《KPOP猎魔女团》获奥斯卡最佳动画长片奖

近日，第98届奥斯卡奖项出炉。《Kpop猎魔女团》（Kpop Demon Hunters）获得奥斯卡最佳动画片奖。

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🤔️小作业：

1. What is the primary function of the examples involving Oona and her school life?

A. To demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing strategies aimed at children

B. To highlight the educational value of the film for young audiences

C. To compare children's and adults' reactions to the film

D. To provide anecdotal evidence of the film's cultural penetration at a grassroots level 

无注释原文：

How did Oscar winner Kpop Demon Hunters win hearts the world over?

From: BBC

Kpop Demon Hunters has won best animated film at the Oscars on Sunday evening - the latest in a growing list of accolades for the movie that has swept the world since it was released last summer.

At Oona Herman's elementary school in San Francisco, stickers of bright-haired characters from Kpop Demon Hunters have become the hottest currency.

Traded among students, these stickers, like so much else to do with the hit film -about a K-pop girl group using their golden voices to fight demons - are everywhere in eight-year-old Oona's life.

At Kpop Demon Hunters-themed birthday parties she attends, children get goodie bags with movie merchandise and pose for photos with giant cut-outs. Of course, they also scream along to the film's chart-topping soundtrack.

Oona cannot decide what she likes most about Kpop Demon Hunters, so she declares: "The characters, and all the dance moves and songs!"

Since its release on Netflix last summer, Kpop Demon Hunters has earned recognition on the biggest stages. It won the Golden Globe for best animated feature and best original song; it became the first-ever K-pop song to win a Grammy; and it has now won both Oscars it was nominated for as well.

The film's virality has taken the world by surprise - and its creators too.

So much so that when the film blew up, fans lamented over the lack of merchandise. Netflix told Hollywood Reporter that its pitch for merch ahead of the release drew only "soft" interest from retailers. Now companies are racing to get those toys on the shelves.

But Oona and her friends aren't the only ones under the spell of the demon-busting crooners. Her mother, Christine Kao, was surprised by how much she enjoyed it too.

"When we're watching it, I really cry every time," she tells the BBC.

"Oona's always like, 'Why are you crying?' I was like, 'Because it's so beautiful! I think that caught on to a lot of adults unexpectedly."

In the film, the protagonist Rumi finds herself torn between her responsibility as a demon hunter and her secret identity as a half-demon.

For Christine, this tension strikes a personal note.

"Just seeing an Asian American, her struggle with her family and expectation, there's a lot of identifiers there that we take with us," Christine says. "We didn't have something like this when we were children."

Of course, beyond the movie's fandom, this universal tale about self-acceptance comes in the form of a love letter to K-pop.

For Oona, the Saja Boys - the supernatural boy band in Kpop Demon Hunters - remind her of her favourite K-pop band BTS, "because they all look a little bit different and they always change their looks".

"It's really funny if you're a K-pop fan, there's a lot of inside jokes," says Dr Grace Kao, Oona's aunt and a sociology professor and K-pop researcher at Yale University.

"But if you're not a K-pop fan, you don't really need to get those jokes to enjoy it."

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为BBC官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

How did Oscar winner Kpop Demon Hunters win hearts the world over?

From: BBC

Kpop Demon Hunters has won best animated film at the Oscars on Sunday evening - the latest in a growing list of accolades for the movie that has swept the world since it was released last summer.

《Kpop猎魔女团》（Kpop Demon Hunters）在周日（3月15日）晚上夺下奥斯卡最佳动画片奖。自去年夏天上映以来，这部横扫世界的电影再添一个重要奖项。

demon /ˈdiː.mən/ 1）表示“恶魔，魔鬼”，英文解释为“an evil spirit”

2）表示“技法纯熟者；劲头十足的人”，英文解释为“a person who does a particular activity with great skill or energy”举个🌰：She works like a demon. 她工作起来很玩命。

accolade /ˈækəˌleɪd/ 作名词，表示“赞美，赞赏；荣誉，嘉奖”，英文解释为“praise and approval”举个🌰：He's been granted the ultimate accolade - his face on a postage stamp. 他获得了最高荣誉——他的头像被印在了邮票上。

sweep /swiːp/ 作动词，可以表示“风行，风靡，迅速蔓延，迅速传播；席卷；横扫”，英文解释为“to quickly spread through and influence an area”举个🌰：A flu epidemic is sweeping through Moscow. 一场流感正在莫斯科迅速传播。

