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斷背山莊

2006-02-01 06:13 ｜迴響：11｜點閱：11038

brokeback capital hill.jpg

美國國會就是國會山莊 (capitol hill)

顧名思義

也是山

既然是山

就可能斷背

美國時代雜誌又再一次在斷背山上頭作文章

(見2006年2月6日號, 18頁)

可見時代雜誌也戒不了斷背山

(TIME does not know how to quit the mountain)

漫畫標題是

斷背山莊

左牛仔是 LOBBYIST

右牛仔是CONGRESSMAN

左牛仔說

YOU DANCE WITH THEM THAT BRUNG* YOU, CONGRESSMAN!

右牛仔說

(目前最流行的話之一)

"GOD, I WISH I KNEW HOW TO QUIT YOU!"

*brung不是正式的英文字; 字典上說要用brought.

可是brung還是被很多人使用, 即視作brought

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引用：http://blog.chinatimes.com/taweichi/archive/2006/02/01/37285.html

2006-02-01 06:13 ｜作者：紀大偉｜分類：作家部落格｜迴響：11｜點閱：11038

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re: 斷背山莊

I am trying to clarify some misconceptualization or misinterpretation here. The following paragraph is dry but I want to get it out of my chest. For your information: "academy award" as a name is "gramatically correct." It is pretty much like "letter box," "flower shop". The first noun functions as an adjective to modify the following noun. The reason we don't use "academic: beause "academic" would mean differently in this case. It is a broad and indefinitive adjective, connotating "scholarly" -- the award is designated to someone acclaimed in acedemic research. It doesn't make sense at all, so you must use academy instead. It refers to "the academy," a specific institution that coordinates the acativity.

Second, again, of course you broke your back at the moment you report it. On daily basis, you won't report you "break" or are "breaking" your back. Since it is a fleeting moment while you are breaking your back. It is next to impossible to say "I am breaking my back." Given that, you must say: i broke my back and cannot be otherwise. This is not grammatically strange or incorrect.

Indeed, there are times people have grammatical flaws in daily coversations. However, the examples raised earlier are not applicable.

2006-02-03 08:22 ｜ cc

re: 斷背山莊

原來brokeback mountain是比較主觀的”那座害我閃過腰的山”，而不是"那座會令人閃到腰的山"這種客觀說法．

2006-02-03 08:03 ｜儘管還是不到540

re: 斷背山莊

如果要講文法，奧斯卡就不會是 Academy award，而是 Academic award 啦。我在美國唸書的時候，就有我們自作聰明的臺胞同學在幾百人的戲劇理論課堂上這樣指正教授，被美國人鬨堂大笑。所以名字的話，是不太講文法滴……不用太深究
至於為什麼是brokeback 而不是 breakback，因為英文說「閃腰」時都是過去式：Oh....s**t! I broke my back, 很少聽到人說 I braek my
back，想來是因為閃到腰都是突發事件，沒有人慢慢閃到腰滴……

2006-02-02 08:46 ｜大叔

re: 斷背山莊

back-breaking mountain可能更合文法吧

2006-02-02 08:00 ｜ gre

re: 斷背山莊

請問為何是brokeback而不是breakback?
是不是此山以前令人閃到腰,現在已不會了?

2006-02-02 07:36 ｜托福不到540

re: 斷背山莊

斷背山得獎對我這個住在法國的台灣人有什麼特殊的意義?

請來看:

http://www.wretch.cc/blog/badqoo123&article_id=3196760

2006-02-02 05:03 ｜ badqoo123

re: 斷背山莊

" mining the ore of language out of a Wyoming rockscape traversed by two itinerant riders in an ancient truck"

引用他人文字, 最好標明並註記出處

2006-02-02 04:42 ｜ a

re: 斷背山莊

給D的回答
這種用法，意思是說，這座山會「弄斷人的背」，而不是已經「斷掉的背」，順便解釋一下，英文中的 broken back 大概就是中文中閃到腰的意思。以此類推，「斷背山」的意思應該是「會讓人爬到閃腰的山」，而不是「閃到腰的山」。美國中西部的德州英文有時很簡化的，也不一定有文法，像主角之一那句說他也不是同性戀的臺辭：「I ain't queer you know」就既簡單又樸拙。

2006-02-01 16:00 ｜大叔

re: 斷背山莊

Broke and broken are colloqually interchangable, particularly in many rural areas. There is a tendency that broke is replacing broken. For instance, people say "I am broke" instead of "i am broken" to denote I am running out of money. In United States, people increasingly apply past tense to any other possible grammatical status. Fly-flew-flew (instead of flown)

If you read the book, you would find cowboys not talk in a grammatically correct way. The author, Annie Proulx, works bery hard in mining the ore of language out of a Wyoming rockscape traversed by two itinerant riders in an ancient truckworks in an attempt to represent how people pertaining to a specific social and emotional status - high school graduate living in rural site, love-deprived and lonesome - would talk. I am actually quite thrilled to see how well Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal perform

Well, another explanation is -- it is a just name.

2006-02-01 11:11 ｜ cc