第一部分 原文

 

Forrest: Now because I’d been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity and a shrimpin’ boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of Greenbow, Alabama decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company so then I got a call from him saying we don’t have to worry about money no more and I said, “That’s good. One less thing.” Now mama said there’s only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showin’ off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Four Square Gospel Church and a whole bunch to the Bayou la Batre Fishing Hospital. Even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba’s mama Bubba’s share©. You know what? She didn’t have to work in nobody’s kitchen no more and cause, I was a gozillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free. But at night time when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I would always think of Jenny... And then, she was there.

Jenny: Hello, Forrest.

Gump: Hello, Jenny.

Forrest: Jenny came back and stayed with me. Maybe it was because she had nowhere else to go or maybe it was because she was so tired ‘cause she went to bed and slept and slept like she hadn’t slept in years. It was wonderful having her home. Everyday, we’d take a walk and I’d jabber© on like a monkey in a tree and she’d listen about Ping-ponging and shrimping and mama makin’ a trip up to heaven. I did all the talking. Jenny most of the time was real quiet... Sometimes I guess there just aren’t enough rocks. I never really knew why she came back, But I didn’t care. It was like olden times. We was like peas and carrots again. Everyday, I’d pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her. And she gave me the best gift anyone could ever get in the wide world. And she even showed me how to dance. And well, we was like family, Jenny and me, and it was the happiest time in my life.

Jenny: You done watching it?

Gump: Will you marry me? I’d make a good husband, Jenny.

Jenny: You would, Forrest.

Gump: But you don’t want to marry me.

Jenny: You won’t marry me.

Gump: Why don’t you love me, Jenny? I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is. ( later) Jenny?

Jenny: Forrest, I do love you.

Man: Where are you runnin’ off to?

Jenny: I’m not runnin’.

Forrest: That day, for no particular reason I decided to go for a little run so I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there I thought maybe I’d run to the end of the town and when I got there, I thought, maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. And I figured since I run this far, maybe I’ll just run across the great state of Alabama. And that’s what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean, and when I got there, I figured since I’d gone this far, I might as well turn around and keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured since I’d gone this far, I might as well turn back and keep right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate and when I had to go… you know, I went.

Woman: And so, you just ran.

Forrest: Yeah, I’d think a lot, about mama, and Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. But most of all, I thought about Jenny. I thought about her a lot.

Newsman: For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, a gardner from Greenbow Alabama, stopping only to sleep , has been running across America....

Newsman: For the fourth time on his journey across America, Forrest Gump, a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama is about to cross the Mississippi River again today....

Jenny: I’ll be damned. Newsman: Sir, why are you running?

Newswoman: Are you doing this for world peace?

Newsman: Are you doing this for the homeless?

Newsman: Are you running for women’s rights?

Newsman: Or for the environment?

Newsman: Or for animals?

Forrest: They just couldn’t believe that someone would do all that running for no particular reason.

Newswoman: Why are you doing this?

Gump: I just felt like running.

Forrest: I just felt like running.

Jogger: It’s you! I can’t believe it’s really you.

Forrest: Now for some reason what I was doing seemed to make sense to people.

Jogger: I mean, it’s like an alarm went off in my head, you know. I said, here’s a guy who’s got his act together©. Here’s somebody who’s got it all figured out. Here’s someone who has the answer. I’ll follow you anywhere, Mr.Gump.

Forrest: So, I got company. And after that, I got more company, and then, even more people joined in. Somebody later told me it gave people hope. Now, I don’t know anything about that. But some of those people asked me if I could help them out.

Man: Hey man. Hey, listen, I was wondering if you might help me. I’m in the bumper© sticker© business and I’ve been trying to think up a good slogan and since you have been such a big inspiration© to the people around you. I thought you might be able to... Whoa! Man, you just ran through a big pile of dog shit!

Gump: It happens.

Man: What? Shit?

Gump: Sometimes.

Forrest: And some years later I heard that that fella did come up with a bumper sticker slogan and he made a lot of money out of it. Another time I was running along and somebody who had lost all his money in the T-shirt business. He wanted to put my face on a T-shirt, but he couldn’t draw that well and he didn’t have a camera.

Man: Here use this. Nobody likes that color anyway.

Gump: Have a nice day.

Forrest: Some years later, I found out that man did comp up with an idea for a T-shirt. He made a lot of money out of it. Anyway, like I was saying, I had a lot of company. My mama always said, “you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on”. And I think that’s what my running was all about. I had ran for three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours.

Runner: Quiet. Quiet. He’s going to say something.

Gump: I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll go home now.

Runner: Now what are we supposed to do?

Forrest: And just like that, my runnin’ days was over. So I went home to Alabama.

