布达佩斯大饭店,英文台词.docxVIP

精品文档 精品文档 PAGE PAGE #欢迎下载 it is an extremely com mon mistake, people think the writers imagination is always at work, that hes con sta ntly inventing an en dless supply of in cide nts and episodes, that he simply dreams up his stories out of thi n air. In point of fact, the opposite is true. Once the public knows youre a writer, they bring the characters and events to you and as long as you maintain your ability to look and to carefully liste n, these stories will continue to... Stop it. Stop it! D ont! Dont do it! Uh, will continue to seek you out over your lifetime. To him who has ofte n told the tales of others, many tales will be told. Sorry. Its all right. The in cide nts that follow were described to me exactly as I prese nt them here and in a wholly un expected way. iA nu mber of years ago,/i iwhile sufferi ng from a mild case of Scribes Fever,/i a iform of n eurasthe nia com mon amon g/i ithe in tellige ntsia of that time,/i iI decided to spe nd the month of August/i ii n the spa tow n of Nebelsbad below the Alpi ne Sudete nwaltz,/i ia nd had take n up rooms in the Grand Budapest,/i ia picturesque, elaborate, and once widely celebrated establishme nt./i iI expect some of you will know it./i iYOUNG/i WRITER: iIt was off season and, by that time, decidedly out of fashi on, /i ia nd it had already begu n its desce nt/i iinto shabb in ess and eve ntual demoliti on. /i iWhat few guests we were/i ihad quickly come to recog nize one ano ther by sight/i ias the only livi ng souls resid ing in the vast establishme nt,/i ialthough I do not believe any acquaintance among our nu mber had proceeded/i ibeyond the polite nods we exchanged as we passed/i ii n the Palm Court,/i iin the Arabia n baths,/i ia nd on board the Colonn ade Funi cular./i We were a very reserved group, iit/i seemed, ia nd, without excepti on, solitary./i iPerhaps as a result of this general silence,/i iI had established a casual and bantering familiarity/i iwith the hotels con cierge, a West-c o