[00:06.15]在我生命的前二十几年里 For the first twenty-odd years of my life...
[00:08.35]小奥德萨对我来说 就像对这列火车一样 ...Little Odessa was to me what it is to the Q train...
[00:12.28]是终点站 ...the end of the line.
[00:14.15](纽约，小奥德萨，1982) "Little Odessa," New York - 1982
[00:15.82]哦，关于我的名字，我刚撒了个谎 Oh, I did lie about my name.
[00:18.28]其实并不是尤里·奥洛夫 It’s not really Yuri Orlov.
[00:20.48]在20世纪的某些时候 There’ve been few occasions in the in the 20th century...
[00:22.58]做个犹太人是有好处的 when it’s been an advantage be a Jew.
[00:25.12]70年代我们全家为了逃离苏联 But in the ’seventies, to escape the Soviet Union,
[00:27.58]就伪装成犹太人 our family pretended to be Jewish.
[00:30.02]从此我就活得不怎么好 Little about my life has been kosher ever since
[00:32.92]老哥，你好吗？ How’s it going, brother?
[00:35.42]不怎么样 It’s not.
[00:36.92]这是维塔利，我弟弟 That’s Vitaly, my younger brother.
[00:38.82]他和我一样，对生命感到迷惘 He was as lost as me.
[00:40.18]只是他现在还不知道罢了 He didn’t know it yet.
[00:41.48]尤里 Yuri,
[00:42.65]你迟到了 you’re late.
[00:47.85]我父亲很快地就把 这伪装的身份当真了 My father took his assumed identity to heart.
[00:50.98]他比很多犹太人更犹太 He was more Jewish than most Jews.
[00:53.45]这使我信天主教的母亲很生气 Which drove my Catholic mother crazy.
[00:55.72]说过多少次啦？ How many times?
[00:56.85]我不能吃贝类 I can’t eat shellfish.
[00:59.32]不圣洁 It’s treyf.
[01:00.08]你不是犹太人 You’re not Jewish.
[01:01.45]但我喜欢这样 I like it.
[01:03.75]我喜欢帽子 I like the hat.
[01:05.88]时时提醒我们 To remind us there is something...
[01:07.95]上面有人类的主宰 above us.
[01:10.15]我喜欢那样想 I like that.
[01:14.32]我要去(犹太)教堂 I’m going to temple.
[01:15.52]别去！ You’re not going to temple.
[01:16.55]你比牧师去得还勤 You go to temple more than the rabbi.
[01:18.72]你这女人少管我的事 Get off my back, woman.
[01:20.25]老天！你什么时候才能清醒点儿？ God, will you ever wise up?
[01:22.65]尤里，别忘了去看一看 Yuri, don’t forget to check
[01:25.28]皇宫酒店的特价 the specials at the Palace.
[01:28.38]在小奥德萨长大 Growing up in Little Odessa,
[01:30.12]人杀人是家常便饭 murder was everyday part of life.
[01:32.68]俄罗斯黑帮 Russian mobsters had also migrated
[01:34.55]也从苏联移民到了这里 from the Soviet Union
[01:35.92]而且他们来美国时 and when they came to America,
[01:37.65]还带着家伙呢 their baggage came with them.
[01:41.45]社区里 There was always some gangster
[01:42.65]每天都有些帮派份子斗殴 getting whacked in my neighborhood,
[01:44.32]只是我从没亲眼见过 but I’d never seen it with my own eyes.
[01:46.82]每次我总是早五分钟 I had this knack of showing up five minutes before something went down,
[01:49.88]或晚五分钟 or five minutes after.
[01:51.88]但那天不一样 Not that day.
[02:17.62]这一枪打醒了我 It hit me.
[02:18.88]枪打中他们带给我更大的震撼 It couldn’t have hit me harder
[02:20.02]就像打在我身上一样 if I was the one who’d been shot.
[02:22.42]你开饭馆 You go into the restaurant business...
[02:24.02]是因为人总是要吃饭 because people are always going to have to eat.
[02:27.48]就是那天，我意识到我的命运 That was the day I realized my destiny...
[02:29.42]是为了提供人们的另一种生活必需品 ...lay in fulfilling another basic human need.
[02:35.88]下个安息日，我和父亲一起去教堂 The next Sabbath, I went to temple with my father.
[02:39.02]然而上帝并不是我想要接近的 However, it wasn’t God I was trying to get close to.
[02:42.28]我的长子，尤里 Eli, my eldest son, Yuri.
[02:44.58]在那儿我认识了第一把 My contact at synagogue landed me
[02:46.52]以色列制的乌兹冲锋枪 my first Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns.
[02:54.15]第一次卖枪的感觉 The first time you sell a gun...
[02:55.28]很大程度上就象第一次做爱一样 is a lot like the first time you have sex.
[02:57.88]你根本不知道自己在干嘛 You have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.
[03:00.22]虽然很刺激 But it is exciting and one way or another,
[03:02.98]但很快就结束了 it’s over way too fast.
[03:07.52]先生们 Gentlemen.
[03:09.32]新型乌兹自动手枪 The new Uzi machine pistol.
[03:11.58]体积虽小，但火力强大 Big firepower in a small package.
[03:13.35]这宝贝用的是九毫米凹头子弹 This little baby uses 9 mm hollow points.
[03:15.42]廿或廿五发可扩充式弹夹 Twenty twenty-five round extendable mags...
[03:17.72]枪柄大小可调 ...rear-flip adjustable sights.
[03:19.22]消音器是标准装备 后座力极低 Silencer comes standard. Excellent recoil reduction.
[03:21.42]枪口上抬减少四成 Muzzle jump reduced forty percent.
[03:22.95]噪音减少六成 Sixty percent improved noise suppression.
[03:24.78]就算你“现在” You could pump a mag into me
[03:26.65]朝我打完一整夹子弹 right now
[03:28.08]也不会吵醒隔壁的人 and never wake the guy in the next room.
[03:31.88]但是这样你就没机会和我 Of course, that would eliminate your
[03:33.08]再做更大的生意了 opportunity for repeat business.
[03:36.42]我天生 I did have a natural instinct
[03:38.12]就有走私违禁品的才能 for smuggling contraband.
[03:40.02]幸运的是 Fortunately, back then a video camera
[03:42.08]那时的摄像机有火箭筒那么大 was a big as a bazooka
[03:51.95]我的一生都想远离暴力 Here I’d been running away from violence
[03:53.75]但其实我更该接近它才对 my whole life, and I should’ve run towards it.
[03:57.65]这是人类的天性 It’s in our nature.
[03:59.32]最初人类遗骸的肋骨腔中 The earliest human skeletons had
[04:01.02]就有一个矛箭头 spearheads in their rib cages.
[04:14.98]怎么搞这么久？ Where have you been?
[04:16.52]如果客人来了怎么办？ What if we had a customer?
[04:18.22]上帝保佑美国 God bless America.
[04:42.75]“当心恶犬” 你哪儿来的狗！ Beware of the dog? You don’t have a dog.
[04:45.25]想吓人呀？ Are you trying to scare people?
[04:46.42]是吓我自己 No, it’s to scare me.
[04:48.38]随时提醒我内心中的恶犬 Remind me to be aware of the dog in me.
[04:51.25]它想袭击其他动物 The dog wants to fuck everything that moves
[04:53.25]和击杀弱小同类的狗 Wants to fight and kill weaker dogs.
[04:55.65]提醒自己要像个人 I guess it’s to remind me to be more human.
[04:58.55]做条狗和做个人不是一个概念么？ Isn’t being a dog part of being human? |