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致亲爱的……
在没有电话、没有Email的年代，人们只能通过手写书信保持联系、传情达意。这轻轻的信纸、淡淡的墨香，承载了多少青春的萌动、离乡的别愁……回想一下，你有多久没有拿起笔来写一封信了呢？
本期将介绍的两部影片，一部是爱情片，一部是励志片，但二者都是以“信”贯穿其中：《给朱丽叶的信》——一封迟到了50年的回信让昔日恋人重温旧爱；《写给上帝的信》——一个癌症患者的虔诚祈祷让周围的人们重拾生活的信心。
“我手写我心”，写出的不仅是那一行行饱含真情的话语，更多的是勇气和信念——追求真爱和战胜病魔的勇气、憧憬纯真爱情和渴望美好生活的信念。
意大利的维罗纳，莎翁笔下罗密欧与朱丽叶的爱情故事就发生在这里。50年前，一个名叫Claire的伦敦姑娘在为爱徘徊之际，来到位于维罗纳的朱丽叶故居，在许愿墙前写下自己对爱情的无助；50年后，身为杂志真相调查员、立志成为职业撰稿人的纽约女孩Sophie无意间发现了这封埋藏在砖墙里半个世纪的信，深深为之动容。Sophie决定以朱丽叶之名给Claire回复，不料这封迟到的来信让Claire带着自己的孙子Charlie来到维罗纳重寻昔日恋人Lorenzo。历经波折之后，Claire与Lorenzo重逢并终于步入婚姻的殿堂，而Sophie与Charlie之间也产生了微妙的情感变化……
Director: Gary Winick
Writers: Jose Rivera / Tim Sullivan (screenplay)
Cast: Amanda Seyfried…Sophie Hall
Christopher Egan...Charlie Wyman
Vanessa Redgrave...Claire Smith
Sophie: (reading Claire’s letter)
“…I didn’t go to him, Juliet. I didn’t go to Lorenzo. His eyes were so full of trust. I promised I’d meet him to run away together, because my parents don’t approve. But instead, I left him waiting for me below our tree, waiting and wondering where I was. I’m in Verona now. I return to London in the morning, and I’m so afraid. Please, Juliet, tell me what I should do. My heart is breaking, and ①I have no one else to turn to.
Love,
Claire”
Francesca: And it’s been there for all those years?
Donatella: I think she came back to find her one true love.
Maria: And they had 10 children.
Francesca: Except he got bald and fat and she has to do all the work.
All: Francesca.
Donatella: And maybe she stayed in London and married a duke, and live happily ever after, just like me.
Francesca: But you married an accountant, not a duke.
Donatella: ②Nobody’s perfect.
Sophie: Isabella, I have to write back.
Isabella: (thinking for a while) Then answer her.
Charlie: (knocks at the door) Excuse me. I’m sorry to interrupt, but are you the secretaries of Juliet?
Francesca: Yes, that’s us.
Charlie: Great. May I ask, which one of you wrote this letter to my grandmother, Claire Smith?
Sophie: I wrote that. And I can’t believe that it found you.
Charlie: Yes. ③We Brits tend to stay in our family homes.
Sophie: Yeah. This is amazing. It’s less than a week since I mailed it.
Charlie: It was a very thoughtful letter. Now, what were you thinking?
Sophie: I was thinking that she deserved an answer.
Charlie: Yeah, 50 years ago, maybe not now.
Sophie: I’m sorry. I didn’t know true love had an
1)expiration date.
Charlie: True love? Are you joking? Could you imagine what would’ve happened if she hadn’t seen sense?
Sophie: Well, yeah, you wouldn’t be here, and that would be an 2)upside.
Charlie: What are you doing here anyway? What, are you some lonely American girl who has to live
3)vicariously through others?
Sophie: I’m not lonely. I am engaged.
Charlie: ④My 4)condolences to the 5)groom.
(Charlie leaves. Sophie follows him.)
Sophie: Excuse me! So that’s it? You’ve come all the way from London to give me a lecture?
Charlie: No, I came because I couldn’t let my grandmother come on her own.
