英语文化：西部电影英语台词欣赏

       说起西部电影，首先出现在我们脑海中的是一望无际的蛮荒原野，英勇独立、粗犷豪迈的牛仔，还有一言不合就持枪格斗的激烈场面等。作为美国本土电影，西部电影是对美国人开发西部的史诗般的神化。在荒芜的西部，总是有各种暴力冲突：白人移民和印第安人之间，农场主和殖民者之间，正派牛仔和反派强盗之间。

       西部电影的类型大致可以分为意大利式西部片，白人移民与印第安人战争类，警匪与法治类等。这些电影不仅让观众领略了西部壮阔的自然风光，更是为观众带来了色彩斑斓的传奇故事。

今天，我们整理了一些来自经典西部电影的英语台词，跟大家分享一下。

《被解救的姜戈》（Django Unchained）

I lived my whole life surrounded by black faces. I only had one question, why don't they just rise up and kill the whites?

我的生活中有很多黑人。我只有一个问题，为什么他们不奋起抗争，反对白人的压迫呢？

Normally, Monsieur Candie, I would say "Auf Wiedersehen." But since what "Auf Wiedersehen" actually means is "'until I see you again" and since I never wish to see you again, to you sir, I say goodbye.

坎迪先生，通常我会说“再见”，但“再见”意味着期待下次还能相遇。我不想再见到你，所以我跟你说“就此别过”。

It is the soaring eagle that attracts her attention, not the plucked chicken.

毕竟雄鹰更能引起姑娘的注意，而不是落汤鸡。

《燃情岁月》（Legends of the Fall ）

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

有些人能清楚地听到自己内心的声音，也跟随内心而活。这些人不是变成疯子，就是成为传奇。

Forever turned out to be too long.

永远实在是太远了。

There is much opportunity for anyone going to dedicated his self-labors.

每个人都有很多机会决定他们自己的命运。

Every warrior hopes a good death will find him.

每个战士都希望英勇地死去。

I haven't know the way to sent this letter, and I know you won't enjoy to receive it. I wrote it for myself. And so I will hide it away with all things left unsaid and undone between us.

我不知道该如何寄出这封信，也清楚你收到会不高兴。但我为自己而写，所以我会将这封信，连同我们之间尚未说过的话、尚未走过的路一起珍藏起来。

《与狼共舞》 （Dances with Wolves）

Time seems irrelevant except for the fact that I am bored.

除了那个让我感到厌倦的事实，时间好像停滞了一般。

Most of my work has been geared toward creating the illusion of strength and stability.

我的大部分工作就是创造一种强大而稳定的幻想。

There can be no place like this on Earth.

地球上任何一片土地都没有这般漂亮。

I'd never been in a battle like this one. There was no dark political objective. This was not a fight for territory or riches or to make men free. It was fought to preserve the food stores that would see us through the winter, to protect the lives of women and children that would see us through the winter.

我从来没有参与过这样的战争。这种战争与丑陋的政治目的无关，亦和领土、财富争夺、救人无关，只是为了保护过冬的储备粮食而战，为了保护陪伴我们过冬的妇女、孩子而战。

He reminded me that at his age a good fire is better than anything.

他提醒我，在他这把年纪，安定的生活比什么都强。

You know, some of the boys are saying if we ain't gonna fight...we could just settle this whole business with a little high stake poker.

你知道吗？我们当中有些人说，如果我们不去开战…...我们可以用玩牌的方式决定胜负。

《八恶人》（The Hateful Eight）

That’s the thing about war, Mannix, people die.

马尼克斯，战争意味着死亡。

Waiting for an opportunity, and knowing it’s the right one, isn’t so easy.

等待时机，而且是恰当的时机，实属不易。

Keeping you at a disadvantage is an advantage I intend to keep.

让你处于不利之地，我才能保持有利状态。

The man who pulls the lever that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man. And that dispassion is the very essence of justice. For justice delivered without dispassion, is always in danger of not being justice.

拉下操纵杆扭断你脖子的人，只会是一个无情的人，而这份无情，恰是正义最核心的本质。如果缺失了这份无情，正义就很难得以伸张。

Precautions must be taken because life is too sweet to lose!

生命实在太珍贵了，采取预防措施是必然的。

The only time black folks are safe, is when white folks are disarmed.

黑人唯一安全的时候，是白人没有武器的时候。

《荒野猎人》 （The Revenant）

When there is a storm. And you stand in front of a tree. If you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see it stability.

风暴来临，你站在一棵树前。如果你看着树枝，你确信它一定会落下来。但是，如果你看着树干，你看到的是它的强韧。

As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe, keep breathing.

只要一息尚存，就要继续战斗。深呼吸，不要停下。

I ain't afraid to die anymore. I'd done it already.

我不再畏惧死亡，因为我已经死过一次。

My heart bleeds. But revenge is in the creator's hands.

我的心在滴血，但复仇一事上帝说了算。

He is afraid. He knows how far I came for him. Same as that elk, when they run deep in the woods.

他在害怕，因为他知道我为了找他，这一路是怎样熬过来的。和麋鹿一样，害怕时躲进森林深处。

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