翻譯練習：Jeremy Renner / Esquire Magazine 201208 封面故事《II》

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Each Time Slightly Bigger, Slightly Braver



一點一滴不著痕跡的累積：
多一次經驗，就多一分成長，也多一分無畏

BY CHRIS JONES   // July 2, 2012, 12:07 AM

Esquire雜誌八月號，封面故事。零貳。



《II》


Renner parks outside 7777 Hollywood Boulevard. He lived in this little collection of apartments, in a studio on the ground floor, for five years, back in his karaoke days. It remains the longest he has lived anywhere since he was a child. It wasn't his original Hollywood address, when he first moved here from Modesto in pursuit of the usual dreams — that was 1635 Formosa Avenue, which, at the time, was a pretty sketchy little spot. (Renner remembers walking out his door one morning and stepping over a man who was lying prone on the sidewalk, in the gun sights of a couple of cops.) But 7777 Hollywood Boulevard was his launching pad. His friends took over all the apartments in the building — "It was like Melrose Place," he says — and mostly things went well for him here, even though he was broke, and even though he struggled to get work during the day and spent his nights howling at Barney's Beanery. He was living in this apartment when he got his first significant part, in 2002, playing the true-life cannibal serial killer in Dahmer. It was a small movie, shot quickly, but people who were drawn to it were really drawn to it. That's when Renner first started being recognized on the street; unfortunately, it was by the sorts of people who might connect with a murderer who kept the heads of young men in his fridge.


好萊塢大道7777號，Renner把車停在這裡：一棟佔地不大的綜合公寓大樓。這裡曾經是他的棲身之所，他在一樓的工作室住了五年，度過他的卡拉OK酒吧年代；也是當年那個大男孩待最久的定點。這並不是一開始他登記的好萊塢住址，那個離鄉背井尋夢的男孩在大城市的第一個落腳處是福爾摩莎大街1635號，那個年代最簡略的居所。(Renner還記得某天早上一打開門一個男人趴躺在門口，他得跨過他才能出門，窗外看去，樓下一排拿著槍瞄準這裡的警察。)


而好萊塢大道7777號是他活動的主要場所，他的事業起點。


他和朋友們租下整棟公寓大樓。－－「就像《Melrose Place》演的那樣。」他說－－而他在這裡渡過的時光大多是愉快的，雖然當時他處於一無所有的破產狀態，過著白天努力在演藝圈內掙扎，辛酸苦楚只能發洩在晚上Barney's Beanery酒吧的歌聲嘶吼中。


2002年，他在真人真事改編的紀錄電影《Dahmer》演出食人連環殺手主角時，居所就是這棟公寓。那是部小成本電影，在很短的時間內趕著拍攝完成，但對它有興趣的人一看了就會深深被它的魅力吸引。它也建立起Renner的名聲，他開始在街上被認出來了；不過，不幸的是，這些會在街上叫出他名字的粉絲們，大多感興趣的對象是那個會把年輕情人的頭放在冰箱裡保存的殺人魔。


*Merlose Place：電視劇，1992演到1999，IMDB ；感覺像Friends那樣的東西？
*Formosa Avenue 1635！！(懂的人就知道我在激動什麼XD)
*Dahmer，本人相關資料，既然剛好譯到這段的時候看到了就存一下連結。其實電影還拍得滿紀實的…？就是紀錄片模式。


The hot girl who bit Renner deep into his arm, sending him to the hospital for shots, was only his second-weirdest encounter with admirers. The weirdest was an older man, maybe in his sixties, who started popping up a little too often in the places Renner hung out back then: in the coffee shop around the corner, at the record store. The man kept saying, Gee, what a lucky thing this is, running into each other like this, maybe it's a sign, maybe we should go get a drink, and Renner always demurred, never really thinking all that much more about the guy and his repeated appearances.

