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Arthur: Our ride's on the roof.

Cobb: Right.

Arthur: Hey, are you okay?

Cobb: Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. Why?

Arthur: Well, down in the dream, Mal showing up.

Cobb: Look, I'm, uh, sorry about your leg. Won't happen again.

Arthur: It's getting worse, isn't it?

Cobb: One apology's all you're getting, all right? Where's Nash?

Arthur: He hasn't shown. You wanna wait?

Cobb: We were supposed to deliver Saito's expansion plans...to Cobol Engineering two hours ago. By now, they know we failed. It's time we disappear.

Arthur: Where you gonna go?

Cobb: Buenos Aires. I can lie low there, maybe sniff¹ out a job when things quiet down. You?

Arthur: Stateside.

Cobb: Send my regards.

Saito: He  sold you out. Thought to come to me and bargain for his life. So I offer you the satisfaction.

Cobb: It's not the way I deal with things. What will you do with him?

Saito: Nothing. But I can't speak for Cobol Engineering.

Cobb: What do you want from us?

Saito: Inception². Is it possible?

Arthur: Of course not.

Saito: If you can steal an idea from someone's mind...why can't you plant one there instead?

Arthur: Okay, here's me planting an idea in your head. I say, "Don't think about elephants." What are you thinking about?

Saito: Elephants.

Arthur: Right. But it's not your idea, because you know I gave it to you. The subject's mind can always trace thegenesisof the idea. True inspiration's impossible to fake³.

Cobb: That's not true.

Saito: Can you do it?

Arthur: Are you offering me a choice? Because I can find my own way to square things with Cobol.

Saito: Then you do have a choice.

Cobb: Then I choose to leave, sir.

Saito: Tell the crew where you want to go. Hey, Mr. Cobb. How would you like to go home? To America. To your children.

Cobb: You can't fix that. No one can.

Saito: Just like inception.

Arthur: Cobb, come on.

Cobb: How complex is the idea?

Saito: Simple enough.

Cobb: No idea is simple when you need to plant it in somebody else's mind.

Saito: My main competitor is an old man in poor health. His son will soon inherit control of the corporation. I need him to decide to break up his father's empire.

Arthur: Cobb, we should walk away from this.

Cobb: Hold on. If I were to do this, if I even could do it...I'd need a guarantee. How do I know you can deliver?

Saito: You don't. But I can. So do you want to take a leap of faith...or become an old man, filled with regret waiting to die alone? Assemble your team, Mr. Cobb.And choose your people more wisely.

妙语佳句 活学活用

1. lie low: 尽量不引起注意；不露面；不露声色，也可以翻译成“潜伏”。柯布在这里的意思是“我可以在那里暂避风头”。

例如：Better lie low until this affair blows over.（时过境迁之前，你还是躲起来较好。）

2. sniff out: 寻找。还经常用来表示“发现，觉察出，调查”。

例如：It's their job to sniff out abuses of power.（他们的工作是对滥用职权的情况进行调查了解。）

3. stateside: 美国的，美国本土的。用以在境外指美国。但一般不包括阿拉斯加州和夏威夷州。

4. sell out: 出卖某人，背叛。

例如：He committed suicide⁴ rather than sell out to the enemy.（他宁愿自杀而没有向敌人投降。）

5. bargain for: 指望，想廉价买，或预料到。齐藤在这里的意思是“他出卖了你，找我求活命。”

例如：I didn't bargain for Mary arriving so soon.（我没想到玛莉来得这么快。）

6. square: 摆平，办妥。

例如：Can I leave you to square up with the waiter?（我把跟服务员结账的事交给你办行吗？）

7. walk away from: （从困难的处境或关系中）脱身，一走了之，或者轻易地胜过 。

例如：He walked away from the accident completely unscathed.（他安然无恙地从事故现场走开了。）

8. deliver: 解救；拯救；使摆脱。

例如：They prayed to God to deliver them from danger.（他们祈求上帝把他们从危险中拯救出来。）

9. take a leap of faith: 碰运气。例如：Dare you take a leap of faith?（你敢碰碰运气吗？）

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