西部风云

Somebody's got to be.
总得有人当啊
Might as well be the fellow who can provide for all.
最好还是能提供给大家这一切的人
A wagon train is like a passenger ship on a lonely prairie ocean.
一个马车车队就好比是航行 在孤独大草原海洋上的客轮
Always a captain on a ship.
船上总会有一名船长
We need rules, standards.Organization, young man.
我们需要规矩 标准和组织 年轻人
Everyone needs a task.
每人都有任务
Jethro, they got a members' council...
叶忒罗 他们有一个成员议会
to report to captain.
"向队长汇报工作"...
Ten dollar tax per person?
每人10块税钱吗？
Moral clause?
道义上的？
As the saying goes,when alien peoples meet,
俗话说 当异族人碰面后
first they fight,and then they fornicate.
首先他们打仗 接着他们就互相通婚了
We need to preserve our dignity,our civilized ways.
我们需要维护尊严 证明我们是文明人
Can't let savagery infect us.
不能让那些野蛮人影响我们
We intend to sit out the rains,depart come spring.
我们决定避开雨季 不等这个春天就出发
That way we beat winter in the Sierras.
这样的话我们就要在山岭上熬过冬天
Well.
好吧
Come see me if you have questions at Colonel Noland's hotel and tavern.
如果还有什么问题去诺兰上校的客栈找我
What about Missouri?
那密苏里州呢？
We're in Missouri.
我们就在密苏里州
The land is rich.
这里土地肥沃
There are plenty of people, farms,settlements.
有许多的人 农场和定居地
Why not stay here?
为什么不留在这里呢？
lt's swamp country.
这里全是沼泽
Malaria, pestilence.
到处有疟疾和瘟疫
Don't want it. Don't need it.
应该避而远之
No fever in California.
在加州就不会感冒
l heard of one fellow talking,
我听一个人讲
said folks routinely live 150, 200 years in California,climate's so good.
他说那里气候宜人 人通常可以活150到200岁
Folderol!
胡说八道
Nobody can live that long.
没人能活那么长时间
One old coot they said was 250 years old,
有一个傻瓜据说活了250年
and he'd had enough.Decided he wanted to die.
他活得真的很长并且自己决定何时死掉
What'd they do,feed him Mexican food?
他们是怎么做到的 给他吃墨西哥饭吗？
There's an argument to be made for Oregon.
有人说俄勒冈州才是最好的地方
At least they speak English.
至少那里的人都说英语
True.
没错
Who's gonna talk Spaniard when we get to California?
我们到加州后谁能同西班牙人交流呢？
You, Jacob?
你行么 雅各布？
Those dons are educated.
那些西班牙人都受过教育
They speak English.
他们都能说英语
California or bust!
加州在此一举
Didn't tell me you were a coopersmith.
你可没说你还是个铜匠
We're obliged to the proprietors for letting us use the shop,
我们求这里的老板借我们这个地方用用
make another wagon for the journey.
为远征造一架马车
We're wheelwrights.
我们是车轮匠
My brother, Jethro.
那是我的弟弟 叶忒罗
Next to pilots and lndian fighters,
除了向导和抵抗印第安人袭击的人以外
there's few things as crucial to the success of a train
还有些人对车队至关重要
as a skilled wheelwright.
比如车轮匠
You hadn't come by Noland's.
你没去诺兰客栈找我
We intend to leave in a matter of days.
我们打算几天后就出发
How many wagons?
多少架马车？
Eighteen.
18架
l've hired a pilot named Josiah Bell.
我雇用了一个叫做约西亚·贝尔的向导
He ran with Fitzpatrick,trapping beaver, fighting lndians.
他跟随费兹帕特里克捕过海狸 抗击过印第安人
He's been everywhere.
他去过很多地方
He's got two scouts with him.
还带着两个手下
lncluding the others,we have 22 armed men.
算上其他人 我们有22人可以参战
Oh, yeah?
是么？
Horses or oxen?
赶的是马还是牛？
Horses and mules.
马和骡子
Think those wheels can handle the trail?
你说这些轮子能够应付远征么？
l expect so.
我想可以
They're iron tires.Two and a half inches bolted.
两个半英寸的铁圈用螺栓固定
Well, that's a substantial wagon.
这马车可真够结实的
Conestoga, we call it.
我们称之为康尼斯·托格马车
Well seasoned wood,falling tongues, well steeled skeins.
