the dog, you looking for it?
不。 No.
嗯，它可能会……谢谢你！ Well, it will probably... Thank you.
当美国人饿了的时候出现在他的公寓里。 Turn up in the American's flat when it's hungry.
如果现在还没被吃掉的话。 If it hasn't been eaten by now.
如果是的话，你可以用它的爪子分析地球。 If it does, you might analyze the earth in its paws.
也许，你会让我在…在侦探小说里，福勒先生。 Perhaps, you will immortalize me in a... In a detective romance, Mr. Fowler.
检查员Lecoq。检查员麦克雷。 Inspector Lecoq. Inspector McRae.
检查员Vigot。 Inspector Vigot.
你最后一次见到那个美国人的时候那条狗和他在一起吗? Was the dog with him when you last saw the American?
不。 No.
那是什么时候? When was that?
我告诉过你。 Well, I told you.
不，你只告诉我你希望他10点到你的公寓。 No, you told me only that you expected him to come to your flat at 10:00.
你最后一次见到他是什么时候? When did you see him last?
嗯，今天早上……嗯，现在是昨天早上。 Well, this morning... Well, yesterday morning now.
就在大陆酒店爆炸之后。 Just after the explosion at the Continental.
就在几十名无辜者被无情杀害之后…… Just after that senseless, heartless murder of dozens of innocent...
昨天早上。 Yesterday morning.
你没再见到他吗? And you didn't see him again?
不。 No.
那么……你一定很累了。 Alors... You must be extremely weary.
司机在等你。 The driver waits for you.
-晚安，福勒先生-晚安。 - Good night, Mr. Fowler. - Good night.
你去哪儿了? Where have you been?
去他住的地方。 To where he lives.
他的车在那儿，但他不在。 His automobile is there, but he's not.
他们想要什么，la SÃºretÃ©? What did they want, la SÃºretÃ©?
他们说了什么?他在哪里? What did they say? Where is he?
他死了，芳。 He's dead, Phuong.
他死了。 He's dead.
他是怎么死的? How was he made dead?
有人杀了他。 Somebody killed him.
谁? Who?
他们不知道。 They don't know.
为什么? Why?
他们不知道。 They don't know.
你要去哪里? Where are you going?
你不能只是在街上走。 You can't just walk the streets.
警察会来接你的。 Police will pick you up.
然后他们就会抓到我和他。 Then they will have him and me.
芳，别丢下我一个人。 Phuong, don't leave me alone.
你似乎没有发现什么有破坏性的证据。 You don't seem to be uncovering much damaging evidence.
没有什么比美国软饮料更具破坏性了。 There is nothing more damaging than the American soft drink.
你想来一杯吗? Would you care for one?
另一方面，他的音乐鉴赏力极佳。 His taste in music on the other hand was excellent.
当然是德彪西。 Debussy, of course.
美国这个奇怪的国家，一个人对它的看法总是取决于他心中所想的是哪个美国人。 Strange country, America, what one thinks of it depends always upon which American one has in mind at the moment.
找到她剩下的东西了吗? Have found the rest of her belongings?
那位年轻女士的?他们不在这里。 Of the young lady? They are not here.
她肯定已经去接了。 Oh, she must've picked them up already.
留下了一堆珍贵的图画书? And left behind a valuable collection of picture books?
不，更合理的假设是她的其他物品一开始就不在这里。 No, the more logical assumption is that the rest of her belongings were not here to begin with.
当然。 Of course.
婚礼必须适合家族贸易。 The wedding had to be suitable for the family trade.
通过了审查委员会。 Passed by the censor boards.
分开居住到最后。 Separate residence to the end.
婚姻是终结。 Marriage being the end.
你介意我把这些图画书带走吗? Would you mind if I took these picture books with me?
恐怕我会的。 I'm afraid I would.
他们不是他的。 They weren't his.
他们不是你的。 And they are not yours.
好吧。 All right.
-再来一次。-再来一个? - Once more now. - One more?
-为什么?-这是一堂英语课。 - Why though? - This is an English lesson.
不，不，不。 No, no, no.
