麦卡里斯特先生来信说 要来参加今日茶宴 Mr. McAllister has written. He's coming to my tea today.
麦卡里斯特在玩两面手法 McAllister is playing a complicated game.
想看他被阿斯特夫人发现 I'd like to be there when Mrs. Astor finds out.
接下来会比他想的复杂 It's about to get more complicated than he knows.
-怎么说 -你以后就知道了 - Why do you say that? - You'll find out.
对了 他会带温特顿夫人过来 By the way, he's bringing Mrs. Winterton with him.
-你是指透纳 -对 - You mean Turner? - Yes.
你允许她踏进这个家门 Into our home? You'll allow that?
麦卡里斯特认为有些人 McAllister thinks some people will take a box at the Met
愿意在学院和大都会各取包厢 even if they already have one at the Academy.
这样不会遭惩罚 Wouldn't they be punished?
降贵纡尊新歌剧院不是大逆不道 Isn't lending status to the new house a serious crime?
重点是我们需要老贵族 The point is, we need the old crowd
约书亚温特顿是创始成员 and Joshua Winterton is a charter member.
他取了包厢 其他人或许会跟进 If they take a box, any number may follow.
你不介意去讨好从前的下人 And you don't object, to courting your former servant?
没办法 就算再难受也得吞忍 I can't afford to object, even if it sticks in my craw.
不怕她把事情抖出来 But can she be trusted?
她不想曝光自己以前是侍女 She won't want anyone to know she was once a lady's maid.
在这方面是我占上风 I have the upper hand where that's concerned.
花饰好了 请夫人过目 The flowers are ready for your inspection, madam.
谢谢 Thank you.
邱区‥我先说明 今天有位宾客会让你吃惊 Church, I should explain that one of my guests today
请克制好表情 may surprise you, but please don't show it.
是 夫人 Of course, ma'am.
对面今天又怎么了 What are they up to today?
我也不知道 I'm not sure,
可说是纷至沓来呢 but there is quite a bustle of arrivals.
你是指人吗 - You mean of people?
当然是人 - Yes, people.
罗素家的话 那很难说 Well, with the Russells, one cannot be certain.
就算请 I wouldn't be surprised
巴拿姆贝理马戏团来表演 if they hired Barnum and Bailey's Circus
也不足为奇 to perform in the hall.
来者大多是女士 应该不是马戏团 It looks like it's mostly women, so probably not the circus.
看过宾客名单才能确定 I'd like to see the guest list before I reach any conclusions.
我说爱格啊 你不怀念宴会吗 Oh, Agnes. Don't you miss parties?
你在盘算些什么 Are you planning something?
我想邀新任牧师来午餐 I'd like to invite the new rector for luncheon.
每周日上午都听他冗长无趣的布道 We have to listen to him drone on all Sunday morning.
主会嫌我们听得还不够 Can the Lord really want more from us than that?
-话虽如此‥ Although...
-怎么了 你新冒出来的 - What? - Your newfound piety
虔心或能派上用场 may be put to good use after all.
我信教已经很久了 My faith is not new.
对啦‥达许蒙哥马利写信给我 Yes. But Dashiell Montgomery has written to me.
-说什么 -我很高兴 - And? - I'm glad to say
他有心追求玛丽安 he's taken a real interest in Marian
希望我能帮他一把 and he wants me to promote his cause.
-你跟玛丽安说了吗 Have you spoken to Marian about it?
-还没 No.
他虽年纪稍长 却不失为好对象 He may be a bit older, but he's a good match
她该知足了 就坏在她太倔强 and she ought to be grateful, but she's stubborn.
很可能一意孤行 She may dig in her heels.
得小心管束她 We must manage her carefully.
我才不想管束她呢 I don't want to manage her at all.
-那就邀他和你的牧师一起来午餐 We'll invite him to luncheon with your reverend.
-他不是我的牧师 He's not mine.
希望他在上起司前能结束布道 Let's hope he finishes the sermon before it's time for the cheese.
汤玛斯霍华伉俪到 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Howard!
约书亚温特顿夫人到 Mrs. Joshua Winterton!
你没事吧 Are you all right?
回老爷 我好像看到‥ I'm not sure, sir. I thought I saw...
你没看错 You did.
那真是透纳小姐 So, that was Miss Turner?
我来就好 你回楼下厨房去 I'll manage here. Go back downstairs to the kitchens.
-干嘛匆匆忙忙的 -那个人在这里 - What's the hurry? - She's here!
我刚才在楼上看到她了 She's here! I just saw her upstairs!
看到谁了 Who is?
雅德海 你在发抖 冷静 Adelheid, you're shaking. Calm down.
我一定得告诉你们 No! I must tell you!
夫人以前的贴身侍女透纳 Miss Turner, the mistress's lady's maid, is here!
她人就在楼上 她来干嘛 - Upstairs! - Why?
要回来工作吗 Does she want her job back?
不是 她来参加夫人的歌剧茶宴 No, she's here for Mrs. Russell's opera tea!
-她也是宾客 -什么 - As a guest! - What?
她一进门就把外套交给我 She came in and handed me her coat
邱区先生唱名她为温特顿夫人 and Mr. Church announced her as Mrs. Winterton.
-我不懂 -我也不懂 - I don't understand. - Neither do I.
醒醒吧 这里是美国 Wake up. This is America. You can be anything you want.
想成为谁都行 我最清楚 I should know.
-看来大家都知道了 -是真的吗 I see you've all heard the news.
透纳小姐是在这里没错 - Is it really true? - That Miss Turner is here? Yes.
夫人知会过我 但没说详情 Mrs. Russell warned me, but not of the specifics.
我也同样惊讶 但大家别忘了本分 I'm as shocked as anyone, but we've all got a job to do.
约书亚温特顿非常有钱 Joshua Winterton is a very rich man.
房产很可观 He has a fortune in property.
-你怎么知道 -报上说的 - How do you know? - I read the papers.
家仆不该议论雇主的宾客 It's not for servants to discuss the guests of their employer.
透纳小姐不是普通宾客 But Miss Turner is hardly just another guest.
她现在是温特顿夫人 是罗素夫人的朋友 Her name is now Mrs. Winterton and she is a friend of the mistress.
-可是她‥ -听邱区先生的话 - But, she's... - Listen to Mr. Church.
先去收拾餐桌布 And there are some linens that need to be put away
除非楼上需要你帮忙 unless you're still wanted upstairs.
她还是待在楼下比较好 It might be best if she stayed down here.
也对 Yes.
我再跟她说 谢谢费许夫人 - I'll talk to her now. - Thank you, Mrs. Fish.
罗素夫人 Oh, Mrs. Russell.
失陪一下 费许夫人找我 Excuse me. Mrs. Fish calls.
那你快去吧 Well, then, you better answer.
罗素先生 感谢提供贵府为场地 Mr. Russell, how kind of you to open your house.
为了正当理由 It's for a good cause.
会打乱纽约社交圈秩序的理由 A cause that is disrupting New York society.
我不确定是否正当 I don't know if that's good or not.
凡我夫人要的即为正当 Any cause of my wife's is good.
感谢各位大驾光临 I'd like to thank you all for coming.
有些人来需要勇气 For some of you, I know this took courage
但在场各位对艺术的热情 but for all of us, our passion for the arts
受到音乐学院所限缩 has been curtailed by the narrow limits of the Academy of Music.
如今不同了 我们需要大都会歌剧院 Until now. We need the Metropolitan.
不仅是为了我们 Not only for ourselves
更因伟大的纽约市 需要足以匹配的歌剧院 but so a great city like New York can have the opera house it deserves.
对了 在此宣布一项消息 Oh, and I thought you would be interested to hear
大都会将于10月22日开幕 we have decided to open our season on the 22nd of October.
那会跟音乐学院撞期 But that's the same date as the Academy of Music!
正是 I believe it is.
所以两家歌剧院要正面对决 So, the two opera houses are to go head-to-head?
就是正面对决 有一个是赢家 That's it. Head-to-head, and one will be the winner.
我今天请了吉柏先生到场 Now, I have invited Mr. Gilbert to join us today.
由他来答复会碰上的要务 He can answer any questions about the task facing us.
我与夫人同样欢迎各位 I echo Mrs. Russell's welcome
向各位报告 她已答应 and I thought you might like to know that she's accepted a place
担任大都会歌剧院董事 on the board of the Metropolitan Opera.
凡对演出剧码 And now, for those of you who have questions...
和索取包厢有疑问者 what is our program, how can you secure a box
我很乐意向各位解答 come and find me.
温特顿夫人 Ah, Mrs. Winterton.
我当然完全同意 Of course. Yes, I do agree with you.
抱歉我来晚了 布置教室耽搁了 I'm sorry I'm late. I stayed to help rearrange a classroom.
你现在连家俱都得搬了 So, you're moving furniture now?
会议开始了吗 Has your meeting started yet?
如你所见 还在等阿斯特夫人 和麦卡里斯特先生 As you can see, we're waiting for Mrs. Astor and Mr. McAllister.
我请史考特小姐记录会议 I've asked Miss Scott to take notes.
