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What I'm anxious to do really is to try to tell you
我急于想要去给你们说的是
a little bit about the origin of these scenes.
这些场景的来源
but the difference between writing the book
还有写书
and then going on to television,
与拍电视的区别
the first thing of course to notice is that
首先在于电视上
it's the television screen play.
播出的长度
It's about, I don't know, quarter, fifth as long as a book.
大约相当于1/4或1/5书的长度，我不太确定
The last book I wrote The Remorseful Day is 450 pages,
我最近的一本书，懊悔的一天，有450页
and the television lasts, you think it lasts two hours, don't you?
你肯定认为拍成电视剧有两小时，是吧?
But it doesn't.
但是没有
If it's on ITV, you don't have a 120 minutes,
如果是在独立电视台，不会是120分钟
you have a 102 minutes.
而是102分钟
Because you have all the adverts coming in the middle.
因为所有的广告插在中间播出
and all the credits at the beginning, all of them,
全部的演职员名单放在开头
you are left for 102 minutes,
最后只剩下102分钟
and therefore, something have to give way and sometimes it's rather sad,
因此，必须舍弃一些东西，有时很让人伤心
especially if somebody's particularly proud of what they've written.
特别是那些对自己作品尤为自豪的人
I know perfectly well that I never let anybody read my books at all
我很清楚，我从不让谁读我的书
until they went to the publisher who looks after me at MacMillan.
除非他们去麦克米伦出版社找我的出版商
And I know once I've been to Lyme Regis,
记得有一次我去了莱姆里吉斯
do you know Lyme Regis? Yes?
你们知道那里吗?
It's a lovely place, isn't it?
很漂亮的地方，是吧?
And I booked a room, looking over Lyme bay
我订了个房间，可以俯瞰莱姆湾
there the waves always came in left to right as you looked at them,
可以看到海浪总是从左向右而入
and the seagulls squawked by outside window,
海鸥在窗外大声叫着
and they looked at you, do you remember
它们看着你，你们记得
in those pictures of the Japanese bombers of came along Ummmm,
图片中的日本轰炸机吗，它们呜呜地飞过
and did their wings in the wind and the foam came back,
海鸥张开翅膀，在风中翱翔
very slowly, up to beach, lovely,
浪花轻轻地拍打着海滩，很美
and I try to do the best I could.
我努力写到最好