-下一个轮到你了-哦，不。 - You have your turn next. - Oh, no.
-不，不。-好吧，等一下。 - No, no. - All right wait a minute.
-过来一点，过来这里。——好的。 - Come a little, come over here. - Okay.
现在一个词。 Now one word.
-说李子。——删除。 - Say prune. - Prune.
很好，再靠近一点，再来一次。 Very good, little closer, now once more.
修剪。 Prune.
很好，现在再来一次。 Very good, now once more.
修剪。 Prune.
我喜欢这个词。 I like this word.
什么单词? What word?
保诚…… Pru...
宝贝，德州没人会像你这样说"修剪" Baby, nobody in Texas says prune the way you say prune.
现在，我们可以理解他昨晚为什么不用他的车了。 Now, we can understand why he did not use his car last night.
车里的汽油已经用尽了。 It had been drained of gasoline.
你可以叫它汽油。 You may call it petrol with me.
原谅我，我想的是美国人。 Forgive me, I was thinking American.
但是，很明显，人们认为他要么走路，要么骑自行车是必要的。 But, obviously it was considered necessary for him either to walk or to use a cyclo-pousse.
这样就能悄无声息地杀了他。 So that he could be more quietly killed.
这是一个旧设备，但他们似乎对它特别投入，是吗? It's an old device, but they seem to be unusually devoted to it, eh?
谁。 Whoever.
我想起了另一次，美国人的汽车突然失灵了。 I am reminded of another time when the car of the American suddenly would not function.
不到两个月前，你不记得了吗? Less than two months ago, don't you remember?
你有……哦，不，没关系。 Do you have a... Oh, no, never mind.
我还记得你……你好心地让那个美国人坐了你的助手给你租的车。 I remember also that you... You were good enough to offer the American a ride in a car that was rented for you by your assistant.
佩雷斯? Perez?
-多明格斯。-啊，多明格斯，是的。 - Dominguez. - Ah, Dominguez, yeah.
奇怪的是，那辆车也没油了，这迫使你在共产党的袭击下过夜。 And curiously enough, that car too ran out of petrol, huh, which forced you to spend the night under a communist attack.
就是那个美国人救了你的命，对吧? That was when the American saved your life, was it not?
我没让他这么做。 I didn't ask him to.
我跟他说他在犯傻。 I told him he was being a fool.
啊，人类本能地做了那么多愚蠢的事，真让人沮丧。 Ah, it's depressing how much the human being does instinctively what is foolish.
而……福勒先生，我知道你一定很后悔杀了一个救过你命的朋友。 And whereas... Mr. Fowler, knowing how deeply you must regret the murder of a friend, who saved your life.
尽管你反对。 Even over your objection.
考虑了一整晚，你现在能帮我什么忙吗? And having thought about it through the night, can you be now of any help to me?
对不起，我整晚都没想，我太累了。 Sorry, I didn't think about it through the night, I was extremely tired.
我睡得很沉。 I slept deeply.
那么作为一个睡得安稳的人，作为一个记者，你有什么看法? Then as a man of untroubled sleep, as a reporter, do you have any views?
也许他是被共产党杀害的。 Perhaps he was killed by the communists.
他们在西贡杀了很多人。 They've murdered plenty of people in Saigon.
很有可能，但为什么呢? Distinct possibility, but why?
也许他们不喜欢他和将军的友谊。 Perhaps they didn't like his friendship for General The.
法国人可能也出于同样的原因谋杀了他。 The French may have murdered him for the same reason.
遥远的可能性。 Remote possibility.
毕竟，他一直在与法国人和共产党人作战。 After all, The has been fighting both the French and the communists.
也许曹代杀了他是为了惩罚宋将军离开他们的军队。 Well, perhaps the Cao Dai's killed him to punish General The for leaving their army.
也许将军是因为认识曹岱才杀了他。 Perhaps General The killed him because he knew the Cao Dais.
也许他被谋杀是因为有人想要他的钱。 Perhaps he was murdered because someone wanted his money.
但无论如何，我们已经排除了自杀的可能性。 But, at any rate, we have ruled out suicide.
