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英语俱乐部 · 2000 年代旧稿，2026 年重排
根据Margaret Mitchell同名小说改编
《乱世佳人》的故事梗概应该不用我介绍啦，让我们直接跳过去欣赏
Rhett: Take a good look, my dear. It's a historical moment. You
can tell your grandchildren how you watched the Old South
disappear one night. They were going to lick the Yankees
in a month... the poor, gallant fools...
Scarlett: They make me sick, all of them. Getting us all into this
with their swaggering and boasting.（他们的狂妄自大和吹嘘
Rhett: That's the way I felt once, about their swaggering and
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, I'm so glad you aren't with the army. You can
be proud now, proud that you've been smarter than all of
Rhett: I'm not so proud... This is the turn to Tara... Let the
horse breathe bit. Scarlett, are you still determined to
do this crazy thing?
Scarlett: Oh, yes, yes! I know we can get through, Rhett. I'm sure
Rhett: Not we, my dear, you. I'm leaving you here.
scarlett: You're what? Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett: I'm very serious, Scarlett. I'm going to join up with our
brave lads in grey. （我要加入到那些穿灰军装的勇敢的小伙子
Scarlett: But they're running away!
Rhett: Oh, no. They'll turn and make a last stand if know anything
about them. And when they do, I'll be with them. I'm a
little late but "better late than..." （噢，不，他们会回来
做最后一次抵抗……如果对他们有所了解的话。当他们战斗的时
候，我将和他们一起。我是有点迟了，但“迟总比……”）
Scarlett: Rhett, you must be joking!
Rhett: Selfish to the end, aren't you? Thinking only of your own
precious hide with never a thought for the noble cause.
（你打算自私到底，对不对？只考虑自己宝贵的小命，从不考虑高
Scarlett: Rhett! How could you do this to me? And why should you
go now that, after it's all over, and I need you! Why? Why?
Rhett: Why? Maybe it's because I've always had a weakness for lost
causes... Once they're really lost... Or, maybe, maybe I'm
ashamed of myself. Who knows? （为什么？也许是因为我总有一
个弱点，站在失败的事业一边……但一旦真的失败了……或者，也
Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and
Rhett: You, helpless? Heaven help the Yankees if they capture
you... Now climb down here, I want to say goodbye. （你，
无依无靠？如果北方佬能把你抓住的话得靠上帝帮忙……快下来
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please!
I'll never forgive you!
Rhett: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or
forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll
laugh at myself for being an idiot. But there is one thing
I do know. And that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite
of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces
around us... I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots,
both of us... selfish and shrewed, but able to look things
in the eyes and call them by their right names.（坏蛋，我
们俩都……自私而精明，但能够正视现实，敢说真话。）
Scarlet: Don't hold me like that!
Rhett: Scarlett, look at me. I love you more than I've ever loved
any woman. And I've waited longer for you than I've ever
waited for any woman.
Scarlett: Let me alone.
Rhett: Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett,
wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the
memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind
about loving me. You are a woman sending a soldier to his
death, with a beautiful memory... Scarlett, kiss me... Kiss
Scarlett: You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing, you! They were
right... Everybody was right... You, you are not a
gentleman!（你是个卑鄙的家伙，胆小鬼，下流胚，你！他们说的
对！……大家都说的对！……你……你不是个上等人！……）
Rhett: A minor point, at such a moment... Here. If anyone lays a
hand on this nag, shoot him, but don't make a mistake and
shoot the nag. （此时此刻，这些都是小问题……给，如果有人
碰这匹马，你就开枪，不过别搞错了，不要对准马射击。）
Scarlett: Oh, go on. I want you to go! I hope a cannon ball lands
slap on you! I hope you're blown into a million pieces!
Rhett: Never mind the rest. I follow your general idea. And when
I'm dead on the altar of my country, I hope your conscience
hurts you. Goodbye, Scarlett. （不必往下说了，我明白你的大
意。当我为国牺牲的时候，但愿你的良心受到谴责。再见，斯佳
Ashley: They say Abe Lincoln got his start splitting rails. Just
Think what heights I may climb to once I get the knack.
