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-第一次到伦敦？ -对 - Your first trip to London? - Yes.
想听一点建议吗？ Want a word of advice?
提防计程车司机 Don't trust the cab drivers.
他们会绕道走远路 They'll take you five miles to go three blocks.
别浪费时间看街道图 And don't waste your time looking at a street map.
没有人在伦敦能找得到路 连伦敦人也一样 Nobody can find their way around London. Not even Londoners.
也许我该改去巴尔的摩 Maybe I should go to Baltimore instead.
不 No.
你会开心的 You'll enjoy it.
伦敦是个好地方 London's a great place.
你去出差还是观光？ What kind of trip is it, business or pleasure?
处理未完成的事 Unfinished business.
计程车 Taxi!
到哪里？ Where to, luv?
査令十字路84号 84 Charing Cross Road.
敬启者 你们在《周末书评》的广告上说… Gentlemen: Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature...
你们专卖绝版书 ...says that you specialize in out-of-print books.
这些书都相当罕见 They're all pretty uncommon.
我又不是要手抄本《旧约全书》 I don't want Isaiah's personal copy of the Old Testament.
这些可都是知名作家的名著 These are famous books by famous writers!
这些是英国作家写的英国书 已经没有人想买了 They're British books by British writers. Nobody asks for them anymore.
到史莱纳书店试试 Try Scribner's.
我试过了 那边的价格好贵 I did. Everything is so fancy over there.
你们没有便宜的版本吗？ Haven't you got any cheap editions?
有 但不是你要的 Some, but not the ones you want.
抱歉 I'm sorry.
我今早上跑了四家书店 It's the fourth bookstore I've been to this morning.
纽约人难道不读英国文学吗？ Doesn't anyone read English literature in New York?
买《周末书评》 Saturday Review.
1949年10月5日 October 5, 1949.
马克书店收 英国伦敦… To Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
査令十字路84号 London WC2, England.
敬启者 Gentlemen:
你们在《周末书评》上的广告说… Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says...
你们专卖绝版书 ...that you specialize in out-of-print books.
"古董书店"这字眼让我有点害怕… The phrase "antiquarian booksellers" scares me somewhat...
因为我认为"古董"是高价的代名词 ...as I equate "antique" with expensive.
我是个热爱古书的穷作家 I'm a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books.
除了一些昂贵而罕见的版本… All the things I want are impossible to get over here.
我想买的书在此地都找不到 Except in very expensive, rare editions.
谨附上我最需要的书单 I enclose a list of my most pressing problems.
如果你们有这些书的干净的二手书 If you have clean, second-hand copies of any of the books on the list...
且单价不超过五元 我欲向你们购买 ...for no more than $5 each, will you consider this a purchase order...
请寄送给我好吗？ ...and send them to me?
敬祝安好 Very truly yours...
海伦·汉芙上 ...Helene Hanff.
夫人 Dear Madam:
对于你10月5日的来信… In reply to your letter of October 5...
我们整理出了你要的三分之二的书 ...we have managed to clear up two-thirds of your problem.
你所要的黑兹利特的三篇散文… The three Hazlitt essays you want are contained in the...
包含在无比出版社出版的他的散文选集中 ...Nonesuch Press edition of his Selected Essays.
史蒂文森的作品则收录在… And the Stevenson is found in...
《为少男少女们》当中 ...Virginibus Puerisque.
我们会邮寄出完好的书 相信它们会安全寄达 We are sending nice copies by book post and trust they will arrive safely...
你也会相当满意 ...and that you will be pleased with them.
随书附上发票 Our invoice is enclosed with the books.
利·亨特的那几篇散文不易找到 The Leigh Hunt essays won't be so easy.
我们会设法找一本收录它们的集子 But we'll try to find an attractive volume with them all in.
我们没有你所说的拉丁文《圣经》 We haven't the Latin Bible you describe...
但有拉丁文和希腊文的《新约全书》 ...but we have a Latin New Testament, also a Greek New Testament.
还有现代版本的布面封皮普通版 Ordinary modern editions in cloth binding.
你需要吗？ Would you like these?
敬祝安好 FPD 马克书店 Yours faithfully, FPD, for Marks & Co.
-海伦·汉芙 -是我 - Helene Hanff. - Hi, it's me.
-马克欣 -听我说发生了什么事 - Hi, Maxine. - Wait till I tell you what happened.
我现在不能讲 我睡过头了 I can't talk now. I slept through my alarm.
-晚上打给你？ -好 - Call you tonight? - Okay, fine.
再联络 再见 Call you later, bye-bye.
纽约市东95街14号 14 East 95th Street, New York City.
1949年11月3日 November 3, 1949.
敬启者 书已经安全寄达 Gentlemen: The books arrived safely.
史蒂文森的书真是精美 使我的旧书架相形见绌 The Stevenson is so fine it embarrasses my orange-crate bookshelves.
我小心翼翼地触摸柔软的羊皮纸封皮和米黄色的书页 I'm afraid to handle such soft vellum and heavy cream-colored pages.
我习惯了美国书的死白色纸张和硬纸板封面 Being used to the dead-white paper and cardboard covers of American books...
没想到书摸起来也能让人如此欣喜 ...I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.
布莱恩 Brian?
布莱恩 Brian!
在这里 In here!
海伦 我就想你会在这里 Hi, Helene. I thought I'd find you in here.
-快点 我们要迟到了 -马上好 - Come on, we're going to be late. - Won't be a minute.
我楼上一位女邻居有个英国男友 A Britisher whose girl lives upstairs...
他替我将1英镑17先令6便士换算成美元 ...translated the 1 pound 17 shillings and sixpence for me...
说我应该给你5美元3角 ...and says I owe you $5.30 for the books.
你确定没错吗？ Are you sure that's right?
我检查看看 Let me check.
1英镑 17 6 一共是37先令半 除以… 1 pound, 17, 6, that's 37 and a half shillings, divided by...
对 没错 是5元3角 Yes, that's right. $5.30.
谨附上5元和1元钞票各一张 I enclose a $5 bill and a single.
剩下的7角则用来支付《新约全书》的价钱 Use the 70 cents toward the price of the New Testaments...
两种版本我都要 ...both of which I want.
以后请将价格换算成美元 只加减美元我就做不太好… Please translate prices hereafter. I don't add too well in plain American.
更无法换算货币了 I haven't a prayer of mastering bilingual arithmetic.
海伦·汉芙上 Yours, Helene Hanff.
希望"夫人"在英国不是指老鸨 I hope "madam" doesn't mean there what it means here.
海伦·汉芙 Helene Hanff.
她寄给我们6美元 She sent us $6.
多了7角 She's 70 cents over.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 你的6美元已安全寄达 Dear Miss Hanff: Your $6 arrived safely.
往后若寄汇票会好一些 We'd feel easier if you sent remittances by postal money order in the future.
那会比直接寄钞票安全 This would be safer for you than entrusting dollar bills to the mails.
很高兴你这么喜欢史蒂文森的书 We're very happy you liked the Stevenson so much.
我们已寄出《新约全书》 并附上列有… We have sent off the New Testaments with an invoice listing the amount due...
英镑与美元金额的发票 ...in both pounds and dollars.
祝你开卷愉快 We hope you will be pleased with them.
这算哪门子的新教《圣经》 What kind of a black, Protestant Bible is this!
请转告英国国教会 他们已毁掉了… Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up...
世上最美的散文 ...the most beautiful prose ever written.
谁叫他们拿拉丁文《圣经》来胡搞？ Who told them to tinker with the Vulgate Latin?
他们会下地狱的 相信我 They'll burn for it, mark my words.
这书对我无所谓 我是犹太人 It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself.
但我有个信奉天主教和循道宗的大嫂… But I have a Catholic and a Methodist sister-in-law...
信教的远祖亚伯拉罕叔叔名下的一大群信奉长老教派的表亲… ...a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins through my great-uncle Abraham...
还有个当基督科学教派治疗师的姨妈 ...who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer.
要是知道英国国教有这么一本拉丁文《圣经》… I'd like to think none of them would countenance this Anglican Latin Bible...
他们肯定不会赞同的 ...if they knew it existed.
巧的是 他们不知道拉丁文存在过 As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.
亲爱的 喜欢这张照片吗？
谨附上4元钞票以支付欠你的3元8角8 I enclose $4 to cover the $3.88 due you.
剩下的12分钱 拿去买杯咖啡吧 Buy yourself a cup of coffee with the 12 cents.
附近没有邮局 我不想一路跑到洛克斐勒中心… There's no post office near, and I'm not running all the way...
排队买3元8角8的汇票 ...to Rockefeller Plaza to stand in line for a $3.88 money order.
若等到有其它事才去那里 我就没有3元8角8了 If I wait until I get down there for something else, I won't have the $3.88.
我对美国航空邮件和英国的邮政服务信心十足 I have implicit faith in the U.S. Airmail and His Majesty's Postal Service.
你们有兰多的《想像的对话》吗？ Have you got a copy of Landor's lmaginary Conversations?
我想应该有好几册 I think there are several volumes.
我想要有希腊人对话的那一册 I want the one with the Greek conversations.
我要的那一册中有… If it contains a dialogue between Aesop and Rhodope...
伊索与萝多比的对话 ...that will be the volume I want.
我想那本我们有 That, I think, is the one we've got.
西西莉 Cecily...
兰多的《想像的对话》 ...Landor, Imaginary Conversations.
请找出来好吗？ Dig it out, would you?
亲爱的汉芙小姐 你的4美元已安全寄达 Dear Miss Hanff: Your $4 arrived safely...
我们已将12分钱归到你的帐上 ...and we have credited the 12 cents to your account.
