Bilingual: Fantastic Beasts
The fantasy film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald directed by David Yates and written by J.K.Rowling hit Chinese screens on Nov 16.
11月16日，由大卫·叶茨执导、改编自J.K.罗琳作品的魔幻电影《神奇动物：格林德沃之罪》在中国上映。
Rowling is known for choosing character names with hidden meanings.
众所周知，罗琳常会给笔下人物的名字赋予深意。
This tradition continues in
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,
which has plenty of interesting names to get into.
《神奇动物：格林德沃之罪》保留了这种传统。影片中有许多有趣的人名，值得一番深究。
Newt Scamander, one of the main characters in the film, is the most obvious, named after newts and salamanders to signal his love of animals.
主角之一——纽特·斯卡曼的名字含义最为明显。它由蝾螈和火蜥蜴组合而成，以此象征角色对动物的喜爱。
His two middle name are Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting, and Fido, a popular name for pet dogs.
他有两个中间名：阿耳特弥斯是指希腊狩猎女神；菲多常被用作宠物狗的名字。
Another character, Propentina Goldstein is named after porpentine, an old word for porcupine, signaling her prickly nature but attractive qualities to Newt.
另一位主角波尔蓬蒂娜·戈德斯坦恩的名字来源于古英语，意为豪猪，代表了她乖戾的性情，而这正是她吸引纽特的地方。
Goldstein refers to people who work with gold, but also suggests an alchemist. It is a common Jewish name.
戈德斯坦恩，本意指和黄金打交道的人，也可能是指炼金师。这是个常见的犹太名字。
The wizard Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore has the most interesting
name in the movie.影片中最有趣的名字当属巫师阿不思·珀西瓦尔·伍尔弗里克·布赖恩·邓布利多。
Albus is Latin for white, which could have some kind of symbolic explanation, but could also just refer to his beard.
阿不思在拉丁语中是“白色”的意思，白色可能有某种象征意义，但也可能只是指他的白胡子。
Percival was one of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. He was the original knight to search for the lost grail.
珀西瓦尔是亚瑟王的圆桌骑士之一。他是最初那个寻找丢失圣杯的骑士。
Rowling could have chosen the name to refer to Dumbledore’s bravery, sense of history, and inquisitiveness.
罗琳选择这个名字也许是暗示邓布利多是一个勇敢、具有历史感和求知欲的人。
Wulfric is an Anglo-Saxon name that means wolf ruler or wolf power.
伍尔弗里克是一个盎格鲁—撒克逊名字，意指狼的首领或狼之力量。
Rowling may have been nodding to Wulfric of Haselbury, a 12th-century British figure who was a miracle worker.
罗琳也许在借此向哈兹布里的伍尔弗里克致敬，他是12世纪英国的一位奇迹创造者。
Brian is often thought to be derived from an old Celtic word that means noble.
布赖恩通常被认为源于古凯尔特语，意为高贵。
Dumbledore is an old English word for bumblebee. “Because Albus Dumbledore is very fond of music, I always imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot,” Rowling said in a 1999 interview.
邓布利多在古英语里的意思是黄蜂。罗琳在1999年接受采访时说：“因为阿不思·邓布利多非常喜爱音乐，所以在我的想象中，他总是会自己哼个小曲。”
Auror Percival Graves has a gloomy-sounding name that could have tipped viewers off about the character’s untrustworthiness.
傲罗珀西瓦尔·格里夫斯的名字听起来有些阴郁，也许在暗示观众这个角色不值得信任。