阿 甘 正 传

◎万宇婧

这是一部经典电影，其中的经典台词不胜枚举。小编选取了其中比较简单的三段剧情对白并进行了适当的整理，使之更加适合作为同学们的听力、口语和阅读练习。

《阿甘正传》是由罗伯特·泽米吉斯执导，艾瑞克·罗斯、温斯顿·格鲁姆担任编剧，汤姆·汉克斯、罗宾·怀特、加里·西尼斯等主演的励志剧情电影，于1994 年7 月6 日在美国上映。电影上映后，于1995 年获得第67 届奥斯卡金像奖最佳影片、第52 届美国金球奖剧情类最佳影片。电影改编自温斯顿·格鲁姆于1986 年出版的同名小说，讲述了患先天性智障的小镇男孩福瑞斯特·甘自强不息，最终在多个领域创造奇迹的励志故事。

剧情简介：阿甘（汤姆·汉克斯 饰）于二战结束后不久出生在美国南方亚拉巴马州一个闭塞的小镇，他的智商只有75，而当时美国公立学校的入学智商要求为80 以上，然而他的妈妈是一位性格坚强的女性，她常常鼓励阿甘，要他自强不息。 阿甘像普通孩子一样上学，并且凭着“飞毛腿”开始了一生不停的奔跑。 阿甘成为橄榄球巨星、越战英雄、乒乓球外交使者、亿万富翁。在奔跑了许久之后，阿甘停了下来，回到自己的故乡，坐在公共汽车站的长椅上，以自述旁白加回忆插叙的形式，回忆起了他一生的经历。

电影的主角阿甘坐在公共汽车站的长椅上回忆人生，向旁边的陌生人讲起了自己的童年经历。回忆之门渐渐打开：福瑞斯特·甘这个名字的由来、他的第一双鞋、他和妈妈的回忆……

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Forrest: Do you want a chocolate? I could eat about a million and a half of these. My mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.You never know what you’re going to get.” Those must be comfortable shoes.I 1)betyou could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.

Woman: My feet hurt.

Forrest: Mama always said there’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they’re going, where they’ve been.I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they’d take me anywhere. Now, when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we were related to him in some way. What he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They’d all dress up in their2)robesand their bed3)sheets, and act like a bunch of ghosts or4)spooksor something. They’d even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that’s how I got my name,Forrest Gump. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don’t make no sense.

Mom: Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you, Forrest. If God5)intendedeverybody to be the same, he’d have given us all6)braceson our legs.

Forrest: Mama always had a way of explaining things, so I could understand them. We lived about a quarter mile off Route 17,about a half mile from the town of Greenbow, Alabama. That’s in the country of Greenbow. Our houses had been in Mama’s family since her grandpa’s grandpa’s grandpa had come across the ocean about a thousand years ago. Sounds like that.Since it was just me and Mama and we had all these empty rooms, Mama decided to let those rooms out, mostly to people passing through, like from, oh, Mobile, Montgomery, places like that. That’s how me and Mama got money. Mama was real a smart lady.

Mom: Remember what I told you, Forrest. You’re no different than anybody else is. Did you hear what I said, Forrest? You’re the same as everybody else. You’re no different.

Mr. Hancock: Your boy’s... different, Mrs. Gump. His IQ is 75.

Mom: Well, we’re all different, Mr. Hancock.

Forrest: She wanted me to have the finest education, so she took me to the Greenbow Country Central School. I met the principal and all.

Mr. Hancock: I want to show you something, Mrs. Gump. Now, this is normal. Forrest is right here. The state requires a7)minimumIQ of 80 to attend public school, Mrs. Gump. He’s going to have to go to a special school. And he’d be just fine.

Mom: What does “normal” mean anyway? He might be a bit on the slow side. But my boy Forrest is going to get the same8)opportunitiesas everyone else. He’s not going to some special school to learn how to9)retread 10)tires.We’re talking about five little points here. There must be something can be done.