你来得正好 I'm glad you're here.
想问你要不要去看 奥斯卡王尔德的新戏 I want to ask you to the opening of a new play by Oscar Wilde.
结束后有场招待会 时间是下周二 And there's a reception afterwards. It's next Tuesday.
雇主允许你参加这种无聊场合吗 Will your employer allow you time for such frivolities?
我很乐意去 谢谢你 Yes, and I'd love to. Thank you.
茉德彼顿也会去 她想多认识你 Maud Beaton will be there. She wants to know you better.
在纽波特的那位 -为何想认识我 Maud Beaton from Newport? Why?
可能跟奥斯卡有关 Well, it might have something to do with Oscar.
是我家奥斯卡 不是剧作家吧 You mean my Oscar, not the playwright?
是你家奥斯卡 Yes, yours.
茉德彼顿是什么来历 Maud Beaton? What do we know about her?
母亲出身史岱文森家族 Her mother was a Stuyvesant.
可以去问费许夫人的先生 他祖母也出身史岱文森 You should ask Mrs. Fish's husband. His grandmother was a Stuyvesant.
有钱吗 Is there any money?
爱格 你真是的 Really, Agnes.
现在说这会不会太早 Isn't it a little soon for that?
在场都是自家人 Oh, we're all family here
我知道奥斯卡看重什么 and I think we know Oscar's priorities.
对方非常有钱 I believe there's a great deal.
那她符合标准了 Well then, she meets the requirements.
还是让奥斯卡自己决定吧 I should leave it to Oscar to decide.
我何时让他自己决定过了 Have you ever known me to do that?
阿斯特夫人到 Mrs. Astor.
丽娜 欢迎欢迎 Lina, how nice to see you.
好吧 如果你不介意我这么说的话… Well, if you don't mind my saying so...
-麦卡里斯特先生 -罗素先生 - Mr. McAllister. - Mr. Russell.
-恭喜你 -谢谢 - Well done. - Thank you.
我得离开了 要去见阿斯特夫人 I can't stay. I'm meeting Mrs. Astor.
谢谢你带温特顿夫人过来 Thank you for bringing Mrs. Winterton.
你确定跟学院开幕撞期明智吗 Are you sure it's wise to open on the same night as the Academy?
岂不自找麻烦 Aren't you asking for trouble?
我确实是有所求 I'm asking for something.
我原打算两边都去 I was hoping to go to both.
那么你现在得选边了 And now you'll have to choose.
我先走了 再会 亲爱的 I should leave. Goodbye, my dear.
-先生备车了吗 Do you have a carriage waiting, sir?
-没有 天气很好 我打算走两步 No, it's so lovely. I think I'll just walk.
小心点 马车来了 女士。 Careful there, carriage coming, madam.
先生请小心 Careful, sir!
我得说罗素夫人 I confess that Mrs. Russell
比预料的难对付 is even more of a fighter than I had realized.
你原以为她不敢跟你作对 You mean, you thought she would not fight against you.
没料到她下手这么重 No, not so bitterly, at any rate.
毕竟她是靠我才有今天啊 After all, didn't I make her what she is today?
那种阶级的人总是忘恩负义 Gratitude is not a natural instinct in that class.
-爱格‥ -麦卡里斯特先生到 - Agnes. - Mr. Ward McAllister.
谢谢你愿意来赴约 How kind you were to let me summon you.
刚从很远的地方赶来吗 Did you have to come far, Mr. McAllister?
-还好 不算很远 -那就好 Not very. No.Good.
我想跟各位商讨如何对付罗素夫人 I want to talk about Mrs. Russell and how to handle her.
你比我们都更清楚她的为人 And you, well, you know her better than any of us.
我听说一个你们会想知道的消息 Well, I've just heard some news that may be of interest.
快别吊我们胃口了 Don't keep us in suspense.
据说她说服亨利艾比及其他人 I'm told she has persuaded Henry Abbey and the others at the Metropolitan
把大都会开幕季定在与学院同一晚 to open on the same night as the Academy of Music.
-天啊 -竟然有这种事 - What? - Are you serious? - Oh, my.
胆敢抢走学院的锋头 How dare they try to steal the Academy's thunder!
我们的开幕日是神圣的 Our date is sacred!
其实这样一来 I suppose, in a way
对决反而磊落 -怎么说 - this makes it a cleaner fight. - How?
-每个人都必须选边站 Well, everyone will have to choose which side they're on.
真有此必要吗 Why was that necessary?
幸好我们全家都站同一边 Thank heavens we are all united in this house.
纽约这么大 能容纳两家歌剧院啊 There must be room for two opera houses in a city like New York.
少胡说了 您要我们怎么做 尽管吩咐 Nonsense. Now what can we do?
-信里说要派任务给我 Give us orders. In your letter, you said you had a task for me.
没错 Yes.
爱格 请你写信给老会员 Agnes, I would like you to write to the older members.
就说 据传若取了大都会包厢 Say that you've heard a rumor that if any of them are thinking of taking a box at the Metropolitan
-原有的学院包厢就会取消 -天啊 their box at the Academy will be removed.- Goodness.
这话不能由我说 会成了正式威胁 但你可以说 - Seriously? I can't do it, as that would make the threat official, but you can.
-记下来了吗 史考特小姐 Have you got all that, Miss Scott?
-一字不漏 -我们立刻开始写信 可以吧 - Every word. - We'll begin the letters at once.
没问题 - Won't we, Miss Scott? - Of course.
-谢谢你 -我先告辞了 Thank you. I think I'll take my leave
免得接下来开始发武器 before you start handing out weapons.
真有那么简单就好了 If only it were that simple.
听说阿斯特夫人要正式开战 Well, Mrs. Astor's really looking for a fight.I heard her.
这下子罗素夫人输定了 I wouldn't say Mrs. Russell has a chance.
我就知道凡瑞恩夫人是对的 I knew Mrs. van Rhijn was right.
想必战况已升温 Things must be heating up
阿斯特夫人才亲自登门招兵买马 if Mrs. Astor's paying calls to get people on her side.
玛丽安小姐支持大都会 Miss Marian supports the Met.
-我也是 -跟你有什么关系 - So do I. - And where will that get you?
说说我的想法罢了 It's what I think, that's all.
你的想法肯定跟韦伯小姐一致吧 You only think that because Miss Adelheid Weber does.
夫人吩咐史考特小姐 写信给学院全体成员 The mistress has got Miss Scott writing to all the Academy members
呼吁大家坚定立场 to make sure they hold firm.
她没资格写信给那种身份的人 What? She can't write letters to that sort of people.
为何不行 战事一旦扩大 全民皆兵 Why not? When a fight is big enough, everyone gets sucked in.
-韩德森是今天出发吗 -没错 So, Henderson is traveling today?
已帮他在布朗兹维订好套房 He is, and we have reserved a suite at the Brunswick.
-明天的马车也安排好了 -好了 - And a carriage for tomorrow? - Yes.
希望他不会误以为我们屈服了 I hope it doesn't make him think he has power over us.
像他这种自视甚高的人 He's not the first man I've dealt with
我见多了 who has exaggerated ideas of his own importance.
这般礼遇是让他开出价码 I humor him to get him to reveal his price.
要是他无法收买呢 Suppose he hasn't got one?
一定可以的 Oh, he has.
他可能会故作姿态 He may tease us a little so we raise our offer
以抬高价码 but every man living has a price.
只要是人都可用钱收买 - All right. - The first tier
头等包厢已满 has all been claimed
但是二等包厢‥ however, there are a few boxes still available in the second tier...
怎没看见罗素先生 Where's Mr. Russell?
他逃回办公室去了 At his office. He slipped away.
他还喜欢观战吗 Is he enjoying the opera war?
他想知道你是否索取包厢 我也是 Well, he'd like to know if you were going to take a box. So would I.
你先多争取一些旧派成员 You need more of the old crowd in your audience.
能成功的话我会考虑 Recruit a few of them and I'll see.
温特顿夫妇站哪一边 Now, where do the Wintertons stand?
她虽初入豪门 丈夫可是老贵族 She may be new, but her husband's money is not
况且她的社交地位日益巩固 and her social standing is gathering pace.
他俩在英国度蜜月时 结交不少王公贵族 They spent their wedding journey in England, courting the aristocracy.
谢谢你邀请我来 Thank you for having me today.
我想争取你们入会 I wish we could sign you up.
可惜我们对学院相当满意 I'm afraid we're very happy at the Academy.
我曾经认识一个 At one time, I knew a woman
极度想加入学院的人 who was really desperate to get on their list
我若不好好享受 就太对不起那位了 so I feel it would be most ungrateful for me not to enjoy it.
那位朋友后来拿到包厢了吗 Did your friend ever get their box at last?
没有 跟许多被拒的人一样 No. But like so many others who failed
她选择支持大都会 she now supports the Met.
我刚跟罗素夫人提到 Oh, I was just telling Mrs. Russell
你们在欧洲交的朋友 of all your friends you've made in Europe.
包括白金汉公爵 Not least, the Duke of Buckingham.
