《绝望的主妇》精讲467

And knock wood, the doctorssay I'll keep improving slowly but surely.

谢天谢地，医生说我会复原的但会很慢

So how are you?

那你怎么样了?

Good, good. I'm seeing friends, and I just started cochairing a charity event for the junior league, and, um,

很好，见见朋友.我要合伙组织青年志愿者组织的慈善活动

and I broke up with George

而且我和George分手了

Really?

真的?

Dr. Goldfine, do you ever really cure people,

Goldfine医生,你真的治愈过

I mean, even if they're really crazy?

头脑发疯的人吗?

I'm not a big fan of that word

我不赞同你说的头脑发疯

People either have mental health or they don't.

有些人没有精神问题，有些有，

When they do have a problem, you treat them as if they had any other disease¹, and sometimes they get better.

当他们有问题时，你就象治疗其他有疾病的人一样，有时病情会好转

Well, when I broke up with George, I saw something in his eyes.It was a kind of malevolence²,

我和George分手时，我在他的眼里看到了一些东西,狠毒的眼神

and it just didn't seem to me to be the sort of thing that you could cure.

在我看来这不是可以医治的。

I don't believe in evil³ either. We're all just people.

我不相信人是邪恶的,我们是普通人而已

How can you not believe in evil?

你怎么能不相信呢?

A man just threw you off a bridge for no reason.

一个人毫无理由的把你从桥上丢了下去

Exactly. He didn't know anything about me.

的确，他对我一无所知

He just rode upon his little blue bike and tried to hurt me.

他骑着蓝色的自行车想要伤害我

Do I think he's wicked⁴? No. He's disturbed.

我认为他是邪恶的? 不，他被自身的病所困扰

His problems probably stem⁵ from a chemical imbalance.

他的问题可能源于内分泌失衡

I believe with enough time and treatment, I could help him.

我相信有足够的时间和治疗我能治好他

Did you say a blue bike?

你提到了蓝色的自行车?

1 disease   

n.疾病，弊端

参考例句：

• The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
• He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。

2 malevolence   

n.恶意，狠毒

参考例句：

• I had always been aware of a frame of malevolence under his urbanity. 我常常觉察到，在他温文尔雅的下面掩藏着一种恶意。 来自辞典例句

3 evil   

n.邪恶，不幸，罪恶；adj.邪恶的，不幸的，有害的，诽谤的

参考例句：

• We pray to God to deliver us from evil.我们祈求上帝把我们从罪恶中拯救出来。
• Love of money is the root of all evil.爱钱是邪恶的根源。

4 wicked   

adj.邪恶的，恶劣的，缺德的；淘气的

参考例句：

• Let everyone know all the wicked things she has done.把她干的坏事给大家抖搂抖搂。
• The wicked must be wiped out.恶人必须除掉。

5 stem   

n.茎，干，船首，词干，血统；vt.堵住，阻止，抽去梗；vi.起源于，发生

参考例句：

• Cut the stem cleanly,just beneath a leaf joint.把茎切整齐点，正好切在叶根下。
• The ship was in a blaze from stem to stern.整艘船从头到尾都着火了。