云图中的英语词汇.doc

《云图》原书最奇妙的地方在于作者在叙述各个故事的时候，准确的使用了非常具有时代色彩的语言，而两个未来的故事（Neo Seoul和Valleysman的故事）更是展现了作者的语言想象力，为他们创造了一些词汇和语法。看书的时候，读者可以慢慢地适应这样的语言，不过电影里就有点困难了。如果大家没有读过书，打算直接去看英文版电影，我在网上找来了这个词汇集，会对于迅速进入剧情有点帮助。?/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/25/the_cloud_atlas_phrasebook_your_guide_to_yibberin_the_true_true_language.html?Of all the intermingling plotlines in Cloud Atlas, perhaps the most daunting is the sixth and final one, which concerns a future tribe of Hawaii-dwellers called the Valleysmen, one of whom is played by Tom Hanks. What makes it daunting, even frustrating, is the Valleysmen way of speaking. The English of the future has become a post-apocalyptic pidgin, which is frequently difficult to understand.?But you don’t have to sail into that future land unprepared. The best way to pick up a little Valleysmen would be of course to read the book, but in case you won’t have time to do so before you see the movie, we’ve cobbled together a guide. You’ll want to know that to judas, for example, means to betray, and that the Valleysmen of the Big I have a diresome tendency to add the suffix –some willy-nilly to all their adjectives. We focused on those parts of the lexicon that feature in the movie, but of course this glossary could be helpful to Old Un readers of the book as well.?Anyway, that’s enough of my yibberin’. But if you want to cogg what’s going on in the film, mem’ry a few of these phrases. Yay, that’s the true true.?babbit – n. baby. I got the tenderlies like she was my own babbit slumbrin’ by me.?Big I – n. the Big Island of Hawaii, home of the Valleysmen and the Kona. Savages on Big I norm’ly had more gods’n you could wave a spiker at.?cogg – v. to know or recognize. I cogged for the first time there’n’then. I knowed why I shudn’t kill this Kona.?curio – n. curiosity. But her answers didn’t quench my curio none, nay, not a flea.?The Fall - n. the apocalypse, 106 winters before the time of the Valleysmen, described as a period of flashbangin’. Back when the Fall