你不会是在想什么新的电子拷问吧? You're not thinking up some new electronic third degree?
不，我不知道是怎么想的，但我突然想到了美国人的狗。 No, by what chain of thought I cannot say, but I've been thinking suddenly about the American's dog.
哦，你找到了吗? Oh, did you find it?
它从未丢失。 It was never lost.
-你告诉我那是…-我告诉过你我们不是在找它 - Well, you told me that it was... - I told you that we were not looking for it.
你什么时候找到的? When did you find it?
昨晚在离美国人不远的泥地里。 Last night in the mud not far from the American.
我猜它拒绝离开尸体。 I suppose it refused to leave the body.
他们也杀了它。 They killed it too.
听到这个消息我真的很难过。 I'm truly sorry to hear that.
福勒先生，我想知道你为什么对我撒谎。 Mr. Fowler, I would like to know why you lied to me.
那个美国人昨天拜访了你。 The American visited you yesterday.
就在他被杀前不久。 Not long before he was killed.
你怎么会这么想? What gives you that idea?
你住的楼梯脚下的地板正在修理，工人们昨天下午4点半才把水泥铺好。 Where you live at the foot of the stairs the floor is being repaired, the workmen finished laying the cement at half past 4:00 yesterday afternoon.
然后他们去做另一份工作。 Then they went on to another job.
在西贡肯定有很多地板在用水泥修补。 There must be many floors in Saigon being repaired with cement.
狗的脚印和那只可怜的死去的野兽的一模一样? With the footprints of a dog that match exactly the ones of the poor dead beast?
我没什么可告诉你的。 I have nothing to tell you.
什么都没有。 Nothing at all.
也许以后再说吧。 Perhaps later then.
在你变得不再参与其中之后。 After you have become more uninvolved.
你真的认为是我杀了他。 You do think I killed him.
不。 No.
那为什么我昨天有没有再见到那个美国人这么重要呢?在他死之前。 Then why is so important whether I saw the American again yesterday before I... Before he died.
乔·莫顿先生的办公室。 Mr. Joe Morton's office.
你好，黑小姐，别挂电话。 Hello, Miss Hei, don't hang up.
听。我给你的公寓打了20分钟的电话了。 Listen. I have been ringing your flat for 20 minutes.
你告诉芳别接电话了吗? Have you told Phuong not to answer the phone?
你别再骗我了，我知道她一定在那里。 Well, you stop lying to me, I know she must be there.
那么她在哪里呢?告诉……是的，是的，我知道你有工作要做。 Where is she then? Tell... Yes, yes, I know you have a job to do.
我想怎么烦你就怎么烦你。 I intend to go on bothering you as much as I want.
直到我找到芳。 Until I find Phuong.
哦。你不喝一杯吗? Oh. Won't you have a drink?
来点英式威士忌苏打吧，谢谢。 Oh, perhaps a little English whiskey-soda, thank you.
我知道你不打算回家，你的报纸允许你留下来。 I understand you are not going home, that your newspaper permits you to stay.
我今天下午才收到那封信。你什么时候读的? I only received that letter this afternoon. When did you read it?
今天早上。 This morning.
幸运的是它是在杀戮之后而不是之前到达的。 Well, it is fortunate it arrived after the killing rather than before.
是的,你……你会对我有很大的指控。 Yes, you... You would've had quite a case against me.
所以你觉得我和他的死有关吗? Is that why you think I was concerned in his death?
我的动机是想要芳回来? That my motive was wanting Phuong back?
现在美国人死了…能再给我来点苏打水吗? Now that the American is dead... Could I have a little more soda?
她回到你身边了吗? Has she come back to you?
或者我的动机是为失去芳报仇。 Or that my motive was revenge for losing Phuong.
你没有杀他，福勒先生。 You did not kill him, Mr. Fowler.
但你我都知道是谁干的。 But you and I know who did.
事实上，你永远找不到那个人。 Actually, you'll never find the man.
或者是杀他的人，维高。 Or men who killed him, Vigot.
他是在远距离被杀的。 He was killed at long distance.