Sophie: Claire is here? Why?
Charlie: I think even you might be able to work that one out.
Sophie: Oh, my god! That’s awesome! She’s come to find her Lorenzo!
Charlie: Awesome? And if Lorenzo doesn’t want to see her, has forgotten her, is gravely ill or dead, let’s say, just for fun, then what? (Sophie says nothing.) Thought so.
Sophie: I want to meet her. I’d like to meet Claire.
Charlie: And I want to play for Mancheste United, but ⑤I’m shit at football.
Sophie: You don’t think that she wants to meet me?
Charlie: I honestly think she has no interest meeting a woman that can manage to jam “oh, my god” and “awesome” into the same sentence.
(At Lorenzo and Claire’s wedding.)
Lorenzo: I just want to say thank you on behalf of myself and my lovely wife. La mia bella Claire! (to Claire) And now it’s your turn.
Claire: Well…
Lorenzo: Go on.
Claire: Dear friends, 50 years ago, I went to Juliet’s house in Verona. I wrote her a letter and I asked her a question. And two months ago, I received a reply. And without that letter, none of us would be here today. (to Sophie) Sophie, would you mind if I read out the words you wrote to me? All right? (Sophie shakes her head.)
“Dear Claire,
‘What’ and ‘if’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together, side by side, and they have the power to 6)haunt you for the rest of your life. What if? What if? What if? I don’t know how your story ended, but if what you felt then was true love, then it’s never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn’t it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don’t know what a love like Juliet’s feels like, a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for, but I’d like to believe, if I ever were to feel it, that I’d have the courage to seize it. And, Claire, if you didn’t, I hope one day that you will.
All my love,
Juliet”
苏菲：（读克莱尔的信）
“……我没有去找他，朱丽叶。我没有去找洛伦索。他的双眼充满了信任。我答应去见他，然后我们远走高飞，因为我的父母反对我们在一起。但是，我却把他晾在我们的树下等着我，等待着，想着我在哪里。我现在在维罗纳了，今早就回伦敦去，我很害怕。求求你，朱丽叶，告诉我该怎么做。我的心碎了，但是除了你，没人能够帮我。
爱你的
克莱尔”
弗兰切斯卡：这些年它就一直在那儿？
多纳泰拉：我猜她一定回来找她的真爱了。
玛利亚：他们还生了十个孩子。
弗兰切斯卡：也有可能他发福秃顶了，而她每天做家务。
所有人：弗兰切斯卡。
多纳泰拉：也许她留在伦敦，嫁给了一个公爵，从此幸福快乐地生活着，就像我一样。
弗兰切斯卡：你嫁的可是个会计，不是公爵。
多纳泰拉：哪有人能事事如意。
苏菲：伊莎贝拉，我必须要回这封信。
伊莎贝拉：（想了一会儿）那就写给她吧。（译者注：弗兰切斯卡、多纳泰拉、玛利亚和伊莎贝拉都是“朱丽叶”的秘书，她们在朱丽叶故居工作，负责给在许愿墙给朱丽叶写信的来自世界各地的人们回信。）
查理：（敲门）不好意思。很抱歉打扰了，你们就是朱丽叶的秘书吗？
弗兰切斯卡：没错，是我们。
查理：很好。那么我请问，是谁给我祖母克莱尔·史密斯写的信？
