We have known each other for many years, but this is the first time you’ve ever come to me for counsel or for help. I can’t remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let’s be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. And you were afraid to be in my debt. I didn’t want to get into trouble. I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn’t need a friend like me. But then… Now you come to me and you say ‘Don Corleone, give me justice.’ But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather”. Instead, you come into my house the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder — for money. I ask you for justice. That is not justice. Your daughter is still alive. Let them suffer then as she suffers. How much shall I pay you? Bonasera, Bonasera, what have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, then this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day.
虚拟语气
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
Be my friend… Godfather. Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day. Give this to Clemenza. I want reliable people, people that aren’t gonna be carried away. I mean, we’re not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks….
but I am a blunt man and I intend to speak very frankly to you.
Maybe more frankly than anyone in my position has ever talked to you before.
Because I intend to squeeze you.
I don’t like to see you come out to this clean country in oily hair dressed up in those silk suits and try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans.
pass sb/yourself off as sb/sth
to pretend that sb/sth is sth they are not 装作；佯装；假装
He escaped by passing himself off as a guard.
他伪装成看守人而得以脱逃。
The fact is that I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself and your whole fucking family.