音乐之声剧 本中英对照.doc

1 In (The story starts in an abbey of Salzburg, Bernice: Reverend Mother... Reverend Mother: Sister Bernice. Bernice: I simply cannot find her. Reverend Mother: Marisa? Bernice: She’s missing from the abbey again. Sister A: Perhaps we should have put a cowbell around her neck. Sister B: Have you tried the barn? You know how much she adores the animals. Bernice: I have looked everywhere, in all of the usual places. Revernd Mother: Sister Bernice, considering that is Maria, I suggest you look in some place unusual. (Later, Maria gets back and comes to see Reverend Mother.) Reverend Mother: I’m here, my child. Now sit down. Maria (short for M): Oh, Reverend Mother, I’m so sorry. I just couldn’t help myself. The gates were open and the hills were beckoning and before... Reverend Mother: I know! I have not summoned you here for apologies. M: Oh, please Mother, do let me ask for forgiveness. Reverend Mother: If it will make you feel better. M: Yes. Well you see, the sky was so blue today and everything was so green and fragrant. I just had to be a part of it! And you know those birds kept meeting me higher and higher as though it wanted me to go right through the clouds with it. Reverend Mother: Child, suppose darkness had come and you were lost? M: Oh, Mother, I could never be lost up there. That’s my mountain, I was brought up on it. It was the mountain that led me to you. Reverend Mother: Oh? M: When I was a child, I would come down the mountain and climb a tree and look over into your garden. I’d see the sisters at work and I would hear them sing on their way to Vespers, which brings me to another transgression, Reverend Mother. I was singing out there today without permission. Reverend other: Maria, it is only here in the abbey that we have rules about postulant singing. M: I can’t seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what’s worse, I can’t seem to stop saying things. Everything and anything I think and feel. Reverend Mother: Some people would call that hon