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What if I die tomorrow?
要是明天我死了怎么办
You're not going to die tomorrow.
你明天不会死的
Dad didn't think he was gonna die tomorrow either.
爸爸也没觉得他第二天会死
It's not gonna happen to you.
那样的事不会发生在你身上的
How do you know what's going to happen?
你怎么知道会不会发生
You know nothing. You buried an empty box!
你什么都不知道 你葬的只是个空盒子
That's not the point! His memory is there!
这不是重点 那里面是关于他的记忆
It's exactly the point. Dad was just cells.
这就是重点 爸爸只是一堆细胞罢了
Now they're on rooftops, and the rivers...
现在那些细胞遍布在房顶上 河流里
Oskar!
奥斯卡
and the lungs of millions of people around NewYork
被纽约千千万万的人
who breathe him every time they breathe!
呼吸到肺里
That's not how it works!
原理不是这样的
How do you know how it works?
你怎么知道原理是哪样
You don't know anything about atoms or molecules.
你对原子和分子一窍不通
He might even be part of the dog shit in Central Park!
他或许还是中央公园里的狗屎的一部分
That is enough. Stop it.
够了 别再说了
Excuse me, dog feces.
真抱歉啊 狗屎
Stop it!
别说了
But it's the truth!
这是事实
Why can't I say the truth?
我为什么不能说出事实
Just because Dad died doesn't mean you can be illogical.
你不能因为爸爸死了就失去理智
It has to make sense!
一定有什么道理的
Not everything makes sense, Oskar!
奥斯卡 不是每件事都有道理的
There's not an answer for everything!
不是每件事都有答案的
You're just stupid! It's completely nonsensical!
你太愚蠢了 这完全没有意义
It's just a box! An empty box!
那只是个盒子 空盒子
I know it's an empty box! I know this.
我知道那是个空盒子 我知道
But I did it for me,
我这么做是为了我自己
and I did it for you so we could at least try...
还有你 这样我们至少还能试着
and say goodbye to him...
跟他道别
because he's gone, Oskar,
因为他走了 奥斯卡
he's gone and he's not coming back.
他走了 再也回不来了
Never.
永远不回来了
I don't know why a man flew a plane into a building.
我不知道为什么有人会开飞机去撞大楼
I don't know why my husband is dead.
我不知道为什么我的丈夫死了
But no matter how you try, Oskar,
但不管你怎么努力尝试 奥斯卡
it's never gonna make sense...
这都不会有什么道理的
because it doesn't, it doesn't make sense!
因为本来就没有 没有什么道理
Fukozowa you! You don't know anything!
去你妈的 你什么都不懂
重点讲解
一.sense：n. 感官，感觉，意识，鉴赏力，意义，理智，道理，见识 v. 感觉，意识到，理解，检测
【词义辨析】
judgement, discrimination, sense,
judgement: 指经过训练或磨练或凭经历而得到辨别或判断事物的能力或品质。
discrimination: 指辨别精微事物的能力，甚至平时观察不到的也可识别出来。
sense: 指不带幻想、感情或偏见地观察事物，并能作出明智、公平的选择与决定。
meaning, implication, sense,
meaning: 普通用词，使用广泛，既可指语言表达的意思，又可指手势、符号、表情或艺术品或抽象概念所含的意义。
implication: 指暗含的意思。
sense: 特指词、短语或句子的某种特定意思，也常指多种解释的一种。
【词语用法】
1.sense作名词，词组come to one's senses可根据语境解释为“恢复理智”或“恢复知觉”。
She has been behaving very foolishly.I hope she'll soon come to her senses.
她近来常做蠢事，我希望她赶紧恢复理智。
She has been struck on the head by a rock and has lost consciousness.I hope she'll soon come to her senses.
由于她的头撞在石头上，失去了知觉。我希望她赶快恢复知觉。
2.common sense指“常识”，与common knowledge和general knowledge不同。
common sense指大多数人从经验中得来的常识，不需研究。
common knowledge指在某个范围内大家都知道的事，受范围限制，不指所有人。
general knowledge和common knowledge有时意思一样，但通常指从研究或注意得来的关于许多事物的基本知识，与 specialized knowledge意义相反；
3.common sense只有在作形容词时才写成common-sense；
4.sense of humour指“幽默感”，没有幽默感可以说have no sense of humour或lack humour。
【错句举例与错句分析】
错句：The deck is high-sided, adding significantly to the interior's sense of space.
纠正：The deck is high-sided, adding significantly to the one's sense of space inside.
翻译：高起层增大了内部的空间感。
分析：sense的主语是人，而不是“内部”。
【例句用法】
1.I hope she soon sees sense and stops fighting a battle she cannot win.
我希望她能很快明白过来，别再打这场打不赢的仗了。
2.It would make sense to leave early.
早点离开是明智的。
3.No one in their right senses would let a small child go out alone.
凡是有理智的人，谁都不会让那麽小的孩子独自出门。
4.I'm afraid I haven't got a very good sense of directions, so I easily get lost.
恐怕我的方位感很差，因此我容易迷路。
5.You should have had enough sense to turn off the electricity supply before disconnecting the wires.
你本来应该有足够的常识，在拆开电线之前先把电源切断。
二.answer：回答，答案
【词义辨析】
answer, reply, respond, retort, return,
answer: 常用词，指用书面、口头或行动对他人的请求、询问、质问等作出回答或反应。
reply: 较正式用词，较少用于口语。侧重经过考虑的较正式答复。
respond: 正式用词，指即刻的，以口头或行动对外来的号召、请求或刺激等作出回答或响应。
retort: 指对不同意见、批评或控诉作出迅速、有力的回答，即“反驳”。
return: 正式用词，从本义“归来，回去”引申作“回答、答辨”讲时，含反驳或反唇相讥之意。
【词语用法】
1.answer(to)the letter，answer(to)the question，answer(for)the purpose等常用格式中，习惯将to或for等介词省略掉，但是注意reply to the letter中的to不可以省略；
2.answer有时指“答复……的内容”。
I have your letter, but as I am very busy, I cannot answer it at present.
句中的主语已经在回复信了，但还说没有办法answer。
有时，answer指“报告收到”，reply指“答复……的内容”。
I answered your letter by sending a postcard last Monday and have since been waiting for time to reply to it.
3.同reply比较，answer有时指“中肯的答复”。
Your reply is not an answer.
你的回答不中肯。
4.answered有时指“把……作为答复”。
He answered her not a word.
他连一个词都没有回复她。
5.answer后可接that从句或另接宾语。
He answered that he could not go.
他回复说自己去不了了。
He answered me that he would not go.
他回复我说他去不了了。
6.在商业回信的开头，常用“In answer to your letter ...”的格式。
【错句举例与错句分析】
错句：This is the answer to some of their previously inexplicable behaviour.
纠正：This is the explanation for their previously inexplicable behaviour.
翻译：这是对之前他们的一些无法解释的行为的解释。
分析：answer没有“解释”的意思。