这部电影是根据弗兰肯斯坦科学怪人的故事改编的。
人们恐惧邪恶的、强大的、人造的智能机器的出现，这种恐惧已经被许多小说作品所强化，例如玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》和《终结者》系列电影。
Fears about the appearance of bad, powerful, man-made intelligent machines have been reinforced (强化) by many works of fiction—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Terminator film series, for example.
今年正值玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦——现代普罗米修斯》出版两百周年。
This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," by Mary Shelley.
只有到那时，他们才会成为有用处的仆人，而不是成为弗兰肯斯坦里失控的怪物。
Only then will they be useful servants and not Frankenstein's out-of-control monster.
你认为你能被弗兰肯斯坦接受吗？
仿佛弗兰肯斯坦还会活过来。
你知道我拒绝了《弗兰肯斯坦》？
我是我自己的弗兰肯斯坦。
《弗兰肯斯坦》有一些珀西·雪莱的特点决非偶然。
It's no accident that Frankenstein shares certain features with Percy Shelley.
《弗兰肯斯坦》已经是夸张的，但珀西使它更夸张。
然而在她写《弗兰肯斯坦》的时候，她并不是孤独的。
可是上百万观众想看我演弗兰肯斯坦，于是我就演了。
But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.
很多年后，玛丽称《弗兰肯斯坦》是”欢乐日子的产物。
Years later, Mary called Frankenstein "the offspring of happy days."
这一系列的谋杀导致弗兰肯斯坦和他所制造的怪物的最终毁灭。
The series of killings subsequently lead to the mutual destruction of Frankenstein and his creature.
两年后，《弗兰肯斯坦》(又名《现代普罗米修斯》)匿名出版了。
Two years later Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus was published anonymously.
在把死肉变成生命后，维克多·弗兰肯斯坦用孤独来谴责他所造的生物。
After cloistering himself to bring dead flesh to life, Victor Frankenstein condemns his creature to loneliness.
先祖： 某世系的第一个活尸。如弗兰肯斯坦的怪物即为该世系的先祖。
Progenitor: The first Promethean of a Lineage. Frankenstein's monster was the Progenitor of the Frankenstein Lineage.
这样有目的地造出这些怪兽真是前所未有，只有弗兰肯斯坦可与之比肩。
For sheer Frankenstein wattage the purposeful creation of these animal monsters has no equal.
弗兰肯斯坦：“我发现了生命的秘密，然后大家都死了。”(他也死了)。
Frankenstein: "I discovered the secret of life, and everyone died. (dies)".
自然被崇拜，而像弗兰肯斯坦这样代表科学和文雅的人被描绘得极端冷酷。
Nature is idolized, while characters like Dr Frankenstein who represent science and urbanity are depicted as uniformly cruel.
但是，玛丽•雪莱创作《佛兰肯斯坦》的灵感来自何方? 这一问题一直是个悬念。
他们倒是不像维克多·弗兰肯斯坦那样还要普罗米修斯之雷赋予这个生物以生命的实质。
Unlike Victor Frankenstein, though, they needed no extra spark of Promethean lightning to give the creature its living essence.
实际上，闪电正是你能够踏过成堆的尸体并大开杀戒的第一原因(参见：弗兰肯斯坦)。
In fact, lightning bolts is exactly how you get a pile of corpse parts to stand up and start murdering things in the first place (citation: work of Dr. Frankenstein, incomplete).
《弗兰肯斯坦》不仅是一部构思精巧的科幻小说，更是一部包含着深刻哲学意义的作品。
Frankenstein is not only a literary work cleverly plotted, but also a philosophical one with insightful meanings.
《弗兰肯斯坦》根本的用意是不需要上帝来治愈这条裂缝，它需要的是另一个人的忠心和爱。
Frankenstein's radical suggestion is that it doesn't take God to heal the rift. It takes the loyalty and love of another person.
白天，船长在船上工作时，弗兰肯斯坦写起了他的故事；晚上他便把写的东西念给船长听。
During the days, while the Captain worked on the ship, Frankenstein wrote down his story, and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain.
我们都知道弗兰肯斯坦博士的故事，这位科学怪人沉迷于他的研究，狂妄地希望创造新的人类。
We all know the story of Dr. Frankenstein, the scientist so caught up in his own research that he arrogantly tried to create new life and a new man.
今天，如果你仔细观察研究基因如何影响人类行为的专家们，你会发现许多反弗兰肯斯坦的准则。
Today, if you look at people who study how genetics shape human behavior, you find a collection of anti-Frankensteins.
现在他已出版了《最初的弗兰肯斯坦》（又名《现代普罗米修斯》，玛丽雪莱和珀西雪莱所作）。
Now he has published The Original Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley).
现在他已出版了《最初的弗兰肯斯坦》（又名《现代普罗米修斯》，玛丽雪莱和珀西雪莱所作）。
Now he has published The Original Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (with Percy Shelley).
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