影视字幕的翻译

-- Remember what I told you, Forrest. --Forrest Gump
-- 记住我跟你说的话. --阿甘正传
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Example 7
-- Hi, Barry! Remember me? from Friends
-- 巴瑞，记得我吗? --老友记
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2. Condensation
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-- Watch yourself. Be on guard. This place is full of vulture. --Casablanca -- 请你小心，这儿有许多坏人. --卡萨布兰卡
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Example 4
-- Oh, God, I forgot my present for your stepmother -- I took it inside by accident. --Sleepless in Seattle -- 我把送你继母的礼物忘在屋里了。 --西雅图夜未眠
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Skills for Subtitles Translation
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1. Using Simple Syntactic Structures
◆不知你能不能把自行车借我用一下？ →我能借一下你的自行车吗？ ◆给你看样你以前从没见过的东西。 →给你看样新东西。 ◆明天为什么不去公园呢？ →明天去公园吧。 ◆你能不能不用我的东西？ →别用我的东西。
• Position on the screen: 1/12 of the total screen height above the bottom; • Number of lines: Around 13 words in 1-2 lines • Font color and background: Pale white against a grey, see-through host box
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-- Well, we’re all different.
--Forrest Gump -- 所有人都不相同。 -- 阿甘正传
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Example 2
Forrest recalled the first day when he met Jenny.
-- You know it’s funny what a young man recollects. --Forrest Gump -- 年轻人的记忆很奇怪。 --阿甘正传
• 臣妾来给太子生母上柱香。 • I came to pay respect to the Crown Prince’s mother. • 我竟萌生了退出江湖的念头。 • And yet I’m thinking of quitting.
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Combining Short Utterances
-- What about the engineer? Why can’t he marry us on the train? -- from Casablanca
e.g. “look out” & “be careful”
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1. Deletion
some exclamations (叹词):
“my goodness”, “oh, my God”, “Jesus”
tag questions (附加疑问句):
“don’t you”, “isn’t it”
(Forrest talked about Jenny’s poor living conditions. ) -- She lived in a house that was as old as Alabama. -- Forrest Gump -- 她住在一间很旧的屋子。 --阿甘正传
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3. Reductive Paraphrase
-- Think of the poor devils who can’t meet Renault’s price. I get it for them for half. --Casablanca
-- 想想那些可怜的家伙，他们付不起雷诺开的 价．我收他们半价．
-- 雷诺的价更高，我收半价。
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Example 3
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2. Using Simple Vocabularies
◆ be miserly, stingy 悭吝 →小气，吝啬 ◆ be thin 清癯 → 清瘦 ◆ be familiar with 熟谙 → 熟悉 ◆ be foolhardy, foolishly bold 暴虎冯河 → 有勇无谋
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simple forms of address(称呼), greetings or farewells: “sir”, “madam”, “good morning”, “hi”, “hello”, “goodbye”)
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Example 1
(Gump’s mother tried to persuade the principal of an elementary school to admit Forrest.
-- 他也许没来，但至少我应该去看看，否则我 会老想着这件事.
-- 他也许没来，但我不看不死心.
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Example 2
-- Yes, I would just like to know where I could get this man’s address.
-- Sleepless in Seattle
to convey the meaning of the original utterance in a concise way.
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Will the conveyance of information be much affected if we reduce the original utterance?
• Deletion (省略): to leave out some words or phrases. • Condensation (浓缩): to maintain only the gist of the original text.
• Reductive Paraphrase (压缩性意译):
男人最邋遢，东西放到生蛆。
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Example 2
Both Ugarte and Captain Renault earned a lot of money by selling visas to the refugees. Ugarte tried to find an excuse to explain his action.
Principles for Subtitles Translation • Conciseness (简洁) • Immediate Comprehensibility (易懂)
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Example 1
-- He’s probably not there, but if I don’t at least look, I’ll always wonder about it. -- Sleepless in Seattle
-- 是的，我想知道如何才能得到这个人的 地址.
-- 我想知道他的地址.
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Example 3
-- And for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.
-- Rebecca
-- 由于大门深锁,一时间不得其门而入。 -- 由于大门紧锁,一时无法进入。 --蝴蝶梦
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Example 4
-- She stood there laughing, her black hair blowing in the wind, and told me all about herself - everything. -- Rebecca
-- 她站在崖上大笑，黑发随风扬起， 诉说她的过往,巨细靡遗. -- 她站在崖上大笑，黑发随风扬起， 诉说她的一切.
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Example 3
（A thief pretended to be kindhearted by warning others to be on alert. When other people thanked him without caution, he stole their money rapidly.
Subtitles Translation
(影视字幕翻译)
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Two forms of subtitles translation
• Dubbing(配音) • covering the original English voice by Chinese voice.
• Subtitling(字幕翻译) • providing synchronized Chinese subtitles for English speeches.
--工程师怎么样?为什么不让他在火车上替我们证婚呢 ?
-- 工程师可在火车上替我们证婚。
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Example 2
-- Five minutes in the microwave. Any one of them, five minutes and done. Ready to eat. --Sleepless in Seattle
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Example 5
-- Walter. It’s quite a formal name, isn’t it? -- Sleepless in Seattle
-- 华特，蛮正式的名字。 --西雅图夜未眠
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Example 6
(Mrs. Gump was talking to Forrest)
◆Many a little makes a mickle. 集腋成裘 → 积少成多 ◆ foot of a mountain 山麓 → 山脚 ◆ origin, source 滥觞 → 来源，起源 ◆ be o来自百度文库 great benefit 大有裨益 → 大有好处
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3. Reducing Source Text
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Time and Space Constraints
Time Constraints:
Maximum duration of a full two-line subtitle: No more than 6 seconds Reading speed: adults (150-180/min) children(90-120/ min) Leading-in time: 0.25 second after initiation of utterance Lagging-out time: No more than 2 seconds after the end of the 5 utterance
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Natures of subtitles
Printed materials • re-readable Subtitles • transient • irreversible • time and space constraints
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Time and Space Constraints
Space Constraints:
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1. Deletion
Filler words (填充词): e.g. “um”, “uh”, “er”, “ah”, “okay”, “so”, “actually”, “you know”, “well”, “but”, “anyway”, “look”, etc. Repetition/tautologies (重复):
Harriet: You can go there if you want, but don’t open his refrigerator. 哈丽亚特：去呀，但千万别开他冰箱。 They don’t cover anything when they put it in the fridge. They just stick it in and leave it there till it walks out by itself. -- Sleepless in Seattle 他们把东西放进冰箱时却不盖上，丢进去后就一 直放到有东西从里面爬出来 。