PETS－2语法讲解(132)

　　They were all dubbed into German.
　　对话
　　Simon: I've just come back from a great week in Germany staying with
　　my friend but there was one thing I didn't like much.
　　Martin: Don't tell me it was the beer?
　　Simon: No, of course not; that was great.It was when they showed
　　English-language movies on TV. They were all dubbed into German, which rather spoiled them for me.
　　Martin: Your German's very good, so what was the problem?
　　Simon: It just seemed a bit unnatural to see Tom Hanks in an American
　　scene with German coming out of his mouth.
　　Martin: But that's done for the Germans' benefit, not yours.
　　西门：我刚刚从德国回来。我在那里过了一个星期，十分写意，其间住朋友家中。只有一件事我不大喜欢。
　　马丁：不是啤酒吧？
　　西门：不是，当然不是，德国啤酒是顶刮刮的。我不喜欢他们电视播放的英语电影，都配了德语，我认为颇杀风景。
　　马丁：你的德语很好，那有什么问题呢？
　　西门：看见汤姆．汉克斯在美国的环境里说德语，就是不大自然。
　　马丁：但那是要方便德国人，不是要方便你。
　　把外语电影用本国语言重新配音，英文叫做dub，常和into连用。The voices in the American film were dubbed into Chinese或The American film was dubbed into Chinese即‘那部美国电影用中文重新配了音’。没有配音的外语电影多有字幕。‘字幕’英文叫subtitle，是名词，dub则是动词。The Japanese film had English subtitles/subtitles in English即‘这部日本电影有英文字幕’。Subtitled和dubbed都可作形容词，例如：They are showing the subtitled version of the film, not the dubbed version（他们现在放映这部电影的字幕版，不是配音版）。电影用另一种语言配音，听来往往颇觉奇怪。你可以说：A film dubbed into another language often sounds odd/strange/funny/unnatural。Unnatural是‘不自然’，odd、strange、funny则都是‘古怪’。这是funny‘有趣’以外的另一个意思，谨再举一例：I detected a funny smell（我闻到一阵古怪气味）。又dub还可以指‘转录唱片、录像带等’，这也是个常见用法，不可不识，例如：She dubbed the videotape of her wedding, and sent the copy to her mother（她把自己婚礼的录像带转录一卷，寄给母亲）。最后谈谈西门的一句话：I've just come back from a great week in Germany staying with my friend。留意在旅馆、朋友家里小住，不可叫live，应说stay。所以，往外地旅游，不要告诉人家I'm living at the Hilton Hotel之类，应说I'm staying at the X Hotel（我在某旅馆下榻）。