《至爱梵高·星空之谜》精讲 梵高的信

Causing trouble again I see.

看来你又惹事儿了

You dropped your letter outside.

你把信落在外面了

It's not my letter.

那不是我的信

It's Vincent's.

是文森特的

It's to Theo Van Gogh.

这信是给提奥·梵高的

That's Vincent's brother, isn't it?

他是文森特的弟弟吧

Yeah, Vincent left it behind.

对 文森特把信给落了

His old landlord¹ Geno was having a clear out and found it.

他的前房东吉诺打扫房间时发现的

So he gave it to my father

房东把信交给了我父亲

I have to deliver² it.

我父亲让我把信送过去

and father told me Like it's my business.

跟我有什么关系

My job is to bash metal into shape,

我就是个做铁匠活儿的

not deliver letters.

不是送信的

Help yourself why don't you?

你刚才拿得很顺手啊

Well he doesn't need it, does he?

反正他也喝不了了 对吧

I don't see the point in delivering³ a dead man's letter.

真不懂一个死人的信还有什么好送的

Your father just wants to pay his respects⁴.

你父亲这是为了表达对他的敬意

What for?

图什么

What did that nobody ever do for us?

知道那个家伙怎么害我们家的吗

Making my family hated when my old man refused to sign that petition⁵.

他害得每个人都恨我们 因为我父亲不愿在请愿书上签字

To throw him out of the town...

把他从镇上赶出去...

I signed it.

我就签了

And, that's well and good, he was mad.

赶走了他才好 他疯了

He wasn't. He was an interesting man.

他没疯 他这人其实挺有意思的

Things only got strange when that friend of his Gauguin cames.

但是他的朋友高更来了之后 他开始变得古怪了

1 landlord   

n.地主，房东，(旅店)店主

参考例句：

• He is the landlord of this pub.他是这家酒店的店主。
• He used to be a long - term labourer for a landlord.他早先给地主扛过长活。

2 deliver   

v.投递（信件，邮包等）

参考例句：

• Please help me deliver this package.请帮我投递这个包裹。
• Could you deliver it by tomorrow?明天之前能送吗？

3 delivering   

v.递送，交付( deliver的现在分词 )；发表；交出；发动

参考例句：

• The brewery had 25 heavy horses delivering beer in London. 啤酒厂有25 匹高头大马在伦敦城中运送啤酒。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The date for the delivering of the lecture has been advanced to the end of the month. 举行讲座的日期已提前到本月底。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 respects   

敬意，问候； 考虑( respect的名词复数 )； 关联； 敬意

参考例句：

• A cat is similar to a tiger in many respects. 猫和虎在很多方面相似。
• I admit that I am inferior to him in many respects. 我自认在许多方面比他矮半截。

5 petition   

n.请愿书，申请书，诉状；v.请愿，正式请求

参考例句：

• Thousands of citizens subscribed the petition.几千名公民在请愿书上签名。
• The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed.要求增设新学校而签名的人像滚雪球似的越来越多。