我们大错特错了。 We are quite, quite wrong.
从前，有一座迷人的乡间别墅……里面住着一对非常幸福的夫妇。 Once upon a time, there was a charming country house... in which lived a very happily married couple.
-伊迪丝，你知道鸡尾酒调酒器吗?——是的,我。 - Edith, you know the cocktaiI shaker? - Yes'm.
唔，我要你用它倒两个长柄玻璃杯…——把他们带到这里来。——是的,我。 WeIl, I want you to fill two of those Iong-stemmed glasses from it... - and bring them up here. - Yes'm.
伊迪丝，既然你不是海军，没必要事事都这么匆忙。 And, Edith, as you're not in the navy, it's unnecessary to do everything at the double.
-很好，女士。-伊迪丝，当你准备晚餐的时候…试着记住冷静而有条理地做这件事。 - Very good, ma'am. - And, Edith, when you're serving dinner... try to remember to do it calmly and methodically.
——是的,我。-现在去拿鸡尾酒。 - Yes'm. - Now go and get the cocktails.
——是的,我。-不是跑步，伊迪丝 - Yes'm. - Not at a run, Edith.
是的,我。 Yes'm.
你认为是什么促使艾格尼丝离开我们去结婚的? What do you suppose induced Agnes to Ieave us and go and get married?
原因越来越明显了，亲爱的。 The reason was becoming increasingly obvious, dear.
是的。我们必须让伊迪丝多呆在家里。 Yes. We must keep Edith in the house more.
——哦,亲爱的!-怎么了? - Oh, dear! - What's the matter?
我有个想法今晚会很糟糕。 l have an idea this evening's going to be awful.
我觉得会很有趣，但不会很糟糕。 Well, l think it'll be funny, but not awful.
你为什么要问布莱德曼一家，亲爱的?他和我们一样怀疑。 Why did you ask the Bradmans, darling? He's as skeptical as we are.
-他可能会说最可怕的话。-我警告过他了。 - He'll probabIy say the most dreadful things. - WelI, l warned him.
我们必须有三个以上的人，而我们不能让牧师和他的妻子……因为第一，他们太沉闷了，第二，他们根本不会同意的。 There had to be more than three of us, and we couldn't have the vicar and his wife... because, A, they're dreary, and, B, they wouldn't have approved at all.
-不，一定是布拉德曼一家。-你要保证不要引起我的注意。 - No, it had to be the Bradmans. - You must promise not to catch my eye.
如果我吉吉â我很可能会â它会毁了一切。 lf l giggIe â and l'm very likeIy to â it wilI ruin everything.
你不能。你一定是非常认真的，如果可能的话，还要有点紧张。 You mustn't. You must be dead serious, and if possibIe, a little intense.
我们不能伤害那个老女孩的感情，不管她多么有趣。 We can't hurt the old girl's feelings, however funny she is.
那是她的。 That was her.
哦，是她，是吗?我在村里见过她几次。 Oh, that's her, is it? l've seen her in the village several times.
她真是个奇怪的女人。 She certainly is a strange woman.
牧师告诉我他在仲夏夜那天看见她站在小山丘上……穿着印度长袍。 The vicar told me he saw her up on the knoll on Midsummer Eve... dressed in sort of lndian robes.
显然，她在伦敦当了很多年的职业律师。 Apparently, she's been a professional in London for years.
很有趣，不是吗?我的意思是，想想看，人们把它当作职业。 lt's funny, isn't it? l mean, to think of people doing it as a profession.
嗯。我认为这是非常有利可图的。 Hmm. l believe it's very lucrative.
康多明先生想从她那里得到什么? What does Mr. Condomine hope to get out of her?
他的书的素材。你知道，他在写一个推理故事。 Material for his book. He's writing a mystery story, you know.
——看不见的。-我得说这是个很棒的标题。 -To The Unseen. - l must say that's a wonderfuI title.
如果今晚成功的话，我明天就开始写初稿。 lf this evening's a success, l shall start writing the first draft tomorrow.
埃尔维拉帮过你吗â我是说，当你在想什么事情的时候? Used Elvira to be a help to you â when you were thinking something out, I mean?
可怜的埃尔韦拉。 Poor Elvira.
如果我在你厌倦我之前就死了，我想知道你会不会这么快就忘记我。 lf l died before you'd grown tired of me, l wonder if you'd forget me so soon.
-这么说太可怕了。-不，我觉得很有趣。 - What a horrible thing to say. - No, l think it's interesting.
首先，我没有忘记埃尔维拉。 Well, to begin with, l haven't forgotten Elvira.
我记得她很清楚。 l remember her very distinctly indeed.
我记得她有多迷人，有多让人抓狂。 l remember how fascinating she was and how maddening.
我记得当她在某件事上取得了自己的成就时，她那欢快的魅力……和她的极度酸味。 l remember her gay charm when she had achieved her own way over something... and her extreme acidity when she didn't.
我记得她的外表非常迷人。以及她的精神正直，这是零 l remember her physical attractiveness, which was tremendous... and her spirituaI integrity, which was nil.
她的外表比我更迷人吗? Was she more physicalIy attractive than l am?
这是一个非常烦人的问题，亲爱的，完全应该得到错误的答案。 That's a very tiresome question, darling, and fully deserves the wrong answer.
-你真的很贴心。——谢谢。 - You reaIly are very sweet. - Thank you.
-还有点天真。——为什么? - And a little naive too. - Why?
因为你以为我会介意艾薇拉长得比我好看。 Because you imagine that l mind about EIvira being more physically attractive than I am.
我爱你，我的爱人。 l love you, my Iove.
我知道你喜欢，但这是我想象不到的…如同初时的精细，漫不经心的狂喜。 l know you do, but not the wiIdest stretch of the imagination couId describe it... as the first fine, careless rapture.
-你希望是这样吗?-天哪，没有。 - Would you like it to be? - Good heavens, no.
是不是有点太激烈了? Wasn't that a shade too vehement?
我们都不是青少年，查理。 We're neither of us adolescent, CharIes.
我们都没有过正经的生活，不是吗? We've neither of us led exactly prim lives, have we?
我们都结过婚。 We've both been married before.
在这个阶段，漫不经心的狂喜将是不协调和尴尬的。 Careless rapture at this stage would be incongruous and embarrassing.
我希望我没有让你失望，亲爱的。 l hope l haven't been in any way a disappointment, dear.
别这么傻。 Don't be so idiotic.
毕竟，你第一任丈夫比你大得多。 After aII, your first husband was a great deal older than you.
我不希望你觉得你已经错过了我。 l wouIdn't like you to think that you've missed out alI along the line.
查尔斯，有些时候，你太过分了。 There are moments, Charles, when you go too far.
对不起,亲爱的。 Sorry, darling.
如果我死了，我想知道你要过多久才会再婚。 lf l died, l wonder how long it would be before you married again.
你不会死的。你不是垂死的人。 You won't die. You're not the dying sort.
- EIvira也是。-哦，是的，现在我想起来了。 - Neither was EIvira. - Oh, yes, she was, now l come to think of it.
她有一种超凡脱俗的特质。 She had a certain ethereal, not-quite-of-this-world quality.
没人会说你神出鬼没。 Nobody would call you even remotely ethereal.
无稽之谈。她是土的â土的。 Nonsense. She was of the earth â earthy.
是的。唔，反正她现在是。 Yes. WeII, she is now anyhow.
你知道，这是一种让人震惊的观察。 You know, that's the kind of observation that shocks people.
令人沮丧的是，有那么多人对诚实感到震惊，而对欺骗感到震惊的人却那么少。 lt's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
把它写下来。你可能会忘记。 Write that down. You might forget it.
你低估我了。 You underrate me.
无论如何，与其说这是一个诚实的问题，不如说这是一个品味差的问题。 Anyhow, it was a question of bad taste more than honesty.
我很爱埃尔维拉。我们结婚5年了。 l was devoted to Elvira. We were married five years.
她去世了。我非常想念她。 She died. l missed her very much.
那是七年前的事了，而现在，在你的帮助下，亲爱的……凌驾于一切之上。 That was seven years ago and l've now, with your help, my love... risen above the whole thing.
——那可能是布拉德曼一家。 -- That's probably the Bradmans.
可能是阿卡蒂夫人。 lt might be Madame Arcati.
是我走呢，还是让伊迪丝去玩? Shall l go, or shall we let Edith have her fling?
她可能单膝跪地，准备冲刺。等着库克打开厨房的门。 She's probably on one knee in a pre-sprinting position... waiting for Cook to open the kitchen door.
——稳定,伊迪丝。——是的,先生。 - Steady, Edith. - Yes, sir.
,晚上好。-我们没迟到吧?我半小时前才从医院回来 - Good evening. - We're not late, are we? l onIy got back from the hospital half an hour ago.
当然不是。阿卡蒂夫人还没来。 Of course not. Madame Arcati isn't here yet.
没有，我们从她骑自行车上山的路上经过。 No, we passed her coming up the hill on her bicycle.
-我很高兴你能来。-我们一直都很期待。我感到非常兴奋。 - l'm so glad you were able to come. - We've been looking forward to it. l feel really quite excited.
我保证VioIet会很好。我让她答应的。 l guarantee that VioIet will be good. I made her promise.
好吧。来喝一杯吧。 Fine. Come and have a drink.
哦，太谢谢你了。 Oh, thank you so much.
你相信吗，康多明夫人?你觉得有什么是真的吗? Do you believe in it, Mrs. Condomine? Do you think there's anything really genuine about it at all?
我恐怕不行。但我确实认为这很有趣，很容易â ' ' l'm afraid not. But l do think it's interesting how easily â
——谢谢。-人们允许自己被欺骗。 - Thank you. - people allow themselves to be deceived.
但她自己必须相信这一点，不是吗?还是整件事都是假的? But she must believe it herseIf, mustn't she? Or is the whole business a fake?
我想是最坏的情况。一个真正专业的江湖骗子。 l suspect the worst. A real professionaI charlatan.
这就是我所希望的。 That's what l'm hoping for anyhow.
我为我的书设计的角色必须是一个完全的冒名顶替者。 The character that l'm planning for my book must be a complete impostor.
这是整个故事中最重要的因素之一。 lt's one of the most important factors of the whole story.
你认为她会算命吗?我喜欢别人给我算命。 Do you think she tells fortunes? l love having my fortune told.
-是的，我想是的。-你给她治疗过吗，医生?专业的,我的意思吗? - Yes, l expect so. - Have you ever attended her, Doctor? Professionally, l mean?
哦,是的。她去年一月得了流感。她来这里才一年多，你知道的。 Oh, yes. She had influenza last January. She's only been here just over a year, you know.
——她在这儿。 -- Here she is.
我说，她知道了，对吧，今晚的事?你不会突然告诉她吧? l say, she knows, doesn't she, about tonight? You're not going to spring it on her?
不，当然不是。上周就安排好了。 No, of course not. lt was all arranged last week.
我告诉她我有多感兴趣，她就像玫瑰一样绽放了。 l told her how profoundly interested l was, and she blossomed like a rose.
我真的感到很紧张，就好像我要发表演讲一样。 l realIy feel quite nervous, as if I were going to make a speech.
-去见见她，亲爱的。——嗯。 - Go and meet her, darling. - Mmm.
-晚上好。——嗯? - Oh, good evening. - Hmm?
我把自行车靠在那边的灌木丛上了。 I've leant my bike up against that littIe bush out there.
如果没人碰它，它就不会有事。 lt'll be perfectly all right if no one touches it.
-很高兴见到你，阿卡蒂夫人。-我亲爱的阿卡蒂夫人。 - How nice to see you, Madame Arcati. - My dear Madame Arcati.
恐怕我来晚了，但我突然有一种预感…我的车胎要戳破了，所以我回去拿打气筒。 l'm afraid l'm rather Iate, but l had a sudden presentiment... that l was going to have a puncture, so l went back to fetch my pump.
然后，当然，我的车胎一点也没扎。 And then, of course, l didn't have a puncture at all.
也许在回家的路上你会。 Perhaps you will on the way home.
噢,谢谢你。 Oh, thank you.
-你知道â -布莱德曼医生，有一双绅士的手。 - You know â - Dr. Bradman, the man with the gentIe hands.
我很高兴看到你气色这么好。这是我的妻子。 l'm delighted to see you looking so well. This is my wife.
-你好。-我们是老朋友了。我们从商店出来时相遇。 - How do you do? - We're old friends. We meet coming out of shops.
-要来杯鸡尾酒吗?-如果是干马提尼，是的。如果是捏造的，那就不行。 - Would you like a cocktail? - lf it's a dry martini, yes. lf it's a concoction, no.
经验告诉我，要对混合食品非常警惕。 Experience has taught me to be very wary of concoctions.
-这是干马提尼。——如何美味。 - lt is a dry martini. - How delicious.
我们非常感谢您远道而来，阿卡蒂夫人。 We do so much appreciate your coming all this way, Madame Arcati.
哦,无稽之谈。今晚在树林里骑车真是太棒了。 Oh, nonsense. lt was wonderful cycling through the woods this evening.
-我被鸟鸣声震聋了。-今天真是太好了 - l was deafened with birdsong. - lt's been Iovely alI day.
啊，但时间是晚上。记住我的话。 Ah, but the evening's the time. Mark my words.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
干杯!干杯! Cheers! Cheers!
你不觉得骑自行车到处都很累吗? Don't you find it tiring bicycIing everywhere?
相反，它刺激了我。我在伦敦久坐不动了。 On the contrary, it stimulates me. l was getting far too sedentary in London.
那个灯光昏暗的可怕的小公寓。 That horrid little flat with the dim lights.
你知道，他们必须是昏暗的。客户希望如此。 They had to be dim, you know. The cIients expect it.
这是我这几年喝过的最好的干马提尼。 This is the best dry martini l've had for years.
-你想再来一杯吗?——当然。 - Would you like another? - Certainly.
我得说，我觉得骑自行车很累人。 l must say, l find bicycling very exhausting.
稳定的节奏â ' '这就是它的作用。 Steady rhythm â that's what does it.
一旦你掌握了诀窍，你就不必回头了。你来了，就走了。 Once you get the knack of it, you need never Iook back. On you get, and away you go.
但是山，阿卡蒂夫人。把那些可怕的山推上去。 But the hills, Madame Arcati. Pushing up those awful hills.
再本事。 Just knack again.
低头向下，用心向上，你就像一闪而过……像蜻蜓一样从另一边掠过。 Down with your head, up with your heart, and you're over the top like a flash... and skimming down the other side like a dragonfly.
-晚饭准备好了，女士。-谢谢你，伊迪丝 - Dinner is served, ma'am. - Thank you, Edith.
我希望没有红肉。 Oh, no red meat, l hope.
有肉，但我不认为它会很红。 There's meat, but I don't think it will be very red.
我有个规矩，上班前绝不吃红肉。 I make it a rule never to eat red meat before I work.
你想吃鸡蛋还是别的什么? WouId you rather have an egg or something?
哦，不用了，谢谢。我们会冒这个险。 Oh, no, thank you. We'll risk it.
只是它有时会产生奇怪的效果。 lt's just that it sometimes has an odd effect.
-什么样的效果?-没什么不重要的。 - What sort of effect? - Nothing of the least importance.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
你怎么和另一边的人联系，阿卡蒂夫人? How do you get in touch with people on the other side, Madame Arcati?
当然是通过控制。就我而言，是个小女孩。 Through a control, of course. ln my case, a little girl.
它们通常是最好的。 They're generally the best.
当然，有些灵媒更喜欢印度人，但我个人总觉得他们不可靠。 Some mediums prefer Indians, of course, but personaIly l've aIways found them unreIiable.
哪方面不可靠? ln what way unreliable?
首先，他们懒得要命。 Well, to start with, they're frightfuIly lazy.
此外，当面对任何困难时……他们倾向于使用自己的部落语言，这自然是不可理解的。 Also, when faced with any sort of difficuIty... they're apt to go off into their own tribal language, which is naturaIly unintelIigible.
这通常会破坏一切，浪费大量的时间。 That generaIly spoils everything and wastes a good deal of time.
当你进入恍惚状态时，你会觉得奇怪吗? Do you feel funny when you go off into a trance?
哪方面"有趣"? ln what way "funny"?
我不认为布莱德曼夫人的意思是滑稽。 l don't think Mrs. Bradman means funny in its comic implication.
我想她的意思是奇怪或奇怪。 l think she meant strange or odd.
这个词是一个不幸的选择。 The word was an unfortunate choice.
哦，我真的很抱歉。 Oh, l'm sure l'm very sorry.
至少这无关紧要。谢谢不要道歉。 lt doesn't matter in the Ieast. PIease don't apologize.
你是什么时候第一次发现自己有这些非凡的能力的? When did you first discover that you had these remarkable powers?
当我还很小的时候。 When I was quite tiny.
我母亲在我之前是灵媒，你知道……所以我有充分的机会从基层做起，你可能会说。 My mother was a medium before me, you see... and so l had every opportunity of starting on the ground floor, as you might say.
我第一次出神是在我四岁的时候……我五岁半的时候第一次出现了外质症状。 I had my first trance when I was four years old... and my first ectoplasmic manifestation when l was five and a haIf.
哦!那是多么激动人心的一天。我永远不会忘记。 Oh! What an exciting day that was. l shalI never forget it.
当然，这种表现非常小，持续时间也很短……但对于一个像我这样幼小的孩子来说，这是最令人欣慰的。 Of course, the manifestation was quite small and of very short duration... but for a child of my tender years, it was most gratifying.
-你会算命吗?——实在不行。 - Can you teIl fortunes? - CertainIy not.