1) betv.打赌

2) roben.长袍

3) sheetn.床单

4) spookn.特工；鬼

5) intendv.打算

6) bracen.支撑物；支架

7) minimumadj.最小的；最低限度的

8) opportunityn.机会

9) retreadv.翻新

10) tiren.车胎；轮胎

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a bunch of 一群；一堆；一束

make no sense 毫无意义

阿 甘：你要吃巧克力吗？我能吃掉一百五十多万块巧克力哦！我的妈妈总是说：“人生就像是一盒巧克力。你永远不会知道下一块巧克力会是什么味道的。”你的那双鞋子肯定很舒适吧！肯定走一天也不会脚痛。真希望我也有一双这样的鞋。

女 人：我的脚也会痛。

阿 甘：我妈妈说，从鞋子看人，可以看出很多东西。比如他们要去哪里，他们去过哪里。我曾经穿烂过许多鞋子。我要是拼命地去想，也能想起我的第一双鞋。妈妈说过，那双鞋子会带我走遍天下。当我还是个婴儿的时候，妈妈给我以一位内战英雄内森·贝德福德·福瑞斯特将军的名字起名。她说我们和他有点亲戚关系，就是他创立了那个3K 党。里面所有人都穿着长袍或者披着床单，看起来像是一群幽灵。他们甚至还把床单披在了马的身上，然后骑着马跑。总之，我的名字福瑞斯特·甘就是这样得来的。妈妈给我起名福瑞斯特，是为了提醒我，有时候人都会做一些，呃，毫无意义的事情。

妈 妈：阿甘，不许任何人说你比他们差！要是上帝希望每个人都一样，那所有人的腿就都带支架了。

阿 甘：妈妈总是有办法让我明白她的话。我们住在17 号公路附近，距离亚拉巴马州的绿茵镇大概半英里，也是属于绿茵镇范围。我们的房子是从妈妈的祖父的祖父的祖父一千年前漂洋过海来定居就有了的，差不多就是这样。大宅子里面只有妈妈和我两人住，空房间很多，妈妈决定把它们租出去。多半租给过路客，比如来自莫比尔、蒙哥马利之类的地方。我们两个就靠赚取租金获得生活费。妈妈真的很精明。

妈 妈：记住我说过的话，阿甘，你跟别人没什么不同。听清楚了吗，阿甘？你跟别人是一样的，没什么不同。

校 长：你的儿子，跟别人不太一样，阿甘妈妈。他的智商只有75。

妈 妈：汉考克校长，我们每个人都是有差异的。

阿 甘：她希望我能够接受最好的教育，于是她带我去了绿茵镇中心学校。我见到了貌似校长的人。

校 长：阿甘妈妈，我给你展示一些东西。你来看看，这个是正常范围，福瑞斯特的智商在这里。公立学校的就读规定是智商要在80 以上，阿甘妈妈！他只能去读特殊学校。他在那里读书会更好。

妈 妈：什么才算是“正常”？他也许反应慢一点，但是我的儿子福瑞斯特，应该和别的孩子一样，有平等选择机会的权利！他才不会去读什么特殊学校，学什么翻新轮胎。我们只是相差5 分这么一点点而已，一定有办法补救的。

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“说一说”tell

原文：There’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes.

动词tell 的含义有很多，常见的有以下几种：

1.告诉；告知

2.提供；说明

例：The recipe tells how to make maple syrup dumplings. 这本食谱介绍了如何做枫糖点心。

3.讲述；表达

例：I’ll tell you what I’ve been thinking. 我来给你讲讲我这段时间的想法。

4.泄漏；泄密

例：Don’t tell him any secret. He’s a real blabbermouth. 别泄露给他任何秘密，他是个多嘴多舌的人。

5.叫；命令；建议；吩咐

例：She told me to come help clean the house. 她叫我过去帮忙打扫屋子。

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6.识别；辨别；区分

例：How do you tell one from each other? 你怎么把他们区分开来？

7.产生效果；发生影响

例：His unselfish work is beginning to tell. 他无私的工作开始产生效果。

★你知道tell 与say 的区别吗？

say 一般作及物动词用，着重说话的内容，它的宾语可以是名词、代词或宾语从句。（say sth to sb.）

tell 常作及物动词，意为“讲述；告诉”，常接双宾语。（tell sb. sth./tell sth. to sb.）

例：Ron said something funny to me. 罗恩对我说了一些有趣的事。

Jack told me a joke. 杰克给我讲了一个笑话。

在阿甘参军的短暂时光里，他收获了与巴布的神仙友谊。这位可爱的巴布，无时无刻不在惦记着他的虾事业，阿甘简直要被他的各种虾给“洗脑”，这也为阿甘将来的生活埋下伏笔。

Bubba: Sit down if you want to.

Forrest: I don’t know who I might meet or what they might ask.

Bubba: You ever been on a real shrimp boat?

Forrest: No, but I’ve been on a real big boat.

Bubba: I’m talking about a shrimp catching boat. I’ve been working on shrimp boats all my life. I started out on my uncle’s boat, that’s my mother’s brother, when I was about maybe nine. I was just looking into buying my own boat and got11)drafted.My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue. People call me Bubba, just like one of them old red neck boys. Can you believe that?