Scarlett: Ashley, the Yankees want three hundred dollars more in
taxes! What shall we do? Ashley, what's to become of us?
Ashley: What do you think becomes of people when their
civilization breaks up? Those who have brains and courage
come through all right. Those who haven't are winnowed
out.（当文明被打破后，你认为人们会怎么样？那些有勇有谋的
人会安然无恙。而那些愚蠢软弱的人将如秋风扫落叶一般被淘
Scarlett: For heaven's sake, Ashley Wilkes, don't stand there
talking nonsense at me when it's us who are being winnowed
Ashley: You're right, Scarlett. Here I am talking tommyrot about
civilization when your Tara's in danger... You've come to
me for help, and I've no help to give you... Scarlett,
Scarlett: You, Ashley? A coward? What are you afraid of?
Ashley: Oh, mostly of life becoming too real for me, I suppose.
Not that I mind splitting rails. But I do mind very much
losing the beauty of that... that life I loved. If the
war hadn't come I'd have spent my life happily buried at
Twelve Oaks. But the war did come... I saw my boyhood
friends blown to bits（被炸得粉身碎骨）. I saw men crumple
up in agony（痛苦地扭曲着）when I shot them... And now I
find myself in a world which to me is worse than death...
A world in which there's no place for me! Oh, I can never
make you understand because you don't know the meaning of
fear. You never mind facing realities and you never want
to escape from them as I do.
Scarlett: Escape? Oh, Ashley, you're wrong! I do want to escape,
too! I'm so very tired of it all. I've struggled for food
and for money. I've weeded and hoed and picked cotton（除
草、锄地、摘棉花） until I can't stand it another minute!
I tell you, Ashley, the South is dead! It's dead! The
Yankees and the carpetbagers （投机商）have got it and
there's nothing left for us! Oh, Ashley, let's run away!
We could go to Mexico. They want officers in the Mexican
army, and we could be so happy there. Ashley, I'd work for
you! I'd do anything for you! You know you don't love
Melanie. You told me you loved me that day at Twelve Oaks.
And anyway, Melanie can't, Dr. Meade told me she couldn't
ever have any more children. And I could give you...
Ashley: Oh, can't we ever forget that day at Twelve Oaks?
Scarlett: Do you think I could forget it? Have you forgotten it?
Could you honestly say you don't love me?
Ashley: No, I don't love you.
Scarlett: It's a lie.
Ashley: Well, even if it is a lie, do you think I could go off and
leave Melanie and baby? Break Melanie's heart? Scarlett,
are you mad? You couldn't leave your father and the
Scarlett: I could leave them! I'm sick of them, I'm tired of them!
Ashley: Yes, you're sick and tired. That's why you're talking this
way. You've carried the load for all of us. But from now
on I'm going to be more help to you. I promise.
Scarlett: There's only one way you can help me. Take me away!
There's nothing to keep us here!
Ashley: Nothing. Nothing, except honor. Oh, dear, dear. Darling!
Oh no! Don't cry. You mustn't! No, don't cry. Don't!
Scarlett: Say it. You love me. Say it!
Ashley: We won't do this. I tell you we won't do it! It won't
happen again. I'll take Melanie and the baby and go!
Scarlett: You love me! Say it! Say it! You love me! You love me!
You love me! Say it! Say it!
Ashley: All right, I'll say it. I love your courage and
stubborness! I love them so much that a moment ago I could
have forgotten the best wife a man ever could had! But,
Scarlet, I'm not going to forget her!
Scarlett: Then there's nothing left for me. Nothing to fight for.
Nothing to live for.
Ashley: Yes, there is something. Something you love better than
me, though you may not know it. Tara!
Scarlett: Yes, I still have this... You needn't go. I won't have
you all starve simply because I threw myself at your head.
