Chapter 8 of 22 · 2'41"
Translators and Animals 货舱里有猴子IMDb ↗
语言不通时只能当众喊谁会翻译
Come from Away · 2021
Learning settings
The story so far
Everything you need before watchingPlanes sit in Gander. All night, school buses shuttle people to a Salvation Army camp; an African family stares into the dark and nobody says where they are going. At a school, staff call for Mandarin and Hindi, then joke that Newfoundlander needs a translator too. Bonnie from the SPCA climbs into a cargo hold to feed starving animals, while the tower warns that every US plane is now a bomb threat. Watch a public plea for help meet a five-minute deadline.
Chapters
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Language points
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Review right after watchinghear a pin drop
静得能听见针落地
speaks newfoundlander
把方言名当成语种
if anyone speaks newfoundlander
用正经口吻开玩笑
move your arse
赶紧把屁股挪开
b'y
伙计、老兄
turn out to
原来会、竟然会
fast them
让人或动物禁食
Golden lines
A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“Ladies and gentlemen, we need some help translating.”
各位先生女士,我们需要人帮忙翻译。
礼貌称呼加上求助,当众找人的标准开口。
We need some help + doing.
会场、机场、教室里当众找会某事的人。
We need someone who can translate. / Can anyone help with translating?
formal
Ladies and gentlemen 稍停,help 咬清。
“We're treating all US planes as bomb threats.”
所有美国飞机,我们一律按炸弹威胁处理。
treat as 把政策说死,没有商量余地。
treat something as something
宣布按最坏情况处理、统一口径时。
We're treating this as an emergency. / Count every bag as a risk.
formal
treating 拉长,bomb threats 两词都重。
“We get outside of Gander, and you could hear a pin drop.”
我们开出甘德镇,静得能听见针落地。
用针落地写整车人的害怕,比说 quiet 更尖。
you could hear a pin drop
形容全场突然静下来、紧张到没人出声。
The room went dead quiet. / Nobody made a sound.
literary
pin 短促加重,drop 往下收。
Monologue
One character carrying the scene — shadow the whole passageThere are hundreds of suitcases. I can hear barking, but I can't find 'em. They fast them before flying, so they are starving, and they need water.
行李箱有好几百个。 我听见狗叫,可找不到它们。 飞之前会给它们禁食,所以它们饿坏了, 还需要水。