苏菲：我写的，真不敢相信她收到了。
查理：没错。我们英国人很少搬家的。
苏菲：是啊，真是不可思议，才寄出还不到一周呢。
查理：这封信很贴心啊。告诉我，你到底想怎么样？
苏菲：我只是觉得她应该得到回复。
查理：是啊，那也是五十年前，而不是现在。
苏菲：不好意思，我不知道真爱还有限期。
查理：真爱？你开玩笑吧？你难道也不想想如果当初她痴痴守候，那会是什么结果？
苏菲：是吗，我想那你就不会出现在这里，那应该还不错。
查理：对了，你来这里干什么？一个寂寞的美国丫头，只能通过干涉别人的生活来生存？
苏菲：我不寂寞。我已经订婚了。
查理：我对新郎深表同情。
（查理离开了。苏菲追上去。）
苏菲：请等等！这就完了？你大老远从伦敦跑过来就为了教训我？
查理：不，我来是因为不能让我奶奶一个人过来。
苏菲：克莱尔来了？为什么？
查理：我不认为你一个人有这么大的本事。
苏菲：我的天哪！太棒了！她来找她的爱人洛伦索。
查理：棒？如果洛伦索不想见她，已经忘了她，生了重病或者死掉了，说说而已，那怎么办？（苏菲无言以对。）我就知道。
苏菲：我要见她。我想见见克莱尔。
查理：我还想为曼联效力呢，但是我足球踢得烂透了。
苏菲：你难道不觉得她想见我吗？
查理：我真的觉得她对女人丝毫不感兴趣，尤其是能把“我的天哪”和“棒”混在同一个句子里的人。
（在洛伦索和克莱尔的婚礼上。）
洛伦索：我谨代表我本人还有我可爱的妻子，美丽的克莱尔（译者注：la mia bella是意大利文，la mia=my，bella=nice），感谢各位。（对克莱尔说）现在该你了。
克莱尔：那……
洛伦索：说吧。
克莱尔：亲爱的朋友们，五十年前，我来到维罗纳的朱丽叶故居。我给她写了一封信，问了她一个问题。两个月前，我收到了回信。要是没有这封信，我们今天就不会相聚在这里。（对苏菲说）苏菲，你介意我把你写的信念出来吗？行吗？（苏菲摇摇头。）
“亲爱的克莱尔：
‘什么’和‘如果’是两个毫无威胁的词，但是把它们拿来放在一起，它们就能让你余生都魂牵梦萦。如果这样了会怎样？如果这样了会怎样？如果这样了会怎样？我不知道你的故事最后是怎样的，但要是你那时觉得是真爱，那就永远不会晚。曾经的真爱如今为何不能再续前缘？你需要的仅仅是聆听自己心声的勇气。我不知道朱丽叶经历的爱情是什么感觉，那种值得为之离家出走，值得因其跨越重洋的爱，但我相信，要是我遇到过这样的真爱，我会有勇气去把握它。克莱尔，要是你曾经错过，我希望将来你能把握住。
爱你的
朱丽叶”
Smart Sentences
① I have no one else to turn to. 除了你，没人能够帮我。
have no one else to turn to: no other people could be of help（没有其他人可以帮忙求助的）。例如：
Being new in the city, I had no one else to turn to but my newly-met roommate.
对这个城市人生地不熟，除了刚认识的室友外，没人能帮我。
suitable occasion: written & oral, formal & informal
② Nobody’s perfect. 哪有人能事事如意。
Nobody’s perfect: used for self comforting in an unsatisfactory situation（用以自我安慰）。例如：
—Your new partner is really one of a kind. He loves to take advantage of others and is very stingy himself.
你的新搭档可不多见。他喜欢占别人的便宜，自己总是一毛不拔。
—Well, nobody’s perfect.
这个，人无完人嘛。
suitable occasion: oral, informal
③ We Brits tend to stay in our family homes. 我们英国人很少搬家的。
tend to: have a tendency to do sth. （有某种倾向）。例如：
John tends to take a taxi instead of riding a bus.
约翰一般会坐出租车，而不是坐公交车。
suitable occasion: written & oral, formal & informal
④ My condolences to the groom. 我对新郎深表同情。
My condolences to the groom. = I feel sorry for the groom.
My condolences to sb.: used to express sympathy towards sb. （用以表达对某人的同情）。例如：
Sarah Johnson is going to be your department head? My condolences to all
of you.
萨拉·约翰逊会做你们部门的头？我真同情你们这班家伙。
suitable occasion: oral, formal & informal
⑤ I’m shit at football. 我足球踢得烂透了。
shit at sth.: can’t do sth. well; do sth. badly（不擅长做某事）。例如：
You have to find someone else to help you fix the car. I’m shit at mechanics.
