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美国海军陆战队中士Logan（Zac Efron饰）结束他在伊拉克的战斗任务，历经多场无情战火却得以幸存的他，将一张陌生女孩的照片视为幸运符。他四处打听，终于找到这位幸运女神——单亲母亲Beth（Taylor Schilling饰），并阴错阳差地在她家经营的狗舍开始工作。Beth最初对Logan并不信任，但久而久之暗生情愫，并如火如荼地与之展开恋情。但是，Beth对同是海军陆战队战士的弟弟Drake的去世不能释怀，与此同时，前夫也屡屡前来挑衅……
本片由畅销小说作家Nicholas Sparks的同名小说改编，他的多部作品曾被改编成电影，包括《恋恋笔记本》、《分手信》等。
Logan: You know, the smallest thing can change your life. In the 1)blink of an eye, something happens by chance when you least expect it sets you on a course that you never planned into the future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives, our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must pass through the deepest darkness. At least, that’s how it was for me.
罗根：你知道吗，一件微不足道的小事都有可能改变你的人生。就在眨眼间，事情发生得让人措手不及，从此开始一段意外之旅和意想不到的未来。它将带你去往何处？那就是我们的人生之旅，追寻光明之路。但有时候，追寻光明意味着你必须历经内心的低谷。至少，对我而言，是这样的。
Logan在伊拉克战场上偶然捡到了一张女孩的照片，而这一举动使他逃过敌军的袭击。此后Logan将照片带在身旁，这张照片犹如护身符一般保护着他，战争结束，Logan只身回到美国，但是却无法逃脱战争的阴影，于是，他踏上了寻找照片中的女孩的旅程，也想借此展开一段新的生活。
Beth: Zeus is way too well behaved to need training, so I’m guessing that you’re here to board him?
Logan: No, I’m not going anywhere. I just got off the road yesterday.
Beth: Where from?
Logan: Colorado.
Beth: And what brings you to Hamden?
Logan: It’s kind of a long story. Actually, I don’t really know where to begin.
Beth: Oh gosh. I’m so sorry. That’s absolutely none of my business. Um…what can I do for you, Logan?
Logan: I’m really here because I came to see you. You see, I found this. It was just…
Beth: Oh, you saw the ad. Of course. Okay. So the job doesn’t…it doesn’t pay much. Um, mostly you’ll just be walking, feeding, cleaning cages. It’s six days a week. Zeus is welcome anytime. And help, Logan. That’s the job. We just need some help.
Logan: Can I borrow your pen?
Beth: So besides Zeus, do you have any experience with working with dogs?
Logan: I worked with some bomb dogs.
Beth: Oh, so you were a cop…
Logan: A 2)Marine.
Beth: You know what? You don’t need to finish filling that out. Just leave me a number where I can reach you and I will call and let you know.
Logan: Sounds like you’re having trouble finding someone for the job.
Beth: Why does a person drive from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?
Logan: I couldn’t tell you. I walked.
Beth: You walked? You walked here from Colorado?
Logan: I like to walk.
贝丝：宙斯看上去很乖不需要训练了，所以我猜你是带它来寄宿的吧？
罗根：不，我昨天刚到，还不打算离开。
贝丝：从哪儿来？
罗根：科罗拉多。
贝丝：怎么跑到汉顿来了？
罗根：说来话长。事实上，我真不知道从何说起。
贝丝：噢，天啊。很抱歉，我不该打探别人的隐私。嗯……有什么我可以帮你的，罗根？
罗根：我来这里的真正目的是想要见你。你知道，我找到这个。它就在……
贝丝：噢，你看到了广告。（译者注：罗根打开钱包找照片却让贝丝误以为他看到了招聘广告。）没错，我们是在招人。这份工作……这份工作薪水不高。呃，大多时候你要做的就是遛狗、喂狗还有清洗狗笼。每周工作六天。欢迎你带着宙斯来上班。（我们需要）助手，罗根，这就是工作内容，我们需要人手。
罗根：可以借支笔用下吗？（译者注：贝丝让罗根填写一份应聘表格。）贝丝：那么除了宙斯，你还有其他的训狗经验吗？
罗根：我训练过炸弹小组的狗。
贝丝：噢，你以前是警察……
罗根：海军陆战队。
贝丝：你知道吗？你不必填写这份表格了。只要留下能够联系到你的电话好吗，我会再通知你的。
罗根：你们不是急需人手吗？
贝丝：谁会大老远开车从科罗拉多到路易斯安那的狗舍找工作？
罗根：我不知道怎么说。我走路来的。
贝丝：走路？你从科罗拉多走到这里来？
罗根：我喜欢走路。
Beth认为Logan是个怪人，想要打发他离开，但是奶奶Ellie却将他留在狗舍工作。Ellie请Logan共进早餐，对Logan成见很深的Beth针锋相对，却不料反被捉弄。
Ellie: So you were saying?
Logan: We moved around a lot, so I kind of grew up everywhere, and nowhere.