 

Newsman: Moments ago, at 2:25 p.m. as President Reagan was leaving... Five or six gun shots were fired by an unknown would-be assassin©. The president was shot in the chest...

Louise: I picked up the mail.

Forrest: One day, out of blue clear sky©, I got a letter from Jenny, wonderin’ if I could come down to Savannah and see her, and that’s what I’m doing here. She saw me on TV runnin’. I’m supposed to go on the number 9 bus to Richmond Street and get off and go one block left to 1947 Henry Street, Apartment 4.

Woman: Why, you don’t need take a bus, Herry Street is just five or six blocks down that way.

Forrest: Down that way?

Woman: Down that way.

Forrest: It was nice talking to you.

Woman: I hope everything works out for you.

Jenny: Forrest! How you doin’? Come in, come in.

Forrest: I got your letter.

Jenny: Oh! I was wondering about that.

Forrest: This is your house.

Jenny: Yeah, it’s messy right now, I just got off work.

Forrest: It’s nice. You’ve got air-conditioning.

Jenny: Thank you.

Forrest: I ate some.

Jenny: I kept a scrapbook© of your clippings© and everything. There you are. I got you running.

Forrest: I ran a long way. It was a long time.

Jenny: Listen, Forrest, I don’t know how to say this... I just, I want to apologize for anything I ever did to you ‘cause I was messed up for a long time and...

Baby-sitter: Yoohoo©! Hi!

Jenny: Hey you! This is an old friend from Alabama.

Baby-sitter: Hi, how do you do?

Jenny: Listen, next week my schedule changes, so I’ll be able to...

Baby-sitter: No problem. Gotta go, Jen. I’m double parked©. Bye!

Jenny: This is my very good friend, Mr. Gump. Can you say hi to him?

Little Forrest: Hello, Mr.Gump.

Forrest: Hello.

Little Forrest: Can I go watch TV now?

Jenny: Yes you can, just keep it low.

Forrest: You’re a mama, Jenny.

Jenny: I’m a mama. His name is Forrest.

Forrest: Like me!

Jenny: I named him after his daddy.

Forrest: He’s got a daddy named Forrest, too?

Jenny: You’re his daddy, Forrest. Hey, Forrest, look at me. There’s nothing you need to do. You didn’t do anything wrong. OK? Isn’t he beautiful?

Forrest: He’s the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. But, is he smart or is he...

Jenny: He’s very smart. He’s one of the smartest in his class. Yeah, it’s OK. Go talk to him... Forrest, I’m sick.

Forrest: What, do you have a cough due to a cold?

Jenny: I have some kind of virus© and the doctors don’t know what it is and there isn’t anything they can do about it.

Forrest: You can come home with me, Jenny. You and little Forrest could come stay at my house in Greenbow. I’ll take care of you if you’re sick. Jenny: Would you marry me, Forrest？

Forrest: OK.

Louise: Forrest, it’s time to start.

Jenny: Hi. Your tie.

Forrest: Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan.

Dan: Hello, Forrest.

Forrest: You got new legs. New legs.

Dan: Yeah, I got new legs. Custom made. Titanium© alloy©. It’s what they use on the space shuttle©.

Forrest: Magic legs. Dan: This is my fiancée, Susan.

Forrest: Lieutenant Dan.

Susan: Hi, Forrest.

Forrest: Lieutenant Dan, this is my Jenny.

Jenny: Hi. It’s nice to meet you finally.

Priest: Do you, Forrest, take Jenny to be your wife? Do you, Jenny, take Forrest to be your husband?

Jenny: Hey.

Forrest: Hey.

Jenny: Hey, Forrest. Were you scared in Vietnam?

Forrest: Yes, well, I don’t know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out and then it was nice; it was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou©. There was over a million sparkles© on the water. That mountain lake was so clear, Jenny, it looked like it was two skies, one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. It was so beautiful.

Jenny: I wish I could have been there with you.

Forrest: You were.

Jenny: I love you.

Forrest: You died on a Saturday morning and I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father’s bulldozed© to the ground. Mama always said dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t. Little Forrest is doing just fine. He’s about to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth everyday. I’m teachin’ him how to play Ping-pong .He’s really good. We fish a lot, and every night we read a book. He’s so smart, Jenny. You’d be so proud of him. I am. He even wrote you a letter. He says I can’t read it. I’m not supposed to .It’s Forrest’s. So I’ll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don’t know if mama was right or if it’s Lieutenant Dan. I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like©, on a breeze. But I think that maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the same time. I miss you , Jenny . If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.

 

(later)

Forrest: Here’s your bus. OK. Hey, I know this.

Little Forrest: I’m going to show that for show-and-tell because grandma used to read it to you.