我最不喜欢算命先生。 l disapprove of fortune tellers most strongly.
伊迪丝，我们不想在接下来的一小时内被任何原因打扰。 Edith, we don't want to be disturbed for the next hour or so for any reason whatsoever.
-明白了吗?——是的,我。 - ls that clear? - Yes'm.
除非是乔治的紧急电话。 Unless it's an urgent call for George.
-除非是布莱德曼医生的紧急电话。——是的,我。 - Unless it's an urgent call for Dr. Bradman. - Yes'm.
阿卡蒂夫人，时间快到了。 Well, Madame Arcati, the time is drawing near.
——谁知道呢?它可能在后退。-太对了。 - Who knows? lt may be receding. - How very true.
我希望你有心情，阿卡蒂夫人。 l hope you feeI in the mood, Madame Arcati.
这不是心情的问题。这是注意力的问题。 Well, it isn't a question of mood. lt's a question of concentration.
你必须原谅我们这么没耐心。 You must forgive us being so impatient.
如果你还没准备好，我们可以等。 We can easily wait if you're not quite ready to start.
不，胡说，亲爱的。我完全准备好了。 No, nonsense, my dear. l'm absolutely ready.
嗨! !嗨! !我们去工作。 Heigh-ho! Heigh-ho! To work we go.
-有什么需要我们做的吗?——做什么? - ls there anything you'd like us to do? - Do?
就像牵着手之类的。 Well, sort of hold hands or anything.
这一切都是以后的事了。首先，深呼吸几次新鲜空气。 All that will come later. First, a few deep, deep breaths of fresh air.
如果你愿意，你可以说。它至少不会打扰我。 You may talk, if you wish. lt won't disturb me in the Ieast.
——嘘!晚餐很丰盛，亲爱的。 -- Shh! lt was an excellent dinner, darling.
-恭喜你。-慕斯做得不太对。 - l congratulate you. - The mousse wasn't quite right.
看起来有点疯狂，但尝起来很美味。 lt looked a bit hysterical, but it tasted deIicious.
-那只布谷鸟很生气。-请再说一遍。 - That cuckoo's very angry. - I beg your pardon.
L说杜鹃很生气。听! l said that cuckoo is very angry. Listen!
-你怎么知道?——音色。 - How do you know? - Timbre.
没有月亮。我想也是这样。 No moon. That's as welI, l think.
雾从沼泽中升起。 A mist rising from the marshes.
我没必要点我的自行车灯，是吗? There's no need for me to light my bicycle Iamp, is there?
-我是说，没人会喜欢的。——没有。我们不期待其他人。 - l mean, no one's likely to falI over it. - No. We're not expecting anyone eIse.
灿烂的。 Splendid.
晚安，你这只愚蠢的鸟。 Good night, you foolish bird.
-你有桌子吗?-好吧，我们认为那只也许可以。 - You have a tabIe? - Well, we rather thought that one might do.
我觉得那边的会更好。 l think the one there wouId be better.
这边请，康多明先生。 Over here, Mr. Condomine, pIease.
嗯。 Hmm.
这是我最讨厌的时刻。 This is a moment that l always hate.
-你紧张吗?——是的。 - Are you nervous? - Yes.
-当我还是个小女孩的时候，我经常生病。-幸运的是你长大了。 - When I was a girl, I always used to be sick. - How fortunate that you grew out of it.
孩子总是比成年人更容易生病，不是吗? Children are always much more prone to be sick than grown-ups though, aren't they?
小汤米·塔克为他的晚餐唱歌。除了黑面包和黄油，他还能吃什么? Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper. What shalI he have but brown bread and butter?
我鄙视它，因为它一点都不押韵，但达芙妮喜欢它。 l despise that because it doesn't rhyme at all, but Daphne loves it.
达芙妮是谁? Who's Daphne?
达芙妮由阿卡蒂夫人控制。她是那个小女孩。 Daphne is Madame Arcati's control. She's the little girl.
哦,是的。是的,当然。我明白了。她多大了? Oh, yes. Yes, of course. l see. How old is she?
-她死的时候升七-那是什么时候? - Rising seven when she died. - And when was that?
1884年2月6日 February the sixth, 1884.
我想她现在一定有点老了。 She must be a bit long in the tooth by now, l should think.
你应该思考，布莱德曼医生，但恐怕你没有，至少没有深入思考。 You should think, Dr. Bradman, but I fear you don't, at least not profoundIy enough.
请原谅我，阿卡蒂夫人。我向你保证我非常感兴趣。 Please forgive me, Madame Arcati. l assure you l'm deeply interested.
这无关紧要。 lt's of no consequence.
现在，请坐到桌子旁边，把你的手放在上面，好吗? Now, wiIl you aIl sit round the tabIe, pIease, and place your hands downwards on it?
-来吧，布莱德曼太太。-那灯光呢? - Come, Mrs. Bradman. - What about the Iights?
好的，康多明先生。 AlI in good time, Mr. Condomine.
现在请坐。 Now sit down, please.
â ' t DeedIe-IeedIe，咚咚咚，咚咚咚â ' t âª DeedIe-IeedIe, lum-dum dum-dum, dum-dum âª
â—手指应该碰到â—â— âª The fingers should be touching âªâª
这是更好的。我猜那是留声机的声音。 That's better. l presume that's the gramophone.
要我帮你开始吗?是电动的。 Would you like me to start it for you? lt's an electric one.
不,不。请呆在原地。我可以管理。 No, no. PIease stay where you are. l can manage.
现在，我们得到了什么?布拉姆斯。哦，天哪，不。 Now, what have we here? Brahms. Oh, dear me, no.
拉赫玛尼诺夫â ' -太华丽了。 Rachmaninoff â too florid.
-舞曲在哪里?-是左边那些松的。 - Where's the dance music? - They're the loose ones on the left.
恐怕没有一个是新的。 l'm afraid none of them are very new.
达芙妮对柏林的感情比任何人都深。 Daphne's really more attached to lrving Berlin than to anyone else.
她喜欢能哼的曲子。哦，这里有一个â ' ' "总是。" She likes a tune she can hum. Oh, here's one â "Always."
——“永远”?-怎么了? - "Always"? - What's the matter?
呃â ' '没什么，亲爱的。什么都不重要。 Uh â Nothing, darling. Nothing at all.
现在，有一两件事我想解释一下，你们都认真听好了吗? Now, there are one or two things that l would like to explain, so will you all listen attentively?
当然。 Of course.
现在，当音乐开始的时候，我要把灯关掉。 Presently, when the music begins, l'm going to switch out the lights.
然后我可以在房间里走动一会儿或平躺一会儿。 l may then either walk about the room for a little or lie down flat.
在适当的时候，我会把那可爱的小凳子拉上来和你一起吃饭。 ln due course, l shall draw up that dear littIe stool and join you at the table.
我会站在你和你妻子之间，布莱德曼医生…把我的手轻轻地放在你的手上。 I shaIl place myseIf between you and your wife, Dr. Bradman... and rest my hands lightIy upon yours.
我必须要求你不要和我说话，不要走动，不要做任何让人分心的事。 l must ask you not to address me or move or do anything in the least distracting.
-听清楚了吗?——PerfectIy。 - ls that quite, quite cIear? - PerfectIy.
当然，我不能保证会发生什么事。 Of course, l can't guarantee that anything wiIl happen at all.
达芙妮可能没空。 Daphne may be unavailable.
她最近患了感冒，身体很不舒服，可怜的孩子。 She had a head cold recently and was rather under the weather, poor child.
另一方面，可能会发生很多事情。 On the other hand, a great many things might occur.
比如，你们中的一个人可能有放射。 One of you might have an emanation, for instance.
或者我们可以联系一个恶作剧鬼，这将是极具破坏性和噪音。 Or we might contact a poltergeist, which would be extremely destructive and noisy.
-哪方面有破坏性?-他们扔东西，你知道。 - ln what way destructive? - They throw things, you know.
不，我不知道。 No, I didn't know.
现在，你准备好清空你的大脑了吗? Now, are you ready to empty your minds?
你是说你想让我们什么都不去想吗? Do you mean you want us to try and think of nothing?
没什么，布莱德曼医生。 AbsoluteIy nothing, Dr. Bradman.
把注意力集中在一个空间或一个普通的颜色上。 Concentrate on a space or on a nondescript coIor.
-这确实是更好的方法。-我会尽我所能。 - That's realIy the better way. - l'lI do my leveI best.
干得好! Good work!
一个ª一ª âªâª
灯! Lights!
哦,天哪! Oh, dear!
- â—â—有人在那里吗? - âªâª - ls there anyone there?
有人在吗? ls there anyone there?
一声“是”。两句说唱是否定的。 One rap for yes. Two raps for no.
有人在吗? ls there anyone there?
——哦! -- Oh!
是你吗，达芙妮? ls that you, Daphne?
你的感冒好点了吗，亲爱的? ls your coId better, dear?
哦，我很抱歉。你为它做了什么吗? Oh, l'm so sorry. Are you doing anything for it?
恐怕她很烦躁。 -- l'm afraid she's very fretful.
有人想和这里的人说话吗? ls there anyone there who wishes to speak to anyone here?
啊。现在我们有了一些进展。哦,不,达芙妮。别这样，亲爱的。 Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. Oh, no, Daphne. Don't do that, dear.
你会弄疼我的。达芙妮亲爱的,谢谢! You're hurting me. Daphne dear, pIease!
哦,很好。这是一个可爱的孩子。 Oh, be good. There's a dear child.
我很抱歉。 l'm sorry.
你是说有人想和这里的人说话? You say there's someone there who wishes to speak to someone here?
这是我吗? Is it me?
是布莱德曼医生吗? ls it Dr. Bradman?
是布莱德曼太太吗? ls it Mrs. Bradman?
是康多明夫人吗? ls it Mrs. Condomine?
别说了，达芙妮。表现自己。 Oh, stop it, Daphne. Behave yourself.
是康多明先生吗? ls it Mr. Condomine?
有人想和你谈谈，康多明先生。 There's someone who wishes to speak to you, Mr. Condomine.
-让他们留个口信。-我必须要求你不要轻浮，康多明先生。 - Tell them to leave a message. - l reaIly must ask you not to be flippant, Mr. Condomine.
查尔斯，你怎么能这么蠢?你'II破坏一切。 Charles, how can you be so idiotic? You'II spoil everything.
我很抱歉。我说漏了嘴。 l'm sorry. lt just slipped out.
你认识最近去世的人吗? Do you know anyone who's passed over recently?
最近没有，除了我的表兄在公务员部门…他也不太可能愿意和我交流。 Not recently, except my cousin in the civil service... and he wouldn't be likely to want to communicate with me.
我们好几年没说过话了。 We haven't spoken for years.
你是康多明先生在公务员部门的堂兄吗? Are you Mr. Condomine's cousin in the civil service?
——不，恐怕我们一无所获。 -- No, l'm afraid we've drawn a blank.
试着想想别人。苦思冥想。 Try and think of someone else. Rack your brains.
可能是老普卢密特太太。她死于圣灵降临节。 lt might be oId Mrs. Plummett, you know. She died on Whit Monday.
我不明白普卢密特老太太为什么要跟我说话。 l can't imagine why old Mrs. Plummett should wish to speak to me.
-我们几乎没有共同点。-值得一试。 - We had very little in common. - It's worth trying.
你是普卢密特太太吗? Are you old Mrs. Plummett?
她是个聋子。也许你最好喊一声。 She was deaf. Perhaps you'd better shout.
你是普卢密特太太吗? Are you old Mrs. Plummett?
没有，那里一个人也没有。 No, there's nobody there at all.
多么令人失望。就在我们相处得很好的时候。 How disappointing. Just as we were getting on so nicely.
紫罗兰色,保持安静。 Violet, be quiet.
嗯，恐怕除了让我进入恍惚状态外，没有别的办法了。 WelI, l'm afraid there's nothing for it but for me to go into a trance.
对不起，我再开一下留声机。 Excuse me a moment whiIe l start the gramophone again.
——不是“总是”。不要pIay“总是”。-恐怕我必须这么做。 - Not "Always." Don't pIay "Always." - l'm afraid l must.
如果你明白我的意思，中途换马是不明智的。 lt would be imprudent to change horses in midstream, if you know what I mean.
哦,好吧。有你自己的方式。 Oh, well. Have it your own way.
一个ª一ª âªâª
小汤米·塔克为他的晚餐唱歌。 Little Tommy Tucker sings for his supper.
我们该给他什么……但是黑面包加黄油呢? What shall we give him... but brown bread and butter?
那应该是达芙妮。她应该切除她的腺样体。 That wouId be Daphne. She ought to have had her adenoids out.
——乔治,谢谢!——天哪!——嘘! - George, please!- - Good heavens. - Shh!
它想要逃跑。我受不了了。 lt's trying to get away. I can't hoId it.
努力压下。 Press down hard.
我们应该把它捡起来还是留在原地? Ought we to pick it up or leave it where it is?
-我怎么会知道?-嗯，没必要对我发火。 - How the devil shouId l know? - WelI, there's no need to snap at me.
-我想我们最好把它捡起来。-把它放在那里。 - l suppose we'd better pick it up. - Leave it where it is.
-谁说的?-谁说什么? - Who said that? - Who said what?
-有人说:“把它放在那里。”——废话,亲爱的。 - Somebody said, "Leave it where it is." - Nonsense, dear.
-我听得很清楚。-没人知道，是吗? - l heard it distinctIy. - Nobody eIse did, did they?
我什么都没听到。 l never heard a sound.
是你，露丝。你打技巧。 lt was you, Ruth. You're pIaying tricks.
我可没做那种事。我还没有发出。 l'm doing nothing of the sort. I haven't uttered.
晚上好,查尔斯。 Good evening, Charles.
腹语术。这就是它的意思â ' -腹语术。 Ventriloquism. That's what it is â ventriloquism.
-你怎么了?-你一定听说了。 - What's the matter with you? - You must have heard that.
-你们中肯定有人听说了。——听到什么? - One of you must have heard that. - Heard what?
你是要一本正经地坐在那儿，告诉我你们谁也没听到什么吗? You mean to sit there solemnIy and tell me that none of you heard anything at all?
-我当然没有-我也不知道，我希望我知道。 - l certainly didn't. - Neither did l. l wish l had.
我想听点什么。 l should love to hear something.
是你在耍花招，查理。你是想吓唬我们。 lt's you who are playing the tricks, CharIes. You're acting to try and frighten us.
我不是。我发誓我没有。 l'm not. l swear I'm not.
七年过去了，真不知道该说些什么。但我想“晚上好”和其他任何话一样好。 It's difficuIt to think of what to say after seven years... but I suppose that "good evening" is as good as anything eIse.
-你是谁?-当然是EIvira。别傻了。 - Who are you? - EIvira, of course. Don't be so silly.
我一分钟也受不了了。起来,每一个人。娱乐的。 I can't bear this another minute. Get up, everybody. The entertainment's over.
查尔斯，你真讨厌。正当我们开始玩得开心的时候。 Charles, how tiresome of you. Just as we were beginning to enjoy ourselves.
我再也不会见你了。我只能说这么多。永远，永远，只要我还活着。 Never again. That's all l can say. Never, never again, as long as l live.
你听到什么我们没听到的吗? Did you hear something we didn't hear, really?
-不，当然不是。我只是假装的。-我就知道 - No, of course not. l was only pretending. - I knew you were.
哦,天哪!看看阿卡蒂夫人。 Oh, dear! Look at Madame Arcati.
-我们该拿她怎么办?-带她过来。 - What are we to do with her? - Bring her round.
尽快把她带回来。 Bring her round as soon as possible.
她出去了，好吧。 She's out, all right.
带她。把她这样丢下太危险了。 Bring her round. lt's dangerous to leave her Iike this.
真的，查理，你的行为很奇怪。 ReaIly, CharIes, you're behaving most peculiarIy.
阿卡蒂夫人，醒醒!该回家了! Madame Arcati, wake up! Time to go home!
-冷静，冷静。-喝点白兰地。给她喝点白兰地。 - Now steady, steady on. - Get some brandy. Give her some brandy.
你到底是怎么回事? What on earth is the matter with you?
得到一些白兰地! Get some brandy!
来，布莱德曼，给我一个â ' '帮我。我来拿脚。 Here, Bradman, give me a â Help me. l'll take the feet.
把她抱到椅子上。 Lift her into the chair.
醒醒，阿卡蒂夫人。 Wake up, Madame Arcati.
小汤米·塔克，阿卡蒂夫人! Little Tommy Tucker, Madame Arcati!
这是白兰地。 Here's the brandy.
她的到来。 She's coming round.
小心,谨慎的。你把它洒到她裙子上了。 Be careful, CharIes. You're spiIIing it down her dress.
嗯,就是这样。 Well, that's that.
-你没事吧?-当然了，亲爱的。 - Are you all right? - Certainly l am, my dear.
我这辈子从来没有这么好过。 l never felt better in my life.
嗯,发生什么事了?还满意吗? Well, what happened? Was it satisfactory?
阿卡蒂夫人，你走后没发生什么事。 Oh, nothing much happened, Madame Arcati, after you went off.
不，出事了，好吧。我能感觉到。 No, something happened, all right. l can feel it.
无论如何不能有恶作剧鬼。这是一件好事。 No poltergeists at any rate. That's a good thing.
——幽灵吗?-什么都没有。 - Any apparitions? - Not a thing.
什么,没有ectopIasm ? What, no ectopIasm?
我不太清楚那是什么，但我不这么认为。 I'm not quite sure what that is, but l don't think so.
好奇。我觉得好像发生了什么了不起的事。 Curious. l feel as if something tremendous had taken place.
