Identity
刘铮
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背景介绍:《致命ID》堪称2003年最好的惊悚片。它讲述了在一个雨夜，几名被洪水围困的旅行者被迫聚集到一个荒僻的汽车旅馆里，他们被一个个残忍地杀掉，到底凶手是谁呢？最后答案出人意料。片中有很多精彩对白，下面是约翰•库萨克扮演的前警官埃德（Ed）和阿曼达•皮特扮演的妓女帕丽丝(Paris)之间的对话。
Paris: Where were you a cop?
Ed: Los Angeles.
Paris: Were you fired or did you quit?
Ed: I took medical leave. It made me sick. I burned out, I guess, wasn't up for it. One day I got a call, for a jumper. A young Mexican girl, pregnant, infected with AIDS, totally strung out. She was truly one of the doomed. I asked her to come in off the ledge and into my arms. She asked me why she should bother living.
Paris: What did you say?
Ed: I was trained to tell her lots of things. Her dreams, all the people who'd miss her. But for a second, I hesitated. And she saw it. Within that second, I couldn't think of one optimistic thing to say to her. So she spread her arms and jumped. I started getting headaches, and eventually started blacking out. So I filed for medical.
帕丽丝：你以前在哪儿当差？
埃德：洛杉矶。
帕丽丝：你是被炒了还是自己走人？
埃德：我因病告退。警察的工作使我难受，精疲力竭。我猜，我不再胜任这份工作了。一天我接到个电话，一个人想跳楼自杀。一个年轻的墨西哥姑娘，她怀孕了，感染了艾滋病，身体因吸毒完全垮了。她注定是完蛋了。我请她离开楼边走到里面来，到我怀里来。她问我她为什么要继续费劲地活下去。
帕丽丝：你怎么说？
埃德：我受过的训练让我当时应说很多话———她的梦想，那些将会想念她的 人。但在一秒钟内，我犹豫了，她看出了这点。那一秒钟内，我想不出一件乐观的事对她讲。于是她张开双臂跳了下去。（那之后）我开始感到头疼，最终开始短暂性眼前昏黑。于是我提出病退。
语言点：
1.Burn out:（使）精疲力竭/耗尽。
2.（Be）Strung Out：Strung的原形是String（绷紧弦、使紧张/激动）。“Strung Out”在文中是口语词组，表示一个人的身体被毒品毁了。
3.Black Out：暂时性眼前昏黑（眼前一黑，什么也看不见了）。战机做剧烈动作时，飞行员常会“Black out”。与此类似的有“White out”，有部日本动作片，中文名叫《雪盲危机》，英文名就叫“White out”。
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