温特顿先生在欧洲交游广阔 Mr. Winterton has many friends in England
白金汉公爵是其一 the Duke of Buckingham among them.
他在位于德文的居所招待我们 He entertained us while we were there.- At his place in Devon.
-真有意思 -他要来美国了 - How interesting. -And now he's coming to America.
我们打算在纽波特接待他 Yes. We are to receive him in Newport. Oh, would you excuse me?
失陪一下 我去跟威尔森夫人说个话 I want a word with Mrs. Wilson before she leaves.
等我回来想参观你的宴会厅 But when I get back, can I please see your ballroom?
没问题 Of course.
费许夫人 Mrs. Fish!
我去大厅找你们 Oh, Alice, I'll join you in the hall.
听说那天宴会厅高朋满座 I heard you were able to fill that ballroom, after all.
当晚确实非比寻常 It was a special night.
你若还在就看到了 As you'd have seen if you'd stayed.
只是身份不一样就是了 Though you would have been there in a different capacity, of course.
希望你加入我们的行列 Well, I hope you'll think of joining our ranks.
换成是我 你会愿意吗 Would you, if you were in my place?
我知道你指那件往事 I understood the earlier reference.
你们可以在两边各取包厢 But you could have a box in both houses.
何必呢 Why?
大都会要好几年才比得上学院 When it will take the Met years, even to begin to compete?
那不过是二流建案 It's a second-rate project
终我俩一生都会是二流 and it will be second-rate for both our lifetimes.
还是你打算揭露我的身份 Or are you threatening me with exposure?
-我没打算惹麻烦 -那就好 - I have no wish to make trouble. - Good.
万一让我难堪 我只好回敬了 Because if you make trouble for me, I will respond in kind.
-什么意思 -奉劝你先跟乔治讨论 - I don't understand. - If I were you I would discuss it with George
再决定是否闹大 before you decide to stir things up.
乔治 该称他罗素先生吧 George? You mean, Mr. Russell?
他没跟你说我俩的事 So, he never told you about us?
还以为是因此解僱我 Funny, I thought that was why I was sacked.
-因为你嫉妒我 -嫉妒你什么 - Because you were jealous. - Jealous of what?
去问你自己的丈夫 You should ask your husband.
罗素夫人 Oh, Mrs. Russell,
我准备好参观你家了 I'm ready for my tour.
我还是无法相信 得亲眼看才行 I still can't believe it. I had to see her for myself.
透纳小姐如今成了纽约上流贵妇 So, Miss Turner is now a great lady in New York.
让人不禁想 她都做到了 大家一定也行 It makes you think. If she can do it, anyone can.
真不晓得她怎么办到的 I wonder how she managed it.
还能怎么做 How do you think?
看到目标就勇于争取 She saw what she wanted and she went for it.
彼得 你怎么知道 Peter? How do you know that?
她告诉我的 She told me.
她离开后你们还有联系 Have you kept up with her? Since she left here?
断断续续 From time to time.
她锁定温特顿为目标 So, Mr. Winterton was a marked man.
为什么选中他 Why do you think she chose him?
这我知道 I can answer that.
他最近经常上报 He's been in the newspaper a lot lately
捐大笔钱给艺术博物馆 as one of the greatest donors to the new Museum of Art.
高达数百万 He gave millions.
想必她就是看上这点 That's what she was looking for.
不晓得她怎么办到的 I wonder how she pulled it off.
写信给对方 称讚男士的品味与善心 She wrote, praising his taste and his philanthropy
具有文化素养与智慧 his culture and his wisdom
希望有朝一日能见面 and she hoped that one day they might meet.
写一封信就办到了 And that's all it took? One letter?
当然不只是这样 That's not quite all it took.
史考特小姐 我要出一趟远门 Oh, Miss Scott, I may be away for a while
我写下一些题材 给你趁我不在时完成 so I've written down some ideas for you to work on while I'm gone.
你要去哪里 Where are you off to?
布克华盛顿的塔斯基吉州立师范学校 宿舍楼落成启用 Booker T. Washington is opening a dormitory at the Tuskegee State Normal School
要我去采访 and he's invited me to cover the event.
你人面真广 You know everyone.
他去年来此募款时认识的 Well, I met Mr. Washington when he was here last year, raising money.
跟我说说此人 - Tell me about him.
他很聪明 也很勤奋 - He's intelligent, driven
对募款很有一套 and quite adept at getting large donations.
刚说的宿舍楼 是艾夫海恩波特资助的 Alfred Haynes Porter funded this dormitory.
主轴是布鲁克林白人金主 So, our angle will be how white Brooklyn money
资助塔斯基吉黑人学院 is building a colored institution at Tuskegee.
不说还真没人知道 No one would ever know that.
所以才要报导啊 Which is why we're doing the story.
华盛顿先生真了不起 Well, good for Mr. Washington.
宿舍楼落成后 Oh, I suppose now they can take students from anywhere
就可招收各地的学生了 with the new dormitory.
这是他们的目标 Well, that's the idea
但纽约的黑人学生谁会愿意 but I don't know why a colored student from New York
大老远跑去阿拉巴马习农 would go all the way to Alabama just to learn how to be a farm laborer.
该学院不也培育教师吗 Well, I read that Mr. Washington also trains the students in teaching.
毕业后保证教职两年 I know they promise to be teachers for two years when they finish
之后也只能从事 but after that's done, it seems they only get offered
白人愿提供的工作 the kind of jobs white people want to give them.
或许华盛顿先生认为这只是起步 Perhaps Mr. Washington sees what he's doing as the first step.
所以我才要访问他 Well, that's what I need to ask him.
真羨慕你 I envy you.
我也想写那样的报导 I'd love to write a story like that.
你打算住哪里 Where will you stay?
华盛顿夫妇的住所 With Mr. Washington and his wife.
他想提高学院知名度 张开双臂欢迎我 He wants publicity for the school, so he's excited for me to come there.
你上次去南方是何时 When were you last in the South?
好几年没去了 Not for many years,
我在当地的身份是奴隶 and when I lived there, I was a slave.
-我懂了 -你不懂 - I see. - No, you don't.
你没办法懂 Because you can't.
我也只能放下那些悲惨记忆 But somehow, I have to put that behind me.
布克华盛顿找我 我就得去 When Booker T. Washington calls, I must go.
希望你能接纳他的观点 Well, I hope you'll consider his point of view.
你也赞同应视挤牛奶为毕生志业 So, you like the idea of our highest ambition being to milk a cow?
告诉你我赞同什么 I'll tell you what I do like.
看到黑人自立门户 When colored people open doors.
能帮他人讨生活 When they help others to earn a living.
人人独立自主 自立自强 I like independence and self-reliance.
塔斯基吉学院虽不完美 至少是朝正确方向前进 And even if it's not perfect this Tuskegee school seems like a step in the right direction.
我会代你转达华盛顿先生 I'll tell Mr. Washington you said so.
真希望我能当面告诉他 I wish I could tell him myself.
你跟我一起出远门会惹人非议 You know it would be highly unusual for us to travel together.
因为我是女人 Because I'm a woman?
总得考量现实环境 We must live in the real world.
我当记者就是为了做这种报导 But I became a journalist to cover stories exactly like this.
-我考虑一下 -答应了 - I'll think about it. - Is that a yes?
还不算是 Not quite.
好吧 All right.
我该去工作了 I should get back to work.
为什么 Why?
你恶毒的女雇主不让你休息吗 Do you have a cruel mistress who never allows you time off?
她是女暴君 强取豪夺 She's an absolute tyrant, take it from me.
那就再吻我一下 Well, then kiss me again.
-我命令你 -遵命 - I command it. - As you wish
再这样下去会延误工程 but this will only delay the completion of the work.
太好了 Good.
你就会留久一点 Then you'll be around longer.
完工后我再派其他工作给你 And when it is done, I'll find something else.
你就是我的全职工作 You alone are a full-time job, Mrs. Blane.
我很乐意为你效劳 But one I'd gladly undertake.
你父母还喜欢首次在纽波特避暑吗 How are your parents enjoying their first Newport summer?
他们回纽约了 Actually, they're in New York.
麦卡里斯特先生派对结束后就走了 They left after Mr. McAllister's party.
你没说他们要回去 You didn't tell me they were leaving.
母亲原无此打算 但计划生变 She hadn't planned to, but things changed
她在纽约办茶宴 商讨新歌剧院事宜 and she stayed on in the city to give a tea party for the new opera house.
但会再回来 But they'll be back?
母亲会 她打算在这里避暑 Mother will be. She means to spend most of the summer here.
那我们得小心一点 Then we must learn to be careful.
我注意到她看我的眼神 I saw the way she was looking at me.
我不在乎她怎么想 I don't care what she thinks.
-也不在乎别人怎么想 -但我在乎 I don't care what anyone thinks.I do.
我希望开心过夏天 但别有后患 I mean to have a lot of fun this summer and to pay no price for it.
我的人生格言就是 鱼与熊掌要兼得 My motto has always been to have my cake and eat it.
不怕仆人说閒话 What about the servants?
川特会管他们 Well, Trent has them under control.