因为一个想法和其他事情一样重要。 As much by an idea as anything else.
一个想法? An idea?
在他的一生中，从书本和口号，从教堂讲坛，从演讲台上，他都被灌输了这种思想。 All his life, they saturated him with this idea, from books and slogans, church pulpits, lecture platforms.
一个如此令人反感以至于他因此被杀的想法? An idea so repugnant that he was killed for it?
你会成为一个好牧师的，维高。 You would've made a good priest, Vigot.
是什么让你这么容易就坦白了? What is it about you that would make it so easy to confess?
如果有什么要坦白的。 If there were anything to confess.
你给自己调了杯酒，但你不喝，是吧? You've mixed for yourself a drink, but you are not drinking it, huh?
这可能是不明智的。 It might be unwise.
在你的职业中没有忏悔的秘密。 There are no secrets of the confessional in your profession.
对一个坦白的人来说，秘密很少是重要的，他有别的动机。 Secrecy is seldom important to a man who confesses, he has other motives.
为了净化自己。 To cleanse himself.
不总是正确的。 Not always.
有时候他只想看清自己的本来面目。 Sometimes he wants only to see himself clearly as he is.
有时他只是厌倦了欺骗。 Sometime he's just weary of deception.
如果我同意我厌倦了欺骗，那一定意味着我的欺骗吗? If I agreed I was weary of deception, would it necessarily mean my deception?
那得看情况。例如呢? That depends. For instance?
我们从塑料自行车炸弹开始吧。 Well, let's begin with plastic bicycle bombs.
这个年轻的美国人进口了一些塑料。 The young American imported some plastics.
-你知道吗?-这是我想到的第一个骗局。 - Did you know that? - That was the first deception I had in mind.
从美学角度来说，我同意你的观点。 Aesthetically, I must agree with you.
它发出的噪音也一样大。它比较便宜。 It makes as much noise. It is less expensive.
但不幸的是，它不会断裂。 But unfortunately it will not break.
它们在吹掉男人的腿上很有效。 They are pretty effective at blowing off men's legs.
塑料噪音制造者? Plastic noise makers?
维戈，就这一次，即使是非正式的，也要面对事实。 Vigot, just for once, even unofficially, face the truth.
昨天早上，至少50名无辜的人被一枚200磅重的Diolacton炸弹炸得粉碎这枚炸弹是美国人提供给将军的。 Yesterday morning, at least 50 innocent people were blown apart by a 200-pound bomb of Diolacton supplied by the American to General The.
好吧，如果这是真的，那就是事实。 Well, if it is true, it is quite a truth.
Diolacton吗? Diolacton?
福勒先生，什么是Diolacton? Mr. Fowler, what is Diolacton?
嗯，这是美国塑料的商品名称。 Well, it's an American trade name for plastics.
这是个假名。 It's a fictitious name.
没有任何产品，无论是塑料的还是其他的，无论是美国的还是其他的，叫做Diolacton。 There is no product, plastics or otherwise, American or otherwise, that is called Diolacton.
有什么区别吗? What difference does it make?
如果这是一部虚构和娱乐的作品，那就没有了。 If this were a work of fiction and entertainment, there would be none.
但你把它用在了一场非常真实的历史性灾难上。 But you've applied it to a very real, historic disaster.
你从哪儿听到这个名字的? Where did you hear the name?
我今天下午在一个恒先生的垃圾场发现了一个铁鼓，我看到它被画在一个铁鼓上。 I have seen it painted on an iron drum discovered this afternoon, in the junkyard of a Mr. Heng.
-你认识他吗?——没有。 - Do you know him? - No.
他是这里一个共产主义暗杀委员会的负责人。 He is a chief of one of the communist assassination committees here.
他被捕了。 He's under arrest.
这些塑料叫什么有什么关系? What does it matter what the plastics were called?
用别的名字都行。死人就是死人。 By any other name. The dead are dead.
所有的。 All of them.
你说炸弹是200磅重的，就叫它美国塑料吧，不知怎么被用作炸药。 You described the bomb as being 200 pounds of, let's call it American plastics, somehow used as an explosive.