Ellie: Oh that must have been hard, huh? Changing schools, leaving friends.
Logan: It was okay. It was all I knew.
Ellie: Mm. But you went to college?
Logan: Yes, ma’am. Just for a year.
Ellie: What’d you study?
Beth: He didn’t study much if it was just for a year.
Ellie: Elizabeth Green.
Logan: I liked philosophy.
Beth: Really?
Logan: Yeah, I like to read.
Beth: Give us a quote of your favorite philosopher.
Logan: “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”.
艾丽：刚才说到哪了？
罗根：我们经常搬家，所以我从小就到处漂泊，居无定所。
艾丽：噢，一定很痛苦吧，常换学校，离开朋友们。
罗根：没什么，我习惯了。
艾丽：嗯，但你上过大学？
罗根：是的，女士，只上了一年。
艾丽：你学了什么？
贝丝：他才上了一年大学，能学到什么？艾丽：伊丽莎白·格林。
罗根：我喜欢哲学。
贝丝：是吗？
罗根：是的，我喜欢读书。
贝丝：说说你最喜欢的哲学家的名言。
罗根：“有时候问题很复杂，但是答案却很简单。”
Ellie: Hmm.
Beth: Don’t tell me. [1]Voltaire? It’s Voltaire, isn’t it?
Logan: It’s [2]Dr. Seuss.
Ellie: Haha.
Logan: Thank you very much for the tea, Mrs. Green. I should get back to work.
Ellie: Will you call me Ellie for goodness sake?
艾丽：嗯。
贝丝：别告诉我，（让我来说。）是伏尔泰说的吧？是伏尔泰，对吧？
罗根：是苏斯博士。
艾丽：哈哈。
罗根：谢谢你的早茶，格林太太，我该回去工作了。
艾丽：你可以直接叫我“艾丽”。
Beth的弟弟Drake也是一名海军陆战队战士，在伊拉克的战场上牺牲，但死因不明，Beth因此一直不能释怀。这天是Drake的忌日，Beth终于爆发了内心的抑郁，向Logan吐露心声。
Beth: At first they wouldn’t tell us anything. Just that friendly fire was a possibility. So it’s a year ago today and the official investigation into the death of 3)Sergeant Drake Green is still ongoing. That’s the worst part—not knowing. I would give anything…I would give anything to know that he didn’t die for nothing. We were inseparable as kids, you know? We did everything together. We even built that wall together. Well, Drake built the wall and I supervised, which consisted mostly of drinking iced teas and reading the Bronte’s. Oh. This one day, I couldn’t find my book anywhere. So I asked him about it. And he just pointed. Look. Look. God, I was so mad. I was so mad at him. And he just laughed. It was…( Beth can’t help crying.) I’m sorry.
Logan: It’s okay. You got a great laugh, you know that? I wish I could hear it more.
Beth: Why don’t you try telling me a joke?
贝丝：一开始他们什么都不愿说，只说可能是受到友军误击。所以事发一年后，官方对于德雷克·格林中士的死因还在调查之中。最痛苦的莫过于得不到答案。我愿意付出一切……只要能知道他不是白白牺牲。我们从小就形影不离，你知道吗？做什么都在一起。我们甚至还一起砌了那面墙。嗯，德雷克砌的，我只是监工而已，大多数时候我只是在喝茶和读读勃朗特的小说。噢，有一天，我到处找不到我的书，我就问他是怎么回事，他就指指那儿，看，看，天啊，我气疯了，我被他气疯了，他只是在一旁笑。这……（贝丝情不自禁大哭起来。）对不起。
罗根：没关系。你笑起来很好听，你知道吗？我希望以后能经常听到你笑。
贝丝：为什么你不说个笑话逗我呢？
Logan: Because you’re gonna have to get a few beers in me before I start telling you jokes.
Beth: Okay. Okay.
Logan: Okay.
罗根：要先灌我几瓶啤酒我才能说得出来。
贝丝：好的，记住了。
罗根：好。
Beth对Logan慢慢卸下心防，渐生好感，两人相约外出喝酒，由此也更增进了彼此的了解，展开了恋情。
Beth: Do you think life has a plan for you?
Logan: Oh, jeez.
Beth: Do you?
Logan: If it does, it hasn’t shared it with me.
Beth: Why did you 4)enlist?
Logan: It was the family business.
Beth: Oh, I had you figured for military 5)brat. Your father was a Marine?
Logan: And his dad before him.
Beth: So you signed up for them?
Logan: The first tour was for them. The second and third were for the guys that were still out there.
Beth: What time do you think it is?
Logan: Am I boring you?
Beth: I want to show you something. Come on. We have to go now. (Beth takes Logan to the lake.) This is where I come when I want to be alone.
Logan: She’s a beauty.
Beth: Dad grew up around boats. He was a 6)vet. But he loved to fish. Mom was a music teacher. She couldn’t stand it.