查尔斯假装听到了什么声音，想吓唬我们。 Charles pretended he heard a voice to try and frighten us.
那只是个玩笑。 lt was only a joke.
一个可怜的孩子，如果我可以这么说的话。 A poor one, if l may say so.
尽管如此，我敢发誓这屋子里除了我还有一个通灵的人。 NevertheIess, l'm prepared to swear that there's someone eIse psychic in this room apart from myself.
我真不知道怎么可能，阿卡蒂夫人。 l don't realIy see how there could be, Madame Arcati.
我真希望我没有释放什么东西。 l do hope l haven't gone and released something.
然而，我们一定会在一两天内找到答案。 However, we are bound to find out within a day or two.
如果有什么异常或者你听到任何意外的声音…你可以马上让我知道。 lf any manifestations shouId occur or you hear any unexpected noises... you might Iet me know at once.
哦，我们当然会的。我们会立即与您联系。 Oh, of course we will. We'll get in touch with you immediately.
-嗯，我想我该走了。-你走之前不来点什么吗? - WelI, l reaIly think l must be on my way now. - Wouldn't you Iike something before you go?
哦，不用了，谢谢。我家里的炖锅里准备了阿华田。 Oh, no, thank you. I have some Ovaltine all ready in a saucepan at home.
只需要加热一下。再见,Condomine太太。 lt onIy needs hotting up. Good-bye, Mrs. Condomine.
你为我承担了这么多麻烦，真是太好了。 lt was sweet of you to take aIl this trouble.
哦，我很抱歉发生了这么少的事。我想是达芙妮感冒了。 WeIl, I'm so sorry so little occurred. lt's that coId of Daphne's, I expect.
当孩子有问题的时候，你知道他们是什么样的。 You know what children are when there's anything wrong with them.
我们改天晚上再试吧。-那太好了。 - We must try again some other evening. - That would be lovely.
-晚安，布莱德曼夫人-太刺激了。lt。 - Good night, Mrs. Bradman. - lt was thrilling. lt really was.
我感到桌子在我的手中晃动。 l felt the table absoIutely shaking under my hands.
-晚安，医生。-恭喜你，阿卡蒂夫人 - Good night, Doctor. - CongratuIations, Madame Arcati.
我很清楚你声音里的讽刺，布莱德曼医生。 l'm fully aware of the irony in your voice, Dr. Bradman.
事实上，你是心灵感应催眠的绝佳对象。 As a matter of fact, you'd make an excellent subject for telepathic hypnosis.
我有个好朋友是专家。我想让她帮你检查一下。 A great chum of mine's an expert. l'd like her to look you over.
我相信我会被迷住的。 l'm sure I should be charmed.
-大家晚安——晚安。 - Well, good night, everyone. - Good night.
晚安，各位。 Good night.
谢谢你！下次我们一定要全力以赴。 Thank you. Next time we must realIy put our backs into it.
晚安，各位。 Good night.
小心点，康多明太太。她可能会听到的。 Be carefuI, Mrs. Condomine. She might hear you.
我没办法。我已经憋了很久了。 I can't help it. l've been holding this in for ages.
但你真的认为她相信â ' ' But do you really think she beIieves â
当然不是。整件事都是骗人的。 Of course not. The whoIe thing's a put-up job.
不过我得说，她的台词比一般人都有创意。 l must say, though, she shoots a more original line than they generaIIy do.
我希望康多明先生的书能营造出他想要的氛围。 I hope Mr. Condomine got all the atmosphere he wanted for his book.
如果他不炫耀的话，他会得到更多的。 He would have got a great deal more if he hadn't spoiled it by showing off.
我对他真的很生气。 l'm reaIly very cross with him.
我突然感到一阵穿堂风。一定有扇窗户是开着的。 l suddenIy feIt a draft. There must be a window open.
不,他们关闭。 No, they're shut.
也许这就是阿卡蒂夫人所说的那种怪物。 Perhaps it was one of those whatchamacallims Madame Arcati was talking about.
——EIementals ?-不，不可能 - EIementals? - No, it couldn't be.
她明确表示，这不是一年中摄入元素的错误时间。 She distinctIy said it was the wrong time of the year for elementals.
那个老女孩骑着脚踏车沿着车道飞快地跑了。 Well, the old girl went pedaling off down the drive at a hell of a speed.
-点亮她的灯有点麻烦。——可怜的东西。 - We had a bit of trouble Iighting her lamp. - Poor thing.
我对她有个想法。 l've got a theory about her, you know.
-我相信她是真心的。-查尔斯，她怎么可能? - l believe she's completely sincere. - Charles, how could she be?
好了，我们得走了。明天我得起得特别早。 Well, we must be going. l've got to get up abominably early tomorrow.
我有个病人在坎特伯雷做手术。 l have a patient being operated on in Canterbury.
这是一个激动人心的夜晚。我永远也忘不了。 lt's been a thrilling evening. l shall never forget it.
-你邀请我们来真是太好了。-晚安，康多明夫人。非常感谢。 - lt was sweet of you to incIude us. - Good night, Mrs. Condomine. Thank you so much.
-你确定走之前不喝一杯吗?-当然，谢谢。 - Are you sure you won't have a drink before you go? - Quite sure, thanks.
为了好玩，我必须对整个业务做一点研究。 l must do a littIe reading up on the whole business, just for the fun of it.
如果发现有恶作剧鬼出没，我们会通知你的。 We'll let you know if we find any poltergeists whirling about.
-如果你没有，我永远也不会原谅你。-走吧，亲爱的。 - l should never forgive you if you didn't. - Come along, darling.
——好吧,亲爱的?——好吗? - Well, darling? - Well?
你觉得这个晚上很有收获吗? Would you say the evening had been profitable?
嗯。我想是这样。 Mmm. l suppose so.
-怎么了?——重要吗? - What's the matter? - Matter?
——是的。你看起来有点奇怪。你感觉还好吗?-嗯,很好。 - Yes. You seem odd somehow.- - Do you feeI quite well? - Mmm, fine.
-我想我要喝一杯。你想要一个吗?-不了，谢谢你，亲爱的。 - l think l'lI have a drink. Do you want one? - No, thank you, dear.
即!天气越来越冷了â ' ' Brr! lt's getting very chiIIy â
哦,我的上帝! Oh, my God!
——查尔斯! -- Charles!
你太笨了，亲爱的查尔斯。 That was very clumsy, Charles dear.
艾维拉，那是真的了。Lt â ' '那是你。 EIvira, then it's true. lt â lt was you.
当然是这样。 Of course it was.
查尔斯达里语。查尔斯，你在说什么? Charles, darIing. Charles, what are you taIking about?
你是â鬼吗? Are you a â a ghost?
我想我一定是。 l suppose l must be.
我很困惑。 lt's alI very confusing.
你一直在那边看什么?看着我。发生了什么事? What do you keep looking over there for? Look at me. What's happened?
-你不明白吗?——看看? - Don't you see? - See what?
埃尔韦拉。 Elvira.
——埃尔韦拉?——是的。 - Elvira? - Yes.
亲爱的埃尔维拉，这是露丝。露丝，这是埃尔维拉。 Elvira dear, this is Ruth. Ruth, this is Elvira.
过来坐吧，亲爱的。 Come and sit down, darling.
什么，你是说你不能见她吗? What, do you mean to say you can't see her?
听着，查尔斯，你就安静地坐在火炉旁，我再给你弄杯喝的。 Look, Charles, you just sit down quietly by the fire, and l'lI fix you another drink.
不要担心地毯上的脏乱。伊迪丝明天早上可以清理干净。 Don't worry about the mess on the carpet. Edith can cIean that up in the morning.
但你必须能见到她。她在这里。看。就在你面前。 But you must be abIe to see her. She's here. Look. Right in front of you here.
听着，查理，如果这是个玩笑，那就太过分了。 Look, CharIes, if this is a joke, it's gone far enough.
-坐下，别犯傻了。-我该怎么办? - Now sit down and don't be idiotic. - What am l to do?
我到底该怎么办? What the devil am l to do?
我真的觉得你见到我会更高兴一些。 Well, l really think you might be a little more pleased to see me.
艾莉之后，你把我变出来了。 After alI, you conjured me up.
我没做过这样的事。 l didn't do any such thing.
无稽之谈。当然了。 Nonsense. Of course you did.
那个感冒的讨厌孩子来告诉我说你急着要见我。 That awful child with the coId came and told me that you wanted to see me urgentIy.
这都是个错误，一个可怕的错误。 lt was all a mistake, a horribIe mistake.
别这么说了，查理。就像我之前说的，这个玩笑已经开得够远了。 Stop taIking like that, CharIes. As l told you before, the joke's gone far enough.
我已经疯了。就是这样。 l've gone mad. That's what it is.
我都快疯了。 l've just gone raving mad.
现在坐下来。 Now sit down.
你为什么这么急着让我坐下?那有什么用? Why are you so anxious for me to sit down? What good wiIl that do?
我要你放松。站着是不能放松的。 l want you to relax. You can't relax standing up.
非洲土著人。他们可以单腿站立好几个小时。 African natives can. They can stand on one leg for hours.
我不是非洲人。 l don't happen to be an African native.
-你不会是什么吧?-一个非洲人。 - You don't happen to be a what? - An African native.
这有什么关系? What's that got to do with it?
没关系，露丝。真的没关系。 lt doesn't matter, Ruth. lt really doesn't matter.
我们不再多说了。 We will say no more about it.
——看。我坐了下来。——在这里。喝这个。 - Look. l've sat down. - Here. Drink this.
-你还想再来点吗?——是的,请。 - Would you like some more? - Yes, please.
非常不明智的。你的头脑总是很迟钝。 Very unwise. You always had a weak head.
我可以把你灌醉。 l could drink you under the table.
没必要这么咄咄逼人，查尔斯。我在尽力帮你。 There's no need to be aggressive, Charles. l'm doing my best to help you.
对不起。 Sorry.
把这个喝了，然后我们就可以上楼睡觉了。 Now, drink this, and then we can go upstairs to bed.
把她赶走，查尔斯。然后我们就可以和平地谈谈了。 Get rid of her, Charles. Then we can taIk in peace.
这是一个完全不道德的建议。你应该为自己感到羞耻。 That's a thoroughly immoral suggestion. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
这有什么不道德的? What is there immoral in that?
-我没跟你说话，露丝-你当时在和谁说话? - l wasn't talking to you, Ruth. - Who were you taIking to then?
-当然是EIvira。-哦，拜厄兹和艾薇拉! - EIvira, of course. - Oh, to bIazes with EIvira!
——现在。她的十字架。-我不怪她 - There now. She's getting cross. - l don't blame her.
听着，查理。我猜你在这背后一定有什么计划。 Now look here, CharIes. I gather you've got some sort of plan behind aIl this.
-我不是个傻瓜。-露丝，埃尔维拉来了。 - I'm not quite a fool. - Ruth, Elvira is here.
她就站在离你几码远的地方。 She's standing a few yards away from you.
是的,亲爱的。我能清楚地看到她â ' ' '和一只斑马在钢琴下。 Yes, dear. l can see her distinctly â under the piano with a zebra.
-但是，露丝â ' ' -我不想再呆在这里争论下去了。 - But, Ruth â - l am not going to stay here arguing any longer.
——万岁。——闭嘴。 - Hooray. - Shut up.
-你竟敢这样对我说话!-但是听着，露丝，请â ' ' - How dare you speak to me like that! - But listen, Ruth, please â
我不想再听你胡说八道了。 l will not listen to any more of this nonsense.
我现在上楼睡觉去了。我留你去关灯。 l'm going upstairs to bed now. l shall leave you to turn out the lights.
我睡不着â我太难过了â l won't be asleep â l'm much too upset â
所以如果你想的话，可以进来跟我说晚安。 so you can come in and say good night to me if you feel like it.
我得说，她真大。 WeIl, that's big of her, l must say.
安静点!你的行为就像个流浪汉。 Be quiet! You're behaving like a guttersnipe.
我要说的就这些了。 That is aIl l have to say.
晚安,吝啬的。 Good night, CharIes.
那是我度过的最愉快的半个小时之一。 That was one of the most enjoyable haIf hours I've ever spent.
-艾薇拉，你怎么能这样?——可怜的露丝。 - Oh, Elvira, how could you? - Poor Ruth.
这显然是某种幻觉，对吧? This is obviously some sort of hallucination, isn't it?
恐怕我不知道它的专业术语。 l'm afraid l don't know the technical term for it.
那么，你从哪里来? Well, where have you come from?
你知道吗，这很奇怪，但我有点忘了。 Do you know, it's very peculiar, but I've sort of forgotten.
你要一直待在这儿吗? Are you to be here indefiniteIy?
恐怕我也不知道。 l'm afraid l don't know that either.
为什么?如果我是，你会这么讨厌吗? Why? WouId you hate it so much if I was?
你得承认那样会很尴尬。 Well, you must admit it would be embarrassing.
我真不明白为什么。这是一个调整自己的问题。 l don't see why realIy. lt's alI a question of adjusting yourself.
不管怎样，我觉得你这么不讨人喜欢，令人讨厌，真是太可恶了。 Anyway, I think it's horrid of you to be so unweIcoming and disagreeable.
-听着，艾薇拉- l。我觉得你很刻薄。 - Now look here, Elvira. - l do. l think you're mean.
试着听听我的观点，亲爱的。我和露丝结婚五年了，你死了七年了。 Well, try to see my point of view, dear. l've been married to Ruth for five years, and you've been dead for seven.
没有死,查尔斯。经过。 Not dead, Charles. Passed over.
在我的家乡，说“死了”是很粗俗的。 lt's considered very vulgar to say "dead" where l come from.
经过。 Passed over then.
我不再相信你爱我了。 l don't beIieve you love me anymore.
我将永远爱关于你的回忆。 l shall aIways love the memory of you.
好吧，我真的有点受伤。 Well, l really am a little hurt.
你给我回电话，不方便我就来了……自从我来了，你就一直很无礼。 You caIled me back, and at greet inconvenience l came... and you've been thoroughly churlish ever since l arrived.
相信我，艾薇拉，我绝对没有回你电话。 Believe me, Elvira, l most emphatically did not call you back.
-有点误会。-也许是你的潜意识。 - There's been some mistake. - Perhaps it was your subconscious.
你必须弄清楚你要不要留下来，我们才能作出相应的安排。 You must find out if you're going to stay or not, and we can make arrangements accordingly.
-我不知道我怎么能。-嗯，想想看。 - l don't see how I can. - WeIl, try and think.
那边没有你认识的可以联系上的人吗?或者是另一边的人谁能给你建议? Isn't there anyone that you know that you can get in touch with over there... or on the other side or whatever it's called who can advise you?
不。我想不。 No. l can't think.
它似乎是那么遥远，就像我做梦一样。 lt alI seems so far away, as though l'd dreamed it.
哦,查尔斯。 Oh, Charles.
它是什么? What is it?
-我想哭，但我想我哭不出来。-你哭什么? - l want to cry, but l don't think l'm able to. - What do you want to cry for?
我又见到你了，你又像以前一样脾气暴躁。 Well, it's seeing you again, and you being so irascible Iike you aIways used to be.
-我不是有意要发脾气，埃尔维拉。-亲爱的，我不介意。我从来没有。 - l don't mean to be irascible, Elvira. - Darling, I don't mind reaIly. l never did.
当鬼是不是很冷? ls it cold being a ghost?
不，我不这么认为。 No, l don't think so.
如果我碰你会怎么样? What happens if l touch you?
我怀疑你能不能。 l doubt if you can.
你想去吗? Do you want to?
哦,埃尔韦拉。 Oh, Elvira.
怎么了，亲爱的? What is it, darling?
再次见到你真是太奇怪了。 Oh, it certainly does seem strange seeing you again.
这是更好的。 That's better.
更好的是什么? What's better?
你的声音更亲切了。 Your voice was kinder.
你活着的时候，我对你不好吗? Was l ever unkind to you when you were alive?
经常。 Often.
哦，你怎么能这样?我肯定你在夸大其词。 Oh, how can you? l'm sure you're exaggerating.
不客气。 Not at all.
那次我们去康沃尔，住在那个糟糕的旅馆里，你真是个十足的猪。 You were an absolute pig that time we went to Cornwall and stayed in that awful hotel.
你用台球杆打了我。 You hit me with a billiard cue.
嗯。只是非常非常文雅。 Mmm. Only very, very gentIy.
我非常爱你。 l loved you very much.
我也爱过你。 l loved you too.
不，我不能碰你。那不是很可怕吗? No, I can't touch you. Isn't that horrible?
嗯。如果我要在这里待上一段时间，也许也无妨。 Hmm. Perhaps it's just as weIl if l'm to stay here for any length of time.
我想我总有一天会醒来的，但我现在感到奇怪的平静。 l suppose I shall wake up eventualIy, but l feeI strangely peaceful now.
这是正确的。把头往后仰。 That's right. Put your head back.
像这样的吗? Like this?
你有什么感觉吗? Can you feel anything?
只有一阵微风吹过我的头发。 OnIy a very littIe breeze through my hair.
那总比什么都没有好。 Well, that's better than nothing.
我想如果我真的疯了，他们会把我送进精神病院。 l suppose if l'm really out of my mind, they'll put me in an asylum.
你不用担心那个。只是放松。 Don't you worry about that. Just relax.
可怜的露丝。 Poor Ruth.
嗯。露丝的坚果。 Mmm. Nuts to Ruth.
早上好,伊迪丝。 Good morning, Edith.
-早上好，先生-身体好吗? - Good morning, sir. - Feeling fit?
