英文台词

The Joy Luck Club李安《喜福会》英文部分台词
【独白】The old woman remembered the swan ship bought many years ago in shanghai for fullish/foolish sum,’this bird’ boasted the market vander was once a duck which stretched its neck hopes to become a goose and now look it’s too beautiful to eat then the woman and the swan sailed across the ocean many thousand li wide stretching their necks towards America.on her journey she cooed over the swan in America i’ll have a daughter just like me but over there nobody will say her worth is majored by the loudness of her husband but else. over there nobody will look down on her because I’ll make her speak only perfect American English . and over there she’ll be always too full to swallow any sorrow.she’ll know my meaning because I’ll give her the swan a creature that became more I was hoped for.but when she arrived the new country the immigration officials pulled the swan from her leaving the woman flidering her arms with only one swan feather for memory . for a long time now,the woman had wanted to give her daughter this single swan feather and tell her:this feather may look worthless,but it comes from a far and carries all my good intentions.
【君的独白】my mother died four months ago.i realized the first time that they wanted me to take my mother’s place,so I sat down on the east when the things began with my mother’s best friends.my mother started to join the Joy Luck Club having met all these women in church,aunty Amei,aunty Lindo,aunty Yingying.for thirty years these women feasted forgot past wrongs,laughed and played,lost and won and told the best stories.each week they hoped to be lucky and that hope was their only joy their connection with each other had more to do with hope than joy or luck
Amei:you win like your mother
J:ah,I only played once with some jewish friends in the college
L:jewish mahjoong,not the same thing.entirely different.now Chinese mahjoong very tricky.you have to watch what everybody threw out and you keep all this in your head,and if nobody play wel then it’s becoming jewish mahjoong.no strategic.you American girls think ‘chinse,jewish,what’s the difference’
【】they’ll worried in me they see their daughters just ignorant of all the dreams and hopes they brought to this country
J:hey,hey,hey,no talking in Chinese,how can I know that you are not cheating
L:you don’t know,but we are your aunties,and we are honese people,we’ll not cheat you.hey,Jun,why don’t you take the piano home?you are the only one who can play.
【】when I was nine years old,my mother’s version of believing in me was believing that I can be anything,anything she wanted,the best piano protigy this side of china . I never practiced.lucky for me old mr.qin couldn’t tell the difference.he gones on stone-deaf over the years.
Q:me and bethoven we put hearing in our head . hokey-pokey?now ,how many sharps?how many flats?what key are we in?
J:z major.z major
Q:good,now for the recital,more feeling,go stop.
【】when I was young,auntry Lindo was my mother’s best friend and archenemy.their weapons of choice was comparing of their children.mom was sick of aunty Lindo brag about her daughter Vinrolli,who’s the Chinatown chess champion.that night,mom figured I redeemed her with my international piano debut
L:I ask my daughter to help me carry to the roadstreet,she’s thinking this is too much ask.all day
long,she play chess.i dust out all her trophy.appreciate me?no!you are lucky you don’t have the same problem.
M:my problem is worser than yours.if I tell Jun to wash dish,she has nothing but the music.it’s like you can’t stop this natural talent
【】until that night I don’t believe that I am a protigy.in fact I used to go out of my way to prove that my mother wrong but I wasn’t cut out of anything.i could only be me.it was incredible,it’s like my hands are preset by Mozart and everybody could see and could hear this.i was a genius.i has been discovered.and then,I heard it.maybe,they didn’t notice
Q:bravo,bravo,encore,well-done!
【】after the talent show ,I figured I don’t ha ve to play piano again
M:four o’clock,turn off the tv,I guess it’s piano time
J:I couldn’t believe what she was saying,like I have to go back to the same torture again.forget it M:hear what I say?four o’clock！
J:I am not play anymore,why should i?
M:What did you say?
J:I am not your slave.it isn’t china,you can’t make me.you want me to become someone I am not,I’ll never become the same kind of daughter you want me to be.
There are two kinds of daughters,obedient or follow your mind.if you wanna be the daughter living in this house,obedient kind.
Then I wish that I weren’t be your daughter.i wish you weren’t my mom.
