Unit 9 表演艺术

口译课文
Interpret the following conversation alternatively into English and Chinese:
A: This is your second martial-arts film , right?
B：是的。这以对该头现的电影更加习惯了，所以胆子更大了些。我很看重传统，所以你可以说这部电影是向功夫片致敬的。我希望这部电影看上去很传统，但讲述的是一个
很现代的故事。
A: A lot of people were surprised that you cast Johnny Liu. Do you think of him as a serious actor?
B：他是个很棒的演员。只要给他个暗示，他会连线不停地哭拉五次。能做到这样不容易，而且他也在不断地进步着。
A: How important are the Oscars to you?
B：奥斯卡须奖礼我去了两次。坐在那里，我感觉那纯粹是美国人的游戏。我能理解为什
么欧洲的导演说好莱坞是毒药”。我能够身处第三世界坐视旧世界和新世界间的说三
道四，说什么欧洲电影没有价值，美国电影没有文化，这很有趣也让我保持清醒头
脑。我也担心好莱坞对中国年轻人的影响。我们需要制作自己的电影，并保护好自
己的电影产业。
A: What is it that you want people to remember most about your films?
B：视觉。以前我曾在电影艺术中尝试过现实主义，但我最偏爱中国式的视觉表现形式。
如果在我制作了这么多电影的20 年后，有人在教科书中这样写我就知足了：“具有鲜明的中国式的、强烈的视觉表现风格”
A: It seems that whatever you touch turns to gold — your last movie was a great success. So will be your next one. Tell me about it. What will it be about?
B：它是部一般性的艺术片，同以往的作品略有不同，是有关父与子（关系）的。这一主
题在我以往的影片中不常涉及。光写剧本就花了我五年时间，但能实现梦想令人很高
兴。现在只希望观众会喜欢。
A: Thank you very much. We look forward to seeing your new movie at the cinema soon.




参考译文
A：这是您的第二部功夫电影吗？
B: Yes. This time around I'm more accustomed to the genre and braver. I pay much respect to the tradition, so you can say this film is a tribute to kung fu movies. I want this film to look very traditional, but with a very modern story.
A：许多人对于你选约翰刘来演感到吃惊。你认为他适合演严肃电影吗？
B: He's a great actor. He can cry on cue five times in a row, which isn't easy and he's
improving.
A：奥斯卡奖对您来说有多重要？
B: I've been to the Oscars twice. And sitting there during the awards ceremony I felt like it was a purely American game! I can understand why European directors say Hollywood is poison.
And it's interesting and sobering for me to sit in the Third World, watching the
Old and New Worlds argue about how European movies have no values and American movies have no culture. And I worry about the influence Hollywood has on the young people in China.
I think we need to make our own movies and do a better job of protesting our industry.
A：您最想让人们记住您的影片的那些方面？
B: The visual spectacle. I've tried using realism in movies before, in the cinematography. But I am most in love with the Chinese style of visual presentation. If in 20 years, after I've made a lot more movies, they write one sentence about me in a textbook, I'd be satisfied if they said:
"The style is strong visual presentation in a distinctly Chinese fashion."
A：您好像有点金之术- 上部电影大获成功，
下一部当也会如此的。请给我们说说它是
有关什么的？
B: It's an ordinary art movie, a little different from my previous works. It's about the
relationship between a father and a son, which is a theme I haven' explored very often in the past movies. It took me five years to write it, but I'm so happy I can realize a dream. Now I only hope that the audience will like it.
A：非常感谢！期待不久能在电影院先睹为快。


篇章口译
Listen to the recording and interpret it from Chinese into English.
京剧是中国的国粹，已有200年的历史。京剧的产生要从微戏说起。清乾隆五十五年： （1770年），安徽的四大地方戏班先后进京献艺，获得空前成功。徽班常与水自湖北的汉调艺人合作演出。于是一种兼收昆曲、秦腔、梆子等地方戏精华的新剧种延生了。这就是京剧。在200 年的发展历程中，京剧在唱词、念白及字韵上越来越北京化，使用的二胡、京胡等乐器，也融合了多个民族的发明，终于成为一种成熟的艺术。

京剧有“文戏”和“武戏”之分。“文戏”的特点是“唱”多，而“武戏”则“打”多。而有的戏是两者兼有。基本的表演形式有唱、念、做、打。

京剧中的“生、旦、净、丑”其实不过是角色分类。“生”是男性正面角色，“旦”是女性正面角色，“净”是性格鲜明的男性配角，“丑”是幽默滑稽或反面角色。每种角色又有表明身份的脸谱、扮相等，只要演员一上场，你一望便知。

在人的脸上涂上某种颜色以象征这个人的性格和品质、角色和命运，是京剧的一大特点，也是理解剧情的关键。简单地讲，红脸含有褒义，代表忠勇；黑脸为中性，代表
猛智；蓝脸和绿脸也为中性，代表草莽英雄；黄脸和白脸含贬义，代表凶诈；金脸和银脸代表神秘、神妖。

京剧的剧目主要取材自传说、重要历史事件，剧中的人物有皇帝、大豆、将军、才
子、佳人等。时间跨度上起古代的尧、舜、禹、春秋战国，下承秦汉隋唐宋元明清各朝。

业余的演员称为 “票友”。在众多的“票友”中不乏大名鼎鼎者，这其中包括清朝的光绪皇帝，他不但会唱戏，还能司鼓。慈禧太后则是一个大戏迷。在今日颐和园内还保留着一座当时中国最大的戏院。该戏楼高 21 米，共有三层，可见她在京剧上花了不少的工夫。

自从京剧大师梅兰芳1919年访日以来，京剧越来越受到全世界人们的喜爱。它在促进中西文化交流，增进中国人民和世界各国人民友谊和了解方面做出了应有的贡献。


参考译文
Peking Opera is a national treasure of China with a history of 200 years. It originated from Anhui opera. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Oing Dynasty (1790)，four local opera troupes from Anhui Province came to the imperial court in Beijing on a performance tour and gained an unprecedented success. 
The Anhui troupes often co-performed
with Han Dialect artists from Hubei Province and gave birth to Peking opera, a new dramatic form drawing on all the essence of Kun Qu, Qin Qiang, Bang Zi and other local operas. 
In its 200 years of development, Peking Opera has more and more been localized and acquired characteristics of Beijing dialect in singing, dialogue making as well as rhyming. And the inusical instruments used on Peking opera like Erhu and linghu, are blendings of inventions, from many different nationalities. Peking opera finally emerged as a mature art form.
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