All that city. You just couldn’t see the end to it. The end? Please? You please just show me where it ends? It was all very fine on that gangway. And I was grand too, in my overcoat. I cut quite a figure. And I was getting off. Guaranteed. There was no problem. It wasn’t what I saw that stopped me, Max. It was what I didn’t see. You understand that? What I didn’t see. In all that sprawling city there was everything except an end. There was no end. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end. The end of the world...
偌大的城市，你就是无法看见尽头。
当时，我站在舷梯向外看还好。
穿着你的大衣，感觉也很棒，觉得自己前途无量，然后我就要下船去。
放心！完全没问题！
可是，阻止了我的脚步的，
并不是我看见的东西，而是我无法看见的那些东西。
你明白吗？我看不见的那些。
拿钢琴来说，键盘有始亦有终。
你确切地知道88个键就在那儿，错不了。
它们并不是无限的，而你，才是无限的。
你能在键盘上表现的音乐是无限的。
有限的琴键，无限的快乐，这就是我的生活。
我喜欢这样，我能轻松应付。
而你现在让我走过跳板，走到城市里，
那乱糟糟的城市，什么都不缺，就是没有尽头！
等着我的是一个没有尽头的键盘。
Max ！它们没有尽头。
那键盘是无限延伸的。
然而如果琴键是无限的，
在那架琴上就没有你能弹奏的音乐，
你坐错了地方，
那是上帝的钢琴！
Take a piano. The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are eighty-eight of them, nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You are infinite. And on these keys the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by.
你看到那数不清的街道吗？
如何只选择其中一条去走？
一个共度一生的女人，一幢属于自己的屋子，一种生与死的方式……
你甚至不知道什么时候才是尽头。
一想到这个，难道不会害怕、会崩溃吗？
I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by, but two thousand people at a time. And there were wishes here, but never more than fit between prow and stern. You played out your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite. I learned to live that way.
我在这艘船上出生。
世事千变万化，然这艘船每次只载2000人。
这里有着希望，但仅在船头和船尾之间。
你可以在有限的钢琴上奏出你的欢欣快乐。
我习惯了这样的生活。
