PETS-2語法講解(128)
It was about an old man on his deathbed looking back on his life in flashback.
對話
Graham: I've just seen a really interesting foreign movie.
Eliza: Really? Where was it made?
Graham: In Iran. I didn't even know it had a movie industry.
Eliza: Neither did I. What was it about?
Graham: It was about an old man on his deathbed looking back on his life in flashback.
Eliza: Sounds a bit depressing.
Graham: Not at all, he had had a very exciting life.
格雷姆:我剛剛看了一部很精採的外國電影。
伊萊澤:是嗎?電影是在哪裡拍的?
格雷姆:伊朗。我以前甚至不知道伊朗有電影業。
伊萊澤:我也不知道。電影說什麽?
格雷姆:電影以倒敘法,述說一個老人臨終躺臥牀上,廻顧自己一生。
伊萊澤:聽起來頗爲傷感。
格雷姆:一點都不傷感。那老人一生非常多採多姿。
電影、小說等有時會用倒敘法,即故事中插入一段往事,這片段叫flashback,是可數名詞;假如指倒敘手法,則作不可數名詞,例如:(1) The hero's life story was told in a series of flashbacks(男主角一生的故事,用倒敘手法一幕一幕的陳述),(2) The events leading to the dictator's downfall were shown in flashback(那*者垮台的經過,是用倒敘手法陳述的)。Flash本是指‘閃耀’,作動詞、名詞都可以。有時,往事突然在腦海中閃現,這就是flashback的原義,動詞是flash back,例如:(1) While strolling in the park, I had a flashback of my father sitting with me on one of the benches many years before(我在公園裡散步,忽然想起多年前,父親和我一起坐在這公園一張長椅上)。(2) My thoughts flashed back to the day when I first met her(我忽然想起和她初相識那一天)。動詞flash back儅然也可以指電影等使用倒敘法;而既有flash back,也就有flash forward,即提前敘述一段日後的事,例如:The movie flashed back/forward to his youth(電影用倒敘手法/預示手法談到他的青年時代)。最後談談on one's deathbed一詞,Deathbed即臨終所臥的牀,所以‘臨終的願望’叫a deathbed wish,‘臨終的懺悔’叫deathbed repentance等,On one's deathbed即‘臥牀將死’,例如:On his deathbed, he made his will(他臨終立了遺囑)。
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