Chapter 18 of 19 · 5'25"
The House Always Wins 庄家必赢IMDb ↗
地狱里他说来回涨跌,最后总是庄家赢
Deconstructing Harry · 1997
Learning settings
The story so far
Everything you need before watchingHarry finds his father in hell, condemned for treating birth as a capital crime. Harry wants heaven for him; the old man wants a Chinese restaurant. Then Harry faces the devil, who abducted Fay. The devil claims seniority in sin, loves the heat, and would rather rule below than serve above. Life is Vegas: the house always wins. Cut to Harry arrested for kidnapping, with a prostitute, marijuana, and a gun.
Chapters
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Review right after watchingthe house always wins
庄家到头来必赢
it fucks up the ozone layer
把臭氧层给毁了
fucking
他妈的、该死的
get away with it
做了坏事却没事
back off
收手、退一步
whores
妓女(极贬)
unconscionably
丧尽天良地
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“You're up, you're down, but in the end, the house always wins.”
你有赢有输,可到头来,庄家必赢。
赌场规矩一句话把人生说死,听着像劝,其实是宣判。
in the end, the house always wins
说系统比个人更硬、再努力也改不了规则时。
You win some, you lose some, but the house still wins. / In the long run, the casino takes it all.
literary
up / down 对打,house 和 wins 落下去。
“Better to rule down here than to serve in heaven, right?”
宁可在下面称王,也不去天堂当差,对吧?
把弥尔顿摔成干杯句,叛逆说得像常识。
Better to + 动词 than to + 动词
宁可当小头目、也不去大地方听喝时。
I'd rather run this shop than fetch coffee upstairs. / Better to call the shots here than wait in line up there.
literary
Better 拉住,heaven 上扬再甩问句。
“I'm more powerful than you because I'm a bigger sinner.”
我比你更强,因为我是更大的罪人。
把败德说成战力,逻辑歪得干净。
more + 形容词 + because + 比较级
用一个更糟的特质反过来压过对方时。
I outrank you because I've broken more rules. / I'm worse, so I'm stronger.
informal
powerful 和 sinner 都重,because 轻轻滑。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageI'm more powerful than you because I'm a bigger sinner. Because you're a fallen angel, and I never believed in God or heaven or any of that stuff. I'm strictly, you know, quarks and particles and black hole, you know. All the other stuff is junk to me. And also I do terrible things. I've cheated on all my wives, and none of 'em deserved it. I sleep with whores, I drink too much, I take pills and I lie and I'm vain, I'm cowardly and prone to violence, you know. I once almost ran over a book critic with my car, but swerved at the last second.
我比你更强,因为我是更大的罪人。 因为你是堕落天使,而我压根不信上帝、天堂,那些玩意儿我全不信。 我只信,你知道,夸克、粒子、黑洞,就这些。 其余那些对我来说全是垃圾。 而且我还干坏事。 我所有妻子我都出过轨,她们没一个该受这个。 我嫖,我喝多,我吃药,我撒谎,我虚荣,我懦弱,还动不动就动手,你知道。 有一次我差点开车轧死一个书评人,但最后一秒打了方向。
I'll tell you something, Harry. I love it. I love it here. I wouldn't be anyplace else. You know, I've been offered a lot of jobs in your world, but why should I be an employee? Here I'm my own boss, and I'm free.
我跟你说,哈里。 我爱这儿。我真爱这儿。 别处我哪儿也不去。 你知道,你们那个世界给过我不少工作,可我为什么要去给人打工? 在这儿我自己当老板,我自由。
