品尝葡萄酒是贯穿整部电影的一个主题。就像女主角Maya说的，

每一瓶酒都是一个生命，像每个人的生命一样。我们看这段对话：

Miles Raymond: Why are you into wine?

Maya: Oh I... I think I... I originally got in to wine through my ex-hu*****and.

Miles Raymond: Ah.

Maya: You know, he had this big, sort of show-off cellar, you know.

Miles Raymond: Right.

Maya: But then I discovered that I had a really sharp palate.

Miles Raymond: Uh-huh.

Maya: And the more I drank, the more I liked what it made me think about.

Miles Raymond: Like what?

Maya: Like what a fraud he was.

[Miles laughs softly]

Maya: No, I- I like to think about the life of wine.

Miles Raymond: Yeah.

Maya: How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline.

Miles Raymond: Hmm.

Maya: And it tastes so fxxking good.

在Maya看来，品酒就是品味人生，一瓶葡萄酒随时间发生的变化成了一个人人生的形象写照。还有这段Miles关于Pinot的描述也适用于人：



人生都有幼稚和成熟，高潮和低谷，衰老和死亡，就像酒一样，从这点上说，我觉得杯酒人生这个翻译还是很高明，很深刻的。

所有跟帖： 

• 这是Miles那段话的文本： -我是瓦伦铁诺- ♂ (1009 bytes) () 11/10/2009 postreply 14:26:56

• 还是您老深刻啊， 我就只记得Maya那最后一句 :) -CatcherInTheRye- ♂ (40 bytes) () 11/10/2009 postreply 14:29:32

• 不是我深刻，是这片子我看了太多遍了，精彩的地方都记住了。呵呵。 -我是瓦伦铁诺- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/10/2009 postreply 14:32:56