📺电视剧《王冠》（The Crown）中的台词提到：Independence is sweeping across the continent. 独立运动席卷这片大陆。

📺动画片《辛普森一家》（The Simpsons）中的台词提到：A plague is sweeping through Springfield. 一场瘟疫正席卷斯普林菲尔德。

📍sweeping 作形容词，1）表示“影响广泛的；大范围的；根本性的；意义深远的”，英文解释为“having an important effect on a large part of sth”如：sweeping changes 彻底变化，举个🌰：They were given sweeping powers to search homes. 他们授予入户搜查的极大权力。

🎬电影《沉默》（Silence）中的台词提到：He wrote those words during the most sweeping persecution of all. 他写下这些话时 正经历着最为残酷的迫害。

2）sweeping statement/generalization 表示“泛泛之谈；一概而论的说法；过于笼统的概括”，英文解释为“something that you say or write that is too general and that has not been carefully thought about”举个🌰：Sweeping generalizations about this complex and difficult situation are not helpful. 对这种复杂困难的情形作泛泛之谈是没有用的。

At Oona Herman's elementary school in San Francisco, stickers of bright-haired characters from Kpop Demon Hunters have become the hottest currency.

美国旧金山的乌娜·赫尔曼（Oona Herman）就读的小学里，电影中那些亮发色角色的贴纸，已成为校园最热门的交换品。

sticker /ˈstɪk.ər/ 表示“粘贴标签；贴纸”，英文解释为“a small piece of paper or plastic with a picture or writing on one side and glue or another similar substance on the other side, so that it will fasten to a surface”如：a bumper/window sticker 保险杠/车窗贴纸。

1）表示“货币，通货”，英文解释为“the money that is used in a particular country at a particular time”如：foreign currency 外币。

2）表示“流行；流通；通用”，英文解释为“the state of being commonly known or accepted, or of being used in many places”举个🌰：His ideas enjoyed wide currency during the last century. 他的思想在上个世纪广为流传。

Traded among students, these stickers, like so much else to do with the hit film -about a K-pop girl group using their golden voices to fight demons - are everywhere in eight-year-old Oona's life.

学生们四处交换这些贴纸；就像这部爆红电影里的其他周边——一支Kpop女团用她们的金嗓子对抗恶魔——贴纸几乎存在于8岁的乌娜生活的所有角落。

At Kpop Demon Hunters-themed birthday parties she attends, children get goodie bags with movie merchandise and pose for photos with giant cut-outs. Of course, they also scream along to the film's chart-topping soundtrack.

在她参加的《Kpop猎魔女团》主题生日派对上，孩子们会收到周边礼袋和巨型立牌合照，当然也会跟着电影里登上排行榜的原声歌曲一起尖叫合唱。

goodie bag指的是在生日派对、活动或会议上分发给客人的“礼品袋”或“福袋”。goodie是goody的另一种常见拼写方式（尤其是在美式英语中），通常指好吃的东西、糖果、或者吸引人的小玩意。

merchandise /ˈmɜːtʃəndaɪz, -daɪs/ 表示“商品；货品”，英文解释为“goods that are bought or sold; goods that are for sale in a shop/store”如：a wide selection of merchandise 品种丰富的商品。

📍gross merchandise value，GMV，表示“（一段时间内）商品交易总额”。

cut-out指的是人形立牌或人形看板。为什么叫cut-out？因为它是按照人物的轮廓切割（cut out）出来的，所以并不是一张简单的长方形海报，而是有具体形状的人物模型。

Oona cannot decide what she likes most about Kpop Demon Hunters, so she declares: "The characters, and all the dance moves and songs!"

问到乌娜最喜欢什么时，她说不出单一答案，只能说：“角色、跳舞动作、还有所有的歌！”

Since its release on Netflix last summer, Kpop Demon Hunters has earned recognition on the biggest stages. It won the Golden Globe for best animated feature and best original song; it became the first-ever K-pop song to win a Grammy; and it has now won both Oscars it was nominated for as well.