那谁来管川特呢 Then who keeps Trent under control?
这你不用担心 Don't worry about that.
我的管家跟了我很久 My butler and I have been together a long time.
我一点都不担心 我疯狂迷恋着你 I won't worry at all, because I'm mad about you
巴不得弄得人尽皆知 and I want to shout it from the housetops.
你最好克制自己 Then you must learn to restrain yourself
放心吧 我一定会好好赏赐你的 in the sure and certain knowledge that I will reward you.
现在‥我实在该去监工了 And now I should really go and check what the workers are up to.
好 快去吧 Yes, you should.
我也要收行李去纽约 I have to pack anyway for my own trip to New York.
-你也要抛弃我 -去去就回 You're abandoning me as well?
就处理些先夫留下的房产 Not for long. I have to settle some property of my late husband's.
或许我俩同行 Well, perhaps I should travel with you.
反正我下礼拜要回纽约 I'm due in New York next week.
这样好吗 Would that be wise?
反正到纽约得聚聚就是了 Well, anyway, we should get together while we're there.
我随时愿意和你相聚 You know I'm always ready to get together with you.
你先下去 Leave us.
是 夫人 Of course, madam.
-怎么了吗 -你说呢 - Is something wrong? - You tell me.
我没心情猜谜 I'm not in the mood for riddles.
刚听到匹兹堡那边的坏消息 I've had some bad news from Pittsburgh and...
我也有坏消息要说 Well, I had some bad news, too.
是什么 Well, what about?
跟透纳有关 It's to do with Turner.
新任温特顿夫人 The new Mrs. Winterton.
你说服她换边了吗 Did you persuade her to change sides?
没有 她根本没打算 No. She has no intention
支持大都会 of giving her support to the Metropolitan.
她是专程来嘲笑我的 She only came here to taunt me.
嘲笑你什么 Taunt you? With what?
你跟透纳究竟发生了什么事 What happened between you and Turner?
她跟你说了什么 回答我就对了 - What did she tell you? - Just answer the question.
没发生什么事 Nothing happened.
只是‥ Except...
只是什么 Except what?
某晚她溜进我房里 She came into my room one night.
起初我以为是你 At first, I thought it was you
开灯后才发现不是 but the lamp revealed that I was wrong.
是你的房间 还是床上 Was it just your room, or your bed?
在床上 My bed.
她穿着衣服吗 Was she clothed?
快回答 Answer me!
没穿 No.
我绝不会背叛你 But I would never betray you!
你已经背叛了 什么事都没发生 - You already have. - Nothing happened.
一发现不是你 我立刻下了床 as soon as I knew it wasn't you, I got out of bed.
那她呢 Did she?
她还待着 所以我叫她离开 Not immediately, so I ordered her to leave.
你为什么不告诉我 But you never told me!
因为没什么好说的 Because there was nothing to tell.
我听起来倒像有很多可说 It seems to me there was a great deal to tell.
我一点也不在乎她 She didn't matter to me in the least
也绝不可能跟她发生什么事 and there was no chance anything was going to happen.
我知道你很依赖她 But I knew you depended on her.
没道理因她一时犯傻 It didn't make sense to blow up the house
把全家搞得翻天复地 because of her stupid mistake.
所以你让一个女人服侍我 So, you allowed me to be waited on
帮我梳妆打扮 放洗澡水 to have my hair arranged, my clothes chosen
而她还跟我丈夫裸身共处过 my bath run, by a woman who had been naked with my husband?
太恶心了 It's disgusting!
抱歉 那是个不智的决定 I'm sorry if it was a bad decision.
什么决定 那叫背叛 Decision? I call that betrayal!
一五一十告诉我吧 Start at the beginning.
简而言之 It's easily told.
我刚到纽约时 是小有成就的银行家 I came to New York as a banker with some success.
婚后生下芙萝拉 I got married and Flora was born.
后来事业出了问题 Then things started to go wrong.
岳父要妻子先抛弃我 My wife's father wanted her to get rid of me
再继承遗产 before she inherited his fortunes.
他安排我们离婚 让我颜面尽失 He arranged that I should suffer the indignities of a divorce.
你没有反抗 And you let him?
他们势力比我强大 They were stronger than I was.
总之 给了妻子大笔赡养费后 Anyway, I gave my wife a large settlement
我便引退 自己疗伤止痛 and retired to lick my wounds.
后来呢 What happened next?
不幸被她父亲料中 I proved her father's instincts had been correct
我在57年经济危机散尽家产 when I lost everything soon after in the Panic of '57.
后来再也没与他们联络 And you never contacted them again?
我前妻并无意保持联系 My former wife was not keen to maintain a connection.
可想而知 I can imagine.
我暗中打听芙萝拉的学校 住处等等 I kept track of Flora's school, of where they lived, and so on.
我在时人杂志看到你们结婚的消息 I saw the marriage announcement in the Times.
你不能再重返银行界 Was there no possible return to banking?
或做生意吗 Or business, at any rate?
我曾宣告破产 所以没机会了 I'd been declared bankrupt, so, no.
已留下纪录 证明自己是失败者 I was a failure and it was official.
我身无分文 无家可归 I had no money, no home.
有段时间差点沦落街头 For a time, I was almost on the streets.
唯一接触过的工作是侍者 But the one job I understood was a valet's.
我也有过侍者 I'd had my own valet.
我知道工作内容 I knew what the work consisted of
找到雇主后再边做边学 so I found a place and learned the rest.
芙萝拉说她在街上看到你 Flora said she saw you in the street.
几年来我暗中看着她 I kept an eye on her for years.
真不该说破的 I shouldn't have revealed myself.
那天她招我过去 我该拒绝才是 She called me over, but I should have resisted.
我不知道你认识罗素先生 I was not aware that you knew the Russells.
不知道也是正常的 Why would you be?
我当初真该保持沉默 I ought to have kept silent.
但你没有 科利尔先生 才会陷入今天局面 But you didn't, Mr. Collyer. And there we have it.
我是银行家 夫人负责持家 I am a banker. My wife is a hostess.
她父亲却是侍者 And her father is a valet.
情况看来似乎是一团糟 It seems to me that we are in a pretty kettle of fish.
别忘了钢铁厂那个韩德森 Can I remind you that Henderson, the man who works at my steel mill
要过来吃午餐 is coming to luncheon?
你提醒邱区了吗 Have you warned Church? Yes.
说了 我们会大张旗鼓欢迎他 We're rolling out the red carpet for him.
他不是你的敌人吗 Isn't he your enemy?
是的话 我已做好准备 If he is, I'll be ready for him
我需要你协助 你也答应过我 but I need your help with him, and you did promise me.
-那是之前的事 -宝莎‥ That was before.
我的生意不会因我俩吵架而停摆 Bertha, my business doesn't stop when we fall out.
你这是在无理取闹 You're being jejune.
明知道什么也没发生 You know nothing happened.
我难道要为透纳的行为负责 Am I really to be held responsible for Turner's actions?
你要为自己的无为负责 You're responsible for your own inaction.
什么事 What is it?
-怎么了 -稍后再说好了 Yes?
现在就说 否则闭嘴 - I can come back later. - No, say it now or never.
赖瑞和我受邀观赏王尔德先生的新戏 Larry and I have been invited to a play by Mr. Oscar Wilde.
戏后有一场招待会 There's to be a reception afterwards.
谁邀请你们的 Who has invited you?
奥萝拉芬恩 Aurora Fane,
约翰亚当斯当我的男伴 though I'll be escorted by John Adams.
我可以去吗 - May I go?
想去就去吧 - If you wish.
-对 还有其他事吗 So, I can go? Just like that?
所以我可以去 -就这样 Yes. Is there anything else?
没有了 I suppose not.
谢谢 Thank you.
我一会就下楼 I'll be down in a few minutes.
怎么了吗 What's the matter?
你母亲累了 Your mother's very tired.
若你想听的话 我知道我‥ If it interests you, I do know that I...
我错了 因误判情况而犯错 made a mistake, a misjudgment, an error.
除此之外我已无话可说 But I do not know what else I can say on the subject.
邱区先生 我有事想请益 Mr. Church, may I ask your advice?
没问题 Of course.
是关于麦克尼尔先生 It's about Mr. McNeil.
-你的女婿 -没错 - Your son-in-law? - Exactly.
他开了条件给我 He has made me an offer.
午餐会面时他很无礼吗 How was the luncheon? Was he rude? No. He was very polite.
没有 他很客气
真没想到 You surprise me.
他说话很客气 提的条件则否 If his tone was friendly, his offer is not.
什么样的条件 What did it consist of?
他会给我一大笔退休金 Well, to start with, a generous pension.
他确实很有钱 事业也很成功 I believe he's a rich man. He's certainly a successful one.
他要我搬到西岸的旧金山去 He wants me to move to the West Coast to San Francisco.
旧金山也太远了 San Francisco is a long way away.
我会考虑 I would consider it
但我必须保证这辈子 but I am also to swear I will make no effort to see my daughter
绝不去找我女儿或孙子女 or her children for the rest of my life.
我的天啊 Goodness me.
