对你来说永远不够
This world was never enough for you, was it, Coop?Interstellar · 2014 — 第 3 / 13 章 · 4'53" · B2
库珀临走前想跟女儿墨菲和好,墨菲却赌气说 Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay(那我就让它一直坏着,好逼你留下)。他转述妻子的话,说父母是 the ghost of your children's future(孩子未来的幽灵)。想学怎么谈离别、怎么劝人把话说开,这些台词句句戳心。
《星际穿越》里,库珀出发执行任务前,想跟女儿墨菲好好谈谈:一句 I need to fix this before I go(我得在走之前把这件事修好),换来墨菲赌气的 Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay(那我就让它一直坏着,好逼你留下)。一位长辈劝他别拖着,还说 Tom will be all right, but you got to make things right with Murph(汤姆会没事,但你得把和墨菲的事处理好)。他讲起妻子的话——we're just here to be memories for our kids(我们只是来成为孩子记忆的),还有一句 Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future(一旦你成了父母,你就是孩子未来的幽灵)。想聊亲情、离别、怎么跟家人把话说开,这些表达很实用。
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留意这几个短语
make things right withthe ghost of your children's futurefigured outcome along
本章短语
孩子未来的幽灵a parent remembered only as a past presence
库珀转述妻子的话:成为父母后,你就成了孩子未来记忆里的一个幽灵。
Keep working late every night and you'll end up the ghost of your children's future.每晚都加班到很晚,你就会成为孩子未来的幽灵。
把关系或局面修复好
弄明白、解出来
(孩子)出生、到来;(机会等)出现
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对你来说永远不够
This world was never enough for you, was it, Coop?生来就该做
What, because heading out there is what I feel like I was born to do?出于错误的理由
Don't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason.做这件事的原因
The why of the thing, that's the foundation.救不了我们
Well, next year ain't gonna save us, nor the one after that.已经有一阵子了
This world's a treasure, Donald, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.注定不该死在这里
Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.born 结尾的 /n/ 常连成 /bɔːrnɒn/ 接住 on 的元音,两个词黏在一起,中间别留停顿。
Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.把关系或局面修复好
岳父提醒库珀,儿子那边不必担心,但必须把和女儿墨菲之间的裂痕处理好。
Tom will be all right, but you got to make things right with Murph.你不知道能否兑现的承诺
Without making promises you don't know you can keep.省略关系词的结构:Without making promises you don't know you can keep. 里 promises 后面直接接 you don't know you can keep,中间省掉了关系代词,用主谓结构接上去。这种省略在口语里很常见,听起来更紧凑。整句是提醒:别许下自己都没把握的承诺。
Without making promises you don't know you can keep.走之前把这件事修好
I need to fix this before I go.成为孩子的记忆
...we're just here to be memories for our kids."孩子未来的幽灵
库珀转述妻子的话:成为父母后,你就成了孩子未来记忆里的一个幽灵。
Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.带我去的那个人
Murph, they chose me. You saw. You're the one who led me to them.正因如此你才不能走
That's exactly why you can't go.why 引导的表语从句:That's exactly why you can't go. 里 why you can't go 作 is 的表语,说明「这就是你不能走的原因」。why 从句用陈述语序,exactly 放在前面加强语气,把前面那条理由钉死。
That's exactly why you can't go.弄明白、解出来
墨菲兴奋地告诉父亲,自己终于解开了书架上那个信息,得出的词是「留下」。
I figured out the message.figured 结尾的 /d/ 在美音里常闪一下,紧接 out 的元音,常连成 /ˈfɪɡjərd aʊt/ 一气呵成。
I figured out the message.流逝得更慢
...time's gonna change for me. It's gonna run more slowly.听见了吗
Forever. You hear me?love you forever 里重音落在 forever 上,前面 love you 轻快带过,最后一个词拖长,才显出分量。
I love you forever, and I'm coming back.Don't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason.别因为事情本身是对的,就相信出发的理由也是对的。 它把「对不对」和「为什么」拆成两件事:结果正确,不能替动机背书。一句箴言式的话,却直接对准了库珀离开的私心,也是全片反复回响的尺子。
Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.人类生于地球,却注定不必死在这里。 用一个前提加一个否定,把「离开」说成使命而不是逃跑。它把脚下的土地和头顶的星空连成命运,也替全片的选择立了根。
Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.一旦你成了父母,你就是孩子未来的幽灵。 把亲子关系说成时间里的错位:你活在他们前面,于是只能以记忆的形式留在他们的未来。一句话讲清了离别、老去和爱,是全片最沉的一句。
Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay.那我就让它一直坏着,好逼你留下。 孩子用一个坏掉的书架当筹码留住父亲,把「科学的异常」变成「情感的绑架」。这句话又狠又软,是父女冲突里最让人记住的反击。
字面是「孩子未来的幽灵」,指父母一旦离开或老去,就只活在孩子的回忆里,不再参与他们的现在。戏里用这句话说:做父母,就是提前成为孩子记忆里的人。
make things right with someone。戏里一个人劝对方 you got to make things right with Murph,就是让他去跟墨菲修好关系。跟谁闹僵了都可以用它。
意思是「弄明白、解出来」。戏里墨菲说她 I figured out the message,也就是她把书里藏的信息解了出来。想通了、查清楚了都能用。
指孩子「出生、到来」。戏里说 After you kids came along,意思就是你们几个孩子出生之后。come along 也能指机会、事情出现。
这是孩子在赌气:你非要走,那我就让这台机器一直坏着,好逼你留下。broken 指「坏的」,keep it broken 就是把坏的留着不修,语气又倔又舍不得。
下一章 · 第 4 章Ninety percent it is飞船升空前往耐力号
第 1 章follow in my footsteps女儿查幽灵,父亲聊接班
第 2 章the best-kept secret in the world误入秘密航天基地
正在看 · 第 3 章the ghost of your children's future临走前与女儿道别
第 4 章Ninety percent it is飞船升空前往耐力号
第 5 章wasting your breath为人类挑选新家园
第 6 章pull it off算清时间账再定航线
第 7 章the stuff of life巨浪后争吵与和解
第 8 章let go听儿女多年的留言
第 9 章raise someone from the dead冰封星球上唤醒曼恩
第 10 章sorry for your loss揭穿计划只是骗局
第 11 章one last crack at执意回家与人性根基
第 12 章resist the temptation伪造数据被当场揭穿
第 13 章home sweet home醒来得知站以女儿命名