vern 2008-8-26 22:07
很囧！英国媒体对闭幕式上“伦敦8分钟”的评价
很囧！英国媒体对闭幕式上“伦敦8分钟”的评价
英文原文：(翻译在后面)
Beijing Olympics: London 2012 handover blow to British pride
For the past couple of weeks it has been possible to feel an unaccustomed glow of pride at the achievements of our athletes at the Beijing Olympics. All those gold medals, fourth place in the league table – who would have dreamt it?
Then came yesterday’s closing ceremony, and Britain’s eight-minute window of opportunity to invite the world to London 2012 as the breathless BBC commentators put it. And guess what? We blew it spectacularly.
Amid the cast of thousands of thrillingly well-drilled Chinese dancers, acrobats, singers and fireworks technicians, a red, double-decker London bus chugged ominously into the bird’s nest stadium.
There was some naff modern dance from British youngsters pretending to be standing at a bus stop, and a cute 10-year-old girl chosen by the viewers of Blue Peter appeared at the bus door to receive a football to deliver to David Beckham, who later kicked it into the crowd of massed athletes.
How did he feel about this hardly challenging task, he was asked earlier.
"It’s very proud for London, very proud for myself," he replied inanely. What an archetypal British hero he is.
The roof of the bus eventually folded open to reveal green topiary depicting unrecognisable London landmarks and the X-Factor winner Leona Lewis rising up and up on a hydraulic lift and looking understandably uncomfortable in a dress that seemed to be made out of a couple of hundred yards of crumpled Bacofoil.
This was as nothing however to the horror of the raddled, sweat-drenched face of Led Zeppelin lead guitarist Jimmy Page, his snow-white hair unwisely tied back in a horrid little pigtail as he thrashed out the celebrated riff of Whole Lotta Love.
Unfortunately both he and Leona were virtually inaudible and all the palaver about toning down the song’s famously filthy lyrics was unnecessary because you couldn’t hear them anyway. The sound resembled a badly tuned transistor radio in a tin bucket, though elsewhere in the ceremony, and particularly when Placido Domingo sang, beautifully, it was perfectly acceptable.
In my time I’ve witnessed countless Royal Variety Performances and the opening ceremony of the Dome. This British fiasco was worse than any of them, and even at only eight minutes seemed interminable. No wonder London mayor Boris Johnson looked so uncomfortable beforehand. He must have known what was coming.
I have two tips for you, Boris. Keep your hands out of your pockets when attending high-profile events like this, and secondly fire whoever responsible for this fiasco and hire proper showbiz professionals – from Las Vegas if necessary – to handle the opening and closing ceremonies in 2012. Another toe-curling embarrassment like this would be unendurable.
