Coco: A Mexican Journey Pays Colorful Tribute to Family墨城為骨，家庭為魂
——《尋夢環(huán)游記》的奇幻之旅

⊙By Bob Mondello ⊙ 翻譯：思葦

在這個(gè)辭舊迎新的寒冬，有一部動(dòng)畫片用絢爛的色彩、歡快的音樂和溫馨的故事給全球動(dòng)畫迷捎來了一股散發(fā)著濃郁墨西哥風(fēng)情的感人暖流——皮克斯工作室?guī)е伦鳌秾舡h(huán)游記》回來了！

Pixar’s animators[動(dòng)畫師]seem willing to go anywhere in pursuit[追求]of fresh enchantment[魔法]. They plunged[跳進(jìn)]to the ocean’s depths in Finding Nemo, levitated[飄浮]with helium balloons[氦氣球]in Up, and entered a child’s mind in Inside Out. Now in the movie Coco, they’re visiting the afterlife.

Twelve-year-old Miguel lives with his shoemaking family in a Mexican village, his days happy except for one thing: His family has been music-free for three generations.His grandmother allows no blowing into soda[蘇打]bottles…

Grandma: No music!

No listening to passing car radios…

Grandma: No music!

No singing with strolling[巡演]players…

Grandma: No music!

Miguel: I think we’re the only family in Mexico who hates music.

Miguel knows why. Years ago, his musical great-great-grandfather grabbed[抓]his guitar and left, never to return. On Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), when it’s said the deceased[死者]return to visit their families,no one so much as[甚至]mentions great-greatgranddad—which means Miguel gets a bit of a shock when he strums[撥弄]a guitar in a cemetery on that day, and finds himself and his street puppy[小狗]transported to the land of the dead.

It’s the most eye-popping[驚人的]and lively afterlife you can imagine, with streets paved[鋪]in fluorescent[發(fā)光的]flower petals;but you can’t blame Pixar’s animators for splurging on[揮霍]images when the point of everything they do is family.

Coco, I should mention, is Miguel’s great-grandmother, the child of that musical great-great-grandfather who never came back. She anchors[壓陣]the film, as you’d expect a matriarch[女家長]to do, and she also figures[突出]in a moment that will reduce audiences to tears—but the tears are joyous[歡樂的]about memories that can unite families and even transcend[超越]death.

見招拆招

動(dòng)詞搭配：reduce to sth.

我們都知道reduce最常用的意思是“減少”，但它其實(shí)還有更豐富的含義，除了像本文例句一樣表示“迫使”，還可以表示“搗碎，簡化”等意思，而且經(jīng)常和to搭配使用，要注意to后面只能接名詞，如：

● Finally, the class was reduced to silence. （全班同學(xué)這才安靜了下來。）

● You can use this machine to reduce pebbles to powder. （你可以用這臺(tái)機(jī)器把小圓石碾成石粉。）

● Try to reduce all the questions to one.（盡量將所有的問題歸納成一個(gè)吧。）

參考譯文

為了尋找新的動(dòng)畫魔法，皮克斯工作室的動(dòng)畫師們不惜上天下地。他們?cè)凇逗５卓倓?dòng)員》里跳進(jìn)海洋深處，在《飛屋環(huán)游記》里乘著氦氣球升空，在《頭腦特工隊(duì)》里造訪一個(gè)孩子的心靈。這回的《尋夢環(huán)游記》，他們甚至跑到了亡靈世界！

十二歲的米格爾出身于一個(gè)鞋匠之家，他們生活在墨西哥的一個(gè)小村里。米格爾的日子過得挺快活的——只有一個(gè)問題：他家三代人都沒碰過音樂。他的奶奶不許他吹汽水瓶……

奶奶：不準(zhǔn)玩音樂！

不許他聽路過小車傳來的電臺(tái)聲……奶奶：不準(zhǔn)玩音樂！

不許他和巡游藝人一起唱歌……

奶奶：不準(zhǔn)玩音樂！

米格爾：我覺得全墨西哥只有我們家這么討厭音樂。

米格爾倒也明白個(gè)中緣由。許多年前，他有個(gè)熱愛音樂的高祖父，有天突然帶著吉他遠(yuǎn)走高飛了，再也沒有回來。在墨西哥，人們都說死去的人會(huì)在亡靈節(jié)這天回來，與在世的親人團(tuán)聚，家里卻沒有人愿意提及高祖父——結(jié)果，米格爾在這天跑到墓地里彈吉他，吃驚地發(fā)現(xiàn)他和他那只流浪犬“搭檔”竟然穿越到了亡靈世界！

這里的大街小巷鋪滿了光燦燦的花瓣，是你能想象到的最為驚人、最生機(jī)勃勃的死后世界；可你也別怪皮克斯的動(dòng)畫師在畫面上極盡鋪張之能事，畢竟他們所做的一切都圍繞著“家庭”這個(gè)主旨。

要說明的是，英文片名的“可可”其實(shí)是指米格爾的曾祖母，她正是那位為了音樂離家出走的高祖父的親生女兒。就像你所期待的大家長一樣，可可是整部電影的“定海神針”，她在其中一幕的表現(xiàn)還會(huì)讓觀眾潸然淚下——但這并不是悲傷的淚水，那里面承載著滿滿的回憶，這些回憶甚至可以超越死亡，將一家人維系在一起。