Translation of the 义卖进入倒计时…… entry:
Changed to a different computer, as expected I found the photos I was looking for, the small shop called fresh flowers village is just about to sell my first piece of clothing for charity, a white silk half-dress, the one worn by the person in the middle of LanKa 《兰卡》.
There are several items later on …… I can't find some of the picture files any more, I'll rephotograph ……
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Translating 老徐
Translation of her 日记 [2006年10月16日] entry:
These days I'm not lacking anything, everyday I eat some delicious beef, Tai Fei (太妃)'s sweet ice cream has crept into my deep dreams. My new apple notebook has arrived, there are so many good people, thanks. My pussycat is getting fat very quickly, I've got many many books on redecorating. Retirement probably feels likes this. The wind is blowing, there's still only half the sunshine, work is at the back of my mind, I can't be bothered with it, there's nothing that absolutely must be done. This winter, I'll sleep when it's cloudy, when it's a fine day I'll just hide at home admiring the warm sunshine.
These days I'm not lacking anything, everyday I eat some delicious beef, Tai Fei (太妃)'s sweet ice cream has crept into my deep dreams. My new apple notebook has arrived, there are so many good people, thanks. My pussycat is getting fat very quickly, I've got many many books on redecorating. Retirement probably feels likes this. The wind is blowing, there's still only half the sunshine, work is at the back of my mind, I can't be bothered with it, there's nothing that absolutely must be done. This winter, I'll sleep when it's cloudy, when it's a fine day I'll just hide at home admiring the warm sunshine.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Translating 老徐 (Meat on the hob)
This is my translation of 徐静蕾's post on 滚刀肉:
Two of my schoolmates today went to jump on the aerobic gym's exercise ball. After no more than two rounds, their heads were already covered in sweat. They couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all. As schoolmate Liu (刘同学) took off her glasses she had a very innocent look in his eyes. Schoolmate Xu (徐同学) hugged the ball and bounced around everywhere like some big live prawn. Our course here has a lot of stuff, tomorrow latin dances, the day after shadow boxing, schoolmate Xu and schoolmate Li decided to have a go at all of them. Applause. Thank you.
After doing sport, I felt comfortable, I felt relaxed all over. My mind was refreshed. I felt like an athlete, other people say that I describe myself like a holy expert (瑜伽高手) of the gymnastic ball. Of course, someone's already exposed schoolmate Xu: You've only gone through a single lesson …… Schoolmate Xu isn't ashamed but rather feels honored, what about it? Even the Olympics say it: Keep participating. Or just the same meaning as: don't seek to be the best, seek to be better. Schoolmate Xu just compares with herself. Is there progress? Yes, yes. That's good, good, good. Schoolmate Xu's biggest strong point is this: she's honest to herself. Schoolmate Xu's mum said long ago, Schoolmate Xu is just meat on the hob. (滚刀肉)
Schoolmate Liu isn't meat on the hob, schoolmate Liu sometimes doesn't make any progress, for instance, today there was an action which she couldn't do in any way. The teacher called her name out three times but she shamelessly said: ……Ah……No……, making the muscular, fair-skinned teacher ask the other students to applaud and encourage her. Schoolmate Xu, naturally glad at Liu's problems beat her palms with the other schoolmates. Making schoolmate Liu wipe her eyebrows and with drooping eyes do the action. It seems like the supervision of the group is very important, from now on everyone check over me more... ...
In light of schoolmate Xu's biggest strong point being that she's honest to herself, schoolmate Xu decided that from yesterday, when she goes to an award ceremony, climbing the stairs, she will no longer put on her dense makeup, what kind of thing is this, it's not a proper look at all, everyone else doing this doesn't mean that we should do it, don't say to me, fashion. Avoid saying fashion, fashion just isn't fashion. Don't understand? Go and think about it yourself then. Don't say it's to respect the occasion, first talk about a bit why you first respect yourself then you respect other people, anyway I don't like how schoolmate Xu is like this, like a …… same as, the wind at the time doesn't even change so much, what kind of wind blows like this …… can't you be slightly clean and fresh …… I will be determined and resist it.
It seems like for people, being idle is good, a bit of self-criticism, a bit of self-praise, a bit of returning to where I was before, tomorrow I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of a high school.
About my high school, for details please see 'my high school' in 'my small biography'.
About who schoolmate Liu is? Another learned girl. Though, she gave me a warning strictly not to make jokes about her, but the meat on the hob's advice is being ignored.
