疯狂情景会话真功夫 52.Big Willy

BIG WILLY
[00:00.55]大个子威利
[00:01.10]He stood six feet, nine inches tall and weighed in at 310 pounds.
[00:04.23]他身高六英尺九英寸，体重三百一十磅。
[00:07.37]Rumor had it that he’d killed a man just with his bare hands - just squeezed the life out of him.
[00:10.31]有传言说他曾经徒手杀过一个人——光用手就把那人捍得三魂出窍。
[00:13.24]It was the kind of reputation that gained respect in the rough city where he grew up.
[00:15.84]在他生活的乌糟城市里，这种传言多少给他增添了一些名声，赢来尊敬。
[00:18.44]At fifteen, Willy was already a legend.
[00:20.56]年仅十五岁，威利就已经是个传奇了。
[00:22.67]Willy and I had played together since we both wore diapers, although we were the unlikeliest of pairs.
[00:25.81]尽管在外形上极不相衬，威利和我却是打从系尿布时就玩在一块了。
[00:28.94]He was a massive black giant and I was a pudgy little redhead.
[00:31.32]他是个大黑块头，而我是个红头发的小矮胖子。
[00:33.70]We both worked at the factory in town-I in the office, Willy on the dock. Even the hardened men who worked alongside Willy feared him.
[00:38.79]我们都在城里的工厂工作——我在办公室，威利在码头上。同在一起工作的哪怕是最强硬的人都对威利心存畏惧。
[00:43.89]He saw me home safely from work and I kept his secret that each night,
[00:46.43]下班后他送我安全到家，我则为他保守秘密：每天晚上，
[00:48.98]instead of cruising the city streets, beating people up,
[00:50.81]他不是在城里的街上晃荡，痛殴他人，
[00:52.64]he went home and lovingly lifted his elderly grandmother out of the chair she was confined to and placed her in bed.
[00:56.56]而是回到家中，把年迈的祖母从锢坐的椅子上充满爱心的抱起来，安顿好在床上。
[01:00.47]He would read to her until she fell asleep, and in the morning, he would comb her thin, gray hair,
[01:03.65]他会给她念书，直到她入睡。早晨他为她梳理稀疏、灰白的头发，
[01:06.82]dress her in the beautiful nightgowns he bought with the money he made at the can company, and place her back in the chair.
[01:10.22]给她穿上漂亮的睡衣——那是他用在罐头公司赚来的钱买的，然后再把她放回椅子上。
[01:13.61]Willy had lost both his parents to drugs, and it was just the two of them now.
[01:16.16]威利的父母因吸毒而双亡，现在就只剩下他和祖母俩人了。
[01:18.71]He took care of her, and she gave him a reason to stay clean. Of course, there wasn’t an ounce of truth to the rumors¹, but Willy never said otherwise.
[01:23.57]他照顾着她，而她则是他保持整洁的原因。当然，流言蜚语不过是流言蜚言，威利却从没有声明过什么。
[01:28.42]He just let everyone believe what they believed, and although everyone wrote him off as just another street hood²,
[01:31.72]他只是让人们相信着他们所相信的，尽管每个人都认为他是个无药可救的街头混混，
[01:35.01]no one hassled him either.
[01:35.97]可也没人敢惹他。
[01:36.94]One day, in Western Civilization class, our teacher read aloud an excerpt³ from Machiavelli’s The Prince:"Since love and fear cannot exist together, if we must choose between them,
[01:42.92]一天，在西方文化课上，老师大声朗读了马基雅维思的《王子》：“既然爱与怕不能并存，如果我们必须选择其一，
[01:48.90]it is far safer to be feared than loved."
[01:50.56]选择被人怕要比选择被人爱更安全。”
[01:52.22]I look at Willy and winked⁴. "That’s you," I mouthed. He just smiled.
[01:54.70]我看着威利眨眨眼。“你就是，”我做着嘴形说。他只是微微一笑。
[01:57.19]The next day, I lingered a few minutes longer than usual at school and Willy went on without me.
[02:00.36]第二天，我在学校逗留了比以往较长一些的时间，威利没等我就走了。
[02:03.53]Just around the corner from the can company, fire trucks lined the street and a thick blanket of smoke covered the sky.
[02:07.43]就在罐头公司外的拐角处，消防车在街上排开，天空笼罩着一片浓烟。
[02:11.32]A small child lay wrapped in a familiar red - and - black checkered⁵ flannel⁶ shirt,
[02:14.23]一个小孩给裹在一件看起来很眼熟的红黑格子法兰绒衬衫里，
[02:17.14]held by a tearful woman. She was talking to a fireman and a reporter form the evening news.
[02:20.43]被一个泪流满面的妇女抱着。她在向消防员和晚间新闻的记者诉说。
[02:23.73]"This big guy heard the baby crying, and came right in and got us," she said through joyful⁷ tears.
[02:26.64]“这个大个子听到孩子的哭声，就冲进来救出了我们，”她淌着欢喜的眼泪。
[02:29.55]"He wrapped his shirt around the baby, and when the sirens came, he ran off down the street."
[02:32.49]“他用身上穿的衬衫包着孩子，消防车的鸣笛一响，他就沿着街道跑走了。”
[02:35.43]"Did you get his name?" the reporter asked.
[02:36.85]“你知道他和名字吗？”记者问道。
[02:38.28]"Yes, sort of," the woman replied. "He said it was Machiavelli."
[02:40.51]“似乎知道，”妇女笑道。“他说他叫马基雅维里。”
[02:42.74]That evening, the paper ran the story offering a reward to anyone with information about the identity of the Good Samaritan.
[02:46.91]晚上，报纸刊登了这个故事，提供酬金寻找这位做好事的人的消息。
[02:51.08]No one came forward.
[02:52.30]没人前去领取酬金。
 

1 rumors   

n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷

参考例句：

• Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 hood   

n.头巾，兜帽，覆盖；v.罩上，以头巾覆盖

参考例句：

• She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
• The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。

3 excerpt   

n.摘录，选录，节录

参考例句：

• This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
• Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗？

4 winked   

v.使眼色( wink的过去式和过去分词 )；递眼色（表示友好或高兴等）；（指光）闪烁；闪亮

参考例句：

• He winked at her and she knew he was thinking the same thing that she was. 他冲她眨了眨眼，她便知道他的想法和她一样。
• He winked his eyes at her and left the classroom. 他向她眨巴一下眼睛走出了教室。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 checkered   

adj.有方格图案的

参考例句：

• The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.林地光影交错。
• He’d had a checkered past in the government.他过去在政界浮沉。

6 flannel   

n.法兰绒；法兰绒衣服

参考例句：

• She always wears a grey flannel trousers.她总是穿一条灰色法兰绒长裤。
• She was looking luscious in a flannel shirt.她穿着法兰绒裙子，看上去楚楚动人。

7 joyful   

adj.欢乐的，令人欢欣的

参考例句：

• She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments.她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。
• They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion.他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。