Forrest: My favorite book. OK. Here you go. Hey, Forrest, Don’t….I want to tell you I love you.

Little Forrest: I love you too, daddy.

Forrest: I’ll be right here when you get back.

Dorothy: You understand that this is the bus to the school now, don’t you?

Little Forrest: Of course, and you’re Dorothy Harris, and I am Forrest Gump.

 

第二部分 重要词汇

 

take care of

出处：Though he did take care of my Bubba Gump money.

解析：take care of 原意是照顾、照料，在口语中，这个词组还有许多引申意, 如：

1. You all go to the picnic. I’ll take care of the cleaning.

你们都去野餐吧,我来负责打扫。

2. He is a real good manager of this department, but always fails to take care of his own stuff.

虽然他是很好的部门主管,但对自己的生活老是照顾不周。

3. Next time you see a rat, just let me take care of it.

下次你再看见耗子，就让我把它灭了。

4. The police will take care of the thief.

小偷将交给警察处理。

nuts

出处：Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts.

丹中尉说我是个疯子。

解析：口语里表示疯子的用法有许多，除了本句中的“nuts”，类似的表达还有insane，crazy，wacky，mad，cracked等，都是绝对高频出现的单词。大家要串起来记。

活用：1. The noise is driving me nuts.

噪音简直要把我逼疯了。

2. I’ll go nuts if you don’t tell me the truth.

如果你不告诉我实情，我简直要疯了。

同时，该词还有“热衷于”的含义：

3. She is nuts about surfing.

她酷爱冲浪。

4. He’s nuts about the girl living next door.

他迷恋住在隔壁的女孩儿。

pick

出处：Every day, I’d pick pretty flowers and put them in her room for her.

每天，我都会摘一些美丽的花儿放在她的房间里。

解析：“pick”一词的意义很多，熟练掌握它的用法将会给我们的口语表达带来很多方便请参考下面的例子：

1. I went for fruit picking last Sunday.

上星期天我去采果子了。

2. Don’t pick your teeth /nose at the table.

餐桌上别剔牙/挖鼻孔。

3. Shit! I had my pocket picked in the throng.

糟糕！我在人群里被人掏了包。

4. Stop picking holes! If you’re so good at it, why don’t you do it?

别挑骨头了！如果你真这么在行，你来做呀！

5. He had to pick the lock with a pin at last.

最后他只能用一个大头针把锁打开了。

figure

出处：And I figured since I run this far, maybe I’ll just run across Greenbow county.

我想，既然已经跑了这么远，我干脆跑过整个Greenbow县算了。

解析：在美国口语的表达法中，figure 一词作为动词使用，出现频率很高，相当于“think”“believe”或“subfigure”的意思，大家注意在日常生活中加以运用：

活用：1. I called her several times, but I couldn’t get her. So I figured she was on her vacation.

我给她打了若干次电话，都没有找到她。因此我想她是去度假了。

2. I figured he was hurt by what you said.

我觉得他被你的话伤着了。

most of all

出处：I’d think a lot, about mama, Bubba and Lieutenant Dan. But most of all, I thought about Jenny.

我想起了很多事情，包括妈妈，Bubba和丹中尉。但我想的最多的，还是詹妮。

解析：most of all,这一词在本片中反复出现，表达的是阿甘对詹妮最深切的惦念，口语中这种简单词汇出神入化的使用方法，需要大家细细体会。类似的表达还有 best of all。

活用：1. I love so many things about Paris. Do you know what I love most of all?

我对巴黎的很多事物都喜欢。你知道我最喜欢的是什么吗？

2. It’s a pity they sold out the wine I like most of all.

很遗憾，我最喜欢的那种酒卖光了。

 

第三部分 经典句型

 

*felt like doing

出处：Just felt like running.

我就是想跑步。

解析：felt like doing 的句型简单实用，表达一种想要做什么事情的主观愿望。

活用：1. I just don’t feel like buying any more clothes this year.

今年我就是不想再买任何的衣服了。

2. I feel like visiting an old friend right now.

我现在想去看一位老朋友。

这个句子还可以是“feel like +名词”的形式。

I feel like a walk in the drizzle .

我想在烟雨中散散步。

Do you feel like a break?

想歇一歇吗？

 

*not…but

出处：Now I don’t know anything about that but some of those people asked me if I could help them out.

我不是很明白，但是有人问我是不是能帮他们从困境中解脱出来。

解析：“not…but”这一经典句型，在表达转折递进的语义时非常有效，也是阿甘最常用的句型。

活用：1. I am not a smart man but I know what love is.

我不聪明，但我知道爱是什么。

2. Now I don’t know much about anything .But I think some of American’s best young men in this war.

我这个人什么都不大明白，可有一点我知道，美国最优秀的年轻人参战了。