我们店内正好有兰多作品全集第二册 We have in stock Volume 2 of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor...
书中包含了你提到的希腊人对话… ...which contains the Greek dialogues you mentioned...
以及罗马人对话 ...as well as the Roman dialogues.
这是1876年出版的旧版 虽不美观 但外表完好 It is an old edition published in 1876, not very handsome, but well-bound...
书本干净良好 ...and a good, clean copy.
今天就会附上发票寄给你 We are sending it off to you today with invoice enclosed.
很抱歉我们处理拉丁文《圣经》时有所失误 I'm sorry we made the mistake with the Latin Bible.
我们会设法为你找一本 We'll try to find a Vulgate for you.
也不会忘记利·亨特的书 Not forgetting Leigh Hunt.
敬祝安好 FPD 马克书店 Yours faithfully, FPD, for Marks & Co.
谢谢 Thank you.
很好吃 很美味 Very nice. Very tasty.
先生 Sir:
对一直为我打理一切的人… It feels witless to keep writing "Gentlemen"...
还称呼"敬启者"就太愚蠢了 ...when the same solitary soul is obviously taking care of everything for me.
兰多的书已寄达 我很快就读到一段罗马人对话 Savage Landor arrived and promptly fell open to a Roman dialogue...
说的是两座城市刚被战争所摧毁 ...where two cities had just been destroyed by war.
所有人都被钉上十字架 并哀求罗马士兵… Everyone was being crucified and begging Roman soldiers...
杀死他们 以终结痛苦 ...to run them through and end the agony.
翻到伊索和萝多比的部份就轻松许多 因为只有饥荒 It'll be a relief to turn to Aesop and Rhodope where the only worry is a famine.
我喜欢把旧书打开到前一位书主常读的书页 I love used books that open to the page a previous owner read oftenest.
黑兹利特的书寄达时 我翻到先前书主翻到的"我讨厌读新书" When Hazlitt came, he opened to "I hate to read new books."
我不禁对先前的书主深有感触 And I hollered, "Comrade!" To whoever owned it before me.
随信附上1元钱 凯的英国男友布莱恩说… I enclose $1, which Brian, Kay's British boyfriend...
这足够付我欠你的8先令 ...says will cover the 8 shillings I owe you.
你忘了换算成美元 You forgot to translate it.
向您说"不"并非我们的错 这是为我们的生计着想
谢谢 Thank you.
每户只有2盎司 Only two per family, luv.
听着 Now then.
布莱恩说你们每户每周只配给不足60克肉 Brian told me you are all rationed to two ounces of meat per family a week...
每人每月只有一个蛋 ...and one egg per person per month!
我实在太震惊了 I am simply appalled.
有人跟布莱恩介绍丹麦的这家公司 Somebody told Brian about this firm in Denmark.
他们有运送食物包里到英国 They ship food packages to England.
-我请他们送食物给我母亲 -拿目录给她看 - I use them to send food to my mother. - Show her the catalogue.
很可靠 也很便宜 They're very reliable. Cheap, too.
至少不算太贵 Well, cheapish.
天啊 My God!
看看这个 Look at this.
他们有调味猪油 肝泥 肉丸 巧克力酥饼 They've got spiced lard, liver paste, meatballs, chocolate shortcake...
黄油 蛋 奶酪 ...margarine, eggs, cheese.
什么都有 They've got everything!
布莱恩的母亲简直不敢相信 Brian's mother couldn't believe her eyes.
-你寄什么给她？ -火腿罐头 香肠 - What did you send her? - Tin of ham, sausages.
水果罐头 梅子 覆盆子 Tinned fruit, plums, raspberries.
覆盆子 好好听的音调 "Rahzberries." Don't you love that!
英国人都说"覆盆子" A whole country says "rahzberries!"
没错 They sure do, ma'am!
"覆盆子 覆盆子" "Rahzberries, rahzberries!"
太棒了 我们列张单子 This is terrific. Let's make a list.
先写哪个？ Where should we start?
我们得寄条火腿 圣诞节嘛 We must send a ham. It's Christmas.
汤呢？ How about some soup?
咖哩肉汤 他们会喜欢的 Mulligatawny soup. They'd like that.
还有呢？蔬菜？ What else should we send? Vegetables?
-他们缺什么？ -青豆 - What don't they have? - Haricots verts.
青豆 Haricots verts!
有两种青豆 "极品"和"上等" There's two types of haricots verts: There's "choicest" or there's "choice"!
香蕉？寄根香蕉吧 Bananas? Let's send a banana!
FPD 无论你是谁… I'm sending it care of you, FPD...
请你转交大家 ...whoever you are.
圣诞快乐 海伦·汉芙上 Noēl. Helene Hanff.
拿张纸卡给我挂在镜子上 Pass me one of those cards to hang over the mirror.
教堂还是圣诞老人？ The church or Father Christmas?
-你喜欢哪一个？ -圣诞老人 - Which do you like? - Father Christmas.
-你们布置得如何？ -还好 - How are you getting along? - All right.
-你在煮什么？ -绞肉派 - What are you cooking? - Mince pies.
很好 Good.
你布置得怎样？ How are you getting on?
席拉 拿冬青给我 小心别被刺到了 Sheila, pass me the holly. Be careful. Don't prick yourself.
不要笑 我流血了 你们在笑什么？ Don't laugh. I'm bleeding. What are you laughing at?
FPD 糟糕 FPD! Crisis!
我寄出去的包里里有近三公斤火腿 I sent that package off with a six-pound ham in it!
我想你们可以切片后各自带回家 I figured you could slice it up and everybody could take some home.
不过我注意到上一张发票写着 I noticed on your last invoice, it says:
"店主 马克 科恩" "B. Marks. M. Cohen. Proprietors."
他们是犹太人吗？我可以寄舌肉过去 Are they kosher? I could rush a tongue over.
求求你给我建议 Advise, please!
汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
特别通知你 礼物包里今天安全寄达 A note to let you know that your gift parcel arrived safely today.
马克和科恩先生坚持在我们中分配礼物 Mr. Marks and Mr. Cohen insisted that we divide it up among ourselves...
不把老板计算在内 ...and not include the bosses.
包里里都是我们没见过… Everything in the parcel was something we never see...
或只在黑市才能买到的东西 ...or can only get through the black market.
你真大方 我们万分感激 It was generous of you to think of us and we are extremely grateful.
-她怎么从哥本哈根订购？ -天晓得 - How did she order it from Copenhagen? - Heaven knows.
祝1950年新年快乐 Best wishes for 1950.
祝安好 法兰克杜尔 马克书店 Yours faithfully, Frank Doel, for Marks & Co.
-需要什么吗？ -是的 - Can I help you? - Yes, please.
你们有彩色图画吗？ Do you have any color prints?
我忘了那个人的名字 他是画人物画的 A man, I can't remember his name, does pictures of people.
人是由物品组成的 如水果 花 花椰菜 甘蓝菜 They're composed of objects: Fruit, flowers, cauliflowers, cabbages.
还有脸孔 是18或19世纪的 The faces. 18th or 19th century.
好像是法国人 French, I think.
画风怪异 颜色很鲜艳 Grotesque. Very highly colored.
-画蔬菜水果？ -对 - Sort of fruit and vegetables? - Yes.
-亚奇巴罗 -对 没错 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo. - Yes! That's right.
你们有他的作品吗？ Do you have any of his work?
威利 你好吗？ Hello, Willie. How are you?
瞧 Let's see.
我要四片胡椒香肠 四片瑞士起司 I want four slices of pepper salami, four slices of Swiss cheese...
还有一百克的熏肉 ...and a quarter pound of bacon.
胡椒香肠没有了 We're out of pepper salami.
-没有了？ -没有人喜欢胡椒香肠 - Out of it? - Nobody likes pepper salami.
-我喜欢 -我该特别为你进货吗？ - I like it. - I should buy it special for you?
对啊 Why not?
我是你最棒的顾客 I'm your best customer.
好 我不是你最棒的顾客 Okay, I'm not your best customer.
法兰克杜尔 Frank Doel...
你在那里做什么？ ...what are you doing over there?
你啥都没做 光坐在那边 You aren't doing anything, you're just sitting around.
利·亨特的书呢？ Where is Leigh Hunt?
《牛津诗选》呢？ Where is The Oxford Verse?
拉丁文《圣经》和纽曼的书呢？ Where is the Vulgate and dear goofy John Henry Newman?
我以为能在四旬斋愉快地读这些书 但你啥没都寄来 I thought they'd be such uplifting reading for Lent, and nothing do you send me!
我只能在从图书馆借来的书上作笔记 I sit here writing long margin notes in library books that don't belong to me.
他们迟早会发现是我干的 然后没收我的借书证 Someday they'll find out I did it and take my library card away.
春天到了 我要一本情诗集 I require a book of love poems, with spring coming on.
不要济慈或雪莱的诗 No Keats or Shelley.
给我不煽情的诗人的诗 Send me poets who can make love without slobbering.
怀亚特或琼森 你自己判断吧 Wyatt or Jonson. Use your own judgment.
书要小得能放进口袋 A nice book small enough to stick in my pocket...
能带到中央公园阅读 ...and take to Central Park.
别光坐着 快去找呀 Don't just sit there, go and find it!
真搞不懂你们怎么经营书店的 I swear I don't know how that shop keeps going.
-很美吧？ -非常棒 - Beautiful set, is it not? - Very nice.
你有拿到杜勒的目录吗？ Have you got the Dürer catalogue?
有 Yes.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
请别让法兰克知道我写这封信 Please don't let Frank know I'm writing this.