你得找别人帮你修车，机械方面我一点儿也不行。
suitable occasion: oral, informal
在没有电话、没有Email的年代，人们只能通过手写书信保持联系、传情达意。这轻轻的信纸、淡淡的墨香，承载了多少青春的萌动、离乡的别愁……回想一下，你有多久没有拿起笔来写一封信了呢？
本期将介绍的两部影片，一部是爱情片，一部是励志片，但二者都是以“信”贯穿其中：《给朱丽叶的信》——一封迟到了50年的回信让昔日恋人重温旧爱；《写给上帝的信》——一个癌症患者的虔诚祈祷让周围的人们重拾生活的信心。
“我手写我心”，写出的不仅是那一行行饱含真情的话语，更多的是勇气和信念——追求真爱和战胜病魔的勇气、憧憬纯真爱情和渴望美好生活的信念。
意大利的维罗纳，莎翁笔下罗密欧与朱丽叶的爱情故事就发生在这里。50年前，一个名叫Claire的伦敦姑娘在为爱徘徊之际，来到位于维罗纳的朱丽叶故居，在许愿墙前写下自己对爱情的无助；50年后，身为杂志真相调查员、立志成为职业撰稿人的纽约女孩Sophie无意间发现了这封埋藏在砖墙里半个世纪的信，深深为之动容。Sophie决定以朱丽叶之名给Claire回复，不料这封迟到的来信让Claire带着自己的孙子Charlie来到维罗纳重寻昔日恋人Lorenzo。历经波折之后，Claire与Lorenzo重逢并终于步入婚姻的殿堂，而Sophie与Charlie之间也产生了微妙的情感变化……
Director: Gary Winick
Writers: Jose Rivera / Tim Sullivan (screenplay)
Cast: Amanda Seyfried…Sophie Hall
Christopher Egan...Charlie Wyman
Vanessa Redgrave...Claire Smith
Sophie: (reading Claire’s letter)
“…I didn’t go to him, Juliet. I didn’t go to Lorenzo. His eyes were so full of trust. I promised I’d meet him to run away together, because my parents don’t approve. But instead, I left him waiting for me below our tree, waiting and wondering where I was. I’m in Verona now. I return to London in the morning, and I’m so afraid. Please, Juliet, tell me what I should do. My heart is breaking, and ①I have no one else to turn to.
Love,
Claire”
Francesca: And it’s been there for all those years?
Donatella: I think she came back to find her one true love.
Maria: And they had 10 children.
Francesca: Except he got bald and fat and she has to do all the work.
All: Francesca.
Donatella: And maybe she stayed in London and married a duke, and live happily ever after, just like me.
Francesca: But you married an accountant, not a duke.
Donatella: ②Nobody’s perfect.
Sophie: Isabella, I have to write back.
Isabella: (thinking for a while) Then answer her.
Charlie: (knocks at the door) Excuse me. I’m sorry to interrupt, but are you the secretaries of Juliet?
Francesca: Yes, that’s us.
Charlie: Great. May I ask, which one of you wrote this letter to my grandmother, Claire Smith?
Sophie: I wrote that. And I can’t believe that it found you.
Charlie: Yes. ③We Brits tend to stay in our family homes.
Sophie: Yeah. This is amazing. It’s less than a week since I mailed it.
Charlie: It was a very thoughtful letter. Now, what were you thinking?
Sophie: I was thinking that she deserved an answer.
Charlie: Yeah, 50 years ago, maybe not now.
Sophie: I’m sorry. I didn’t know true love had an
1)expiration date.
Charlie: True love? Are you joking? Could you imagine what would’ve happened if she hadn’t seen sense?
Sophie: Well, yeah, you wouldn’t be here, and that would be an 2)upside.
Charlie: What are you doing here anyway? What, are you some lonely American girl who has to live
3)vicariously through others?
Sophie: I’m not lonely. I am engaged.
Charlie: ④My 4)condolences to the 5)groom.
(Charlie leaves. Sophie follows him.)
Sophie: Excuse me! So that’s it? You’ve come all the way from London to give me a lecture?
Charlie: No, I came because I couldn’t let my grandmother come on her own.
Sophie: Claire is here? Why?
