LOUIS: So you want me to tell you the story of my life...
路易：你想要我把我的故事告诉你？
MALLOY: Oh yes, like I said, that's what I do. I interview people. I’m a collector of lives. F.M. radio. K.F.R.C.
马洛依：是的，我说过，这就是我的工作。我是人生故事的收藏家。我采访别人，然后在K.F.R.C电台播出。
LOUIS: You'll need a lot of tape for my story.
路易：我的故事需要很多的磁带来记录。
MALLOY: No problem. I got a bag full of tape ready.
马洛依：没关系，我准备了一整袋的磁带。
LOUIS: You followed me here, didn't you?
路易：你跟踪我到这儿，不是吗？
MALLOY: Yeah, I suppose I did. You seemed very interesting. This is where you live?
马洛依：对，正是这样。你看上去相当有趣。你住在这儿吗？
LOUIS: No. Just a room...
路易：不，这只是一个房间……
MALLOY: What do you say we get started? So, what do you do?
马洛依：你说我们怎么开始呢？你是干什么的？
LOUIS: I'm a vampire.
路易：我是个吸血鬼。
MALLOY: That’s something I haven’t heard before. Well, you mean this literally, I take it.
马洛依：这我倒从来没有听说过。嗯，你说真的？
LOUIS: Absolutely. I was waiting for you in that alleyway, watching you watching me. And then you began to speak.
路易：千真万确。我在那条小巷子里等着你，看着你看见我。然后你开口说话。
MALLOY: So what a lucky break for me.
马洛依：那我真走运。
LOUIS: Perhaps lucky for both of us.
路易：也许我俩都很走运。
MALLOY: You…said you were waiting for me? What will you do? Kill me, drink my blood or likes that?
马洛依：你在……你说你在等着我？你要干什么？杀了我，喝我的血或者诸如此类的事情？
LOUIS: Yes. But you needn't be worry about that now.
路易：不错。不过现在你无需担心。
MALLOY: You believe this, don't you? That you're a vampire?
马洛依：你为什么相信这个，相信你是个吸血鬼？
LOUIS: We can't begin this way. Let me turn on the light.
路易：我们不能这样开始。我打算把头顶上的灯打开。
MALLOY: But I thought vampires didn't like the light.
马洛依：可我以为吸血鬼不喜欢灯光呢。
LOUIS: We love it. I only wanted to prepare you.
路易：我们喜欢灯光。我只想为你准备。
MALLOY: Christ!
马洛依：上帝哪！
LOUIS: Don't be frightened. I want this opportunity.
路易：别害怕。我需要这个机会。
MALLOY: How the hell did you do that?
马洛依：你怎么做到的？
LOUIS: The same way as you do. A series of simple gestures. Only I moved too fast for you to see. I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. Please! What can I do to put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? I am born, I grow up. Or shall we begin when I was Born to Darkness, as I call it. That's really where we should start, don't you think?
路易：和你一样，一连串的简单动作。只不过我动作太快你看不清。我有血有肉，但并非人类。我不是人类已经有两百年了。请坐！我要怎么让你放松呢？我们像大卫·科波菲尔那样开始？我出生，我长大。或者从我生于黑暗——我是这么称呼的——开始。我们就从这儿开始，你说呢？
MALLOY: You're not lying to me, are you?
马洛依：你没骗我，对吧？
LOUIS: Why should I lie? 1791 was the year it happened. I was twenty-four, younger than you are now. But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would to have been joined them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed for a release from it. I wanted to lose all. My wealth, my estate, my sanity.
路易：你想要我把我的故事告诉你？
MALLOY: Oh yes, like I said, that's what I do. I interview people. I’m a collector of lives. F.M. radio. K.F.R.C.
马洛依：是的，我说过，这就是我的工作。我是人生故事的收藏家。我采访别人，然后在K.F.R.C电台播出。
LOUIS: You'll need a lot of tape for my story.
路易：我的故事需要很多的磁带来记录。
MALLOY: No problem. I got a bag full of tape ready.
马洛依：没关系，我准备了一整袋的磁带。
LOUIS: You followed me here, didn't you?
路易：你跟踪我到这儿，不是吗？
MALLOY: Yeah, I suppose I did. You seemed very interesting. This is where you live?
马洛依：对，正是这样。你看上去相当有趣。你住在这儿吗？
LOUIS: No. Just a room...
路易：不，这只是一个房间……
MALLOY: What do you say we get started? So, what do you do?
马洛依：你说我们怎么开始呢？你是干什么的？
LOUIS: I'm a vampire.
路易：我是个吸血鬼。
MALLOY: That’s something I haven’t heard before. Well, you mean this literally, I take it.
马洛依：这我倒从来没有听说过。嗯，你说真的？
LOUIS: Absolutely. I was waiting for you in that alleyway, watching you watching me. And then you began to speak.
路易：千真万确。我在那条小巷子里等着你，看着你看见我。然后你开口说话。
MALLOY: So what a lucky break for me.
马洛依：那我真走运。
LOUIS: Perhaps lucky for both of us.
路易：也许我俩都很走运。
MALLOY: You…said you were waiting for me? What will you do? Kill me, drink my blood or likes that?
马洛依：你在……你说你在等着我？你要干什么？杀了我，喝我的血或者诸如此类的事情？
LOUIS: Yes. But you needn't be worry about that now.
路易：不错。不过现在你无需担心。
MALLOY: You believe this, don't you? That you're a vampire?
马洛依：你为什么相信这个，相信你是个吸血鬼？
LOUIS: We can't begin this way. Let me turn on the light.
路易：我们不能这样开始。我打算把头顶上的灯打开。
MALLOY: But I thought vampires didn't like the light.
马洛依：可我以为吸血鬼不喜欢灯光呢。
LOUIS: We love it. I only wanted to prepare you.
路易：我们喜欢灯光。我只想为你准备。
MALLOY: Christ!
马洛依：上帝哪！
LOUIS: Don't be frightened. I want this opportunity.
路易：别害怕。我需要这个机会。
MALLOY: How the hell did you do that?
马洛依：你怎么做到的？
LOUIS: The same way as you do. A series of simple gestures. Only I moved too fast for you to see. I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years. Please! What can I do to put you at ease? Shall we begin like David Copperfield? I am born, I grow up. Or shall we begin when I was Born to Darkness, as I call it. That's really where we should start, don't you think?
路易：和你一样，一连串的简单动作。只不过我动作太快你看不清。我有血有肉，但并非人类。我不是人类已经有两百年了。请坐！我要怎么让你放松呢？我们像大卫·科波菲尔那样开始？我出生，我长大。或者从我生于黑暗——我是这么称呼的——开始。我们就从这儿开始，你说呢？
MALLOY: You're not lying to me, are you?
马洛依：你没骗我，对吧？
LOUIS: Why should I lie? 1791 was the year it happened. I was twenty-four, younger than you are now. But times were different then. I was a man at that age. The master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth. She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would to have been joined them. I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. I longed for a release from it. I wanted to lose all. My wealth, my estate, my sanity.
