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Sign Your Life Away 选自电影《谍海计中计》

  前情提要:詹姆斯(柯林·法瑞尔饰)是麻省理工学院的高材生,临近毕业的他正拿着自己发明的远程入侵系统(在影片的最后,正是他的这个发明,诱使沃尔特露出原形,也成功地解救了自己)四处寻找工作机会。戴尔公司对他表示出了极大兴趣,与此同时他也引起了美国中央情报局负责人员招募的沃尔特(阿尔·帕西诺饰)的注意。下面这段对话正是在詹姆斯兼职的酒吧,沃尔特极力游说他加入美国中央情报局。 

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  James: What’d you like? 
  Walter: I would like to teach you something. 
  James: Okay. I’m pretty busy right now. 
  Walter: James, the most important thing you need to know is that you don’t know shit. (Tears the newspaper and then restores it) What you see...what you hear...Nothing...is...what it seems. 
  James: Drink? 
  Walter: Martini. 
  James: Sure. 
  Walter: That’s how it begins, you know. Call will come in a day or two. His name is John Medica. He’s head of R&D for Dell. He’s gonna invite you out for martinis. ①Before long, you’re gonna be working out of Advanced 1)Encrypting in Bethesda. Five years, you’ll get your first annual trip to Texas. You got a wife by then, point 5 kids注, 200K a year, and that’s it… ②that’s the whole show. Then you’re dead. And it all started because of one nasty  
  little martini. 
  James: So you’re a recruiter. 
  Walter: That I am. 
  (Highlights the letters “C,I,A”) 
  James: You’re kidding. 
  Walter: Applications for the CIA are up 2)tenfold
  James: Wow. Would I have to kill anyone? 
  Walter: Would you like to? 
  Woman: Beer man, Heineken? 
  James: Yeah, just a sec. All I know about the CIA is that they’re a bunch of fat, old white guys who fell asleep when we needed them most. 
  Walter: Oh, well, like I said, you don’t know shit. 
  James: I know what I know. 
  Walter: Nice meeting you, James. 
  James: You too. 
  Walter: Way I figure, you’ll probably go in the oil business...like your daddy. 
  James: Hey! Hey, hey, hey...Did you know my father? 
  Walter: James, I have recruited and trained and served with the best our country has to offer for over a quarter of a century. ③I am a 3)scary judge of talent. It’s my gift. I am recruiting you, Mr. Clayton. 
  James: In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not exactly  
  CIA material. 
  Walter: ④You have any idea what CIA material is? 
  James: It’s not me.  
  Walter: No? Well, I don’t know. You graduated top of your class at M.I.T., majored in nonlinear cryptography, ⑤scored off the charts in your undergrad psych  profile test
  James: Those are confidential. 
  Walter: Yeah, right. You’re 4)agile, 5)athletic, and... 
  James: And what? 
  Walter: You grew up overseas-Uzbekistan, Brunei and Venezuela. 
  James: Yeah, my father worked for Shell awhile.  
  Walter: Your father died in 1990...in a plane crash in Peru. 
  James: What’s your point? 
  Walter: What’s my point? What the hell you think my point is? My name is Walter Burke. My number’s on the sports page. Give me a call. I’ll be here till noon tomorrow. 