每次寄帐单给你 我都想偷塞字条进去 But each time I send you a bill, I've been dying to slip in a note...
但他可能会认为那样不太好 ...and he might not think it quite proper of me.
听来他好像很古板 其实不然 That sounds stuffy, and he's not.
他人真的很好 He's quite nice, really.
真的非常好 Very nice, in fact.
他将你视为私人通信者 But he looks on you as his private correspondent...
因为你所有的信件和包里都是寄给他的 ...as all your letters and parcels are addressed to him.
但我就是想亲自写信给你 But I thought I'd write to you on my own.
"我们都很喜欢你的来信 会想像你是什么样的人 "We all love your letters and try to imagine what you must be like.
"我想你应该很年轻 成熟而时髦" "I've decided you're young and very sophisticated and smart-looking."
笑什么？ What's so funny?
"即使你深具幽默感… "Mr. Martin thinks you must be studious-looking...
"马丁先生还是认定你是一副老学究的模样" "...in spite of your wonderful sense of humor.
-"不如寄张照片给我们吧？" -有何不可？ - "Why don't you send us a snapshot?" - Why don't you?
我终于成了神秘女子 我要保持下去 I'm finally a woman of mystery. I'm going to keep it that way.
-"如果你对法兰克很好奇--" -你是很好奇 - "If you're curious about Frank..." - Which you are.
"他年近四十 蛮好看的 "He's in his late 30s, quite nice-looking.
"娶了一个甜美的爱尔兰姑娘 "Married to a sweet Irish girl.
"我想她是他的第二任妻子" "I believe she's his second wife."
-第二幕准备上场了 贝小姐 -谢谢你 艾略特 - Ready for Act 2, Miss Bellamy. - Thank you, Elliot.
我会打电话给你 保重 I'll call you, take care.
大家都很感谢你寄来的包里 Everyone was so grateful for the parcel.
我5岁的女儿和4岁的儿子开心得不得了 My little ones, girl, 5 and boy, 4, were in heaven.
有了葡萄干和蛋 我就做了蛋糕给他们吃 With the raisins and egg I was able to make them a cake.
希望别介意我写信给你 I do hope you don't mind my writing.
请不要向法兰克提起 Please don't mention it to Frank.
西西莉 Cecily?
-你在忙吗？ -没有 - Are you busy? - No.
-我们得写几封信 -好 马上来 - We must do some letters. - Yes, coming.
祝一切安好 西西莉·法尔 With best wishes, Cecily Farr.
亲爱的西西莉 老马丁先生真不走运 Dear Cecily: And a very bad cess to old Mr. Martin.
我一点都不老学究 连大学都没上过 I'm so unstudious, I never even went to college.
只是对书有特殊品味而已 I just have a peculiar taste in books.
我看起来和百老汇的乞丐一样时髦 And I'm about as smart-looking as a Broadway panhandler.
我习惯穿破烂的毛衣和休闲羊毛裤 I live in moth-eaten sweaters and wool slacks.
他们白天不提供暖气 They don't give us heat in the daytime.
那是五层楼的赤棕石建筑 It's a five-story brownstone...
其他房客上午九点上班 六点才回家 ...the other tenants go to work at 9 a. M. And aren't home until 6.
房东何必为了一个在家读书 写作的房客… Why should the landlord heat the building for one script reader, writer...
开暖气呢？ ...working at home?
我是艾德 这是金妮 I'm Ed. This is Ginny.
-我是海伦 -你好 - Helene. - Hi.
海伦 请带路 Okay, Helene, lead the way.
-你们住附近吗？ -不 我们四处看看 - Do you live around here? - No, we're looking.
我们快结婚了 We're getting married soon.
真好 How nice!
想找什么样的地方？豪华的吗？ What kind of place are you looking for? Something fancy?
-不能这么说 -有两或三间卧房 - I wouldn't say fancy. - Two or three bedrooms.
够一家人住 Big enough for a family.
可以眺望公园的地方 Something overlooking the park.
那样不错 That would be nice.
你有几间房？ How many rooms have you got?
我有一间工作室 一间客厅… Well, I have a workroom, a sitting room...
一间卧室 餐厅和厨房 ...a bedroom, a dining room and a kitchen.
到了 And here it is.
水在烧了 Kettle's on.
可怜的法兰克 真是难为他了 Poor Frank, I give him such a hard time.
我总是对他发飙 I'm always bawling him out.
我是闹着玩的 但他会当真 I'm only teasing, but I know he'll take me seriously.
我一直想改变他那英式拘谨作风 I keep trying to puncture that proper British reserve.
要是他得了溃疡 就是我的错 If he gets ulcers, I did it.
茶煮好了吗？ How's the tea coming along?
快好了 It's almost ready.
没有茶该怎么办？ What would we do without our cups of tea?
生活会变得无法忍受 怎能没有呢？ Life would be insupportable, how would it not?
来自凯奇沃的列车 现在抵达三站台 The train from Ketchworth is now arriving at Platform 3.
来自凯奇沃的列车 现在抵达第三月台 The train from Ketchworth is now arriving at Platform 3.
原谅我 Forgive me.
原谅什么？ For what?
所有的一切 For everything.
原谅我一开始遇见你 吹掉你眼中的沙粒 For meeting you in the first place, and taking the grit out of your eye.
原谅我爱你 For loving you.
原谅我带给你那么多痛苦 For bringing you so much misery.
你原谅我的话我就原谅你 I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
星期四 Thursday.
写信跟我谈谈伦敦吧 Write and tell me about London.
我期待有一天能走下火车… I live for the day when I step off the boat train...
体验走在伦敦肮脏人行道上的感觉 ...and feel its dirty sidewalks under my feet.
我要踏上柏克莱广场 走过温波街 I want to walk up Berkeley Square and down Wimpole Street...
站在邓恩教长布道的圣保罗教堂中 ...and stand in St. Paul's where John Donne preached.
坐在伦敦塔伊莉莎白女王拒绝进入的服刑处 And sit where Elizabeth sat, refusing to enter the Tower...
以及诸如此类的历史据点 ...and places like that.
有个报社朋友战时在伦敦呆过 A newspaper man I know, who was in London during the war says...
他说观光客带着想法上英国… ...tourists go to England with preconceived notions...
所以都能找到自己想找的东西 ...so they find exactly what they go looking for.
我说我想去找英国文学的英国 I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature.
他说 "那么 它就在那里 " And he said, "Then, it's there."
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
我想告诉你我们有《牛津诗选》 This is to tell you we have in stock The Oxford Book of English Verse.
有很棒的琼森诗集 Quite a nice Jonson.
是用印度纸印的 原版的蓝布封皮 Printed on India paper, original blue cloth binding...
1905年版 ...1905.
扉页上有用墨水写的字句 不过是一本不错的二手书 Inscription in ink on the flyleaf, but a good second-hand copy.
价格2美元 Price: $2.
史温伯恩 Swinburne.
我们在寄书前先报价 以免你已经买过了 We quote before sending, in case you've already purchased a copy.
哈代 限定版 Hardy, limited edition.
很好 Very nice.
前一阵子你问我们有没有纽曼的《大学宣道集》 Some time ago you asked us for Newman's Idea of a University.
的确很不错 Very nice indeed.
你有兴趣买初版的吗？ Are you interested in a first edition?
我们替汉芙小姐预留下来 We'll put that aside for Miss Hanff.
他有初版的《大学宣道集》 只要6美元 He has a first edition of Newman's University for $6!
他居然问"你要吗？" "Do I want it?" He asks innocently.
亲爱的法兰克 是的 我要 Dear Frank: Yes, I want it!
我都快欣喜若狂了 I won't be fit to live with myself.
我本不在乎是不是初版 但那本书的初版 I don't care about first editions per se, but a first edition of that book!
是的 Well!
法兰克杜尔 我只想对你说… All I have to say to you, Frank Doel...
这是个颓废堕落的时代 ...is we live in depraved and degenerate times...
书店竟把漂亮的旧书页撕下… ...when a bookshop tears up beautiful old books...
当成包装纸 ...to use as wrapping paper.
更糟的是 所撕书页描写的是某个战役的中段 Worse, you tore the book up in the middle of a battle...
我根本看不出是哪一场战争 ...and I don't even know which war it was!
谢谢 Thank you.
你瞧瞧 很漂亮吧？ Take a look at this. Isn't that beautiful?
很漂亮 It's beautiful.
这是初版的 有百年历史 It's a first edition, my dear. One hundred years old.
很漂亮 It's beautiful.
我占有它有种罪恶感 那么漂亮的封皮和烫金 I feel guilty owning it. All that leather and gold stamping.
它理应属于某个英语国家的图书馆才对 It belongs in a library in some English country home.
读的人应该坐在炉火旁的安乐椅上… It should be read by a fire, in a leather easy chair...
而非破败的赤棕石建筑里… ...not on some second-hand, overstuffed seat...
又塌又软的二手椅上 ...in a broken-down brownstone front.
我要是这本书 宁可住在这里 If I was this book, I'd want to live right here.
你说的对 You're right.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
我出城一星期 抱歉耽搁了点时间才回信 Sorry for the delay in answering, but I've been out of town for a week.
现在正忙着回信 I'm now trying to catch up on my correspondence.
我看看 Let's see.
很好看 You look lovely.
首先 First of all...
请别担心我们会拿旧书当包装纸 ...please don't worry about us using old books for wrapping.
玛莉 你明天可以穿 Mary, you can wear it tomorrow.
那些书页分别来自两本封面脱落的书 In this case, they were two odd volumes with the covers detached.
她们好乖 They're so good.
不会有人出钱买的 Nobody would have given us a shilling for them.
过来 Come along.
