宋云峰编写

　　凯特是个墨守成规的传统美国女孩，她与加拿大医生查理订婚后就向往过一种稳定的生活。一天查理要去巴黎开会，希望两人能一起在花都度过浪漫的一周。虽然凯特早就想看看巴黎的名胜，可她天生惧怕坐飞机，所以只好作罢。不料几天之后查理打电话向凯特提出分手，原来他爱上了一位漂亮的法国女郎。凯特怒火中烧，顾不得对飞行的恐惧，马上登上了去巴黎的飞机，誓将查理从法国女郎的手中夺回来。等待起飞时凯特发现身边坐着一位粗鲁而直率的法国男子吕克，两人唇枪舌剑的交锋使她忘却了对飞行的恐惧。其实吕克是一个珠宝大盗，欲利用凯特走私一条价值不菲的项链。两人究竟能否达到各自的目的呢？

　　Kate is an American history teacher engaged to a Canadian doctor Charlie who loves traveling. But Kate is afraid of traveling by air. One day Charlie tells her that he is going to attend a medical conference in Paris and asks her to go with him. After some hesitation, Kate goes to an air-travel simulation<注1> center to receive some training. Unfortunately, she is nearly frightened to death on the very first simulation. Poor Kate has to give up the idea of spending a week with Charlie in Paris though she desires to see the Eifel Tower<注2> all the time. Besides, she has to stay in Canada for a certain period of time before she can get the permanent residence visa.

　　After Charlie has left for Paris, Kate receives several phone calls from him excitedly describing the beauty of the city, which makes Kate feel a bit regretful. One evening, Charlie again rings Kate. This time he is more excited, but what he tells Kate almost drives her mad. In stammer,<注3> Charlie says that he has met a French girl named Juliette and has fallen in love with her, which indicates that his relationship with Kate has come to an end. Angry Kate decides to go to Paris immediately despite her air-phobia.<注4>

　　Boarding on the plane, Kate is very nervous. She looks around and sees a savage-looking French man coming her way and chooses to sit beside her. This makes her even more nervous. What is worse, the man, whose name is Luc, tries to start a conversation with her very rudely, which develops into a "war of words" in which Luc mocks Kate as a woman fearing life and love while Kate argues otherwise. Before Kate realizes it, the plane has taken off and she finds it not so frightening in the air. Through the heated argument, Kate learns that Luc is a French playboy enjoying life whenever he can while Luc knows that Kate comes to Paris to get her fiance<注5> back. Just before the plane touches down<注6> in Paris, Luc goes to the rest room<注7> at the rear of the plane where he hides a beautiful necklace into a vine.<注8> Then he puts the vine into Kate's bag without being noticed.

　　Going through security check at the airport, Luc offers to give her a ride to Hotel George V where Kate's fiance stays. However, as soon as Luc gets out of the airport, he is stopped by a police detective named Jean Paul who knows him too well to let him go easily. Luc watches Kate leaving in a taxi, but he can do nothing about it. Despite a careful search, the detective does not find anything illegal in Luc's baggage. Once he is set free, Luc gets to Hotel George V as soon as he can. As he is to enter the hotel, he happens to see another thief Bob coming out. When Luc finds Kate in the lobby, she has just fainted on the sofa after seeing Charlie and Juliette coming down in the hotel's glass elevator. Luc wakes her up, but Kate cannot find her bag, which obviously was stolen. Kate remembers that a handsome French man tried to talk to her before she saw Charlie and blacked out.<注9>

　　Realizing that the bag was taken away by Bob, Luc immediately takes Kate, in a stolen brand new car, to Bob's place where he gets his vine back while Kate only gets an empty bag. It turns out that Bob sold her passport to someone else and gave her clothes to a prostitute.<注10> While Luc leaves happily with his vine, Kate has no place to go since it is dark by now. The next morning, she goes to the American Embassy where her request for a new passport is rejected because of her application to be a Canadian citizen. So she has to resort to the Canadian Embassy where her application for a Canadian residence visa is also turned down for her violation of Canada's immigration law.<注11> Desperate, Kate goes back to Hotel George V to seek help from Charlie, only to be told that her fiance and his lover have just left for Cannes<注12> in southern France. Determined to get Charlie back, Kate goes to the railway station to catch the train to Cannes where she again sees Luc. It turns out that Luc found nothing inside his vine and went back to Bob who told him that he knew nothing about the necklace which might still be in Kate's bag. Thus Luc followed Kate all the way to the station and wait for a chance to get his necklace back. At the same time, the Detective arrested Bob and got the information that Luc had smuggled<注13> an expensive necklace into France. When Luc was following Kate, he was being watched and followed by the Detective. At the railway station, Luc manages to get rid of the "tail" and gets onto the moving train. Kate is surprised to see him again on the train. Luc tries every way to search Kate's bag but in vain. Because no matter how hard he tries, Kate always keeps the bag to herself. Even in sleep at night, she puts it under her head as a pillow. When Luc wakes up again the next morning, Kate is no longer in the car, which scares him to death. After a quick search, Luc discovers Kate in the dining car enjoying the delicious French cheese and beef while marveling at<注14> the beautiful scenery outside the train. Unfortunately, Kate soon suffers from a stomachache, and Luc has to accompany her to get off the train at a small station which happens to be Luc's hometown. It is a place full of vineyards,<注15> and where they receive a warm welcome.