麦克尼尔会代为传达近况 McNeil will inform me of their news.
我不许回信或写信给芙萝拉 I am not to answer his letters or seek to correspond with Flora.
但你从此不愁吃穿 But you would be taken care of?
他会帮我买栋公寓 开个银行帐户 An apartment will be purchased and bank account will be opened.
帮我僱用男仆与厨师 I'll have a manservant and a cook.
没错 我从此不愁吃穿 So yes, I will be taken care of.
听来挺合理的 I suppose that's not unreasonable,
毕竟他们在纽约有头有脸 given their position in New York.
没错 是挺合理的 No. It's not exactly unreasonable.
甚至可说非常慷慨 It could even be called generous.
就算如此 还是很绝情啊 But it is heartless, all the same.
韩德森先生 Mr. Henderson, I believe.
快请进 Come this way.
韩德森先生到了 Mr. Henderson.
您好 罗素先生 - Hello, Mr. Russell.
韩德森先生好 - Mr. Henderson.
欢迎欢迎 - Thank you for coming. - Yeah.
亲爱的夫人 这位是韩德森先生 My dear, may I present Mr. Henderson
远从匹兹堡来看我 who has traveled all the way from Pittsburgh to see me.
-罗素夫人 幸会 -欢迎光临 - Happy to know you, ma'am. - I want to welcome you to the house.
谢谢你不远前来 It's good of you to come.
感谢罗素先生邀请 It's good of Mr. Russell to ask me.
我从没来过这样的大宅 I've never visited a house like this before
以后应该也没机会了 and I don't suppose I ever will again.
那就请你当自己家吧 Then I hope you enjoy yourself.
饭店客房住得习惯吗 Was your hotel comfortable?
前所未有的舒适 I had never been so comfortable before.
午餐好了 我们快就座吧 Our luncheon is ready, so let us go in and eat it.
我可能会出远门几天 I might be going away for a few days.
你要去哪里 Where are you going?
阿拉巴马的塔斯基吉 Tuskegee, Alabama.
福顿先生和我要采访当地一间学校 Mr. Fortune and I are doing a story on a school down there.
凡瑞恩夫人已经准假了 I've already asked Mrs. van Rhijn's permission.
你说可能会 所以还不确定 You said, might be? So, it's not definite.
福顿先生尚未正式首肯 Mr. Fortune hasn't officially decided
但我给的理由很充分 but I've made a good case for myself.
我想他不会拒绝 I don't believe he'll refuse.
同行的还有谁 Who else is going?
他没有提到其他人 Well, he didn't mention anyone.
你不能跟一个男人单独到阿州去 Well, you can't go all the way to Alabama alone, with a man.
我说过了 这趟是公务旅行 I've told you. It is a professional trip.
福顿先生是我的雇主 And Mr. Fortune is my employer.
他也是男人 而且还结了婚 He's also a man and a married one.
我只是提醒你要小心 Be careful. That's all.
你一直都住在匹兹堡 Have you always lived in Pittsburgh?
我是纽泽西人 为工作搬到匹兹堡 No, I was born in New Jersey, but I moved there for the work.
内人是匹兹堡人 But my wife's from Pittsburgh.
你们结婚多久了 How long have you been married?
23年 Twenty-three years.
我们有六个孩子 We have six children to show for it.
天啊 六个 我们才两个就够忙了 Six! Heavens! We have all we can handle with two!
苏西也在工作 她是裁缝师 You know, Susie works, as well. She's a dressmaker.
真令人佩服 I admire her.
总是得养家活口 Well, we have to make ends meet.
带韩德森先生去你书房吧 Why not take Mr. Henderson through to the library?
那里你们讲话方便点 You can speak more freely there.
是真的 更糟的是 It's true! And the worst thing is
玛丽安让法兰丝其他老师相形失色 that Marian has shown up Frances's other teachers.
法兰丝认为其他老师都错了 In her opinion, they are wrong.
只有布鲁克老师是对的 Only Miss Brook can do right.
法兰丝是可爱的孩子 Frances is an adorable child
我得请她放开心胸 but I must ask her to be more tolerant.
预祝你成功 I wish you success, as she may insist you take all her lessons
她大概会要你教全部科目 而不只是水彩画 and not just watercolors.
你会水彩画 - You paint in watercolors? - She does.
没错 而且画得很好 - And very well. - Thank you.
-谢谢讚美 -真不错 How pleasing.
大多数人关注花俏的大师级油画 The showy oil paintings of the Masters normally get all the attention
但我私心偏爱水彩画 but watercolors have a champion in me.
我也是 我喜欢水彩画 Oh, me too. I just love them.
是哦 怎么没听你说过 Really, Ada? I'd never heard you say that.
说说你欣赏哪位画家 Which watercolorist do you especially favor?
我知道你想害我出糗 I know you mean to catch me out
我欣赏德国画家阿道夫孟佐 but it happens that I admire the German painter, Adolph Menzel.
很杰出的画家 A marvelous fellow.
他的画风很多变 He works in such a range of styles.
纽约好像有孟佐画展 Aren't they mounting a Menzel exhibition here?
这是什么 What is this?
是汤 Soup.
哪有人午餐喝汤 Soup? At luncheon?
好像是乔治四世 Wasn't it George IV who decreed that
下令禁止仕绅中午喝汤 no gentleman drinks soup in the middle of the day?
是新英格兰蛤蜊巧达浓汤 This is New England clam chowder.
给大家一个惊喜 I thought it would be a surprise.
我确实惊讶是怎么上桌的 And so, it is. How did it get on my table?
我跟鲍尔太太串通好 I conspired with Mrs. Bauer.
为什么 艾达伯母 And why was that, Aunt Ada?
前不久牧师说 The reverend mentioned
想在纽约寻找道地的巧达浓汤 that he was in search of an authentic bowl of chowder here in New York.
我确实说过 I believe I did.
因此我责成厨娘尝试 So, I set our cook to the task.
我们试了好几种食谱 We went through quite a few receipts.
希望结果令您满意 I hope you agree with her choice.
闻起来很美味 It smells delicious.
再继续聊下去 汤都要冷了 Well, if we discuss the soup any longer, it won't be fit to drink.
凡瑞恩夫人说的是 Quite right, Mrs. van Rhijn.
我很期待观赏王尔德的新戏 I'm looking forward to the evening with Oscar Wilde.
剧作我是没看过 I've read nothing about the play
之前去英国玩跟他有点交情 but we know him a little, from one of our visits to England.
不愧是娱乐界的人 He's such an entertaining man.
彼顿小姐也会参加宴会 And Miss Beaton will be in the party.
太好了 我喜欢她 I'm glad. I like her.
她好像也喜欢你 And I think she likes you
你得保证不能伤人家的心 but you must promise me not to break her heart.
你对我的评价未免太低了 You have a very poor opinion of me.
还有其他新英格兰菜要上桌吗 Are there more New England treats waiting in the wings?
没了 就汤而已 No, just the soup.
-艾达伯母真体贴 -我同意 - How kind of you, Aunt Ada. - I agree.
善解人意让世界更美好 And it is kindness that does the most good in the world.
说的真好 Well said, Reverend.
-还要酒吗 -多倒一点 - More wine, ma'am? - Definitely.
从何说起呢 Where shall we start?
就说说现况吧 Why not begin with the simple facts?
您底下工人每天工作12小时 Your average steel man works 12 hours a day
每周工作六天 工资少的可怜 six days a week, and all for a pittance.
铃响下班时已疲惫不堪 When the bell sounds their release, they're too broken
唯一能做的是吃饭睡觉 for anything more than a mouthful of food, and sleep.
充其量是活着 算不上人生 It's an existence, it's not a life.
我不能支付高于一般的工资 You know I cannot pay my workers more than the normal rate.
-为何不行 -打乱市场行情 百害而无一利 - Why not? - It would upset the markets which would not benefit anyone.
我敢说 工资会与时俱进 I daresay, in time, wages will rise,
这种事只能顺其自然 but you must let these things evolve.
那工作环境呢 And working conditions?
也只能顺其自然 Must they evolve, too?
任由工人在事故中受伤 While men are maimed and killed through bad practice?
人生本就危机四伏 韩德森先生 Life is a dangerous business, Mr. Henderson.
当年我出资兴建布鲁克林大桥 I am a patron of the Brooklyn Bridge
建筑过程有廿多人丧生 and more than 20 men have died in its construction.
难道宁可不搭桥 Would you rather it had not been built
让纽约市继续一分为二 and New York was forever a divided city?
-不是的 -当然不是 - No. - No.
不可能用软垫把世界包复住 We cannot make the world a padded cell.
只为了讨好工人 Even for the comfort of your workers.
如今局势不同以往 Things are changing, Mr. Russell.
工会声势浩大 且日益茁壮 Unions are stronger now.
你终归要面对 They will grow stronger still, and you will have to deal with them.
我是生意人 I am a man of business
我的钢铁厂 工厂和铁路公司 提供就业机会 and I have jobs to offer in my mills, in my factories
也支付市价工资 and on my railroads, and I pay the going rate.