上去 Jump in.
-我会照顾好的 -谢谢 - I'll see to that. - Thanks.
很高兴你喜欢奎勒库奇文集 We're glad you liked the Q anthology.
目前店内没有《牛津散文集》 We have no copy of The Oxford Book of English Prose in stock...
但我们会想办法找一本给你 ...but will try to find one for you.
除了马克和科恩先生 我们店里有五个人 There are five of us in the shop, not including Mr. Marks and Mr. Cohen.
-再见 -回头见 - 'Bye. - See you later.
玩得愉快 Have a nice time.
-玩得开心吗？ -是的 我们上次-- - Are you enjoying yourself? - Yes. When did we last...
我不记得了 I don't remember.
我们喝一杯吧 Let's have a drink.
好美 Lovely.
-看看万家灯火 -我们应该常跳舞 - Look at the lights. - We should dance more often.
我没办法 I can't.
-我没办法 -胡说 - I can't. - That's nonsense.
-那不是沙瓦饭店吗？ -不 那是谢尔大楼 - Isn't that the Savoy? - No, it's the Shell building.
我们好久没跳了 It's a long time since we've done that.
我不会跳舞 好吧 再一首 I can't dance. All right, once more.
-你们真漂亮 -谢谢 - You look so beautiful! - Thank you!
多生几个孩子 我帮你们带 Have lots of babies! I'll baby-sit!
还要养条狗 Have a dog, too!
再见 'Bye!
海伦 你实在太厉害了 Helene, you are amazing!
没错 Yes, I am.
举杯敬你和大西洋此岸 最漂亮的约克夏布丁 I drink to you and the best-looking Yorkshire pudding this side of the Atlantic.
敬海伦和约克夏布丁 To Helene and the Yorkshire pudding.
-来 -干杯 - Here, here. - Cheers.
生日快乐 布莱恩 Happy birthday, Brian.
一路顺风 Bon voyage, Maxine.
只有天晓得你要去英国 我却不能去的原因 Why you're going to England and I'm not, God only knows!
亲爱的西西莉 约克夏布丁可口极了 Dear Cecily: Yorkshire pudding out of this world.
我们没有这种东西 We have nothing like it.
我对别人说它是一种高耸 弯曲 平滑又中空的华夫饼 I described it to someone as a high, curved, smooth, empty waffle.
海伦·汉芙 Helene Hanff.
什么？ What?
你哪位？ Who is this?
有个制作人喜欢我的剧本 但没到拍片的程度 只打了电话来 A producer who likes my plays, but not enough to produce them, phoned.
他要拍部电视连续剧 问我是否想写电视剧本 He's producing a TVseries. Do I want to write for television?
他冷冷地说"两张大钞" "Two bills," he said carelessly.
"两张大钞"是什么意思？ What do you mean, "two bills"?
原来他是说一本剧本两百美元 It turns out he meant $200 a script!
我平常周薪只有40元呢 And me, a $40-a-week script reader!
我明天去见他 I go to see him tomorrow.
十点半？好 我会到 10:30? Sure, yes, I'll be there.
到时候见 See you then.
谢谢 Thanks.
祝我好运吧 Keep your fingers crossed.
海伦上 Best, Helene.
天啊 Boy!
来 猪肉香肠 Here we are. Pork sausages.
还有葡萄干 And raisins.
桃子 And peaches.
还有一些火腿 And some ham.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
你寄给马克书店的复活节包里 已在几天前安全送达 Your Easter parcels to Marks & Co. Arrived safely a few days ago.
我们看到肉都很兴奋 We were all quite dazzled to see the meat.
蛋和罐头大受欢迎 And the eggs and tins were so very welcome.
我必须写信告诉你 我们的感谢之意 I felt I must write and say how very grateful...
感谢你的好意与慷慨 ...we all are for your kindness and generosity.
相信我 这真的很棒 My word, this looks good.
迈克尔 安 Michael! Anne!
天啊 肉 My dear, the meat!
你不该这么破费 一定花了很多钱吧 You shouldn't spend your money so. It must have cost a packet!
是香肠 It's sausages!
感谢你的好意 Bless you for your kind heart.
知道是谁寄的吗？是那位女士 You know who sent them? Remember the lady?
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
我在马克书店担任编目员将近两年 For nearly two years I have worked as a cataloguer at Marks & Co...
感谢你寄来分给我的东西 ...and want to thank you for my share-out in the parcels you've been sending.
我与姑婆同住 I live with my great-aunt...
她今年75岁 ...who is 75.
请过来看看 姑婆 Do please look, Auntie.
我认为… I think that...
你要是看到她见到我带回去的肉和罐头时那副开心样… ...if you had seen her delight when I brought home the meat...
就知道我们有多感谢你 ...and the tin of tongue, you would know how grateful we are.
我不喜欢从美国大老远送东西来 I don't like that it came all the way from America.
是从丹麦送来的 姑婆 It only came from Denmark, Auntie.
很高兴知道千里之遥的人… It's good to know that someone so many miles away...
竟会对素未谋面的人如此大方 ...can be so kind and generous to people they haven't even seen.
书店所有的人皆有同感 I think everyone in the firm feels the same.
如果你想要伦敦的什么东西… If you know of anything that you would like sent over from London...
我很乐意为你打点 ...I will be most happy to see to it for you.
比尔汉佛瑞上 Sincerely, Bill Humphries.
好丰盛 好丰盛 What a treat! What a treat!
国家广播公司呈献 艾勒莉皇后
海伦·汉芙编剧
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
我猜你很纳闷 我们都未因你送的包里致谢 I expect you are worried that we have not thanked you for your parcels...
说不定会认定我们是一群不知感恩的人 ...and are probably thinking that we are an ungrateful lot.
其实 我一直在英国各地奔忙… The truth is, I have been chasing around the country...
进出众多豪宅… ...in and out of various stately homes of England...
想为存货不足的书店添购新书 ...trying to buy a few books to fill up our sadly depleted stock.
内人开始称我为"房客"… My wife was starting to call me "The Lodger..."
因为我只回家睡觉 吃早餐 ...just went home for bed and breakfast.
但当我带着上等肉回家… But when I arrived home with a nice piece of meat...
更别提还有蛋和火腿… ...to say nothing of dried eggs and ham...
她就认为我是好男人 便什么都原谅我了 ...then she thought I was a fine fellow, and all was forgiven.
我们很久没见到这么多完整而大块的肉了 It is a long time since we saw so much meat all in one piece.
那个平台有很多40至49元的书 Lots 40 through 49 are on the next landing.
-早 约翰 -早 - Good morning, John. - Good morning.
我们应该表达我们的谢意 We should like to express our appreciation in some way...
所以今天就把书寄出 ...so we are sending by book post today...
是一本小书 希望你会喜欢 ...a little book which I hope you will like.
记得你曾想要伊莉莎白女王一世时期的情诗 I remember you asked me for a volume of Elizabethan love poems.
这是我所买到最接近的一本 This is the nearest I can get to it.
祝海伦汉芙一切安好 感谢你的好意 To Helene Hanff with best wishes and thanks for many kindnesses...
査令十字路84号全体员工上 1951年四月于伦敦 ...from all at 84 Charing Cross Road. London, April, 1951.
査令十字路84号全体员工 To all at 84 Charing Cross Road:
谢谢你们送我这本美丽的书 Thank you for this beautiful book.
我从来没有书页镶金边的书 I've never owned a book with pages edged in gold.
你们相信它是在我生日当天寄达的吗？ Would you believe it arrived on my birthday?
可惜你们太客气了 将字句写在卡片上 Too bad you were so over-courteous and put the inscription on a card...
而非扉页上 ...instead of on the flyleaf.
你们全都是爱书人 唯恐会减损书的价值 It's the bookseller in you all. You were afraid you'd decrease its value.
其实你们已为书主 甚至也为未来的书主… You'd have increased it for this owner...
提升了此书的价值 ...and possibly for future owners.
我喜欢扉页上的字句和页边的笔记 I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins.
我喜欢翻到别人翻过的书页 I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned...
阅读前人与我同感兴趣的段落 那种有志一同的感觉真好 ...and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
你们为何不签名？ Why didn't you sign your names?
我猜是法兰克不准 I expect Frank wouldn't let you.
他大概只要我写情书给他 He probably doesn't want me writing love letters to anyone but him.
马克书店
亲爱的 这家书店深具狄更斯时代风味 Dear Heart: It's a lovely shop, straight out of Dickens.
你绝对会非常喜欢的 You would go absolutely out of your mind over it.
店外面有几个书架 There are stalls outside...
进去逛之前我还先停下来 确定自己像来找书的 ...and I stopped to establish myself as a browser before wandering in.
内部有点暗 It's dim inside.
人未到就会先闻到它的气味是种很好闻的气味 You can smell the shop before you see it. It's a lovely smell.
很难形容 它融合了霉味 灰尘 陈腐的气味 It's hard to describe, but it combines must and dust and age...
还混有墙壁和木地板的味道 ...and walls and floors of wood.
书店后方有张书桌 At the back of the shop there's a desk.
一个有着画家贺加斯般鼻子的男人坐在那边 A man was sitting there with a Hogarth nose.
他抬起头来说 He looked up and said:
"很抱歉 午安" "So sorry. Good afternoon."
-需要什么吗？ -我可以看看吗？ - Would you like some help? - May I look around?
当然可以 请 Oh, yes. Of course. Please do.
书架四处都是… The shelves go on forever.
向上延伸到天花板 老旧而灰暗… They go up to the ceiling and they're very old and gray...
就像吸收多年灰尘的老橡树… ...like old oak that absorbed so much dust over the years...