Logan: You’ve never mentioned your parents before.
Beth: They died in a car accident when we were very young.
Logan: Sorry, I was just…
Beth: It’s a fair question. I guess that’s why Drake and I were so close. We were so lucky to have Nana. Dad took Drake fishing all the time. When he taught him how to 7)steer this thing, he couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7. Logan: What about you?
Beth: Oh. I love this boat. I know she doesn’t look like much now, but she could really fly.
Logan: Well, we should take her out sometime.
Beth: No. Can’t even get her started now.
Logan: That’s too bad.
贝丝：你相信命运吗？
罗根：噢，天啊。
贝丝：你相信吗？
罗根：如果真有命运，不知道我的是什么。
贝丝：你为什么参军？
罗根：这是家族传统。
贝丝：噢，我就知道，小子。你的父亲也是海军陆战队士兵？
罗根：我的爷爷也是。
贝丝：所以你为了他们去参军？
罗根：第一次去是为了他们。后来两次是为了还在前线的弟兄。（译者注：罗根曾经三次去海外执行任务。）
贝丝：现在几点了？
罗根：我让你感到无聊吗？
贝丝：我想要带你去看些东西。走吧，现在要走了。（贝丝把罗根带到湖边）我想要独处的时候就会来这儿。
罗根：这儿很美。
贝丝：船有我父亲成长的回忆。他是个兽医，但是却喜欢钓鱼。母亲是个音乐老师，无法忍受这些。
罗根：以前没听你提到过父母。
贝丝：我们很小的时候他们就死于车祸。
罗根：抱歉，我只是……
贝丝：没关系。我想这就是为什么我和德雷克如此亲密的原因，还好我们还有奶奶。父亲总是带德雷克去钓鱼。当德雷克不过才6、7岁时，父亲就教他开船了。
罗根：那你呢？
贝丝：噢。我爱这艘船。我知道她现在看上去不怎么样，但是却马力十足。
罗根：嗯，我们哪天开出去转转？
贝丝：不行了，现在没法发动了。
罗根：真可惜。
Beth与Logan交往的事情被前夫Keith知晓，他嫉妒两人的关系，同时也看到Logan与儿子Ben相处融洽，于是百般阻挠，以儿子的监护权作威胁要求Beth与Logan断绝关系。
(At Ben’s party.)
Keith: What the hell’s he doing here?
Beth: Ben invited him. It’s his party.
Keith: You think I don’t know what’s going on around here? I don’t think I like you seeing him.
Beth: Well, you don’t have a say in it.
Keith: I certainly have a say in who my son sees. And if I was to say that his mom’s unhealthy relationship with some crazy 8)drifter was creating an unstable environment for my boy. I don’t think there’s a judge in the world who’d disagree with me. Certainly not in this town.
Beth: He wants you out of my life. I can’t risk losing Ben.
Logan: I’m sorry, Beth. I didn’t come here to make things harder for you.
Beth: You don’t know what I’m dealing with.
Logan: I do know that you deserve better than this.
Ellie: So are you planning to let him bully you all your life?
Beth: Excuse me?
Ellie: You heard me. You know, sacrificing everything in life for our children is…it’s not selfless. It’s…well, it’s ridiculous.
Beth: I am doing the best that I can.
Ellie: Really?
（在本的派对上。）
基斯：他在这里干什么？
贝丝：本邀请他的，这是他的生日派对。
基斯：你以为我不知道你俩的事吗？我不喜欢你和他约会。
贝丝：你无权过问。
基斯：我当然有权过问我儿子究竟在和什么人交往。如果我说，他的母亲和疯狂的流浪汉的不正常关系带给我儿子不稳定的成长环境，我想世界上没有哪个法官会不赞同我说的话。在这个镇上也不例外。
贝丝：他想要你走出我的生活。我不能没有本。
罗根：对不起，贝丝。我来不是让你难过的。
贝丝：你不知道我面对的压力。
罗根：我只知道你该过得更好。
艾丽：你打算一辈子受他威胁吗？
贝丝：你说什么？
艾丽：你听到了的。你知道吗，为了孩子牺牲生命中的一切，不是无私，而是荒谬。
贝丝：我已经尽力了。
艾丽：是吗？
Beth受到Logan和奶奶的启发，决定不再受Keith的威胁，她向Keith摊牌，准备开始新的生活。
Keith: Hey!
Ben: You need some help?
Keith: Yeah. 9)Grab that 10)rag and start at the back. I’ll meet you in the middle.
Ben: Okay.
Keith: Hey. We’re gonna have some pizza tonight if you wanna stay for dinner.
Beth: You know what, Keith? That’s not gonna work anymore. I figured it out. You don’t want full 11)custody any more than I want you to have it. You can try and take him, but I will fight you. I will fight you and your family’s lawyers. Keith: Okay, calm down.
Beth: I am a damn good mother.
Keith: Okay, just…
Beth: You know that. Everybody knows that. You wanna go back to court, you just tell me when. Otherwise, you stay the hell out of my life.
