这部获得各电影颁奖礼大奖的史诗式的电影,从反面人物Antonio Salieri在年老时回忆的角度向我们呈现了一代音乐天才Mozart充满传奇的一生。相比起他那些为世人耳熟能详的名曲,他被奸人所害、英年早逝的结局并不那么为人所知。Salieri因为妒恨Mozart的才华,从崇拜到对他渐生恨意,再到动杀机,然后一边扮神秘人来紧紧逼迫重病的Mozart写下安魂曲,一边又用谗言令Mozart孤立无援。最后,病困交加的Mozart倒在了他那未完的巨作中。
令人欣慰的是,Antonio Salieri,这位奥地利御用作曲家的作品因为平庸早早就被后人遗忘,而Mozart的每一首作品都流进了人们的生命中。Salieri所期望的,用他本人的作品作为Mozart葬礼上的安魂曲,也没能如愿。
发音：英式发音
语速：140词/分钟
使用方法：精听+角色扮演
Antonio Salieri: ①Leave me alone.
安东尼·萨列里:不要理我。
Priest: I cannot leave alone a soul in pain.
神父:我不能不去理会受到折磨的灵魂。
Salieri: Do you know who I am?
萨列里:你知道我是谁吗?
Priest: That makes no difference. All men are equal in God's eyes.
神父:这没什么差别。在上帝的眼中,众生都是平等的。
Salieri: Are they?
萨列里:是吗?
Priest: Offer me your confession. I can offer you God's forgiveness.
神父:向我忏悔吧。我可以让上帝宽恕你。
Salieri: How well are you trained in music?
萨列里:你对音乐的了解有多深?
Priest: I know a little. I studied it in my youth.
神父:一些,我年轻时学过。
Salieri: Where?
萨列里:是在哪里学的?
Priest: Here in Vienna.
神父:就在维也纳。
Salieri: Ah, then you must know this. (Salieri's playing a song.)
萨列里:啊,那你一定听过这首。(萨列里弹奏一首乐曲。)
Priest: I can't say that I do. What is it?
神父:我好像没有听过。这是什么?
Salieri: It was a very popular tune in its day. I wrote it. Here, how about this? (Salieri's playing another song.) ②This one brought down the house when we played it first. Well?
萨列里:当时这是非常受欢迎的歌曲,这是我写的。来,那这一首呢?(萨列里弹奏另一首乐曲。)我们第一次演奏时,这首获得满堂喝彩。怎么样?
Priest: I regret it is not too familiar.
神父:对不起,这首也不是很熟悉。
Salieri: Can you recall no melody of mine? I was the most famous composer in Europe. I wrote 40 operas alone. Here! What about this one? (Salieri's playing another song.)
萨列里:你没听过我任何一首歌曲吗?我原来是全欧洲最有名的作曲家,我一个人写了40出歌剧。来!这一首怎么样?(萨列里弹奏另一首乐曲。)
Priest: (singing with the music) Yes, I know that! Oh, that's charming! I'm sorry, I didn't know you wrote that.
神父:(神父跟着曲子唱起来。)是啊,这首我听过!哦,它真是太棒了!对不起,我不知道这是你写的。
Salieri: I didn't. That was Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
萨列里:这一首不是我写的。这是莫扎特的,沃尔夫冈·阿玛迪斯·莫扎特。
Priest: The man you accuse yourself of killing.
神父:就是你说自己谋杀的那个人?
Salieri: You've heard that?
萨列里:你也听说了?
Priest: Is it true? For God's sake, my son, if you have something to confess, do it now. Give yourself some peace.
神父:这是事实吗?看在老天的份上,孩子,如果你有忏悔的需要,现在忏悔吧,让自己能够心安一些。
(At the end of their conversation)
(他们对话的尾段)
……
Salieri: It was 1)incomprehensible! What was God up to? Was it possible I was being tested? Was God expecting me to offer forgiveness in the face of every offense? No matter how painful? It's very possible. But why him? Why choose Mozart to teach me lessons in 2)humility? My heart was filling up with such hatred for that little man. For the first time in my life, I began to know really violent thoughts.
萨列里:这真的是无法理解!上帝到底有何意图?上帝是否在测试我?想要让我用宽恕之心对待每一次攻击,不管有多么地痛苦?这很有可能。但是为何是他?为何让莫扎特来教训我该如何谦卑。我心中充满了对那矮子的恨意。这是我一生中,第一次心中有了残暴的想法。
My plan was so simple that it terrified me. First, I must get the death Mass, and then I must achieve his death.
我的计划那么地简单,那使我非常害怕。首先,我必须去买死亡面具(扮作神秘人来向莫扎特约乐稿,)然后我必须使他死亡。
Priest: What?
神父:什么?
Salieri: His funeral! Imagine it! The 3)cathedral all Vienna sitting there. His coffin, Mozart's little coffin in the middle. And then in that silence…music.
萨列里:他的葬礼!想想看!大教堂里,全维也纳的人坐在那里。他的棺材,中间就是莫扎特的小棺材,然后在沉默中……音乐响起。
③A 4)divine music bursts out over them all. A great Mass of death. 5)Requiem Mass for Wolfgang Mozart. Composed by his devoted friend, Antonio Salieri. What 6)sublimity! What depth! What passion in the music! Salieri has been touched by God at last and God forced to listen! Powerless to stop it! I, for once, in the end, laughing at him!
四周突然冒出了天籁般的音乐,这是伟大的死亡弥撒,沃尔夫冈·莫扎特的安魂曲。由他忠实的朋友,安东尼·萨列里所写的,真是太神圣啦!太有深度啦!多么充满激情的音乐!萨列里终于受到了上帝的感召,上帝被迫要去听!没有任何的力量可以阻止!我,最后终于有机会去取笑他!
The only thing that worried me was the actual killing. How does one do that? How does one kill a man? It's one thing to dream about it. Very different when you...when you have to do it with your own hands.
唯一使我担心的是,如何实际下手杀他,这到底要怎么去做?到底要怎么样去杀一个人?这是可以去梦想的事。可是当你……当你要亲手去做时,却是非常不同的。
Smart Sentences
① Leave me alone. 不要理我。
leave sth./sb. alone: do not pay attention to or bother sth./sb.(不打扰)。例如:
She is busy with the report. We'd better leave her alone.
她正在忙那份报告,我们最好别干扰她。
② This one brought down the house when we played it first. 我们第一次演奏时,这首获得满堂喝彩。
bring down the house: the audience claps, laughs or shouts loudly because the performance is very impressive(博得全场喝彩)。例如:
The 13-year-old girl brought down the house with her dance.
13岁小女孩的舞姿赢得了全场的喝彩。
③ A divine music bursts out over them all. 四周突然冒出了天籁般的音乐。
burst out: start making a noise suddenly and loudly(大声喊叫,突然发声)。例如:
A yelling burst out in the back.
从后面突然传来一声喊叫。
over them all: everywhere in all directions(到处都是)。例如:
The feelings of happiness are over them all at the wedding.
在婚礼上,到处洋溢着幸福感。