Name: 為什麼字幕與配音不匹配？ (Why don't subtitles match dubbing?)
Uploaded: 2025-06-17T17:25:02.000Z
Duration: 8 min 26 s

This video has been dubbed and subtitled into several languages.

本視頻已配音並配有多種語言的字幕。

On most devices, you can call up YouTube's settings and switch between them.

在大多數設備上，你都可以調出 YouTube 的設置並在它們之間切換。

And if you do, you'll find that outside the original language, English, the words in the subtitles and dubbing often don't match.

如果你這樣做了，你就會發現在原語（英語）之外，字幕和配音中的單詞經常不一致。

Which happens a lot, mostly in professional TV shows, and it can be frustrating for those of us who like to listen but also use subtitles.

這種情況經常發生，主要是在專業電視節目中，這讓我們這些既喜歡聽又喜歡使用字幕的人感到沮喪。

The short reason why is subtitles and dubbing are usually done by different teams of people.

原因很簡單，字幕和配音通常是由不同的團隊完成的。

But to answer why that happens, I need to take you on a journey that's going to involve geese, a rollercoaster, and this advert.

但要回答為什麼會這樣，我需要帶你們踏上一段旅程，其中會涉及鵝、雲霄飛車和這則廣告。

This video is actually sponsored by NordVPN, who have been very useful as I've been travelling around.

這段視頻實際上是由 NordVPN 贊助的，他們在我四處旅行時非常有用。

Visit nordvpn.com.com.au to find the best deal they're offering right now.

請訪問 nordvpn.com.com.au，瞭解他們現在提供的最佳優惠。

Now, in most of the languages that that advert was translated into, the subtitles and dubbing pretty much match.

現在，在該廣告被翻譯成的大多數語言中，字幕和配音基本吻合。

In French, Spanish and Portuguese, the word order is roughly the same as in English, and it's a simple translation.

在法語、西班牙語和葡萄牙語中，詞序與英語大致相同，翻譯起來也很簡單。

But in the most obvious Hindi translation, the company name sits in the middle of the sentence, and standard practice for modern professional dubbing is to match lip movements as closely as possible.

但在最明顯的印地語翻譯中，公司名稱位於句子中間，而現代專業配音的標準做法是儘可能地配合脣部動作。

Now, there is a way to rephrase a sentence in Hindi so that the company name sits at the end.

現在，有一種用印地語改寫句子的方法，可以將公司名稱放在句尾。

The dubbing team chose that option, and the lip movements pretty much match.

配音團隊選擇了這一方案，脣部動作也基本吻合。

But the subtitling team didn't see any reason to do that, and so the lines are different.

但字幕組認為沒必要這麼做，所以臺詞就不一樣了。

In Japanese, which has the same problem, the dubbing team instead found a translation where the lip movements look close enough.

在存在同樣問題的日語中，配音團隊反而找到了一種脣部動作看起來足夠接近的翻譯。

But why don't they just take the dubbing script and then turn it into subtitles?

但是，他們為什麼不直接把配音劇本變成字幕呢？

為什麼要把所有東西翻譯兩遍？

Well, subtitles have their own limitations.

I gave the translation teams for this video some deliberately difficult examples.

我故意給本視頻的翻譯團隊舉了一些很難的例子。

A few years ago, I made a video on YouTube's copyright systems, and it included this sidebar about a song that I don't like.

幾年前，我製作了一個關於 YouTube 版權系統的視頻，其中的側邊欄介紹了一首我不喜歡的歌曲。

Maroon 5's Memories is an infuriating composition that uses the start of the melody of Canon in D but never resolves it, which means that it has the same stuck-in-your-head effect as the jingle from Alfred Best's The Demolished Man, and I hate it.

Maroon 5 的《Memories》是一首令人惱火的作品，它使用了《Canon in D》旋律的開頭，但卻從未解決它，這意味著它與阿爾弗雷德-貝斯特的《The Demolished Man》中的廣告語一樣，具有讓人難以忘懷的效果，我討厭它。

The modern approach to subtitling in most languages is that reading is faster than talking, and that even for fast talking like that, you put every word on screen.

大多數語言的現代字幕製作方法是，閱讀比說話更快，即使是快速說話，也要把每個字都顯示在螢幕上。

If you watch anything in English that was subtitled more than 10 or 15 years ago, like reruns on television or movies on DVD, you'll find the subtitles often summarise what's said.