基斯：嘿！
本：需要帮忙吗？
基斯：是啊。拿抹布从后面洗起，（我从前面洗起，）我们在中间会合。
本：好的。
基斯：嘿，今晚我们会吃披萨，要不要留下来一起吃饭？
贝丝：你知道吗，基斯？这招不管用了。我想通了。你根本没我那么想要孩子的监护权。你可以试试带走他，但是我会跟你拼命，和你还有你家的律师们拼命。
基斯：好吧，冷静。
贝丝：我是一个好母亲。
基斯：好吧，只是……
贝丝：你知道，所有的人都知道。你想要重上法庭，那就随时告诉我，不然就滚出我的生活。
Logan与Beth正浓情蜜意之时，Keith竟然找出了Logan藏着的Beth的照片，并由此挑衅说Logan此行必有目的。B eth内心唤起了对Drake死因的疑惑，Logan向她道出原委，但她一时无法接受。
Beth: Where did you get this?
Logan: I found it.
Beth: This was Drake’s. He took it everywhere with him. He told me.
Logan: Beth, listen to me.
Beth: No, you listen to me. You didn’t come here by accident. You came here to find me.
Logan: I know I should have told you. I tried. I didn’t know how.
Beth: Try telling me now.
Logan: It was in the morning after a night 12)raid. I just found it in the middle of nowhere. I tried to find out who lost it. I never stopped trying, but nobody claimed it. Finding something like that in a war was like finding an angel in hell. So I kept it with me. Then I survived a lot of things. Things that I had no right to. I promised myself that if I made it out, I would find that girl and thank her for saving my life when others weren’t so lucky. But I couldn’t find the words. How do you explain something that you can’t even understand yourself?
Beth: Understand this: This was Drake’s. It was meant to keep him alive.
Logan: I wish it had. I wish it had.
Beth: You should go. Now.
贝丝：你从哪得到的？
罗根：我捡到的。
贝丝：这是德雷克的。他无论到哪都会带在身边，他亲口说的。
罗根：贝丝，听我说。
贝丝：不，是你听我说。你来这儿不是偶然。你是来这儿找我的。
罗根：我知道我早该告诉你，我想告诉你的，但是不知道怎么开口。
贝丝：那现在告诉我。
罗根：那是一次夜袭后的早晨，我在半路上捡到的。我试着找出谁丢了照片，不停在问，但是没有人认领。在战争中捡到这个（译者注：罗根捡到的贝丝的照片后写有“Keep Safe（安全归来）”的字样。）就如同在地狱找到天使一般，所以之后我一直带在身上，后来我逃过很多次本来逃不过的劫难。我向自己许诺，如果我活着回来，就一定要找到照片上的女孩感谢她救了我的命，而其他人却没那么幸运。但是我不知道怎么说，你该如何解释你自己都不清楚的事？
贝丝：听着，这是德雷克的，本该保他平安的。
罗根：我也希望如此。
贝丝：你该走了，现在就走。
Logan离开，Ben送给他一本书。Logan无意中发现书中有Drake的照片，他想起了战场上发生的事，正要告诉Beth时，一场大雨来临，Ben陷入险境，Keith和Logan共同营救，但不幸Keith遇险身亡。几天后，Logan再次来到Beth家里，要告诉她Drake的事情。
Beth: Thank you.
Logan: I came back because I found this in the book that Ben gave me. That’s your brother, Drake, isn’t it?
Beth: Yeah.
Logan: I know what happened to him. I was there.
Beth: What do you mean that you were there?
Logan: Our 13)platoons crossed paths during the night raid. We were 14)ambushed. There was this sergeant that they called Aces. One of his men got hit. He didn’t think about himself for one second. He just took care of his man. And then I found your picture the next morning in the rubble outside. He must have lost it on the way in. I know I’ve made it hard for you to believe the truth. And I’m sorry for a lot of things, but nothing more than that. I just wanted you to know he didn’t die for nothing.
贝丝：谢谢。
罗根：我回来是因为我在本给我的书上发现这个，这是你弟弟德雷克，是吗？贝丝：是的。
罗根：我知道发生什么事了。我当时在场。
贝丝：你说你在场是什么意思？罗根：我们各自的队伍在夜袭时相遇，我们遭到了袭击。有一个大家称为A的中士，（译者注：这里A指的是德雷克，罗根是从照片上认出来的。）他的一个弟兄受伤了，他一秒也顾不上自己，就在那儿照顾他的弟兄。然后我第二天早上就在外面的废墟里捡到了你的照片，我想他是在撤离时掉下的。我知道这会让你一时难以接受，发生这么多事，我也很遗憾，没其他的了。我还是想让你知道，他没有白白牺牲。
Logan: Everyone has their own destiny. Not everyone makes the choice to follow it. And I’m lucky I did.