vern 2008-8-26 22:07
在过去的几周内可以感受到我们的运动员在北京奥运会上迸发的不寻常的热情。所有的金牌得主，奖牌榜第四名的位置——谁曾想到过呢？
随即在昨天的闭幕式上，英国的8分钟窗口时间——邀请全世界前往伦敦2012年奥运会 ——正如BBC台窒息的解说所描述的那样。你猜咋了？牛皮吹爆了
在成百上千的令人战栗的牛逼的中国舞者，杂技演员，歌手和焰火技师之中，一辆红色的，双层伦敦巴士突兀凶恶的开进鸟巢体育馆
-一些英国的蹩脚的现代舞年轻人装作在巴士站等候，一个聪聪的10岁小姑娘被the viewers of 开船旗选中，出现在巴士门口，收到一个足球并转交给小贝，后者晚些时候将它踢向疯狂的运动员人群。
他对这一艰巨的任务有何感想呢？这是伦敦的骄傲，也是我的骄傲。他无比愚蠢地回答。多么典型的英国足球明星啊。
巴士的顶层最后展开，露出绿色的灌木装饰的不可辨认的伦敦地标和选秀节目的冠军-Leona Lewis——在液压电梯上缓缓升起，在一件似乎由200码皱褶的bacofoil做成的裙子里显得相当不安
更恐怖的是老糊涂的，汗哒哒的齐柏林飞艇的主因吉他手吉米佩吉，当他努力弹奏著名的whole lotta love 中的即兴段落时，他的雪白的头发不明智的向后梳成一个傻逼的小猪尾巴
不幸的是他俩事实上都难以被听见，并且所有关于这首歌著名的脏段子的八卦最终都变得无聊因为你几乎听不到他们。歌声如同一部放在铁桶里的糟糕的晶体收音机，尽管在意识的其他部分，尤其是多明戈延长的适合，声音优美并且易于接受。
俺目睹过无数的盛大演出也看了DOME(这个不大明白)的开幕式，这回英国的演出可真是一场彻头彻尾的失败，比我看过的那些演出中的任何一次都更糟糕，以至于演出虽然只有8分钟，都让人觉得冗长的无法忍受。怪不得伦敦市长包里斯囧孙在那之前看起来相当不爽-- 他一准是早就知道了接下来就要丢脸了。
波利斯(伦敦市长)，俺有两个锦囊妙计贡献给你：一，在如此盛大高端的场合下，丫儿地把手从你那兜兜里掏出来；二，赶紧炒了那个端出英国8分钟这么一锅垃圾的责任人，2012年英国办开幕式闭幕式的时候一定要雇些演艺圈里的专业人员--万不得已的时候从赌城拉斯维加斯找也成哪。咱谁也受不了到时候再来那么一出让人囧的脚趾头都抽抽的尴尬演出！！
vern 2008-8-26 22:09
转载自战斗在法国。
子曾经曰：总有20％的人，是什么都不满意的。
另一句废话：哪里都有愤青。能上网开骂的，思维方式都差不多。里面有些人的口气，是多么地熟悉啊！
最后，文化差异啊！
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大不列颠网友在批评政府方面也毫不含糊。我也觉得英国这8分钟确实让人失望。前面的短片有点007电影片头那种拼贴画的感觉，后来唱首歌加摇滚乐，意义就不大了，除非你要办成“摇滚奥运”，或者“平民奥运”，这段表演缺主题，所以节奏比较乱。这种舞蹈我在ARTE上看过，觉得德国人和法国人能做的更棒。
Oh my the Chinese will be ahard act to follow. What a shambles the British effort was, veryembarrassing indeed. A double decker bus, beckham, an xfactor winner, asweaty aging rock star, dancers with umbrellas throwng newspaperseverywhere. I guess a good symbol of modern day Britain. I fear ourefforts will always be second class to China. This might show newlabour off for what they are and what they have done to our once greatcountry
天啊，中国人的表演将是很难去学习，英国的表现是这么的丢脸，丢脸之极。一辆双层公交，贝克汉姆，一个选秀赢家，一个老摇滚明星，一群舞者拿这雨伞乱丢报纸，我猜这就是现代伦敦的标志。我恐怕我们的表现对比中国来说永远只能是二等。。。。。。
Thedancing was a bit straggly in the ” London ” routine . After seeing allthe cyclists taking part,the Chinese will think “Nobody can afford carsin London ”
伦敦的例行表演中登场的那些舞者简直就是群魔乱舞。眼看着那些骑着自行车的家伙也来凑热闹，中国人都会认为“伦敦人都买不起车啦”
TheBritish “teaser” was ok, but we were disappointed to see the performerin the wheelchair was not in fact disabled but was leaping around laterin the dance.
英国人还不赖，不过当我们发现那位坐轮椅的表演者根本不是残疾的时候–他在稍后的舞蹈中到处蹦达来着 — 好失望呀么好失望。
Didanyone else this the ‘London 8 minutes’ presentation was - dare I sayit - rubbish!? Leona sang her heart out on top of a ladder, on top of abus whilst 20 contemporary dancers did their stuff way below. It wasjust so low key relative to what had gone on before it.
