首先我们来学习一下最近热门电影阿凡达的英语名称是:Avatar!
下面我们来看看相关的词汇和英文介绍
blockbuster 热门电影
smash hit 非常受欢迎的
feast for the eyes 视觉大餐
sci-fi epic 科幻史诗
inhabited 居住
species 种类,种族
humanoid 具有人类特点的
interlopers 入侵者
core narrative 主要故事
add authenticity 增加真实性
alien race 外星人
linguistics 语言学
come up with 想出
articulated 发音
lexicon 词汇
sequels 续集
sophisticated 高水平的
Klingon 克林贡帝国 (星际迷航中虚构的一个好战外星种族)Star Trek 星际迷航
Hamlet 哈姆雷特
An Alien Language
The blockbuster film Avatar has been a smash hit at the box office in the UK and around the world, becoming the fastest film ever to earn $1bn (7bn yuan) in ticket sales.
But as well as being an entertaining feast for the eyes, the sci-fi epic also introduces movie-goers to a brand new language invented especially for the film.
The movie is set on an alien planet called Pandora which is inhabited by many strange species. The most humanoid of the planet's inhabitants are the Na'vi, and it is the struggle between the Na'vi and human interlopers that forms the core narrative of the film.
The film has been released in 2D and 3D versions
In order to add authenticity to his vision of an alien race the film’s director James Cameron asked a professor of linguistics from the University of Southern California to invent a language for the Na'vi.
Professor Paul Frommer worked with James Cameron for four years to build upon the original 30 words or so that the director had already come up with for the language.
According to Professor Frommer, the most important aspect of the Na'vi language was that it could be articulated.
"This is an alien language but obviously it has to be spoken by human actors," Professor Frommer told the BBC, "it has to be sounds that human beings are comfortable producing."
The language currently has a lexicon of around 1000 [1] [2] 下一页 【已有很多网友发表了看法,点击参与讨论】【对英语不懂,点击提问】【英语论坛】【返回首页】
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