2009 十二月 | 暮光之城2：新月--- 暮光迷

2009年12月的日志

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两段精彩的暮光之城新月视频！

1条评论暮光之城2:新月2009年12月29日暮光迷

这是美国某电影节制作的搞笑短片，短片中的主持人恶搞了一下《新月》中的片段！

下面这段视频是暮迷自制的，作者翻唱泰勒斯威夫特的《You belong with me》

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暮光之城作者斯蒂芬妮·梅尔的私人信函（三）

评论关闭暮光之城小说2009年12月24日暮光迷

PERSONAL CORRESPONDANCE #3

私人信函#3

Q: Who would you say is more conscious about their looks – Rosalie or Alice? I picture Alice as more of a tomboy, but she is the one who did all the fussing over Bella for the prom. Maybe it’s the hair. LOL! I always have to remind myself that it was Alice and not Rosalie who did all that fussing.

问：你说她们两个里面谁更在意自己的容貌呢——罗莎莉还是爱丽丝？我想象中的爱丽丝更像个假小子，可独独就是她对贝拉的舞会热心过度的啊。大概是头发的关系吧，大笑ing！（LOL=laughing out loud）我总是不得不提醒自己把这一切小题大做的人是爱丽丝而不是罗莎莉。

A: Rosalie’s true defining personal trait is her beauty. Like Emmett’s strength–they’re both more intensely physical than intellectual, which makes them a perfect match. Edward just doesn’t pay that much attention to how Rosalie looks. Can you imagine how much that annoys her?
答：罗莎莉真正意义上最显著的个人特质是她的美貌。就像埃美特的力量一样——他们都是生理特征强烈地优于智力特征，这使他们成为天生的一对。爱德华完全不关心罗莎莉看起来怎样。你能想象这有多惹她生气吗？

So Rosalie is much more concerned about her appearance than Alice. Alice fusses over Bella before prom because she is, among other things, fascinated with being around a human. When she said in the prom scene that she was trying to live vicariously through Bella (that was in there, right? I keep getting stuff from Forever Dawn mixed up with Twilight rough drafts), that was a key phrase. She is trying to experience humanity through close association with Bella. Also, Bella is a very natural girl–not one for makeup or fixating on clothes. Alice sees her as a blank canvass waiting to become a work of art.

所以说罗莎莉比爱丽丝更加关心自己的外表。爱丽丝在舞会举行前对贝拉表现出的过度关心是因为她，除别的原因之外，还着迷于和人类待在一起。她在（原著中）舞会那一节里说过她正在试着从贝拉身上实现她当人类的梦想（是在那里说过对吧？我一直把《永恒黎明》中的素材和《暮色》的草稿混在一起了），这是很关键的一句。她试着通过与贝拉亲密地相处，从中体验做人的乐趣。而且，贝拉是一个非常朴素的女孩—— 一不化妆也不注重穿衣打扮。爱丽丝把她看作一张空白的画布，等着要她把变成一幅艺术品。

Q: I understand that Rosalie likes to keep her own last name. But why would Jasper take Hale as a last name – and even further – why do they pretend to be actual brother and sister? Why don’t they just say they, too, were adopted individually?

问：我知道罗莎莉想要保留她自己原本的姓氏。可是为什么连贾斯帕也要姓黑尔——更进一步说——为什么他们要假扮真正的姐弟呢？为什么他们不直接说他们，同样的，都是单独领养就好了？

A: About Jasper using the name Hale–it’s just for convenience. He and Rosalie look a lot alike. They actually look like fraternal twins–both the same color blond, both tall, him muscular and her statuesque (with the same pale skin, gold eyes and flawless beauty, of course). The Cullens use many different subterfuges to try to keep people from looking too closely at them. Anything that seems to be a certain way–like Rosalie and Jasper seeming to be related–they embrace. They work within people’s expectations. People assume the two blonds are related, so they let that assumption stand. Plus, the more complicated a story is, the quicker someone gets bored trying to understand it, and gives up.

答：关于贾斯帕用黑尔作为姓氏——这只是为了方便。他和罗莎莉长得很像。他们看上去其实像异卵双胞胎——同样的金发碧眼，同样都很高，他肌肉发达然后她轮廓分明（当然还拥有一样的苍白肤色，金黄色眼睛以及完美无瑕的美貌）。卡伦一家用了很多不同的花招来尝试阻止人们不要靠得太近去看他们。任何事似乎都循着一种既定的方式——就如罗莎莉与贾斯帕表面上看起来有亲戚关系一样——他们都欣然接受。他们所做的都符合人们的期望。人们假设这两个金发碧眼的人有亲戚关系，所以他们就让这个假设成立。再加上，故事越复杂，那些人就越快厌倦去弄清楚它的来龙去脉，然后就会放弃。

