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Charlie: Excuse me. I'm sorry to interrupt, but are you the Secretaries of Juliet?
(Yes, that's us.)
Charlie: Great. May I ask, which one of you wrote this letter to my grandmother, Claire Smith?
Sophie: I wrote that. And I can't believe that it found you.
Charlie: Yes. We Brits tend to stay in our family homes.
Sophie: Yeah. This is amazing. It's less than a week since I mailed it.
Charlie: It was a very thoughtful letter. Now, what were you thinking?
Sophie: I was thinking that she deserved an answer.
Charlie: Yeah, 50 years ago, maybe. Not now.
Sophie: I'm sorry. I didn't know true love had an expiration date.
Charlie: True love? Are you joking? Could you imagine what would've happened if she hadn't seen sense?
Sophie: Well, yeah, you wouldn't be here, and that would be an upside.
Charlie: What are you doing here anyway? What, are you some lonely American girl who has to live vicariously through others?
Sophie: I'm not lonely. I am engaged.
Charlie: My condolences to the groom.
Sophie: Excuse me! So that's it? You've come all the way from London to give me a lecture?
Charlie: No, I came because I couldn't let my grandmother come on her own.
Sophie: Claire is here? Why?
Charlie: I think even you might be able to work that one out.
Sophie: Oh, my God! That's awesome! She's come to find her Lorenzo!
Charlie: Awesome? And if Lorenzo doesn't want to see her, has forgotten her, is gravely ill or dead, let's say, just for fun, then what? Thought so.
Sophie: I want to meet her. I'd like to meet Claire.
Charlie: And I want to play for Manchester United, but I'm shit at football.
Sophie: You don't think that she wants to meet me?
Charlie: I honestly think she has no interest meeting a woman that can manage to jam "Oh, my God" and "awesome" into the same sentence.
美國女孩Sophie隨男友到意大利，卻因為男友心系工作只能自己閑逛。百無聊賴的蘇菲在意大利維羅納的鄉間一堵許愿墻里發現了一封五十年前一個名叫Claire的女孩寫給朱麗葉的信。Sophie覺得應該鼓勵Claire重尋舊愛，于是寫信給Claire。沒想到信很快被收到，Claire趕到了意大利。只是Claire的孫子認為這完全是荒唐之旅，但又不放心奶奶一個人前往，于是陪同左右。但心里的氣兒卻非得找人撒才行，于是有了上面的對話。
雖然寫了信，但并不確定the letter could find you. 信件郵寄到，能收到，特別是在對地址不確定的情況下能收到，我們常用the letter finds sb. 來表示。不過，對于這樣的驚詫Chailie 有些嘲諷的說，Brits tend to stay in our family homes. Brits是British的縮略形式。Tend to，傾向于。句子意思是“我們英國人一般不會輕易搬家。”事實也的確如此。
Charlie對Sophie寫信的事兒萬分不理解，認為這完全不理智，后面的對話也解釋了原因，假如對方不再記得自己的奶奶了呢，假如他病重或者已經死了呢，這都將對Claire造成傷害。但Sophie認為Claire那么真誠的寫了那封信，就deserve an answer。deserve, 應得，值得收到回復。特別是，Sophie本人就是一個真愛至上的女孩兒，她認為真愛是沒有an expiration date，有效期限的。
對于“真愛”一說，Charlie是嗤之以鼻，相信不少人也持有和Charlie一樣的態度。Charlie希望奶奶根本沒收到這封信，但實際上收到了，所以對話中用到了虛擬語氣would have happened，沒收到信的話可能會發生什么。
對接二連三的嘲諷Sophie也不示弱，反擊說，如果沒收到信，至少有一個upside, upside作名詞講時有“糟糕局面中好的一面”的意思。也就是，至少有一個好處，you wouldn't be here. 你不會出現在這兒。
兩個人間的針鋒相對還在繼續，Charlie嘲諷Sophie需要live vi‘cariously through others。Vicariously, 間接的感受到。Charlie認為寫這樣信的人都是孤單，無聊，需要借由給別人寫這種信，或者借由別人的感情故事來排解。不過，Sophie告訴他，I’m engaged, 我不孤獨，我有未婚夫。刻薄的Charlie隨即說，My con‘dolences to the groom. Condolence，哀悼，吊唁。My condolences to someone向某某人表示哀悼。這里是諷刺，幽默的表達法。
在得知Claire已經來到了意大利后，Sophie高興地請求見上一面，但被Charlie又一次以嘲諷的方式拒絕。你想見Claire? 我還想為曼聯效力呢，可惜的是I'm shit at football. Be shit at，shit有“蹩腳的表現”之意。也就是not good at, do bad in. 在某方面不擅長，做的不好。這句話也影射出Charlie對Sophie的偏見。甚至連Sophie在得知Claire到來的消息后情不自禁的驚嘆Oh, my God! That's awesome! 都成了罪狀。因為她將二者jam在了一個句子中。Jam，本意是果醬，這里用作動詞，表示“塞，擠”。
心存偏見的時候看什么都不順眼。不過接下來共同尋找Lorenzo的過程中，Charlie卻漸漸懂得了Sophie，也開始喜歡上了這個希望能擁有真愛，并勇敢追求真愛的女孩兒。下一期里，五十年后重逢的Claire和Lorenzo舉行了婚禮，婚禮上，Claire用Sophie寫給她的信作為了自己的婚禮感言。信的內容，我們留到下期一同欣賞吧。