Too late to change this
That’s when I remember that we can’t talk about
And I wish I were dead like them,the babies you killed in china
My mother has once talked me about the strange story what happened to her in china.she said she’s gonna to make chongqing to meet the man who was her husband.that was my first time I ever heard that she was married before my father,she barely had time look after her baby,twin girls,that was my first time I ever heard that she had other babies.i always try to picture in my mind what had happened but she would never explain she would only say that by the time she arrived chongqing,she had lost everything.and I said wait,what do you mean everything?what happened to those babies?there are so many things about my mother I never understood,this is the only one I never forgave.we all thought that those babies were dead,but last month in a church picnic…
【】it’s so sad those babies.how could suyuan give them up?to loose her mother so young,to wonder why,even to this day I wonder how my own mother can give me up that day when I was only four years old,when I came upon a meeting it’ll change my life forever.i didn’t know it but that day my mother made a promise that when I became fifteen I would go live in this woman’s house to fulfill the old matchmaker’s guarantee to many sons with a husband who I have never met before , for the next ten years,my mother treated me as if I already belong to huang tai tai.my mother did not say these things,because she didn’t love me,she said these things,so she would not wish for something that was no longer hers.and the one day,my mother said that our whole family would move to the south,every one,except me.that night,I would meet my husband for the first time,the one who would control my destiny,decides whether I will happy or not.this one moment will decide my whole life with the fear grew or I would.i decided,underneath I knew who I was.i promised myself never to forget.next few years,I tried to accept my life to act like an obedient
wife,every night I made huangtaitai special soup,good for mother-in-law,stil,she was not pleased.after that I slept with my husband every night I slept with him just like brother and sister.i got a rail ticket to shanghai.so you see?i still keot my promise to my mother,but years after,things different with my daughter vivolly’s wedding
You already in the beauty parlor?
【】my mom always does this,whatever I say,whatever I do,whatever I think,she always has the perfect countermove,as if she was the chess champion.even at that age,I knew that I had an amzing gift,this power,this belief in myself to be better than someone else,to someone who was bigger than me,older than me,it didn’t matter.and if they are mean,then I’ll make them sorry.check me.it was the only part of my life to this day what I trust myself completely.i was safe there,I still cry remembering that.
I wish you wouldn’t do that telling everyone that I am your daughter
This girl has no concerning for us.
For months I was expecting mother to beg me please to play chess again,but she didn’t mention You think it’s so easy.one day quit,next day play,everything for you is this way . so smart,so easy,so fast.not so easy anymore.what she said was like a curse,this power I have,this belief I have in myself,I could actually feel it draining away.i could feel myself so,ordinary,all the secret I once saw,I couldn’t see it anymore.all I could see was my mistakes,my weakness.the best part of me was,disappeared.i couldn’t blame it on my mother.i did it to myselfi never play chess again.
【】she needs a cut and curl,Triver.and the color of hers is from the cheap black dye she’s been using at home.god forbade she paid anything she had done.
【】why I should pay?what for?why I should pay 90 dollar to act like you?so important.go to fancy barbar with a jeans.
【】I mean,I even married a Chinese guy to please her,he was gorgeous,he even gave her a granddaughter.but was she satisfied?when we got divorced,she got all upset like it was my fault. 【】I just want to show you something,it’s upstairs.
And when I started dating again,when I try to hint her about Rich that we were living together.how could she not notice?this was not going to go away even with her silent treatment.
【】this is what I want to show you.you know Rich?the guy I’ve told you about?i don’t know why he got this for me,it’s not even cold.you want to try it?
【】this is not so good,only left-over strips,see,the fur too short,no long hairs
【】how can you criticize a gift?he gave this to me with all his heart
【】that’s what I told you,not so good
I wasn’t let her to go away this time,making me don’t feel good about Rich,the love of my life,who treated me like I was perfect
Do you want to say anything else?
What I should say?
About the apartment,about this and this or this,all this?
