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第一幕

ST Sister Blanche, I've got a little birthday remembrance for you. I hope that you like it.

B Why- Why, it's a

ST It's a ticket! Back to Auriol! On a bus! Tuesday!

S Blanche!

You didn't need to do that.

ST Don't forget all that I took off her.

S You don't need to be so cruel to someone alone as she is. –

ST Delicate article as she is.

S She is! She was! You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was as tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.

B Oh, stop it!

S Why did you do this to her?

ST Let go of my shirt.

S I want to know why. Tell me why.

ST The first time, baby, when we first met, me and you , baby, you thought I was common as dirt. How right you was, I was common as dirt. And wasn't we happy together, wasn't all okay till she showed here? Hoity-toity, describing me like an ape.

Stella! What 's the matter with you?

B Honey, what's the matter with you?

ST Did I hurt you?

B Honey? What is it?

S Take me to the hospital.

第二幕

B Who is it , please?

M Me- me, me. Mitch.

B Hello Mitch! Y' know, I really shouldn't let you in after the treatment I have received from you this evening! So utterly uncavalier! But I forgive you. I forgive you because it' s such a relief to see you. You've stopped that polka tune that I had caught in my head.

How's your mother? Is your mother ill?

M Why?

B Why, what's the matter with you tonight? But never mind，I'll just- pretend I don't notice anything different about you! That- music a gain…

M What music?

B The polka tune they were playing when Allan- wait!

There! That shot! It always stops after that. Yes, now it's stopped.

M Are you boxed out of you r mind?

B I cant hear what u r saying ,Had you forgotten your invitation to supper?

M I wasn't going to see you any more.

B What's in your mind? I see something in your eyes!

M I've never seen you in the light, that's a fact! I've never had a real good look at you, Blanche,

Let's turn on the light in here.

B Light? Which light? What for? Oh! What did you do that for?

M So I can take a look at you good and plain!

B Of course you don't really mean to be insulting!

M No, just realistic.

B I don't want realism. I want magic!

M Magic!

B Yes, yes, magic!

I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth,

I tell what ought to be truth.

DON'T TURN THE LIGHT ON…

M Oh, I don't mind you being older than what I thought, But- but, all the rest of it- Oh! The pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned，But I was a fool enough to believe you was straight.

B Who told you I wasn't- 'Straight'? My loving brother-in-law. And you believe him.

M No! No! I called him a liar at first. And then I checked on the story.

Didn't you stay at a hotel called the Flamingo?

B Flamingo? NO! Tarantula was the name of it!

M Tarantula Arms?

B Yes, a big spider! Yes, I've had many meeting with strangers.

After the death of Allan- intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty … .. it was panic, just panic, that drove me searching for some protection- even, at last, in a seventeen-year-old boy but- I was played out. You know what played out is?

M I thought you were straight. –

B Straight? What's straight?

A line can be straight or a street, but the heart of a human being…

M You lied to me, Blanche. –

B Don't say I lied to you.

M Lies, lies, inside and out, all lies. –

B Never inside, I never lied in my heart…

卖花人- Flores!…Flores para los muertos … - Flores!…Flores para los muertos …

B What? Oh! Someone outside.

卖花人Crona! Crona! Crones para los muertos… Flowers! Flowers for the dead.

祭奠死者的花，要不要？

B No, no! not now! not now!

I lived into the house once where death was as close as you are…

The opposite is desire. How could you wonder? How could you possibly wonder!

Marry me, Mitch! –

M No. I don't think I want to marry you any more.

B No? –

M You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.

B Get out of here before I start screaming. Get out of here quick before I start screaming!

第三幕