罗根：每个人都有自己的命运，但不是每个人都会选择认命，我很幸运我这么做了。
[1] Voltaire 伏尔泰，法国启蒙思想家、文学家、哲学家，18世纪法国资产阶级启蒙运动的旗手。
[2] Dr. Seuss 苏斯博士，二十世纪最卓越的儿童文学家、教育学家。
本片由畅销小说作家Nicholas Sparks的同名小说改编，他的多部作品曾被改编成电影，包括《恋恋笔记本》、《分手信》等。
Logan: You know, the smallest thing can change your life. In the 1)blink of an eye, something happens by chance when you least expect it sets you on a course that you never planned into the future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives, our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must pass through the deepest darkness. At least, that’s how it was for me.
罗根：你知道吗，一件微不足道的小事都有可能改变你的人生。就在眨眼间，事情发生得让人措手不及，从此开始一段意外之旅和意想不到的未来。它将带你去往何处？那就是我们的人生之旅，追寻光明之路。但有时候，追寻光明意味着你必须历经内心的低谷。至少，对我而言，是这样的。
Logan在伊拉克战场上偶然捡到了一张女孩的照片，而这一举动使他逃过敌军的袭击。此后Logan将照片带在身旁，这张照片犹如护身符一般保护着他，战争结束，Logan只身回到美国，但是却无法逃脱战争的阴影，于是，他踏上了寻找照片中的女孩的旅程，也想借此展开一段新的生活。
Beth: Zeus is way too well behaved to need training, so I’m guessing that you’re here to board him?
Logan: No, I’m not going anywhere. I just got off the road yesterday.
Beth: Where from?
Logan: Colorado.
Beth: And what brings you to Hamden?
Logan: It’s kind of a long story. Actually, I don’t really know where to begin.
Beth: Oh gosh. I’m so sorry. That’s absolutely none of my business. Um…what can I do for you, Logan?
Logan: I’m really here because I came to see you. You see, I found this. It was just…
Beth: Oh, you saw the ad. Of course. Okay. So the job doesn’t…it doesn’t pay much. Um, mostly you’ll just be walking, feeding, cleaning cages. It’s six days a week. Zeus is welcome anytime. And help, Logan. That’s the job. We just need some help.
Logan: Can I borrow your pen?
Beth: So besides Zeus, do you have any experience with working with dogs?
Logan: I worked with some bomb dogs.
Beth: Oh, so you were a cop…
Logan: A 2)Marine.
Beth: You know what? You don’t need to finish filling that out. Just leave me a number where I can reach you and I will call and let you know.
Logan: Sounds like you’re having trouble finding someone for the job.
Beth: Why does a person drive from Colorado to Louisiana to work in a dog kennel?
Logan: I couldn’t tell you. I walked.
Beth: You walked? You walked here from Colorado?
Logan: I like to walk.
贝丝：宙斯看上去很乖不需要训练了，所以我猜你是带它来寄宿的吧？
罗根：不，我昨天刚到，还不打算离开。
贝丝：从哪儿来？
罗根：科罗拉多。
贝丝：怎么跑到汉顿来了？
罗根：说来话长。事实上，我真不知道从何说起。
贝丝：噢，天啊。很抱歉，我不该打探别人的隐私。嗯……有什么我可以帮你的，罗根？
罗根：我来这里的真正目的是想要见你。你知道，我找到这个。它就在……
贝丝：噢，你看到了广告。（译者注：罗根打开钱包找照片却让贝丝误以为他看到了招聘广告。）没错，我们是在招人。这份工作……这份工作薪水不高。呃，大多时候你要做的就是遛狗、喂狗还有清洗狗笼。每周工作六天。欢迎你带着宙斯来上班。（我们需要）助手，罗根，这就是工作内容，我们需要人手。
罗根：可以借支笔用下吗？（译者注：贝丝让罗根填写一份应聘表格。）贝丝：那么除了宙斯，你还有其他的训狗经验吗？
罗根：我训练过炸弹小组的狗。
贝丝：噢，你以前是警察……
罗根：海军陆战队。
贝丝：你知道吗？你不必填写这份表格了。只要留下能够联系到你的电话好吗，我会再通知你的。
罗根：你们不是急需人手吗？
贝丝：谁会大老远开车从科罗拉多到路易斯安那的狗舍找工作？
罗根：我不知道怎么说。我走路来的。
贝丝：走路？你从科罗拉多走到这里来？
罗根：我喜欢走路。
Beth认为Logan是个怪人，想要打发他离开，但是奶奶Ellie却将他留在狗舍工作。Ellie请Logan共进早餐，对Logan成见很深的Beth针锋相对，却不料反被捉弄。
Ellie: So you were saying?
Logan: We moved around a lot, so I kind of grew up everywhere, and nowhere.
Ellie: Oh that must have been hard, huh? Changing schools, leaving friends.
Logan: It was okay. It was all I knew.
Ellie: Mm. But you went to college?
Logan: Yes, ma’am. Just for a year.
Ellie: What’d you study?