要是有谁不想替我工作 那就让开 If your men don't want to work for me then I suggest they step aside,
很多人等着要做 and make way for the many who do.
找我来纽约就是说这些 Is that all you have to say? Did I come to New York to hear that?
不只如此 Not quite.
我让你担任管理职如何 What if I offered you a job in management?
-你愿意接受职位吗 -为何要接受 Is there any chance that you might take it?
让子女身体健康 不愁温饱 - Why would I? - To see your children
接受最好的教育 healthy, well-fed, and in the best schools.
令妻也可选择不工作 To let your wife give up her sewing if she so wishes.
而你成为社区仕绅 备受爱戴和敬重 To be a figure in the community, valued and admired?
-只有我一人得利 So, it would be to my own advantage?
-没错 这对劳工 - Indeed, it would. - And how would that help
有何助益 the workforce?
我懂你意思了 Oh, I see how it is.
你是手持火剑的大天使米迦勒 You are St. Michael with a flaming sword
而我是贪婪的强盗资本家 and I am just a greedy robber baron.
这话是你说的 不是我 You used the phrase, not I.
你真是个高手 You're very good, you know.
怪不得工会找你当发言人 They were right to send you as their spokesman.
我们唯一诉求就是请你做对的事 All we are asking is for you to do the right thing, Mr. Russell.
我愿意肯定你 I pay you the compliment of being sure
因为你知道什么是对的事 that you know what the right thing would be.
请相信我 I hope you believe me.
我相信你的诚意 韩德森先生 这我不怀疑 I believe in your sincerity, Mr. Henderson. I do.
你相信劳方会战胜资方吗 But do you believe workers can win against capital?
容我汗颜地说 我资本非常雄厚 Of which I blush to say I have a great deal.
现在知道为何找我来了 Now I understand why you brought me here.
你错了 罗素先生 恐怕你是误判局势 But you're wrong, Mr. Russell. You have miscalculated.
将来会是劳方的天下 The future is on our side.
先告辞了 And now I should go.
我往西最远只到过密西西比 Well, I've never been west of the Mississippi.
很想看看太平洋 I'd like to see the Pacific Ocean.
书上说加州冬天像此地的秋天 I read that the California winter is like our fall
但树叶不会变色 except the leaves don't change their color.
我会很怀念此景 I think I'd miss that.
你决定搬到旧金山了 You'll go to San Francisco, then?
还没决定 I'm still undecided.
被迫与女儿分离太奇怪了 况且还两次 It's a strange thing to be forced out of your child's life, twice.
第一次她年纪还小 不能怪她 Of course, when I first left she was just a little girl. It wasn't her fault.
你认为这件事她也有份囉 So, you think she had a hand in this proposition, then?
没经她同意就把岳父赶到西岸 Well, I can't imagine that he would banish her own father
未免说不过去 to the other side of the country without consulting her.
也是 I suppose.
很可能是她的意思 Maybe it was her idea.
丈夫只是照做 He just served as the executioner.
我没有子女 无法体会这种感受 I don't have children so I can't speak to how it must feel
无论如何你都是她的父亲 but you are still, and will always be, her father.
谁也改变不了 No one can change that.
或许吧 Maybe...
他们想尽一切办法抹煞这个事实 but they are certainly trying to erase any reminder of it.
一切还好吗 邱区先生 How did it go, Mr. Church?
我不习惯服侍粗手粗脚的工人 Well, I'm not used to serving horny-handed sons of toil
但还算顺利 but it seemed to go fairly well.
夫人出席了吗 Did the mistress turn up in the end?
出席了 而且很平静 Oh, yes.
好像没事发生过 Cool as a cucumber. Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
老爷夫人为何争吵 What's the argument about?
不知道 看来夫人还没原谅老爷 I don't know, but she hasn't forgiven him.
迟早会的 - Not yet. - She will.
工会那家伙回去了吗 Has the union man gone?
回去了 最好别再来 Yes, and good riddance.
工会只会把现状搞得更糟 All unions do is make everything worse than it was before.
我认为事情全貌并非如此 I'm not sure that's quite the whole picture, Mr. Church.
若成立了仆役工会 What if they started a servants' union?
你会加入吗 Would you join it?
我宁可被雷劈死 I'd rather be struck dead by lightning.
意思就是不会 I take it that's a no.
今天真是谢谢你 Thank you for today.
韩德森还是不肯让步 He hasn't backed down.
只希望他考虑一下我的提议 I can only hope I've given him something to think about.
那就好 Good.
你要上楼更衣吗 Are you going up to dress?
不了 我在房里用餐 No, I'll have a tray in my room.
他们兄妹会跟我一起用餐 还是你另有打算 Will the children dine with me or have you made other plans?
你我吵架 跟他俩无关 This is our quarrel, not theirs.
他们今晚去看戏 But they're both going to the theater tonight
晚餐你自己吃 so you'll eat on your own.
你还要气多久 How long will it be like this?
我也不知道 I don't know, George.
背叛不像感冒那么简单 Betrayal is not like a case of influenza.
倒像是我被判了死刑 No, it feels more like a death sentence.
给我机会弥补 Won't you allow me to make things up to you?
以皇帝之名 快开门 Open in the name of the Emperor!
弟兄们 大家快把脸蒙住 Brothers, be masked, all of you.
你们看到布告了吗 Have you not noticed the proclamation, fellows?
没有 Nay, sir.
给我看看你们的脸 Let me see who you are.
快把面罩拿掉 Take off those players' masks.
快退后 寇腾金将军 Stand back, I say, General Kotemkin!
皇太子殿下 His Imperial Highness, the Czarevitch!
这出戏是全世界最无聊 Is this the most boring play in the world
还是全纽约而已 or just in New York?
待会见到剧作家本人 You'd better think of something to praise
最好想些词来讚美他 when we meet the playwright later.
太难了 That's rather testy.
他怎会自以为文笔很好 I wonder why he thinks he can write.
他口才倒是很好 He does know how to talk.
我去年在一场餐宴认识他 I met him at a dinner when he was here last year
被他逗得可乐了 and I was in stitches.
他或许机敏 却不懂得节制 He may be witty, but clearly, he hasn't learned how to harness it.
你确定这是讚美之词 I'm not sure that's the compliment we're looking for.
晚安了 王子殿下 Well, good night, Your Highness.
晚安 Good night.
晚安了 将军 Good night, General!
是你救了我们 Saved! And by you!
弟兄们 现在相信我了吗 Brothers, do you trust me now?
我去帮你拿杯喝的 还有时间 Shall I fetch you a drink of something?
不用了 我们待着就好 - We've got time. - No, let's just stay here.
待会的派对你去吗 Are you going on to the party later?
奥萝拉都开口邀请了 我会去的 Well, Aurora's asked me, so I suppose so.
不然我们回你家去 Unless I take you back to your house?
没人会发觉的 No one would know.
这样做会很坏吗 Or is that a wicked suggestion?
很诱人的提议 It's certainly a tempting one.
我不太喜欢这出戏 你呢 I don't think too much of this play, do you?
待会见了他本人该说什么 What on earth are we going to say to Mr. Wilde?
我不去参加派对你会不开心吗 Would you mind terribly if I didn't come? To the party, I mean.
你不想看的话 第二场戏就可以离开了 We don't have to stay for the second act if you'd rather not.
你还好吗 But is everything all right?
法兰丝今天有点不开心 Oh, Frances had a difficult day.
我看她在课堂还好好的 你也知道 - She seemed fine in class. - Yes, but as you know
学校要举办母女茶会 the school is putting on a mother-daughter tea
-而她母亲已经‥ -我懂了 - and as her mother is... - I understand.
我也是自幼丧母 My own mother died when I was very young.
我骗自己我们父女过得很好 I fool myself that we're doing so well, Frances and I
突然出现情况 令我们措手不及 and then all of a sudden, life catches us out.
抱歉向你抱怨 I'm sorry to burden you.
-我倒有个提议 -请说 May I propose something?
跟她母亲比我差远了 - Of course. - I'm hardly a substitute
若能让她开心 我可以 but I'd be glad to accompany Frances to the tea
陪她去茶宴 if it would help.
那真是太好了 It would help a great deal.
法兰丝一定会欣喜若狂 And Frances would be delighted.
谢谢你 Thank you.
现在我欠你两次了 Now I am twice in your debt.
怎么说 What do you mean?
上次的网球赌注 The tennis wager.
我可没忘记 I haven't forgotten.
小罗素先生呢 回去了吗 Where is young Mr. Russell? Has he gone?
布连夫人头痛 他送她回家了 He's taken Mrs. Blane home. She had a headache.
真是好借口 他俩可乐了 How convenient. And what fun.
别误会 不是那样的 Oh, no, it's nothing like that.
奥斯卡王尔德先生到 Mr. Oscar Wilde.
感谢芬恩夫人 How very kind you are, Mrs. Fane
让我得以摆脱剧界束缚 to let me throw off the chains of the theater
一窥上流社会 暂时忘却我的恶名 so that I may step into society, as if I were not damaged goods.
王尔德先生客气了 承蒙您大驾光临 Oh, nonsense, Mr. Wilde. You honor us with your presence.
