【臺本】

I know it’s hard but we’re all having to say good-bye to our friends for the time being②.

Leaving? Where to?

The thing about being③?a soldier is that when your country needs you to go somewhere you go.

Think of it as an adventure. Like in one of your books.

Children look! Our new home.

What are you doing?

Exploring.

No. Not at the back.

Hello, how old are you?

Eight.

Me too!

Why do you wear pajamas④?all day?

The soldiers, they took all of our clothes away.

My dad’s a soldier, but not the sort⑤?that takes people’s clothes away.

That one there to there.

This one.

No, that one.

Here?

No.

It's a work camp. They’re in there because they’re the enemy.

The enemy?

All you need to know about my work here, Bruno, is that it’s very important to our country.

The work your father is doing here is history in the make⑥.

Is everything alright?

They can’t find papa⑦.

I’m a soldier. Soldiers fight wars.

That isn’t war.

It’s a vital⑧?part of it.

We’re not supposed to be friends⑨?, you and me, we’re meant to be enemies⑩.

Dad’s a good man?

Of course he is.

【語言點(diǎn)詳解】

① STRIPED= 有條紋的，帶有不同顏色或是質(zhì)地的線條或是條紋。

②?FOR THE TIME BEING= At this moment.

③?THE THING ABOUT BEING...= 介詞和連詞后面的動(dòng)詞用ing形式。

④?PAJAMAS= 睡衣，比較常見拼寫為PYJAMAS，但是發(fā)音都一樣。

⑤?THE SORT= The kind.

⑥?IT’S HISTORY IN THE MAKE= Something that is making history, that will be remember in the future as something historically important.

很重要的事，帶來歷史性的后果（在歷史上得以留下濃墨重彩的一筆，在未來會(huì)被銘記為歷史上的一點(diǎn)，)。

⑦?PAPA= 這里重音放在第二個(gè)音節(jié)上，也可以把重音放在第一個(gè)音節(jié)（在現(xiàn)代英語中更為常見）。在英國，PAPA這個(gè)詞是老式英文單詞了，或者也是一種很高大上的叫法（也顯得很時(shí)髦），DADDY用的就頻繁多了。美式英語叫DAD或是DADDY比較多，不怎么說PAPA。

⑧?VITAL= Extremely important，至關(guān)重要。

⑨?WE’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FRIENDS= We shouldn’t be friends; people think we can’t be friends （預(yù)告中是第二個(gè)意思）。

⑩?WE’RE MEANT TO BE ENEMIES= 和上面的用法一樣: we should be enemies or people think we have to be enemies; we are expected to be enemies.

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