Beth: He didn’t study much if it was just for a year.
Ellie: Elizabeth Green.
Logan: I liked philosophy.
Beth: Really?
Logan: Yeah, I like to read.
Beth: Give us a quote of your favorite philosopher.
Logan: “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple”.
艾丽：刚才说到哪了？
罗根：我们经常搬家，所以我从小就到处漂泊，居无定所。
艾丽：噢，一定很痛苦吧，常换学校，离开朋友们。
罗根：没什么，我习惯了。
艾丽：嗯，但你上过大学？
罗根：是的，女士，只上了一年。
艾丽：你学了什么？
贝丝：他才上了一年大学，能学到什么？艾丽：伊丽莎白·格林。
罗根：我喜欢哲学。
贝丝：是吗？
罗根：是的，我喜欢读书。
贝丝：说说你最喜欢的哲学家的名言。
罗根：“有时候问题很复杂，但是答案却很简单。”
Ellie: Hmm.
Beth: Don’t tell me. [1]Voltaire? It’s Voltaire, isn’t it?
Logan: It’s [2]Dr. Seuss.
Ellie: Haha.
Logan: Thank you very much for the tea, Mrs. Green. I should get back to work.
Ellie: Will you call me Ellie for goodness sake?
艾丽：嗯。
贝丝：别告诉我，（让我来说。）是伏尔泰说的吧？是伏尔泰，对吧？
罗根：是苏斯博士。
艾丽：哈哈。
罗根：谢谢你的早茶，格林太太，我该回去工作了。
艾丽：你可以直接叫我“艾丽”。
Beth的弟弟Drake也是一名海军陆战队战士，在伊拉克的战场上牺牲，但死因不明，Beth因此一直不能释怀。这天是Drake的忌日，Beth终于爆发了内心的抑郁，向Logan吐露心声。
Beth: At first they wouldn’t tell us anything. Just that friendly fire was a possibility. So it’s a year ago today and the official investigation into the death of 3)Sergeant Drake Green is still ongoing. That’s the worst part—not knowing. I would give anything…I would give anything to know that he didn’t die for nothing. We were inseparable as kids, you know? We did everything together. We even built that wall together. Well, Drake built the wall and I supervised, which consisted mostly of drinking iced teas and reading the Bronte’s. Oh. This one day, I couldn’t find my book anywhere. So I asked him about it. And he just pointed. Look. Look. God, I was so mad. I was so mad at him. And he just laughed. It was…( Beth can’t help crying.) I’m sorry.
Logan: It’s okay. You got a great laugh, you know that? I wish I could hear it more.
Beth: Why don’t you try telling me a joke?
贝丝：一开始他们什么都不愿说，只说可能是受到友军误击。所以事发一年后，官方对于德雷克·格林中士的死因还在调查之中。最痛苦的莫过于得不到答案。我愿意付出一切……只要能知道他不是白白牺牲。我们从小就形影不离，你知道吗？做什么都在一起。我们甚至还一起砌了那面墙。嗯，德雷克砌的，我只是监工而已，大多数时候我只是在喝茶和读读勃朗特的小说。噢，有一天，我到处找不到我的书，我就问他是怎么回事，他就指指那儿，看，看，天啊，我气疯了，我被他气疯了，他只是在一旁笑。这……（贝丝情不自禁大哭起来。）对不起。
罗根：没关系。你笑起来很好听，你知道吗？我希望以后能经常听到你笑。
贝丝：为什么你不说个笑话逗我呢？
Logan: Because you’re gonna have to get a few beers in me before I start telling you jokes.
Beth: Okay. Okay.
Logan: Okay.
罗根：要先灌我几瓶啤酒我才能说得出来。
贝丝：好的，记住了。
罗根：好。
Beth对Logan慢慢卸下心防，渐生好感，两人相约外出喝酒，由此也更增进了彼此的了解，展开了恋情。
Beth: Do you think life has a plan for you?
Logan: Oh, jeez.
Beth: Do you?
Logan: If it does, it hasn’t shared it with me.
Beth: Why did you 4)enlist?
Logan: It was the family business.
Beth: Oh, I had you figured for military 5)brat. Your father was a Marine?
Logan: And his dad before him.
Beth: So you signed up for them?
Logan: The first tour was for them. The second and third were for the guys that were still out there.
Beth: What time do you think it is?
Logan: Am I boring you?
Beth: I want to show you something. Come on. We have to go now. (Beth takes Logan to the lake.) This is where I come when I want to be alone.
Logan: She’s a beauty.
Beth: Dad grew up around boats. He was a 6)vet. But he loved to fish. Mom was a music teacher. She couldn’t stand it.
Logan: You’ve never mentioned your parents before.
Beth: They died in a car accident when we were very young.
Logan: Sorry, I was just…
Beth: It’s a fair question. I guess that’s why Drake and I were so close. We were so lucky to have Nana. Dad took Drake fishing all the time. When he taught him how to 7)steer this thing, he couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7. Logan: What about you?
