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WOMAN: Don't cry. We'll find her...
女人：别哭，我们会找到她的……

CLAUDIA: Mama...
克劳迪娅：妈妈……

WOMAN: Oh, ma cherie.
女人：哦，我的小可怜儿。

PIANO-TEACHER: The thumb girl! Mind the thumb!
钢琴老师：注意拇指，姑娘！注意拇指该怎么放！

DOLLMAKER: They are expensive, my dear. Maybe too expensive for a young girl like you...
玩具匠：它们十分昂贵，我的孩子。对你这样的小姑娘来说很昂贵……

LESTAT: Claudia! What have we told you?
列斯达：克劳迪娅！我怎么告诉你的！

CLAUDIA: Never in the house!
克劳迪娅：绝不在家里杀人。

LESTAT: Give me some room.
列斯达：给我腾个地方……

LOUIS(V.O.): To me she was a child, but to Lestat a pupil, an infant prodigy with a lust for killing like his own. Together, they finished of whole families.
路易（旁白）：她对我来说是个孩子，对列斯达而言则是个学生，一个和他有一样杀人欲望的小天才。他们总是一起杀光整个家族的人。

LESTAT: Wonderful! Wonderful! Now play something on a more somber note.
列斯达：棒极了，棒极了！现在弹奏一些忧郁的曲子吧。

LOUIS (V.O.): Time can pass quickly for mortals when they're happy. With us it was the same. The years fly by like minutes. The city around us grew. Sailboats gave way to steamships disgorging an endless menu of magnificent strangers. A new world has grown around us. And we were all Americans now.
路易（旁白）：对于人们来说，快乐的时光总是过得很快。对我们也一样。时光飞逝，城市日渐兴旺，小帆船被蒸汽船替代，大批的陌生人随之到来。一个新的世界在我们身边展开。我们现在都成了美国人。
重点讲解
thumb vt. 翻阅；以拇指拨弄；作搭车手势；笨拙地摆弄
vi. 用拇指翻书页；竖起拇指要求搭车
n. 拇指
例句：
(1) Ross: Can I use… either thumb?
我能不能用…两个拇指？
(2) The baby was sucking its thumb.
婴儿正在吮大拇指。
(3) The child still sucks its thumb.
这个小孩还吸吮拇指。
(4) I sucked my thumb until I was seven.
直到七岁我才停止吮大拇指。
(5) Again I spun the lighter with my thumb.
我用拇指重又开燃打火机。
(6) The little one stops to suck his thumb.
小蚂蚁停下来啃拇指。
(7) You can push the pin in with your thumb.
你可以用大拇指把图钉按进去。

somber adj. 忧郁的；昏暗的；严峻的；阴天的
例句：
(1) The somber yesterday has gone.
阴霾的昨天已成过去。
(2) That was a somber January day.
那是一个阴沉的正月天。
(3) It had been dull and somber enough.
那是十分愁闷的，十分忧郁的。
(4) Look past the skies of somber grey.
回头看看那忧郁的天空。
(5) a suit of somber black;
暗黑色的衣服；
(6) the world of Ma is more somber… darker.
魔界的世界更忧郁比较黑暗的。
(7) She has a somber expression on her face.
她的脸上有一种忧郁的神情。
(8) He had a somber, expression on his face.
他脸上有郁的表情。