陨落星辰第二季 第21期:了解近况

 　　Checked you out from head to toe. You seem perfectly¹ normal.

　　已经彻底检查过了，你看起来很正常

　　Well, what if it wasn't something physical but psychological²?

　　如果不是身体上而是心理上的问题呢

　　Could they have given me some kind of posthypnotic suggestion?

　　他们会不会对我做了催眠暗示

　　And turned you into what- a sleeper³ agent?

　　然后把你变成什么，潜伏间谍吗

　　I don't think anyone, even a supposedly advanced race of aliens⁴, could get Tom Mason to turn against his boys.

　　我认为没有任何人，即使是可能比我们更先进的外星人，能让汤姆·梅森与他的孩子们为敌

　　You've got a lot of faith in a man who walked onto a spaceship of his own free will.

　　你对一个自愿进入外星人飞船的人还真有信心啊

　　They threatened to take Ben away.

　　他们威胁你要带走本

　　It was a lie. And I fell for it.

　　他们骗了我，我还真信了

　　I left my boys to fend⁵ for themselves for the last three months.

　　我已经丢下孩子们三个月，不管不顾

　　Tom, you have to believe, I- I tried to be there for them. Oh, I know.

　　汤姆，你要相信，我一直设法帮他们。我知道

　　Truth is, your boys are amazingly resilient.

　　事实上，你的孩子们适应性很好

　　If anything, they've grown stronger. And you?

　　甚至变得越来越强。那你呢

　　陨落星辰第二季

　　I'm alive. Can't say that for most of us.

　　至少我还活着。我们这大多数人就做不到

　　Lost a lot of really good people right here, right on this table.

　　就在这里，在这张手术台上死了很多好人

　　The worst part of it is, I have trouble remembering what they looked like, what they sounded like.

　　最糟糕的是，我都无法记起他们的长相和声音

　　They're just fading⁶ away. So I started pinning up their pictures, trying to hang on to them.

　　他们就这样死了。于是我开始贴出他们的照片，想牢记他们

　　Uncle Scott. Rick didn't make it?

　　斯科特叔叔，里克没撑过来？

　　I don't know. One day he was there. Next day, he was gone.

　　不知道。前一天他还在的，第二天就消失了

　　If you're worried about Ben, do not be. Ben hates the Skitters.

　　如果你担心本的话，大可不必。本憎恨迅猎兽

　　Weaver⁷ says he's one of our best fighters.

　　韦弗说他是我们最好的战士之一

　　Yeah, but he's still got those spikes⁸ in his spine⁹.

　　但他脊柱上还留有刺钉

　　And the crusty skin is spreading.

　　而且硬皮正在扩散

　　If we had an x-ray, I could find out what's going on inside of him,

　　要是有X光，我就能搞清楚他的身体是怎么回事

　　but until I get my hands on a working machine, there's no way to know.

　　但在找到X光机器之前，我们都无从得知

　　Just like there's no way to know what's going on inside of me, despite what you or Weaver or I would like to believe.

　　就像你也不知道我怎么回事，不管韦弗或者你我怎么看

1 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

2 psychological   

adj.心理的，精神上的

参考例句：

• Work also provides psychological well-being.工作还能使人身心健康。
• The psychological advantage of direct control is impressive.直接控制所收到的心理效果很大。

3 sleeper   

n.睡眠者，卧车，卧铺

参考例句：

• I usually go up to London on the sleeper. 我一般都乘卧车去伦敦。
• But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. 但首先他解释说自己睡觉很沉。

4 aliens   

n.外国人( alien的名词复数 )；外侨；局外人；外星人

参考例句：

• We deport aliens who slip across our borders. 我们把偷渡入境的外国人驱逐出境。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Both women had hired illegal aliens for child care. 两个女人都曾雇过非法入境者照看孩子。 来自辞典例句

5 fend   

v.照料（自己），（自己）谋生，挡开，避开

参考例句：

• I've had to fend for myself since I was 14.我从十四岁时起就不得不照料自己。
• He raised his arm up to fend branches from his eyes.他举手将树枝从他眼前挡开。

6 fading   

n. 褪色, 枯萎, 衰退 动词fade的现在分词

参考例句：

• Hopes of a peace settlement are now fading. 和平解决的希望越来越小了。
• The king is fading fast. 国王的身体很快就衰弱了。

7 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

8 spikes   

n.穗( spike的名词复数 )；跑鞋；（防滑）鞋钉；尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 )；偷偷地给某人的饮料加入（更多）酒精（ 或药物）；把尖状物钉入；打乱某人的计划

参考例句：

• a row of iron spikes on a wall 墙头的一排尖铁
• There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping. 监狱墙头装有一排尖钉，以防犯人逃跑。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 spine   

n.脊柱，脊椎；(动植物的)刺；书脊

参考例句：

• He broke his spine in a fall from a horse.他从马上跌下摔断了脊梁骨。
• His spine developed a slight curve.他的脊柱有点弯曲。