Origins

The Bear Pit is his calling card. Outsiders who hear the name always assume there really are grizzlies. Victor thought so too at first, and said he wasn’t into getting mauled by grizzlies; only then did Lash explain that it’s not a literal Bear Pit but a fight club, where the winner gets the honor of losing to him. When Victor still said he’d pass, Lash left him with: “Your loss.”

“It's not a literal Bear Pit, it's a fight club where the winner gets the honor of losing to me.”

“这不是一个字面意义上的熊坑，它是格斗俱乐部，赢家会因为输给我而获得荣誉”

The title “Bear Pit champion” has become something others jab him with. Apollo says he could take that stupid title from him any day he wants; Rat King, having laid him out, crowed: who’s the Bear Pit champion now? He himself told Silver she wouldn’t last three minutes in the Bear Pit; yet another time, that same Silver brought him down and left him with: some champion he turned out to be.

“Silver, you wouldn't last three minutes in The Bear Pit.”

“西尔芙，你在熊坑里撑不过三分钟。”TL

People have another name for him, too. Drifter asked whether he was that arrogant stevedore everyone’s been talking about; arrogance, Lash answered, is a concept made up by people who don’t want to recognize greatness, and Drifter said: yeah, it’s you. Lady Geist says she won’t be bullied by a stevedore, and the Doorman, too: oh look, a stevedore with delusions of grandeur. With so many mouths saying the same thing, the nickname must come from somewhere.

“Are you that arrogant stevedore everyone's been talking about.”

“你就是大家一直在谈论的那个傲慢的码头工人吗”

Of where he came from, no one has heard him say much. What he is quick to bring up are the things he has done: breaking someone’s left arm because they were right-handed; pointing out to a woman that her baby looked stupid wearing a headband bow. When Kelvin urged him to be nicer to people, he answered, with a perfectly straight face, that The Lash is a humanitarian through and through.

“Kelvin: where you there when I broke someone's left arm because they were right handed? Or when I pointed out that a woman's baby looked stupid wearing a headband bow? The Lash needs to be nicer? No… The lash is a humanitarian through and through”

“开尔文：我因为某人是右撇子就打断他的左臂时你在哪儿？或者我指出一个女人的婴儿戴着蝴蝶结发带看起来很傻时你在哪儿？“劳什”需要更友善一些吗？不，… “劳什”彻头彻尾是个人道主义者。”

His cruelty is more than talk. When Drifter said he’d heard Lash likes hurting people, he answered that he likes proving he’s better than people; if they get hurt, that’s on them, not him. There’s nothing like making someone feel helpless, he says, and the crowd doesn’t like it when he puts them down too quick, so he has to find ways to keep it interesting. Solomon sees further: he fights with instinct, not strategy.

“I like proving I'm better than people. If they get hurt that's on them not me.”

“我喜欢证明自己比别人强。如果他们因此受伤，那是他们自己的问题，跟我没关系”

“He fights with instinct, not strategy”

“他靠的是本能，不是策略。”TL

The rival never far from his lips is one Bebop. Whenever he sings his own praises, he ticks off the reasons against Bebop one by one: reason 26, only one of them has an impossibly dashing mustache; reason number 87, he’s Bebop. He says, too, that he used to do an uppercut himself, until he saw Bebop throw one and knew right then that he would never do one again.

“Reason 26 I'm better than Bebop: Only one of us has an impossibly dashing mustache.”

“我比比波普强的第26个理由：我们俩中只有一个人留着帅气得不可思议的小胡子”

Old Friends and Foes

Bebop: A World Too Small for Two

The Patron, of course, has them working together. At some point during the ritual, Bebop says, Lash is going to do something outrageously stupid, and Bebop is going to save his life, and lord it over him for the rest of his days. Impossible, Lash answers: when he wins, he’s going to wish for a world without Bebop.

Bebop has another way of putting it: his love for Miss Shelly is more than his hate for Lash, so he will work with him to win this thing, and just hopes Lash dies in the process. Sweeping past him on the zipline, Lash left a line of his own: don’t die before I can kill you.

“My love for Miss Shelly is more than my hate for you. We're gonna win this thing… I just hope you die in the process.”

“我对雪莉小姐的爱远胜过我对你的恨。我们一定会赢… 我只希望你在这个过程中倒下”

As for who has beaten whom, each tells it his own way. Lash insists he once beat the tar out of Bebop; Bebop admits to the defeat, but calls it a fluke; Vyper, too, says Lash kicked Bebop’s ass. Wraith greeted him as the guy that lost to Bebop; “One time,” was all Lash offered in his defense, and she cut him short: one time’s all it takes to be a loser.

“This reminds me of the time I beat the tar out of Bebop.”

