These are some pieces of things I used in my Sputnik feature film which opens in New York in two weeks.
(Tips: open vi. 开演。很多同学可能都在想说“戏剧/电影上映”的时候犯难了吧,不知道该怎么说对不对。其实很简单,一个词 open, 文中which引导的定语从句修饰的就是Sputnik feature film,这个opens当然就是说这个电影开演。当然还有一个,首映,premier,作不及物动词用,比如 I was very excited when Fight Club premiered. )
That’s me at my desk, downtown. I called my sister. I called my neighbors. I said, “ Come dig.” That’s me at my desk. Eh... That was a desk took 40-some years to build.
(这个句子,省掉了desk 后面的that,说明口语里面是可以容许这种错误粗线的,不会影响得分,因为没有影响表意。)
You know, all the stuff. That’s my daughter, Jean. She came, she’s a nurse in San Francisco. “Dig it up, “ I said. “Pieces. I want pieces. Bits and pieces.” I came up with this idea: a life of bits and pieces, which I’m just starting to work on--my next project.
(a life of bits and pieces, 老爷爷从收藏的残片出悟出了生活的真理,生活不就是这些琐屑的残片么?A life of bits and pieces, 琐屑的生活)
That’s my sister. She took care of pictures, because I was a big collector of snapshot photography that I believed said a lot. And those are some of the pictures, something was good about the burnt pictures. I didn’t know. I looked at that--I said, “WOW, is that better than the --”
(Tips : take care of 是一个被低估了的词组,因为首先,它是初中甚至小学学过的,所以孩子们都觉得它很low,但实则不然。其实take care of是我们口语里面最常用的词组之一,它不止指“照顾”,有的时候可能是我们最宽泛的一个“管”“来”,比如最近流行的一句话“放下那个妹子,让我来”,你怎么说?放下那个妹子好说,“Let her go”, 那让我来呢? 可千万别说”let me do her”,这个do放在这里...确实有点不妥,因为do在英语中是一个类似于中文“搞”的万能动词,那么这句话翻成中文可能会造成什么效果,呵呵, 我就不说了,大家都懂的。OK,所以那我们应该怎么妥帖而恰当地表达“让我来”这个意思呢,非常简单“I’ll take care of this”,我能搞定。或者 “I’ll take care of her.” 所以下次遇到英雄救美的场面哈,孩子们应该怎么办呢?一个take care of尽显英雄气概。 其二是snapshot photography,snapshot就是我们所说的快照,或者抓拍。本人作为一个摄影爱好初学者,尤其喜爱抓拍,因为抓拍是唯一个能够捕捉到人最真实的情感神韵也最容易拍出美照的方法啦。这里snapshot作为名词用,也可以用作及物动词,表达 “给...拍快照”的意思。比如,我女朋友喜欢我给她拍快照。可以说“My girlfriend really enjoys being snapshot by me.” )
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