except: 除了
当然我的守护神除外，对我们来说最好的事就是顺其自然。
Sit down, Gentlemen.
请坐，先生们。
-Pan: Who's she?
她是谁?
-Lyra: Don't know, but she shut up the Master, alright.
shut up: 闭嘴
不知道，但她已经让院长闭嘴了。
-Headmaster: Mrs. Coulter, this is our Lyra, Lyra Belaqua, Lord Asriel's niece.
Coulter夫人，这位是Lyra，Lyra Belaqua, Asrier勋爵的侄女。
Lyra, this is Mrs. Coulter, a friend of the college.
Lyra，这位是Coulter夫人，学校的一位朋友。
-Mrs. Coulter: Lovely to meet you.
很高兴见到你。
-Lyra: Lovely to meet you, too.
很高兴见到您。
- Mrs. Coulter: You know, I've met Lord Asriel? It was at the Royal Arctic Institute.
royal: 皇家的 arctic: 北极圈 institute: 学院
你知道吗，我见过Asrier勋爵?那是在皇家北极学院。
We discussed the political structure of the Ice bears of Svalbard.
discuss: 讨论 political structure: 政治结构 political: 政治的 structure: 结构，组织
我们讨论了住在Svalbard群岛的冰雪之熊的政治组织结构。
-Lyra: You've seen an Ice bear?
你见过冰雪之熊?
- Mrs. Coulter: As the matter of fact, I have had an audience with the Bear king himself, Ragnar Stursson.
audience: 观众
事实上，我曾经亲耳听过熊王本人讲话，Ragnar Stursson本人。
And I'll tell you something I probably shouldn't:
我再告诉你点儿小秘密，
King Ragnar is desperate to have a daemon of his own.
desperate: 极度渴望的
Ragnar国王迫不及待地想拥有自己的守护神呢。
And Ragnar likes to think of himself as a person.
person: 个人，人，人称
大家都看得出来，而且，喜欢把自己当成人类。
And he will stop at nothing to get one.
stop at nothing: 不惜一切代价
他真的是很渴望能有一个。
But you mustn't repeat that.
repeat: 重复，重做
你可不要和别人讲。
-Lyra: Oh, I'd never!
哦，不会的!
-Mrs. Coulter: I feel I can trust you. I have to go back to the north very soon.
trust: 信任，相信
我觉得我可以相信你。我很快就要回北边去了。
I'm going to need an assistant.
assistant: 助手
我大概需要个助手。
-Lyra: Me? Got to the North?
我么?去北边?
-Pan: North? It's cold up there.
北边?那儿可冷了。
- Mrs. Coulter: We'd better get the Master's permission.
permission: 允许
我们最好得到院长的允许。
Master, I was wondering if I might borrow dear Lyra?
wonder: 疑惑，怀疑
院长，我想问下能不能借用一下亲爱的Lyra?
Only for a while, of course.
当然了，就一阵儿。
-Headmaster: I'm not sure that would be consistent with Lord Asriels wishes for her education.
be consistent with: 与……相一致 consistent: 和谐的，一致的
我不知道那样做是不是和Asrier勋爵希望她能接受教育的意愿相一致。
-Mrs. Coulter: I'll deal with Asriel.
deal with: 处理，对待
我会去和Asrier谈的。
You mustn't deny me this little thing, you really mustn't.
deny: 否认，拒绝
你不该拒绝我的小小要求的，真的不该。
-Headmaster: Very well.
好吧。
-Billy: A bet's a bet. Lyra was supposed to show up with the gown.
bet: 打赌 show up: 出现 gown: 长袍
敢做敢当，Lyra本该穿着长袍来的。
-Roger: I told you they wouldn't let her out of the college.
我跟你说过的，他们是不会让她出学校的。
-Billy: Which one is her room?
哪个是她的房间?
-Roger: What are you gonna do?
你要干啥?
-Billy: Give her a fright, that's what.
fright: 惊吓，惊骇
吓她一下，仅此而已。
-Roger: If we get caught, I'll be skinned alive.
skinned alive: 严厉申斥
要是我们被捉住了，肯定得被搞死。
The night pool is bound to be going his rounds.
be bound to: 将要 rounds: 巡视
晚上守卫会巡视到这里的。
-Billy: Ratter, check if the coast is clear.
check: 检查，查看 coast: 海岸，沿岸
Ratter，去看看有什么情况没。
It's all clear.
没人。
-Roger: Billy! Billy!
Billy! Billy!
-Man: The scholars still refuse to hand over the last alethiomether.
refuse: 拒绝 hand over: 交出 alethiomether: 真理仪
学者们还是拒绝交出最后一个真理探测仪。
And now they've given Asriel all the funds he needs.
funds: 资金
现在他们又给了Asrier充足的研究经费。
If he succeeds in proving the existence of these other worlds it will contradict centuries of teaching.
succeed: 成功 prove: 证明 existence: 存在 contradict: 反驳否定
如果他能够成功地证明另外那些世界的存在，几千年来的教诲就要被推翻了。
There will always be free thinkers, and heretics.
heretic: 异教徒
总有一些自由思想者，和异教徒。
Unless we deal with the root of the problem. That is why Mrs. Coulter's work is so important.
unless: 除非 root: 根部，根本 problem: 问题 important: 重要的
除非我们能从根本上解决问题，这就是为什么Mrs. Coulter的工作非常重要。
What progress has she made?
progress: 进展，进程
她有哪些进展了?
-Another man: The doctors at Bolvanger are close to perfecting the inoculation against the effects of Dust.
perfect: 使……完美 inoculation: 免疫接种 effect: 效果，影响
Bolvanger的大夫们已经快要研制出来免疫尘埃效应的疫苗了。
-Man: I am relieved to hear that.
relieved: 放心的
听到那个我很欣慰。
If we can protect our children from the corrupting influence of Dust, before their daemons settled,
protect: 保护 corrupting: 使恶化 influence: 影响 daemon: 守护神
如果我们能够在孩子们的守护神定型之前，阻止尘埃对他们的影响。
We will nurture a generation at peace with itself.
nurture: 养育 generation: 一代人，一代 peace: 和平
那么我们就可以培养出平和的一代人。