“这让我想起了我把比波普揍得鼻青脸肿的那次”

Ivy couldn’t see why he hates Bebop so much; he seems nice, she said. The only reason he gave: you obviously never met Bebop. He’s stupid.

Vyper: The Letter Writer

Vyper wrote him letters from jail, to make sure they stood out among all his fan mail. They were, he answered, very specific; when she asked whether he’d never thought they would actually meet, he said no, he really didn’t.

Her ardor goes well past admiration. She told him he smells even better when he’s awake; and that she’s got two hands, a knife and real bad impulse control, so who did he want dead? When Viscous offered to fetch Vyper, he refused in a panic, insisting that a cutman doesn’t stalk and stab people. Having brought her down, all he hoped was that she would leave him alone.

“You smell even better when you're awake.”

“你醒着的时候闻起来更好闻”

“I need her to leave me alone.”

“我希望她别再打扰我了”

Others have noticed. Bringing down Celeste, she muttered that the woman had better keep her hands off Lash; Victor says she and Lash deserve each other; and the shopkeeper hopes she catches him under the mistletoe and he doesn’t file a restraining order.

“She better keep her hands off Lash.”

“她最好别碰劳什。”TL

Infernus: Daring to Say No to Mendoza

Infernus respects him for once saying no to Mendoza, and Lash answered that The Lash doesn’t live under anyone’s thumb. Infernus used to work for Mendoza, and Lash pressed him: he let you out? The answer: he knew what was good for him.

“I respect what you did. Saying no to Mendoza ain't easy.”

“你那件事我敬佩。敢对门多萨说不，可不容易。”TL

Wraith, for her part, has lost money over this same Mendoza: Mendoza said Lash was going to take a dive in that fight, and she believed him. Lash dismissed it as stupid talk, and told her she didn’t lose money, she spent it learning a lesson. Ivy is hated by Mendoza too; she is, he said, the only person in New York Mendoza hates more than him, and that’s impressive. When she said everyone had told her he was going to be mean to her, he answered: stupid people tend to say stupid things.

“You didn't lose money. You spent it learning a valuable lesson. Never bet against The Lash.”

“你没赔钱，而是从中吸取了宝贵的教训。永远不要和“劳什”对赌。”

Grey Talon: The Old Man Who Sketched His End

Grey Talon, whom he calls “Grandpa” and “old man” at every turn, is one of the few who will give him a serious answer. When Lash asked whether he had what it takes to be in the Baxter Society, Grey Talon said his prowess is undeniable, then went on to foretell a career that would begin with a string of modest successes, each one throwing logs on the fire of his self-confidence. “Obviously,” Lash replied. So Grey Talon went on: then he would start taking more and more dangerous work, until his brothers found his skinless corpse in a retention pond in Portugal or Denmark.

“I do. You're prowess is undeniable.”

“我愿意。你的实力是不可否认的”

“Then you'd start taking more dangerous work. Work that you feel only you could handle. Your unorthodox tactics work 100% of the time. Until they don't. And then your brothers find your skinless corpse in a retention pond in Portugal or Denmark. It's always Portugal or Denmark.”

“然后你就会开始从事更危险的工作。你觉得只有自己能应付的工作。你的非传统策略在 100% 的时间里都能奏效。直到他们不这样做。然后你的兄弟们在葡萄牙或丹麦的蓄水池里找到了你没有皮肤的身体。总是葡萄牙或丹麦”

Toward the Society, his tone is always barbed: bringing down Calico, he grumbled that he had to clean up the Baxter Society’s mess, and to Shiv he sneered that the Society will let anyone in these days.

“Guess I have to clean up the Baxter Society's mess.”

“看来我得收拾拜克斯特协会留下的烂摊子了”

Calico: The Promise of a Drink

Between him and Calico, though, there is more than messes. He mocked her — does she keep her pinky out when she’s killing someone? — and she called it surprisingly clever; when he suggested they get a drink later, she answered: why not. He said he couldn’t wait to watch her work, and she shot back: that assumes you’re able to keep up.

“You know what: why not.”

“你知道吗，好啊，有何不可。”TL

Vindicta: The Photo Covered in X’s

Vindicta said she’d heard he was an obnoxious pig, and was surprised he was so restrained. He’d seen her cradling a photo with X’s on it like a serial killer, he said, so he wasn’t taking any chances. She granted that he’s smarter than they say, then added at once: don’t push it.

“Oh, I saw you cradling a photo with X's on it like a serial killer so I'm not taking any chances.”

“哦，我看见你像连环杀手一样抱着一张画满叉的照片，所以我可不敢冒险。”TL

Graves: Hot and Cold

With Graves, he is by turns cutting and awkward. He asked her which it was, Mommy issues or Daddy issues, and when she said “Do you ever shut up?”, he added: oh, it’s both. Gotcha. Yet another time he called her kid, and told her that if that lich hand ever gives her trouble, she should let him know and he’ll kick the shit out of it; she told him to stop being weird, but agreed all the same.