如何? How?
我不是这方面的专家。 I'm not an expert in such things.
很遗憾你的法语并不比现在好多少，福勒先生。 It's a pity your French is no better than it is, Mr. Fowler.
这跟我的法语有什么关系? What's my French got to do with it?
你知道法语单词“plastic”的意思吗? Do you know the meaning of the French word "plastic?"
当然是塑料。 Plastics, of course.
还有一个更致命的含义。 There's a more deadly meaning.
塑料是一种众所周知的爆炸物。 Plastic is a very well-known explosive.
我想是英国人发现的。 Discovered, I believe, by the British.
它就像腻子一样，可以塑造成各种各样的形状。 It's like putty and can be shaped into many forms.
至少从1945年以来，在印度支那就有大量的战争。 There have been great quantities of it, here in Indochina since 1945, at least.
这与美国的塑料无关。 It has nothing to do with American plastic.
但我看到媒体在莫伊先生的车库里。 But I saw the press in Mr. Moi's garage.
你被派去见媒体了。 You were sent to see the press.
这对你来说太幼稚了。 It was made childishly easy for you.
你知道莫伊夫人是将军的亲戚吗? Did you know that Mrs. Moi is a relative of General The?
你知道莫伊先生是谁吗? Did you know what Mr. Moi is?
也被逮捕了。 Also under arrest.
但是内疚，维高。昨天大屠杀的罪责。 But the guilt, Vigot. The guilt for yesterday's mass murder.
你现在问内疚了吗? Do you ask now about guilt?
你现在问的是你在犯罪之前就认定的罪行吗? Do you ask now about a guilt you decided upon before the crime was committed?
因此，这个判决已经在一个非常年轻的人身上执行了，正如你所说的，他有一个想法。 And for which the sentence has already been carried out upon a very young man, with, as you put it, an idea.
这种想法在这里的出现，会使谁感到如此可怕，以致认为值得杀死这个怀有这种想法的年轻人呢? To whom could the presence here of this idea be so terrifying that it was considered worthwhile to kill the young man who carried it?
因为这个想法必须被扼杀，福勒先生。 Because it was the idea that had to be murdered, Mr. Fowler.
可以说，这个年轻的美国人只是把它掌握在自己手里。 The young American merely had it in his possession, so to say.
你干得还不够久吗，维高? Haven't you gone on long enough, Vigot?
你为什么不直接离开，把这些都归档在未完成的案子里? Why don't you just go away and file it all under cases uncompleted?
我的档案是完整的。 My file is complete.
不是你的就是你的。 It is yours which is not.
走开。 Just go away.
你知道，说共产主义吸引思想先进的人是错误的。 You know, it is a mistake to say that communism is appealing to the mentally advanced.
我认为只有当智力发达的人同时也是情感迟钝的人时，这才是对的。 I think this is only true when the mentally advanced are also emotionally retarded.
你不同意吗? Don't you agree?
人们常常发现聪明而敏感的人内心受到无法解释的恐惧和仇恨的折磨，他们在忠诚的口头服务中找到了暂时的内心平静。 So often one finds brilliant, sensitive minds inwardly tortured by unexplained fears and hatreds, who find temporary peace of mind in devoted lip service.
我不是共产主义者，维高。 I'm not a communist, Vigot.
如果你是，就不会那么悲伤了。 If you were, it would be less sad.
如果他们认为有必要暗杀他，他们……他们随时都可能这么做。 If they thought it so necessary to assassinate him, they... They could have done it anytime.
但是需要有人来帮助暗杀这个想法。 But someone was required to help assassinate the idea.
有人善于运用文字来，为正义辩护……我不为理由辩护。 Someone gifted in the use of words to, to plead the righteousness... I don't plead causes.
然而，一个人如此情绪化，以至于他不允许他作为一个专业记者的训练，拒绝一个明显愚蠢的故事。 But yet someone so emotionally involved that he would not permit even his training as a professional reporter to, to reject an obviously idiotic story.
一个如此情绪化的人…你站在那儿不停地重复自己的话。 Someone so emotionally involved... Oh, you stand there repeating yourself endlessly.