Charlie: I think even you might be able to work that one out.
Sophie: Oh, my god! That’s awesome! She’s come to find her Lorenzo!
Charlie: Awesome? And if Lorenzo doesn’t want to see her, has forgotten her, is gravely ill or dead, let’s say, just for fun, then what? (Sophie says nothing.) Thought so.
Sophie: I want to meet her. I’d like to meet Claire.
Charlie: And I want to play for Mancheste United, but ⑤I’m shit at football.
Sophie: You don’t think that she wants to meet me?
Charlie: I honestly think she has no interest meeting a woman that can manage to jam “oh, my god” and “awesome” into the same sentence.
(At Lorenzo and Claire’s wedding.)
Lorenzo: I just want to say thank you on behalf of myself and my lovely wife. La mia bella Claire! (to Claire) And now it’s your turn.
Claire: Well…
Lorenzo: Go on.
Claire: Dear friends, 50 years ago, I went to Juliet’s house in Verona. I wrote her a letter and I asked her a question. And two months ago, I received a reply. And without that letter, none of us would be here today. (to Sophie) Sophie, would you mind if I read out the words you wrote to me? All right? (Sophie shakes her head.)
“Dear Claire,
‘What’ and ‘if’ are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together, side by side, and they have the power to 6)haunt you for the rest of your life. What if? What if? What if? I don’t know how your story ended, but if what you felt then was true love, then it’s never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn’t it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don’t know what a love like Juliet’s feels like, a love to leave loved ones for, a love to cross oceans for, but I’d like to believe, if I ever were to feel it, that I’d have the courage to seize it. And, Claire, if you didn’t, I hope one day that you will.
All my love,
Juliet”
苏菲：（读克莱尔的信）
“……我没有去找他，朱丽叶。我没有去找洛伦索。他的双眼充满了信任。我答应去见他，然后我们远走高飞，因为我的父母反对我们在一起。但是，我却把他晾在我们的树下等着我，等待着，想着我在哪里。我现在在维罗纳了，今早就回伦敦去，我很害怕。求求你，朱丽叶，告诉我该怎么做。我的心碎了，但是除了你，没人能够帮我。
爱你的
克莱尔”
弗兰切斯卡：这些年它就一直在那儿？
多纳泰拉：我猜她一定回来找她的真爱了。
玛利亚：他们还生了十个孩子。
弗兰切斯卡：也有可能他发福秃顶了，而她每天做家务。
所有人：弗兰切斯卡。
多纳泰拉：也许她留在伦敦，嫁给了一个公爵，从此幸福快乐地生活着，就像我一样。
弗兰切斯卡：你嫁的可是个会计，不是公爵。
多纳泰拉：哪有人能事事如意。
苏菲：伊莎贝拉，我必须要回这封信。
伊莎贝拉：（想了一会儿）那就写给她吧。（译者注：弗兰切斯卡、多纳泰拉、玛利亚和伊莎贝拉都是“朱丽叶”的秘书，她们在朱丽叶故居工作，负责给在许愿墙给朱丽叶写信的来自世界各地的人们回信。）
查理：（敲门）不好意思。很抱歉打扰了，你们就是朱丽叶的秘书吗？
弗兰切斯卡：没错，是我们。
查理：很好。那么我请问，是谁给我祖母克莱尔·史密斯写的信？
苏菲：我写的，真不敢相信她收到了。
查理：没错。我们英国人很少搬家的。
苏菲：是啊，真是不可思议，才寄出还不到一周呢。