很开心庆祝您的新戏 We are delighted to celebrate you.
很开心有人为我庆祝 And how I love being celebrated.
我来介绍一下在场嘉宾 Now let me introduce you to some of our guests.
-这位是茉德彼顿小姐 -幸会 - This is Miss Maude Beaton. - Pleasure.
这位则跟您同名 我的表亲奥斯卡凡瑞恩 And your namesake, my cousin, Oscar van Rhijn.
我们叫奥斯卡的要团结 We Oscars must stick together.
您还习惯美国吗 How do you find America?
几乎所有东西都能适应 除了料理与壁纸 Well, I can manage almost everything, but the food and the wallpaper.
还满意演出结果吗 Were you pleased with how the play went?
观众本就难以取悦 没有负评就算好 An audience is seldom pleasing.It's a bonus if they don't disappoint.
您觉得呢 But what's your verdict?
这出戏很有意思 It was interesting.
"有意思"是一种推讬之词 "Interesting" is a weasel word
多半因为不想发表意见 and generally used to avoid giving a real opinion.
我很欣赏玛丽普斯科 I liked Marie Prescott.
她的美貌足以令人忽略台词 Yes, she's glamorous enough
我认为这出戏不会红 to take our minds off the text, but I don't think it'll run.
王尔德先生客气了 您一定会名扬四海 Well, you will run, Mr. Wilde. As long and as far as you care to.
-阁下是 -约翰亚当斯 幸会 - And you are? - John Adams.
你好吗 How do you do?
这位是新朋友葛莱蒂罗素小姐 And this is our new friend, Miss Gladys Russell.
希望您看得还开心 Well, I hope you enjoyed the play, Miss Russell.
应该说开心吗 Is "enjoy" the right word when a tsar is murdered
戏中沙皇遭暗杀 剧末女主角还自杀了 and the evening ends with the heroine stabbing herself?
年纪轻轻已成了剧评 So young, and already a critic.
你已经认识迷人的彼顿小姐 So, you've met the charming Miss Beaton?
看来好事已近 I suppose it was only a matter of time.
我很喜欢她 I like her very much.
你陪葛莱蒂罗素来的 Are you here with Gladys Russell?
以朋友身份 As a friend.
万一她不想只当朋友呢 What if she wants more from you?
恐怕她会失望 我已经有伴了 She'll be disappointed as I'm already spoken for.
我认识的吗 Have he and I met?
不认识 我不久会介绍给你 No. But I'll introduce you soon.
跟他在一起快乐吗 Are you happy with him?
奥斯卡 我为自己感到快乐 Oscar, I'm happy with me.
这正是我所追求的状态 That's as much as I need or hope for.
我真羨慕你 I rather envy you.
罗素小姐 Who is Miss Russell?
想必是当地名媛吧 One of your famous heiresses, I suppose.
您真有眼光 王尔德先生 How clever you are, Mr. Wilde.
她是同辈中最出色的名媛 Yes, one of the greatest of her year.
今天在场的名媛不少 Well, it seems we're in a room full of young heiresses.
您表亲看上了哪一个 Which is your cousin sounding out?
我不好意思承认 但您想得没错 I shouldn't admit it, but of course, you're right.
他属意的是茉德彼顿小姐 He has his eye on Miss Beaton now.
跟他说话的那位男士呢 And the young man with him?
约翰亚当斯 John Adams. He's an old friend of Oscar's.
他是奥斯卡的老朋友 Yes, indeed, yes.
显然是 情况越来越复杂了 And I can see that getting rather complicated.
我不懂您的意思 I don't know what you mean.
不懂才好 您的教养太高贵 Nor should you. You're far too well brought up.
听说正在进行 Have you not heard of the opera battle
的歌剧院之战吗 that's being waged at the moment?
听说了 但我不懂 Oh, indeed I have. Though it seems strange to me
位在百老汇和39街那栋黄砖啤酒厂 to wage a war over that yellow brick brewery
有什么好争的 on Broadway and 39th Street.
这么说有失公允 Is that fair?
你说的没错 No, you're quite right.
至少要令人开心 If it were actually a brewery
才配称为啤酒厂 someone might hope to get some pleasure from it.
我们为歌剧院感到自豪 We're proud of our opera, Mr. Wilde.
看来你们似乎对很多 不为传统社会接纳的事物感到自豪 It has been my experience that you are proud of many things that would not translate to the Old World.
传统就比较好吗 But is the Old World better?
不见得比较好 至少经得起时间考验 Not better, exactly, just more tested by time.
这么早就回来 You're back so soon?
不是夏天都待在纽波特 I thought you were in Newport all summer.
我跟邱区先生和老爷侍者华生一起去 I went with Mr. Church and Mr. Watson, the master's valet.
邱区先生也没料到我们会提早回来 We all came back much sooner than Mr. Church expected.
纽波特的房子是什么样子 What's the Newport house like?
非常宽敞且豪华 It's gracious and grand.
主子称之为小屋 在我看来一点也不小 They call it a cottage. It's not like a cottage to me.
市区倒挺不错的 I like the town, though.
我们不久会再过去 夫人只是回来办茶宴 We'll go back soon. We're only here for the mistress's tea party.
-茶宴还顺利吗 -我家夫人前任侍女透纳小姐 - How'd it go? - Do you know about Miss Turner?
她这会儿成了茶宴的宾客 The lady's maid? She turned up at the party, as a guest.
-什么 -是真的 - What? - It's true.
她嫁了个有钱的老地产大亨 She's married a rich, old, property man
人人都在谈这件事 and now she's the talk of the town.
罗素夫人怎么说 What does Mrs. Russell say to that?
她还能怎么说 There's not much she can say
我想她肯定是极为不高兴 but I don't think she likes it. Not one bit.
凡瑞恩夫人也会不乐意 Mrs. van Rhijn wouldn't like it much if Miss Armstrong left
哪天看到阿姆斯壮小姐回来 成了洛克菲勒夫人 and came back as Mrs. Rockefeller. Anyway, I'd better get back.
我该回去了 Hurry now, don't let them melt.
我来捐东西给慈善义卖会 I have some contributions for the rummage sale.
在里面吗 谢谢你 - In there? - Thank you so much.
-我明白 -你懂才怪 - I understand. - Not one bit!
布鲁克小姐 Miss Brook!
一切还好吗 Is everything all right?
道森先生对圣餐仪式不甚满意 Oh, Mr. Dawson had a low opinion of how we give out communion.
哪个地方不满意 What part of it was he criticizing?
他认为某些人不配领圣餐 The part where I offer communion to those he deems undeserving.
真是难为您了 What you must have to put up with.
某些上帝子民实在令人厌烦 Let's just say that some of God's children can be very tiresome.
您可以说这种话吗 Are you allowed to say that?
不能对你说吗 Can't I? To you?
当然可以 我们是朋友 Of course, you can. We're friends.
那就好 Good.
谢谢那天的午餐招待 I enjoyed luncheon.
十分感谢您请厨娘准备巧达浓汤 And I was truly touched that you had your cook prepare the chowder.
我很高兴你喜欢 Oh, I'm happy if you enjoyed it.
在座的都喜欢 I think everyone did.
大概除了凡瑞恩夫人 Except, possibly, Mrs. van Rhijn.
家姊真是的 Oh, my sister.
能取悦她的恐怕只有奇蹟 Pleasing her can be little short of a miracle.
我正好从事奇蹟这行 Well, I'm in the miracle business.
还记得谈水彩画 Do you remember, when we were talking about watercolors
你提到阿道夫孟佐 you mentioned Adolph Menzel?
记得 I do.
我找到画展的场地 I found the exhibition of his work that I mentioned.
在西42街的罗斯艺廊 It's at the Ross Gallery on West 42nd.
我们一起去看画展吧 I thought maybe we might go together.
我周六下午四点会到 I'll be there on Saturday, at four o'clock
您去了就届时见 in case you can join me.
我能把报导写得更好 Because I believe I could make the story better.
对本报和读者来说都是好事 Better for your paper, better for your readers.
我言尽于此 不会再多说了 That's all I have to say. I won't bother you anymore about it.
-火车票 -周一出发 - A train ticket? - We leave on Monday.
轻装简行 阿拉巴马很潮湿 Pack light. It's humid in Alabama.
我一直在等你回来 I've been waiting for you to get back.
有特别的原因吗 Why, particularly?
这周六我必须借故出门两小时 I need an excuse to leave the house for a couple of hours on Saturday.
有需要我帮忙跑腿的事吗 Are there any errands I could run?
应该没有吧 None that I can think of.
那我就自己出门 Well, I might just go anyway, by myself.
若爱格问起 就说我去‥布鲁明黛百货 If Agnes wonders where I am, you could say Bloomingdale's.
听起来神秘兮兮的 Well, this all sounds very cloak and dagger, Aunt Ada.
怎么回事 What's going on?
千万别让爱格知道 史考特小姐也别说 You mustn't say a word to Agnes, or even Miss Scott
弗特牧师邀我 but the Reverend Mr. Forte has invited me to meet him
到42街的艺廊会面 at an art gallery on 42nd Street.