The next week I brought Rich to my mum’s birthday dinner,sort of a surprise person,I figured she was going to have to accept Rich,like it or not
Of course,the night is still young,thank god I already taught him about the Chinese manners.actually,there are few things I forgot to mention,he should not take a second glass when everyone else only have one inch or two only for taste,you should have taken only a small spoonful of best dishes until everyone have had after helping,he shouldn’t brag that he’s a fast
learner,but the worst,is when Rich criticized my mom’s cooking and he even didn’t know what he had done.as it’s Chinese cook customs that my mother always insulted her own cooking but only with the dish she served with special pride.that was a cue to eat some and proclaim it the best she had ever made.
She dosen’t want to be too tight for it,and wen don’t want to look too wired or kinky.
Is it all right,mom?not so kinky?
Why does my daughter think she was translating English for me?
Maybe I don’t go.
What do you mean?
Maybe I don’t go to your wedding.
Oh,don’t be ridiculous.
Maybe I’ve already been ridiculous,and too ridiculous for your future husband’s family.
I could see her face looking at me,but not seeing me.she was ashamed,so ashamed to be my daughter.
Mom,what’s wrong?
Nothing.nothing,I…I am thinking about my mother,how much I wanted to be like her.
Your mother?
She told me all the hopes she had for me was what I never forget.in my memory,my mother was important to me,just like her words,easily appreciate memory.
Mom,why don’t you like Rich?
Is Rich you afraid I don’t like?if I don’t like Rich,I would be polite and say nothing,let him be cencer,let my daughter be a widow. I like Rich,of course I do.to allow him marry such a daughter. You don’t know.you don’t know your power you have for me.one word from you,one look,four years old I had to go to sleep myself,because nothing I do can never ever please you.
Now,now you are making me happy.
【】only one thing’s worse,I was only 16.after that,everything like this dream,our wedding,our son.this is not his first conquest,only the first I permitted myself to recognize,by then I had knes what kind of man I had marrie,happiest when he’s cruel.so forgetful he had not returned the next morning,or the next evening.my whole life’d turing this moment if I had left him or killed him,I would not lost one thing that I mattered.my mind was repeating a single thought:he had taken from me my innoncence,my youth,my heart,everything.so I took the only thing from him I could.my baby was so light in my arms,because his little spirit had flown away,and with his,my spirit had also gone,years later,I moved to America,but what I had done in china was always with me.in time I remarried and I had a daughter but Lina had no spirit,because I had none to give her. Mommy?mommy,please answer me.mommy?
As I was growing up,there were times when mom went thrifty bad spells.she often seems scared and sad,but she never talk about it.except said that she had married a bad man in china.over the years,mom got better,although it seemed that all her feels tending to worry about me.so now that I had married,and she’s visiting my new house,I hope she can finally be happy for me.
Don’t worry,everything’s fine.he’s very nice to me.
Nice?nice?very nice?what’s this?
What if you rest in the room and I keep some tea okay? I’ve got some tea.
What’s thins writing?
Mom,it’s nothing.youknow,it’s just things we shared.
At least,it was how Harol calls it,sharing,everything’s fifty-fifty,so our love is always equal,the iron is I was the one who started it that way.so what I had only one salad and he had three courses?we were quals,except that I was working in his firm and he pays himself seven times more than he pays me,seven and a half.then last year,when we finally decided to get married,we agreed,love yes,false dependencies,no.with most of everything,we keep track of what we spend,then split it,fifty-fifty.of course we agreed early on not to include personal stuff,like my tenounds and feminine hygine spray,and his shaving lotion and food powder.but we still have these philosophical argument about these gray areas,like magazines I subscribed to,which he reads but only,but only because they are there.the cat,even the god dame cat flees.
All around the rooms,I see the signs,my daughter looks but she doesn’t see,this is a house which is going to break into pieces.it’s not too late,all my pains,regrets,I would gather them together,my daughter will hear me calling,even though I’ve said no words,she will climb the stairs and find me,she would be scared because the first of her eyes will see nothing,she will feel it in her heart,this place which she hides her fears.she will know I am waiting like a tiger in the trees,now ready to leap out and cut the spirit loose.
With both hands open.it is you who will be found and cherished.。