真爱至上 · 蒋怡

往期回顾 | 为你读英语美文·第115期：真爱至上

主播：蒋怡

坐标：北京

这是一出10个爱情故事窜成的喜剧杂烩，是每年圣诞和新年都必回顾的电影Love Actually《真爱至上》。

这是为你读英语美文的第115期节目，首播于2015年12月30日，2017即将结束，我们即将迎来2018，不论你是经历风雨终见彩虹，还是千帆过尽仍未如愿，都请你千万记住：Love actually is all around.

机场似乎是上演最多离别和重逢的地点。影片中不少情节，也都发生在机场，电影开头为了营造暖心的气氛，所以有了下面这段让我，可能也让你至今依然惦念的话。

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of theworld, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.

每当我对世局倍感忧虑时，就会想到希思罗机场的入境闸口。

General opinion makes out that we live in aworld of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. Seems to me that love iseverywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy but it's alwaysthere.

人们认为世界充满仇恨与贪婪，但我却不同意。在我看来爱无处不在，虽然未必来的轰轰烈烈，但是爱永远存在。

Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters,husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hitthe Twin Towers, none of the phone calls from people on board were messages ofhate or revenge, they were all messages of love.

父子，母女，夫妻，男朋友，女朋友，老朋友，当飞机撞上世贸大厦时，临终打出的电话，谈的不是报复，而都是爱。

If you look for it, I've got a sneakyfeeling you'll find that love actually is all around.

如果你肯留意，你会发现爱其实无处不在。

关于爱，影片中有很多演绎。

爱可以是放手。中年男子Daniel，在妻子葬礼上，回忆爱妻与他谈论关于死亡的有趣对话，尽可能抑制悲伤最后与妻子说再见。悼词结束后响起的那首70年代调调的Bye Bye Baby，让我觉得，Daniel是真的下定决心要告别伤痛let it go。

Jo and I had a lot of time to prepare forthis moment. Some of her requests, for instance, that I should bring ClaudiaSchiffer as my date to the funeral, I was confident she expected me to ignore.But others she was pretty damn clear about. 

乔和我为此刻准备了很久。她有一些要求，比如出席她的葬礼时，我的女友应该是克劳迪娅·雪佛（德国超模），我知道她希望我无视这个要求，但其他要求她说的很明确。

When she first mentioned what's about tohappen, I said, "Over my dead body." And she said, "No, Daniel,over mine."

她第一次说葬礼的事时，我说“除非我死了”，她说：“不，丹尼尔，除非我死了”

And as usual, my darling girl... and Sam'sdarling mum was right. So she's going to say her final farewell to you notthrough me but, inevitably, ever so coolly, through the immortal genius of theBay City Rollers.

和往常一样，我最爱的姑娘…萨姆亲爱的妈妈说对了。所以她最后的告别不是通过我，而是无可避免地，酷酷地，通过不朽的天才湾市摇滚客（70年代英国最红的偶像团体）传达。

爱是节制。

腼腆的Mark暗恋好友的未婚妻Juliet，却不敢表达只能假装不喜欢她。偶然机会Juliet发现Mark拍摄的婚礼画面全都是她的身影。Mark在平安夜把想对她说的话写在卡片上，一张张展示给她看，然后安心离开。这大概是影片中我觉得最为感人的画面——虽然不能拥有你，但至少，可以把我的爱，写给你听。

With any luck, by next year, I’ll be goingout with one of these girls. But for now, let me say, without hope or agenda,just because it’s Christmas, (and at Christmas, you tell the truth.)

如果明年我有好运气，我会和这几个女孩约会的。但是现在请听我说，虽然我不抱任何希望，也不会采取任何行动，但今天是圣诞节（圣诞节你可以说出心底的话不是吗）

To me, you are perfect. And my wasted heartwill love you, until you look at this…Merry Christmas.

在我心里，你是完美的。尽管无济于事，但我会爱下去，直到你变成这样为止。（出示老太太的图片）圣诞快乐！！！

爱是守护。

过气的摇滚歌星Bill Mack终于凭借一首Christmas is all around重新成为聚光灯的焦点。圣诞狂欢之下，神经大条的Bill却突然意识到，那个被他嘲笑、却总帮他处理各种麻烦的胖胖经纪人，才是他最亲密的伙伴和爱人。所以说，爱，其实就在你身边。

What the hell are you doing here? You'resupposed to be at Elton John's. 

你怎么来了？你应该在艾尔顿·约翰家里

Well, I was there for a minute or two andthen I had an epiphany. 

我去了几分钟

Really?

是吗？

Yeah.

是的

Come on. Just come up. So what was thisepiphany?

来吧，上来吧，顿悟了什么？

Erm, it... it was about Christmas.

是关于圣诞节的

You realized it was all around. 

你意识到圣诞节无处不在

No. I realized that Christmas is the timeto be with the people you love. 

不，我意识到圣诞节就是要跟爱的人在一起

Right. 

没错

And I realized that, as dire chance andfateful cockup would have it, here I am, mid-fifties, and without knowing it,I've spent most of my adult life with a chubby employee. And, much as itgrieves me to say it, it might be that the people I love is, in fact...you. 

然后我非常凄惨又无可挽回地意识到，我现在，五十多了，居然才发现，我这后半辈子都跟个胖伙计在一起。虽然实在不愿意说，但也是我爱的人…就是你

Well, this is a surprise. Yeah. Ten minutesat Elton John's and you're gay? 

这太意外了，去艾尔顿·约翰家待了十分钟，你就弯了吗？

No, look. I'm serious here. I left Elton'sand a hefty number of half-naked chicks with their mouths open in order to hangout with you at Christmas.   

不是，我是认真的。我抛下艾尔顿家那一大群半裸身子张大嘴的姑娘们就为了跟你过圣诞节。

Well, Bill...

嗯，比尔...

It's a terrible, terrible mistake, chubs...but you turn out to be the fucking love of my life. And to be honest, despiteall my complaining... we have had a wonderful life. 

虽然这是个非常可怕的错误，胖墩…但看来你真的是我他妈的一生挚爱。说老实话，虽然我总在抱怨，我们的日子还是挺不错的。

Well... thank you. I mean, come on, it'sbeen an honor. I feel very proud.

好吧…谢谢你。说真的，这是我的荣幸，我很骄傲。

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