Forrest: Hello. My name's Forrest. Forrest Gump. You wanna chocolate. I could eat about a million and a half of these. My mama always said "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get ." Those must be comfortable shoes. I bet¹ you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that.

Woman: My feet hurt.

Forrest: Mama always said "There's an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes." Where they're going. Where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they would take me anywhere. She said they were my magic shoes.

Doctor: Alright, Forrest. Open your eyes now. Let's take a little walk around. How do they feel? His legs are strong, Mrs. Gump. As strong as I've ever seen. But his back is as crooked² as a politician. But we're going to straighten him right up now, aren't we, Forrest?

Mrs.Gump: Forrest!

Forrest: Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related³ to him in some way and what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes⁴ and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around. Anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump. Mama said the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense.

妙词佳句，活学活用

1. Wanna = want to, want a, do you want to

这里是美语缩读之一，美国人在日常生活中频繁的使用缩读，这也造成很多学习者的困惑。比如你想知道你的朋友是否愿意跳舞，就可以说：Wanna dance？

2. a million and a half：

这里是指很多，这是美国人夸张的一种表达方式，使用相当广泛。中文中我们也会夸张，但用的数字通常会小些。比如我们说："都告诉你几百遍了你还记不住。翻成英文就是"I have told you a million times"也就是说我们通常使用的'百'在美国人嘴里就变成了million。所以百里挑一就变成了one in a million。

3. "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get"：

这句话的难点在于对chocolates的理解，阿甘那个时代的巧克力很多都是一盒中口味众多，可上面又没有标记是什么口味，除非亲自品尝。所以，阿甘母亲的意思其实是在表达，生活就像不知道下一块会吃到什么味的巧克力一样，只能顺其自然。当然你也可以将life换成其他词来活用。

4. awful：

这里的意思是很非常，它作为形容词最常用的意思是:
A．极不好的，让人很不开心的 an awful smell
B．身体欠佳 I felt awful this morning.
C. 很非常，不正式 We spent an awful lot of money on furniture.

5. as crooked as a politician：

这里指背弯的像个政客，粉刺政客无法挺直身板做人as…as…是极高频的词组，多用来比较和比作。美国人用他的频率甚至高过than。As tall as me 比较 as strait as an arrow比作。

6. don't make no sense：

这里就是没有道理的意思。在口语中大多时候双重否定还表否定，只是对否定的强调。一般一个否定出现后面再有几个否定都只是强调。如果要表示别人的话讲的有道理你可以说：your words make sense to me。