是的，长官，谢谢你，长官。 Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
- - - - - -做饭怎么样?-我不知道，长官，我还没问过她 - How's Cook? - l don't know, sir. l haven't asked her.
你应该。你应该以问候他人开始每天的生活。 You should. You shouId begin every day by asking everyone how they are.
-它给轮子上油。——是的,先生。 - lt oils the wheels. - Yes, sir.
-替我问候她，好吗?——是的,先生。 - Greet her for me, wiIl you? - Yes, sir.
-早上好，亲爱的。-早上好，查理。 - Good morning, darIing. - Good morning, CharIes.
-当然是。-什么肯定是什么? - It certainIy is. - What certainIy is what?
早上好。非常好的早晨。 A good morning. A tremendously good morning.
天空中没有一丝雾气，一切看起来都是新洗过的。 There isn't a cIoud in the sky, and everything Iooks newly washed.
《泰晤士报》上有什么有趣的消息吗? Anything interesting in The Times?
别傻了，查理。 Don't be silly, CharIes.
-我打算工作一天。——好。 - l intend to work alI day. - Good.
-白天很特别，不是吗?-什么意思? - lt's extraordinary about dayIight, isn't it? - How do you mean?
它把一切都变正常了。 Oh, the way it reduces everything to normal.
听你这么说我肯定很高兴。 l'm sure l'm very glad to hear it.
-你今天早上很冷淡。-你感到惊讶吗? - You're very glacial this morning. - Are you surprised?
是的。我收回我说的早上好的话。真是个糟糕的早晨。 Yes. l take back what I said about it being a good morning. lt's a horrid morning.
你最好趁热吃早餐。 You'd better eat your breakfast while it's hot.
——不是。-听着，查理。 - It isn't. - Now look here, CharIes.
在你年轻的时候，这种调皮的表现可能很有趣。 ln your younger days, this display of roguish flippancy might have been alIuring.
对一个中年小说家来说，这令人作呕。 ln a middle-aged novelist, it's nauseating.
-我不知道我做了什么可怕的事。-你昨晚的表现太可恶了。 - l don't see what l've done that's so awful. - You behaved abominabIy last night.
你伤害了我，侮辱了我。 You wounded me and insulted me.
我是精神失常的受害者。 l was the victim of an aberration.
——废话。你是喝醉了。——喝醉了? - Nonsense. You were drunk. - Drunk?
你晚饭前喝了两杯烈性干马提尼酒，晚餐喝了太多的勃艮第酒……天知道有多少端口和kÃ¼mmel与Dr. Bradman… You had two strong dry martinis before dinner, a great deal too much burgundy at dinner... heaven knows how much port and kÃ¼mmel with Dr. Bradman...
当我尽力取悦那个疯女人的时候。 while l was doing my best to entertain that madwoman.
再喝两大杯白兰地。我亲自给你的。 And two large brandies later. l gave them to you myself.
-你当然醉了。-这就是你的故事，是吗? - Of course you were drunk. - That's your story, is it?
我一点也没醉，露丝。我昨晚出事了。 l wasn't in the Ieast drunk, Ruth. Something happened to me last night.
我身上发生了一件非常奇怪的事。 Something very peculiar happened to me.
-我真的不想再进一步讨论了。-但你必须讨论一下。lt非常令人不安。 - l really don't wish to discuss it any further. - But you must discuss it. lt's very disturbing.
我向你发誓，在sÃ©演出的时候我确信我听到了埃尔维拉的声音。 l swear to you that during the sÃ©ance l was convinced I heard Elvira's voice.
-没人知道。-我没办法我做到了。 - Nobody else did. - l can't help that. I did.
你不可能。 You couldn't have.
后来，我也同样确信她就在房间里。 And later on, l was equalIy convinced she was in the room.
我清楚地看到了她，并和她说话。 l saw her distinctly and talked to her.
你上床睡觉后，我们惬意地聊了一会儿。 After you'd gone up to bed, we had quite a cozy little chat.
你真以为我会相信你没喝醉吗。 And you seriously expect me to believe that you weren't drunk.
我知道我没有喝醉。如果我喝得那么醉，我应该会宿醉得很厉害，不是吗? l know l wasn't drunk. lf l'd been all that drunk, l should have a dreadful hangover, shouldn't l?
-我不确定你有没有。-我一点也不头疼。 - l'm not at all sure that you haven't. - l haven't got a trace of a headache.
我的舌头没有涂布。看它。 My tongue's not coated. Look at it.
我一点也不想看你的舌头。请把它放进去。 l haven't the least desire to look at your tongue. Kindly put it in again.
——谢谢我。——是的,伊迪丝吗? - PIease'm. - Yes, Edith?
厨子想知道午餐的事，夫人。 Cook wants to know about lunch, ma'am.
-你来吃午饭吗，查尔斯?-哦，别担心我。 - Will you be in to lunch, Charles? - Oh, please, don't worry about me.
有瓶杜松子酒在我卧室里我就心满意足了。 l shaII be perfectly happy with a bottIe of gin in my bedroom.
别傻了，亲爱的。告诉库克我们都进去，伊迪丝。 Don't be siIly, dear. Tell Cook we shall both be in, Edith.
是的,我。 Yes'm.
我今天早上要去海斯。你想要什么吗? l'm going into Hythe this morning. ls there anything you want?
是的，很贵，但我怀疑你在海斯能不能买到。 Yes, a great deal, but l doubt if you could get it in Hythe.
我已经把爱卡苏打水写在我的单子上了。 l've put AIka-Seltzer down on my list.
女人!我对女人的看法。 Women! What l think of women.
退一步说，你对女性的看法是学术的。 Your view of women is academic, to say the least of it.
就因为你总是被他们支配…这并不一定意味着你对他们有所了解。 Just because you've always been dominated by them... it doesn't necessarily follow that you know anything about them.
我从来没有被任何人支配过。 l've never been dominated by anyone.
你在23岁以前一直由你母亲抚养。 You were hagridden by your mother till you were 23.
然后你就落入了那个可怕的太太的魔爪。 Then you got into the clutches of that awful Mrs. Whatever-her-name-was.
——Winthrop-Llewellyn太太。-我没兴趣。 - Mrs. Winthrop-Llewellyn. - l'm not interested.
然后是埃尔维拉。她用铁腕手段统治你。 Then there was Elvira. She ruled you with a rod of iron.
埃尔维拉从未统治过任何人。她太爱管闲事了。 Elvira never ruled anyone. She was far too eIusive.
这是她最大的魅力之一。 That was one of her greatest charms.
还有莫德·查特里斯。 Then there was Maud Charteris.
如果你想盘点我的性生活，亲爱的……我想应该告诉你，你错过了好几集。 lf you wish to make an inventory of my sex life, dear... l think it only fair to telI you that you've missed out severaI episodes.
我查一下我的日记，午饭后给你一份完整的清单。 l'll consult my diary and give you a complete list after lunch.
- - - - - -查尔斯。——是吗? - Charles. - Yes?
酒精会毁了你的一生，如果你让它控制你，你知道。 AlcohoI wilI ruin your whole life if you alIow it to get a hold on you, you know.
再说一次，露丝，我想让你明白…昨晚发生的事跟酒精一点关系都没有 Once and for aII, Ruth, l'd like you to understand... that what happened last night was nothing whatever to do with alcohol.
我承认，这可能是某种精神上的错觉…但我从头到尾都是完全清醒的，对这件事非常失望。 l grant you, it may have been some form of psychic deIusion... but l was stone-cold sober from first to last and extremely upset into the bargain.
你确实心烦意乱。关于我的什么? You were upset indeed. What about me?
你表现得麻木，迟钝，真让我震惊。 You behaved with a stolid, obtuse Iack of comprehension which frankIy shocked me.
他没有伸出温柔的、同志般的手来引导我……你像军士长一样断断续续地对我发号施令。 Instead of putting out a gentle, comradely hand to guide me... you shouted staccato orders at me like a sergeant major.
你说我是地沟怪人。你叫我闭嘴的。 You calIed me a guttersnipe. You toId me to shut up.
当我轻声建议我们上楼睡觉的时候…你用最恶心的眼神说，这是个不道德的建议。 And when I quietly suggested that we shouId go upstairs to bed... you said, with the most disgusting leer, it was an immoral suggestion.
我在和埃尔维拉说话。 l was taIking to Elvira.
如果是的话，我只能说这让我想起了你第一次婚姻的美好画面。 lf you were, l can only say it conjures up a fragrant picture of your first marriage.
我的第一段婚姻非常迷人，我想如果你对它嗤之以鼻，那就太没品味了。 My first marriage was perfectIy charming, and I think it's in the worst possible taste for you to sneer at it.
我对你的第一次婚姻并不像你想象的那么感兴趣。 l'm not nearly so interested in your first marriage as you seem to think I am.
你的第二次婚姻让我着迷。在我看来，它已经在岩石上了。 lt's your second marriage that is absorbing me at the moment. lt seems to me to be on the rocks.
只是因为你坚持这种荒谬的态度。 Only because you persist in taking up this ridicuIous attitude.
我的态度和任何一个正常的女人一样，她的丈夫喝醉了还骂她。 My attitude is that of any normaI woman whose husband gets drunk and hurls abuse at her.
-我没有喝醉!——安静。厨房里的人会听到的。 - l was not drunk! - Be quiet. They'll hear you in the kitchen.
我不在乎他们在福克斯通市政厅听到我的话! l don't care if they hear me in the Folkestone town hall!
我没有喝醉! l was not drunk!
-你打电话了吗，先生?——不! - Did you caII, sir? - No!
查理，亲爱的，如果你没喝醉，你怎么解释? CharIes dear, if you weren't drunk, how do you account for it?
我无法解释。这就是可怕的地方。 l can't account for it. That's what's so awful.
-你午餐吃了什么?-你应该知道。你和我一起吃的。 - What did you have for lunch? - You ought to know. You had it with me.
让我看看。有柠檬比目鱼和奶酪之类的。 Let me see. There was lemon sole and that cheese thing.
为什么午餐吃奶酪会让我在晚饭后见到我已故的妻子? Why should having a cheese thing for Iunch make me see my deceased wife after dinner?
你永远不会知道的。相当丰富。 You never know. lt was rather rich.
那你为什么没看到你死去的丈夫?你和我拥有的一样多。 Why didn't you see your dead husband then? You had just as much of it as l did.
-这对我们没有任何帮助-不，当然不是 - This isn't getting us anywhere. - No, of course it isn't.
——查尔斯亲爱的?——是吗? - Charles dear? - Yes?
也许你脑子里有什么事。 Perhaps there's something pressing on your brain.
如果有什么东西压迫着我的大脑，我应该会剧烈头痛，不是吗? lf there were something pressing on my brain, l should have violent headaches, shouldn't l?
不一定。 Not necessarily.
我的一个叔叔的大脑常年被一个板球巴厘岛那么大的肿块压着……他一点感觉都没有。 An uncIe of mine had a Iump the size of a cricket balI pressing on his brain for years... and he never felt a thing.
我知道我应该知道，如果我有那样的东西。 l know l shouId know if I had anything Iike that.
——他没有。-他怎么了? - He didn't. - What happened to him?
他把它拿掉了，从那以后他一直很聪明。 He had it taken out, and he's been as bright as a button ever since.
他有什么幻觉吗?我是说，他以为他看到了不存在的东西吗? Did he have any sort of deIusions? l mean, did he think he saw things that weren't there?
不，我不这么认为。 No, l don't think so.
唔，那我们为什么要谈论他呢? WeIl, what the blazes are we talking about him for then?
这纯粹是浪费宝贵的时间。 lt's sheer waste of valuable time.
唔，我只是举他做例子。 WeIl, I just brought him up as an example.
-你现在感觉怎么样?-你是说身体上吗? - How do you feel now? - PhysicaIly, do you mean?
AItogether。 AItogether.
除了担心，我感觉很正常。 Apart from being worried, l feel quite normal.
很好。你没看到或听到任何不寻常的事吗? Good. You're not seeing or hearing anything in the least unusuaI?
不是一个东西。 Not a thing.
现在又怎么了? What's the matter now?
她在这里了! She's here again!
-什么意思?这里是谁?——埃尔韦拉。 - What do you mean? Who's here again? - Elvira.
日晷绝对把边界给毁了。 You've absoluteIy ruined that border by the sundial.
看起来像一份混合沙拉。 lt looks Iike a mixed salad.
查尔斯，振作起来。 Charles, puIl yourself together.
都是因为旱金莲。他们太庸俗。 lt's all those nasturtiums. They're so vulgar.
-我喜欢旱金莲。-你喜欢什么? - l Iike nasturtiums. - You like what?
它们在适度的情况下还可以，但在那样一堆东西里，它们看起来就像野兽。 They're aIl right in moderation, but in a mass like that, they look beastly.
帮助我,露丝。你得帮帮我。 Help me, Ruth. You've got to help me.
-旱金莲是什么意思?-现在别管那个了。 - What did you mean about nasturtiums? - Never mind about that now.
我告诉你，她又来了。 l tell you, she's here again.
你最近拍了不少好戏，是吧? You've been having some nice scenes, haven't you?
请少管闲事。 Please mind your own business.
如果你表现得像个疯子不关我的事，我不知道什么是。 lf you behaving like a lunatic isn't my business, l don't know what is.
我想是关于我的，对吧? l expect they were about me, weren't they?
我知道我应该感到抱歉，但我没有。我很高兴。 l know l ought to feel sorry, but I'm not. l'm delighted.
-你怎么能这么不体贴人?——不顾别人的? - How can you be so inconsiderate? - Inconsiderate?
l。我已经尽我所能帮忙了。 l like that. l've done everything l can to help.
我很好地控制住了自己。 l've controIIed myself admirabIy.
我现在想说的是，我一点也不相信你那些恶心的幻想。 And I'd Iike to say here and now I don't believe a word about your beastIy haIIucinations.
——露丝,请。-别靠近我! - Ruth, please. - Don't come near me!
让她好好哭一场。这对她有好处。 Let her have a nice cry. lt'll do her good.
-你太无情了。——无情! - You're utterly heartless. - Heartless!
我没跟你说话!我在和埃尔维拉说话! l wasn't talking to you! l was talking to Elvira!
很好。那你继续跟她谈吧。 Very well. Go on talking to her then.
跟她说到你脸色发青，但别跟我说。 TaIk to her tiIl you're bIue in the face, but don't talk to me.
-帮帮我，艾薇拉。——如何? - Help me, EIvira. - How?
-好吧，让她看看你。-哦，恐怕我做不到。 - WelI, make her see you or something. - Oh, l'm afraid I couIdn't possibIy manage that.
从技术上讲，这是最难的事â你知道，复杂得可怕。 lt's technically the most difficult business â frightfully complicated, you know.
这需要多年的学习。 lt takes years of study.
我不管它有多专业。你得试试。 l don't care how technical it is. You've got to try.
你在这里，是吗?你不是幻境? You are here, aren't you? You're not an ilIusion?
不，恐怕没有。 No, I was afraid not.
是的，但是â ' '好吧â ' ' Yes, but â Well â
不，我不想无礼，但你必须看看â ' ' No, I don't mean to be rude, but you must see â
是的，你必须答应我，以后你只在我一个人的时候来和我说话。 Yes, you must make me a promise in future you'll only come and talk to me when l'm alone.
那总比见不到我强。 Well, that's better than not seeing me at all.
- - - - - -查尔斯。——是的,亲爱的? - Charles. - Yes, dear?
我很抱歉我太生气了。 l'm awfully sorry l was cross.
-但是，亲爱的â我现在明白了。 - But, my dear â - l understand everything now.
-真的。——你会怎么做? - l do realIy. - You do?
-我当然知道。——看看。她在搞什么鬼。 - Of course l do. - Look out. She's up to something.
-你能安静点吗?-当然，亲爱的。 - Will you please be quiet? - Of course, darling.
我们都要安静，好吗?我们会像小老鼠一样安静。 We'lI all be quiet, won't we? We'll be as quiet as Iittle mice.
但是，亲爱的露丝â ' ' But, Ruth dear â
现在，我要你跟我上楼去睡觉。 Now, l want you to come upstairs with me and go to bed.
那个女人在床上弹琴的样子。 The way that woman harps on bed.
-我以后再找你算账。-很好，亲爱的。到来。 - l'll deal with you later. - Very well, darling. Come along.
-你在忙什么?-我什么都没干。 - What are you up to? - l'm not up to anything.
我只想让你安静地上床，在那儿等布莱德曼医生来。 l just want you to go quietly to bed and wait there tiIl Dr. Bradman comes.
不，露丝，你错了。 No, Ruth, you're wrong.
你还不知道自己在哪儿，她就会给你穿上紧身衣。 She'll have you in a straitjacket before you know where you are.
听着,露丝。如果我答应去睡觉，你能让我在这里多呆五分钟吗? Listen, Ruth. If I promise to go to bed, wilI you let me stay here for five minutes Ionger?
-我真的认为这样会更好â ' ' -不，现在听我说。 - l really think it would be much better â - No, now bear with me.
不管这看起来有多疯狂，请再容忍我五分钟。 However mad it may seem, bear with me for just five minutes Ionger.
很好。它是什么? Very well. What is it?
坐下来。 Sit down.
——生病。在那里。——现在听。carefulIy听。 - AIl right. There. - Now listen. Listen carefulIy.
有香烟。它会舒缓你的神经。 Have a cigarette. lt'll soothe your nerves.
-我不想抽烟。-那你就别吃了，亲爱的。 - l don't want a cigarette. - Then you shan't have one, darling.