早已失去原来的颜色 ...they no longer are their true color.
那里有卖杂志 There's a print selection...
上面摆了克鲁尚 瑞克汉… ...or rather a long print table with Cruikshank, Rackham...
以及许多我不太认识的… ...and Spy and all those old English caricaturists and illustrators...
英国旧时插画家的作品 ...that I'm not smart enough to know a lot about.
还有一些不错的有插图的旧杂志 There are some lovely old illustrated magazines.
我待了大约半小时 期待法兰克… I stayed about half an hour hoping your Frank...
或某个小姐会出现 ...or one of the girls would turn up.
他们一定外出午餐了 而我却无法久留 They must have been all out to lunch, and I couldn't stay any longer.
这算是哪门子的… What kind of a Pepys' Diary...
《佩皮斯日记》？ ...do you call this?
这不是… This is not...
《佩皮斯日记》 ...Pepys' Diary.
这是某个搬弄是非的… This is some busybody...
编辑大人… ...editor's collection...
从《佩皮斯日记》… ...of excerpts...
摘录下来的东西 ...from Pepys' Diary.
祝他腐烂掉 May he rot.
我气得想吐口水 I could just spit.
谨附上… I enclose...
美金2元 ...two limp singles.
你一定要用这笔钱… I will make do...
帮我找到… ...with this until you get me...
真正的《佩皮斯日记》 ...a real Pepys.
然后… Then...
我会把这本··· ...I will rip up...
低劣的仿冒书… ...this ersatz book...
一页一页撕掉 ...page by page...
拿来包东西 ...and wrap things in it!
圣诞节要新鲜蛋还是蛋粉？ Fresh eggs or powdered for Christmas?
蛋粉可存放较久 The powdered lasts longer...
不过丹麦的新鲜蛋比较好吃 ...but fresh farm eggs from Denmark have got to taste better.
想投票决定吗？ Want to take a vote on it?
投派斯提的票 别让保守党当选 Vote Pestell and keep the Tories out.
请投工党候选人瑞格派斯提一票 Vote Reg Pestell, your Labour Party candidate.
投派斯提的票 别让保守党当选 Vote Pestell and keep the Tories out.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
首先我要为《佩皮斯日记》道歉 First of all, let me apologize for the Pepys'.
我真的以为那是 布雷布鲁克的完整版本 I honestly thought it was the complete Braybrooke edition.
我了解最喜爱的章节 不见踪影的感受 I can understand how you felt when your favorite passages were missing.
我保证会找出合理价位的版本 I promise to look at the next reasonably priced copy that I get...
只要包含你想要的章节 我会寄给你 ...and if it contains the passage you want, I will send it along.
谢谢 Thank you.
关于蛋的问题 我和其他人讨论过 About the eggs. I've talked to the rest of the inmates...
我们都认为新鲜的比较好 ...and we all seem to think that the fresh ones would be nicer.
好了 There we are.
嗨 Hi.
遇上纽约晚高峰 金妮 对不起 New York during rush hour. Ginny, I'm so sorry.
没关系 想喝什么吗？ Don't worry. Would you like something to drink?
她可以自己弄 东西放哪她清楚得很 She can help herself. She knows where everything is.
如果饿了 冰箱里有 冷鸡肉 沙拉和巧克力蛋糕 If you get hungry, there's cold chicken, salad in the icebox, and chocolate cake.
-你想错过第一幕吗？ -我们11点之后会回家 - You want to miss the whole of Act 1? - We'll be home after 11:00.
到时候见 All right. See you then.
放心 我会处理一切 Don't worry. I'll take care of everything.
-再见 -宝宝 小狗 一切都让我来 - 'Bye. - Baby, dog, everything.
布塔 我们喝一杯吧 Well, Boontash! Let's have a drink, shall we?
对 你看 Yes. Look!
亲爱的快动作先生 Dear Speed:
没想到你这么快就寄来利·亨特的书和拉丁文《圣经》 You dizzy me, rushing Leigh Hunt and the Vulgate over here whiz bang.
你大概不知道我已经订了两年了 You probably don't realize it, but it's hardly more than two years since I ordered them.
再这样赶下去 你会得心脏病的 You keep going at this rate, you'll give yourself a heart attack.
太恶毒了 That's mean.
我麻烦你那么多 却还没谢过你 You go to so much trouble for me and I never even thank you.
我逗你的 那样说太恶毒了 I just needle you. It's mean.
真的很感谢你为我做的努力 I really am grateful for all the pains you take for me.
来了 I'm coming.
你根本没睡 对吧？ You're wide awake, aren't you?
你应该要睡觉的 知道吗？ You're supposed to be asleep, you know that?
对 你应该睡觉 Yes, you're supposed to be asleep.
你们是否刚好有卖精装的声乐琴谱？ Do you carry hardcover vocal scores by chance?
或韩德尔的《弥赛亚》？ Like Bach's Saint Matthew Passion or Handel's Messiah?
我可以在古典音乐图书馆找到 但它远在50条街外 I could get them at Schirmer's but they're 50 blocks from me...
所以就先问你 ...so I thought I'd ask you first.
好不好玩？ How's that?
恭喜邱吉尔就任首相 Congratulations on Churchill & Co!
希望他能放宽食物配给量 Hope he loosens up your rations a little.
对了 你的名字源自威尔士吗？ By the way, is your name Welsh?
我念书给你听 I'm going to read to you.
你会喜欢的 这是约翰·亨利·纽曼写的 You'll love this. This is by John Henry Newman.
你一定会喜欢 You'll love it.
"目前普遍的看法认为… "It is a prevalent notion just now that religious opinion does not enter...
"科学或文学论述根本没有必要… "...as a matter of necessity in any considerable measure...
"涉及到宗教观点" "...into the treatment of scientific or literary subjects."
海伦 我们回来了 Helene, we're back!
海伦 Helene!
我们寄一份圣诞礼物给你 We are sending you a little gift for Christmas.
是一块亚麻布 It is linen.
希望你不必付关税 We hope you do not have to pay any duty on it.
我们会标明"圣诞礼物" 并祝福你不会被课税 We'll mark it "Christmas gift" and keep our fingers crossed.
希望你会喜欢它 并当作是我们对你的… We hope you will like it and accept it with our best wishes for Christmas...
圣诞与新年祝福 ...and the coming year.
既然我的姓念起来和法文的"圣诞节"押韵 Since my name is pronounced to rhyme with the French word "Noel"...
说不定它起源自法国 ...I think there may be a possibility it originated in France.
-很棒吧？ -真的好漂亮 - Isn't it wonderful? - This is beautiful!
祝圣诞与新年快乐 我们是 Christmas greetings and all good wishes for the New Year from:
乔治马丁 George Martin.
-西西莉法尔 -比尔汉佛瑞 - Cecily Farr. - Bill Humphries.
梅恩威尔斯 Megan Wells.
法兰克杜尔 Frank Doel.
真的太美了 Really beautiful.
让我帮你 Let me help you with that.
太重了 给我 It's much too heavy. Give it to me.
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff:
我一直想写信给你 感谢你寄食物到马克书店… I've wanted to write to thank you for my family's share in the wonderful...
让我家人享受到人间美味 ...food parcels you've been sending to Marks & Co.
才过五分钟我们就汗流浃背了 Five minutes later we'd have been soaked.
现在我有藉口写信给你了 Now I have an excuse. As Frank tells me...
法兰克说你想知道为你绣布的… ...you want the name and address of the old lady...
那位老太太的姓名与地址 ...who embroidered your cloth.
她叫波顿太太 住橡田大楼24号楼上 Her name is Mrs. Boulton and she lives upstairs at No. 24 Oakfield Court.
她很高兴自己绣的布飘洋过海到新大陆去 She was thrilled to know her cloth crossed the Atlantic.
也很开心你喜欢那块布 She'd be delighted to hear how much you admired it.
你可能会想看我们家人的照片 I thought you'd like to see these snaps of my happy family.
大女儿席拉去年八月满12岁 Our eldest girl, Sheila, was 12 last August.
她是我的继女 法兰克的首任妻子在战时丧生 She is my ready-made daughter, as Frank lost his first wife during the war.
小女儿玛莉上周满4岁 Our youngest, Mary, was 4 last week.
去年五月 席拉在学校宣布她要寄结婚周年卡片… Last May, Sheila announced at school she was sending Mummy and Daddy...
给爸爸妈妈 ...an anniversary card...
还跟修女们说我们结婚四年了 ...and told the nuns at the convent that we had been married four years!
你也知道那是要费一番口舌去解释的 It took a bit of explaining, as you can imagine.
最后 祝你新年快乐 I will close this with all good wishes for the new year...
希望早日能在英国与你相见 ...and a wish that we may see you in England one of these days.
诺拉杜尔上 Sincerely, Nora Doel.
你觉得怎样？ So, how are you feeling?
还好 Not too bad.
舒服吗？ Comfortable?
伙食好吗？ How's the food?
还好 Not too bad.
我们又收到汉芙小姐的信 We had another letter from Miss Hanff.
-想听我念吗？ -好 麻烦你 - Would you like to hear it? - Yes, please.
"懒鬼 "Sloth.
"等你寄书给我读 我早就见阎王去了 "I could rot over here before you'd send me anything to read.
"要是我要的书出版了 我早该到布伦塔诺书店去买 "I should run to Brentano's, which I would, if anything I wanted was in print.
"在我尚缺书单上添加 《华顿生活选集》 "You may add Walton's Lives to the list of books you aren't sending me.
"购买尚未读过的书有违我的原则 "It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read.