於是千奇百怪的粉絲出現在Renner的生活中，那個狠狠在手臂上咬他一口，讓他得去醫院挨一針破傷風的火辣美女還不是最奇怪的，頂多只能排第二。最奇怪的是一位老先生，年紀大概六十多歲，時不時在Renner常去的轉角咖啡店冒出來，出現得有點太頻繁。每次碰上Renner，他就會說：看，我們多幸運啊，又碰上彼此了。不覺得這是告訴我們什麼嗎？像冥冥中的註定那樣，或許我們應該坐下來一起喝點什麼，聊聊天吧？而Renner每次都客氣的拒絕了。他當時也沒多想什麼，雖然這人老在他跟前晃來晃去，但他沒認真注意。



It wasn't until the man showed up outside Renner's apartment that the truth began to register. Renner was walking his dog, and the man bumped into him: Here we are again, can you believe it? Do you live around here? Renner said, Oh, no, just walking the dog. Once again, the man asked Renner to go for a drink. And this time, when Renner said thanks but no thanks, the man got upset. He started yelling. Renner hustled away, walking his dog all through those streets, around corners and behind hedgerows, blocks out of his way, before he finally decided he had lost the man, and he returned to his home.

然後某天這老人出現在Renner的公寓前，事情開始讓他覺得不對勁了。當時Renner正打算帶他的狗去散步，這老人突然出現在他面前。你看我們又見面了，你能相信這樣的緣份嗎？你住在這附近嗎？Renner回答：沒有，我只是溜狗路過這裡。然後老人再度邀請他一起喝點東西，而當這次Renner說：謝謝你的好意，但是不用了。老人惱羞成怒似的開始大喊大叫。Renner嚇了一跳，迅速帶著狗離開，他特意繞了遠遠一大圈，看到陌生的轉角和樹籬就拐彎，隱藏他的真正路線。最後他確定已經甩掉那個老人了，才轉回公寓。



He was sitting at his computer when he heard a noise outside on his patio. It was a coffee mug, crashing to the ground. Renner thought his dog or maybe his cat — he had a cat then named Milo — had knocked it over. He went outside to investigate. And there was the man. There was the man, and he had Milo in his hands. "He had my cat tucked like a football, under his arm," Renner says, sitting in his Porsche all these years later. Renner was stunned, frozen in a kind of low-level shock. The man bolted into the street. Renner gave chase, but before he could catch him, the man jumped into a car and squealed away. The man was gone, and so was Milo. Renner never saw either of them ever again.

晚上，當他坐下來用電腦時，聽到庭院傳來不大尋常的聲響：一個咖啡杯砰一聲摔到地上。Renner一開始以為是他的狗，或他的貓－－他也養了隻叫Milo的貓－－碰倒的，他走向庭院打算檢查，一打開門看到的卻是那個老人。那個老人站在那裡，手裡抓著他的Milo。「他把我的貓塞成一團夾在手臂下，好像牠是一顆足球。」Renner描述，在過了這麼多年後，坐在他的保時捷裡回想起這段依舊心有餘悸。當時他嚇呆了，腳生了根似的凍結在原地。老人轉身拔腿就跑，Renner一路追他到街上，但在他還沒追到之前，老人鑽進一旁的車裡，迅速開走了，留下他和迴蕩的引擎聲。老人，以及Milo就此消失在他的生命裡，Renner再也沒看到他們任何一個。


"I hope Milo had a good life," he says today, firing his engine back up. "I hope he didn't end up as that guy's dinner."

「我希望Milo過得好，平平安安的。」重新發動他的保時捷，Renner說：「我希望他不會出現在那人的晚餐桌上。」

*He，所以Milo是男生www 以巧克力飲料命名的男生(喂)


We'll never know whether Milo the cat ended up in a patch of sunlight or in a pot on the stove. All Renner learned for sure is that accidents aren't always accidents.

Milo的貓生結局是在不知名的某地曬太陽，還是在某個爐子上的鍋子裡，我們永遠沒辦法知道了。我們可以知道的是Renner紮紮實實的學到了一課：所有的意外不見得都是單純的巧合。




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Milo！！！QAQ！！！！！！！！！！！

這篇可以寫成小說了。我認真的。XDDDDD
然後這男人窮到破產的時候還是又養貓又養狗。wwww
而且他好重情。所有的愛都給了動物XD

以後如果有機會去好萊塢，知道要去路過哪裡看一下了。(喂)
保時捷好搶戲wwww 誰要支援圖(？！)





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嚴禁不知會我轉走。


推廣我很歡迎，但是不要不告訴我，不附出處，無斷轉載。
所有我要求的，也不過就是告訴我一聲而已。請維持最基本的尊重。