我想冷静地，不带感情地向你解释…毫无疑问，幽灵或阴影，或者随便你怎么称呼它……我第一任妻子埃尔维拉的照片现在就在这个房间里 l want to explain to you calmIy and without emotion... that beyond any shadow of doubt, the ghost or shade or whatever you like to call it... of my first wife, Elvira, is in this room now.
是的,亲爱的。 Yes, dear.
我知道你不相信我，你在勇敢地迁就我……但我要证明给你看。 l know you don't believe me and you're trying valiantly to humor me... but I'm going to prove it to you.
-答应我按我说的做。-嗯，那要看是什么了。 - Promise you'Il do what l ask. - WelI, that depends on what it is.
露丝，你看到桌上的这碗花了吗? Ruth, you see this bowl of flowers on the tabIe?
是的，亲爱的，今天早上我自己做的。 Yes, dear, l did them myself this morning.
-非常凌乱，如果我可以这么说的话。-你不可以。 - Very untidily, if l may say so. - You may not.
很好啦。我保证再也不会了。 Very weII. l never will again, l promise.
埃尔维拉现在会把那盆花送到你身边，然后再送回来。 Elvira will now carry the bowl of flowers over to you and back again.
你会的，艾薇拉，是吗?只是为了取悦我? You will, Elvira, won't you? Just to please me?
好吧，就一次，求你了。 Well, just once, pIease.
谢谢你！现在仔细看，露丝。 Thank you. Now watch carefuIly, Ruth.
是的,亲爱的。 Yes, dear.
继续,埃尔韦拉。拿去给路得。 Go on, Elvira. Take them over to Ruth.
你怎么敢，查尔斯?你应该为自己感到羞耻。 How dare you, Charles? You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
-到底是为了什么?-这是个诡计。我知道这是个骗局。 - What on earth for?- lt's a trick. l know it's a trick.
你已经准备好了。这都是某个可怕计划的一部分。 You've been working up to this. lt's all part of some horrible plan.
lt不是。我发誓不是。 lt isn't. I swear it isn't.
艾薇拉，看在上帝的份上，做点别的吧。 Elvira, for heaven's sake, do something else.
当然可以。任何要求。 Certainly. Anything to oblige.
你想摆脱我。你想把我逼疯! You want to get rid of me. You're trying to drive me out of my mind!
——哦!-我再也不能忍受了! - Oh! - l'm not going to put up with this any Ionger!
-你一定要相信我!你必须!-让我马上走! - You must believe me! You must! - Let me go immediately!
-那是艾薇拉!我发誓是的。-放开我。 - That was EIvira! l swear it was. - Let me go.
露丝,谢谢! Ruth, please!
查尔斯，这太疯狂了，太疯狂了。 Charles, this is madness, sheer madness.
这是某种自我暗示，对吧?某种催眠术。 lt's some sort of autosuggestion, isn't it? Some form of hypnotism.
-向我发誓只是那样。-催眠，我的脚! - Swear to me it's only that. - Hypnotism, my foot!
亲爱的康多明太太，你能打来真是太好了。 Oh, my dear Mrs. Condomine, how nice of you to caIl.
-我希望不会给你带来不便。——lnconvenient ?天啊,没有。 - l do hope it isn't inconvenient. - lnconvenient? Good heavens, no.
进去。 Come inside.
去客厅吧，康多明太太。 Oh, do go into the sitting room, Mrs. Condomine.
如果你不介意中国的话，你正好赶上喝杯茶â。 You're just in time for a cup of tea â that is, if you don't mind China.
-一点也不。-我从不碰印度人。它扰乱了我的振动。 - Not at all. - l never touch lndian. lt upsets my vibrations.
-好吧，来坐下吧。——好人。我马上就能做好。 - Well, do come and sit down.- Good egg. l'll have this made in a jiffy.
阿卡蒂夫人，我深感不安，我需要你的帮助。 Madame Arcati, l'm profoundly disturbed, and I want your heIp.
灿烂的。我也是这么想的。现在,火了。 Splendid. I thought as much. Now, fire away.
这很难解释清楚。 Well, it's most awfuIly difficult to explain.
WeIl,事实。事后解释。 WeIl, facts first. Explanations afterwards.
这是很难解释的事实。他们太棒了。 lt's the facts that are so difficult to explain. They're so fantastic.
事实往往如此。 Facts very often are.
来吧，坐上皮格。与它。 Come now, take the pIunge. Out with it.
你一定在夜里听到过奇怪的声音。 You've heard strange noises in the night, no doubt.
木板嘎吱作响，门噼噼啪啪作响。 Boards creaking, doors sIamming.
在走廊里压抑的呻吟。 Subdued moaning in the passages.
-不是吗?-不，恐怕不是。 - lsn't that it? - No, l'm afraid it isn't.
我希望没有突然刮来的寒风吧? No sudden gusts of cold wind, l hope?
不。情况比这更糟。 No. It's worse than that.
我所有的注意力。 l'm all attention.
我知道这听起来很白痴…但有一天晚上，在sÃ©活动期间，发生了一件事。 l know it sounds idiotic... but the other night, during the sÃ©ance, something happened.
我知道它。 l knew it.
可能一个吵闹鬼。 Probably a poltergeist.
你知道，他们非常狡猾。 They're enormously cunning, you know.
他们有时会躺上好几天。 They sometimes lie doggo for days.
吵闹鬼!PoItergeist ! Poltergeist! PoItergeist!
很吵闹鬼! Pretty poltergeist!
哦! Oh!
现在进行。我洗耳恭听。 Now carry on. l'm all ears.
你知道我丈夫以前结过婚。 You know my husband was married before.
是的。我听人提起过。 Yes. I had heard it mentioned.
他的第一任妻子埃尔维拉(Elvira)去世得比较早。 His first wife, Elvira, died comparatively young.
她正从肺炎中恢复过来，一天晚上……看着BBC的一个音乐节目，她开始无助地大笑起来……死于心脏病发作。 She was convalescing from pneumonia, and, one evening... she began to laugh helpIessly at one of the BBC musical programs... and died of a heart attack.
请稍等。 Just a moment, please.
-她死在哪里?-在我们现在的房子里。 - Now, where did she die? - ln our present house.
我开始明白了。 l'm beginning to see daylight.
那天晚上我走后她出现了。 She materialized the other evening after l'd gone.
不是对我，是对我丈夫。 Not to me, but to my husband.
资本!资本!哦，那太好了! Capital! Capital! Oh, but that's splendid!
终于!在Iast !一个真正的实体化! At last! At Iast! A genuine materialization!
- âª哒，哒，哒，哒âª—请坐，阿卡蒂夫人。 - âª Da, da, da, da âª - Please sit down, Madame Arcati.
怎么会有人在这种时候坐下?lt是巨大的。 How couId anyone sit down at such a moment? lt's tremendous.
萨德伯里的案子之后我就没这么成功过。 l haven't had such a success since the Sudbury case.
尽管如此，我还是要你坐下来……控制你的天性 Nevertheless, l must insist upon you sitting down... and controIling your naturaI exuberance.
我非常欣赏你对自己的成就所感到的骄傲……但我想指出的是这让我在这房子里的地位岌岌可危…我认为你应该负全部责任。 l fulIy appreciate your pride in your achievement... but l wouId like to point out it's made my position in the house untenable... and l hold you entirely responsible.
原谅我，康多明夫人。我太自私了。 Oh, forgive me, Mrs. Condomine. l'm being abominably selfish.
-我能帮你什么忙吗?——如何? - How can l help you? - How?
当然是马上把她送回她来的地方。 By sending her back immediately to where she came from, of course.
唔，她现在在哪儿? WeIl, where is she now?
我丈夫开车送她去了福克斯通。 My husband's driven her into Folkestone.
显然她很想见住在格兰德酒店的一个老朋友。 Apparently she was anxious to see an old friend of hers who's staying at the Grand.
这整件事对露丝来说很困难。我们必须公平。 This whoIe business is very difficuIt for Ruth. We must be fair.
她应该学会适应环境。 Well, she should learn to be more adaptable.
她迟早会知道的。 She probably will in time.
我很怀疑，查尔斯。 l doubt it, Charles.
她的嘴可真狠。是她的嘴出卖了她。 She's got a hard mouth. lt's her mouth that gives her away.
她的嘴跟这事没关系。 Her mouth's got nothing to do with it.
我讨厌你把露丝当马谈。 l resent your discussing Ruth as though she were a horse.
看来你丈夫很爱她。 l-l take it your husband was devoted to her.
我相信如此。 l believe so.
丈夫忠诚。 Husband devoted.
这显然是一段相当幸福的婚姻。 lt was apparently a reasonably happy marriage.
哦，嘘，嘘，嘘。 Oh, tut, tut, tut.
你说只有你丈夫能看见她? You say she's visible only to your husband?
是的。 Yes.
VisibIe只…的丈夫。 VisibIe only... to husband.
我猜，也是可听的。 Audible, too, I presume.
极其声响。 Extremely audible.
非常……听得见的。 Extremely... audible.
你爱她吗? Do you love her?
是的,当然。 Yes, of course.
就像你爱我一样多? As much as you Ioved me?
别傻了。lt是完全不同的。 Don't be silly. lt's entirely different.
你总是表现得很不好…看到你在另一个世界的逗留，我很难过…一点都没让你进步。 You aIways behaved very badIy... and l'm grieved to see that your sojourn in the other world... hasn't improved you in the least.
该是我向你坦白的时候了，康多明太太…我根本不知道怎么摆脱她 The time has come for me to admit to you frankly, Mrs. Condomine... that I haven't the faintest idea how to get rid of her.
你是想坐在那儿告诉我…她淘气地变出了这个鬼魂或灵魂，不管她是什么……把我置于一个可怕的境地…你对此无能为力吗? Do you mean to sit there and teIl me... that having mischievously conjured up this ghost or spirit or whatever she is... and placed me in a hideous position... you are unable to do anything about it?
嗯，诚实是最好的策略。 Well, honesty is the best policy.
但这太离谱了。L â我应该把你交给警察。 But this is outrageous. l â l ought to hand you over to the police.
你太过分了，康多明夫人。 You go too far, Mrs. Condomine.
我太过分了?lndeed。 I go too far? lndeed.
你知道你这疯狂的，业余的混日子干了什么吗? Do you realize what your insane, amateur muddling has done?
我从小就干这行了，康多明太太。 l have been a professionaI ever since I was a child, Mrs. Condomine.
我不能容忍"业余"这个词。 "Amateur" is a word that l cannot tolerate.
在我看来这简直太业余了…唤起邪恶的灵魂，却无法摆脱。 lt seems to me to be the height of amateurishness... to evoke malignant spirits and not be able to get rid of them.
我讨厌你的语气，康多明夫人。我真的。 l resent your tone, Mrs. Condomine. l really do.
你绝对没有权利这么做。 You most decidedly have no right to.
整件可怕的事都怪你。 You are to blame for the whoIe horrible situation.
请允许我提醒你，我是应邀来你家的。 May l remind you that l came to your house on your own invitation.
在我丈夫的邀请下。 On my husband's invitation.
整件事都是为了让他得到素材而策划的…他正在写一个关于杀人媒介的神秘故事。 The whoIe thing was pIanned in order for him to get material... for a mystery story he's writing about a homicidal medium.
我是不是该明白，邀请我只是出于嘲笑的目的? Am l to understand that l was only invited in a spirit of mockery?
不,不,不。不客气。他只是想把这一行的一些诀窍记下来。 No, no, no. Not at all. He merely wanted to make notes of some of the tricks of the trade.
交易技巧? Tricks of the trade?
lnsufferable ! lnsufferable!
我这辈子从来没这么不适应过! l've never been so insuIted in my life!
我觉得我们之间没什么可说的了，康多明夫人。 I feel we have nothing more to say to one another, Mrs. Condomine.
但是，阿卡蒂夫人，求你了。 But, Madame Arcati, please.
从一开始你的态度就很令人不快。 Your attitude from the outset has been most unpleasant.
你的一些言论是极其无礼的。 Some of your remarks have been discourteous in the extreme.
我想说，没有冒犯的意思…如果你和你的丈夫愚蠢到去篡改看不见的东西…出于卑鄙的动机和下流的精神… And l would like to say, without umbrage... that if you and your husband have been foolish enough to tamper with the unseen... for paltry motives and in a spirit of ribaldry...
发生在你身上的一切都是你自己的错。 whatever has happened to you is your own fault.
换句话说…在我看来，你可以自食其果! And to coin a phrase... as far as l'm concerned, you can stew in your own juice!
下午好，康多明太太。 Good afternoon, Mrs. Condomine.
你到底在这里做什么? What on earth are you doing here?
-我一直在拜访阿卡蒂夫人。——不管? - l've been calling on Madame Arcati. - Whatever for?
当然是为了摆脱我。帮我驱魔。 To get rid of me, of course. To get me exorcized.
-是真的吗，露丝?-什么是真的? - ls that true, Ruth? - ls what true?
你去阿卡蒂夫人那里给艾薇拉驱魔了。 That you went to Madame Arcati to get Elvira exorcised.
我们讨论了各种可能性。 We discussed the possibilities.
你心里有个秘密。 There's a snake in the grass for you.
恐怕埃尔维拉坐在这里。 l'm afraid Elvira's sitting here.
噢，爱尔薇拉太棒了! Oh, to blazes with Elvira!
你知道吗，查尔斯，她完全毁了这个房间。 You know, Charles, she's absolutely ruined this room.
她可没干过这种事。这完全是品味的问题。 She's done nothing of the kind. lt's aIl a question of taste.
我可怜的查理。 My poor darIing CharIes.
就品味而言，你的第二次婚姻是场灾难。 As far as taste is concerned, your second marriage was a disaster.
看看那张可怕的照片和那件可怕的裙子。 Just Iook at that awful picture and that terrifying dress.
-但它有什么问题?-什么怎么了? - But what's the matter with it? - What's the matter with what?
我觉得它很迷人。 l think it's very charming.
真的，这种情况是不可能的，你知道的。 RealIy, this situation is impossible, and you know it.
要是你能对艾薇拉友好一点就好了……我们都可以度过一段愉快的时光。 lf only you'd make an effort to be a little more friendIy to EIvira... we might all have quite a joIly time.
我不希望和埃尔维拉度过快乐的时光。 I have no wish to have a jolIy time with Elvira.
她的确脾气很坏，不是吗? She's certainly very bad-tempered, isn't she?
我不明白你为什么要娶她。 l can't think why you married her.
-她现在在哪里?-她在â上，嗯?在椅子上。 - Where is she at the moment? - She's on the â Mmm? In the chair.
你真好，查理亲爱的。 Oh, you are sweet, CharIes darling.
我崇拜你。 l worship you.
我想对你完全坦白，艾薇拉。 l want to be perfectly frank with you, Elvira.
抓紧你们的帽子，孩子们。 Hold on to your hats, boys.
我承认我去见过阿卡蒂夫人想把你驱魔。 l admit l did see Madame Arcati with a view to having you exorcized.
我想如果你是我，你也会这么做的。 l think if you'd been in my position, you would have done exactly the same.
阿卡蒂夫人说了什么? What did Madame Arcati say?
-她说她什么都做不了。——万岁。 - She said she couldn't do a thing. - Hooray.
别难过，亲爱的露丝。你知道，我们会调整自己的。 Don't be upset, Ruth dear. We shall adjust ourselves, you know.
你必须承认这是一个独特的职位。 You must admit it's a unique position.
我看不出我们为什么不能从中得到很多乐趣。 l can see no reason why we shouldn't get a great deaI of fun out of it.
有趣吗?你怎么能这样，查理? Fun? How can you, CharIes?
-你一定是疯了。-是的，一开始我以为我是。 - You must be out of your mind. - Yes, l thought l was at first.
但现在我得承认我开始喜欢上了。 But now l must admit l'm beginning to enjoy myself.
哦!这是无法忍受的! Oh! This is intolerable!
看在上帝的份上，别陷入另一种状态。 For heaven's sake, don't get into another state.
从昨天早上开始，我一直在尽力控制自己…我不会再这么做了! l have been doing my level best to controI myself since yesterday morning... and l am not going to do it anymore!
我不喜欢埃尔维拉，就像她不喜欢我一样。 I don't Iike Elvira any more than she Iikes me.
更重要的是，我肯定我永远不会â ' ' -无论死是活。 And what's more, l'm sure l never could have â dead or alive.
如果，自从那天晚上她来得不及时…她表现出了最轻微的礼貌，最轻微的教养……我对她的感觉可能不一样。 lf, since her untimely arrival the other evening... she'd shown the slightest sign of good manners, the sIightest sign of breeding... l might have felt differently toward her.
事实上，她所做的一切都是在我们之间挑拨离间。私下跟你开我的玩笑。 As it is, all she's done is try to make mischief between us... to have private jokes with you against me.
明天第一件事，我要去伦敦采访心理研究协会。 First thing tomorrow, l'm going up to London to interview the PsychicaI Research Society.
如果他们找不到我，我就直接去找坎特伯雷大主教。 And if they faiI me, l shaIl go straight to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
我6点45分会回来。 l shall be back on the 6:45.
房子归你和艾薇拉了…尽情地互相开玩笑、闲聊。 You and Elvira can have the house to yourselves... and joke and gossip with each other to your heart's content.
lt的阴云密布。 lt's clouding over.
-你有低调的天赋- - You have a genius for understatement.-
伊迪丝! Edith!
烹饪到底发生了什么事? Cook. What on earth's happened?
伊迪丝在哪里? Where's Edith?
谨慎的。 CharIes.
没什么好担心的，康多明夫人。只是轻微的拉伤。 Nothing to worry about, Mrs. Condomine. It's only a slight strain.
