PETS二级考试语法复习精讲（63）
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They were all dubbed into German.
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）。[NextPage] She sounds really star-struck.
Jack: My teenage sister really gets on my nerves at times.
Bill: Why's that? Does she spend hours making up in the bathroom?
Jack: No, it's not that, she just keeps going on and on about how wonderful Leonardo di Caprio is.
Bill: Well a lot of girls really go for him.
Jack: But she's got dozens of his pictures all over her bedroom wall and she watches his movies over and over again on her DVD player.
Bill: She sounds really star-struck.
Jack: That's putting it mildly.
杰克：我那十几岁的妹妹有时真令我不耐烦。
比尔：为什么？是不是她常常在浴室里化妆，一化就花几小时？
杰克：不是，不过，但她整天都在说莱昂纳多?迪?卡普里奥，赞不绝口。
比尔：嗯，很多少女都喜欢他。
杰克：但我妹妹在房间墙壁上挂了几十张他的照片，而且在反反复覆看他的电影DVD.
比尔：你妹妹看来真是个明星迷。
杰克：这说得太简单了。
比尔说杰克的妹妹：She sounds really star-struck.Struck是strike的过去式（past tense）和完成式（perfect tense）。Strike最基本的意思是'打'，例如：The thug struck him with a beer bottle（那恶棍用啤酒瓶打他）。引申其义，strike可解作'打动人心'，例如：
（1） I was struck by their terrible living conditions（他们居住环境之恶劣，让我印象深刻）。
（2） Her unparalleled beauty struck me dumb（她美丽无双，看得我目瞪口呆）。
star-struck即'着了名人的迷'，这'名人'多是指电影明星，例如：
（1） She was so star-struck by Leonardo di Caprio that she had all his DVDs（她对莱昂纳多?迪?卡普里奥十分着迷，这个明星的所有数字光盘影片，她都有收藏）。
（2） I was star-struck after meeting Bruce Lee（我见过李小龙之后，就被深深着迷）。
此外还有thunderstruck一字，指'被雷所击'或'极其震惊'，例如：I was thunderstruck when I heard that she was dead（我听到她死了，一时瞠目结舌）。
最后且谈谈这一课对话里三个词语：get on one's nerves、at times、go for.Go for有'喜欢'的意思，例如：I don't much go for movie stars（我不大喜欢电影明星）。At times等于sometimes（有时），例如：After her departure, I feel lonely at time,（她离开后，我有时会感到寂寞）。Get on one's nerves直译 '侵入某人的神经'，意思是'使某人心烦'，例如：The din of the traffic is getting on my nerves（交通的喧阗，渐渐使我感到心烦）。