"就像买没试穿过的衣服 "It's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
"这里的图书馆 连《华顿生活选集》都没有 "You can't even get Walton's Lives in a library over here.
"其实42街的分馆有 "You can look at it. They have it at the 42nd Street branch...
"却不准借回家 "...but not to take home.
"那个小姐对我说 在这里看… "The lady said to me, shocked, 'Eat it here.
" 坐在315室把整本书看完… "'Just sit down in room 315 and read the whole book...
" 不准喝咖啡 抽烟 "'... without a cup of coffee, a cigarette or air.'
"无所谓 "It doesn't matter.
"奎勒库奇引述了很多 所以我知道我会喜欢 "Q quoted enough of it so I know I'll like it.
"除了小说之外 他喜欢的我就喜欢 "Anything he liked, I'll like, except if it's fiction.
"我对虚构人物的故事… "I never can get interested in things...
"就是提不起兴趣 "...that didn't happen to people who never lived.
"你整天都做些什么？ 坐在书店后面读书吗？ "What do you do all day? Sit in the back of the store and read?
"赶快卖书给别人吧 "Why not try selling a book to somebody?
"汉芙小姐敬上" "Miss Hanff to you."
她还在括弧里写 "我对朋友才自称海伦" Then in brackets she's got: "I'm Helene only to my friends."
亲爱的汉芙小姐 Dear Miss Hanff.
有附注 There's a P.S.
"告诉诺拉和你的女儿 顺利的话 四旬斋她们会收到尼龙袜" "Tell the girls and Nora, if all goes well, they're getting nylons for Lent."
你一定觉得很累 You must be feeling tired.
对 Yeah.
感觉不会太糟吧？ Not feeling too bad?
再好不过了 Mustn't grumble.
好好休养 Good lad.
她的戏不会再演下去了 Her show is not going to run.
她很快会再回家 She's going to be home again shortly.
我要到第八大道和51街口的剧院区 So I'm going to look on 8th Avenue...
看能否找到平底鞋 ...and 51st Street in the theatrical district to see if I can find a flat.
她会很开心的 Oh, she'd love that.
听着 马克欣 我刚碰到你母亲 Now listen, Maxine. I just saw your mother.
她说你认为戏会演不到一个月 She says you don't think the show will run a month...
还说你带了两打尼龙袜过去 ...and she says you took two dozen pairs of nylons over there.
帮我一个忙 So, do me a favor.
只要演出结束的公告一登出来 就带三双尼龙袜到书店 As soon as the closing notice goes up, take three pairs of nylons...
替我拿给法兰克杜尔 ...to the bookshop for me and give them to Frank Doel.
说是送给他的两个女儿和太太诺拉的 Tell him they're for the two girls and Nora, his wife.
你妈说我不必付钱 因为她在百货公司甩卖买的 Your mother says I am not to pay for them as she got them at the sale at Saks.
她要捐给书店 感觉就像在支持英国 She'll donate them to the shop. She's feeling pro-British.
我的《艾勒莉皇后》剧本稿费已涨到每本250元 Ellery raised me to $250 a script.
要是稿费再提高 我就要亲自到英国去逛书店 If it keeps up, I'll go to England and browse around my bookshop myself.
只要我有那个胆量 If I have the nerve.
我远在千里之外 写了一封无礼的信给他们 I write them the most outrageous letters from a safe 3,000 miles away.
有一天我可能会走进那里… I'd probably walk in there one day...
没表明身份又溜出来 ...and walk right out again without telling them who I am.
乖狗狗 你真乖 Good dog! What a good girl you are!
你真乖 来 回家吧 You're a good girl. Come on. Let's go home!
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
我们不知道你如何买到… We are at a loss to know how you managed the nylons...
这些突然出现的尼龙袜 ...which appeared as if by magic.
我吃完午餐回来 发现它们放在我桌上并附有字条 When I got back from lunch they were on my desk with a note:
"海伦·汉芙寄" "From Helene Hanff."
似乎没人知道它们是怎么在这儿的 No one seems to know how or when they arrived.
姑娘们很兴奋 准备亲自写信给你 The girls are thrilled and are planning to write to you themselves.
很遗憾 我们的朋友乔治马丁先生因为病重… I am sorry to say our friend, Mr. George Martin, who has been so ill...
上周在医院病逝 ...passed away in hospital last week.
他在书店服务多年 He was with the firm for many years.
由于他和英王乔治六世骤然去世… So, with that loss, and the king dying so suddenly as well...
此刻我们都相当悲伤 ...we are a rather mournful crowd at the moment.
英国女王加冕典礼优惠行程 导游随行 特价359元
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
你写的《艾勒莉皇后》剧本 听来十分有趣 Your Ellery Queen scripts sound rather fun.
真希望能在此地的电视看到 I wish we could see them on our TV over here.
它需要更活泼一点 我指的是电视 不是你的剧本 It wants livening up a bit. Our TV, I mean, not your script.
我们都很高兴你要来伦敦 We're all thrilled that you'll be coming to London.
请务必告知时间 好让我们做必要的准备 Do let us know when, so we can make the necessary arrangements.
亲爱的海伦 谨附上几张照片 Dear Helene: I am enclosing a few snaps.
法兰克说照片有损形象 他本人比照片好看多了 Frank says none of them do him justice, he is much better looking...
就由他去作梦好了 ...but we just let him dream.
席拉回家休假 我们到海边… Sheila was home on break and we have been going to the seaside...
做一天的旅游 ...for day trips and sightseeing.
我们得节省一点 因为这里的交通费用飞涨 Now we must pull in our horns a bit, as the cost of transport here is terrific.
席拉会非常虔诚地为你祈祷… Sheila is going to say "a jolly good prayer" for you...
希望你来英国的愿望成真 ...so you may get your wish to come to England.
如果祈祷灵验了… So if "jolly good prayers" are answered, you might have a windfall...
你很快就能来看我们了 ...and be able to come and see us soon.
海边为何总是下雨？ Why does it always rain at the seaside?
-什么？ -海边为何总是下雨？ - What? - Why does it always rain at the seaside?
海边为何下雨？ Why does it rain at the seaside?
好让饭店的房价下降 To bring the rents down in the hotels.
那边下面有三颗坏牙 You've got trouble with three down on that side...
那边有一颗 ...and one over there.
我们要做牙根管手术 然后再补牙 We'll need to do extensive root canal work. Then the teeth will have to be capped.
那得花多少钱？ How much will this cost?
不少 大约两千五 A lot. About $2,500.
-全部费用都算在内 -天啊 - That's for everything. - Oh, God!
亲爱的法兰克 你和诺拉的假日想必很愉快 Dear Frankie: I trust you and Nora had a fine holiday.
我的假日在中央公园度过 Mine was spent in Central Park.
我跟牙医乔伊请了一个月的假 I had a month's vacation from Joey, my dear dentist.
他度蜜月去了 是我资助的 He went on his honeymoon. I financed it.
我有说过他叫我补牙 否则牙齿得拔光吗？ Did I tell you he told me I had to have all my teeth capped or all my teeth out?
我补了 因为我还是习惯有牙齿 I had them capped as I have got used to having teeth.
不过费用简直是天文数字 But the cost is simply astronomical.
我无法亲眼看到女王登基了 So Elizabeth will have to ascend the throne without me.
往后几年我只会看到牙齿加冕了 Teeth are all I'll see crowned for the next couple of years.
她不来了 She's not coming.
不来了？ Not coming?
海伦不来伦敦了 Helene's not coming to London.
至少近期不会来了 Not for a bit anyway.
随着英国展开历史新篇章… As a new chapter in history begins in Britain...
派瑞牌推出世界知名的床单有典雅的白色… ...Pepperell presents its world-famous sheets in classic white...
以及六种华丽的加冕色彩 ...and in six beautiful coronation colors:
公主粉红 公爵夫人黄 温莎玫瑰红 ...Princess Pink, Duchess Yellow, Windsor Rose.
走在他们后面的是英国首相… Behind them in procession, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
邱吉尔爵士 Sir Winston Churchill.
这个信号代表吹响喇叭 The signal is given for a fanfare.
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
你的包里在6月1日安全寄达 Just to let you know your parcel arrived safely on June 1...
正好赶上我们的加冕庆典 ...just in time for our Coronation Day celebrations.
当天有几个朋友到家里来 火腿是最受欢迎的待客佳肴 We had some friends over on the day, and so the ham was most welcome...
真是美味极了 ...to provide them with something to eat. It was delicious.
我们都举杯祝你和女王身体健康 We all drank to your health as well as the queen's.
真是道地的火腿 It's real ham, you know.
亲爱的法兰克 Dear Frank:
如果下个月你能让诺拉和女儿到教堂… I'll be obliged if you send Nora and the girls...
祈祷吉连 李斯 史奈德… ...to church for the next month to pray for...
坎尼拉 罗宾逊 哈吉 富罗 波德 纽康和拉宾先生… ...the continued health and strength of the Misters Gilliam, Reese, Snider...
也暨布鲁克林道奇队球员身体健康… ...Campanella, Robinson, Hodges, Furillo, Podres, Newcombe and Labine...
我将会感激不尽 ...collectively known as the Brooklyn Dodgers.
-我是道奇队球迷 -我是洋基队球迷 - I'm a Dodger fan! - I'm a Yankee fan!
他们要是输了全国锦标赛 我会自杀的 If they lose this World Series, I'll do myself in.
到时候你要怎么办？ Then where will you be?
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
我很乐意为道奇队加油 I shall be only too pleased to root for the Brooklyn Dodgers...
也希望你能为热刺队打气 ...if you will reciprocate by a few cheers for the Spurs...
他们目前战绩不佳 ...the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club who are at present languishing...