哦!我所以reIieved。但谁在救护车里? Oh! l'm so reIieved. But who was in the ambuIance?
亲爱的，那是园丁。 That, dear, was the gardener.
你知道，男人比女人更糟糕。 Men are much worse patients than women, you know.
-尤其是像你丈夫这样精神高度紧张的人。-你觉得他很紧张吗? - Particularly highly strung men like your husband. - ls he highly strung, do you think?
-恐怕他最近工作过度了。——过度? - l'm afraid he's been overworking lately. - Overworking?
他处于相当紧张的状态。没什么大不了的，你懂的。 He's in rather a nervous condition. Nothing serious, you understand.
-你为什么这么想?-我知道症状 - What makes you think so? - l know the symptoms.
什么症状? What symptoms?
哦，这没什么好担心的。 Oh, it's nothing to be unduIy aIarmed about.
一种紧张的神情，无法将目光集中在与他谈话的人身上……他的谈话中有几处很明显是无关紧要的。 A certain air of strain, an inability to focus his eyes on the person he's talking to... a few rather marked irrelevancies in his conversation.
我明白了。你还记得具体的例子吗? l see. Can you remember any specific exampIe?
哦,是的。他突然喊道:“你在浴室里干什么?” Oh, yes. He suddenIy shouted, "What are you doing in the bathroom?"
后来我给他开处方的时候…他突然说:“看在上帝的份上，规矩点。” And then a little later when l was writing him a prescription... he suddenly said, "For heaven's sake, behave yourself."
非凡的。可怜的伊迪丝怎么样了? How extraordinary. And how is poor Edith?
她过几天就会好了。只是视觉脑震荡。 She'll be aIl right in a few days. lt's only a sIight concussion.
现在感觉怎么样? -- How does it feel now?
好的。这该死的吊带真的有必要吗? All right. Is this darn sling reaIIy essential?
我本想今晚开车去福克斯通的。 l had hoped to drive into Folkestone this evening.
-如果你不知道就更好了。-你可以等明天再走。 - Be much better if you didn't. - You could easily wait and go tomorrow.
我再也不能忍受在家度过那些沉闷的夜晚了，查理。 I can't stand another of those dreary evenings at home, CharIes.
会把我逼疯的。 lt'll drive me dotty.
再说了，我已经七年没看电影了。 Besides, l haven't seen a movie for seven years.
-让我第一个祝贺你。-那是什么，老头? - Let me be the first to congratulate you. - What's that, old man?
查尔斯，你要理智一点。我恳求你。 Charles, do try to be sensible. l implore you.
对不起。我忘了。 Sorry. l forgot.
如果你开得非常慢和小心，你就可以开车。 You can drive the car if you go very slowly and carefully.
尽量少用右臂。 Use your right arm as little as possible.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
-再见，康多明夫人。——再见。 - Good-bye, Mrs. Condomine. - Good-bye.
我明天早上再来看你。 l'lI pop around and see you again tomorrow morning.
谢谢你！ Thank you.
——再见。——再见。 - Good-bye. - Good-bye.
谨慎的。 CharIes.
——是吗?——埃尔韦拉在哪里? - Yes? - Where's Elvira?
她和布莱德曼医生从前门溜出去了。 She's slipped out of the front door with Dr. Bradman.
-你确定她不在这里?——是的。很确定。 - Are you sure she's not here? - Yes. Quite sure.
——好。我想和你谈谈。——哦,亲爱的。 - Good. l want to talk to you. - Oh, dear.
你不会又要大吵大闹了吧? You're not going to start making scenes again, are you?
这是在打架，查理。 This is a fight, CharIes.
这是我和艾薇拉的生死决斗。 lt's a duel to the death between EIvira and me.
夸张的歇斯底里。 Melodramatic hysteria.
这个可怜的小东西在另一个世界呆了这么多年，终于信任地回来了â ' ' The poor Iittle thing comes back trustingIy after all these years in the other world â
埃尔维拉就像一条吹牛蛇一样容易相信人。而且还会带来更大的危险。 Elvira is about as trusting as a puff adder... and a good deal more dangerous into the bargain.
危险吗? Dangerous?
她来这里只有一个目的。 She came here with one purpose and one purpose only.
如果你看不出来，那你比我想的还要蠢。 And if you can't see it, you're a bigger fool than I thought you.
除了想见我的自然愿望之外，她还有什么目的呢? What purpose couId she have beyond the naturaI desire to see me again?
毕竟，你得记住，她对我非常依恋，可怜的孩子。 After all, you must remember she was extremely attached to me, poor chiId.
她的目的很明显。是为了让你永远属于她自己。 Her purpose is perfectly obvious. lt's to get you to herself forever.
——这是荒谬的。她怎么可以这样呢?-当然是杀了你。 - That's absurd. How could she? - By kilIing you off, of course.
杀死我?你疯了。 Killing me off? You're mad.
你不觉得奇怪吗，你，库克，伊迪丝和韦伯…都在同一天发生了暴力事故? Doesn't it strike you as pecuIiar that you, Cook, Edith and Webb... all met with violent accidents on the same day?
是的，但她为什么要杀我? Yes, but why should she want to kill me?
我能理解她想杀你，但为什么是我? l couId understand her wanting to kilI you, but why me?
如果你死了，这将是她战胜我的最后胜利。 lf you were dead, it would be her final triumph over me.
她会把你永远留在她那该死的飞机上，而我就会孤立无援。 She'd have you forever on her beastly astraI plane, and l'd be Ieft high and dry.
她可能在策划某种精神上的再婚。 She's probably pIanning some sort of spiritual remarriage.
我不会放过她的。 l wouldn't put anything past her.
露丝。 Ruth.
看在上帝的份上，别像只受伤的西班牙猎犬，集中精神。 For heaven's sake, stop looking like a wounded spaniel and concentrate.
这是严重的。我要去见阿卡蒂夫人。 This is serious. l'm going to see Madame Arcati.
我不管她有多生气。她得帮我们。 l don't care how cross she is. She's got to help us.
即使她不能摆脱EIvira…她一定知道什么技术方法能使她变得无害。 Even if she can't get rid of EIvira... she must know some technical method of rendering her harmless.
我半小时后回来。告诉艾维拉我去见牧师了。 l'lI be back in haIf an hour. TeIl EIvira l've gone to see the vicar.
-这太可怕了。-别管那个了。 - This is appalIing. - Never mind about that.
记住，不要让眼皮一眨就露出马脚。 Remember now, don't give yourseIf away by so much as the flick of an eyelid.
——看看。——什么? - Look out. - What?
我，我只是说这是个不错的观景台。 l-l merely said it was a nice Iookout.
什么是好的瞭望台? What is a nice lookout?
的天气,埃尔韦拉。 The-The weather, Elvira.
我很难相信在这个特殊的时刻…你和露丝想不出比天气更有趣的话题了。 l find it very difficuIt to beIieve that at this particular moment... you and Ruthie can't think of anything more interesting to talk about than the weather.
啊，但是玻璃一直在下降，下降，下降。 Ah, but the gIass has gone down and down and down.
lt是可怕的。 lt's positively macabre.
查理和我不是在讨论天气，艾薇拉。 CharIes and l were not discussing the weather, EIvira.
我试图说服他今晚不要开车送你去福克斯通。 l was trying to persuade him not to drive you into Folkestone this evening.
这对他的手臂不好，你可以等明天再走。 lt would be bad for his arm, and you can easily wait and go tomorrow.
然而，他似乎决意把你的愿望置于我的愿望之上……我真的没什么好说的了。 However, as he seems determined to place your wishes before mine in everything... l reaIly have nothing further to say.
我相信我希望你们都玩得很开心。 l'm sure l hope you both enjoy yourselves very much.
你准备好了吗? Are you ready?
——为什么?-当然是去福克斯通了。 - What for? - To go to Folkestone, of course.
我想先喝杯雪利酒。 l just want a glass of sherry first.
我不相信你想带走我。 l don't believe you want to take me at aII.
我当然想带你去，但我还是认为等到明天更明智。真是个肮脏的夜晚。 Of course l want to take you, but I stilI think it would be more sensible to wait untiI tomorrow. lt's a filthy night.
-哦，这一切太熟悉了。-哪方面熟悉? - Oh, how familiar all this is. - ln what way familiar?
在我们的婚姻生活中，我只需要提出一些建议…让你马上开始回避我。 AIl through our married Iife, l only had to suggest something... for you immediately to start hedging me off.
我不是在回避你。我只是说我认为â l wasn't hedging you off. l merely said that l thought â
哦,好吧。我们将在家里度过又一个舒适、亲密的夜晚……露丝在那丑陋的桌子中央缝着针线活……像猎狗一样对我们狂吠。 Oh, all right. We'll spend another nice cozy, intimate evening at home... with Ruth sewing away at that hideous table center... and snapping at us like a terrier.
露丝很清楚桌子中央很难看。 Ruth is perfectIy aware the table center is hideous.
正好是给她妈妈的生日礼物。 lt happens to be a birthday present for her mother.
如果你不听话，我就再也不带你去福克斯通了。 lf you don't behave, l shan't take you into Folkestone ever.
哦，求你了，查尔斯，别对我那么夸张。 Oh, pIease, Charles, don't be eIderIy and grand with me.
-我们走吧。-我要先喝完雪利酒。 - Please let's go now. - Not until l've had my sherry.
再说了，车至少半个小时后才会回来。 Besides, the car won't be back for half an hour at least.
-什么意思?-露丝拿走了。 - What do you mean? - Ruth's taken it.
-她得去见牧师。——什么? - She had to go and see the vicar. - What?
有什么事吗? What's the matter?
你说露丝把车开走了? You say that Ruth has taken the car?
是的，去见牧师，但她不会太久。 Yes, to go and see the vicar, but she won't be long.
哦,谨慎的。哦,谨慎的。 Oh, CharIes. Oh, CharIes.
你为什么那样做?你做了什么? What are you behaving Iike that for? What have you done?
做了什么?我什么都没做。 Done? l haven't done anything.
-艾薇拉，你在说谎。-我没撒谎。有什么好撒谎的? - EIvira, you're lying. - l'm not Iying. What's there to lie about?
-你为什么这样?-我没心情我不明白你的意思。 - What are you in such a state for? - l'm not in a state. I don't know what you mean.
-你做了可怕的事。-别那样看着我，查理 - You've done something dreadfuI. - Don't look at me like that, CharIes.
-我没有。我发誓我没有。——汽车。就是它â ' '那辆车。 - l haven't. l swear l haven't. - The car. That's it â the car.
不,仔细的。不。 No, CharIes. No.
露丝是正确的。你想杀了我。你对车做了手脚。 Ruth was right. You were trying to kiIl me. You've done something to the car.
哦,哦,哦。 Oh, oh, oh.
——露丝!——露丝! - Ruth!- Ruth!
日光反射信号器。是吗? HelIo. Yes?
说话。是吗? Speaking. Yes?
山脚下的桥。 The bridge at the bottom of the hill.
是的,是的。我马上就来。 Yes, yes. l'll come at once.
露丝。 Ruth.
这么多肮脏下流的把戏。 Well, of all the filthy low-down tricks.
——噢!露丝! -- Ow! Ruth!
停止它!离我远点! Stop it! Get away from me!
别管我!哦! Leave me alone! Oh!
离开我aIone ! Leave me aIone!
哦!露丝! Oh! Ruth!
离开我aIone ! Leave me aIone!
——噢,露丝!-我不是故意的!噢! - Oh, Ruth! - l didn't mean it! Ow!
进来。 Come in.
谢谢你,伊迪丝。 Thank you, Edith.
哦。 Oh.
日光反射信号器。 HelIo.
你好，康多明先生。 Oh, hello, Mr. Condomine.
我希望你不会觉得我打扰你，康多明先生…但我感到一种巨大的冲动â ' '就像一阵疾风â ' ' Um, l hope you won't consider this an intrusion, Mr. Condomine... but l felt a tremendous urge â Iike a rushing wind â
所以我跳上了我的自行车，然后我就在这里了。 so l hopped on my bike, and here I am.
我很自责，你知道。我把海绵扔了。 l reproach myseIf bitterIy, you know. l threw up the sponge.
在紧要关头，我把海绵扔了出来…而不是下战书。 ln a moment of crisis, l threw up the sponge... instead of throwing down the gauntlet.
好吧，不管你扔了什么，阿卡蒂夫人，恐怕我也无能为力了。 Yes, well, whatever you threw, Madame Arcati, l'm afraid there's nothing whatever to be done.
哦，但是有。有。 Oh, but there is. There is.
我找到了一个公式。 l found a formula.
我昨晚想到的，康多明先生。就像一条刺眼的鱼。 lt came to me last night, Mr. Condomine. lt came to me in a blinding fIash.
我刚喝完阿华田，关了灯……突然，我大叫一声从床上跳了起来。 l'd just finished my Ovaltine and turned out the light... when I suddenly started up in bed with a loud cry.
“天哪!”我说。“我明白了!” "Great Scott!" l said. "l've got it!"
凌晨3点，我的大脑还在沸腾……我花了一点时间在我的水晶上。 And at 3:00 in the morning, with my brain fairly seething... l went to work on my crystal for a little.
鼓起勇气，康多明先生。阿里没有输。 Pluck up your heart, Mr. Condomine. AlI is not lost.
好吧，我很高兴听你这么说，但我认为我们应该暂时保持现状。 Well, l'm very glad to hear it, but l think we should leave things as they are for the present.
I-l-l â ' '康多明先生? I-l-l â Mr. Condomine?
请原谅我的直率，康多明先生，我认为你是个胡言乱语的白痴。 If you'lI pardon my bluntness, Mr. Condomine, l think you're a blithering idiot.
你有自由想什么就想什么。 You're at liberty to think whatever you please.
好吧，随你便吧，康多明先生…但是我警告你，马走了以后再锁马厩的门是没有用的。 Oh, well, have it your own way, Mr. Condomine... but l warn you that it's no good locking the stable door after the horse is gone.
——嗯! -- Hmm!
查尔斯，这房子我一分钟都受不了了。 Charles, l can't stand this house another minute.
真的，埃尔维拉，我很惊讶你。 Really, Elvira, l'm surprised at you.
我不管你有多惊讶。我想回家。 l don't care how surprised you are. l want to go home.
-别孩子气了。-我没有孩子气。 - Now don't be chiIdish. - I'm not being childish.
露丝几乎一刻也没有离开过我的身边。 Ruth has hardIy Ieft my side for a minute.
-唔，她现在在这儿吗?——没有。她在楼上躺着。 - WeIl, is she here now? - No. She's upstairs Iying down.
葬礼使她精疲力尽。 The funeraI exhausted her.
整件事都失败了。 This whole thing has been a faiIure.
一场沉闷的，悲惨的失败，我一开始的期望是多么高啊。 A dreary, miserable faiIure, and, oh, what high hopes I started out with.
你别指望我会同情你，你知道的。 You can't expect much sympathy from me, you know.
我很清楚你最大的希望就是杀了我。 l'm perfectly aware that your highest hope was to murder me.
别这么说。听起来好恶心。 Don't put it like that. lt sounds so beastIy.
不管怎样，那只是因为我爱你。 Anyway, it was only because l loved you.
我这辈子做过最愚蠢的事就是爱你。 The siIliest thing l ever did in my whoIe life was to love you.
你一直都配不上我。 You were always unworthy of me.
埃尔薇拉，你这句话太鲁莽了。 That remark comes perilously near impertinence, Elvira.
我坐在另一边日复一日地渴望着你。 l sat there on the other side day after day just longing for you.
l。RealIy。 l did. RealIy.
这就是为什么我决定回访……还要填那么多表格…在通风的走廊里等上几个小时。 That was why l put myself down for a return visit... and had to filI in aIl those forms... and wait about in drafty passages for hours.
要是你在遇见露丝之前就死了，一切就都好了。 lf only you'd died before you met Ruth, everything might have been all right.
她完全毁了你。 She's absolutely ruined you.
我还没进屋子一天就意识到这一点。 l hadn't been in the house for a day before l reaIized that.
你的书也没有以前的四分之一好了。 Your books aren't a quarter as good as they used to be either.
这是完全不真实的。 That's entirely untrue.
露丝在工作上帮助我，鼓励我，这比你做的多。 Ruth helped me and encouraged me in my work, which is more than you ever did.
我想这可能就是问题所在。 l should think that's probably what's wrong with it.
你满脑子想的都是去派对玩得开心。 AII you thought about was going to parties and enjoying yourself.
唔，为什么我不能找点乐子?我死得早，不是吗? WelI, why shouIdn't I have fun? I died young, didn't l?
如果你不是那么愚蠢的话，你根本不必死……和盖伊·亨德森坐平底船出去，全身都湿透了。 You needn't have died at all if you hadn't been idiotic enough... to go out in that punt with Guy Henderson and get soaked to the skin.
那不是一桩平底船。那只是个小发射。 lt was not a punt. lt was a littIe Iaunch.
就算那是三桅纵帆船我也不在乎。 I don't care if it was a three-masted schooner.
你没有权利去。 You had no right to go.
你对盖伊·亨德森的所作所为令人厌恶。假装你不知道是没有用的。 You behaved abominably over Guy Henderson. There's no use pretending you didn't.
人崇拜我。 Guy adored me.
总之，他很有魅力。 And anyway, he was very attractive.
你明确地告诉过我，他一点也不吸引你。 You told me distinctly that he didn't attract you in the least.
如果我告诉你是他干的，你一定气疯了。 Well, you'd have gone through the roof if l'd told you that he did.
不管怎样，你好像忘了我为什么去了。 Anyway, you seem to forget why l went.
