看“黄金罗盘”台词学英语：第4讲

Except of course my daemon. And that it would be best if we were to do as we pleased.

except: 除了

当然我的守护神除外，对我们来说最好的事就是顺其自然。

Sit down, Gentlemen.

请坐，先生们。

-Pan: Who's she?

她是谁?

-Lyra: Don't know, but she shut up the Master, alright.

shut up: 闭嘴

不知道，但她已经让院长闭嘴了。

-Headmaster: Mrs. Coulter, this is our Lyra, Lyra Belaqua, Lord Asriel's niece.

Coulter夫人，这位是Lyra，Lyra Belaqua, Asrier勋爵的侄女。

Lyra, this is Mrs. Coulter, a friend of the college.

Lyra，这位是Coulter夫人，学校的一位朋友。

-Mrs. Coulter: Lovely to meet you.

很高兴见到你。

-Lyra: Lovely to meet you, too.

很高兴见到您。

- Mrs. Coulter: You know, I've met Lord Asriel? It was at the Royal Arctic Institute.

royal: 皇家的 arctic: 北极圈 institute: 学院

你知道吗，我见过Asrier勋爵?那是在皇家北极学院。

We discussed the political structure of the Ice bears of Svalbard.

discuss: 讨论 political structure: 政治结构 political: 政治的 structure: 结构，组织

我们讨论了住在Svalbard群岛的冰雪之熊的政治组织结构。

-Lyra: You've seen an Ice bear?

你见过冰雪之熊?

- Mrs. Coulter: As the matter of fact, I have had an audience with the Bear king himself, Ragnar Stursson.

audience: 观众

事实上，我曾经亲耳听过熊王本人讲话，Ragnar Stursson本人。

And I'll tell you something I probably shouldn't:

我再告诉你点儿小秘密，

King Ragnar is desperate to have a daemon of his own.

desperate: 极度渴望的

Ragnar国王迫不及待地想拥有自己的守护神呢。

And Ragnar likes to think of himself as a person.

person: 个人，人，人称

大家都看得出来，而且，喜欢把自己当成人类。

And he will stop at nothing to get one.

stop at nothing: 不惜一切代价

他真的是很渴望能有一个。

But you mustn't repeat that.

repeat: 重复，重做

你可不要和别人讲。

-Lyra: Oh, I'd never!

哦，不会的!

-Mrs. Coulter: I feel I can trust you. I have to go back to the north very soon.

trust: 信任，相信

我觉得我可以相信你。我很快就要回北边去了。

I'm going to need an assistant.

assistant: 助手

我大概需要个助手。

-Lyra: Me? Got to the North?

我么?去北边?

-Pan: North? It's cold up there.

北边?那儿可冷了。

- Mrs. Coulter: We'd better get the Master's permission.

permission: 允许

我们最好得到院长的允许。

Master, I was wondering if I might borrow dear Lyra?

wonder: 疑惑，怀疑

院长，我想问下能不能借用一下亲爱的Lyra?

Only for a while, of course.

当然了，就一阵儿。

-Headmaster: I'm not sure that would be consistent with Lord Asriels wishes for her education.

be consistent with: 与……相一致 consistent: 和谐的，一致的

我不知道那样做是不是和Asrier勋爵希望她能接受教育的意愿相一致。

-Mrs. Coulter: I'll deal with Asriel.

deal with: 处理，对待

我会去和Asrier谈的。

You mustn't deny me this little thing, you really mustn't.

deny: 否认，拒绝

你不该拒绝我的小小要求的，真的不该。

-Headmaster: Very well.

好吧。

-Billy: A bet's a bet. Lyra was supposed to show up with the gown.

bet: 打赌 show up: 出现 gown: 长袍

敢做敢当，Lyra本该穿着长袍来的。

-Roger: I told you they wouldn't let her out of the college.

我跟你说过的，他们是不会让她出学校的。

-Billy: Which one is her room?

哪个是她的房间?

-Roger: What are you gonna do?

你要干啥?

-Billy: Give her a fright, that's what.

fright: 惊吓，惊骇

吓她一下，仅此而已。

-Roger: If we get caught, I'll be skinned alive.

skinned alive: 严厉申斥

要是我们被捉住了，肯定得被搞死。

The night pool is bound to be going his rounds.

be bound to: 将要 rounds: 巡视

晚上守卫会巡视到这里的。

-Billy: Ratter, check if the coast is clear.

check: 检查，查看 coast: 海岸，沿岸

Ratter，去看看有什么情况没。

It's all clear.

没人。

-Roger: Billy! Billy!

Billy! Billy!

-Man: The scholars still refuse to hand over the last alethiomether.

refuse: 拒绝 hand over: 交出 alethiomether: 真理仪

学者们还是拒绝交出最后一个真理探测仪。

And now they've given Asriel all the funds he needs.

funds: 资金

现在他们又给了Asrier充足的研究经费。

If he succeeds in proving the existence of these other worlds it will contradict centuries of teaching.

succeed: 成功 prove: 证明 existence: 存在 contradict: 反驳否定

如果他能够成功地证明另外那些世界的存在，几千年来的教诲就要被推翻了。

There will always be free thinkers, and heretics.

heretic: 异教徒

总有一些自由思想者，和异教徒。

Unless we deal with the root of the problem. That is why Mrs. Coulter's work is so important.

unless: 除非 root: 根部，根本 problem: 问题 important: 重要的

除非我们能从根本上解决问题，这就是为什么Mrs. Coulter的工作非常重要。

What progress has she made?

progress: 进展，进程

她有哪些进展了?

-Another man: The doctors at Bolvanger are close to perfecting the inoculation against the effects of Dust.

perfect: 使……完美 inoculation: 免疫接种 effect: 效果，影响

Bolvanger的大夫们已经快要研制出来免疫尘埃效应的疫苗了。

-Man: I am relieved to hear that.

relieved: 放心的

听到那个我很欣慰。

If we can protect our children from the corrupting influence of Dust, before their daemons settled,

protect: 保护 corrupting: 使恶化 influence: 影响 daemon: 守护神

如果我们能够在孩子们的守护神定型之前，阻止尘埃对他们的影响。

We will nurture a generation at peace with itself.

nurture: 养育 generation: 一代人，一代 peace: 和平

那么我们就可以培养出平和的一代人。