《英语影视作品赏析》:
精彩片段四
英王爱德华为了缓和局势,派伊莎贝拉前去和华勒斯和谈。对华勒斯仰慕已久的伊莎贝拉被他的为自由而战的勇气和英雄气概深深吸引。
Isabella: Let us talk plainly.You invade England, but you cannot complete the conquest so far from your shelter and supply.The king desires peace.
William: Longshanks desires peace?
Isabella: He declares it to me.I swear it.He proposes that you withdraw your attack.In return, he grants you title, estates, and this chest ofgold which I am to pay to you personally.
William: A lordship and titles...gold...that I should become Judas?
Isabella: Peace is made in such ways.
William: Slaves are made in such ways! The last time Longshanks spoke ofpeace,I was a boy, and many Scottish nobles, who would not be slaves, were lured by him, under a flag of truce, to a barn...where he had them hanged.I was very young, but I remember Longshanks'' notion ofpeace.
中文比读:
伊莎贝拉:我们坦白地说吧。你入侵了英格兰,不过凭你的补给和实力,你不可能征服整个英格兰的。国王渴望和平。
威廉:长腿渴望和平?
伊莎贝拉:他亲口告诉我的。我发誓。他建议你停止进攻并撤回去。作为回报,他可以给你贵族头衔、土地和这箱金子,我会亲自送给你。
威廉:封地、爵位、还有黄金,你要把我变成犹大吗?
伊莎贝拉:和平就是这么来的。
威廉:奴隶才是这么来的!长腿上次大谈和平的时候,我还只是个孩子,很多不想做奴隶的苏格兰贵族被这个打着和平旗号的家伙引诱到谷仓里,吊死了他们。当时我很小,但我记住了长腿的和平是什么样的。
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