It won't happen again.（我不会仅仅因为我要死缠着你而让你
Rhett: What is it? This is more than losing old Frank.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, I'm so afraid.
Rhett: I don't believe it. You've never been afraid in your life.
Scarlett: I'm afraid now. I'm afraid of dying and going to hell.
Rhett: You look pretty healthy. And maybe there isn't any hell.
Scarlett: Oh, there is! I know there is! I was raised on it!（我
Rhett: Well, far be it from me to question the teachings of
childhood. Tell me what you've done that hell yawns before
you. （哼，你小时候受的教育跟我一点关系也没有。告诉我你都
Scarlett: I ought never to have married Frank to begin with. He
was Suellen's beau, and he loved her, not me. And I made his
miserable and I killed him! Yes, I did! I killed him! Oh,
oh, Rhett, for the first time I'm finding out what it is to
be sorry for something I've done.
Rhett: Dry your eyes. If you had it all to do over again, you'd
do no differently. You're like the thief who isn't the least
bit sorry he stole, but he's terribly, terribly sorry he's
going to jail.（擦干你的眼泪。如果让你重新做一次的话，你仍
然会这么干。你就像个小偷，丝毫不为自己的偷窃行为难过，却为
Scarlett: Oh, I'm glad mother's dead. I'm glad she'd dead so she
can't see me. I always wanted to be like her, calm and kind
and I certainly have turned out disappointing.
Rhett: You know, Scarlet, I think you're on the verge of a
carrying jag. So I'll change the subject and say what I came
Scarlett: Say it, then, and get out! What is it?
Rhett: That I can't go on any longer without you.
Scarlett: Oh, you really are the most ill-bred（教养很差的）man
to come here at a time like this with you filthy...
Rhett: I made up my mind that you were the only woman for me,
Scarlet, the first time I saw you at Twelve Oaks... Now
you've got your lumber mill（木材厂）and Frank's money, you
won't come to me as you did to the jail... So I see I shall
Scarlett: I never heard of such bad taste!（我从没听过这么不得体
Rhett: Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?
Scarlett: Turn me loose, you varmint（流氓，恶棍）, and get out
Rhett: Forgive me for startling you with my sentiments（请原谅我
一时冲动而吓着了你）, my dear Scarlett, I mean, my dear
Mrs Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that
for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has
ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful,
more pure, more sacred... Dare I name it? Can it be love?
（可是你不可能不注意到，经过一段时间，我对你的友情已经成为
一种更深的感情，一种更美好、更纯洁、更神圣的感情……我能斗
Scarlett: Get up off your knees. I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett: This is an honorable proposal（求婚）of marriage, made at
what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my
life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Scarlett: You're coarse and you're conceited, and I think this
conversation's gone for enough! Besides, I shall never
Rhett: Oh, yes you will. And you'll marry me.
Scarlett: You! I don't love you... And I don't like being married.
Rhett: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?
Scarlett: Marriage fun? Fiddle-dee-dee! Fun for men, you mean!
Hush up! Do you want them to hear outside?
Rhett: You've been married to a boy and an old man. Why not try
a husband of the right age, with a way with women?（为什么
不试着找一个年龄相仿，而且对女人有一套的丈夫呢？）
Scarlett: You're a fool, Rhett Butler, when you know I shall
always love another man...
Rhett: Stop it! Do you hear me, Scarlett? Stop it! No more of that
Scarlett: Rhett, don't! I shall faint!
Rhett: I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for! None
of the fools you've ever known have kissed you like this,
have they? Your Charles or your Frank or your stupid
Ashley? Say you're going to marry me... Say "Yes"! Say
Rhett: You're sure you meant it? You don't want to take it back?
Rhett: Look at me. And try to tell me the truth! Did you say "Yes"
because of my money?
Scarlett: Well, yes, partly.
Scarlett: Well, you know, Rhett, money does help, and of course,
Scarlett: Well, if I said I was madly in love with you, you'd know
I was lying. But you've always said we had a lot in
Rhett: Yes, you're right, my dear. I'm not in love with any more
than you are with me.（我对你的爱不会比你对我的爱更多）
Heaven help the man who ever really loves you!... Well,
what kind of a ring would you like, my darling?