如果您觀看的是 10 年或 15 年前有字幕的英語節目，如重播的電視或 DVD 電影，您會發現字幕往往是對所講內容的總結。

Style guides used to emphasise the skill in careful and sensitive subtitle editing, because they thought it was important that everyone got the meaning, even if they were a slow reader, because you couldn't easily pause and go back.

文體指南曾經強調，編輯副標題要仔細、敏感，因為他們認為，即使閱讀速度慢，也要讓每個人都明白意思，這一點很重要，因為你不能輕易地暫停和返回。

And besides, why would someone who can hear watch video with subtitles?

再說，一個聽得見的人為什麼要看有字幕的視頻呢？

It's not like we'd all end up with tiny televisions in our pocket, or sound-mixing changes would mean that dialogue was going to be suddenly difficult to hear.

這並不意味著我們的口袋裡都會裝上微型電視機，也不意味著混音技術的改變會讓對白突然變得難以聽清。

In the original English version of that Maroon 5 rant that I just did,

在我剛剛發表的那篇《Maroon 5》咆哮的英文原版中、

I made a reference to The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, which isn't that well-known even in English, so for Japanese viewers who have probably never heard of it, the local subtitle translator decided to remove the reference entirely and get the same meaning across in fewer characters.

我提到了阿爾弗雷德-貝斯特（Alfred Bester）的《被毀滅的人》（The Demolished Man），這本書即使在英語中也不是那麼有名，所以對於可能從未聽說過這本書的日本觀眾來說，當地的字幕翻譯決定完全刪除這個參考資料，用更少的字元來表達同樣的意思。

Opinions can differ, but I think that's a pretty solid decision.

雖然眾說紛紜，但我認為這是一個非常正確的決定。

If they'd just taken the breathless, high-speed performance of the Japanese voice actor, then it would have been a worse experience for subtitle readers.

如果他們只是採用日本配音演員氣喘吁吁的高速表演，那麼對於字幕讀者來說，體驗會更糟糕。

Well done to the voice actor, by the way, that cannot have been easy.

順便說一句，配音演員幹得漂亮，這可不容易。

And this is just to translate one person performing a script.

而這僅僅是翻譯一個人的劇本。

Imagine if it was a reality show with six people shouting and talking quickly and stumbling the words and interrupting each other.

試想一下，如果這是一檔真人秀節目，六個人大喊大叫，語速飛快，說話磕磕絆絆，互相打斷。

The subtitles would have to summarise, while the voice actors for the dub can shout over each other.

字幕必須進行總結，而配音演員則可以互相喊話。

But it does mean that in this case, for some Japanese viewers, that reference is lost.

但這確實意味著，在這種情況下，對於一些日本觀眾來說，這種參考意義就消失了。

That's one of the other big challenges with translation.

How much do you translate the words versus translating the meaning?

翻譯字詞與翻譯意思的比例是多少？

這裡還有一個非常困難的例子。

The English version of that joke is pretty much impossible to translate.

這個笑話的英文版幾乎無法翻譯。

It relies not just on a pun, but on knowledge of colloquial English.

它依靠的不僅僅是雙關語，還有英語口語知識。

You have to know that going can mean making a noise.

你必須知道，"去 "意味著發出聲音。

You have to know that cheap is the English word for the noise that baby birds make.

你必須知道，"賤 "是英語單詞，表示小鳥發出的聲音。

And you have to know that going cheap, spelled differently, is slang for on sale at a good price.

你必須知道，"便宜"（going cheap）的拼寫不同，是 "物美價廉"（on sale at a good price）的俚語。

I loved seeing the responses from the translators on this example.

我很喜歡看到譯者們對這個例子的迴應。

A couple of folks translated it word for word and just gave up on the joke.

有幾個人一字不差地翻譯了出來，卻放棄了這個笑話。

But I do want to highlight a couple of them.

The Portuguese subtitle and dubbing teams came up with the same joke, and so did the Spanish subtitler.

葡萄牙語字幕組和配音組想出了同樣的笑話，西班牙語字幕組也想出了同樣的笑話。

Ganso in both languages means goose, and cansado means tired.

兩種語言中，Ganso 的意思都是鵝，而 cansado 的意思都是累。

So they combined them into the word gansado, and now I'm asking if anyone wants the goslings because I'm goose-slash-tired of them?