Forrest: My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.(So Bubba was from Bayou La Batre, Alabama. And his mama cooked shrimp. And her mama before her cooked shrimp. And her mama before her mama cooked shrimp, too. Bubba’s family knew everything there was to know about the shrimping business.)

Bubba: I know everything there is to know about the shrimping business.Matter of fact, I’m going into the shrimping business for myself,after I get out of the army. What you do is you just drag your nets along the bottom. On a good day, you can catch over a hundred pound of shrimp. Anyway, like I was saying, shrimping is the fruit of the sea. You can12)barbecueit, boil it,13)broilit, bake it, saute it.There’s, uh, shrimp14)kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There’s pineapple shrimp and lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp... shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp in potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That’s... That’s about it.

Forrest: One day it started raining, and it didn’t15)quitfor four months.We’ve been through every kind of rain there is. Little16)bittystinging rain, and big old fat rain, rain that flew in side ways,and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night.

Bubba: Hey, Forrest.

Forrest: Hey, Bubba.

Bubba: I’m going to lean up against you, you just lean right back against me. This way we don’t have to sleep with our heads in the mud.You know why we’re a good partnership, Forrest? Cause we’ll be watching out for one another, like brothers and stuff. Hey, Forrest,something I was thinking about, I got a very important question to ask you. How would you like to go into the shrimping business with me?

Forrest: Okay.

Bubba: Man, I tell you what, I got it all figured out, too. So many pounds of shrimp will pay off the boat, so many pounds for gas. We’ll live right on the boat. We got to pay no rent. I’ll be the captain. We can just work it together, split everything right down the middle.Man, I’m telling you, 50-50. Hey, Forrest, all the shrimp you can eat.

Forrest: That’s a fine idea.

11) draftv.征召；征募

12) barbecuev.烧烤

13) broilv.烤

14) kabobn.烤肉串

15) quitv.停止

16) bittyadj.零碎的

巴 布：如果你愿意，可以坐这个座位。

阿 甘：我不知道会遇到什么人，会被问到什么事。

巴 布：你坐过真正的捕虾船吗？

阿 甘：没坐过，但我坐过特别大的船。

巴 布：我说的是专门捕虾的船。我这辈子都在捕虾船上做工。我开始是在我舅舅的船上，他是我妈妈的哥哥，那时候我大概九岁。我正打算买一艘自己的捕虾船时，就接到了征兵通知。我的全名是本杰明·巴弗·布鲁。大家都叫我“巴布”，跟南方人叫“老弟”同音。很难以置信吧？

阿 甘：我叫福瑞斯特·甘，大家都叫我福瑞斯特·甘。（所以巴布来自亚拉巴马州的拜尤拉巴特里。他妈妈是煮虾的，她妈妈的妈妈也是煮虾的。还有她妈妈的妈妈的妈妈也是煮虾的。巴布一家人对虾这一行业无所不知。）

巴 布：虾这一行业我无所不知。事实上，等我退伍之后，我就要开创自己的虾事业。你只要沿着河床收网，收成好的话，一天可以捕到一百多磅的虾。总而言之，就像我一直说的那样，虾是海洋的果实。你可以烤、煮、烧、烘、炒。有烤虾串、鲜虾烩饭、鲜虾羹、铁板虾、油炸虾、拌炸虾。还有凤梨虾、柠檬虾、椰香虾、胡椒虾、鲜虾汤、炖虾、虾仁沙拉、芋泥虾、虾堡、虾肉三明治……大概，大概就是这些。

阿 甘：有一天下起雨来，四个月都没停雨。我们经历了这里的各种雨。有淅淅沥沥的雨，有哗啦啦的雨，有横着刮过来的雨，有时候甚至是从地里冒出来的雨。甚至，晚上也下雨。

巴 布：嘿，福瑞斯特！

阿 甘：嘿，巴布！

巴 布：我倚靠着你，你也倚靠着我，这样我们就不用枕着泥泞睡觉了。你知道为什么我俩是好搭档吗，福瑞斯特？因为我们会彼此照应，就像是亲兄弟那样。福瑞斯特，我想了很久，有个重要的问题要问你。你想不想跟我一起做捕虾生意？

阿 甘：可以啊。

巴 布：兄弟，我告诉你，我都计算过了，捕多少虾能偿付买船的钱，多少能付油钱。我们可以住在船上，房租都省了。我来当船长，我们一起打拼事业。赚的钱对半分，五五分成。兄弟，想想看，虾多得都吃不完！

阿 甘：这个主意不错。

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“烹饪”的多样化表达

原文：You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it.