在足球联赛中排名落后 ...next to the bottom of the League.
不过 赛季季到四月才结束 However, the season does not finish until April, so they have time...
他们还有时间重振雄风 ...to get themselves out of the mess.
你们有乔治奥威尔的散文集吗？ Do you have a collection of essays by George Orwell?
我想要的那本叫《鲸鱼之中》 The one I really want is called Inside the Whale.
我不确定 等等 我看一下 I am not sure. Just a moment. I'll have a look.
我们没有奥威尔的散文 We don't have Orwell's essays...
倒是有很好的《动物庄园》初版书 ...but I do have a nice first edition of Animal Farm.
我特别想要散文 I particularly wanted the essays.
-我们可以帮你找 -我住在美国 - Perhaps we could find them for you. - I live in the States.
没问题 你可以留下地址 That's no problem. If you'd like to leave me your address...
好 Oh, sure.
我住在特拉华州的威名顿 I live in Wilmington, Delaware.
需要多久时间？ How long will it take?
通常来说要两三周 If we find one through our usual contacts, maybe a couple of weeks.
"真希望我有天堂的绣花布 镶着金银色的光线 "Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light
"那些蓝色 灰暗与黑色的布或明 或暗 "The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light
"我会把布铺在你的脚下 "I would spread the cloths under your feet
"但贫穷的我只有梦想 "But I, being poor, have only my dreams
"我已将梦想铺在你脚下 "I have spread my dreams under your feet
"脚步放轻 因为那是我的梦想" "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
-你们在干什么？ -我在工作 - What the hell are you doing? - I'm minding my own business.
你在干什么？ What are you doing?
不能这么做 把灯装回去 You can't do that! Put that light back!
-谁说的？ -我说的 我住在这里 - Who says? - I say, and I live here!
住不久了 女士 Not for much longer, lady.
亲爱的法兰克 这栋舒适的大楼出了大问题 Dear Frank: The sky fell on us in this cozy brownstone.
上个月我们收到搬迁通知 他们要装修这栋大楼 We got eviction notices last month. They're renovating the building.
他们认为我该找一间有像样家具的像样公寓了 They decided the time had come for me to get a real apartment with real furniture.
震惊之余 我到第二大道上的一栋大楼的工地… So shaking all over, I went to the construction site of a building...
签了租约 ...going up on 2nd Avenue and signed a lease...
租下一套有两间半房间的公寓 ...on a two and a half bed-sitter apartment...
而房子根本尚未完工 ...that isn't even there yet.
亲爱的海伦 别太惊讶 Dear Helene: Prepare yourself for a shock.
你上次来信所要的那三本书… All three books that you last requested in your last letter...
已经在邮寄给你的途中了 应该在一周内会到 ...are on their way to you and should arrive in a week.
别问我们如何办到的 这就是马克书店的服务 Don't ask how we managed it, it's just part of the Marks' service.
时报广场挤满了 喜气洋洋的纽约客和游客 Times Square is jammed with jubilant New Yorkers...
一起庆祝新年 ...and visitors celebrating the New Year.
百老汇闪烁的灯光照在百万名群众身上 The bright lights of Broadway shining on nearly a million festive folks.
象征着我们这个时代 The sign of the times.
新年快乐 Happy New Year!
周日夜晚 真是展开1960年的烂方式 Sunday night and a hell of a way to start 1960.
我不知道 I don't know.
有人送我这本书当圣诞礼物 Somebody gave me this book for Christmas.
《当代大文库》 你见过吗？ A Great Modern Library book. Ever seen one of those?
它的封面比… It's less attractively bound...
纽约州议会会议记录还丑… ...than the Proceedings of the New York State Assembly...
而且还更重 ...and weighs more.
是一个知道我喜欢邓恩的男士送的 It was a given to me by a gent who knows I'm fond of John Donne.
这本书的书名是 The title of this book is:
《约翰邓恩诗与散文精选集… The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne...
与威廉布雷克诗集？》 ...and the Complete Poetry of William Blake?
问号是我加的 请告诉我这两个人… The question mark is mine. Please tell me what those two boys...
除了都是英国作家之外… ...have in common except they were both English...
还有什么共同点？ ...and they both wrote.
"威廉布雷克小时候 看到先知以西结… "When, as a boy, William Blake saw the prophet Ezekiel under a tree...
"在田中的一颗树下 被母亲痛打了一顿" "...amid a summer field, he was soundly trounced by his mother."
我赞成他母亲的做法 I'm with his mother.
我是说 大家对 上帝和圣母玛莉亚难免好奇 I mean, the back of the Lord God, the face of the Virgin Mary, all right.
但谁想看先知以西结？ But why the hell would anybody want to see the prophet Ezekiel?
不过关键字是"精选" But the crucial word in all that is "selected."
《约翰邓恩散文精选集》 The Selected Prose of John Donne!
我坐在扶手椅上 宁静而安详 Here I was, in my armchair, so at peace with the whole world...
收音机播着古老而祥和的音乐 ...something old and serene on the radio.
好像是柯雷利的曲子 而桌上放着这东西 Corelli or somebody, and this thing on the table.
这本笨重的《当代文库》 This Giant Modern Library thing.
我想 So I thought:
"我要大声念出其中的布道" "I will read one of the sermons aloud."
邓恩的文章非大声念不可 You have to read Donne aloud.
就像巴哈的赋格曲 It's like a Bach fugue.
"全体人类就是一本书 "All mankind is one volume.
"当一个人死亡 这并非有一章被从书中撕去 "When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book...
"而是被翻译成一种更好的语言 "...but translated into a better language.
"每一章都必须如此翻译 "And every chapter must be so translated.
"上帝雇用了几名译者 "God employs several translators.
"有些文章由年龄来翻译 有些由疾病… "Some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness...
"有些由战争… "...some by war...
"有些由正义 "...some by justice.
"但上帝的手会将我们破碎的书页再黏合起来 "But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again...
"放到那个文库中 "...for that library...
"每本书都会在此对彼此打开" "...where every book shall lie open to one another."
我为邓恩的作品着迷 Dizzy with Donne.
我渴望看到更多 但已经找不到了 I craved for more, but the closet was bare.
散文精选集 记得吗？ Selected prose, remember?
轻声地告诉我 Break it to me gently.
要找全这位伟人的作品有多困难… How hard will it be to find the great man's complete sermons...
并且要花多少钱？ ...and how much will it cost?
法兰克 你是唯一了解我的人 You know, Frankie, you're the only soul who understands me.
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
你以前询问过现代版的… Some time ago, you asked for a modern version...
乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》 ...of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
我找到一本 你应该会喜欢 I came across a little volume which I thought you would like.
虽然不完整 但价格相当低廉 It is not complete by any means, but as it is quite a cheap book...
品质也颇高 我今天就会寄出 ...and seems to be a fairly scholarly job, I am sending it along by book post today.
售价1元3角5 Price: $1.35.
很好看 It looks very nice.
我们都和往常一样平安 We are all well and jogging along as usual.
24岁的长女席拉突然决定要当老师 My eldest daughter, Sheila, 24, suddenly decided to be a teacher...
所以在两年前辞去秘书工作 上大学去了 ...so threw up her secretarial job two years ago to go to college.
她还有一年才毕业 所以还有一段很长时间… She has another year to go, so it will be a long time before our children...
才能享受孩子们的清福 ...will be able to keep us in luxury.
祝安好 法兰克 Love from all here, Frank.
很好吃 很美味 Very nice. Very tasty.
我到伦敦演那出戏至今已经12年了 It's been 12 years since I was in London with that play.
-真令人不敢相信 -不只12年 有-- - I don't believe it. - It's more than 12 years. It was...
谁说乔叟的作品容易读？ That's enough Chaucer-made-easy.
它有莎翁入门书的那种学术味道 It has the schoolroom smell of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.
很高兴我读过 I'm glad I read it.
我喜欢修女优雅地用手指吃东西那部份 I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers...
她不会把油滴到身上 我永远都做不到 ...she never dripped any grease on herself. I could never make that claim.
别的不谈 光是故事就把我迷住了 Wasn't anything else intrigued me much, it's just stories.
如果乔叟有写日记描述在李察三世王宫… If Chaucer had kept a diary, telling what it was like to be a clerk...
当修道士的经验 我就会去学古英文 ...in the palace of Richard III, that I'd learn Old English for.
"读者不会相信这种事…" "The reader will not credit that such things could be..."
华特曾经这么写过… ...Walton says somewhere or other...
"但我当场亲眼看到了" "...but I was there and I saw it."
我就爱这种东西 我特别喜爱作者亲身经历的书 That's for me. I'm a great lover of "I was there" books.
-那出戏烂透了 -我以为你喜欢 - It was a rotten play. - I thought you liked it.
我讨厌极了 I hated it.
你应该高兴 那出戏让你去伦敦 You should be grateful. That play took you to London.
记得我有多嫉妒吗？ Remember how jealous I was?
没错 You were.
我好嫉妒 I was.
真的 I was!
亲爱的海伦 很高兴又收到你的来信 Dear Helene: Good to hear from you again.
我们还在 变老也变忙了 却没有变得更富有 We're still here, getting older and busier, but no richer.
我们过了一个愉快的夏天 游客比往常更多 We had a pleasant summer with more tourists than usual...
包括到卡纳比街来朝圣的大批年轻人 ...including hordes of young people making the pilgrimage to Carnaby Street.
我们都在安全距离外观看 We watch it all from a safe distance.
不过我必须说 我有点喜欢披头士 Though I must say, I rather like The Beatles.
只要歌迷别放声尖叫 If the fans just wouldn't scream so.
