三千年的渴望（晨曦DIGITAL 译）
我叫Alithea. My name is Alithea.
我的故事是真实的 My story is true.
不过，如果我把它当做童话来讲， You're more likely to believe me, however,
你更有可能相信我。 if I tell it as a fairy tale.
那么，很久很久以前 So, once upon a time,
当人类用金属翅膀猛地飞过天空时， when humans hurtled across the sky on metal wings,
当他们穿着有蹼的脚， when they wore webbed feet
在海底行走时， and walked on the bottom of the sea,
当他们手里拿着 when they held in their hands glass tiles
能在空气发出情歌的玻璃砖时…… that could coax love songs from the air...
有这么一个女人，她很快乐，也很孤独。 ...there was a woman,adequately happy and alone.
自我选择的孤独 Alone by choice.
快乐是因为她独立， Happy because she was independent,
以锻炼她的学术思想为生。 living off the exercise of her scholarly mind.
她的事业是讲故事。 Her business was story.
她是一位叙事学家， She was a narratologist
试图找到人类所有故事中 who sought to find the truths
共同的真理。 common to all the stories of humankind.
为此， To this end,nce or twice a year,
她每年都会去一到两次陌生的地方冒险。 she ventured to strange lands.
去中国的南海， To China,the South Seas,
去黎凡特的永恒城市......。 and the timeless cities of the Levant...
在那里，她的同类聚集在一起，讲述故事。 where her kind gathered to tell stories about stories.
这边 This way.
-对不起 -女士，这边 -Excuse me. -This way, lady.
你在做什么？ 你能放开手吗，拜托？ What are you doing?Can you let go, please?
伊斯坦布尔的奥秘。 The mysteries of Istanbul.
-Alithea!
Alithea!
欢迎！ Welcome!
-终于来了! 啊。 -Gunhan! -Welcome at last! Aw. -Gunhan!
-我亲爱的朋友 -My dear friend.
-哦，多好啊! -我很抱歉。 -Oh, how wonderful! -I'm sorry.
-这是阿米娜。 -阿米娜。 -This is Amina. -Amina.
来自英国文化协会。 From the British Council.
在机场的那个家伙对我的行李动手动脚。 That fellow at the airport manhandling my luggage,
你看到他了吗？ did you see him?
哪个家伙？ What fellow?
你来的时候他就跑了 He scuttled off when you arrived.
很矮小，穿着羊皮夹克，粉色领子。 Small, sheepskin jacket, pink collar.
有趣 Interesting.
他摸起来很热。 He was hot to touch.
穆斯基。 Musky.
也许他是一个精灵。 Perhaps he was a djinn.
更有可能是一个非法出租车司机。 An illegal taxi driver,more likely.
喷太多的古龙水了。 Wearing too much cologne.
对了，教授 So, Professor,
你说你相信有精灵？ you saying you believe in djinn?
我相信，有的人需要相信他们。 I believe there are those who need to believe in them.
包括我吗？ Including me?
精灵，鬼魂， Djinn, ghosts,
外星人，任何有用的东西。 aliens, whatever helps.
酒店为你安排了一个惊喜。 The hotel's arranged a lovely surprise for you.
这是阿加莎·克里斯蒂的房间。 It's the Agatha Christie room.
在这个房间里， In this room,
她写了《东方快车谋杀案》。 she wrote Murder on the Orient Express.
那么，如果你没有 So,how would you explain
测量和模拟气象数据的方法? the power of a thunderstorm
你怎么解释 if you don't have the means
雷雨的力量？ to measure and model meteorological data?
如果你不知道 How can you explain the seasons?
地球在轴上倾斜着 Autumn through winter to spring and summer,
围绕太阳运行 if you don't know that the Earth
你怎么能解释四季呢？ orbits the Sun while tilted on an axis?
一切都是神秘的。 Everything was mystery.
季节、海啸、微生物疾病......。 The seasons, tsunamis,microbial disease...
除了求助于故事，我们还能做什么？ What else could we do but resort to stories?
正如Binnie博士鼓励我们理解的那样 As Dr. Binnie has encouraged us to understand,
故事是使我们令人困惑的存在 stories were once the only way
变得连贯的唯一途径。 to make our bewildering existence coherent.
这是完全正确的。 That's exactly right.
我们为所有奇迹和灾难 We gave name to the unknown forces
背后的未知力量命名， behind all wonder and catastrophe,
通过相互讲述...... by telling each other...
通过相互讲述彼此的故事。 By telling each other stories.
-让我给大家展示一下 -let me show you.
我们讲述了具体的、强大的、可亲近的神的故事， We told tales of specific,powerful, relatable gods
这些神永远存在于所有的文化中，在所有的神话中， ever present in all cultures,in all mythologies,
从希腊人，到罗马人，到北欧人。 from the Greeks,to the Romans, to the Norse,
等等。诸如此类。 and so on,and so on.
熟悉的宙斯、波塞冬、雅典娜、 The familiar descendant of Zeus, Poseidon, Athena,
托尔等人的后裔， Thor, the whole gang,
即使在今天也能找到表达方式。 find expression even today.
这些就是他们遗留的痕迹。 These are their vestiges.
问题是，他们的目的是什么？ The question remains,what is their purpose?
我们现在对他们有什么要求？ What do we require of them now?
这里有神话，也有科学。 There is mythos,and there is science.
哦。对不起。 Oh. Sorry.
神话是我们过去知道的。 Mythology is what we knew back then.
科学是我们目前所知道的。 Science is what we know so far.
迟早， Sooner or later,
我们的创造故事会被 our creation stories are replaced
科学的叙述所取代。 by the narratives of science.
勤勉的科学。 Painstaking science.
而所有的神和怪兽 And all gods and monsters
都会比它们本来的含义活得更久， outlive their original purpose
最后沦为隐喻。 and are reduced to metaphor.
胡说八道! Rubbish!
Alithea!
Alithea.
发生了什么事？ What happened?
我不知道，她只是摔倒了。 I don't know.She just fell.
-她只是摔倒了。 -She just fell.
你还好吗？ Are you okay?
你不应该去看医生吗？ Shouldn't you see a doctor?
为什么？当我感觉这么好的时候去看医生？ Why?When I feel so well?
请原谅我，Alithea.你确定吗？ Forgive me, Alithea.Are you sure?
除了有点痛 Apart from the usual aches and pains,
没有什么不舒服的地方。 there is nothing untoward.
没有理由大惊小怪的。 There's no reason to make a fuss.
那么，刚刚发生了什么？ So, what happened back there?
最近，我的想象力越来越丰富了。 Lately, my imagination's been getting the better of me.
它突然涌向我。 Ambushing me.
我想这是一个警告。 I think it's a warning.
关于什么？ About what?
不要自满。 Not to be complacent.
要保持警惕。 To keep on my toes.
它不时地表现得很粗鲁。 It manifests rudely from time to time.
我试着不去反抗它。 I try not to fight it off.
它控制了一会儿，然后就消退了。 It takes charge for a moment,and then it steps back.
什么消退？ What steps back?
哦，Gunhan这都是胡思乱想。你不要在意。 Oh, Gunhan,it's irrational.Pay it no mind.
你的行为像个孩子。你知道吗？ You are behaving like a child. Do you know that?
你知道，我其实就是个孩子。 you know,I am actually a child.
如果有命运，我们能逃脱它吗？ If there is fate,can we escape it?
谁能说？ Who can say?
但我告诉你， But I tell you this,
在伊斯坦布尔的大巴扎里 in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul,
有62条街道和4000家商店。 there are 62 streets and 4,000 shops.
而在其中一个商店里，有三个房间。 And in one of those shops,there are three rooms.
在其中最小的一个房间里， In the smallest of those rooms,
有一堆没有分类的东西， there was a pile of things unsorted,
有旧的也有新的。 old and new.
从那堆东西的最底下， From the bottom of that pile,
我选择了一个纪念品。 I chose a memento.
你知道这是什么吗？ Do you know what this is?
我不确定，但它可能是Cesm-i Bulbul， I'm not sure,but it could be Cesm-i Bulbul,
夜莺之眼" a "Nightingale's Eye."
1845年左右，在Incirkoy有些玻璃制造商。 Around 1845, there were these glassmakers in Incirkoy.
他们以这种螺旋形的蓝白色图案而闻名。 They were famous for this spiral blue-white pattern.
哦，拜托。这是我送的礼物。 Oh, please.It's a gift from me.
选一些不那么悲凉的东西吧。 Choose something less forlorn.
还有，呃，如果这是Cesm-i Bulbul。 And, uh, if this is Cesm-i Bulbul,
呃，有什么办法可以验证它吗？ uh, is there a way of authenticating it?
嗯，他们说，如果是真的 Well, they say that if it is genuine,
有时你可以看到血迹。 sometimes you can see specks of blood
是来自吹玻璃的人肺里的 from the lungs of the glassblowers.
但这更可能是近期的仿品。 But this is more likely a recent imitation.
它已经被火烧坏了。选点别的吧。 It's been damaged by fire.Pick something else.
不用了，谢谢你，Gunhan. No, thank you, Gunhan.
我喜欢。 I like it.
不管它是什么，我相信它一定有一个有趣的故事。 Whatever it is, I'm sure it has an interesting story.
哪位？ Hello?
早上好， Binnie博士 Good morning, Dr. Binnie.
