双语读剧：Call me by ...（一）18:去赶一场电影如何？
“If you look at him when you’re speaking, he always looks away, he’s not listening, he’s just itching to say things he’s rehearsed while you were speaking and wants to say before he forgets them.”
How could anyone intuit the manner of someone’s thinking unless he himself was already familiar with this same mode of thinking? How could he perceive so many devious turns in others unless he had practiced them himself?
你说话的时候看着他，他却总是撇开目光，没专心聆听，他只想趁忘记以前，赶紧说出你发言时他在心里演练过的话。”
若非他自己熟悉同样的思考模式，怎能凭直觉洞悉别人的想法？若非早已亲身实践，他如何能察觉他人内心这许多曲折？
What struck me was not just his amazing gift for reading people, for rummaging inside them and digging out the precise configuration of their personality, but his ability to intuit things in exactly the way I myself might have intuited them. This, in the end, was what drew me to him with a compulsion that overrode desire or friendship or the allurements of a common religion. “How about catching a movie?” he blurted out one evening when we were all sitting together, as if he’d suddenly hit on a solution to what promised to be a dull night indoors. We had just left the dinner table where my father, as was his habit these days, had been urging me to try to go out with friends more often, especially in the evening. It bordered on a lecture. Oliver was still new with us and knew no one in town, so I must have seemed as good a movie partner as any. But he had asked his question in far too breezy and spontaneous a manner, as though he wanted me and everyone else in the living room to know that he was hardly invested in going to the movies and could just as readily stay home and go over his manuscript. The carefee inflection of his offer, however, was also a wink aimed at my father: he was only pretending to have come up with the idea; in fact, without letting me suspect it, he was picking up on my father’s advice at the dinner table and was offering to go for my benefit alone.
令我惊讶的不仅是他这么有识人的天分，能够轻易探察别人的内心，挖出其人格的精准轮廓；还有，他对事物的直觉与我对事物的直觉如出一辙——到头来，这正是超越了欲望、友谊、共同信仰等等因素，令我不可自拔地被他吸引的原因。“去赶一场电影如何？”有一晚我们大家都坐在一起时他脱口而出，仿佛忽然想到一个好点子来排解夜晚枯坐在家的无聊。那时我们刚吃完晚饭，而用餐时父亲才刚刚长篇大论地劝说我多出去找朋友玩，尤其是晚上——这好像成了他这阵子的习惯。奥利弗才来没多久，在城里也没熟人，我似乎是观影同伴的最佳人选。但是奥利弗这随口一问显得太轻松无意，仿佛想让我和客厅里的人觉得他并不那么热衷于看电影，而且大可在家里润色论文草稿也一样。他提议时那种随兴的语调也是向父亲示意：他假装想到了看电影的主意，但事实上他想在不让我起疑的情况下，采纳父亲晚餐时的建议，而且是为了我好才提议要去。
I smiled, not at the offer, but at the double-edged maneuver. He immediately caught my smile. And having caught it, smiled back, almost in self-mockery, sensing that if he gave any sign of guessing I’d seen through his ruse he’d be confirming his guilt, but that refusing to own up to it, after I’d made clear I’d intercepted it, would indict him even more. So he smiled to confess he’d been caught but also to show he was a good enough sport to own up to it and still enjoy going to the movies together. The whole thing thrilled me.
我笑了，不为他的提议，而是因为他两方讨好的策略。他立刻看到我的笑脸。既然看到了，也近乎自嘲般回以一笑，他意识到如果流露出任何猜到我已看穿他的迹象，他就得认罪；既然我表明早已看穿他的意图，他还拒绝爽快承认，更是罪加一等。所以他微笑承认自己被识破，但也想以此表明自己够上道、肯承认，而且仍然乐意一起去看电影。这整件事令我兴奋不已。
How could anyone intuit the manner of someone’s thinking unless he himself was already familiar with this same mode of thinking? How could he perceive so many devious turns in others unless he had practiced them himself?
你说话的时候看着他，他却总是撇开目光，没专心聆听，他只想趁忘记以前，赶紧说出你发言时他在心里演练过的话。”
若非他自己熟悉同样的思考模式，怎能凭直觉洞悉别人的想法？若非早已亲身实践，他如何能察觉他人内心这许多曲折？
What struck me was not just his amazing gift for reading people, for rummaging inside them and digging out the precise configuration of their personality, but his ability to intuit things in exactly the way I myself might have intuited them. This, in the end, was what drew me to him with a compulsion that overrode desire or friendship or the allurements of a common religion. “How about catching a movie?” he blurted out one evening when we were all sitting together, as if he’d suddenly hit on a solution to what promised to be a dull night indoors. We had just left the dinner table where my father, as was his habit these days, had been urging me to try to go out with friends more often, especially in the evening. It bordered on a lecture. Oliver was still new with us and knew no one in town, so I must have seemed as good a movie partner as any. But he had asked his question in far too breezy and spontaneous a manner, as though he wanted me and everyone else in the living room to know that he was hardly invested in going to the movies and could just as readily stay home and go over his manuscript. The carefee inflection of his offer, however, was also a wink aimed at my father: he was only pretending to have come up with the idea; in fact, without letting me suspect it, he was picking up on my father’s advice at the dinner table and was offering to go for my benefit alone.
令我惊讶的不仅是他这么有识人的天分，能够轻易探察别人的内心，挖出其人格的精准轮廓；还有，他对事物的直觉与我对事物的直觉如出一辙——到头来，这正是超越了欲望、友谊、共同信仰等等因素，令我不可自拔地被他吸引的原因。“去赶一场电影如何？”有一晚我们大家都坐在一起时他脱口而出，仿佛忽然想到一个好点子来排解夜晚枯坐在家的无聊。那时我们刚吃完晚饭，而用餐时父亲才刚刚长篇大论地劝说我多出去找朋友玩，尤其是晚上——这好像成了他这阵子的习惯。奥利弗才来没多久，在城里也没熟人，我似乎是观影同伴的最佳人选。但是奥利弗这随口一问显得太轻松无意，仿佛想让我和客厅里的人觉得他并不那么热衷于看电影，而且大可在家里润色论文草稿也一样。他提议时那种随兴的语调也是向父亲示意：他假装想到了看电影的主意，但事实上他想在不让我起疑的情况下，采纳父亲晚餐时的建议，而且是为了我好才提议要去。
I smiled, not at the offer, but at the double-edged maneuver. He immediately caught my smile. And having caught it, smiled back, almost in self-mockery, sensing that if he gave any sign of guessing I’d seen through his ruse he’d be confirming his guilt, but that refusing to own up to it, after I’d made clear I’d intercepted it, would indict him even more. So he smiled to confess he’d been caught but also to show he was a good enough sport to own up to it and still enjoy going to the movies together. The whole thing thrilled me.
我笑了，不为他的提议，而是因为他两方讨好的策略。他立刻看到我的笑脸。既然看到了，也近乎自嘲般回以一笑，他意识到如果流露出任何猜到我已看穿他的迹象，他就得认罪；既然我表明早已看穿他的意图，他还拒绝爽快承认，更是罪加一等。所以他微笑承认自己被识破，但也想以此表明自己够上道、肯承认，而且仍然乐意一起去看电影。这整件事令我兴奋不已。