这儿还有没有人也觉得这次“伦敦8分钟”表演根本就是–恕我直言–垃圾！？Leona站在那巴士顶上的高架子上唱歌，简直把她的小心肝都给吓破了；同时还有那20来个家伙在底下伴舞。跟之前的那些表演相比，真是够丢分的了。
Butoh, our offering at the closing ceremony was embarrassing.A red bus,apop singer, an ageing rocker and an overpaid ball kicker was awful.Where was our great Island heritage portrayed in all this flummery?
哦，我们在闭幕式上的表现真丢脸。一辆红吧是，一个流行歌手，一个摇滚老头，还有个我们付了太多薪水给他的踢球的家伙 — 这一切都太糟糕了。在这堆乱七八糟的糟粕里头，我们这个伟大岛屿的传承却无处可见。
Organisers - please do better for us in 2012.
组织者 — 行行好，好好干〜在2012年给我们挣点脸
And why can’t Boris button his jacket? Too fat or bad tailoring?
这句话是说他们市长的：为什么Boris上衣的扣子不扣起来？他太胖了还是衣服剪裁不合适？
I’vejust watched the Olympic closing ceremony, and as I feared, Britain’scontribution was embarassing and totally pathetic - I just hope theymanage to do better in 2012. It will obviously be impossible to rivalthe spectacular pageant that Beijing provided, but I thought thedancing (if you can call that dancing) and the Leona Lewis/Jimmy Pageeffort was just pitiful. Hopefully, we can ditch all this governmentinspired ‘Cool Britannia’ garbage and present something a bit moreslick and professional.
刚看了闭幕式，跟我担心的一样，英国的表现真丢人而且完全令人失望，我只希望他们2012年能搞好点儿。很明显我们没法跟北京搞出的壮观场面好点，但我想那些舞蹈（如果你管那个叫舞蹈）和俩歌手的表演都很令人遗憾。希望我们能够摆脱政府提倡的那些“酷酷的大不列颠”的垃圾，展现一些更专业和娴熟（？）的东西
I agree that Adrian Childs was poor: he seemed to think that he was on the One Show.
The London Bus routine was pretty much rubbish … the music was poor and everything smacked of pop culture. Period.
The Games themselves were superbly run. The BBC was teetering on the brink of overblown nationalism, however.
我也觉得Adrian Childs很可怜，他看上去以为自己是在个人秀。。
伦敦巴士的演出特别垃圾，音乐很糟糕，所有一切都带着流行文化时代的味道。
运动会本身搞得非常好，但bbc有过分的民族主义之嫌（是嫌bbc吹捧英国运动员太厉害？）
I’m staying in Singapore and feel embarrassed to go to work tomorrow after that dreadful showing by London 2012
我住在新加坡，在伦敦2012年可怕的表演过后我明天去工作的时候会感觉很尴尬。
I live in Germany and, like the person from Singapore, will be ashamed to meet my friends tomorrow
我住在德国，就像那个住新加坡人说的，明天去见朋友的时候会变的很丢脸。
JimmyPage and David Beckham have been massive icons of British popularculture. I’m not especially a fan of either, but they perfectly suitedto the ceremony.
Notbothered either way about Leona whatshername, but the chiefembarrassment, reducing us instantly to laughing stock of the world anddiminishing at a stroke the achievements of our athletes, was thepresence of Boris Bloody Johnson!!! This man symbolizes everythingwrong with Britain - a deeply untalented buffoon, with a thoroughlysinister interior. Get him off the stage once and for all.
Jimmy Page和贝壳都是英国流行文化的重大标志。我并不是他们的粉丝，但他们很适合这个演出。
那个叫Leona啥啥的演出我也不觉得糟（就是那个独唱的mm），但是最大的丢人之处，直接把我们埋汰成全世界的笑料并且抹杀了我们的运动员取得的成绩的，就是那个虾米BorisJohnson（伦敦那个混混市长）的出现！这家伙象征着英国所有糟糕的东西—-一个完全没有天赋的小丑，内心丑恶。把他永远逐出舞台吧！
WhenI heard about the plans for the London presentation, including the”arrangement” of the national anthem and the rehashed 70s rock music, Ithought “it can’t possibly be as bad as I’m imagining it”. Well, itwasn’t. It was a thousand, toe-curlingly hideous times worse. Againstthe dignity, seriousness and power of the Chinese displays, it was sofar beyond embarrassing, my brain has already almost forgotten it, in adesperate paroxysm of self-defence.
