1. i like that. that i can live by.

　　a) 我喜歡那樣，我應付得來。

　　2. you get me up on that gangway and you rill out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end.

　　a) 走過跳板，前面的鍵盤有無數(shù)的琴鍵。

　　3. that's the truth, max, they never end. that keyboard is infinite.

　　a) 事實如此，無窮無盡，鍵盤無限大。

　　4. and if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play.

　　a) 無限大的鍵盤，怎奏得出音樂?

　　5. aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? the enormity of it.

　　a) 思前想后，你不怕精神崩潰?那樣的日子怎么過?

　　6. i was born on this ship, and the world passed me by.

　　a) 我生于船，長與船，世界千變萬化

　　7. but XX people at a time, and there were wishes here.

　　a) 這艘船每次只載客兩千，既載人，有載夢想。

　　8. all that city you just couldn't see an end to it.

　　a) 城市那么大，看不到盡頭。

　　9. the end? please? can you please just show me where it ends?

　　a) 盡頭在哪里?可以給我看看盡頭么?

　　10. it was all very final on that gangway and i was grant too in my over coat. i cut quite a figure, and i was getting off, guaranteed. that wasn't the problem.

　　a) 當年，我踏上跳板，不覺得困難。我穿上大衣，很神氣，自覺一表人才，有決心，有把握，有信心。

　　11. it wasn't what i saw that stopped me, max, it was what i didn't see. do you understand that? what i didn't see.

　　a) 我停下來，不是因為所見，是因為所不見。你明不明白?是因為看不見的東西。

　　12. in all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. there was no end.

　　a) 連綿不絕的城市，什么都有，除了盡頭，沒有盡頭。

　　13. what i did not see was where the whole thing came to an end, the end of the world.

　　a) 我看不見城市的盡頭，我需要看見世界盡頭。

　　14. you are sitting on the wrong bench. that's god's piano.

　　a) 不是給凡人奏得，是給上帝奏得。

　　15. you are infinite. and on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite.

　　a) 音樂是無限的。在琴鍵上，奏出無限的音樂

　　16. but never more than fit between prow and stern.

　　a) 但范圍離不開船頭與船尾之間。

　　17. christ! did you see the streets? just the street-----there were thousands of them.

　　a) 唉!只是街道，已經(jīng)好幾千條。

　　18. how do you do it down there? how do you choose just one?

　　a) 上了岸，何去何從?

　　19. one woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. all that world just weighing down on you. you don't even know where it comes to an end.

　　a) 愛一個女人，住一間屋子，買一塊地，望一個景，走一條死路。太多選擇，我無所適從，漫無止境，茫茫無際。

　　20. take a piano, hmm? the keys begin, the keys end. you know there are 88 of them. nobody can tell you different. they are not infinite

　　a) 拿鋼琴來說，鍵盤有始也有終。有88個鍵，錯不了，并不是無限的。

　　21. you played put your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite! i learned to live that way.

　　a) 在有限的鋼琴上，我自得其樂，我過慣那樣的日子。