-早上好。 -这是客房服务。 -Good morning. -This is room service.
-是的。 -你喜欢鸡蛋吗？ -Yes. -How do you like your eggs?
呃，溏心蛋，谢谢。 Er, runny, please.
-和土司一起吃？ -是的，但不能有面包皮。 -And with toast? -Yes, but no crusts.
-两个蛋？ -只要一个 -Two eggs? -Just one.
-好的，谢谢 -谢谢 -Okay, thank you. -Thank you.
我将闭上眼睛，数到三 I'm going to close my eyes and count to three,
如果你能离开 after which I would be grateful
我将非常感激。 if you would be gone.
1 One,
2 two,
3 three.
4 Four,
5 five,
6 six,
7，8 seven, eight,
9，10 nine, ten.
我想你不会说英语吧？ I don't suppose you speak English?
德语？ Deutsch?
西班牙语？ Espanol?
埃利尼卡？ Ellinika?
你说荷马的希腊语?
我在大学学过一些
请别怕我
也不要随便对待我
我很感激你放我出来。
为此，我必须满足你三个愿望
这个规则不能破
只能是三
这个充满力量的数字
你不能无止尽的许愿
明白
我很了解这规则
你也不能许愿得到永生
你的本性是凡人
我的本性是不朽。
我也不能赦免罪恶或结束所有的痛苦
我只是精灵
这很合理
就是以上这些限制了
这个小东西是谁？
他是个。。。。巫师
引导我们穿越时空
爱因斯坦 Einstein.
你是把他关在这箱子里的女巫吗？
不
这是科学
电视。 Television.
能发出光和声波
发射器 Transmitters.
我不太了解它的工作原理
我是个文学家
我们所知不多
我是一个能力不强的精灵 I am a djinn of modest power,
但我开始理解这些传输信号。 but I begin to understand these transmissions.
哦! Oh!
你已经学会说我的语言了。 You've learned to speak my language.
这个英语很直截了当。 This English is straightforward.
我发现，它的规则学得很快。 Its rules quickly learn,I find.
我的意思是说 Nein, nein, nein.
你想把这个小艾伯特留给自己吗？ Would you like this little Albert for yourself?
不，不，不。 No, no, no.
这对他可不是好事。把他放回去。 That can't be good for him. Put him back.
-我可以放大他。 -怎么做？ -I could expand him. -How?
我们可以和他说话。 We could speak with him.
-这怎么可能呢？ -不，把他放回去 -How is this possible? -No, put him back.
-这是你的愿望吗？ -这是不可能的。 -Is that your wish? -This is not possible.
不，这是你的义务。 No. It's your obligation.
那么，你会希望得到什么？ So, what will you wish for?
你心中的愿望是什么？ What is your heart's desire?
现在，让我们，呃，不要急于求成。 Now, let's, uh, not get ahead of ourselves.
我需要慢慢来。 I need to take this slow.
我拥有世界上所有的时间。 I have all the time in the world.
告诉我你的情况。 Tell me about yourself.
我的名字是阿利特哈-宾尼。 My name is Alithea Binnie.
我在土耳其参加一个会议。 I am in Turkey for a conference.
我在一天内就会回我的国家 And I return to my homeland in a day's time.
还有呢？ Also?
另外，我有件事要坦白。 Also, I have a confession to make.
我从来没有告诉过别人的事情。 Something I've never told anybody.
很好。 Excellent.
我小的时候，有一个男孩。 When I was young,there was a boy.
你的初恋情人？ Your first lover?
不，不，不。他不是血肉之躯。 No, no, no. He was not of flesh and blood.
一个精灵？ A djinn?
不是。 No.
那时候，我发现自己在一所女子学校。 At that time, I found myself in a school for girls.
成群结队的女孩 Gaggles of girls.
我是... 嗯，我天生是个孤独的生物。 I was... Well, I am a solitary creature by nature.
还有这个男孩，恩佐。 And this boy, Enzo,
他来到我身边，从空虚中走来。 he came to me,out of an emptiness.
出于一种想象的需要。 Out of a need to imagine.
他用一种只有我们两个人说的语言 He told me stories in a language
给我讲故事。 that only we two spoke.
而且他总是在我头疼的时候消失。 And he always disappeared when I had a headache,
但当我因为哮喘而不能动的时候 but he was never far away
他从未远离过我。 when I couldn't move for asthma.
他就像这个小艾伯特 He was like this little Albert
你不愿意让我给你？ you would not let me give you?
显灵？ An emanation?
只是一个不存在的显灵 Only an emanation of an absence.
我担心他会离开，所以我把他写下来。 I feared he would leave,and so I wrote him down.
我把这本日记写得满满的，充满了故事。 And I filled this journal,bulging with facts.
但我越是试图插入现实主义， But the more realism I tried to insert,
我就越是开始怀疑， the more I began to doubt,
而且，呃，这一切都开始感觉很愚蠢。 and, uh, it all began to feel silly.
我觉得很傻。 I felt silly.
所以，过了一段时间 So, after a time,
我在学校的炉子里把它全烧了。 I burned it all in the school furnace.
在那之后，他就完全消失了。 And after that,he disappeared altogether.
然而，我还在这里。 And yet, I am here.
违反情理，没错 Contrary to reason, yes.
我在这里，我们有事要做。 I am here,and we have work to do.
请稍后再来好吗？ Can you come back later, please?
这是客房服务，宾尼博士。 It's room service, Dr. Binnie.
我把你的早餐送来了。 I have your breakfast.
稍等片刻! Just a minute!
必须关门。 Must close door.
早上好。 Good morning.
你想在哪里吃？宾尼博士。 Where would you like it, Dr. Binnie?
谢谢你。哦，我可以拿着它。 Thank you. Oh, I can take it.
-请允许我。 -不，不，我可以处理。 -Please, allow me. -No. No, I can manage it.
很好，宾尼博士。我希望你休息好了。 Jolly good, Dr. Binnie.I hope you are well rested.
哦，这看起来很好吃。 是的，我是 Oh, that looks delicious. Yes, I am.
今天天气不错，你打算做什么？ What do you plan to do on this fine day?
呃，我不确定。我在即兴创作。 Uh, I'm not sure.I'm improvising.
嗯，我想给你介绍一个美丽的艺术馆...... Well, I'd like to show you a beautiful art gallery...
你真是太客气了。谢谢你。 That's so kind. Thank you.
...今天下午，当你有机会的时候。 ...this afternoon,when you get a chance.
-也许下次吧。 -这会很不错的。 -Maybe another time. -It will be great.
谢谢你。祝你有个美好的一天。 Thank you.Have a beautiful day.
好的。请享用。 Okay. Jolly good. Enjoy.
谢谢你! Thank you!
更合适的尺寸，我明白了 A more convenient size, I see.
我尽我所能去适应。 I do what I can to fit in.
请吧。 Please.
我不需要点早餐。 I needn't have ordered breakfast.
这是nan-e nokhodchi。鹰嘴豆,丁香,开心果。 It's nan-e nokhodchi.Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.
它会在你的嘴里融化 It will melt in your mouth.
我可以问你一件事吗？ May I ask you something?
什么都可以。 Anything.
你怎么会进到我的瓶子里的？ How come you found your way into my bottle?
啊，这是个很好的故事。 Ah, it's quite a story.
那是我第三次被监禁。 That was my third incarceration.
你已经被困在瓶子里三次了？ You've been trapped in a bottle three times?
我也许是个精灵， I may be a djinn,but I'm also a fool
但我也是个喜欢和女人的谈话的傻子。 with too great a fondness for the conversation of women.
我以后要更加小心。 I need to be more careful in the future.
你当初是怎么被抓住的？ How were you caught in the first place?
靠欲望。 By desire.
还想知道什么呢？ How else?
她是谁？ Who was she?
Sheba.
示巴女王？ The Queen of Sheba?
她是我的亲戚。 She was my kin.
她是一个精灵？ She was a djinn?
她的母亲是个精灵。 Her mother was a djinn.
这有可能吗？ Is that possible?
有一些法律允许 There are laws that allow
精灵和凡人结合， the union of djinn and mortals,
但他们不能生出永生的子孙， but they cannot produce an immortal scion
就像驴和马 the way a donkey and a horse
只能生出无法生育的骡子一样。 can only produce a seedless mule.
那么，她是什么样子的呢？ So, what did she look like?
除了腿上浓密的绒毛外， Other than a thick glade of black hair on her legs,
她看起来和其他人类一样。 she looked like any other human being,
除了，当然，她是示巴。 except, of course,she was Sheba.
大家都说她很漂亮。 By all accounts,she was very beautiful.
她不是漂亮。她就是美本尊。 She was not beautiful.She was beauty itself.
我在各方面都是自由的。 I was in every way free.
我可以在她的卧室里进进出出。 I would come in and out of her sleeping chamber.
Sheba...
我和她的女奴一样清楚， I knew as well as any of her female slaves
那种触摸会让她幸福得发抖。 the touches that made her shiver with bliss.
我从来没有这么想要一个人。 Never have I wanted a creature so.
她想要你作为回报吗? And she desired you in return?
我是她的玩具。她的知己。 I was her plaything.Her confidante.
要不是所罗门，我可能会变得更厉害。 I might have become more,but for Solomon.
所罗门王? King Solomon?
受神眷顾之人 Blessed be his memory.
