(单词翻译:单击)
热闹的生日晚会,Morgan带着Kate认识了很多人,Kate却是像在应付。她不喜欢这样的场合,别人的热闹只能更加衬托出她内心的寂寞。于是,一个人远离人群,想找个地方喘喘气儿。
Alex正找机会与Kate单独相处,欲言又止的他,多想跟Kate说明一切,可是谁会相信呢?他向Kate说起那本叫做Persuasion的书,当然正是Kate丢失,而被他找到的那本。两人的话渐渐多了起来。
音乐想起,那首贯穿整部电影的This never happen before。他们开始跳舞,当然最终逃不过俗套的画面,他们接吻,却被Morgan和Mona看到……
Alex:Happy birthday.
Kate:Thank you.
Alex:I hope3 it's a great year for you.
Kate:Thank you.
Alex:I'm Alex. The lake-house guy4.
Kate:Oh, yeah. How you doing?
Alex:May I?
Kate:So you're gonna - You're gonna find us a place on the lake, huh?
Alex:I hope so.
Kate:Yeah.
Alex:lf I can.
Kate:You're a real-estate agent5?
Alex:No, I-- I just have a lake house.
Kate:Is it nice?
Alex:Yeah, you'll love it. You're gonna rent6 it after I move out.
Kate:Oh, really?
Alex:Kate, have you read Persuasion1?
Kate:What?
Alex:By Jane Austen.
Kate:I know who it's by. Yeah, it's...It's my favorite7 book. Why did8 you bring something like that up? What made9 you bring that up?
Alex:I just - a friend of mine gave10 it to me recently11, and I was12 wondering13 what it was about.
Kate:It's... It's wonderful. Yeah.
Alex:Yeah. It's about....
Kate:About waiting. These two people, they...they...they meet. They almost14 fall in love, but the timing15 isn't right. They...they have to part16. And then... years later17, they...they meet again. They get another chance18. You know, but they don't know if too much time has passed. lf they waited too long, if it's...you know, too late to make it work.
Alex:Why do you like that?
Kate:I don't know.
Alex:Don't get me wrong. It's beautiful in a kind of...
Alex:It's terrible. That's terrible.
Kate:It's terrible.
Alex:That's...
Kate:Yeah, it's...that's terrible.
Alex:It's a personal20 question...but have you ever2 been through anything like that?
Kate:Me? No. No, no.
Alex:No.
Kate:When I was...When I was 16...I was completely21 in love with this guy. He played guitar...and I ran22 away from home... and went to San Francisco so I could23 go live with him. Yeah, he convinced24 me I had25 a beautifuI voice26...and I dreamed27 of becoming a singer.
Alex:I love San Francisco.
Kate:Yeah, he was... He was my first love. Probably28 the only one.
Alex:He must have been a great guy.
Kate:I don't... I don't know, I...He may have been. lt didn't last long enough for me to find out. Yeah. Truth29 is, I...I can't even30 remember what he looked like.
Alex:Really?
Kate:Yeah.
Alex:Then that's too bad.
Kate:My dad... My dad showed up, actually31.
Kate:He came33 in. Yeah, I was in trouble. He yanked me back to Chicago34. Yeah. And he was sick, and he...He had these...these dreams35 of me becoming a doctor, you know? You know, and eventually36, they became37 my dreams too. He was right. You know, I...I feel good helping38 people. Then he died39.
Alex:Kate.
Kate:What?
Alex:l...
Kate:You...?
Alex:I just...
Kate:What?
Alex:Do you know this song?
Kate:Yeah.
Alex:Do you sing?
Kate:No. No body wants to hear me sing. You don't wanna hear me sing.
Alex:I... I didn't mean, you know...
Kate:But...
Alex:Yeah...
Kate:But I can dance.
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