湖边小屋：生日晚会他们相拥起舞

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本文是经典爱情电影听力系列The Lake House(湖边小屋，又叫“触不到的恋人”)的第十七段对白听力。

热闹的生日晚会，Morgan带着Kate认识了很多人，Kate却是像在应付。她不喜欢这样的场合，别人的热闹只能更加衬托出她内心的寂寞。于是，一个人远离人群，想找个地方喘喘气儿。

Alex正找机会与Kate单独相处，欲言又止的他，多想跟Kate说明一切，可是谁会相信呢？他向Kate说起那本叫做Persuasion的书，当然正是Kate丢失，而被他找到的那本。两人的话渐渐多了起来。

音乐想起，那首贯穿整部电影的This never happen before。他们开始跳舞，当然最终逃不过俗套的画面，他们接吻，却被Morgan和Mona看到……

Alex：Happy birthday. 湖边小屋：生日晚会他们相拥起舞

Kate：Thank you.

Alex：I hope it's a great year for you.

Kate：Thank you.

Alex：I'm Alex. The lake-house guy.

Kate：Oh, yeah. How you doing?

Alex：May I?

Kate：So you're gonna - You're gonna find us a place on the lake, huh?

Alex：I hope so.

Kate：Yeah.

Alex：lf I can.

Kate：You're a real-estate agent?

Alex：No, I-- I just have a lake house.

Kate：Is it nice?

Alex：Yeah, you'll love it. You're gonna rent it after I move out.

Kate：Oh, really?

Alex：Kate, have you read Persuasion?

Kate：What?

Alex：By Jane Austen.

Kate：I know who it's by. Yeah, it's...It's my favorite book. Why did you bring something like that up? What made you bring that up?

Alex：I just - a friend of mine gave it to me recently, and I was wondering what it was about.

Kate：It's... It's wonderful. Yeah.

Notes:How you doing.：这是美国口语说法。由于连读听上去是这样的。应该是How are you doing?

I hope so.：希望如此。 move out：搬出

Persuasion：说服，说服力。这里指Jane Austen简-奥斯汀的小说《劝导》。

Alex：Yeah. It's about....

Kate：About waiting. These two people, they...they...they meet. They almost fall in love, but the timing isn't right. They...they have to part. And then... years later, they...they meet again. They get another chance. You know, but they don't know if too much time has passed. lf they waited too long, if it's...you know, too late to make it work.

Alex：Why do you like that?

Kate：I don't know.

Alex：Don't get me wrong. It's beautiful in a kind of...

Kate：No, it's terrible.

Alex：It's terrible. That's terrible.

Kate：It's terrible.

Alex：That's...

Kate：Yeah, it's...that's terrible.

Alex：It's a personal question...but have you ever been through anything like that?

Kate：Me? No. No, no.

Alex：No.

Kate：When I was...When I was 16...I was completely in love with this guy. He played guitar...and I ran away from home... and went to San Francisco so I could go live with him. Yeah, he convinced me I had a beautifuI voice...and I dreamed of becoming a singer.

Alex：I love San Francisco.

Kate：Yeah, he was... He was my first love. Probably the only one.

Alex：He must have been a great guy.

Kate：I don't... I don't know, I...He may have been. lt didn't last long enough for me to find out. Yeah. Truth is, I...I can't even remember what he looked like.

Alex：Really?

Kate：Yeah.

Alex：Then that's too bad.

Kate：My dad... My dad showed up, actually.

Alex：You were in trouble.

Kate：He came in. Yeah, I was in trouble. He yanked me back to Chicago. Yeah. And he was sick, and he...He had these...these dreams of me becoming a doctor, you know? You know, and eventually, they became my dreams too. He was right. You know, I...I feel good helping people. Then he died.

Alex：Kate. 湖边小屋：生日晚会他们相拥起舞