他穿越沙漠来追求她。 He came from across the deserts to woo her.
她没有去找他吗? Didn't she go to him?
不。从来没有。 No. Never.
但圣经上都写着呢。 But it's in all the holy books.
所有的故事和画。 All the stories and the paintings.
亨德尔为此创作了音乐。 And Handel wrote music about it.
夫人，我当时在场。 Madam, I was there.
你是自由的女王，就像一只强大的鸟，用公正的眼睛观察一切，
你为什么要把自己绑在人的床上？
亲爱的精灵，没有人能像你这样欺骗我
他从音乐开始。 he began with music.
我尽我所能劝阻她。 I did all that I could to dissuade her.
但当她 But when she used
用贾巴沙蜜蜂的香蜡 the scented wax of the Jabassa Bee
去掉腿上的毛时 to remove the hair from her legs,
我知道我输了。 I knew that I was lost.
但我像个傻瓜一样，继续告诉她， But I, like a fool,went on telling her
她的身体富足而可爱， that her body was rich and lovely,
但她的思想更富足，更可爱 but her mind was richer and lovelier,
也更能持久。 and more durable.
她同意我所说的一切 And she agreed with all that I said,
并流下了一滴热泪。 and dropped a hot tear.
她开始给他布置似乎是不可能的任务 She began to set him tasks,which seemed impossible,
要他在千百个房间的宫殿里 to find a particular thread of red silk
找到一条特别的红丝线， in the palace of a thousand rooms,
要他猜测她精灵母亲的秘密名字， to guess the secret name of her mother djinn,
要他告诉她女人最渴望的东西。 to tell her what women most desire.
这看起来确实不可能。 That does seem impossible.
对他来说不是。 Not for him.
他能与地上的野兽交谈， He could speak to the beasts of the earth,
也能与由精妙之火化作的精灵交谈。 and to the djinn made of subtle fire.
他找到了蚂蚁来寻找丝线， He found ants to discover the thread of silk,
找到了一只妖精来低语母亲的名字。 and an ifrit to whisper the mother's name.
然后他看着她的眼睛， Then he looked into her eyes
告诉她女人最渴望什么。 and told her what women most desire.
她感到很惊讶。 She was astonished,
并告诉他，他是对的。 and told him he was right.
于是她答应了他最想得到的东西， And so she granted him what he most desired,
那就是与她结婚并被带到她的床上。 which was to wed her and be taken to her bed.
他是一个伟大的魔术师...... He was a great magician...
用一句话 -...and imprisoned me
就把我禁锢在一个铜瓶里。 with a word of power into a brass bottle.
她没有为我求情。 She made no plea for me.
我对她来说什么都不是。 I was nothing to her.
一息之间 A breath in a bottle.
就这样，我被扔进了红海， And so, I was cast into the Red Sea
苦苦煎熬了2500年。 and languished for 2,500 years.
除了睡觉， Apart from sleep,
在瓶子里呆了2500年还能做什么？ what does one do in a bottle for 2,500 years?
精灵不睡觉 Djinn don't sleep.
那么，你是怎么渡过的呢? So, how do you manage then?
在最初的100年里，我对我的命运感到愤怒。 Well, for the first 100 years,I rage against my fate.
我向Boschkolo祈祷，希望得到释放， I pray to Boschkolo for my release,
如果这不起作用， and when that does not work,
我就向我知道的任何神祈祷， I pray to any god I know,
然后再向我可能不知道的任何神祈祷。 and then to any god I may not know.
当我仍然找不到答案时， And when, still,I find no answers,
我就在清醒的梦中 I spend my time in waking dreams
重温我生命中的所有故事。 revisiting all the stories of my life.
当我精疲力尽了很多很多次， And when I have exhausted this many, many times,
我又回到了我的祈祷和愤怒中。 I return to my prayer and my rage.
然而，最后。 And then, finally,
我对自己开了个玩笑。 I play a trick on myself.
我祈祷留在瓶子里。 I pray to remain in the bottle.
我恳求Boschkolo让我永远留在瓶子里。 I beseech Boschkolo to keep me always in the bottle.
那这样做有用吗？ And does that work?
渴望一无所有? To yearn for nothing?
假装什么都不想要， To pretend to want nothing more
只想装在瓶子里? than to be contained in a bottle?
不 No.
对于精灵来说，这是我们离死亡最近的一次。 For a djinn, it is the closest we ever come to death.
你知道她那道问题的答案吗? Do you know the answer to her question?
女人最想要的是什么? What women most desire?
是的 Yeah.
你不知道吗? Do you not know?
如果你不知道，我也不能告诉你。 If you do not know,I cannot tell you.
当然，我们想要的东西不都是一样的。 Well, surely, we don't all want the same thing.
夫人，你的渴望我一点也不清楚。 Madam, your yearnings are not at all clear to me.
我…我目前一切所需都已拥有。 I... I'm at a point in my life where I have all I need.
我敢说我很满足，而且很感激。 I daresay I'm content,and gratefully so.
告诉我。 Tell me.
你是妻子吗?一个寡妇吗? Are you a wife? A widow?
-恩……—也许是母亲? -Um... -A mother, perhaps?
我没有孩子，没有兄弟姐妹，没有父母。 I have no children,no siblings, no parents.
我曾经有过一个丈夫。 I did once have a husband.
Ah.
这个丈夫的肤色是什么? And what was the complexion of this husband?
他的肤色吗? His complexion?
一开始，它是发光的。 In the beginning,it was glowing.
最后呢? And in the ending?
这算不上什么故事。 It's not much of a story.
但这是一个故事。这是你的故事， But it is a story.It is your story,
了解那些控制你的人 and it is always wise
是明智的 to understand those who have a hold on you.
请继续 Please.
好吧，好吧，嗯 Well, okay, um...
我们从年轻时就认识对方。 We'd known each other since our youth.
我们，嗯，结婚很早 We, uh, married early.
一开始，我们在对方的思想 In the beginning,we took pleasure
和身体上获得快乐。 in each other's minds and bodies.
嗯... Um...
我们舒舒服服地度过了那几年， We passed the years comfortably,
然后，一切都 and then as it happens,
消失了， it all evaporated,
然后，呃…我们变得 and, uh... and we became
越来越少交流。 less.
他在哪里? And where is he?
他和艾米琳·波特在哈克尼。 He's in Hackney,with Emmeline Porter.
嗯 Mmm.
他告诉我… He told me I...
我无法读懂感情。 I was incapable of reading feelings.
我无法读懂他的感情。 I was incapable of reading his feelings.
得做个决定了 ...gonna have a resolution.
这太棒了！ This is exciting!
-这太棒了！-不，不 -It is exciting! -No, it's not.
让我猜猜看。没有人死在里面。 Let me guess.No one dies in it.
不 No!
我的大脑思维方式是......是...... The way my brain is wired is... is the...
是我的力量和 the source both of my power
呃，和我的孤独的来源。 and, uh, and my solitude.
我怀疑这就是我喜欢故事的原因。 I suspect that's why I like stories.
我通过故事找到感觉。 I find feelings through stories.
也许你可以许愿让他回来。 Perhaps you could wish for him back.
噢，不不不不 Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no.
不 No.
我…我本以为 I... I thought, um,
我可能会因为失去和背叛而悲伤，但事实上， I might grieve a loss and betrayal, but, uh,
不，我是自由的。 no, in fact, I was free.
我就像一个从地牢 I was like a prisoner
走到阳光下的囚犯。 emerging from a dungeon into the sunlight.
我拓展了自己的生活空间。 I expanded into the space of my own life.
不，我不能要求更多了。 No, I could not wish for more.
你是个聪明又谨慎的女人，Alithea. You are a wise and cautious woman, Alithea.
但我们都有欲望， But we all have desires,
即使它们一直隐藏着。 even if they remain hidden from us.
那也只是也许而已 That's as maybe.
但我也是一个叙事学家， But I am also a narratologist,
这将是一个问题。 and that is going to be a problem.
这将是一个非常大的问题。 It's going to be a very big problem.
你看，我知道所有 See, I know all the stories there are
关于诡计多端的精灵的故事， about trickster djinn,
以及他们为自己的目的 and the ways in which they manipulate wishing
操纵愿望的方式。 to their own ends.
我不是其中之一。 I am not one of them.
我敬畏神，尊敬神， I am god-fearing and honorable,
只为满足你内心的愿望。 and only here to grant your heart's desire.
好吧，即使这是真的， Well, even if that's true,
你怎么能依靠那些被召唤的人去许愿？ how can you rely on those called upon to wish?
你怎么知道你可以依靠我？ How do you know you can rely on me?
嗯，我希望如此 Well, I hope so.
和你一起，我当然希望如此。 With you,I certainly hope so.
有一个...... There's a...
有趣的小故事。我的意思是，你可能知道它。 funny little story.I mean, you probably know it.
三个朋友坐着一艘小船迷失在海上。 Three friends lost at sea in a tiny boat.
他们捞起了一条魔法鱼。 They pull up a magic fish,
鱼满足了他们每个人的一个愿望。 who grants each of them one wish.
第一个 The first one,
"我希望我在家里和我的妻子在一起" "I wish I were at home with my wife."
他消失了。 He vanishes.
第二个，"我希望我 The second one,"I wish I were playing
和我的孩子们在田里玩耍"。 "in the fields with my children."
他离开了 Off he goes.
