英语片段4 外祖父和外孙的深夜对话（内附原文和中文）

Bryce：What would they have done with me?

如果我那样了他们会把我怎样？

Grandpa：You can't dwell on something that might've

been, Bryce.

你不该琢磨那些可能会发生的事，布莱斯。

Bryce：The way my dad was talking, sounds like he

would've thrown me in a nuthouse or something.

我爸说话的口气，听起来会把我扔进精神病院之类。

Grandpa：No, no. Now, that's not fair. You can't condemn

him for something he hasn't done.

不不 别这么说，这不公平。你不能用还没发生的事来谴责他。

Grandpa：This is where that tree was, wasn't it?

这里就是那棵树那里，是吗？

Bryce：Yeah.

嗯。

Grandpa：Must've been a spectacular view.

上面的景色一定很壮观。

Grandpa： She's quite a girl.

她是很不错的女孩儿。

Grandpa： Some of us get dipped in flat,

我们中有的人会渐露平庸，

some in satin,

有的会小有所成，

some in gloss.

有的则光彩照人。

But every once in a while...

但是偶尔…

you find someone who's iridescent.

你也会遇到一个光彩夺目的人。

And when you do...

当你真正遇到的这一刻…

nothing will ever compare.

那是无与伦比的美妙。