《佩小姐的奇幻城堡》精讲 03

Grandpa! Tell me... tell me what? GRANDPA! Shelly behind you!

爷爷！告诉我。 告诉我什么？Shelly 你身后！

There was no one there.

那儿没人。

May I say Jake... that considering this was only a month ago I think you're doing exceptionally well.

我能这么说么，Jake 考虑到这事儿发生才一个月 我认为你已经恢复的很好了。

Apart from being crazy?

除了变疯了？

Having nightmares and anxiety doesn't make you crazy.

噩梦和紧张并不代表你疯了。

And what about seeing things which aren't there?

那看到那些不存在的东西呢？

Actually in dramatic situations its not at all uncommon¹. Your subconscious² mind draws an image from a movie, or...

事实上，在特殊的情况下也不是不正常。你的潜意识会从电影中提取画面，或者...

It was a story. My grandpa told me stories when I was a kid. About monsters that he fought in the war.

是个故事。小时候我爷爷给我讲的一个故事。关于他在战时和怪兽作战的故事。

So there you go. He was brutally³ attacked. And in your head the man who did it was inhuman⁴.

所以说嘛。他被攻击了，而在你的概念里，攻击他的不是人类。

A monster. It wasn't a man though.

是怪兽。不是人类就是了。

1 uncommon   

adj.罕见的，非凡的，不平常的

参考例句：

• Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
• Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。

2 subconscious   

n./adj.潜意识(的)，下意识(的)

参考例句：

• Nail biting is often a subconscious reaction to tension.咬指甲通常是紧张时的下意识反映。
• My answer seemed to come from the subconscious.我的回答似乎出自下意识。

3 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

4 inhuman   

adj.残忍的，不人道的，无人性的

参考例句：

• We must unite the workers in fighting against inhuman conditions.我们必须使工人们团结起来反对那些难以忍受的工作条件。
• It was inhuman to refuse him permission to see his wife.不容许他去看自己的妻子是太不近人情了。