而第三个，"我想念我的朋友..... And the third one,"I miss my friends..."
我希望他们在这里。" "I wish they were here."
你已经知道了。 You've got it.
关于许愿的故事，没有一个不是警示性的。 There's no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale.
没有一个是大团圆结局 None end happily.
甚至那些应该是笑话的也不例外。 Not even the ones that are supposed to be jokes.
但你和我才是这个故事的作者。 But you and I are the authors of this story,
我们可以避免所有的陷阱。 and we can avoid all traps.
那么，如果我根本就没有许愿呢？ Well, what if I made no wish at all?
抱歉？ Pardon?
如果我没有许愿呢？ What if I made no wish?
这将是一个... That would be an...
这将会 That would be
灾难性的! catastrophic!
好吧 All right.
我要告诉你我的接下来的监禁生涯。 I need to tell you about my next incarceration.
我洗耳恭听。 I'm all ears.
我永远不知道 I will never know
我的瓶子是如何从红海之底...... how my bottle came from the bottom of the Red Sea...
到君士坦丁堡的一个宫殿。 ...to a palace in Constantinople.
但我认为这涉及到 But I fancy somehow it involved
一名奥斯曼帝国战士的死亡。 the killing of an Ottoman warrior.
一个帝国的灭亡。 The fall of an empire.
还有一个恋爱中的女孩。 And a girl in love.
Merhaba.
你是谁？
一个精灵的遗忘
古腾作为奴隶 Gulten lived as a slave
住在宫里妃嫔的 in the courtyard of the concubines
院子里。 in the seraglio.
当我出现在她面前... When I appeared to her...
...她晕倒了。 ...she fainted.
我费了很大的劲才把她叫醒。 And I had great trouble rousing her.
我明确表示我对她并无恶意， I made it clear that I meant her no harm,
因为我已定罪呆在这瓶子里 for I was condemned to the bottle.
直到你实现你的三个愿望。 Until you got your three wishes.
-直到她得到她的愿望。 -Until she got hers.
-拜托-好的 -Please. -Okay.
然后，这个可怜的女孩告诉我 Now, the poor girl told me
她疯狂地爱上了一个英俊的男人... she was distractedly in love with a beautiful man...
她希望立即 ...and she wished immediately
得到他的好感。 to find favor in his eyes.
我给你做了这些东西
碰巧的是， As it happens,
她最渴望的人是出色的穆斯塔法。 the one she most desired was the splendid Mustafa.
穆斯塔法王子。 Prince Mustafa.
苏莱曼大帝的长子， Eldest son of Suleiman the Magnificent,
可能是他强大王位的继承人。 and likely heir to his mighty throne.
如果我知道将要发生什么， Had I known what was to come,
我会冒着伊布利斯愤怒的危险 I would've risked the furies of Iblis
最大程度地分散她的注意力。 to vehemently distract her from her wish.
但我不假思索 But without thinking,
拿起我的瓶子，变出油来 I took my bottle and conjured oils
为她做准备。 to prepare her.
那种曾经只有Sheba Oils of enchantment
使用过的魔法油。 once used only by Sheba.
我告诫她要把瓶子藏起来， I cautioned her to hide the bottle
以免它的力量落入其他人手中。 lest its powers fall into other hands.
我去找了穆斯塔法。 I went to Mustafa.
Gulten.
我轻声叫着她的名字。 I whispered her name.
他派人去找她。 He sent for her.
这太容易了。 It was so easy.
作为一个精灵，我对人类的做事方式 As a djinn,I am endlessly curious
有着无尽的好奇心。 about the ways of humans.
因此，在闲暇时间， So, in my spare time,
我开始在宫殿里闲逛，寻找其中的奥秘。 I took to wandering the palace in search of its intrigues.
在那里，在太监、 And there, among the eunuchs,
妃子和嫔妃中， the consorts,and the concubines,
我第一次见到胡里姆。 I first saw Hurrem.
那个正在笑的人 The Laughing One.
她也是一个奴隶 She, too, was a slave
她在他们之中崭露头角， who had risen through the center of them all
成为苏丹的宠儿。 to become the Sultan's favorite.
苏莱曼智者除了看到她之外，没有其他人。 Suleiman the Wise saw none but her.
她试图保护他的王位， And she sought to protect his throne
让自己的儿子取代他心爱的穆斯塔法。 in favor of her own sons over his beloved Mustafa.
为此，她派出了许多眼线 And to this end,she had the prince watched
盯着王子。 by many probing eyes.
当我看到Hurrem When I saw how Hurrem
如何成功地完成了她的杰作时， made a masterpiece of her manipulations,
我担心我的Gulten可能会被困在这张关系网里。 I worried that my Gulten might be caught in this web.
我试着警告她要小心。 I tried to warn her to be careful.
但她已经决定了第二个愿望。 But she had already decided on her second wish.
我许愿怀孕
穆斯塔法的？别这样
我心意已决，满足我的愿望
马上
请等等
错得离谱 Such a mistake.
因为在这一刻， Because at this moment,
苏莱曼，这个神眷之人 Suleiman, blessed be his name,
正在被逐渐削弱。 is being undermined.
他的战士们认为他正在变得软弱， His warriors believe he is going soft,
他对他的诗歌更感兴趣， more interested in his poetry
而不是铁腕统治。 than ruling with a strong hand.
胡勒姆助长了 Hurrem fuels the rumors
军方想要夺取他的王位， that the military want to take his throne
用穆斯塔法取代他的谣言。 and replace him with Mustafa.
这位王子成了无休止的 The prince has become a pawn
权力游戏中的一枚棋子。 in the ceaseless game of power.
伟大的苏莱曼， Suleiman the Magnificent,
征服者苏莱曼， Suleiman the Conqueror,
帝国的保护者和保护者， patron and protector of empires,
父亲苏莱曼， Suleiman the Father,
面临着一个 was left with a choice
他知道会让他心碎的选择。 that he knows will break his heart.
与此同时，古腾认为 Gulten, meantime,saw no reason
没有理由不让她露面。 why she should remain unseen.
鉴于她怀的是下一任苏丹的儿子。 Given she was carrying the son of the next Sultan.
她不顾我所有的警告， Despite all my warnings,
炫耀着自己刚刚隆起的胸部和腹部。 she parades her newly swollen breasts and belly.
风声很快传遍了整个宫廷。 And the whispers soon spread throughout the seraglio.
可怕的阴谋进展得太快了。 The terrible plottings move all too quickly.
穆斯塔法王子天真地 Prince Mustafa comes innocently
来到父亲面前， into the presence of his father,
向父亲保证自己的忠诚。 to reassure him of his loyalty.
苏丹陛下
父王
而缄默者正在等待他。 And the mutes are waiting for him.
他向爱戴他的 He cried out to his Janissaries,
禁卫军士兵呼救 who loved him,
但他的声音被他父亲的弓弦压碎了， but his voice was crushed and his breath stopped
他的呼吸也停止了。 by the string of his father's bow.
-Gulten!
他们来抓你了！
快许愿！
只要再许一个愿！
为什么？
他们正赶过来杀你！
王子会保护我的！
他什么都做不了了
快许愿，许愿！
他爱我
他死了！
爱护他的人都死了！
Hurrem来找你了
许愿！ "Make a wish!
救你自己,Gulten ! "Save yourself, Gulten!"
只需要几句话，她就可以 Just a few words and she could have been free
安全地生下她的孩子， to bear her child in safety,
而我也终于可以魂归精灵界了。 and I to spirit away at last to the Realm of Djinn.
但她跑到了刺客的手里。 But she ran into the hands of the assassins.
我正准备用武力救回他们， I was about to take them by force,
却被伊比利斯的一个追随者挡住了。 when I was blocked by a follower of Iblis.
这里不欢迎你
你无法改变她的故事
如果她不许愿，你就完蛋了
Gulten!
她没有许下要拯救自己的愿望。 She made no wish to save herself.
没有为拯救我们俩而许愿。 No wish was made to save us both.
所以，我在那里， So, there I was,
或者说我不在那里，你也可以说， or there I was not,might you say,
我差点就被解放了，结果我被一个未完成的第三个愿望 almost emancipated and tethered to this world
拴在这个世界上。 by a third wish unperformed.
但你意识到了，对吧？ But you realize, don't you,
你刚刚给我讲了一个女人因为自己的愿望， that you've just told me the story of a woman who was doomed
而注定要失败的故事？ as a consequence of the wishes she made?
是的，但她没有完成的愿望 Yes, but her failure to complete the wishes
也注定了我的失败。 also doomed me.
没有人可以完成这个愿望吗？ Could nobody else complete the wish?
这是我的希望。 That was my hope.
最终这将解放你？ And that would finally liberate you?
这是我唯一的希望。 That was my only hope.
但是，你却被弄得消失了。 But you were rendered invisible.
像个幽灵一样。 Like a ghost.
徘徊在看不见的地方。 Wandering unseen.
而你的瓶子， And your bottle,
藏在松动的石头下 hidden under the loosened stone
只有死去的Gulten知道。 known only to the dead Gulten.
是的，我被困在那了。 Yes,it was a predicament.
我试图吸引人们的注意， I tried to attract the attention of someone,
任何能帮助我的人都行。 anyone that could help me.
我的天啊，我那么努力 My stars, how I tried.