这可有意思了 How intriguing.
也可能是我多想了 Then again, there may be nothing to it.
或许我不该去 Perhaps I shouldn't go.
别这么说 你当然要去 Nonsense. Of course, you must go.
我很想去 但爱格一问起 I want to, but Agnes will ask
我会支支吾吾的 and then I'll stumble all over myself.
我跟你一起去吧 Why don't I go with you?
可以吗 Would you?
我不会久留 I won't stay.
我陪你去 I'll just accompany you to the gallery
好让爱格姑妈不起疑心 to throw Aunt Agnes off the scent.
要是她问起就由我来回话 And if she asks where we're going, let me speak.
你愿意为了我这么做 You would do that? For me?
瞧你 真是老谋深算哪 Look who's scheming now, Aunt Ada.
少贫嘴了 Oh, stop.
我怎不知道你要回家 I didn't know you were coming home.
我回来拿夏天衣物 I need more of my summer clothes.
表示你整个夏天 I suppose that means you'll be staying on 61st Street
都会待在六一街了 through the end of the summer?
或许吧 Maybe.
我拿衣服是为了 But I need the clothes to visit
去塔斯基吉黑人学院 the new colored school in Tuskegee
校长正是布克华盛顿先生 headed by Mr. Booker T. Washington.
阿拉巴马的塔斯基吉 Tuskegee in Alabama?
不然还有别处吗 Is there another one?
你干嘛要去那里 Why do you have to go there?
福顿先生要我写报导 Mr. Fortune gave me an assignment.
主题是新落成的宿舍楼 We're covering the opening of a new dormitory.
这是千载难逢的好机会 It's a real opportunity.
我明白 但是‥ I understand that, but...
有问题吗 Then what's the matter?
问题是 The matter is that
你从未跨过梅森狄克森线 you have never been south of the Mason and Dixon line.
我们会借住华盛顿夫妇的家 We're staying with Mr. Washington and his wife.
房子很大 They have a big house
一些教师也住在那里 and some of the teachers from the school live there, too.
没问题的 It'll be all right.
太危险了 It's dangerous.
母亲 Mother.
我们来纽约是为了过不同的日子 We came to New York for a different kind of life
南方黑人不可能过的日子 a life that colored people can't have down there.
-你父亲知道这件事吗 Does your father know where you're going?
-还不知道 我也才刚确定 No, ma'am, it all just happened.
你脑子还没想清楚 But you don't seem to understand that once you cross that line
一旦跨过那条界线 就不再有人把你当人看待 you are no longer human.
千万别离开同行的人 Now, you must promise me to always stay with your group.
绝对不要单独行动 - Never go out alone.
我向您保证 - I can promise that.
别跟任何白人有眼神接触 Do not make eye contact with any white folks.
别跟他们说话 And don't speak to them.
再小的举止眼神都可能引起误会 Even the slightest gesture or look can be misconstrued.
您要我低声下气 You're telling me to be subservient?
我是在教你生存之道 I'm telling you how to stay alive.
要是由得了我 肯定不让你去 And if it were up to me, you would not be going at all.
我非去不可 Well, I have to go.
这对我很重要 I need this.
要让外界看到 黑人青年 I need to show the world that there are young colored people
也能有所作为 really making something of their lives.
给了我人生目标 It gives me a purpose.
唯有全神投注工作 And if I can put my whole self into my work
才不会想起我那可怜的儿子 then I won't have a spare second to think about my poor boy.
我的宝贝女儿 Oh, my darling girl. I know.
我明白‥ I know.
我很难过你得承受这种事 I am so sorry you are going through this,
但请听我一言 but listen to me.
南方不是寻找慰借的地方 The South is no place to find refuge
希望你再考虑一下 and I wish you'd reconsider.
看来公爵两周后会到美国 Apparently, this duke is arriving in two weeks' time
搭乘丘纳公司旗下的皇家邮轮 aboard the RMS Servia, one of the Cunard ships.
你在丘纳有人脉吧 You have contacts at Cunard?
是有两个 A couple.
-你是指白金汉公爵 -就是他 This is the Duke of Buckingham? Yes.
看能不能打听到他来美国的住所 Can you find out where he'll be staying when he gets here?
要用什么理由 What reason would I give?
不能说是公事吗 Well, can't you say it's business?
这不是公事吧 But it's not business, is it?
万一给他知道了 我又说不出理由 If word got back to him and I couldn't justify it
岂不有失颜面 how would that make me look?
我们对他知道多少 What do we know about him, anyway?
他是货真价实的爵爷 We know he's a real duke and
透纳打算用他向全纽波特炫耀 Turner means to use him to dazzle Newport.
还需要知道什么 What else do we need to know?
我还是不懂 I still don't understand.
我打算让透纳气得牙痒痒的 I want to put Turner's nose out of joint.
你得相信我 You have to trust me.
我相信你 I do trust you.
反倒是你没那么相信我 More than you trust me, I think.
那就证明给我看 Then prove it.
丘纳公司一定有人帮得上忙 There must be someone at Cunard who could help.
要是我办成的话 And if I succeed...
你愿意原谅我吗 will I be forgiven for my failings?
去打听公爵消息向我报告 Find the duke, get me an introduction
之后再看着办 and then we'll talk.
知道了 Very well.
我尽力就是 I'll do my best.
我告诉他错看我们了 I told him he was wrong about us.
还说无论如何 I told him we're united
我们都会团结 and that we'll stand together no matter what.
-说得好‥ -他听进去了吗 - Hear, hear. - But did he listen to you?
他打算收买我 Oh, he thought I could be bought off
却碰了一鼻子灰 but I think he knows now that won't happen.
下一步是什么 So, what's next?
他首先会分化我们 All right, his first objective will be to divide us.
-买通一些人 -正是 - He'll offer some of us money. - Exactly.
克雷先生肯定会 No doubt Mr. Clay'll come up with more money
捧着大把钞票来 for the catchers and roughers
尤其针对非移民的美国人 And more for the American-born over the immigrants.
想尽办法分化我们的力量 They'll do anything they can to split us into factions.
借以击败我们 And they'll use that to destroy us.
我们绝不会让他们得逞 No, they won't, 'cause we won't let them succeed.
罗素先生知道我们打算罢工吗 Does Mr. Russell know we're prepared to strike?
他知道有此可能 - Is he ready for that? - He knows we could strike
但他绝不会因此退让 but he won't be gentle in his arguments
我能保证 I can promise you that.
罗素先生不好对付 Mr. Russell's not a weak man
要认清这一点 and there's no point pretending otherwise.
那就要做好准备 Then we should prepare.
时机一到就进行罢工 And when the time comes, we must be ready to strike.
-我同意‥没错 - Right. - Ready to fight.
-做好抗争准备 - I'm with you. - Exactly.
就算一死也在所不惜 And if it comes, we have to be ready to die.
对 说的没错‥ - That's right! - We do.
没错 Yeah, that's right.
他已经到了 He's here.
我出去散步 你们慢慢看画 I'll go for a walk outside while you enjoy the exhibition.
布鲁克小姐 真高兴你来了 Miss Brook. How lovely to see you.
抱歉我迟到了 I'm sorry I'm late.
没有啊 你很准时 But you're not. You're right on time.
我不确定你会不会来 I just started to look at the pictures
所以开始看画了 because I wasn't certain you'd come.
这幅画真好看 你说是吧 Oh, I like this one, don't you?
色彩鲜豔而繁复 It's so vibrant and busy.
孟佐一向深居简出 身材矮小 Menzel is quite a solitary man, you know.
才四呎六吋高 头却很大 Very short, literally four-foot-six
或许是他自卑的原因 with a large head, which may have made him shy.
他一辈子未婚 He certainly never married.
但我们都没资格批评他这一点 But we mustn't hold that against him.
说得我真想认识他 You make me wish I'd known him.
他还在世 但是很老了 He's still alive, but quite old now.
或许老到无法结交新朋友 Maybe too old to make new friends.
尤其是第五大道的单身女性 Especially single ladies from Fifth Avenue.
他最崇拜军事天才腓特烈大帝 His hero is Frederick the Great
这点倒是挺怪的 that military genius. Which seems odd, really.
腓特烈大帝常出现在他的画作 But Frederick figures in many of his pictures.
我好欣赏你的知识渊博 I so enjoy your knowledge.
希望这么说不会太踰矩 If that doesn't sound too forward.
我认为这是极大的讚美 I take it as a great compliment.
你来这里见我 令姊怎么想 What did your sister make of your agreeing to meet me here?
这个啊‥你也见过爱格 Oh, well... you've met Agnes.
她不论对什么都有意见 She always has an opinion at the ready.
希望她对我有好印象 I hope she has a good opinion of me.
还用说吗 Of course.
我俩都很庆幸您派驻本教区 We're both so grateful you were appointed.
真是再好不过了 Really, we couldn't be more pleased.
我也感到庆幸 布鲁克小姐 I'm grateful, too, Miss Brook.
原因有很多 For several reasons.
你看这幅 多美呀 Oh, look at this one. Isn't it lovely?
待续