即使在宗教裁判所的统治下，忏悔录也停止了。 Even under the Inquisition, confessions came to an end.
好吧，我的错，你想让我怎么样? All right, mea culpa, what do you want of me?
一次看清你自己。 To see yourself plainly for once.
剥去了知识分子的伪装。 Stripped of intellectual pretense.
告诉我，你会毫不犹豫地相信你听到的话吗，如果你不是害怕你的女朋友被一个更年轻的男人抢走? Tell me, would you have believed what you heard without question, without hesitation, if you were not terrified of losing your girl to a younger man?
如果他没有带走你的女孩你能对他判处死刑吗? Could you conceivably have passed the judgment of death upon him if he had not already taken your girl?
我向你们对传统的忠诚致敬。 I salute your loyalty to your traditions.
法国万岁! Vive la France.
Cherchez la femme。 Cherchez la femme.
不要低估他们中的任何一个。 Do not underestimate either of them.
你一直在找那个女孩。 You have been looking for the girl.
她今晚会在"幽会"酒吧出现，在那里她会和你一起吃饭或跳舞，或者和你俩一起。 She can be found starting tonight at Le Rendezvous, where she will dine or dance with you or both.
如果你愿意付钱的话。 If you are willing to pay.
这是给你的电报。 And this is a telegram for you.
它在多明格斯的手里。 It was in the possession of Dominguez.
是什么? Was?
放了多明格斯，维戈。他连一只苍蝇都不会伤害。他天真又温柔……和圣洁的。 Oh, set Dominguez free, Vigot. He wouldn't hurt a fly. He's innocent and gentle... And saintly.
你去德宁的时候，不是他给你租了那辆车吗? Wasn't it he who rented the particular car for you when you went to Tay Ninh?
哦，顺便说一下，是亨先生把美国人的车弄坏了，还把你的油箱放干了。 Oh, it was Mr. Heng, by the way who disabled the American's car and drained your tank.
他们当时想杀了他。 They tried to kill him then.
他们也做好了杀你的准备。 They were quite prepared to kill you too.
是的，但不是因为多明格斯雇了辆车。 Yes, but not Dominguez just because he hired a car.
他的同事告诉我是多明格斯首先发现了你对失去那个女孩的极度恐惧。 His associates tell me it was Dominguez who first recognized your obsessive fear of losing the girl.
是多明格斯第一个在塑料的问题上骗你的。 It was Dominguez who first lied to you about plastics.
是多明格斯先派你去找恒先生的。 It was Dominguez who first sent you to Mr. Heng.
多明格斯在爆炸当天跟踪了你。 Dominguez followed you the day of the explosion.
你说得对，福勒先生，我确实没完没了。 You are right, Mr. Fowler, I do go on endlessly.
看你的电报。 Read your cable-gram.
我读过了。 I have read it.
这样一个故事的结尾很奇怪。 It's a strange finish for such a story.
这可能对你很有吸引力，但就我而言，我不喜欢老美国电影或新欧洲电影中那种皆大欢喜的结局。 It may appeal to you, but for my part, I dislike happy endings of the type one finds in the older American films, or the newer European ones.
对你来说，最让你崩溃的肯定是意识到你只是被利用了。 More crushing to you than anything else must be the realization that you have simply been used.
你竟然会被这么幼稚地摆布。 That you could be so childishly manipulated.
请原谅我用口语说话，福勒先生。 Now, if you will pardon my attempt at colloquial English, Mr. Fowler.
他们愚弄了你。 They have made a bloody fool of you.
我仔细考虑了你的信，并如你所愿做出了非理性的举动，我已经告诉我的律师开始离婚诉讼。 Have thought over your letter and acting irrationally as you hoped, I've told my lawyers start divorce proceedings.
理由,开小差。 Grounds, desertion.
海伦。 Helen.
维高，维高，等我。 Vigot, Vigot, wait for me.
扶我一把，维高。你能带我去集合地点吗? Give me lift, Vigot. Will you take me to the Rendezvous?
即使这样。 Even that.