我追踪他们的气味，追踪他们的每一步。 I followed their scent,their every step.
愿意,恳求,尖叫。 Willing, pleading, screaming.
只要能把他们吸引过来 Anything to draw them to me.
我就这样可怜兮兮地做了100年， And I do this piteously for 100 years,
每一次失败，我的意志就开始消退。 and with every failure,my will begins to fade.
然后在1620年， And then in 1620,
希望终于出现。一个持剑的男孩现身了 hope comes in the form of a boy with a sword.
两兄弟和女巨人
Murad! Murad!
Murad!
通过某种方式，这个男孩感觉到了我。 By some means,this boy senses me.
我能够把他吸引到石头上。 I'm able to draw him to the stone.
Ibrahim!
Gel.
Murad!
Ibrahim!
就在我即将 And just as I am about to be delivered
到达他们手中的时候 into their hands,
他们的母亲找到了他们。 their mother finds them.
她是Kosem， She is Kosem,
苏丹艾哈迈德一世的遗孀。 a widow of the Sultan,Ahmed the First.
而男孩们则是王位的下一个继承者。 And the boys are next in line for the throne.
当我看到他腿上的毛发。 When I see the hair on his legs,
我知道，在穆拉德的血脉某处， I know that somewhere in Murad's bloodline
涌动着精灵的力量。 pulses the power of a djinn.
我到处跟着他， I follow him everywhere,
决心把他拉回到石头上。 determined to draw him back to the stone.
但在11岁时，他就登上了王位， But at the age of 11, he ascends the throne
成为穆拉德第四苏丹。 and becomes Sultan Murad the Fourth.
他又陷入了惯常的阴谋诡计， And caught up by the usual intrigues,
他对我来说更加迷茫。 he is even more lost to me.
20岁时，他带领他的军队去打仗。 At 20, he leads his armies to war.
他与他的手下 He battles alongside his men
在高加索和美索不达米亚并肩作战。 in the Caucasus and Mesopotamia.
关于他鲁莽的故事传得到处都是， Stories are told of his recklessness,
甚至伴随了他一生 even with his own life.
再一次，我对见到他这事感到绝望。 I despair of ever seeing him again.
“希望”是一个怪物，Alithea，而我是它的玩物。 Hope is a monster, Alithea,and I am its plaything.
所以他死了吗? So he died?
不是在战场上。 Not in battle.
回到伊斯坦布尔， Back in Istanbul,
科瑟姆需要保护王位。 Kosem needs to protect the throne.
她需要保护易卜拉欣。 She needs to protect Ibrahim.
—小弟弟吗? -是的。 -The little brother? -Yes.
他是奥斯曼家族的独苗。 He is last of the Ottoman line.
他必须生男孩。 He has to produce male children.
所以，科瑟姆把他锁在一个铁笼里，铁笼里全是黑貂皮。 So, Kosem locks him in a cage lined entirely with sable.
相当于监狱。 Quite the prison.
而且是一个他永远不想离开的地方。 And one he will never want to leave.
这让他大为放荡。 It debauches him royally.
他认为肉体的面积越大， He believes the greater the expanse of flesh,
快感就越强烈。 the more intense the pleasure.
因此，科塞姆寻找丰满而巨大的美女， So, Kosem seeks out beauties voluptuous and immense,
并把她们带到他的沙发上。 and brings them to his couch.
我的命运完全取决于这个恋物癖。 My fate turns specifically on this fetish.
这是怎么回事? How's that?
你会明白的。 You'll see.
穆拉德回来了。 Murad is back.
虽然他回来时是个征服者， And though he returns a conqueror,
但他已经不能脱下他的染血战袍。 he cannot shed his robes of blood.
战争已经真正腐化了他的灵魂。 War had truly rotted his soul.
我等待着，直到他独自一人。 I wait until he is alone.
我决心把他引回石头上。 I am determined to draw him back to the stone.
我不想打断你，但我确实有一个问题。 I don't want to interrupt,but I do have a question.
对你来说，这样的人 Did it matter to you what kind of wish
可能会许下什么样的愿望很重要吗？ such a man might make?
一个如此贪得无厌的人。 One so insatiable.
不重要 No.
即使是极度邪恶也不重要？ Not even if it were profoundly evil?
如果这意味着我的自由，也不重要 Not if it meant my freedom.
事实是他有其他事情要做。 The truth is he has other things on his mind.
他相信自己是无敌的。 He believes he is invincible,
要想无限期地统治，他必须除掉所有的对手。 and to rule indefinitely,he must be rid of all rivals.
为什么要浪费你的剑，我的雄狮
Ibrahim.
大哥
他只是个孩子，他怎么可能有能力统治？
科瑟姆必须阻止他。 Kosem needs to stop him.
无论如何，她需要用其他乐子 Somehow, she needed to distract him
来转移他的嗜血欲望。 from his bloodlust with other gratifications.
首先，她安排他一直醉醺醺的 First, she arranges for him to be perpetually drunk.
然后她做了件非常精明的事。 And then she tries something very shrewd.
你可能会喜欢的事。 Something that you might enjoy.
她派人 She sends to find,
从帝国的各个角落 from all corners of the empire,
寻找最会讲故事的人。 the best storytellers.
那些没有口才的人在恐惧中逃跑， Those who are not persuasive
或者倒在他的不耐烦中。 flee in fear or fall to his impatience.
只有一个人 There is only one
有能力使他着迷。 who has the ability to enchant him.
用故事来抚慰他， To soothe with stories,
让他被故事的展开深深吸引。 to hold him hostage to their unfolding.
这是他唯一的朋友。 This is his only friend.
然后友谊就变成了爱情。 And that friendship turns to love.
因为我没有别的事可做 Since there is nothing else for me to do,
所以我满怀感激地听着， I listen gratefully,
因为我也喜欢沉浸在他的故事里。 for I, too, love being lost in his stories.
老人死后， When the old man dies,
王宫里的人都逃到街上， all in the palace flee to the streets,
因为他们担心穆拉德的悲痛会招致新的屠杀。 for they fear Murad's grief will incur fresh murder.
但他只是坐着，嚎叫着，一直喝酒，直到喝空为止。 But he just sits, and howls,and drinks until he is empty.
而我的耐心得到了回报。 And my patience is rewarded.
因为在这种状态下， For in this state,
我终于能够引起他的注意。 I am finally able to get his attention
并把他引回那个隐秘的浴室。 and draw him back to the secret bathroom.
哦，我知道接下来会发生什么。 Oh, I know where this is going.
他将会太虚弱，无法举起石头。 He's going to be too weak to lift the stone.
甚至连转动门闩都不行。 Too weak even to turn the latch.
于是，他离开了，喝得酩酊大醉，永远睡不着觉。 So, he leaves and drinks himself to permanent sleep.
Oh!
而我就只能在那里， And there I am,
被人遗忘 left to my own oblivion,
没有人听到我的声音 with no one to hear my voice,
没有人认识我，没有人感觉得到我，更没有人感知我。 no one to know me,nor feel me, nor sense me.
你无法想象。 You can't imagine.
嗯，实际上，我可以。 Well, actually, I can.
你能想象那种孤独感吗？ Can you imagine the loneliness?
怎样才能击垮它？ How it might overwhelm?
我可以。 I can.
只有当我们对别人来说是真实的，我们才会存在。 We exist only if we are real to others.
你同意吗？ Do you agree?
我同意 I do.
这就是我们的命运，Alithea. This, then,is our fate, Alithea.
如果你根本不许愿， If you make no wish at all,
我就会被困在两个世界之间， I will be caught between worlds,
永远隐形，永远孤独。 invisible and alone,for all of time.
许个愿吧, Alithea. Make a wish, Alithea.
让它成为你的心愿。 Make it your heart's desire.
如果我是你，我会更加小心。 I'd be more careful if I were you.
很明显，你想办法找到了应对之法。 Obviously, you managed to find your way out.
或多或少有点。 More or less.
我一开始认为我是在一个 I'm beginning to think I'm in the presence
诡计多端的人面前。 of a trickster.
如果是那样就好了。 That would be so much better.
我的工作会轻松很多。 My work would be so much easier.
但事实是，我只是个 But the truth is,I am just an idiot
运气差得离谱的白痴 who has been extravagantly unlucky.
好吧，我不得不相信你的话。 Well, I have to take your word for that.
那么？ So?
我想，Ibrahim, 最后成为了苏丹吧？ Ibrahim, I suppose, becomes Sultan?
Ibrahim, 必须被拖到王位上。 Ibrahim has to be dragged to the throne.
他任命他的一个嫔妃 He appoints one of his concubines
成为大马士革的总督。 Governor of Damascus.
她的名字叫Sugar Lump（糖块）。 Her name is Sugar Lump.
无论从哪个角度看，都是他的最爱。 By every measure,his favorite.
如果她不是到处溜达的话。 Had she not been free to roam,
她就不会发现那个秘密浴室。 she would not have found the secret bathroom.
要不是她决定去洗澡， Had she not decided to take a bath,
水就不会灌满了。 it would not have overfilled.
如果她在地板上走的时候 Had she not been clumsy
不是笨手笨脚的话 as she walked across the floor,
她就不会滑倒，摔碎石头， she would not have slipped,smashed the stone,
-然后找到我的瓶子。 -啊，是的。 -and found my bottle. -Ah, yeah.
