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Smile. Here we go.
笑一笑 我要拍了
He took a good look at what he had accomplished,
他好好看了一眼 他的作品
got rip-roaring drunk for 10 days,
然后喝了10天酒 喝得爛醉如泥
thought seriously about setting it on fire,
鄭重考慮了一番 是不是要一把火把房子燒了
then finally put the house up for sale.
最后，決定把房子掛牌出售
I'm prepared to offer you this much.
我準備出這個價
He had a number of interested buyers,
有很多人對他的房子感興趣
but he always found a reason not to sell it to them.
但他總是能找到不賣的理由
No.
不行
Either the bids were too low,
或者是因為出價太低
or if they met his asking price,
或者，即使出價達到了他的要求
he felt it was worth a lot more.
他又覺得應該值更多錢
It's a lot of money, but I'll take it.
這可是一大筆錢 不過我買下了
$50,000.
5萬美元
- That's more than my asking price. - That's right.
- 比我的要價高 - 沒錯
It's a great deal more.
這種買賣上哪兒找去
He told the man that offered him $5,000 over his price
他告訴這個多出了5千美元的人
that no one in his right mind would do that
說沒有哪個腦子正常的人會這么做
and he wouldn't have a lunatic living in his house.
還說他不會讓一個瘋子住在他的房子里
He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning.
他每天早上都在小河上消磨時光
And in the evenings, to temper the sting of loneliness,
晚上 能稍微撫平他孤獨的刺痛的
there was Martha Shaw.
則是瑪莎·肖