你好像忘了你整个晚上都在做绵羊的眼睛…看着那个戴着假珍珠的过分夸张的老巫婆。 You seem to forget that you spent the entire evening making sheep's eyes... at that overblown harridan in the false pearls.
像辛西娅·切维奥特这样的女人是不会戴假珍珠的。 A woman in Cynthia Cheviot's position would hardly wear false pearIs.
她几乎只穿这双鞋。 Well, they were practically all she was wearing.
是的，我痛苦地观察到，在回荡的永恒墓穴中度过的七年……丝毫没有破坏你天生的粗俗。 Yes, I'm pained to observe that seven years in the echoing vaults of eternity... have in no way impaired your native vulgarity.
这是一只自大的驴说的话。 That was the remark of a pompous ass.
我讨厌这些穿制服的人。请走开。 l'm sick of these insuIts. Please go away.
没有比这更好的了。 There's nothing l shouId Iike to do better.
你得再去找那个老女人，让她干活。 You've got to get hoId of that oId gal again and set her to work.
我一分钟都忍不下去了。 l won't toIerate this another minute.
看在上帝的份上，别哭了。 -- For heaven's sake, don't snivel.
她得帮我脱罪。 She's got to get me out of this.
我想回家。 l want to go home.
我完全同意，越快越好。 l quite agree, and the sooner the better.
回顾我们结婚的岁月，埃尔维拉…我现在清楚地看到，它们不过是一种嘲弄。 On looking back on our married years, Elvira... l see now with horrid clarity that they were nothing but a mockery.
你招来了嘲笑，查理。 You invite mockery, CharIes.
与你的个性有关，我想â ' '某种破旧的宏伟。 Something to do with your personality, l think â a certain seedy grandeur.
-现在就说一次â ' ' -你从来没有怀疑过…但我一直嘲笑你，从圣坛到坟墓。 - Now once and for all â - You never suspected it... but l laughed at you steadily from the altar to the grave.
你那些可笑的小嫉妒，你的大惊小怪和愤怒。 All your ridiculous petty jeaIousies and your fussings and fumings.
你软弱，不负责任，道德不稳定。 You were feckIess and irresponsible and morally unstabIe.
我在离开巴德利·塞特顿之前就意识到了。 I realized that before we Ieft Budleigh SaIterton.
没人比他更无聊…会想到去巴德利·萨特顿度蜜月。 Nobody but a monumental bore... would have thought of having a honeymoon in Budleigh Salterton.
巴德利·塞特顿怎么了? And what is the matter with Budleigh SaIterton?
我是个渴望结婚的年轻新娘，查理。 l was an eager young bride, CharIes.
我想要魅力、音乐和浪漫。 l wanted glamour and music and romance.
我得到的是盆栽棕榈树每天七小时在该死的高尔夫球场上…三人乐队演奏《欢乐英格兰》 What l got was potted palms seven hours of every day on a damn golf course... and a three-piece orchestra playing Merrie England.
-可惜你当时没告诉我。-我说了，但你不听。 - Pity you didn't teIl me so at the time. - l did, but you wouIdn't listen.
这就是我那天和束腰队长去荒野的原因。 That was why I went out on the moors that day with Captain Bracegirdle.
我是绝望的。 l was desperate.
你向我发誓说你去埃克斯茅斯看你阿姨了。 You swore to me that you'd gone over to see your aunt in Exmouth.
嗯，是荒原。 Mmm, it was the moors.
与Bracegirdle船长。 With Captain Bracegirdle.
和布雷斯船长一起â我可能早就知道了。 With Captain Brace â l might have known it.
我真是个傻瓜。真是个瞎傻瓜。 What a fool I was. What a blind fooI.
-他跟你做爱了吗?——当然。 - Did he make love to you? - Of course.
——噢,埃尔韦拉。-只是非常谨慎。 - Oh, Elvira. - OnIy very discreetIy.
他在骑兵里，你知道的。 He was in the cavaIry, you know.
我只能说我摆脱你了。 All l can say is that l'm well rid of you.
不幸的是,你不是。 Unfortunately, you're not.
运气好的话，我很快就会成为。 With any Iuck, I soon will be.
啊,Condomine先生。 Ah, Mr. Condomine.
我也不能说我完全惊讶。 Well, l can't say l'm entirely surprised.
恐怕我把你的â弄坏了 l'm afraid l've broken your â
做进去。 Do come inside.
哦，脱下你的外套。把它扔过栏杆就行了。 Oh, take off your coat. Just sling it over the bannisters.
阿卡蒂夫人，这是我的第一任妻子，艾维拉。 Madame Arcati, l want you to meet my first wife, EIvira.
哦。哦,我亲爱的。你好! Oh. Oh, my dear. How do you do?
不，她不在那里。她在门口。 No, she's not there. She's, uh, in the doorway.
亲爱的，你幸福吗? Are you happy, my dear?
告诉那个傻里傻气的老女人少管闲事。 Tell the siIly oId bag to mind her own business.
旅途艰难吗? Was the journey difficult?
-你累了吗?-哦，她疯了。 - Are you weary? - Oh, she's dotty.
这是美妙的。太棒了。我差点就接触到了。 This is wonderful. Wonderful. l almost have contact.
-我能感觉到震动。-但是阿卡蒂夫人已经进去了 - l can sense the vibrations. - But, Madame Arcati, she's gone in there.
多么的迷人。 How fascinating.
很有趣。我闻到了强烈的外质气味。 Very interesting. l smell ectoplasm strongly.
这么说太恶心了。 What a disgusting thing to say.
唔，继续说，埃尔维拉。别扫兴。给她一点鼓励。 WeIl, go on, Elvira. Don't be a spoilsport. Give her a bit of encouragement.
哦,好吧。我并不赞成马斯基林和迪凡特的这种行为。 Oh, all right. Not that l approve of these Maskelyne and Devant carryings-on.
是的,是的。一次。一次。 Yes, yes. Again. Again.
——哦!——这是怎么回事? - Oh! - How's that?
这是一流的。这真的是第一流的。 This is first-rate. lt reaIIy is first-rate.
绝对惊人。 Absolutely stunning.
我很高兴你这么高兴。 l'm so gIad you're pleased.
你亲爱的。你的小宝贝。 You darling. You little darling.
别再拍我马屁了，查理，不然我就砸东西了。 Oh, stop her fawning on me, CharIes, or I'II break something.
阿卡蒂夫人，艾薇拉和我讨论了整个情况……她想马上回家。 Madame Arcati, Elvira and l have discussed the whole situation... and she wishes to go home immediately.
——回家吗?-嗯，不管她从哪里来。 - Home? - WelI, wherever she came from.
哦，你认为她不愿意多待几天吗?让我把事情弄得更有条理些? Oh, you don't think she'd like to stay a few days longer... while I try to get things a little more organized?
不,不,不。我想现在就走。 No, no, no. l want to go now.
你说过一个公式。它是什么? You said something about a formula. What is it?
-哦，很好。如果你坚持的话。-我非常坚持。 - Oh, very well. lf you insist. - l most emphaticaIly do insist.
——哦,查尔斯。——闭嘴。 - Oh, Charles. - Shut up.
好的。我不能保证什么，你知道的。 All right. l can't guarantee anything, you know.
-我会尽力的，但可能不会成功。-公式是什么? - l'll do my best, but it may not work. - What is the formula?
不过是一首小诗而已。它在17世纪以后就被废弃了。 Nothing more than a little verse really. lt felI into disuse after the 17th century.
哦，我需要一些胡椒粉和盐。 Oh, l shaIl need some pepper and salt.
啊。是的。 Ah. Yes.
我们当然应该有一些羊草和一两只青蛙……但我敢说我没有也能行。 We ought of course to have some shepherd's wort and a frog or two... but I daresay l can manage without.
-够了吗?——是的,谢谢。 - ls this enough? - Yes, thanks.
现在，让我看看。 Now, let me see.
啊,是的。撒上它，好吗? Ah, yes. Sprinkle it, will you?
只是一个soupA§。那里，就在中间。 Just a soupÃ§on. There, right in the middle.
这将是一个fIop。我现在就可以告诉你。 This is going to be a fIop. l can tell you that here and now.
稳住，稳住，稳住。 Oh, steady, steady, steady.
现在花瓶里又出了几条金鱼。 And now a few snapdragons out of that vase.
-真是个好人- - There's a good chap.-
如果心理研究学会的埃姆斯沃斯先生能看到我…他会发飙的，真的。 lf that Mr. Emsworth of the Psychical Research Society could see me... he'd have a fit, he would realIy.
好了，坐下，康多明先生。 Now then, sit down, Mr. Condomine.
把你的手放在桌子上，但不要把你的手指放在胡椒里。 And rest your hands on the table, but don't put your fingers in the pepper.
我要自己把灯关掉。 l shall switch out the Iights myself.
哦,呸! !我几乎忘记了。 Oh, shucks! l'd almost forgotten.
一个三角形……一个半圆……还有一个小点…在那里。 One triangle... one half circle... and one little dot... there.
梅林在派对上做这种事，把我们都烦死了。 Merlin does this sort of thing at parties and bores us all stiff with it.
这是浪费时间。她是个彻头彻尾的骗子。 lt's a waste of time. She's a complete fake.
任何值得一试。 Anything's worth trying.
我和你一样渴望它成功。 l am as anxious for it to succeed as you are.
别搞错了，我跟你打赌，十赔一，这绝对是失败的。 Don't make any mistake about that, but l'lI lay you 10-to-1 it's a dead faiIure.
现在,Condomine先生…如果你妻子肯好心躺在沙发上。 Now, Mr. Condomine... if your wife would be kind enough to Iie down on the sofa.
继续,埃尔韦拉。 Go on, Elvira.
这完全是无稽之谈。如果我笑了，别怪我。 This is sheer nonsense. Don't blame me if l get the giggles.
集中精神。什么也别想了。 Concentrate. Think of nothing.
这是正确的。完全正确。 That's right. Quite right.
现在，你不会害怕了，亲爱的，是吗?lt绝对painIess。 Now, you won't be frightened, dear, wiII you? lt's absolutely painIess.
手臂放在两侧，双腿伸直。 Arms at the sides, legs extended.
呼吸平稳。 Breathe steadily.
ln,。 ln, out.
她ls comfortabIe吗? ls she comfortabIe?
-你舒服吗，EIvira?——没有。 - Are you comfortable, EIvira? - No.
是的，她很舒服。 Yeah, she's quite comfortable.
我马上就来，康多明先生。 l shall join you in a minute, Mr. Condomine.
我可能会进入视觉恍惚状态，但如果我进入了，也不要注意。 l may have to go into a sIight trance, but, if I do, pay no attention.
坚持住，康多明先生。集中精神。 Hold on to yourself, Mr. Condomine. Concentrate.
哦,亲爱的。lt的胡椒。 Oh, dear. lt's the pepper.
鬼，鬼，食尸鬼，魔鬼，你永远不要再来。 GhostIy specter, ghouI or fiend, nevermore be thou convened.
牧羊人的麦汁和神圣的仪式把你放逐到黑夜里。 Shepherd's wort and hoIy rite banish thee into the night.
-多难听的小诗啊。-安静，艾薇拉。 - What a disagreeable little verse. - Be quiet, Elvira.
有人在吗?有人在吗? ls there anyone there? ls there anyone there?
一声“是”。两句说唱是否定的。 One rap for yes. Two raps for no.
有人在吗? ls there anyone there?
——好东西! -- Good stuff!
是你吗，达芙妮?-很抱歉打扰你，亲爱的，但是康多明太太要回来了。 - ls that you, Daphne?- l'm sorry to bother you, dear, but Mrs. Condomine wants to return.
——好了，达芙妮。 -- Now, then, Daphne.
-你听到我说的了吗?你能帮助我们吗?-拿好了，康多明先生它试图挣脱。 - Did you hear what l said?- - Can you help us?- Hold on to it, Mr. Condomine. It's trying to break away.
-到底发生了什么事?- - What on earth's happening?-
“怎么了，阿卡蒂夫人?” -- What's the matter, Madame Arcati?
哦，她又发呆了……我和以前一样，还在这里。 Oh, she's in one of her blasted trances again... and l'm as much here as ever l was.
——你受伤了吗?醒来。 -- Are you hurt? Wake up.
哦，别烦她。她玩得很开心。 Oh, leave her alone. She's having a whale of a time.
如果我回去了，我会勒死那个可恶的小达芙妮。 lf l ever do get back, l'll strangle that ruddy little Daphne.
哦。发生了什么事? Oh. What happened?
——什么都没有。没有病痛。-是的。发生了一件事。 - Nothing. Nothing at aIl. - Yes, it did. Something happened.
——是的。你felI结束。那是发生的事。-什么，她还在这儿吗? - Yes. You felI over. That's alI that happened. - What, is she stilI here?
-是的，当然。-一定是出了什么问题。 - Yes, of course. - Something must have gone wrong.
让她再做一次，查尔斯。我受够了这样被人欺负。 Oh, make her do it again properly, Charles. l'm sick of being messed about like this.
保持安静。她已经尽力了。 Be quiet. She's doing her best.
发生了一件事。我在恍惚中感觉到了。我感觉它。 Something happened. l sensed it in my trance. l felt it.
它让我浑身颤抖。 lt shivered through me.
为了艾莉，查尔斯。这到底是什么意思? Once and for alI, Charles. What the deviI does this mean?
我不知道我怎么会这么笨。 WelI, l can't think how l can have been such a duffer.
-我只希望你现在走对了路。-毫无疑问，康多明先生 - l only hope you're on the right track now. - Oh, not a doubt of it, Mr. Condomine.
我想我可以自信地向你保证，下次…我们就能一举两得了。 l think l may confidently promise you that, next time... we shall be able to kilI two birds with one stone.
我不觉得你的比喻很幸运。 l can't feel your simile is entirely fortunate.
小心我的水晶，康多明先生。 Mind my crystal, Mr. Condomine.
——啊! -- Ah!
既然我们已经回到了犯罪现场，可以说…一切都会一帆风顺的。 Well, now that we've returned to the scene of the crime, as it were... everything will be pIain sailing.
——他们走了吗? -- Are they gone?
——没有。——哦。 - No. - Oh.
他们现在走了吗? Are they gone now?
不。 No.
他们现在走了吗? Are they gone now?
山核桃枝和白桦树的花蕾……洞里的蟾蜍和泥里的蟾蜍……扫帚、蕨类植物和万圣节……让这些愤怒的灵魂看起来…只不过是一个可怕的梦。 Hickory rod and birch in bud... toad in the hole and toad in the mud... broomstick, bracken and Halloween... make these furious spirits seem... nothing more than a ghastly dream.
他们还在这里吗? Are they still here?
是的。 Yes.
第六轮结束。 End of Round 6.
高兴点，康多明先生。 Oh, well, cheer up, Mr. Condomine.
冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。 Rome wasn't buiIt in a day, you know.
这绝对是我度过的最沮丧的夜晚之一。 This is definitely one of the most frustrating nights l've ever spent.
嗯。这个问题的答案很明显。 Hmm. The reply to that is pretty obvious.
我肯定不明白你的意思。 l'm sure l don't know what you mean.
哦,跳过它。 Oh, skip it.
谢谢你，康多明先生。 Thank you, Mr. Condomine.
哦，如果你不介意的话，我要再吃一个美味的三明治。 Oh, if you'll excuse me, l'll just have another of those delicious sandwiches.
我饿得像个猎人。 l'm as hungry as a hunter.
你想喝杯啤酒吗?-不用了，谢谢。最好不要。 - Would you like a gIass of beer? - No, thank you. Better not.
听着，查理，这已经够了。 Now look here, CharIes, this has gone far enough.
我们曾站过，也曾躺过。 We've stood up, we've lain down.
我们聚精会神，无休止地坐着…而那个讨厌的老妇人却对我们背诵着极其难听的诗句。 We've concentrated, we've sat interminabIy... while that tiresome old woman recited extremely unflattering verses at us.
我们已经忍受了五次sÃ©。 We've endured five sÃ©ances.
我们看到她不停地让自己进入恍惚状态，直到我们头晕目眩。 We've watched her fIing herself in and out of trances until we're dizzy.
到最后，我们发现我们又回到了开始的地方…和我筋疲力尽。 And at the end of it, we find ourselves exactIy where we were at the beginning... and l'm exhausted.
唔，我只是…你累坏了。 WeII, l'm just as... exhausted as you are.
我一直都在敲桌子。 l've been doing all the bIasted table tapping.
看来埃尔维拉和我要在这房子里永远呆在一起了。 Looks as if Elvira and l will have to stay together indefinitely in this house.
你不能一直待在这房子里。 You're not going to stay indefinitely in this house.
和你在一起。我们必须和你在一起。 With you then. We shalI have to be with you.
哦，我不明白为什么。 Oh, l don't see why.
你为什么不找个地方住呢? Why don't you take a cottage somewhere?
你给我们回电话了。 You calIed us back.
我已经解释得面红耳赤了我什么都没做过。 l've already explained till I'm black in the face that l did nothing of the sort.
阿卡蒂夫人说是的。 Madame Arcati says you did.
阿卡蒂夫人是个肮脏的老傻瓜。 Madame Arcati is a muddIing old fool.
如果她不能让我们回去，她就不能。就是这样。我们得想点别的办法。 lf she can't get us back, she can't. That's that. We must try to think of something else.
她一定要把你找回来。其他的都是不可想象的。 She must get you back. Anything eIse is unthinkable.
我感激你。 There's gratitude for you.
你给我们回了电话，自从我们来了之后你就一直想摆脱我们。 You calIed us back, and you've done nothing but try to get rid of us ever since we came.