芳，我有东西要给你。 Phuong, I have something for you.
祝我们俩新年快乐。 Happy New Year to us both.
对不起，我还不懂英语。 I am sorry, I do not yet read English.
但是，让我读给你听。 But, well, let me read it to you then.
是我妻子寄来的。今天来了。 It's from my wife. It came today.
是关于离婚的事。 It's about the divorce.
她给了我一个。 She's giving me one.
你看，我根本没撒谎。 You see, I wasn't lying after all.
这是从办公室寄来的。这封信是今天早上来的。 This came from the office. This letter came this morning.
他们说我要留在这里。 They say I'm to stay here.
你明白吗? Do you understand?
我们可以结婚，住在这里。 We could be married and stay here.
Excusez-moi,先生。 Excusez-moi, monsieur.
芳，我们想要的一切都在我手中。 Phuong, everything we've ever wanted is right here in my hands.
哦，也许有些人会说英语。 Oh, perhaps some of these people speak English.
他们会告诉你的。Vigot在哪? They'll tell you. Where's Vigot?
他会告诉你的。也许你会相信检查员的话…… He'll tell you. You'll take the word of an inspector perhaps...
我们一直想要的东西在你手里?那是什么? What we have always wanted is in your hands? What is that?
像从前那样再在一起，再拥有我们曾经拥有的。 To be together again as we were, to have again what we had.
我们是什么，我们拥有什么? What were we and what did we have?
我们不能在这里谈这种事。你不了解这些人……他们是我的朋友。 We can't talk about such things here. You don't know these people... They are my friends.
现在情况可能会有所不同。 Things could be different now.
它已经不同了。 It has already been different.
有个人给了我一样东西。 There was a man who gave to me something.
——什么?加拿大课程，冷冻食品……-他自己。 - What? Canasta lessons, frozen food... - Of himself.
我认识一个爱我的人。他死了。 I've known a man who loved me. He's dead.
听着，你不能就这样不理我。 Look, you can't just dismiss me like this.
你曾经爱过我吗? Have you ever loved me?
你有没有骗过我说你爱我? Have you ever even lied to me that you loved me?
只是请你跳支舞。 Just asking you for a dance.
曾经有人想娶我，因为他爱我。 I have had someone want to marry me because he loved me.
我刚才告诉过你……那是因为你被强行剥夺了竞争的权利。 I have just told you... That's because you are forcibly deprived of the competition.
现在的价格是多少?一顿饭，一瓶香槟，收费统一。 What are the present prices? A meal, a bottle of flat champagne under flat fee.
别掺和进来。 Keep out of this.
在这样的地方，和这样的人在一起，你会怎么样呢? What will become of you here in a place like this, with people like these?
你什么时候开始关心未来了? Since when does the future concern you?
它总是离你的下一根烟斗不远。 It was always no further away than your next pipe.
现在，这让我很担心。 Now, it concerns me now.
现在对你来说太晚了。 Now is too late for you.
福勒，这当然不关我的事。 Fowler, it's none of my business, of course.
-没错。-我也不觉得内疚。 - Quite right. - And I don't hold with guilt by association.
你也是无辜的，威尔金斯。我也赦免你。 You too are innocent, Wilkins. I absolve you too.
从人类的角度来说，你不能。 Not from the human race you can't.
让我从专业角度来跟你说。 Oh, let me put it to you as a professional item.
“昨晚，在一家少林餐厅里，一个衣衫褴褛的中年白人短暂地打断了中国新年的庆祝活动” "The celebration of Chinese new year was briefly interrupted last night "in a Shaolin restaurant, by a shabbily dressed, middle-aged, Caucasian
"他突然出现在舞池里，没刮胡子，没洗漱，也没人要" "因为对一个年轻的越南女孩长篇大论而当众出丑" "who appeared suddenly on the dance floor, unshaved, unwashed and unwanted "and made a public nuisance of himself by haranguing a young Vietnamese girl."
真希望有个人能让我对他说声对不起。 I wish someone existed to whom I could say I was sorry.
我开车经过大教堂。 I drive past the cathedral.