Two of my schoolmates today went to jump on the aerobic gym's exercise ball. After no more than two rounds, their heads were already covered in sweat. They couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all. As schoolmate Liu (刘同学) took off her glasses she had a very innocent look in his eyes. Schoolmate Xu (徐同学) hugged the ball and bounced around everywhere like some big live prawn. Our course here has a lot of stuff, tomorrow latin dances, the day after shadow boxing, schoolmate Xu and schoolmate Li decided to have a go at all of them. Applause. Thank you.
After doing sport, I felt comfortable, I felt relaxed all over. My mind was refreshed. I felt like an athlete, other people say that I describe myself like a holy expert (瑜伽高手) of the gymnastic ball. Of course, someone's already exposed schoolmate Xu: You've only gone through a single lesson …… Schoolmate Xu isn't ashamed but rather feels honored, what about it? Even the Olympics say it: Keep participating. Or just the same meaning as: don't seek to be the best, seek to be better. Schoolmate Xu just compares with herself. Is there progress? Yes, yes. That's good, good, good. Schoolmate Xu's biggest strong point is this: she's honest to herself. Schoolmate Xu's mum said long ago, Schoolmate Xu is just meat on the hob. (滚刀肉)
Schoolmate Liu isn't meat on the hob, schoolmate Liu sometimes doesn't make any progress, for instance, today there was an action which she couldn't do in any way. The teacher called her name out three times but she shamelessly said: ……Ah……No……, making the muscular, fair-skinned teacher ask the other students to applaud and encourage her. Schoolmate Xu, naturally glad at Liu's problems beat her palms with the other schoolmates. Making schoolmate Liu wipe her eyebrows and with drooping eyes do the action. It seems like the supervision of the group is very important, from now on everyone check over me more... ...
In light of schoolmate Xu's biggest strong point being that she's honest to herself, schoolmate Xu decided that from yesterday, when she goes to an award ceremony, climbing the stairs, she will no longer put on her dense makeup, what kind of thing is this, it's not a proper look at all, everyone else doing this doesn't mean that we should do it, don't say to me, fashion. Avoid saying fashion, fashion just isn't fashion. Don't understand? Go and think about it yourself then. Don't say it's to respect the occasion, first talk about a bit why you first respect yourself then you respect other people, anyway I don't like how schoolmate Xu is like this, like a …… same as, the wind at the time doesn't even change so much, what kind of wind blows like this …… can't you be slightly clean and fresh …… I will be determined and resist it.
It seems like for people, being idle is good, a bit of self-criticism, a bit of self-praise, a bit of returning to where I was before, tomorrow I'm going to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of a high school.
About my high school, for details please see 'my high school' in 'my small biography'.
About who schoolmate Liu is? Another learned girl. Though, she gave me a warning strictly not to make jokes about her, but the meat on the hob's advice is being ignored.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Translating 老徐 (Wei BoEr and the review from a director)
Translation of 老徐's 围脖儿和导演阐述 post:
Wei BoEr (围脖儿) is very good at acting spoiled now. Always lying on my leg making me scratch his neck, otherwise he cries out beside my foot, making you feel sorry for him.
Yesterday due to a Greek film festival, they were showing Dreams May Come 《梦想照进现实》 I was writing the director review and he just constantly crawled onto my leg indignantly sleeping. I didn't even dare move. By the time I finished writing, both my legs were shaking, I had no choice but to stand up. I took some pictures of his posture while he was soundly sleeping. He didn't sleep at all elegantly. His nose wasn't like a nose and his face didn't look like a face. He wasn't a bit like how they say cats are elegant. On the other hand, about this, I'm also lazy as hell.
You should see how intense Wei BoEr's cry is, I went to much trouble to get three photos, using my mobile I didn't have the flash, they're roughly even aren't they? ……, actually people said I don't need to write a word as long as they can see Wei BoEr's picture …… that's a bit cold! ……
Sleeping
Yesterday, with the big sleeping cat, Wei BoEr, grunting I wrote this director review:
(This is a bit too much too translate so I'll leave it as it is...)