有好几年没有西西莉·法尔的消息了 We have not heard from Cecily Farr for some years now.
梅根·威尔斯到南非没多久就待不下去了 Megan Wells had enough of South Africa after a short time, and stopped in...
回来还遭到我们嘲笑 不过她后来又到澳洲去了 ...to let us say, "I told you so," before trying her luck in Australia.
你锁门好吗？ Will you lock up?
几年前我们收到她的圣诞卡 We had a Christmas card from her a few years ago...
但最近却没有只字片语 ...but nothing recently.
诺拉和孩子们也向你问好 Nora and the girls join me in sending love.
法兰克上 Frank.
法兰克 Frank.
你还在那里吗？ You still there?
还活着 对吧？ Still alive, are we?
我发誓找到工作才写信 I swore I wouldn't write until I found work.
我卖了一则故事给《哈珀》杂志 Sold a story to Harper's magazine.
我拼命赶了三星期 他们付给我两百元 Slaved over it three weeks. They paid me $200 for it.
现在他们要我写自传放在书中 Now they've got me writing a story of my life in a book.
你呢 法兰克？ How about you, Frank?
是的 我们都很好 Yes. We're all very much alive and kicking...
但经过忙乱的夏天 有点精疲力竭 ...though rather exhausted after a hectic summer.
听好 Now, listen.
我在一个下雨的周日向一位年轻朋友介绍《傲慢与偏见》 I introduced a young friend to Pride and Prejudice one rainy Sunday.
她很迷简·奥斯汀 她的生日接近万圣节 She's gone crazy for Jane Austen. She has a birthday around Halloween.
可以帮我找些奥斯汀的书给她吗？ Can you find me some Austen for her?
你能做到 I know you can.
无法在你朋友生日前及时找到简·奥斯汀的书 There's no hope of finding any Jane Austen in time for your friend's birthday.
有大批来自美国 法国 北欧的观光客… We've had hordes of tourists from the U.S. A...
买走我们的上好皮革封套书 ...France, Scandinavia, etc., all buying our nice, leather-bound books.
目前存书严重不足 So our stock is a sorry sight at the moment.
但圣诞节前应该能找得到 But perhaps we can find them for Christmas.
你当祖父了吗？ Are you a grandfather yet?
告诉席拉和玛莉 我要以她们孩子的名字… Tell Sheila and Mary that children are entitled to presentation copies...
作为我收集童书的名称 ...of my Collected Juvenile Works.
希望她们会因此抓紧生孩子 That should make them rush out and reproduce.
祝福诺拉和其他人 Best to Nora and anybody else around.
诺拉和孩子们都很好 席拉在教书 Nora and the girls are fine. Sheila is teaching.
玛莉和一个好男孩订婚了 Mary is engaged to a very nice boy.
但目前还不太可能结婚 But there is little hope of marriage for the time being...
因为双方都没有钱 ...as neither has any money!
诺拉想当祖母的心愿… So Nora's hopes of being a glamorous grandmother...
要延后实现了 ...are receding fast.
法兰克上 Love, Frank.
在我们当中有数百名便衣警察 There are hundreds of plainclothesmen in our midst.
他们许多人奉命殴打领导人 Many of them are under orders to beat up the leaders.
这无疑是一项政治活动… This is clearly a political...
针对部分执政当局的政治活动 ...activity, a political action on the part of the Administration.
他们不会获得特赦 They won't get amnesty.
我们将会有解决办法 所以活动不会持续下去 I think there's going to be a solution, so I don't think it will go on.
-怎么回事？ -回到警戒线那边去 女士 - What's going on? - Back on the other side of the cordon, lady.
-我问的是民事问题 -校园中不准进行示威活动 - I asked you a civil question. - No demonstrations allowed on campus.
-谁说的？ -女士 你搞这套太老了吧？ - Who says? - Lady, aren't you too old to be doing this?
回家烤苹果派吧 Go home and bake an apple pie.
你才回家烤苹果派 You go home and bake an apple pie or something!
好 女士 如你的愿 跟你的朋友一起进去 All right, lady. Make yourself happy. You get right in here with your friends.
我有话要说 别走 等等 我有话要说 I want to say something. Don't go away! Wait a minute. I want to say something.
想解决哥伦比亚大学的学生静坐抗议事件并不容易 There'll be no easy solution to the student sit-in on the Columbia campus.
黑人学生占领了这栋大楼 We want to point out that black students occupy this building.
我们要进驻哈林区 到那边提供支援 We are going into Harlem and bolster support there.
如果哥大不在这里面对黑人兄弟 So if Columbia doesn't want to deal with the brothers here...
他们就得到街上去面对了 ...they'll deal with them on the street.
你今天为何到此？ Why are you here today?
我们并不担心静坐或被捕的人 We're not concerned with the sit-ins themselves or the arrests.
逮捕行动并未牵涉到… We don't think there's any civil liberties issues...
公民自由的问题 ...involved in arresting people...
因为他们已经违法占领建筑物 ...after they've occupied buildings on an illegal basis.
1969年1月8日 你好 January 8, 1969. Dear Miss:
我刚看见你在去年9月30日写给杜尔先生的信 I have just come across the letter you wrote Mr. Doel last September 30.
很遗憾要通知你… It is with great regret I tell you...
他已在12月22日星期日过世 ...that he passed away on Sunday, December 22.
丧礼在1月1日星期三举行 The funeral took place last week on Wednesday, January 1.
他在12月15日被送进医院 开刀治疗盲肠破裂 He was rushed to hospital December 15, and operated on for a ruptured appendix.
很不幸 他感染了腹膜炎 并于7天后病逝 Unfortunately, peritonitis set in and he died seven days later.
他在书店工作了40年 He had been with the firm over 40 years.
科恩先生自然相当震惊 Naturally, it has come as a great shock to Mr. Cohen...
尤其马克先生才在不久前辞世 ...particularly coming so soon after the death of Mr. Marks.
你还要我们寻找你所订的书吗？ Do you still wish us to obtain the books you asked for?
敬祝安好 马克书店 Yours faithfully, P.P. Marks & Co.
秘书琼塔德太太 Joan Todd (Mrs.), Secretary.
亲爱的海伦 Dear Helene:
谢谢你的来信 Thank you for your very kind letter.
来信内容完全没有让我伤感 Nothing about it at all offends me.
我只希望你能见到法兰克 亲自认识他 I only wish that you had met Frank and known him personally.
他是个很能适应环境 具有高度幽默感的人 He was the most well-adjusted person with a marvelous sense of humor.
如今收到各方对他表达敬意的信 And now, I realize, such a modest person...
我才了解到他是一个多么谦逊的人 ...as I've had letters from all over to pay him tribute.
许多同业都说他博学多闻 And so many people in the book trade say he was so knowledgeable...
更不吝与人们分享知识 ...and imparted his knowledge with kindness to all and sundry.
如果你愿意 我可以把信寄给你 If you wish, I could send them to you.
不怕你见笑 有时我还会嫉妒你 At times, I don't mind telling you, I was very jealous of you...
因为法兰克太喜欢你的来信 ...as Frank so enjoyed your letters...
你的信带着与他一样的幽默感 ...and they, or some, were so like his sense of humor.
我也羡慕你的写作能力 Also, I envied your writing ability.
我和法兰克简直有天壤之别 Frank and I were so very much opposites.
他温文有礼 He so kind and gentle...
而我因为是爱尔兰人 总是在为权利而抗争 ...and me with my Irish background always fighting for my rights.
我好思念他 I miss him so.
人生真有意思 Life was so interesting.
他不断跟我解释书中的道理 He, always explaining and trying to teach me something of books.
我的女儿都很好 这是我最幸运之处 My girls are wonderful, and in this I am lucky.
很多像我这样的人都孤独一人 I suppose so many like me are all alone.
请包涵我潦草的字迹 Please excuse my scrawl.
诺拉上 With love, Nora.
亲爱的凯与布莱恩 Dear Kay and Brian:
我抽出时间清理书架 坐在地毯上… I take time out from cleaning my bookshelves and sitting on the rug...
身边都是书 祝你们一路顺风 ...surrounded by books everywhere. I wish you a bon voyage.
希望你们在伦敦玩得愉快 或许我没到过那边也好 I hope you and Brian have a ball in London. Maybe it's just as well I never got there.
我期盼了好多年 I dreamed about it for so many years.
过去我常看英国电影 只为了瞧瞧那些街道 I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets.
多年前 有朋友说 到英国去的人… Years ago, a guy I knew told me that people going to England find...
都能找到他们想找的东西 ...exactly what they're looking for.
我说我想去找英国文学中的英国 I said I'd go looking for the England of English literature.
他点头说 "它就在那里" He nodded and said, "It's there."
也许在 也许不在 Maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
环顾四周 我确定一件事 Looking around the rug, one thing's for sure.
它就在这里 It's here.
卖书给我的人几个月前过世了 The blessed man who sold me all my books died a few months ago.
书店老板马克先生也去世了 And Mr. Marks who owned the shop is dead.
但马克书店还在那里 But Marks & Co. Is still there...
虽然听说它会被拆除 但求求老天不要 ...though there's some talk that it might be demolished, God forbid!
如果你们刚好经过査令十字路84号 If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road...
替我吻它吧 ...kiss it for me!
我欠它太多 I owe it so much.
你好 Hello.
我有一本很久以前的伦敦旅游手册 I have a brochure from a long time ago for trips to London.
我知道现在不值359元 I know they don't cost $359 anymore, but...
但能否告诉我它现在值多少？ ...could you let me know what would it cost?
我来了 法兰克 我终于来了 Here I am, Frankie. I finally made it.