八个问题 · 人生七年
长大想做什么
七岁那一问，之后每七年被拿出来对照
I want to be a jockey.
我想当骑师。
When I grow up I want to be an astronaut, but if I can't be an astronaut I think I'd like to be a coach driver.
长大以后我想当宇航员，要是当不成宇航员，我想我愿意开长途大巴。
I want to teach people who are not civilised to be, more or less, good.
我想教那些还没开化的人，让他们多多少少变得善良。
I want to find out all about the moon and all that.
我想弄明白关于月亮的一切，还有那些东西。
Well, before I'm old enough to get a job, I'll just walk around, and see what I can find.
嗯，在我到能找工作的年纪之前，我就到处走走，看看能找到什么。
I don't think you want to go to university if you want to be an astronaut.
我觉得要是想当宇航员，就不用去上大学。
工作
做什么、为什么做、还做不做
I'm a school mobile librarian and assistant to the young people's officer. I visit schools with the van.
我是学校流动图书馆员，兼青少年图书馆员的助手。我开着面包车去各个学校。
No, I haven't really; I suppose I just like hard work, I don't know.
不，其实没有；我猜我就是喜欢干重活吧，我也说不清。
Teaching children the beauty of books and watching their faces as books unfold to them, it's just fantastic.
教孩子们发现书的美，看着书在他们面前打开时他们脸上的表情，那真是太棒了。
I worked all my life, I can't imagine not working.
我这辈子一直在工作，无法想象不工作。
You don't live to work, you work to live.
人不是为工作而活，是为活着而工作。
If David Cameron can find me a job then I'll go to work.
要是戴维·卡梅伦能给我找到一份工作，我就去上班。
You don't live to work, you work to live.
人不是为工作而活，是为活着而工作。
Nothing has really changed, I'm still working for Queen Mary, 20 years under my belt.
其实什么都没变，我还在玛丽女王学院工作，干了 20 年了。
婚姻、孩子、家
结婚早不早、孩子怎么样、父亲是谁
Say you had a wife and had to eat what they cooked you. And say I don't like greens, well I don't like greens.
比方说你有个老婆，她做什么你就得吃什么。比方说我不喜欢青菜，我就是不喜欢青菜。
I don't think having a father has an effect on me.
我不觉得有没有父亲对我有什么影响。
You do think, 'Christ, what have I done?'
你确实会想：「天哪，我这是干了什么？」
They have everything, they have a father.
他们什么都有，他们有父亲。
I was born for the responsibility.
我天生就是来担责任的。
You have to accept it's their lives.
你得接受那是他们的人生。
The longest engagement known to man.
人类已知最长的订婚。
You're going to uni. You're going.
你要去上大学。你得去。
We've been together now over 20 years, still not married, never say never... but no plans.
我们在一起 20 多年了，还没结婚，永远别说永远……但没有计划。
I don't really know how I've got over things with him, to be honest... Sometimes, I don't feel that I have, to be perfectly honest with you. But I'm still here. (Debbie Walker)
说实话，我也不知道自己是怎么熬过他那些事的……有时候，老实说，我觉得我并没有熬过去。但我还在这儿。（黛比·沃克）
The single moment of pure, unadulterated joy in my life.
我一生中唯一一个纯粹、不掺杂质的喜悦时刻。
Glenn decided he's fed up of being on the longest engagement of all time.
格伦决定他受够了这场史上最长的订婚。
It's still in my head now, I should have asked. First, who's my dad? What did he do? Where did he come from?
现在还在我脑子里，我应该问的。首先，我爸是谁？他是做什么的？他从哪里来？
I know nothing about the man, I never saw him.
我对那个人一无所知，我从没见过他。
阶级与机会
片子的出发点：出身给了什么、拿走了什么、有没有用足
I read the Financial Times.
我读《金融时报》。
I'm going to Charterhouse, and after that Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
我要去查特豪斯，之后去剑桥的三一堂。
I read the Observer and the Times.
我读《观察家报》和《泰晤士报》。
I think it's not a bad idea to pay for schools, because if we didn't, schools would be so nasty and crowded.
我觉得给学校交学费不是坏事，因为要是不交，学校会变得又糟又挤。
What does a university mean?
大学是什么意思？
I'm glad to have avoided the prep school–Marlborough–Oxbridge conveyor belt.