上好的木材 优质的簧片和精铁打造的轴套箍
What about extra axles?
备用车轴是干什么用的？
Can't do without 'em.
那是必不可少的
Tires buckle, wagon tongues snap,front axles fail.
轮子变形 簧片断裂 前轴损坏都缺不了它
Lower half of the wagon, Mr. Hoxie,
霍西先生 几乎所有的问题
that's where all your problems are.
都出现在马车的下半部分
The running gear, we call it.
我们称之为传动装置
We can sure use folks like you on this journey.
我们肯定这次远征需要你们
l've got a part time coopersmith half assed wainwright.
我可以做铜匠 也可以帮修马车
But no wheelwrights.
看来干不了车轮匠了
Well, we sure would love to come, only...
我们真的很愿意和您一起远征
we don't have $80.
但我们没有80块钱...
l'll loan you.
我可以借给你
Won't be indebted either.
也不想欠债
Then what?
那怎么办？
Well, you pay for the extra axles,
如果您可以买♥♥下备用车轴
spokes and tongues and heavy equipment.
辐条 簧片和其他装备
Me and Jethro's labor for the journey will come to about $80.l reckon.
并且我和叶忒罗在路上负责维修 我想应该值80块
Don't you figure, Jethro?
你说呢 叶忒罗？
Right about 80, brother.
80块刚刚好 老兄
Yes, sir.
是的 先生
And so the Wheeler party rolled out of lndependence,
于是惠勒家的马车队从独♥立♥城启程
headin' west northwest on Hoxie's train.
与霍西的车队向西北方向前进
Wagon master Hoxie was a regular Napoleon of the plains.
马车主霍西就像是平原上的拿破仑
Wanted everybody to call him ''Captain''even though he'd never been near a uniform.
即使他从未穿过军装也要求大家都叫他队长
His hired pilot was a frontiersman by the name of Josiah Bell.
他雇佣的向导是一个叫约西亚·贝尔的来自边疆的人
And there were two scouts,Meeks and Skate.
他有两个手下—米克斯和斯格特
Bonnets.
瞧 小妞
l'd seen their kind before:
我以前见过像他们这种人
rough hewn boys, chawbacons.
粗俗无礼的乡巴佬
Come west not for adventure or riches or exploration,
来西部不是为了冒险 发财或探路
but for women and whiskey.
而是为了女人和威士忌
And God only knows what they were running from.
天知道他们以后会怎样
With us was Hobbs,
和我们在一起的是霍布斯家
a German preacher who claimed also to be a doctor.
一个德国的传教士同时声称也是一位医生
He led us in prayer when we departed lndependence,
在我们离开独♥立♥城的那天为我们主持祷告
asking the Lord's guidance and protection from disease,
祈求上帝的指引 让我们远离疾病
accidents, beasts of prey and wild heathens.
灾害 野兽以及野蛮人
When he said the last, he was staring straight at Thunder Heart Woman.
当他说出最后一个词的时候 眼睛直盯着雷霆之心
She didn't pay him no mind.
她也没有视而不见
Form up the wagons,tight as possible.
让车队尽可能的靠近些
Form 'em up
靠近些！
You hear that?Tighten up!
听到没有？！
Tighten up!
靠近些！
驭！
Up here.
过来
My God, Rachel.
天啊 雷切尔
How many do you think there are?
你觉得有多少只啊？
Too many to count,l'll tell you that.
我只能告诉你不计其数
They're beautiful.
真漂亮
l can feel their breath.
我都能感到他们的呼吸
Our first sighting of a buffalo herd
我们第一次见到野牛群的时候
was a memorable moment for all.
对于我们大家来说都是一个值得纪念的时刻
l'd seen it before,but l was still in awe...
虽然我以前见过 但还是充满敬畏
sheer dumbstruck awe.
被彻底地征服了...
Why'd you have to do that?
你为什么要那么做啊？
lt's meat, ma'am.
我们需要肉 女士
You got something against meat?
你对肉有意见么？
What'd we bring cattle for, then?
那我们带的牛是干什么用的？
Killin' them saves cattle for the journey.
这样牛就可以节省下来以后再用了
Believe it or not,
信不信由你 女士
there'll be spots where game is scarce.
当猎物缺乏的时候 牛就派上用场了
Even buffalo.
即使是野牛也不是每天都出现的
What's that?