   
  詹姆斯:你想要点什么? 
  沃尔特:我想教你些东西。 
  詹姆斯:好的,但我现在很忙。 
  沃尔特:詹姆斯,你必须明白一件事,你根本什么都不懂。(把报纸撕碎,然后又魔术般地还原)你所看到的,你所听到的……都不是它们所呈现出来的样子。 
  詹姆斯:喝点什么? 
  沃尔特:马丁尼。 
  詹姆斯:好的。 
  沃尔特:事情总是这样开始的,知道吗?一两天内你会接到一个电话,打电话的人是约翰·麦狄卡,戴尔研发部的头头,他会约你出来喝马丁尼。不久后,你将会在贝塞斯塔中心研究高级加密,五年后,你得到第一次去德州(总部)开年会的机会,接着你会结婚,生子,拿着20万的年薪,而那就是……那就是你的整个人生。接着你将死去,而这些全都从一杯难喝的马丁尼开始。 
  詹姆斯:你是来招募我的吧?
  沃尔特:正是。 
  (在报纸上圈出C,I,A三个字母——中央情报局) 
  詹姆斯:你在开玩笑吧。 
  沃尔特:中央情报局的入职申请比以往多了十倍。 
  詹姆斯:嗯,我得杀人吗? 
  沃尔特:你想杀吗? 
  女声:酒保,来杯喜力啤酒。 
  詹姆斯:好的,马上来。据我所知,中情局只是一群满脑肥肠的白种老家伙,当我们最需要他们的时候他们却在呼呼大睡。 
  沃尔特:嗯,就像我说的,你什么都不 
  知道。 
  詹姆斯:我知道我所知道的。 
  沃尔特:很高兴认识你,詹姆斯。 
  詹姆斯:我也是。 
  沃尔特:我想,你大概只能搞搞石油相关的工作,就像你老爸那样。 
  詹姆斯:嗨!嗨,嗨,嗨……你认识我 
  爸爸? 
  沃尔特:詹姆斯,我招募、训练、与我国最优秀的人一起供职超过四分之一世纪了,我看人的眼光很毒,这是我的天赋。我打算招募你,克莱顿先生。 
  詹姆斯:给你提个醒(以防你不知道),我不是当情报人员的料。 
  沃尔特:你懂什么是“情报人员的料”吗? 
  詹姆斯:反正我不是。 
  沃尔特:不是?呃,我不明白。你毕业于麻省理工,是班上的尖子生,主修非线性密码系统学,在大学的心理能力测验中表现优异。 
  詹姆斯:这些都是机密档案。 
  沃尔特:对,没错。你很灵活,善于运动,并且…… 
  詹姆斯:并且什么? 
  沃尔特:你在海外长大,乌兹别克斯坦,文莱和委内瑞拉。 
  詹姆斯:没错,我父亲曾经在壳牌石油工作(经常换地点)。 
  沃尔特:你父亲于1990年死亡,死于秘鲁的一次飞机失事。 
  詹姆斯:你想说什么? 
  沃尔特:我想说什么?你认为我想说什么?我的名字是沃尔特·柏克,我的电话号码在体育版上面。给我打电话,我会在这里呆到明天中午。 

  Smart Sentences 
  ① before long 不久之后 
  before long: used to indicate sth. will soon happen(很快)。例如: 
  The interest rates will come down before long. 
  利息很快就会降了。 
  ② That’s the whole show. 那就是你的整个人生。 
  that’s the whole show: used to conclude sth. with emphasis(以强调的方式来总结)。例如: 
  My work, answering phones, typing, making copies, making coffee…that’s the whole show. 
  我的工作嘛,接电话、打字、复印、煮咖啡……这就是我的工作。 
  ③ I am a scary judge of talent. 我看人的眼光很毒。 
  a scary judge of sth.: very critical of sth.(对某事很苛刻)。例如: 
  Megan is a scary judge of her son’s girlfriends. 
  梅根对儿子的女朋友要求很高。 
  ④ You have any idea what CIA material is? 你懂什么是情报人员的料吗? 
  sth. material: a person qualifed or suitable for a position or activity(适当人选,有资格或适合某一职位或活动的人)。例如: 
  She is not university material. 
  她不是上大学的料。 
  ⑤ …scored off the charts in your undergrad psych profile test. 在大学的心理能力测验中表现优异。 
  score off the charts: ahead of most people(超出大部分人)。例如: 
  When I was in the elementary school, my typing speed usually scored off the charts compared to the rest of the class. 
  我在上小学的时候,打字速度常常是在全班领先。

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