这些外国明星的名字发音可不容易,就连外国人也会经常读错,来看看你能读对几个呢?
<'u'#E@"sl $Sq:q0 As Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot can do anything - apart from getting people to pronounce her name correctly.
Nn6%9PX_) 在《神奇女侠》里,盖尔.加朵无所不能,但生活中,人们却总是读错她的名字的发音。
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You’ve probably been calling her Gal Gah-dote or Gal Gah-doh all this time. Or maybe you’re not at all sure and have been mumbling her surname, hoping no one will notice.
J.a]K[ci 你可能一直叫她Gal Gah-dote或Gal Gah-doh。或者也许你根本不确定怎么读,只能囫囵吞枣地读她的姓,
希望没有人会注意到。
-7ep{p- But the Israeli actress recently cleared up the confusion by telling Jimmy Kimmel it’s actually pronounced Gal Gad-dott.
sJZiI}Xc 但这位以色列女演员最近在《吉米-坎摩尔直播秀》上说,她名字的发音应该是“Gal Gad-dott”。
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She’s not the only one who’s struggled with name issues. Here are a few other famous faces whose name you may have been saying wrong.
9up3[F$ 她不是唯一一个被名字发音搞得头疼的人。以下这些著名的面孔,他们的名字你可能就说错了。
t@(HF-4~= %{W6PrY{ JK Rowling Twenty years ago, no one had heard of Harry Potter author JK Rowling. But with great fame comes great name mispronunciation.
1MFbQs^ JK 罗琳二十年前,没有人听说过《哈利波特》的作者JK罗琳。但随着她名声大振,对她的名字的错误发音也浩荡如山。
x}4q {P5$ Is it Roe-ling or Rowl-ling? The author once corrected an interviewer saying: "It’s Rolling - as in Stone."
9 hl_|r~%* 应该发“Roe-ling”还是“Rowl-ling”?她曾经纠正过一个采访者:“应该是‘Rolling’,像滚石那样。”
=X}J6|>X .-zom~N-? Amanda Seyfried Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried is constantly correcting people on how to say her name.
&oNAv-m^GD 阿曼达.塞弗里德《妈妈咪呀!》中的女明星阿曼达.塞弗里德也在不断纠正人们如何读自己的名字。
Z,gk|M3. Sieg-freed, Sigh-freed, Sieg-fred and Say-freed have all been said to her face, and every time she cringes.
F9^S"qv$ “Sieg-freed”,“Sigh-freed”,“Sieg-fred”和“Say-freed”等发音她都听到过,每次她都会皱眉。
wYea\^co She cleared it up once and for all in a 2012 interview - it’s Sigh-fred.
mh%VrAq 在2012年的采访中,她声明是读“Sigh-fred”。
z{q`G wW U{mYTN*:j$ Martin Scorsese Everyone knows it’s Scor-say-zee, right? Wrong. It’s Scor-sess-see.
$nb[GV 马丁.斯科塞斯大家都知道这是读“Scor-zee”,对吧?错误。是“Scor-sess-see”。
*. t^MP The director says so himself in the fifth series of Entourage.
W?&%x(6M 这位导演在《明星伙伴》第五集中说。
tQVVhXQ7 ^iA9%zp Barbra Streisand Last year Barbra Streisand made headlines after she complained to Apple boss Tim Cook about the way Siri says her name.
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抱怨,说Siri把她的名字读错了,后来这成了头条新闻。
Xw1*(ffk How is that? Well, it’s pretty much the way everyone pronounces it: Strei-zand.
*~`(RV 那么会错呢?嗯,几乎每个人都叫她“Strei-zand”呀。
h[ ZN+M "She pronounces my name wrong," the singer told NPR. "Streisand with a soft S, like sand on the beach."
i8p6Xht “她把我的名字说错了,”歌手告诉NPR。 “‘Streisand’有一个轻声的S,像沙滩上的沙子‘sand’一样。”
jXJyc'm7 So that’s Strei-sand to you and me.
6BlXLQ,8q 所以是“Strei-sand”,记住啦!
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Sy Charlize Theron The South African actress has had a rough time getting people to say her surname right.
qq?!LEZ 查理兹.塞隆这位南非女演员为了教人们正确读她的名字,曾经历了一段困难时期。
S:}7q2: It’s not Ther-on or Ther-own (rhymes with Throne) - she goes by Ther-in.
+T ?NH9 不是“Ther-on”或者“Ther-own”,而是“Ther-in”.
'u658Tj To make things even more confusing, that’s not even her actual name either. In Afrikaans, it’s pronounced Shar-leeze Thrawn, but she’s opted for Ther-in as she thinks it’s easier to say.
Om&Dw|xG8 往深一步讲,这甚至不是她的实际名字。在南非语中,它是发音“Shar-leeze Thrawn”,但她选择了“Ther-in”,因为她认为这更容易发音。
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