说实话，我应该更有尊严一些。 To be honest, I should have been more dignified.
但我开始乞求，无耻地乞求。 But I began to beg,shamelessly.
求求你，好心的女士，我的情况很糟糕
已经迫在眉睫了，你得帮我
你可以许愿，任何愿望都可以
我不想与邪恶的精灵有任何关系
你有什么想要的吗？
一定有的，许愿吧！说出来！告诉我！现在就说！快！
我希望你回到 "I wish you were back
你在博斯普鲁斯海峡底的瓶子里。" " in your bottle at the bottom of the Bosphorus."
所以我在这里， So here I am,
落入了你小心翼翼的手中。 fallen into your careful hands.
似乎我们无法逃避对方。 Seems we cannot escape each other.
你让我听从你的摆布。 You have me at your mercy.
这种许愿.... This wishing...
是一种危险的艺术。 It's a hazardous art.
"我希望 "会带来无尽的解脱。 "I wish" brings infinite unravelings.
不一定。 Not necessarily.
嗯，在你所有的故事里都有。 Well, it's there in all your own stories.
我知道,但是…… I know, but...
你说你不是骗子， You say you're not a trickster,
你还说你和我是这个故事的作者。 and you say that you and I are the authors of this story.
但我无法把自己写出来。 But I'm not able to write myself out of it.
对 Correct.
你为什么不跳回你的瓶子里 Why don't you just hop back into your bottle
我就把它交给更容易受骗的人呢？ and I'll give it to someone more gullible?
更绝望的人，更贪婪的人 Someone more desperate.Someone more greedy.
我不会再回到瓶子里了。 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
为什么？ Why not?
我不会再回到瓶子里了。 I'm not getting back in the bottle.
好吧，我不是在提出三个愿望。 Well, I am not making three wishes.
那你就是在把我送进湮没的深渊。 Then you are sending me to my oblivion.
噢，你真难对付 Oh, you're impossible.
你让我感到头疼。 And you are giving me a headache.
好吧，好吧 All right. All right.
我将这样做。我将提出三个愿望。 Here's what I'll do.I will make three wishes.
-我会。 -在你死之前？ -I will. -Before you die?
是现在。一个接一个。 Right now.One after the other.
-准备好了吗？ -嗯，嗯。 -Ready? -Mmm-hmm.
第一。我希望你的头痛消失。 Number one. I wish your headache were gone.
第二。 Number two.
I wish for a sip of this tea. 我希望能喝上一口这种茶。
最后，我希望再来一个这个。 And finally, I wish for another one of those.
你耍我。 You mock me.
三个愿望，非常简单， Three wishes,perfectly simple,
而且理论上是安全的。 and theoretically safe.
我被所罗门囚禁， I was imprisoned by Solomon precisely
正是因为我喊出了我内心的愿望。 because I cried out my heart's desire.
只有答应你的要求，我才能重获自由。 Only by granting you yours may I earn my release.
是的，好吧，我很欣赏这种对等， Yes, well,I appreciate the symmetry,
但问题是， but the thing is this,
我这辈子都提不出一个合适的愿望。 I cannot for the life of me summon up one eligible wish.
而你还要我给你三个。 And you're asking me for three.
你身上还有没有生命力？你还活着吗? Is there any life in you? Are you even alive?
知道吗，在某些文化中， You know, in some cultures,
没有欲望就意味着开悟。 absence of desire means enlightenment.
那么你就是一个虔诚的傻瓜。 Then you are a pious fool.
如果我很满足，为什么还要去冒险? If I'm content,why tempt fate?
而你是个懦夫。 And you're a coward.
别刺激我。 Don't goad me.
无论是人类、天使还是精灵， There is no human,no angel, nor djinn
都不会不抓住这个机会 that wouldn't grasp at the chance
来满足他们内心深处的渴望， to fulfill their deepest longings,
而我却得搞定一个声称 and I am saddled with the one
什么都不想要的人。 who claims to want nothing at all.
Alithea Binnie,你是个骗子! Alithea Binnie,you are a liar!
你知道，我开始希望我们从未见过面。 You know, I am beginning to wish we never met.
不！不！不！ No! Nyet!
别这么说! Don't say that!
那么 So...
这事以前就在你身上发生过。 that's happened to you before.
那太糟了 And it was bad.
是很糟糕。 it was bad.
太苦了。 it was bitter.
这是最残酷的愿望。 it was the cruelest wish of all.
你又一次被愚蠢的行为毁了。 You were undone by silliness yet again.
我在这里是因为一个天才。 I'm here because of a genius.
这次是又谁? Who was it this time?
她是Zefir。 She was Zefir.
在人类中很少有这样的奇迹。 Rarely among humankind has there been such a wonder.
但你在这里是因为她的愚蠢。 But you're here because of her folly.
我是由于Zefir的缘故才落得如此下场。 I ended up in this as a consequence of Zefir.
而这就是你一直以来 And this is the story
都在避免告诉我的故事。 you've been avoiding telling me all along.
这个故事我连自己都不想讲。 This is the story I've avoided telling even myself.
Zefir是一个弃儿， Zefir was a foundling,
12岁时嫁给了一个富有的商人。 married at 12 to a wealthy merchant.
他比她大得多，而且很善良， He was much older than her, and kind,
如果你认为把一个人像鸟一样关在笼子里是善良的话。 if you think keeping someone like a bird in a cage is kind.
家里还有两个年长的妻子，她们不喜欢她 There were two older wives,who did not like her
根本不和她说话。 and did not talk to her at all.
每个人，包括仆人， Everyone,including the servants,
似乎都在嘲笑她。 seemed to be mocking her.
她既不懂礼仪，也不懂学问。 She had neither etiquette nor learning.
她长得不怎么漂亮， She grew to no great beauty
不知为什么就生气了 and was angry without knowing why.
就像命运安排的那样， As the fates would have it,my bottle came to her
我的瓶子作为她丈夫爱的信物送给了她。 as a love token from her husband.
当她满足了他， And when she had finished satisfying him
终于独自一人， and was finally alone,
她设法撬开了瓶子。 she managed to prise it open.
她好像一直在等我。 It was as if she was waiting for me.
我一眼就看出她很机灵， I saw at once that she was sharp,
她也看出我渴望 and she saw that I was desperate
自由和交谈。 for freedom and conversation.
我把我给你说的那些故事都告诉了她， I told her my story,as I have told you,
她通过她所做的东西向我展示了自己。 and she revealed herself to me by the things she had made.
Gel. Gel.
Gel.
她本可以像天才达芬奇 She could have been remembered
一样被人们记住， like the genius da Vinci,
她的飞行理论 whose theories on flight
是苏丹和国王们的谈资。 were the talk of sultans and kings.
她是一位技艺高超的艺术家，但没人看过她的作品。 She was a skilled artist,but no one saw her art.
她告诉我她被还未使用过的能量 She told me she was eaten up
吞噬了。 with unused power.
她觉得自己可能是个女巫。 She thought she might be a witch.
不过，她说，如果她是个男人， Except, she said,if she were a man,
她的才智会被广泛接受。 her intellect would have been ordinarily accepted.
她是一个渴望学习的女人， She was a woman ardent for learning,
于是我知道了她的第一个愿望是什么。 and I knew what her first wish would be.
我想要知识
我希望获得一切有用的，美丽的和真实的知识
我很高兴 And it delighted me
能实现这个愿望。 to fulfill this wish.
所以，我教她历史，哲学， So, I taught her histories, philosophies,
语言，诗歌。 languages, poetry.
我教她天文学，数学， I taught her astronomy, mathematic,
这对她来说是莫大的幸福。 which was bliss to her.
我给她带来了书和文章， I brought her books and writings,
我们把它们藏在她收藏的瓶子里。 which we hid in her collection of bottles.
Sabah...
她总是可以从一个红色的玻璃罐里 She could always call on Aristotle
找到亚里士多德， from a red glass jar,
从一个绿色的玻璃罐找到欧几里得， or Euclid from a green,
毕达哥拉斯，斯宾诺莎， Pythagoras, Spinoza,
而不需要我重塑他们。 without needing me to re-embody them.
她的房间里，我们拥有整个世界 We had the whole world in her room,
而我却爱上了她。 and I lost my heart to her.
能使她幸福 It was my bliss to make her happy.
看到她的茁壮成长，是我的福气。 To see her flourish.
她在各方面 And she flourished in every way.
都发展得很好。 Totalmente.
她甚至开始反抗 She began to rebel
她丈夫要求的 even against the gestures of submission
服从姿态。 that her husband required,
因为她已经掌握了一种爱的技巧， for she had acquired a mastery of love-craft,
是任何没有和精灵做爱的 out of reach of any human
人类所不能达到的。 that had not made love to a djinn.
他对她的渴求变成了一种痴迷。 His cravings for her became an obsession.
当他来找她时， And when he would come to her,
我便离开她的房间，飞向天空。 I would leave her room and journey the skies.
我看到了群山、海洋…… I saw the mountains,the oceans...
我看见森林里的野兽， I saw the beasts of the forest,
那里人迹罕至。 where no man treads.
当我回来的时候，她会等着我。 And when I would return,she would be waiting for me.
我会告诉她我这一天的经历， I would tell her of my day,and she would faint with joy
她会因为高兴和失望而晕倒。 and disappointment.
她为什么不许愿得到自由呢? Why did she not make a wish to be free?