我很高兴避开了预科学校—马尔堡—牛剑的传送带。
I've had the opportunities in life that I've wanted.
我得到了人生里我想要的机会。
I say I've had more.
我说，我得到的更多。
I think we all could have gone any way we wanted at that time, within our own capabilities.
我想那时候我们都可以走任何自己想走的路，在各自能力范围之内。
We only had a limited choice, to be fair.
说句公道话，我们的选择其实很有限。
We only had a limited choice anyway, truth be told. We didn't have the choice of private education because they couldn't have afforded it.
说实话，我们反正只有有限的选择。我们没有私立教育这个选项，因为他们付不起。
I have no doubts I could have done more. Maybe I was lazy.
我毫不怀疑自己本可以做得更多。也许我是懒了。
I was a lazy sod, who didn't have any desire to try harder.
我是个懒骨头，没有任何想多努力一点的念头。
你过得好吗
每一部都问的那句：身体、心境、满不满意
Things have fallen into line and everything. And I've started to enjoy life.
事情都走上了正轨，一切都好。我开始享受生活了。
I wake up every day, not knowing what's going to happen.
我每天醒来，都不知道会发生什么。
I can't use my hands, I can't sit for long, I can't stand for long, I can't walk very far.
我的手没法用，坐不久，站不久，走不远。
My glass is always half full, never half empty.
我的杯子永远是半满的，从来不是半空的。
I've reached a level in my life that I'm happy with; I enjoy being me.
我的人生已经到了一个我满意的地步；我喜欢做我自己。
What I thought was stress was nothing.
我以前以为的压力，根本不算什么。
I'm happy with the way my life has gone.
我对自己的人生走过的路很满意。
I see my life as a failure.
我把自己的人生看作失败。
I'm focused on fairly short-term futures at the moment.
眼下我只看相当短期的未来。
surprised to be sort of contented
意外地算是知足
I think I'm living my second childhood actually.
说真的，我觉得我在过第二个童年。
I needed peace for myself. The sunshine helps and makes me feel better.
我需要给自己一点安宁。阳光有帮助，让我感觉好一些。
英国与政治
撒切尔、卡梅伦、1964 年的英国、人类往哪走
I'm more reactionary than most.
我比大多数人更保守。
The most incompetent, uncaring bloody shower we've ever had.
我们有过的最无能、最冷漠的一群该死的混蛋。
In 1964 it was illegal to be openly homosexual in Britain, women could not get an abortion, and you could have a sign that said, 'No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs' over your establishment.
1964 年，在英国公开的同性恋是违法的，女人不能堕胎，你可以在自己的店门口挂一块牌子写「爱尔兰人、黑人、狗不得入内」。
I think the arc of humanity is still going in the right way.
我觉得人类的弧线仍然朝着对的方向走。
这个节目
被拍是什么感觉、剪辑给了什么角色、为什么留下或离开
You wouldn't have asked some of the other people in this programme that question.
这个问题你不会拿去问这个节目里的其他一些人。
How dare you say that to me! Is that a worry? Why would that be a worry?
你怎么敢对我说这种话！这算担心？这为什么算担心？
I think I'm actually more intelligent than you thought I would be.
我觉得我其实比你以为的更聪明。
You will edit this programme as you see fit, I've got no control.
你会照你的意思剪这个节目，我一点控制权都没有。
I suppose I have this ridiculous sense of loyalty to it, even though I hate it.
我想我对它有一种荒唐的忠诚，尽管我讨厌它。
No, I don't [regret it]. It would be kind of pathetic to opt out of it. Even if it's painful, it's important.
不，我不后悔。退出会显得挺可悲的。就算痛苦，它也重要。
I don't regard myself as particularly typical of the type that I was no doubt selected to represent.
我不认为自己特别典型地代表了那个我无疑是被选来代表的类型。
The premise on which the programme was based ... was outmoded even in 1964.
这个节目立足的前提……在 1964 年就已经过时了。
The decision to come back was on a purely mercenary basis because I wanted to get some promotion for the band I played in.
回来的决定纯粹是出于利益考虑，因为我想给自己的乐队做点宣传。
A little pill of poison in my life.
我生活里的一小粒毒药。
I felt that you treated us, as women, totally different, and I didn't like it.
