一个麻省理工学院的数学教授，在他系上的公布栏写下一道他觉得十分困难的题目，希望他那些杰出的学生能解开答案，可是却无人能解。结果一个年轻的清洁工威尔在下课打扫时，发现了这道数学题并轻易的解开这个难题。
威尔聪明绝顶却叛逆不羁，甚至到处打架滋事，并被少年法庭宣判送进少年观护所。数学教授有心提拨这个性不羁自我的天才，要他定期研究数学和接受心理辅导。数学难题难不倒他，但却对心理辅导威尔却特别抗拒，直至遇到一位事业不太成功的心理辅导专家桑恩教授。在桑恩的努力下，两人由最初的对峙转化成互相启发的友谊，从而使威尔打开心扉，走出了孤独的阴影，实现自我。
1.It's not your fault...
这不是你的错...
2.There's honor in takin' that 40-minute train ride so those college kids could come in in the morning and their floors are clean.
肖恩：你每天早上乘40分钟的列车到大学打扫卫生，为学生们营造一个整洁的教室。这其中当然有劳动可敬的荣耀。
3.I just have a little question here. You could be a janitor anywhere.Why did you work at the most prestigious technical college in the whole fuckin' world?Why did you sneak around at night and finish other people's formulas...that only one or two people in the world could do and then lie about it?'
我只是有个小问题。你到哪里都能做工友，却为何挑中全世界最负盛名的科技学府?你又为什么在夜里偷偷的演算世界上只有一两个人才能解出的方程式，而事后还撒谎不承认?
4.Do you have a soul mate?-Define that.-Somebody who challenges you.I'm talking about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul.
-你有心灵伴侣吗?-什么意思?-那些可以与你匹敌的人。我是指那些能使你敞开心扉、触动你心灵的人。
5.Most days I wish I never met you,because then I could sleep at night.I didn't have to walk around with the knowledge that there was someone like you out there.I didn't have to watch you throw it all away.
我常希望不曾遇到你，那样我将能每晚安睡。不用惦记在外面有个像你这样的人。我只是不忍心看你这样挥霍你的天赋。
6.I don't regret the 18 years I was married to Nancy.I don't regret the six years I had to give up counseling when she got sick,and I don't regret the last years when she got really sick. And I sure as hell don't regret missin' a damn game.That's regret.
我不后悔跟南希结缡的18年，不后悔为照顾她重病而放弃辅导，不后悔那最后几年默默的坚守，更不会后悔当初错过的球赛。只是遗憾，仅此而已。
7.That's why I'm not talkin' right now about some girl I saw at a bar 20 years ago...and how I always regretted not goin' over and talkin' to her.
这就是缘何我现在不会因为当初在酒吧没有和她谈话而懊悔终生。
8.You're not perfect. And let me save you the suspense.This girl you met, she isn't perfect either.But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about.Now you can know everything in the world, but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot.
你并不是完美的，我也不想吊你胃口。我想说的是，你认识的那个女孩，也不是完美的，但关键是你们能否完美的适应彼此。亲密关系就是这么回事。你可以了解世间万物，但追根溯源的唯一途径便是亲身尝试。
9.People call these things "imperfections," but they're not.That's the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.
人们称之为瑕疵，但其实不然。不完美那才是好东西，能选择让谁进入我们的小世界。
在我眼中，这女孩现在很完美。我并不想破坏这种完美。
你是个孤儿吧?但你认为我能看穿你的悲惨生活、认识你的全部，仅仅因为我读过《雾都孤儿》?莫非它能简化你的人生?
个人而言，我对此莫不关心。因为你知道吗?我无法通过一些破书来认识你的一点一滴。
除非你先谈论自己，告诉我你到底是谁。于是我对此着迷，我愿意来帮助你。但是你并不想这么做，是吗?你甚至还怕你会被说出来的话吓到。
你并没有体会过失去的真正意义...因为只有在你爱某人甚于自身时才会领悟。我怀疑你从未付出过这样的爱。
现在我看着你，眼前所见并非一位聪敏、自信的男人，而是一个无耻狂妄、内心恐惧的孩子
但是你是个天才，威尔。这是毋庸置疑的。没人可以完全认识到你的深度。
四目交投时彼此了解对方的心，好比上帝安排天使下凡只献给你，把你从地狱深渊拯救出来
对她百般关怀的感受你也从未体会，你从未对她情深款款矢志厮守，明知她患了绝症也再所不惜，你从未尝试过痛失挚爱的感受。
你也从未经历过在她的病床前坚定不移地陪伴，紧握着她的纤手，因为医生知道你根本就不在乎探访时间的明文约束。
20.I ask you about love, you'll probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable
我问你何为爱情，你可能只会吟风弄月，但你未试过全情投入真心倾倒.