《梦想照进现实》
——一篇迟到的导演阐述
电影已经拍完将近半年了，现在写阐述几乎成了回顾。
即使是导演了两个电影，仍不知导演阐述该是怎样的写法。
去年的年末，和编剧王朔商定拍一个小成本的电影，对话体——一个导演和一个女演员在剧组的一夜，女演员不想接着演正在拍的电视剧了，来找导演摊牌。
戏中女演员这个角色和我有很多相似之处，大概四五年前，我经历过这样一段时间——对现状不满意，看自己不顺眼，看所有的人和事都觉得没意思，不了解自己想做什么，也什么都不想做。
我想每个人的生活中都会经历这样的时刻：突然有迷路的感觉，回头看，向前看，找不到生活的意义，怀疑自己所有的东西，不愿意再作任何违心的事情。《梦想照进现实》对我来说，既是一个回顾，也是一个展望。因为生活总是周而复始重复很多同样的心情，我不想用错误这个词，因为所谓错误都是相对而言的，放眼看自己的一生的时候，其实没有对错之分。四五年前，我对只是做女演员的生活感到厌倦，开始做导演，一切都进行的很顺利，然而，四五年后，现在，从前的感觉又一次回来了，并不比上一次来的轻浅。
王朔是我一直以来最喜爱和敬重的作家，这个电影也可以说是我和他的一次对话。本来看完剧本我想说服他来拍，因为这个剧本中表达的很多东西，是我现在无法了解和体会的，他拍会更合适些。但被他拒绝了，他这几年来只愿意在家写作，不想参与到与很多人一起合作的工作当中去，而且告诉我，可以按照自己的意思任意修改和删除他原剧本的内容。那么好，还是我来拍。
应该说这是个很难拍的电影，几乎只有一个场景，两个演员，从头到尾都是对话。没拍之前，我和演导演的那个男演员韩童生先生对了四天词，用三台摄像机记录下来然后粗剪了一遍，主要目的是想看一下对话的整体节奏，便于将来拍摄的时候调整，因为这次我们只有十六天的拍摄时间，到了现场细磨戏的时间非常少。然后是机位和光的设计，要在有限的空间里制造一些微妙的不同，之所以说微妙，是因为我一向并不喜欢电影中有很明显的设计感，这是个人的趣味决定的，可能在某一天我会拍一个镜头形式感很强的电影，但前三部不会考虑。
每次拍完一个电影，我自己都很难说满意还是不满意，只能说，我尽力了，在特定的时间内，把我能够理解的一些东西尽力的拍了出来。一定要说的话，我对自己拍的三个电影没有一个满意过，即使得奖，得了几个奖，有一些人夸，也没有使我自己觉得满意。鉴于本人一向眼高手低，看片子总是很挑剔，看自己的作品也是如此，总是觉得还有更好的方法，更好的表达方式，但是自己的能力还没能达到，因此，大多数时候都处于对自己无能的沮丧之中。
这个电影是对与我相关的一些心情，生活的一次探讨，又有很多理解、感受已经超出了我所能理解到的感受，拍这样的电影，我想，是一件奢侈而艰难的事情。
好了，电影不是说出来的，每个观众看了自会有自己的理解，其实，已经与我无关。我这个阐述谈不上是什么阐述，也只是一些心情罢了。
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Translating 老徐 (My new family member)
Here's a translation of the 我家的新成员 post.
Hastily finished visiting the building materials city (建材城), I went again to the place my friend introduced me, which is a place that just takes care of cats. I carried homea young four-month old Garfield cat (加菲猫). Giving him a name, round the neck (围脖儿). This photo was taken in his old home, an hour later, he started his new life.
围脖儿 is very unused to his new home, always hiding in the corners and not coming out, being shy with strangers ……
Seeing his heavyhearted expression in his eyes, my heart can't bear it for more than ten minutes.
Ripe all over……
Isn't he pretty!! Isn't he cute!! Isn't he handsome!! Pity the day's too dark, the photograph was taken badly. The real thing is ten times as good looking.
Here's the actual cat from 老徐's blog:
Hastily finished visiting the building materials city (建材城), I went again to the place my friend introduced me, which is a place that just takes care of cats. I carried homea young four-month old Garfield cat (加菲猫). Giving him a name, round the neck (围脖儿). This photo was taken in his old home, an hour later, he started his new life.
围脖儿 is very unused to his new home, always hiding in the corners and not coming out, being shy with strangers ……
Seeing his heavyhearted expression in his eyes, my heart can't bear it for more than ten minutes.
Ripe all over……
Isn't he pretty!! Isn't he cute!! Isn't he handsome!! Pity the day's too dark, the photograph was taken badly. The real thing is ten times as good looking.
Here's the actual cat from 老徐's blog:
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Translating 老徐
So here's my first translation on this blog (I just moved over from Livejournal) as an effort to both improve my Chinese (continually berated for being at the 5-year old level, don't they understand there's a huge vocab barrier about then?) and learn more about Chinese 生活, how? By translating other blogs. I'm going to focus on 老徐 (Lao Xu) since her blog is incredibly popular and contains a nice variety of idioms and constructs. Sound fun? So here is my attempt at today's entry.