常见的烹饪方式有炒、蒸、烧、煮等，一起来学习这些的英文表达吧！

1. steam 蒸

例如：Steam the buns for twenty minutes till they become soft and fluffy. 把馒头蒸20 分钟直到松软。

2. stir-fry 炒

“fry”的意思是“炸”，而中餐里最常用的烹饪方式是“炒”，这种烹饪方式的英文说法是stir-fry。“stir-fry”也可以用作名词，表示“炒菜”，例如：pork stirfry 炒肉。

3. deep-fry 油炸

4. boil 煮

例如：boil dumplings 煮饺子，boil sweet dumplings 煮汤圆。

5. roast 烤

6. simmer 煨（用文火让食物在少量的汤里慢慢地炖）

7. smoke 熏

例如：smoked sausages 熏肠，smoked fish 熏鱼。

阿甘失去了母亲和珍妮，大概是内心的孤独让他无法自处，他开始了无休止的长跑，漫无目的。阿甘越跑越远，追随他跑步的人也越来越多。

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Forrest: That day, for no17)particularreason, 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 town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. Now I figured since I’d run this far, maybe I’d just across the great state of Alabama.And that’s what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. 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, might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured since I’d gone this far, I might as well just turn back and keep right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate.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.

TV News: “For more than two years now, a man named Forrest Gump, a gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, stopping only to sleep,has been running across America. Charles Cooper brings you this report. ” “For the fourth time on his journey across America,Forrest Gump, the gardener from Greenbow, Alabama, is about to cross the Mississippi River again today.”

Reporter: Why are you running? Are you doing this for world peace? Are you doing this for the homeless? Are you running for women’s18)rights? Or for the environment? Or for animals?

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

Reporter: Why are you doing this?

Forrest: I just felt like running. I just felt like running. Now, for some reason,what I was doing seemed to make sense to people.

Boy: I mean, it was like an alarm went off in my head, you know I said,“Here’s a guy that’s got his act together. Here’s somebody who’s got it all figured out. Here’s somebody who has the answer.” I’ll follow you anywhere, Mr. Gump!

Forrest: So I got19)company. And after that, I got more company. And then, even more people joined in. Somebody later told me it gave people hope. Now, now, I don’t know anything about that. But some of those people asked me if I could help them out. Anyway,like I was saying, I had a lot of company. My mama always said,“You 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 run for three years, two months, fourteen days and sixteen hours.

17) particularadj.特殊的

18) rightn.权利

19) companyn.陪伴

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turn around 转身

keep on 继续

move on 前进

阿 甘：那一天，没什么特别的原因，我决定去跑一阵子。所以我跑到了路的尽头。当我到了那儿，我想也许我能跑到小镇尽头。而当我到了那儿，我想不如跑遍整个绿茵镇吧。又想到既然跑了这么远，我干脆跑步横穿亚拉巴马州算了。我真的做到了，我横穿了亚拉巴马州。没有特别的原因，我只是一直跑。我跑到了海边，到了那儿，我又想着既然都跑到这里了，我索性掉头继续跑。然后我跑到了另一片海，又心想着既然已经跑了这么远，干脆再换个方向继续跑吧。跑累了我就睡，跑饿了我就吃。我常常想起妈妈和巴布，还有丹中尉，但我最想念的是珍妮。我特别想念她。

电视新闻：“两年多来，有位名叫福瑞斯特·甘的男士，一位亚拉巴马州绿茵镇的园艺师，除了睡觉以外，他从未停歇地跑步横穿美国。记者库珀为您报道。”“这是他第四次横穿美国，绿茵镇的园艺师福瑞斯特·甘，今天要再度横渡密西西比河。”

记 者：你是为了什么而跑步？是为世界和平而跑吗？是为了无家可归的人而跑吗？是为了妇女权利而跑吗？还是为了环境保护？或是为了保护动物吗？

阿 甘：他们就是不相信，有人会没理由地跑步。

记 者：你此举为何？

阿 甘：我就是想要跑步而已。我就是想跑。也不知道怎么，别人似乎很难理解我的这个行为。

男 孩：你所做的事，让我醍醐灌顶。“我觉得你这个人真有行动力，参透了人生的一切，知晓人生的答案。”阿甘先生，我要追随你跑遍天下。

阿 甘：于是我有了同伴。紧接着，我的跑步同伴越来越多。后来，有更多的人加入进来。有人跟我说，这给人们带来了希望。这个，我也是不太理解。但是他们开始询问我是否能够帮助他们脱离困境。总之，正如我所说，我有许多同伴。妈妈总是说：“想要往前走，就要先放下过去。”我想这就是我跑步的意义。我跑了三年两个月十四天十六个小时。