They don’t always use the same story. When it was just Carlisle and Edward, Edward pretended to be the young brother of Carlisle’s deceased wife. Then, after Esme, Edward was again Carlisle’s wife’s younger brother (only this time, the wife was alive). As the family got bigger, the explanations got more complex. Eventually, the Cullen’s home came to look like a refuge for troubled teens. (Though the best-behaved troubled teens ever).
他们不会总是使用相同的故事。当初只有卡莱尔和爱德华的时候，爱德华就假装是卡莱尔已故妻子的弟弟。之后，埃斯梅的加入，爱德华再次成为卡莱尔妻子的弟弟（只是这次，妻子是活得好好的）。随着家庭变得越来越大，解释就变得越来越复杂。最后，卡伦的家变得像是个问题少年的避难所了。（然而这算是史上最乖的问题少年了）。

They could be Whitlocks, it wouldn’t make any difference to anyone accept Rosalie. Jasper doesn’t care what anyone calls him. But Rosalie clings to her human past with all ten fingers.

他们也可能姓Whitlocks（贾斯帕的姓），除了罗莎莉之外这对其他人并没有任何影响。贾斯帕才不管其他人怎么称呼他呢。但是罗莎莉却是十分执着于她人类过去的点点滴滴。

Q: Did any of them have living family when they were changed? And was it difficult for them to accept, or did they just run off and avoid telling family? We ask because of that over active imagination wondering how Renee and Charlie would react to Bella should you decide to change her. If the Cullens have experience telling family about the change, it might make it smoother. On the other hand, if those experiences all went sour, it would only add to Edward’s anxiety over changing her.

问：当他们被转变时，其中谁还有活着的家人吗？他们是不是很难去接受，或者索性跑掉来避开不想让家人知道？我们问这个问题是因为过度活跃的想象力想知道当你决定要改变贝拉时蕾妮和查理对她会作出怎样的反应。如果卡伦有人告诉过家人关于转变的事，那可以使这件事进行得更顺利。另一方面，如果那些经历最后都导致不好的结果。这只会徒增爱德华对于将她转变的忧虑。

A: You know Carlisle had his father, and that Edward and Esme and Alice all had no one, really. Rosalie, however, had two doting parents and two younger brothers. After she became a vampire, she never saw them again. Emmett was the youngest of a huge Scotch-Irish-American brood. His parents and siblings were all still living. Jasper had living parents and a younger sister. Neither of them ever saw their families after becoming vampires. There is a really good reason for this aside from the suspicion that would result (remember the brilliant red eyes? Kind of hard to disguise before the invention of sunglasses and colored contacts). That reason will be explored from several angles…in book three. Sorry.

答：你知道卡莱尔当时父亲还在，爱德华、埃斯梅和爱丽丝他们就一个都没有了，真的。罗莎莉、不管怎样，有着一对溺爱她的父母和两个弟弟。自从她变成了吸血鬼之后，就再也没有见过他们了。埃美特是一大家子兼有着苏格兰—爱尔兰—美国血统中最年轻的一个。那时他的父母和兄弟姐妹都还活着。贾斯帕当时则有父母和一个妹妹。变成吸血鬼后他们也都再没有见过他们的家人。除了会招致怀疑之外这里还有一个很好的理由（还记得鲜红色的眼睛吗？在太阳眼镜和有色隐形眼镜发明之前要掩饰这个是有点难）。这个理由可以从多角度研究……在第三部书里。对不起哈。

Q: If the vampires don’t have blood, then where did it go? Did it just dry up? Evaporate? Or were they nearly drained of it by the one who changed them?

问：如果吸血鬼（本身）没有血液的话，那些血去哪了？仅仅是干了吗？蒸发了？还是几乎被咬他们的人消耗尽了？

A: The blood left in a newborn vampire’s body is used–burned like fuel, the same way the blood they drink from others is used for fuel. Here’s an analogy: think of it as the fat stores in your body. You’re still eating, but you use those fat stores up, too, over time (though not always; more’s the pity, so the analogy isn’t perfect unless you are successfully dieting). That blood left in them is used slowly over about a year.

答：留在新生的吸血鬼体内的血液是拿来使用的——像燃料一样燃烧掉，他们喝下去的血也是一样当作燃料来使用。这里有个类似的比喻就像脂肪贮藏在你的身体内一样。虽然你依旧一直在进食，但随着时间的过去，你也会把那些脂肪贮存起来，（然而却不能一直这样；很可惜，因此这个比喻并不完美除非你减肥成功）。留在他们体内的血液速度慢的话可以使用超过一年。

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