　　While Kate is enjoying the bump foods at the dinner table, Luc finds an opportunity to search Kate's bag at last. But, he cannot find the necklace no matter how hard he tries. Despite the great disappointment, Luc begins to have a special attachment to Kate. He invites her to taste a box of different bottled wines brewed<注16> by himself, saying that wines have diversified personalities just like people brought up in different environments. He also talks about his dream of buying a piece of land for a vineyard of his own. But this will probably remain a dream forever because he has lost the expensive necklace. Touched by Luc's romantic description, Kate also begins to like him. Just before boarding on the train to continue her journey, Kate reveals the very necklace on her neck and asks Luc to accompany her. Luc is very happy and gives her a lot of valuable advice on how to win Charlie back, the most important of which is treating him indifferently and disturbing his happy relationship with his lover. Then, Kate should invite Charlie to a dinner to discuss the detailed plan of breaking up,<注17> which will definitely cause him to regret.

　　Just as the plan begins to work, the detective spots Kate and tells her the story about the stolen necklace which is reckoned<注18> to be at least ,000. He tells Kate that if the necklace is returned to him the next day, Luc will not be sued. Kate agrees to help, but she also asks the Detective a favor that all her savings wired<注19> from Canada should be exchanged into a check paid to her by Cartier, a well-known jewelry store in Paris. At the dinner table, Charlie is amazed by Kate's radiant beauty, especially with the necklace that Luc insisted that she put on for the occasion. Charlie is also impressed by Kate's resolution to break up with him without even a bit of sadness, which adds to his regret. He cannot help asking her for a dance, and the evening ends with the two going to bed together. But Kate is thingking all the time about Luc. Meanwhile, Luc seduces<注20> Juliette to upset Charlie. Curiously, Luc's mind is full of Kate while making love to Juliette.

　　The next day, Kate insists that she sell the necklace at Cartier for Luc to purchase his dreamland in his hometown. When she comes back with a check of ,000, Luc is a bit unhappy for such a low price. But he tells Kate that it is enough to realize his dream. The two say goodbye to each other in a sentimental mood. Then Kate gets on the plane for Canada. Waiting for the take-off on her seat, she hears a familiar voice. It is Luc who has come to ask for her hand.<注21> The two go back to Luc's hometown, buy a vineyard, and live there happily ever after.-

　　精彩对白：Dialogue Between Luc and Kate When the Plane Is to Take Off

　　Kate: Look, could you please stop looking at me?

　　Luc: It's incredible.

　　Kate: Wha-What?

　　Luc: Every muscle in your body is tense, even the lids of your eyes.<注1> Your nostrils<注2> are—are closing up. How do you do that? Me, I love to fly, especially this moment—the plane getting ready to charge the runway, the engines screaming, the pressure building, the force of it slams you back in the seat, and then, whoosh—you are in the air. Everything else is behind you. There's only one other place in life where I feel this kind of exhilaration.<注3>

　　Kate: Oh, yeah? where's that? Oh, no, no, no. Don't tell me. Just let me guess.

　　[Intercom: Flight attendants, prepare for takeoff.]

　　Kate: Oh, God. I don't think I can do this. [Gasping]

　　Luc: Did you ever think that maybe it is not the airplane?

　　Kate: What's not the airplane?

　　Luc: That maybe it is something else you are afraid of.

　　Kate: What are you talking about?

　　Luc: Do I have to say it?

　　Kate: But do I look that I can stop you?

　　Luc: It is obvious to me. It is not the plane that you are afraid of. I know your type.

　　Kate: What type is that?

　　Luc: You're afraid to live, really live.

　　Kate: Oh, God.

　　Luc: You are afraid of life. You are afraid of love. You are afraid of sex.

　　Kate: That is ridiculous.

　　Luc: I can tell from your face and how you dress with your little white buttons all the way up to here. You are the kind of woman in bed, you are waiting under the covers, the light is going off, and then, like a rabbit...

　　Kate: What? What is the matter with you? You don't know me.

　　Luc: I know that you are afraid....

　　Kate: You don't know what I do, and Charlie never complained. Stop that. There were a few months where I didn't feel like it. But that was a long time ago, and I was in between teaching jobs. Yes. For you to sit there with that smug<注4> expression and tell me that I have a problem with my life and my Charlie is insane. [Engine roaring and the plane taking off]

　　Luc Advises Kate on How to Get Charlie Back

　　Luc: Lesson number one—before going into a war, you must choose carefully the field of battle. Also never let Charlie see how much you desire him. Never tell someone that you want him.

　　Kate: (Seeing a woman pouting<注5> at her lover) You see that?

　　Luc: What?

　　Kate: Look at that, that pout. Juliette did that. I remember that perfectly.

　　Luc: The pout is one of the French women's greatest weapons.

　　Kate: What's so great about that?

　　Luc: It's provocative.<注6> It puts the man in a constant state of excitement and anxiety. She can say "yes" when she means "no", "no" when she means "yes". Do you understand?

　　Kate: No.

　　Luc: You don't?

　　Kate: (Thinking for a while) Gotcha.<注7>

　　Luc: Now, the most important thing. When Charlie sees you, he will be expecting a big scene,<注8> a drama. You will not give him the satisfaction. This will make him immediately intrigued.<注9>