Scarlett: Oh, a diamond ring! And, and do buy a great big one,
Rhett: You shall have the biggest and the most vulgar（俗气的）
ring in Atlanta... And I'll take you to New Orleans for
the most expensive honeymoon my ill-gotten gains（不义之
Scarlett: Oh, that would be just heavenly!
Rhett: And I think I'll buy your trousseau（嫁妆）for you, too.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, how wonderful! But you won't tell anybody,
Rhett: Still the little hypocrite（伪君子）...
Scarlett: Oh, Ashley! You really love her, don't you?
Ashley: She's the only dream I ever had that didn't die in the
Scarlett: Dreams! Always dreams with you! Never common sense.
Ashley: Oh, scarlett, if you knew what I've gone through...
Scarlet: Oh, Ashley, you should have told me years ago that you
loved her, not me, and not left me dangling with your talk
of honor. But you had to wait'til now, now when Melly's
dying to show me I could never mean anything more to you
than... than this Watling woman does to Rhett! And I've
loved something that, that doesn't really exist. Somehow
I don't care. Somehow it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
one bit. Oh, Ashley, Ashley, forgive me! Don't cry.
She mustn't see you have been crying!
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett! Rhett! Where are you going? Rhett! Wait
for me! Rhett! Rhett! Rhett!
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett!
Rhett: Melanie... She is...? Well... God rest her. She was the
only completely kind person I ever knew... A great lady...
a very great lady. So she's dead? That makes it nice for
Scarlett: Oh, how can you say such a thing! You know how I loved
Rhett: No, I don't know that I do. But at least it's to your
credit that you could appreciate her at the end.（但至少
Scarlett: Of course I appreciated her. She thought of everybody
except herself, why, her last words were about you.
Rhett: What did she say?
Scarlett: She said, "Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."
Rhett: Did she say anything else?
Scarlett: She said, she asked me to look after Ashley, too.
Rhett: It's convenient to have the first wife's permission, isn't
Scarlett: What do you mean? What are you doing?
Rhett: I'm leaving you, my dear... All you need now is a divorce,
and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
Scarlett: Oh, no! No! You're wrong! Terribly wrong! I don't want
a divorce. Oh, Rhett, when I knew tonight that I... when I
knew I loved you I ran home to tell you. Oh, darling,
Rhett: Scarlett, please don't go on with this. Leave us some
dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this
last.（给我们离婚之后留下一点值得回忆的尊严吧。给我们留下这
Scarlett: "This last?"... Rhett, do listen to me. I must have
loved you for years only I was such a stupid fool I didn't
know it. Please believe me! You must care! Melly said you
Rhett: I believe you. But what about Ashley Wilkes?
Scarlett: I...I never really loved Ashley...
Rhett: You certainly gave a good imitation of it...（你的确装得很
像）up'til this morning. No, Scarlet, I tried everything,
and if you'd only met me half way, even when I came back
Scarlett: Oh, I was so glad to see you! I was, Rhett. But, but you
Rhett: And then when you were sick and it was all my fault, I hope
against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
Scarlett: I wanted you... I wanted you desperately! But I didn't
think you wanted me.
Rhett: It seems we've been at cross purposes（误解）, doesn't it?
But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie there was
a chance we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie
was you, a little girl again, before the war and poverty
had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could
pet her and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you... When
she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! Rhett! Please don't say that! I'm so sorry,
I'm so sorry for everything...
Rhett: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying
"I'm sorry", all the past can be corrected... Here, take
my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I
known you to have a handkerchief.（给，拿着我的手绢。在你
生活的紧要关头，我从来没有看见过你拿过手绢。）
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett! Where are you going?
Rhett: I'm going to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please... take me with you!
Rhett: No. I'm through with everything here. I want peace... I
want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life
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