自去年夏天在网飞上线后，《Kpop猎魔女团》在各种舞台上获得了认可。它拿下金球奖最佳动画片和最佳原创歌曲；成为首支获得葛莱美奖的Kpop歌曲；如今又赢下了它所入围的两个奥斯卡奖项。

nominate /ˈnɒm.ɪ.neɪt/ 1）表示“提名；推荐”，英文解释为“to formally suggest that sb should be chosen for an important role, prize, position, etc.”举个🌰：He was nominated (as) best actor. 他获得了最佳男演员的提名。

2）表示“任命；指定”，英文解释为“to officially choose someone for a job or to do something”举个🌰：She was nominated as the delegation's official interpreter. 她被任命为代表团的正式翻译。

📍nomination /ˌnɒm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ 表示“提名，推荐”，英文解释为“the act of officially suggesting someone or something for a job, position, or prize”，举个🌰：There have been two nominations for the new job. 这项新工作有两位提名人选。

📍nominee /ˌnɒmɪˈniː/ 表示“候选人；被提名人”，英文解释为“A nominee is someone who is nominated for a job, position, or award.”如：an Oscar nominee 获得奥斯卡提名的人。

The film's virality has taken the world by surprise - and its creators too.

这部电影的爆红现象让所有人——包括创作团队本身——都大感意外。

viral /ˈvaɪ.rəl/ 表示“（通过网络在个体之间迅速）病毒式的（传播）”，英文解释为“used to describe something that quickly becomes very popular or well known by being published on the internet or sent from person to person by email, phone, etc.”举个🌰：Here's a list of the top ten viral videos this week. 以下是本周十大病毒式传播的视频。

📍常用短语 go viral，字面意思就是“像病毒一样传播、扩散”，引申为“走红，十分流行，疯狂传播”，比如朋友圈xxx刷屏了，也可以说go viral.

📍名词形式virality.

So much so that when the film blew up, fans lamented over the lack of merchandise. Netflix told Hollywood Reporter that its pitch for merch ahead of the release drew only "soft" interest from retailers. Now companies are racing to get those toys on the shelves.

实在是太火了，以至于当它爆红之后，粉丝们都为买不到周边产品而叫苦不迭。网飞向《好莱坞报道者》（Hollywood Reporter）表示，当初他们向零售商推销周边商品时，收到“冷淡”的反馈，如今各家公司则抢着把玩具上架。

lament /ləˈment/ 1）作动词，表示“对…感到悲痛，对…表示失望，痛惜”，英文解释为“to express sadness and feeling sorry about something”举个🌰：My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society. 和往常一样，我奶奶对当今社会世风日下深感痛惜。

2）作名词，表示“挽歌；悼诗；悼文”，英文解释为“a song, poem, or other piece of writing that expresses sadness about someone's death”

pitch /pɪtʃ/ 作名词 1）表示“投球”，英文解释为“a throw in a baseball game”如：a good/bad pitch 质量好/差的投球。

2）表示“运动场地；（尤指）足球场”，英文解释为“an area painted with lines for playing particular sports, especially football”如：a football / hockey / cricket pitch 足球 / 曲棍球 / 板球赛场。

3）表示“（尤指乐音的）音高”，英文解释为“how high or low a sound is, especially a musical note”举个🌰：A basic sense of rhythm and pitch is essential in a music teacher. 基本的韵律感和音高感是音乐教师的必备素质。

4）表示“（感情、活动等的）程度，力度；（事物的）最高点”，英文解释为“the degree or strength of a feeling or activity; the highest point of sth”举个🌰：By this time their disagreement had reached such a pitch that there was no hope of an amicable conclusion. 此时，他们的分歧已如此之大，不可能善罢罢休。

5）表示“摊位”，英文解释为“a place in a public area where a person regularly sells goods or performs” 作动词，pitch /pɪtʃ/ 表示“竭力劝说”，英文解释为“to try to persuade someone to do something”举个🌰：She pitched her idea to me over a business lunch. 她在一次吃工作午餐时竭力向我游说她的想法。

6）be pitched into sth表示“突然有（某种不好的感觉）”，英文解释为“to suddenly experience a bad feeling”举个🌰：He was pitched (headlong) into despair by what happened to him in his final year at college. 大学最后一年发生的事使他一下子绝望了。

📍“pitch”还是一个商业术语，通常用于描述提出一个想法、产品、服务或企业给潜在的投资者、客户或合作伙伴的过程。可以将它翻译为“推销”，“销售提案”或“推介”。

But Oona and her friends aren't the only ones under the spell of the demon-busting crooners. Her mother, Christine Kao, was surprised by how much she enjoyed it too.

乌娜和她的朋友们不是唯一被这群会唱歌的驱魔偶像吸引的人。她的母亲克莉斯汀·高（Christine Kao）也非常意外自己竟然这么喜欢这部电影。

be/fall under someone's influence/spell表示“受（某人）影响／被（某人）迷住（常指不好的影响）”，英文解释为“to be affected by someone in a strong and often negative way”举个🌰：She fell under his spell when he was her tutor at university. 在他担任她的大学导师时，她被他深深吸引住了。

demon-busting是一个由动词转化而来的合成形容词，表示“驱除恶魔的”或“打击恶魔的”。

crooner /ˈkruː.nər/ 表示“低声哼唱者，低吟歌手（尤指男歌手）”，英文解释为“a singer, especially a man, who sings love songs”

"When we're watching it, I really cry every time," she tells the BBC.