查理：这封信很贴心啊。告诉我，你到底想怎么样？
苏菲：我只是觉得她应该得到回复。
查理：是啊，那也是五十年前，而不是现在。
苏菲：不好意思，我不知道真爱还有限期。
查理：真爱？你开玩笑吧？你难道也不想想如果当初她痴痴守候，那会是什么结果？
苏菲：是吗，我想那你就不会出现在这里，那应该还不错。
查理：对了，你来这里干什么？一个寂寞的美国丫头，只能通过干涉别人的生活来生存？
苏菲：我不寂寞。我已经订婚了。
查理：我对新郎深表同情。
（查理离开了。苏菲追上去。）
苏菲：请等等！这就完了？你大老远从伦敦跑过来就为了教训我？
查理：不，我来是因为不能让我奶奶一个人过来。
苏菲：克莱尔来了？为什么？
查理：我不认为你一个人有这么大的本事。
苏菲：我的天哪！太棒了！她来找她的爱人洛伦索。
查理：棒？如果洛伦索不想见她，已经忘了她，生了重病或者死掉了，说说而已，那怎么办？（苏菲无言以对。）我就知道。
苏菲：我要见她。我想见见克莱尔。
查理：我还想为曼联效力呢，但是我足球踢得烂透了。
苏菲：你难道不觉得她想见我吗？
查理：我真的觉得她对女人丝毫不感兴趣，尤其是能把“我的天哪”和“棒”混在同一个句子里的人。
（在洛伦索和克莱尔的婚礼上。）
洛伦索：我谨代表我本人还有我可爱的妻子，美丽的克莱尔（译者注：la mia bella是意大利文，la mia=my，bella=nice），感谢各位。（对克莱尔说）现在该你了。
克莱尔：那……
洛伦索：说吧。
克莱尔：亲爱的朋友们，五十年前，我来到维罗纳的朱丽叶故居。我给她写了一封信，问了她一个问题。两个月前，我收到了回信。要是没有这封信，我们今天就不会相聚在这里。（对苏菲说）苏菲，你介意我把你写的信念出来吗？行吗？（苏菲摇摇头。）
“亲爱的克莱尔：
‘什么’和‘如果’是两个毫无威胁的词，但是把它们拿来放在一起，它们就能让你余生都魂牵梦萦。如果这样了会怎样？如果这样了会怎样？如果这样了会怎样？我不知道你的故事最后是怎样的，但要是你那时觉得是真爱，那就永远不会晚。曾经的真爱如今为何不能再续前缘？你需要的仅仅是聆听自己心声的勇气。我不知道朱丽叶经历的爱情是什么感觉，那种值得为之离家出走，值得因其跨越重洋的爱，但我相信，要是我遇到过这样的真爱，我会有勇气去把握它。克莱尔，要是你曾经错过，我希望将来你能把握住。
爱你的
朱丽叶”
Smart Sentences
① I have no one else to turn to. 除了你，没人能够帮我。
have no one else to turn to: no other people could be of help（没有其他人可以帮忙求助的）。例如：
Being new in the city, I had no one else to turn to but my newly-met roommate.
对这个城市人生地不熟，除了刚认识的室友外，没人能帮我。
suitable occasion: written & oral, formal & informal
② Nobody’s perfect. 哪有人能事事如意。
Nobody’s perfect: used for self comforting in an unsatisfactory situation（用以自我安慰）。例如：
—Your new partner is really one of a kind. He loves to take advantage of others and is very stingy himself.
你的新搭档可不多见。他喜欢占别人的便宜，自己总是一毛不拔。
—Well, nobody’s perfect.
这个，人无完人嘛。
suitable occasion: oral, informal
③ We Brits tend to stay in our family homes. 我们英国人很少搬家的。
tend to: have a tendency to do sth. （有某种倾向）。例如：
John tends to take a taxi instead of riding a bus.
约翰一般会坐出租车，而不是坐公交车。
suitable occasion: written & oral, formal & informal
④ My condolences to the groom. 我对新郎深表同情。
My condolences to the groom. = I feel sorry for the groom.
My condolences to sb.: used to express sympathy towards sb. （用以表达对某人的同情）。例如：
Sarah Johnson is going to be your department head? My condolences to all
of you.
萨拉·约翰逊会做你们部门的头？我真同情你们这班家伙。
suitable occasion: oral, formal & informal
⑤ I’m shit at football. 我足球踢得烂透了。
shit at sth.: can’t do sth. well; do sth. badly（不擅长做某事）。例如：
You have to find someone else to help you fix the car. I’m shit at mechanics.
你得找别人帮你修车，机械方面我一点儿也不行。
suitable occasion: oral, informal