There isn’t one thing that I can depend on you for, is there?I ask you to do a simple task, and of course you come back shaming (v.使…蒙羞) me and everyone else, and most of all yourself, with your failure.Is there nothing that you can do properly?Not a single thing that you can manage with any decency?For God’s sake, would you please just do something right for once in your worthless, pathetic (adj.可怜的) life?

是不是没有一件事我能依靠得了你的，不是吗？我要求你完成一件简单的事情，但是你却以失败使我和其他所有人，最重要的是你自己蒙羞。是不是没有一件事情你是能做稳妥的？甚至是一件很简单的事情，你都不能得体而为？看在上帝的份上，你能不能在你毫无价值、可怜巴巴的人生里至少做对一次事情呢？

Remember when you were in school and they asked you to make a diorama(n.西洋镜)?You had complete freedom.You could have done anything you liked.A box with any sort of scene, made of any materials whatsoever.Total independence on the project.And what did you do?You used Legos – LEGOS! – to recreate Abraham about to sacrifice his son Isaac（见注释）.LEGOS!And you neglected to represent the voice of God in any way.And you said, “But Father, it was just before God spoke!”What a disgusting excuse.

还记得你在学校的时候，他们让你做一个西洋镜。你有完完全全的自由。你可以做任何你喜欢做的事情。一个装满任何景象的盒子，随便放置物品。这是个完全独立的项目。 但你做了什么？你使用了乐高玩具——乐高——去重新塑造了《旧约》中亚伯拉罕献祭儿子以撒的故事。乐高玩具！并且你无论如何都忽视了去代表上帝的声音。但是你却说：“但是爸爸，这个发生在上帝说话前。”真是个令人作呕的理由。

And now this.I ask you to do the simplest thing in the world and you completely disregard all my hopes and dreams and fail miserably(adv.悲惨地).A Nobel Prize in Physics.That’s all you bring home!It could have been chemistry, but because you’re just a pathetic simpleton (n.傻瓜，笨蛋), you get a Nobel Prize in Physics.I sent you out of this house nineteen years ago with one simple request, and asked you not to return until you had fulfilled it, and here you are, with a filthy (adj.丑恶的,卑劣的) Nobel Prize in Physics, standing before me as though you deserve some kind of praise.Get out!I don’t want to look at you.You disgust me.

现在。我要求你做世界上最简单的一件事情，然后你完全将我对你的厚望和梦想丢弃一边，悲惨地失败了。物理学的诺贝尔奖——这就是你所带回家的！明明本该是化学奖的，只是因为你是可怜的傻瓜，你才拿了个物理学奖。19年前我把你送出门，只有一个简单的要求，要求你完成这个要求才能回来。现在你回来了，带回来这个可鄙的物理学诺贝尔奖，站在我面前好像你应该受到那样的赞扬。滚出去！我不想看到你。你让我呕心。

注释：

《圣经》旧约中的创世纪记载亚伯拉罕的儿子以撒(Isaac)是犹太民族的祖先。在基督教信仰中，亚伯拉罕（易卜拉辛）是信心的楷模，他愿意服从上帝、把自己的独生子以撒献祭，预表了上帝献出耶稣。