“每次我们看，我都会哭。”她告诉BBC。

"Oona's always like, 'Why are you crying?' I was like, 'Because it's so beautiful! I think that caught on to a lot of adults unexpectedly."

“乌娜总问我：‘你为什么哭？’我就说：‘因为它好美！’我想很多大人都是这样被打动的。”

In the film, the protagonist Rumi finds herself torn between her responsibility as a demon hunter and her secret identity as a half-demon.

电影主角露米（Rumi）在身为驱魔人的责任，和自己半恶魔的秘密身份之间挣扎。

protagonist /prəʊˈtæɡənɪst/ 表示“（戏剧、电影或故事的）主要人物，主角，主人公”，英文解释为“the most important character in a play, film, or story”

类似的表达还有：

📍lead 表示“（戏剧、电影等中的）主角；扮演主角的演员”（the main part in a play, film/movie, etc.; the person who plays this part）如：the male/female lead 男/女主角。

📍main character 主要人物；主要角色；

📍star表示“主角，主演”（the person who has the main part, or one of them, in a film, play, show etc）；

📍hero和heroine分别表示“男主角/男主人公”（the man or boy who is the main character in a book, film, play etc）和“女主角/女主人公”（the woman or girl who is the main character in a book, film, play etc）

For Christine, this tension strikes a personal note.

对克莉斯汀来说，这样的矛盾非常贴近她的亲身经验。

表示“表示某种感情或观点；表达看法，传达感觉”，英文解释为“to express and communicate a particular opinion or feeling about something”举个🌰：I find it really difficult to strike the right note when I'm writing job applications. 我发现写求职信时很难说到点子上。

"Just seeing an Asian American, her struggle with her family and expectation, there's a lot of identifiers there that we take with us," Christine says. "We didn't have something like this when we were children."

“看到一位亚裔美国人，她与家庭期望之间的拉扯，这些对我们都是再熟悉不过的，”克里斯汀说，“我们小时候根本没有这样的故事。”

Of course, beyond the movie's fandom, this universal tale about self-acceptance comes in the form of a love letter to K-pop.

除了粉丝文化之外，这个关于自我接纳的普世故事也是一封写给Kpop的情书。

fandom /ˈfæn.dəm/ 1）表示“狂热喜爱，痴迷状态”，英文解释为“the state of being a fan of someone or something, especially a very enthusiastic one”如：the world of martial arts movie fandom 功夫片的痴迷世界。

2）表示“…迷，狂热爱好者；热烈崇拜者”，英文解释为“a group of fans of someone or something, especially very enthusiastic ones”举个🌰：Harry Potter fans have joined with members of fandoms from other popular books. 哈利·波特迷们跟其他流行书籍爱好者会合在一起。

Fandom的核心意思是指“粉丝圈”或“粉丝群体”，它特指对某个特定人物、团队、系列作品（如书籍、电影、电视节目）、流派（如科幻、奇幻）或任何流行文化现象有着共同热情的一群粉丝组成的社区或亚文化群体。

For Oona, the Saja Boys - the supernatural boy band in Kpop Demon Hunters - remind her of her favourite K-pop band BTS, "because they all look a little bit different and they always change their looks".

对乌娜来说，电影里的超自然男子团体 “四字男孩” （Saja Boys）让她想到自己最喜欢的团体防弹少年团（BTS），“因为他们每个人看起来都不太一样，而且总是在换造型。”

"It's really funny if you're a K-pop fan, there's a lot of inside jokes," says Dr Grace Kao, Oona's aunt and a sociology professor and K-pop researcher at Yale University.

“如果你是Kpop粉丝，会觉得它很搞笑，里面有很多内行梗。”耶鲁大学社会学教授、Kpop研究者、乌娜的阿姨葛瑞丝·高博士（Dr. Grace Kao） 说。

sociology /ˌsəʊ.siˈɒl.ə.dʒi/ 表示“社会学，社会关系研究”，英文解释为“the study of the relationships between people living in groups, especially in industrial societies”

"But if you're not a K-pop fan, you don't really need to get those jokes to enjoy it."

“但就算你不是，也完全不影响你享受这部电影。”

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