-是吗，埃尔维拉?-当然了。 - Hasn't he, Elvira? - He certainly has.
而现在，由于你愚蠢的效率低下，我们陷入了尴尬的境地。 And now, owing to your idiotic inefficiency, we find ourseIves in this mortifying position.
我们既不是鱼，也不是鸟，也不是…不管它是什么。 We're neither fish, fIesh, fowI nor... whatever it is.
好红鲱鱼。 Good red herring.
女孩们变得沮丧了吗? Are the girls getting despondent?
-是的，恐怕他们相当。——哦。我们不能放弃希望。 - Yes, l'm afraid they are rather. - Oh. We mustn't give up hope.
昂首挺胸，永不屈服。这是我的座右铭。 Chin up, never give in. That's my motto.
这种女学生的措辞快把我逼疯了。 This schoolgirl phraseology is driving me mad.
——现在,然后。 -- Now, then.
现在,然后呢? Now, then what?
如果我们有另一个sÃ©你说什么，真正把我们的肩膀车轮? What do you say if we have another sÃ©ance and really put our shouIders to the wheel?
让它真正振奋起来。 Make it a reaI rouser.
如果我们不小心，她就会变成一支冰球队。 lf we're not very careful, she'll materialize a hockey team.
查理，我恳求你不要再让她有一个sÃ©。 CharIes, l implore you not to let her have another sÃ©ance.
听着，阿卡蒂夫人，在你进入恍惚状态之前……我想我们应该讨论一下目前的情况。 Now Iisten, Madame Arcati, before you go into any further trances... l think we should discuss the situation a little.
很好。一个很好的主意。 Good. An excellent idea.
说吧，康多明先生。 WeIl, fire away, Mr. Condomine.
唔，我太太和我已经讨论过了…他们俩都坚信是我给他们回的电话。 WeIl, my wives and I have been talking it over... and they're both still absoluteIy convinced that I somehow or other caIled them back.
很自然。 Very natural.
我也同样确信我没有。 And l'm equalIy convinced that l did not.
哦，他们两个都不可能出现，除非有人â ' ' Well, neither of them could have appeared unIess there had been somebody â
有个特异功能的人在房子里为他们许愿â。 some psychic subject â in the house who wished for them.
-是的，嗯，不是我。-也许是布莱德曼医生。 - Yes, welI, it wasn't me. - Perhaps it was Dr. Bradman.
我从来不知道他在乎。 l never knew he cared.
伟大的斯科特! Great Scott!
我想我找错对象了。 l believe l've been barking up the wrong tree.
-什么意思?-萨德伯里的案子 - How do you mean? - The Sudbury case.
-我不明白。-你没理由这么做。 - l don't understand. - There's no reason why you should.
那是在你出生之前。我想知道。哦,我想知道。 lt was before your day. l wonder. Oh, l wonder.
萨德伯里的案子是什么?我希望你能解释一下。 What was the Sudbury case? l wish you would explain.
是这个案子让我出名的，康多明先生。 lt was the case that made me famous, Mr. Condomine.
用戏剧术语来说，这是我的第一部轰动一时的作品。 lt was what you might describe in theatrical parlance as my first smash hit.
我收到了来自世界各地的来信，尤其是印度。 l had letters from all over the world about it, especialIy India.
你做了什么? What did you do?
我使萨德伯里老太太失去了物质性…在她在私人教堂里坚守了17年之后。 l demateriaIized old Lady Sudbury... after she'd been firmly entrenched in the private chapel for over 17 years.
——如何?你能告诉我怎么做吗?——机会。偶然。 - How? Can you tell me how? - Chance. A fluke.
我碰巧发现了它。 l happened on it by the merest coincidence.
——什么侥幸?你做了什么?-好时机。等待。 - What fluke? What did you do? - AlI in good time. Wait.
谁出席了我们的第一次sÃ©展览? Now, who was present during our first sÃ©ance?
只有布拉德曼一家，露丝，我和你。 OnIy the Bradmans and Ruth and me and yourself.
可以肯定的是。可以肯定的是。 To be sure. To be sure.
但布莱德曼夫妇今晚不在，对吧? But the Bradmans aren't here tonight, are they?
——没有。——快。我的水晶。 - No. - Quickly. My crystal.
——在这里。——谢谢。 - Here. - Thank you.
该死的东西，真让我生气。lt多云了。 Drat the thing, it gives me the pip. lt's cloudy again.
这是更好的。lt的存在了。lt的存在了。 That's better. lt's there again. lt's there again.
-我开始明白了。-我希望我是。 - l'm beginning to understand. - I wish l was.
-那是什么来着?-是绷带。一个白色的绷带。 - What's there again? - lt's a bandage. A white bandage.
抓住白色绷带。 Hold on to a white bandage.
-我没有白色绷带。——嘘! - l haven't got a white bandage. - Shh!
你知道，她太优秀了。她应该去马戏团。 She's too good, you know. She ought to be in a circus.
无论你在角落还是缝隙，回答我。 Be you in nook or cranny, answer me.
无论你是在静室还是在卧室，回答我。 Be you in still room or cIoset, answer me.
你在窗格后面，在楼梯上面，在屋檐下…醒着的还是睡着的，回答我! Be you behind the paneI, above the stairs, beneath the eaves... waking or sIeeping, answer me!
唔，应该够了，不然我是荷兰人。 WeIl, that ought to do it or l'm a Dutchman.
——做什么?嘘，嘘，嘘!等待。 - Do what? - Shh, shh, shh! Wait.
lt的附近。 lt's near.
lt的附近。lt很近了。 lt's near. lt's very near.
如果是鬼，我会尖叫。 lf it's a ghost, I shaIl scream.
先生，您打电话了吗? Did you ring, sir?
绷带。一个白色的绷带。 Bandage. A white bandage.
——不,伊迪丝。-对不起，先生。 - No, Edith. - l'm sorry, sir.
我发誓我听到铃响或有人在叫。 l couId've sworn l heard the bell or somebody caIIing.
我睡着了。我不知道是哪个。 l was asleep. l don't rightly know which it was.
到这里来,孩子。 Come here, child.
哦。 Oh.
WeIl,继续。去找阿卡蒂夫人。 WeIl, go on. Go to Madame Arcati.
没关系。 lt's quite all right.
孩子，你在这个房间里看到了谁? Who do you see in this room, child?
——哦,亲爱的。——请回答。 - Oh, dear. - Answer, please.
——你,夫人。——继续。 - You, Madame. - Go on.
的主人。 The master.
——别人?-哦，不，夫人。 - Anyone else? - Oh, no, Madame.
——看一遍。-我不明白，长官 - Look again. - l don't understand, sir.
哦，来吧，孩子，别拐弯抹角了。 Oh, come child, don't beat about the bush.
看一遍。 Look again.
你现在看到其他人了吗? Do you see anyone else now?
-哦，不，夫人。——她在撒谎。 - Oh, no, Madame. - She's lying.
——夫人。-他们总是这样。 - Madame. - They always do.
“他们”吗? "They"?
他们现在在哪里? Where are they now?
的钢琴。 By the piano.
她能看见它们。 She can see them.
你是说她能看见他们吗? Do you mean to say she can see them?
可能不是很清楚，但也足够了。 Probably not very clearIy, but enough.
让我走。我什么也没做，也没看见任何人。 Let me go. l haven't done nothin' nor seen anybody.
让我回去睡觉。 Let me go back to bed.
给她买个三明治。 Get her a sandwich.
我不想要三明治。我想回去睡觉了。 l don't want a sandwich. l want to go back to bed.
——哦,无稽之谈。-给你，伊迪丝 - Oh, nonsense. - Here you are, Edith.
像你这样又大又健康的女孩竟然拒绝美味的三明治? A big, healthy girl Iike you saying no to a delicious sandwich?
我从没听说过这种事。 l never heard of such a thing.
-坐下，亲爱的。-请，先生，我â - Sit down, dear. - Please, sir, l â
去吧，伊迪丝，照阿卡蒂夫人说的做。 Now go on, Edith, do as Madame Arcati says.
如果这一切不愉快都是她造成的…明天我将提前一周通知她。 lf she's been the cause of all this unpleasantness... l shall give her a week's notice tomorrow.
明天你可能不在这里。 You may not be here tomorrow.
现在看着我，伊迪丝。 Now look at me, Edith.
杜鹃,杜鹃,杜鹃。 Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.
哦,亲爱的。她怎么了?她的愚蠢吗? Oh, dear. What's the matter with her? Is she barmy?
在这里,伊迪丝。这是我的手指。看。 Here, Edith. This is my finger. Look.
你以前见过这么长的手指吗? Have you ever seen such a long, long, long finger before?
现在它在左边。现在它在右边。 Now it's on the left. Now it's on the right.
它来回移动。非常小声的说。看到了吗? Backwards and forwards it goes. Very quietly. See?
向前和向后移动。 Backwards and forwards.
滴答滴答。滴答滴答。 Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
老鼠爬上了钟。 The mouse ran up the clock.
保持安静。你有破坏一切。 Be quiet. You'Il spoil everything.
滴答滴答。滴答滴答。 Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
â ' t - Rumpty-tumty tiddIe-lee-um Hi, ditey-oh-toh â ' t âª Rumpty-tumty tiddIe-lee-um Hi, ditey-oh-toh âª
-到目前为止，一切顺利。她走了，对。——关闭? - So far, so good. She's off, alI right. - Off?
她是天生的，就像萨德伯里的案子一样。 She's a naturaI, just the same as the Sudbury case.
真的，这是最有趣的巧合。 Really, it's the most amusing coincidence.
好了，请让你们的妻子站得靠紧一点。 Now then, if you'd ask your wives to stand close together, please.
——是的,是的。在哪里?-那边靠窗的地方。 - Yes, yes. Where? - Over there by the window.
正确的。 Right.
露丝,埃尔韦拉。 Ruth, Elvira.
-我讨厌被这样使唤。-恐怕我必须坚持。 - l resent being ordered about like this. - l'm afraid l must insist.
我不喜欢这样。 l don't Iike this.
我一点都不喜欢。 l don't Iike any of it.
l pecuIiar的感觉。 l feel pecuIiar.
如果我们什么都不做，那是你活该。 lt wouId serve you right if we flatly refused to do anything at all.
伊迪丝，你为你的淘气感到抱歉吗? Are you sorry for having been so mischievous, Edith?
哦,是的,夫人。 Oh, yes, Madame.
你知道该怎么做了吧，伊迪丝? You know what to do now, don't you, Edith?
哦,是的,夫人。 Oh, yes, Madame.
不管怎样，我相信会成功的。 l believe it's going to work, whatever it is.
哦,查尔斯。再见了，查理。 Oh, Charles. This is good-bye, CharIes.
让她停一下，查尔斯。走之前我有话要说。 Make her stop for a minute, Charles. There's something l want to say before l go.
你早该想到的。现在太迟了。 You should have thought of that before. Too late now.
-嗯，所有的卑鄙，忘恩负义的â ' ' -查尔斯，听我说。 -Well, of all the mean, ungrateful â - Charles, listen a moment.
灯。 Lights.
â—我会爱你â— âª I'll be Ioving you âª
一个ª总是ª âª Always âª
â—带着真挚的爱â— âª With a love that's true âª
一个ª总是ª âª Always âª
âª当你计划的事情需要帮助时âª âª When the things you plan need a heIping hand âª
-我又看到bracegirircaptain了，查理。SeveraI倍。——ª一ª - l saw Captain BracegirdIe again, CharIes. SeveraI times. - âªâª
你在诺丁汉的时候，我和他去了两次四百酒吧。 l went to the Four Hundred with him twice while you were in Nottingham.
我必须说我不能更享受我自己。 And l must say that l couldn't have enjoyed myself more.
别以为你能轻易摆脱我们，亲爱的。 Don't think you're getting rid of us so easily, my dear.
你也许看不见我们，但我们会在这里的。 You may not be able to see us, but we shall be here all right.
我认为你在整个糟糕的事情中表现得很糟糕。 l consider you've behaved atrociousIy over the whole miserable business.
- â ' t需要帮助â ' t -他们走了。 - âª Need a helping hand âª - They've gone.
- â—我将理解â—他们真的走了。 - âª l wiIl understand âª - They've reaIIy gone.
灿烂的!好哇!我们已经做到了。 Splendid! Hurrah! We've done it.
一个ª总是ª一ª âª Always âªâª
现在唱得够多了，伊迪丝。 That's quite enough singing for the moment, Edith.
你最好把她叫醒吧?她可能会把它们带回来。 Hadn't you better wake her up? She might bring them back again.
醒来,chiId。 Wake up, chiId.
Wh-Where l ? Wh-Where am l?
没事的，伊迪丝。你现在可以去睡觉了。 lt's all right, Edith. You can go to bed now.
但我在床上。我是怎么下来的? But l was in bed. How did l get down here?
我响了,伊迪丝。我按了门铃，你就接了。 I rang, Edith. l rang the bell, and you answered it.
我睡着了吗?你觉得是我的脑震荡吗? Did l drop off? Do you think it's my concussion?
现在你走吧，伊迪丝。非常感谢。 Now off you go, Edith. Thank you very much.
真的非常感谢你。 Thank you very much indeed.
哦，先生，为什么? Oh, sir, whatever for?
哦,先生! Oh, sir!
——唔，她这话到底是什么意思? -- WelI, what on earth did she mean by that?
天啊!什么一个晚上。 Golly! What a night.
我已经准备好了。 l'm ready to drop in my tracks.
我非常感谢你，阿卡蒂夫人。 l'm deepIy grateful to you, Madame Arcati.
我不知道你们一般是怎么安排的……但我相信你会在适当的时候寄来你的帐单。 l don't know what arrangements you generally make... but l trust that you'll send in your account in due course.
天哪，康多明先生。这是我的荣幸。 Good heavens, Mr. Condomine. lt was a pIeasure.
我不应该有这样的梦想。 l shouldn't dream of such a thing.
你想留下来吗?你知道，有一间空房。 Would you like to stay? There's a spare room, you know.
不,谢谢。各回各的巢。 No, thanks. Each to his own nest.
我马上骑车回家。只有七英里。 l'll pedal home in a jiffy. lt's onIy seven miles.
哦，我一会儿再去拿我的球。 Oh, l'lI coIIect my tackIe later on.
也许哪天你能让我和你共进午餐。 Perhaps you'd give me the pleasure of lunching with you one day.
你回来的时候，我会很高兴的。 When you come back, l shaII be deIighted.
回来? Come back?
听我的建议，康多明先生，马上离开。 Take my advice, Mr. Condomine, and go away immediately.
但是â ' '什么，你说的不是â ' ' But â What, you don't mean â
这房子对你来说一定很不幸，康多明先生。 This must be an unhappy house for you, Mr. Condomine.
它的每一个角落都一定有庄严和欢乐的回忆。 There must be memories both grave and gay in every corner of it.
-还有â ' ' -还有什么? - Also â - Also what?
天地间还有更多的东西，康多明先生。 There are more things in heaven and earth, Mr. Condomine.
那就去吧。收拾好你的行李，尽快走吧。 Just go. Pack up your traps and go, as soon as possible.
你不是说他们可能还在这儿吧? You don't mean they might stilI be here?
一个害怕QuiA©n萨比?正如西班牙人所说。 Â¿ QuiÃ©n sabe? As the Spanish say.
嗯。我想我会接受你的建议，阿卡蒂夫人。非常感谢。 Hmm. l think l wilI take your advice, Madame Arcati. Thank you very much.
再见，康多明先生。lt是迷人的。 Well, good-bye, Mr. Condomine. lt's been fascinating.
从头到尾都很迷人。 From first to last, fascinating.
不用送我出去了。我能找到我的路。 Oh, don't bother to see me out. I can find my way.
加油一次。和良好的狩猎。 Cheerio once more. And good hunting.
露丝? Ruth?
EIvira吗? EIvira?
你在那里么? Are you there?
是的，我很清楚你在那里。 Yes, l know darn well you are there.
我只是想告诉你，你再呆在这儿也没用了…因为我要走了。 l just want to telI you there's no use your hanging around any Ionger... because l'm going away.
我要走很远的路。 l'm going a long way away.
一个我不相信你能跟得上我的地方。 Somewhere where I don't believe you'lI be able to folIow me.
我不相信鬼魂能过河。 l don't believe ghosts can travel over water.
明白了吗，亲爱的? ls that quite clear, my darlings?
露丝，你说过在你最尖刻的时候…在我的一生中 You said in one of your more acid moments, Ruth... that l'd been hagridden alI my life.
你说得太对了。 How right you were.
但现在我自由了，亲爱的露丝……不仅是埃尔维拉、母亲和温斯洛普-勒维因夫人……但也摆脱了你。 But now I'm free, Ruth dear... not only of Elvira and Mother and Mrs. Winthrop-LleweIIyn... but free of you too.
我想借此告别的机会…说我非常享受。 And l should like to take this farewell opportunity... of saying that l'm enjoying it immensely.
哦。谢谢你！ Oh. Thank you.
埃尔维拉，你真傻，以为我不知道你和束腰带队长的事。 You were very silly, Elvira, to think I didn't know all about you and Captain Bracegirdle.
我做到了。 I did.
而你没有意识到的是我当时非常喜欢波娅·韦斯特莱克。 And what you didn't realize was that I was extremely attached to PauIa Westlake at the time.
亲爱的，再见了。 Good-bye for the moment, my dears.
我想我们一定会再见面的，但在我们见面之前…我要享受我从未享受过的生活。 l expect we're bound to meet again one day, but until we do... I'm going to enjoy myself as l've never enjoyed myseIf before.