我觉得你对我们这些女人的态度完全不一样，我不喜欢这样。
By the time we hit 21, I thought you'd have a better idea of how the world works — you still asked us the most mundane domestic questions.
到我们 21 岁的时候，我以为你会更懂这个世界是怎么运转的——你问我们的还是最琐碎的家务问题。
When you guys pack up and leave, and I'm fairly sure we're not going to do this again, I'll feel there's a hole in things that I haven't experienced since I was six.
等你们收拾东西走了——我很确定我们不会再拍了——我会觉得生活里缺了一块，那是我六岁以来没有过的感觉。
What I always found difficult was that I was the only woman on my own and that I was being slightly got at.
我一直觉得难受的是，我是唯一一个独自面对的女人，而且有点被找茬。
To me, this is tremendously important... In my life, there's always been another episode of this coming up.
对我来说，这件事非常重要……在我的一生里，总有下一集在前面等着。
I don't know anything else that's followed people for 63 years. It's incredible.
我不知道还有什么别的东西跟拍了人 63 年。这太不可思议了。
Seeing it come to its successful conclusion, with a symmetry between seven and 70.
看着它圆满收尾，七岁和七十岁之间有了一种对称。
I never liked Michael.
我从来不喜欢迈克尔。
I felt I'd been set up to represent an outmoded class system that has no validity in the modern world.
我觉得自己被设计成了一个早已过时、在现代世界毫无根据的阶级制度的代表。
He had a sneering and somewhat supercilious manner. I didn't feel he was on my side.
他的态度讥讽、有点傲慢。我不觉得他站在我这边。
Michael Apted just wasn't interested in me as a person — he wanted the fake me, as a bogeyman.
迈克尔·阿普特德对作为一个人的我根本不感兴趣——他要的是那个假的我，一个吓唬人的反派。
There is an issue over TV and what it does to people. That was my concern with Michael and why I didn't engage from 28.
电视以及它对人做的事，这是个问题。这就是我对迈克尔的顾虑，也是我从 28 岁起不再参与的原因。
I felt he had cast everyone and they had their role to fulfil. And didn't they know it in some cases.
我觉得他给每个人都派了角色，各人有各人要演的戏。有些人对此可是心知肚明。
We had no idea really of what was going on... We'd never given consent. Our parents didn't really know what was going on. And I was stuck with two boys who, while they were perfectly nice, weren't mates of mine.
我们其实完全不知道在发生什么……我们从没同意过。我们的父母也不太清楚是怎么回事。而我被和两个男孩绑在一起，他们人是挺好，但不是我的朋友。
He just had this idea that, even at 21, we were just going to be little women in the kitchen.
他就是有这么个念头：哪怕到了 21 岁，我们也不过是些待在厨房里的小妇人。
And with that, I'm saying: done, I'm finished, over!
说完这些，我要说：完了，我拍完了，结束！
He really thought we'd all be housewives and maybe not particularly interesting.
他真的以为我们都会成为家庭主妇，而且可能没什么意思。
I'm full of pride because I do recognise it's an achievement.
我满心骄傲，因为我确实承认这是一项成就。
The one thing I have taken from this programme is that my story is special because it has been seen. Not because it is special. Just because it's been seen.
我从这个节目里得到的唯一一样东西是：我的故事是特别的，因为它被人看见了。不是因为它本身特别。只是因为它被看见了。
But the tabloids really went for me, and were quite vitriolic. I was taken aback by that, and so I left.
但小报真的冲我来了，相当恶毒。我被吓到了，所以我走了。
I really don't think there will be anything like this on TV again.
我真的不认为电视上还会有这样的东西了。
回头看
遗憾、什么最要紧、怎么被记住
I don't think I quite realised just how much she was adored by the wider community.
我想我当时并没有真正意识到，她被更大范围的社区爱到什么程度。
I am the proof that you need to push yourself and go on.
我就是那个证明：你得逼自己一把，继续往前走。
I slept in a bulldozer once. I slept in bitterly cold huts and on seats and things.
我在推土机里睡过一次。我睡过冷得刺骨的棚屋，睡过长椅之类的地方。
She was a very special person.
她是一个非常特别的人。
You need a good family. You need it for yourself and you need it to make your life whole... learn to be kind to other people and forgive them for their failings.
你需要一个好的家庭。你自己需要它，你也需要它来让人生完整……学会善待别人，原谅他们的过失。