“So which is it: Mommy issues or Daddy issues?”

“那到底是哪个：妈妈的问题，还是爸爸的问题？”TL

Bringing her down, he muttered: leave the kid alone, that poor kid is getting used; and then, in the next breath, that she’s in over her head, and that’s not The Lash’s problem.

“That poor kid is getting used.”

“那可怜的孩子正在被利用。”TL

Holliday and Lady Geist: Always Shut Out

Holliday calls him a pig and says “I hate you”; she needs him to talk to her as little as humanly possible, and in exchange she won’t knock his teeth in. The Lash accepts, he said. Lady Geist told him they are not friends, and that he doesn’t keep her confidence; comrades in arms, he replied, build deeper relationships than lovers, and she answered: we are neither.

“You are such a pig”

“你真是头猪”

“I don't knock your teeth in”

“我不会打掉你的牙齿”

Seven and Apollo: The Ones Who Look Down on Him

When Seven called him the pit-fighter, he said Seven had mispronounced “champion,” and tossed off a nickname for him besides, “Glowstick”; it earned him a threat to pop his eyes like grapes, and he had to take it back. Apollo, for his part, called him a middling talent; he answered that he wished Apollo were on the other team so he could show him how “middling” he is, but for now he would have to settle for making Apollo’s presence as irrelevant as his opinion. Another time, when Apollo said he didn’t want his autograph, Lash took him for one of the shy ones, and added that he’s too busy winning to learn the names of everyone in his fan club.

“Call me that again and I will pop your eyes like grapes.”

“你再敢这么叫我，我就把你眼珠子捏爆，就像捏爆葡萄一样”

“God, I wish you were on the other team so I could show you how "middling" I am, but I guess I'll have to settle for making your presence as irrelevant as your opinion.”

“天哪，真希望你在对面，我好让你见识见识什么叫“中等”，不过我只能退而求其次，让你的存在变得和你的意见一样无关紧要了。”TL

Celeste: An Old Score from the Bear Pit

Three times he struck up a conversation with Celeste, and three times she said “Nope.” Bringing him down, she said: that’s for what you did to Lenny in the Bear Pit. When he brought her down, he said that Lenny should’ve come to The Lash for help, and that he was sorry about her friend, but she couldn’t stop him.

“That’s for what you did to Lenny in the Bear Pit.”

“这是对你在熊坑里对莱尼所作所为的惩罚”

Solomon and Paige: The Ones Who See Through Him

Solomon says the myth he sells to people is so much less interesting than the man he truly is. Paige, for her part, says he wants to be Heathcliff so bad, but at the end of the day he’s just a dime store Mr. Collins.

“The myth you sell to people is so much less interesting than the man you truly are.”

“你对外兜售的那套神话，远没有你真实的样子有意思。”TL

Anecdotes

Saint Lash. He speaks with a religious air of his own anointing: every soul he picks up is another donation to the ol’ church of Saint Lash; to bring down Venator is to let him receive the gospel of Saint Lash.

“Another donation to the ol' church of Saint Lash.”

“向圣劳什老教堂的另一笔捐款”

The Catchphrase. When he strikes, he often lets out a “Boosh.” Mo & Krill asked why he says it all the time — it’s not even a word.

“Boosh.”

“轰！”TL

“Why do you say Boosh all the time, it’s not even a word”

“你为什么老是说“布什”，那根本不是个词。”TL

“Lash. Even a celtics fan deserves to have a happy holiday”

“劳什。就算是凯尔特人队的球迷，也该有个快乐的节日。”TL

Hollow Fame. Billy says he was relevant for like twenty minutes three years ago; he himself says he can’t keep his adoring fans waiting.

“Bebop belongs in a scrap pile and Lash was relevant for like twenty minutes three years ago. I'll kick both their asses.”

“比波普该被扔进废料堆，劳什三年前也就风光了二十分钟。我要把他们两个都打得屁滚尿流”

Verdicts on Others. He compliments Shiv’s hair, yet also says there’s only room for one impossibly handsome asshole. Of Mirage, he has said that Ambassador Nashala is gonna need a new bodyguard.

“Love the hair”

“发型不错。”TL

Self-Knowledge. When things go badly, he asks himself whether he talks too much shit, and says, too, that maybe they’re right — maybe he is all talk.

“Do I talk too much shit?”

“我是不是吹牛吹得太过了？”TL

“Maybe they're right… maybe I am all talk.”

“也许他们说得对…也许我只会说大话。”TL

Open Questions