对她来说还有更重要的事。 There was something more important to her.
她发明了一种“数学”语言， She had devised a "mathematica,"
用来解释 a language to explain the forces
使空间、时间和物质形成的力量。 which bring space, and time,and matter into being.
她是普罗米修斯，很勇敢。 She was Promethean, brave.
但她无法解开这个谜题。 But she could not solve this puzzle.
她需要一把钥匙， She needed a key,
一把打开她感知之门的钥匙。 a key to open the doors of her perception.
因此，她使用了她的第二个愿望。 So, she used her second wish.
我教她像精灵一样做梦，醒着。 I taught her to dream as djinn do, awake.
就这样，她找到了答案。 And this way,the solutions came to her.
她能解释无形的力量， She was able to explain powers invisible,
电磁场和力… electromagnetic fields and forces...
精灵正是由这些构成的。 The very stuff of which djinn are made.
你是电磁场? You're electromagnetic?
就像你是尘土构成，我是由精妙之火构成的。 As you are dust,I am made of subtle fire.
当她要生孩子的时候， And when she was to bear a child,
我被幸福所困扰， I was plagued with happiness,
因为我知道这将使我们的关系更紧密。 for I knew it would strengthen us.
她怀了你的孩子？ She was carrying your child?
一个由火和尘土组成的孩子， A child, of fire and dust.
那么，是哪里出了问题？ So, where did it go wrong?
Alithea，我爱她。 Alithea, I loved her.
我爱她狂热的思想 I loved the fervor of her mind.
我爱她的愤怒。 I loved her anger.
我爱我把她的皱眉 I loved my power
变成微笑的能力。 to turn her frowns into smiles.
我爱她胜过爱Sheba. I loved her more than Sheba.
更胜过你的自由？ More than your own freedom?
是的 Yes.
留住她，继续做她的俘虏 It became my greatest desire to... to keep her,
成为我最大的愿望.... to remain her prisoner.
一想到要获得自由，就会让我心生厌恶。 The thought of being set free sickened my heart.
我发现自己阻止了她，以免她许第三个愿。 I caught myself stopping her lest she make her third wish.
哦,天哪。 Oh, gosh.
我把事情搞砸了。 I made a mess of it.
她开始指责我陷害她， She began to accuse me of trapping her,
就像她丈夫一样。 -like her husband.
我试着去弥补。 I tried to make amends.
为了赎罪，我会把自己放进瓶子里。 To atone, I would put myself in the bottle.
被封住。 To be sealed.
那样的话，她就能对我有更大的影响力。 That way, she could have more power over me.
瓶子里什么都没有。 To be nothing in a bottle.
我可以为她这样做。 I could do that for her.
每一次，都会起作用。 And every time,it would appease.
每一次，除了最后那次。 Every time,except for the last.
那时，像一阵突然的暴风雨， When, like a sudden squall,all thunder and lightning,
她开始嚎啕大哭，说:“ she began to weep and wail,and said,
我希望我能忘记我曾经见过你。” "I wish I could forget I ever met you."
她做到了，就在那一刻。 And she did, on the instant.
她出来了。 我进去了。 She was out. I was in.
她已经忘记了我。 She'd forgotten me.
Alithea, 怎么会这样... Alithea, how can it be...
完全爱一个人是个错误？ a mistake to love someone entirely?
我有一个愿望。 I have a wish.
然而，我担心这可能是一个过分的要求。 However, I'm afraid it may be too much to ask.
在我能力范围内吗？ Is it within my power?
我希望如此。我确实希望如此。 I hope so. I do hope so.
这是你的心愿吗？ Is it your heart's desire?
是的，我很确定。 Yeah, I'm certain of it.
看，呃， See, erm,
我是来爱你的， I'm here to love you.
而且，呃， And, uh,
我希望你能爱我作为回报。 I wish for you to love me in return.
你想让我们做爱的工艺品？ You want us to make love-craft?
是的，那也可以， Yeah, that too.
所有的。 All of it.
你会为此放弃自己吗？ And you would abandon yourself to this?
是的， Yes.
是的。 Yes.
我希望我们的孤独能在一起。 I want our solitudes to be together.
我想要在不朽的故事中描述的那种爱。 I want that love professed in ageless tales.
我想要你对Sheba,女王的那种渴望， I want that longing you felt for the Queen of Sheba,
以及你给你的天才Zefir的那种爱 and that love you gave to your genius, Zefir.
我想要它。 I want it.
我？ Me?
你 You.
你？ You?
我 Me.
这是不是太过分了？ Is it too much?
这要求过分吗? Is it all too much to ask?
来吧。 Come.
我们该如何处理被唤醒的渴望? What are we to do with longings awoken?
我怎么才能让你相信 How can I persuade you
我曾经爱上过一个精灵? that I once found love with a djinn?
无论如何，很少有人会相信我。 In any case,few would believe me.
爱不是我们凭理智得到的东西。 Love is not something we come to by reason.
它更像是一种蒸汽， It's more like a vapor,
也许是一个梦， a dream, perhaps,
引诱我们进入。 to lure us into the enchantment
我们自己的故事中 of our own stories.
如果是这样的话， If that's so,
我们怎么知道它是否是真实的？ how are we to know if it's ever real?
这是事实，还是单纯的疯狂? Is it a truth,or simply a madness?
我今天动身去伦敦。 I leave for London today.
你愿意和我一起回家吗? Will you come home with me?
现在这地方可不容易。 It's not such an easy place nowadays.
但如果你在那里会更好。 But it'll be better if you're there.
请过来， -Over here, please.
举高手 Hands up.
请出来 -Please step out.
你的口袋里有什么？ What is in your pockets?
Oh.
是一个空瓶子和一个盖子， Uh, it's an empty bottle and a top.
请通过X射线， Please put it through X-ray.
它非常精致， It is very delicate,
我不想它被损坏。 and I don't want it to get damaged.
它不会被损坏的，请通过X射线， It will not be damaged.Please put through X-ray.
我希望它不要被放在.. I would prefer that it didn't go in the...
护照。登机证 Passport. Boarding pass.
谢谢你。 Thank you.
它很脆弱。 It's quite fragile.
女士， Madam.
这是个盐罐。 It's a saltshaker.
Oh.
别，别过x光，求你了！ No! No X-ray! Please!
站住，女士，站住 Stop, madam, stop.
女士 Madam.
Oh.
你自己独处一会吧。 In your own time.
这里的空气很浓稠。 The air is thick here.
充满了坚持的声音和匆忙的面孔。 Full of insistent voices and rushing faces.
哦？ Oh?
就像小爱因斯坦？ Like Tiny Einstein?
电视和电话塔之类的？ Television, and phone towers,and such?
是的 Yes.
是的，你所有精巧的设备 Yes. All your ingenious devices
都在同时喃喃自语。 all murmuring at once.
弯下头。 Bend your head.
你都听到了？ You hear all that?
我也看到并感受到了。 I also see it and feel it.
我是一个发射器， I am a transmitter.
这会不会太多了? Isn't it all too much?
我是一个精灵， I am a djinn.
我可以适应。 I can adapt.
我很快就会习惯的。 I'll soon get used to it.
她回来了。 She's back.
我相信她回来了。 I believe she's back.
她和别人在一起吗? Is she with someone?
不，我觉得她又在自言自语了。 No, I think she's talking to herself again.
你好,Clementine. Hello, Clementine.
Fanny。你还好吗? Fanny. Are you well?
你遇到什么麻烦了吗? Did you have any trouble?
麻烦?什么样的麻烦? Trouble? What kind of trouble?
和你的外国朋友有关的。 With your foreign friends.
因为我们经常问自己， Because we often ask ourselves,
为什么Binnie 博士要浪费她的时间和智慧 "Why would Dr. Binnie waste her time and intelligence
去研究别人的方式而不是坚持我们自己的方式？ "studying the ways of others instead of upholding our own?"
为我们的英国文化感到尴尬，不是吗? Embarrassed by our British culture, are we?
不。不。 No. No.
我反而更有可能对任何人感到尴尬， I am rather more likely to be embarrassed by anybody
反射性地对任何不同的人感到害怕。 reflexly frightened of anybody different.
你到底在说什么? What exactly are you saying?
她说我们是偏执狂。 She's calling us bigots.
你说的，不是我说的。 Your word, not mine.
你误解了。 You misunderstand.
-哦? -那不是他们的样子，亲爱的。 -Oh? -It's not how they look, dear.
这就是他们的生活方式。他们相信什么。 It's how they live.What they believe.
-他们吃。 -你在说什么? -What they eat. -What are you on about?
无论到哪里，都有种族问题。 Everywhere one goes, ethnics.
我们被淹没了，我们正在招致我们的厄运。 We are being overwhelmed,and we're inviting our doom.
这不是自然的。 It's not natural.
鸟属于空中。鱼属于大海。 Birds belong in the air.Fish belong in the sea.
这就是上帝希望我们成为的样子。 And that is how the good Lord meant us to be.
你从头到尾只是在胡说八道 You're just spouting rubbish from start to finish.
这是科学。这是科学事实。 It's science.It's a scientific fact.
-这是一个错误的类比。 -It's a false analogy.
我是说，动物确实有自然栖息地。 I mean, animals do have a natural habitat.
这是真的，但人类有能力 It's true,but human beings are capable
生活在任何他们选择的环境中。 of living in any environment they bloody well choose.