Beth: Oh. I love this boat. I know she doesn’t look like much now, but she could really fly.
Logan: Well, we should take her out sometime.
Beth: No. Can’t even get her started now.
Logan: That’s too bad.
贝丝：你相信命运吗？
罗根：噢，天啊。
贝丝：你相信吗？
罗根：如果真有命运，不知道我的是什么。
贝丝：你为什么参军？
罗根：这是家族传统。
贝丝：噢，我就知道，小子。你的父亲也是海军陆战队士兵？
罗根：我的爷爷也是。
贝丝：所以你为了他们去参军？
罗根：第一次去是为了他们。后来两次是为了还在前线的弟兄。（译者注：罗根曾经三次去海外执行任务。）
贝丝：现在几点了？
罗根：我让你感到无聊吗？
贝丝：我想要带你去看些东西。走吧，现在要走了。（贝丝把罗根带到湖边）我想要独处的时候就会来这儿。
罗根：这儿很美。
贝丝：船有我父亲成长的回忆。他是个兽医，但是却喜欢钓鱼。母亲是个音乐老师，无法忍受这些。
罗根：以前没听你提到过父母。
贝丝：我们很小的时候他们就死于车祸。
罗根：抱歉，我只是……
贝丝：没关系。我想这就是为什么我和德雷克如此亲密的原因，还好我们还有奶奶。父亲总是带德雷克去钓鱼。当德雷克不过才6、7岁时，父亲就教他开船了。
罗根：那你呢？
贝丝：噢。我爱这艘船。我知道她现在看上去不怎么样，但是却马力十足。
罗根：嗯，我们哪天开出去转转？
贝丝：不行了，现在没法发动了。
罗根：真可惜。
Beth与Logan交往的事情被前夫Keith知晓，他嫉妒两人的关系，同时也看到Logan与儿子Ben相处融洽，于是百般阻挠，以儿子的监护权作威胁要求Beth与Logan断绝关系。
(At Ben’s party.)
Keith: What the hell’s he doing here?
Beth: Ben invited him. It’s his party.
Keith: You think I don’t know what’s going on around here? I don’t think I like you seeing him.
Beth: Well, you don’t have a say in it.
Keith: I certainly have a say in who my son sees. And if I was to say that his mom’s unhealthy relationship with some crazy 8)drifter was creating an unstable environment for my boy. I don’t think there’s a judge in the world who’d disagree with me. Certainly not in this town.
Beth: He wants you out of my life. I can’t risk losing Ben.
Logan: I’m sorry, Beth. I didn’t come here to make things harder for you.
Beth: You don’t know what I’m dealing with.
Logan: I do know that you deserve better than this.
Ellie: So are you planning to let him bully you all your life?
Beth: Excuse me?
Ellie: You heard me. You know, sacrificing everything in life for our children is…it’s not selfless. It’s…well, it’s ridiculous.
Beth: I am doing the best that I can.
Ellie: Really?
（在本的派对上。）
基斯：他在这里干什么？
贝丝：本邀请他的，这是他的生日派对。
基斯：你以为我不知道你俩的事吗？我不喜欢你和他约会。
贝丝：你无权过问。
基斯：我当然有权过问我儿子究竟在和什么人交往。如果我说，他的母亲和疯狂的流浪汉的不正常关系带给我儿子不稳定的成长环境，我想世界上没有哪个法官会不赞同我说的话。在这个镇上也不例外。
贝丝：他想要你走出我的生活。我不能没有本。
罗根：对不起，贝丝。我来不是让你难过的。
贝丝：你不知道我面对的压力。
罗根：我只知道你该过得更好。
艾丽：你打算一辈子受他威胁吗？
贝丝：你说什么？
艾丽：你听到了的。你知道吗，为了孩子牺牲生命中的一切，不是无私，而是荒谬。
贝丝：我已经尽力了。
艾丽：是吗？
Beth受到Logan和奶奶的启发，决定不再受Keith的威胁，她向Keith摊牌，准备开始新的生活。
Keith: Hey!
Ben: You need some help?
Keith: Yeah. 9)Grab that 10)rag and start at the back. I’ll meet you in the middle.
Ben: Okay.
Keith: Hey. We’re gonna have some pizza tonight if you wanna stay for dinner.
Beth: You know what, Keith? That’s not gonna work anymore. I figured it out. You don’t want full 11)custody any more than I want you to have it. You can try and take him, but I will fight you. I will fight you and your family’s lawyers. Keith: Okay, calm down.
Beth: I am a damn good mother.
Keith: Okay, just…
Beth: You know that. Everybody knows that. You wanna go back to court, you just tell me when. Otherwise, you stay the hell out of my life.
