Lesson 145HSK 6

片名 Piànmíng — The Title

第三年 · Third Year

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苏小雨
片子快剪完了，可是片名还没定，报名表上第一栏就是片名，下个月就得填。我列了十几个候选的名字，什么《弄堂》《最后一年》《再见晴川里》，越看越觉得俗气。外婆，您帮我们起个好听的名字吧？
Piānzi kuài jiǎn wán le, kěshì piànmíng hái méi dìng, bàomíngbiǎo shang dì-yī lán jiù shì piànmíng, xià ge yuè jiù děi tián. Wǒ liè le shíjǐ ge hòuxuǎn de míngzi, shénme 《Lòngtáng》 《Zuìhòu yì nián》 《Zàijiàn Qíngchuān Lǐ》, yuè kàn yuè juéde súqi. Wàipó, nín bāng wǒmen qǐ ge hǎotīng de míngzi ba?
The film's nearly edited, but we haven't settled on a title, and the title is the very first box on the application form — we have to fill it in next month. I've listed a dozen-odd candidates — The Lane, The Last Year, Goodbye Qingchuan Lane — and the more I look, the tackier they seem. Grandma, would you help us come up with a good name?
顾阿婆
我哪会起名字，我这辈子只给你妈起过名字，还是你外公翻了三天字典才定下来的。要我说，就叫《晴川里》，弄堂没有了，名字总还在。名字好比一个人的魂，房子拆了，魂还在人心里。
Wǒ nǎ huì qǐ míngzi, wǒ zhè bèizi zhǐ gěi nǐ mā qǐ guo míngzi, háishi nǐ wàigōng fān le sān tiān zìdiǎn cái dìng xiàlai de. Yào wǒ shuō, jiù jiào 《Qíngchuān Lǐ》, lòngtáng méiyǒu le, míngzi zǒng hái zài. Míngzi hǎobǐ yí ge rén de hún, fángzi chāi le, hún hái zài rén xīnli.
What do I know about naming things? The only name I ever chose was your mother's, and even that took your grandfather three days with the dictionary. If you ask me, call it Qingchuan Lane: the lane is gone, but the name is still here. A name is like a person's soul — the houses are torn down, but the soul stays in people's hearts.