-那不是事实。 -That's not a fact.
-你在说什么? -这是一个观点。 -What are you saying? -It's an opinion.
并且你错了。 And you're wrong.
我再也忍不下去了。 I'm not putting up with any more of this.
走吧，Clem。让那个疯女人去吧。 Come away, Clem.Let the crazy lady be.
我们永远无法从她嘴里得到有价值的东西。 We're never gonna get any sense out of her.
我以前从没对你说过这话。 You know, I've never said this to you before.
但你们两个都很可怜。 But you're both pitiful.
闭上你的小嘴！ Shut your cakehole!
豌豆脑袋和可怜的人。 Pea-brained and pitiful.
你，混蛋！ You, fuckface!
让你的常春藤别在我们这边的墙壁上生长! Stop your ivy growing on our side of the wall!
我为什么要让他们影响我？ Why do I let them get to me?
我应该为他们感到遗憾。 I should feel sorry for them.
但这是我的家。这是我的避难所。 But this is my home.It's my sanctuary.
-我希望他们... -I could wish them...
顺便说一句，这不是一个愿望。 That's not a wish, by the way.
-我知道。 -I know.
我的精灵 My djinn.
你今天过得怎么样？ How was your day?
每一双倾听的耳朵都是你的。 Every listening ear was yours.
还有每一个声音，每一个气味。 和每一次触摸。 Every voice, every scent,and touch.
你无处不在。 You were everywhere.
一会儿就回来。 Back in a minute.
这个时候会是谁呢？ Whoever could that be at this hour?
可能是她。 It could be her.
Clem. Fanny.
鹰嘴豆，丁香，开心果。 Chickpeas, cloves, pistachio.
他们会在你的嘴里融化。 They melt in your mouth.
这是我的朋友。 This is my friend.
他要呆上一段时间。 He'll be staying for a while.
Hello.
-Hello. -Hello.
我的精灵告诉我， My Djinn told me,
当他们在精灵界聚在一起时， when they come together in the Realm of Djinn,
他们会互相讲故事。 they tell each other stories.
故事对他们来说就像呼吸一样。 Stories are like breath to them.
他们创造了意义。 They make meaning.
"是的，"我说。 "Yes," I said.
"我们就是这样的"。 "That's just how it is with us."
我们讲述的每一个故事 Each story we tell is a fragment
都是无尽变形的拼图中的一个片段。 in an endless shape-shifting mosaic.
而我们这个小故事，就像所有的故事一样，必须有个结局。 And this small pebble,like all stories, must end.
如果是关于许愿的，那就是一个警示性的故事。 If it's about wishing,it's a cautionary tale.
那么，它怎么会出错呢? So, how will it go wrong?
也许，它已经出错了。 Perhaps, it already has.
即使真理赤身裸体地站在他们面前， Even though Truth stood before them naked,
他们还是会背过身去。 they turned their backs.
于是，“真理”走到一边，在阴影中等待。 So, Truth moved to the side and waited in the shadows.
在接下来的日子里， In the days that followed,
精灵会陪伴叙事学家去工作。 the Djinn would accompany the narratologist to her work.
当他不和她在一起时 And when he wasn't with her,
他就会去热切地探索这个世界。 he would go in eager exploration of the world.
今天我度过了如此奇妙的一天。 Today I had such a marvelous day.
我看到了很多东西。 I saw many things.
我看着一个人看向另一个人的活生生的大脑， I watched a human look into the living brain of another
并阻止致命的出血。 and arrest a fatal bleeding.
我参观了对撞机 I visited the Collider.
一个探究物质本质的巨大仪器。 A vast gizmo which probed the essence of matter.
然后我看到了一个盘子，一个巨大的盘子， And then I saw a dish,a great dish
它倾听着早已死去的星星的低语。 that listens to the whispers of stars long dead.
人类是… Humankind is...
是个奇迹，Alithea. is a wonder, Alithea.
我很高兴你这么想。 I'm happy you think so.
自从我被困在Zefir的瓶子里以来， All of this since I was trapped in Zefir's bottle.
所有这一切都在不到200年的时间里发生了惊人的变化。 All these astonishments,in less than 200 years.
是的，但，我的意思是。 Yes, but, I mean,
这只是工程和技术。 that's just engineering and technology.
尽管有这么多的奇思妙想， Despite all the whiz-bang,
我们仍然感到困惑不解。 we remain bewildered.
当我们无法控制混乱的时候， When we can't contain the chaos,
我们就会充满恐惧和惊慌， we are filled with dread and panic,
我们就会互相攻击。 and we turn on each other.
当然会这样，你是人。 But of course, you are human.
这是你的本性。 That is your nature.
是的。所以，故事永远不会改变。 Yeah. So, the story never changes.
仇恨占了上风。 Hate prevails.
它会转移，比爱更长久。 It metastasizes and outlives love.
我只想谈谈爱 I just want to talk about love.
真是矛盾的一团糟，你们都是。 Such a mess of contradictions,all of you.
非常感谢。 Thank you very much.
人类,真是一个难题。 Humankind,what a conundrum.
你在黑暗中摸索， You fumble around in the dark,
然而，你把你的智慧发挥了很大的作用。 and yet, you herd your intelligence to great effect.
这是一个很有意思的故事。 It is quite a story.
等不及要看它的发展了。 Cannot wait to see where it goes.
或者它会如何结束。 Or how it might end.
这也是。 That too.
凡人永远不会知道，但精灵可能知道。 A mortal will never know,but a djinn might.
一个精灵拥有世界上所有的时间。 A djinn has all the time in the world.
你不就是那个幸运儿吗？ Aren't you the lucky one?
也许吧 Maybe.
但你们这些尘埃生物… But you creatures of dust have...
已经让精灵和天使的 have managed to eclipse
力量和目的黯然失色。 the power and purpose of djinn and angel.
你对我们没有用处。 You have no use for us.
也许，我们会枯萎， Perhaps, we will wither and...
....然后消逝？ -是的 -And fade away? -Yes.
是的。这曾经是我 Yeah. Well, that used to be the subject
所有讲座和论文的主题。 of all my lectures and papers.
我知道 I know.
然而，你却在这里。 And yet, here you are.
无所不能的你。 My impossible.
是的 Yes.
有人吗？ Hello?
我回来了！ I'm home!
有人吗？ Hello?
精灵？ Djinn?
我的爱人？ My love?
精灵？ Djinn.
这是什么 What's this?
你能听到我吗？ Can you hear me?
精灵，和我说话 Djinn, speak to me.
试着和我说话。 Try to speak to me.
我许愿你可以和我说话 I wish you to speak to me.
哦 Oh...
我刚刚正在睡觉。 I was sleeping.
睡觉。 Sleeping.
精灵，别睡 Djinn don't sleep.
我们出去走走。 Let's go for a walk.
来次振作精神的远足 A long, bracing walk.
我为我们准备了一些东西。 I have prepared something for us.
我都计划好了。 I have it all planned.
对我们来说，这是一个美妙的夜晚。 A wonderous night for us.
这一定会很棒的。 It will be amazing.
-我们生命中最美好的时光。 -停！ -The best time of our lives. -Stop!
这些电磁场，我可以把它们从我头上移开。 These electromagnetic fields,I can push them from my head.
我可以把它们移开。 I can push them away.
我们去野餐 We'll go for a picnic.
我们来弹尤克里里吧 Ah, we'll play the ukulele.
Alithea, 这里有我的位置。 Alithea, there is a place for me here.
这些力量， These forces,
它们永远不会消失，不会从这个世界上消失。 they will never go away,not from this world.
我会战胜他们。我可以帮你。 I will overcome them.I can do that for you.
你是我的Alithea，我爱你。 You are my Alithea,and I love you.
谢谢你！谢谢你！谢谢你的努力。 Thank you. Thank you.Thank you for trying.
你以为我不爱你吗? You don't think that I love you?
爱是一份礼物。 Love is a gift.
这是自己自由给予的礼物。 It's a gift of oneself given freely.
这不是乞求就能得到的。 It's not something one can ever ask for.
我把我俩都骗了。 I tricked us both.
我说出那个愿望的那一刻， The moment I spoke that wish,
我就剥夺了你实现它的能力。 I took away your power to grant it.
我比任何人都应该知道这一点。 I, more than anybody, I should've known that.
我不会再搞砸了。 I'm not going to screw this up again.
我的精灵，如果这个世界不适合你。 My Djinn, if this world is not for you,
我许愿你能回到属于你的地方。 I wish that you return to where you belong.
无论哪里都行 Wherever that may be.
三年后
妈妈！ Mommy!
过来，小猴子。 Come here, little monkey.
这不是妈妈。 That's not Mommy.
嘿！嘿！嘿！ 啊，不！ Hey, hey, hey! Ah, no!
看。联赛中最好的前锋 Watch it.Top striker in the league.
你看到了吗? Did you see that?
他会时不时来看我， He would visit from time to time,
他们会抓住每一个生动的时刻。 and they would grasp each vivid moment.
尽管天空的喧嚣让他很痛苦， Despite the pain of the raucous skies,
但他总是呆很长时间， he always stayed longer than he should,
一直要到她求他离开为止 long after she begged him to leave.
他承诺在她有生之年回来， He promised to return in her lifetime,
对她来说，这已经足够了。 and for her,that was more than enough.