基斯：嘿！
本：需要帮忙吗？
基斯：是啊。拿抹布从后面洗起，（我从前面洗起，）我们在中间会合。
本：好的。
基斯：嘿，今晚我们会吃披萨，要不要留下来一起吃饭？
贝丝：你知道吗，基斯？这招不管用了。我想通了。你根本没我那么想要孩子的监护权。你可以试试带走他，但是我会跟你拼命，和你还有你家的律师们拼命。
基斯：好吧，冷静。
贝丝：我是一个好母亲。
基斯：好吧，只是……
贝丝：你知道，所有的人都知道。你想要重上法庭，那就随时告诉我，不然就滚出我的生活。
Logan与Beth正浓情蜜意之时，Keith竟然找出了Logan藏着的Beth的照片，并由此挑衅说Logan此行必有目的。B eth内心唤起了对Drake死因的疑惑，Logan向她道出原委，但她一时无法接受。
Beth: Where did you get this?
Logan: I found it.
Beth: This was Drake’s. He took it everywhere with him. He told me.
Logan: Beth, listen to me.
Beth: No, you listen to me. You didn’t come here by accident. You came here to find me.
Logan: I know I should have told you. I tried. I didn’t know how.
Beth: Try telling me now.
Logan: It was in the morning after a night 12)raid. I just found it in the middle of nowhere. I tried to find out who lost it. I never stopped trying, but nobody claimed it. Finding something like that in a war was like finding an angel in hell. So I kept it with me. Then I survived a lot of things. Things that I had no right to. I promised myself that if I made it out, I would find that girl and thank her for saving my life when others weren’t so lucky. But I couldn’t find the words. How do you explain something that you can’t even understand yourself?
Beth: Understand this: This was Drake’s. It was meant to keep him alive.
Logan: I wish it had. I wish it had.
Beth: You should go. Now.
贝丝：你从哪得到的？
罗根：我捡到的。
贝丝：这是德雷克的。他无论到哪都会带在身边，他亲口说的。
罗根：贝丝，听我说。
贝丝：不，是你听我说。你来这儿不是偶然。你是来这儿找我的。
罗根：我知道我早该告诉你，我想告诉你的，但是不知道怎么开口。
贝丝：那现在告诉我。
罗根：那是一次夜袭后的早晨，我在半路上捡到的。我试着找出谁丢了照片，不停在问，但是没有人认领。在战争中捡到这个（译者注：罗根捡到的贝丝的照片后写有“Keep Safe（安全归来）”的字样。）就如同在地狱找到天使一般，所以之后我一直带在身上，后来我逃过很多次本来逃不过的劫难。我向自己许诺，如果我活着回来，就一定要找到照片上的女孩感谢她救了我的命，而其他人却没那么幸运。但是我不知道怎么说，你该如何解释你自己都不清楚的事？
贝丝：听着，这是德雷克的，本该保他平安的。
罗根：我也希望如此。
贝丝：你该走了，现在就走。
Logan离开，Ben送给他一本书。Logan无意中发现书中有Drake的照片，他想起了战场上发生的事，正要告诉Beth时，一场大雨来临，Ben陷入险境，Keith和Logan共同营救，但不幸Keith遇险身亡。几天后，Logan再次来到Beth家里，要告诉她Drake的事情。
Beth: Thank you.
Logan: I came back because I found this in the book that Ben gave me. That’s your brother, Drake, isn’t it?
Beth: Yeah.
Logan: I know what happened to him. I was there.
Beth: What do you mean that you were there?
Logan: Our 13)platoons crossed paths during the night raid. We were 14)ambushed. There was this sergeant that they called Aces. One of his men got hit. He didn’t think about himself for one second. He just took care of his man. And then I found your picture the next morning in the rubble outside. He must have lost it on the way in. I know I’ve made it hard for you to believe the truth. And I’m sorry for a lot of things, but nothing more than that. I just wanted you to know he didn’t die for nothing.
贝丝：谢谢。
罗根：我回来是因为我在本给我的书上发现这个，这是你弟弟德雷克，是吗？贝丝：是的。
罗根：我知道发生什么事了。我当时在场。
贝丝：你说你在场是什么意思？罗根：我们各自的队伍在夜袭时相遇，我们遭到了袭击。有一个大家称为A的中士，（译者注：这里A指的是德雷克，罗根是从照片上认出来的。）他的一个弟兄受伤了，他一秒也顾不上自己，就在那儿照顾他的弟兄。然后我第二天早上就在外面的废墟里捡到了你的照片，我想他是在撤离时掉下的。我知道这会让你一时难以接受，发生这么多事，我也很遗憾，没其他的了。我还是想让你知道，他没有白白牺牲。
Logan: Everyone has their own destiny. Not everyone makes the choice to follow it. And I’m lucky I did.
罗根：每个人都有自己的命运，但不是每个人都会选择认命，我很幸运我这么做了。
[1] Voltaire 伏尔泰，法国启蒙思想家、文学家、哲学家，18世纪法国资产阶级启蒙运动的旗手。
[2] Dr. Seuss 苏斯博士，二十世纪最卓越的儿童文学家、教育学家。