日记 [2006年09月30日]
I've known about Mr Gao Li Dai's (高利贷) big name for a while, I've finally met him. Originally it was to thank him for some matter. It became a type of popular lesson on business loans. Pity we three girls all have long hair, listening to it felt like 'high mountains covered with fog'. Talking to you people takes a lot of effort. Mr Gao Li Dai saw we were bored and uninterested 'like tweezers that just won't open' and finally when it was on the edge of crumbling, he was forced to start from the bottom 'from zero' and continued using farmland and digging for coal as comparisons. Now do you understand? Yes, yes, yes, we understand. Although, we still didn't understand. Too embarassed to admit it.
Last night I watched a good film, directed by Lǚ Re (吕乐), the story of a middle school student. The few actors are all 16-17, all acting for the first time, all acting well. I heard it was in the Tokyo film festival. I secretly believe it will be the best film in the near future. The story is adapted from the book by Da Cao (大草) , knives and knives 《刀子和刀子》. I heard Bo Xue (博学) talk about it long ago and she recommended it to the director.
Today I swam, after simming three lengths I almost fainted, my heart immediately wanted to jump out of my throat. After I got home, I sat on the sofa breathing heavily. Then makeup, then the charity evening party. My eyes were full of beautiful and bright lights, disco ball, beautiful girls as if clouds, beautiful legs as if forests and everytime the same.
But my darling unnamed person, you've spent this many ages and hundreds of years. Please don't constantly interfere with me, this is a charitable event. Really go through it everywhere.
Went home and as usual sat in front of the computer, as usual my neck hurt, but I'm already at peace. Because a few days ago after the bone specialist looked at the pictures of my skeleton, he confidently said, no problems. The dizziness and aches aren't due to my cervical vetebra. It's a problem with my how my front nerves work. What problem? —— it's just weak …… it's inborn, it's not a big deal. My balance is not good, so I easily faint. I act like understood when I didn't, but the expert had a very confident expression. So it's like he assured me, practical, blue skies white clouds. At home I told my mum, my mum said: Oh, that's hereditary. She has the same problem.
I went to see some American sitcoms. Tomorrow I'm getting up early and flying to Shanghai to watch the F1. Sounds like I'm still very busy.
日记 [2006年09月30日]
I've known about Mr Gao Li Dai's (高利贷) big name for a while, I've finally met him. Originally it was to thank him for some matter. It became a type of popular lesson on business loans. Pity we three girls all have long hair, listening to it felt like 'high mountains covered with fog'. Talking to you people takes a lot of effort. Mr Gao Li Dai saw we were bored and uninterested 'like tweezers that just won't open' and finally when it was on the edge of crumbling, he was forced to start from the bottom 'from zero' and continued using farmland and digging for coal as comparisons. Now do you understand? Yes, yes, yes, we understand. Although, we still didn't understand. Too embarassed to admit it.
Last night I watched a good film, directed by Lǚ Re (吕乐), the story of a middle school student. The few actors are all 16-17, all acting for the first time, all acting well. I heard it was in the Tokyo film festival. I secretly believe it will be the best film in the near future. The story is adapted from the book by Da Cao (大草) , knives and knives 《刀子和刀子》. I heard Bo Xue (博学) talk about it long ago and she recommended it to the director.
Today I swam, after simming three lengths I almost fainted, my heart immediately wanted to jump out of my throat. After I got home, I sat on the sofa breathing heavily. Then makeup, then the charity evening party. My eyes were full of beautiful and bright lights, disco ball, beautiful girls as if clouds, beautiful legs as if forests and everytime the same.
But my darling unnamed person, you've spent this many ages and hundreds of years. Please don't constantly interfere with me, this is a charitable event. Really go through it everywhere.
Went home and as usual sat in front of the computer, as usual my neck hurt, but I'm already at peace. Because a few days ago after the bone specialist looked at the pictures of my skeleton, he confidently said, no problems. The dizziness and aches aren't due to my cervical vetebra. It's a problem with my how my front nerves work. What problem? —— it's just weak …… it's inborn, it's not a big deal. My balance is not good, so I easily faint. I act like understood when I didn't, but the expert had a very confident expression. So it's like he assured me, practical, blue skies white clouds. At home I told my mum, my mum said: Oh, that's hereditary. She has the same problem.
I went to see some American sitcoms. Tomorrow I'm getting up early and flying to Shanghai to watch the F1. Sounds like I'm still very busy.
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