当我听到伦敦发表的计划，包括“安排的”国歌和70年代的摇滚歌曲，我想这不可能比我想象的还要糟糕，好了，它不是，它是千万倍的更加糟糕。对比尊严的，严肃的和力量的中国表演，它比丢脸还要丢脸，在绝望的自我保护状态下，我的大脑已经将它忘记。
omg, I hope our eight minutes during the closing ceremony is not a foretaste of the tackiness to come in four years time. “
It felt a lot longer than eight minutes….. Every cringe and every gasp of horror made it feel like a lifetime!
If that is all we have to offer, lets hope the rest of the world has popped out down the pub when we take centre stage.
Ourathletes deserve much better than this, they did us proud in Beijing(lets not forget the Paralympics too) and will continue to do so.
饿滴神，我希望闭幕式这8分钟不是预示着四年之后我们要展示出来的东西。
这个感觉不止8分钟，希望我们跑上台去表演的时候世界上其他人都跑出去泡吧了……（哈哈）
我们的运动员值得比这个好得多的东西，他们为我们在北京赢得了骄傲（别忘了还有残奥会）并且会继续这样做。
Mindyou, from the wretched logo to the vacuous miming chick to David BloodyBeckham, it was all a perfect reflection of London and England as theynow are: cheap, tatty, shallow, and above all laughing enormously attheir own jokes while the rest of the world looks on with contempt.Perfect.
Now, 2012… where can I go to avoid it all? Please can I move to China?
现在，2012－－跑到哪里我可以完全的避开它？请问我能搬到中国去吗？
Ihave been glued to the Olympics constantly and very proud of Team GBbut my god what on earth was that 8 minute section in the closingceremony.
The chinese put on a fantastic show and we have basically a red bus and a sparkler.
Who ever put this together should be sacked before we are embarressed anymore.
By the way BBC should be given a gold medal for the coverage, first class.
我一直迷着奥运会，也很为英国队的表现骄傲，可是饿滴神啊，闭幕式的8分钟到底在干啥啊！
中国人的表演非常令人着迷，可我们就只有一辆红巴士和一些发光物（是指巴士变形后出来的绿哇哇的东西咩？）
把这些东西搞到一起去的人应该被炒鱿鱼，在我们继续丢人之前。
ps：bbc的报道应该给颁一块金牌，一流的。
Abeautifully organised Games all around, then Boris appears, jacketundone, looking like a drunk who gatecrashed the party, what anembarrassment
一个组织有序的美丽的运动会，然后Boris出现了，
衣冠不整
像个酒鬼一样冲进了派对
多么令人羞耻啊！！！！！
Ihave a Grandson living and working in Beijing and I only hope he staysunder cover until the humilation dies down a little. It certainly willnever go away.
In 8 mins we have become the laughing stock of the world.
我有一个孙子生活和工作在北京，我只希望他在这丢人的气氛减小前藏好自己。它肯定永远不会消失。
在这8分钟，我们已成为世界笑柄
Ithought it was fine. Are we going to have to look forward to anotherfour years of whingeing about the Olympics? If so, I’m glad I’m livingin China.
（哈哈哈这大哥比较安心）
我觉得不错，是不是我们不得不面对着另外四年关于奥运会的抱怨？如果是的，我很高兴我现在住在中国。
—- Leona！ Poor girls must be so nervous!
—- She sounds like a whale mating
I didn’t think it was possibly but this both sucks and blows.
Grow up London 2012 and stop trying to be so ‘cool’. This is embarrassing.
—- 利昂娜！可怜的姑娘们很紧张吧!
—- 她听起来像是只正在交配的鲸鱼
我都不忍心这么说，但是这个的确是又SB又NC
成熟点，London 2012，别那么装酷。真丢人
