常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

Beam me up, sporty!

ロンドンオリンピックの開会式でUFOが「観覧」に来ていたと話題になっています。真偽のほどはオリジナルを観て、自分で判断してください。

Beam me up, sporty!は、英語母語話者にはおなじみのStar Trecで有名になったセリフ:Beam me up, Scotty!(「スコッティ!瞬間移動させてくれ!」)のもじりです。テレポテーション装置の操作係だったScottyはここではsporty(これは訳してもせんなきことでしょう)となっています。(UG)

Beam me up, sporty! UFO spotted among fireworks at Olympics opening ceremony

As fireworks lit up the heavens above the Olympics opening ceremony, watched by around a billion people, something else was seen among the whizz-bangs in the night sky... a UFO.
It may have ticked all the cliche boxes - saucer-shaped, bulge in the middle, metallic - but no one has yet stepped forward to explain the slow-moving object.

The incident came right at the close of last Friday's spectacular at the Olympic Park stadium in Stratford, east London at around 12.30am.
And it was just as Nick Pope, one of the UK’s top UFO experts, predicted only weeks ago - that mass summer events would be a prime time for crafts from other worlds to present themselves to mankind.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2181066/Olympics-2012-UFO-sighted-Games-opening-ceremony.html#ixzz22N5sFKgH


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