所以，他們把這兩個詞合併成了 "鵝"（gansado）這個詞，現在我想問一下，有沒有人想要 "鵝苗"，因為我已經厭倦了 "鵝苗"。

And both the French and Spanish dubbing teams came up with their own puns based on their language's words for bird noises.

法語和西班牙語配音團隊還根據各自語言中的鳥叫聲，想出了自己的雙關語。

Because yes, the sounds that animals are said to make differ in each language.

因為是的，每種語言中動物發出的聲音都不一樣。

This is translating meaning and intent, not just words.

這是翻譯意義和意圖，而不僅僅是文字。

In case you're wondering, I did try several AI translation tools, as well as just asking Large Language Model to translate this stuff.

如果你想知道，我確實嘗試過幾種人工智能翻譯工具，也請大型語言模型翻譯過這些東西。

And as of right now, as of 2023, capturing that nuance, that meaning, that performance, definitely still requires humans.

而從現在開始，到 2023 年，捕捉這種細微差別、意義和性能肯定仍然需要人類。

At least for the goose clip, the translators didn't have to match my lips, but they did have to match the goose's honk because I talked over it!

至少在鵝的片段中，譯員不需要配合我的嘴脣，但他們必須配合鵝的鳴叫，因為我說話的聲音蓋過了鵝的鳴叫聲！

So they had to go to another bit of the video that you didn't see, copy and paste the background noise and a different goose honk from there, and synchronise them up.

是以，他們不得不轉到你沒有看到的另一段視頻中，複製並粘貼背景噪音和不同的鵝叫聲，然後將它們同步起來。

All of which comes together for this example.

所有這一切都彙集到了這個例子中。

Last year, I made a video where I tried to get over my phobia of roller coasters.

去年，我製作了一段視頻，試圖克服我的雲霄飛車恐懼症。

And just after my terror changed to joy on a ride called Nemesis,

而就在那之後，我在一個名為 "復仇女神 "的遊樂設施上由驚恐轉為喜悅、

And more than that, it's kind of obscure slang.

不僅如此，它還是一種晦澀難懂的俚語。

Different people in different parts of Britain might use it for different things, and it's almost impossible to Google.

英國不同地區的不同人可能會用它來做不同的事情，而且幾乎不可能用谷歌搜索。

In my context, it's a cry of excitement, triumph, adrenaline, encouragement, success.

在我的語境中，它是興奮、勝利、腎上腺素、鼓勵、成功的吶喊。

It's the sort of thing that you might yell after your team scores a goal, or to cheer on your friend after they've successfully downed two pints of lager back-to-back.

你可能會在球隊進球后大喊大叫，或者在朋友連續喝下兩品脫啤酒後為他們加油打氣。

It feels very male, very drunken lads night out.

它給人的感覺非常男性化，非常醉醺醺的男人之夜。

I did pass a note with all that context onto the translators.

我確實把所有這些背景資料都交給了翻譯人員。

But for many productions, they won't be working with notes.

但對於許多製作來說，他們不會使用註釋。

They'll only have the original show, and maybe the script if there is one.

他們只有原版節目，如果有劇本的話，也許還有劇本。

So here is that cry in all the video's languages.

是以，我們在這裡用視頻中的所有語言來吶喊。

Subtitling teams have the choice of any word or phrase, but they have to fit the words on the screen.

字幕組可以選擇任何單詞或短語，但必須符合螢幕上的單詞。

Dubbing teams can get their voice actors to emote in the studio as much as possible, but the lip movements have to match.

配音團隊可以讓配音演員儘可能在錄音室裡做出表情，但脣部動作必須配合。

這就是字幕和配音不同的原因。

And if you want a perfect example of that, this advert has also been translated into five languages.

如果你想要一個完美的例子，那就是這則廣告還被翻譯成了五種語言。

And no matter which one you speak, you can push NordVPN's magic Quick Connect button, and your phone and computer can pretend they're in any one of around 60 countries, from Albania to Vietnam.

無論您說的是哪個國家，只要按下NordVPN神奇的快速連接按鈕，您的手機和電腦就能假裝身處從阿爾巴尼亞到越南等約60個國家中的任何一個。

So if you're travelling and want websites to stop automatically translating for you, it's easy.

是以，如果您正在旅行，並希望網站停止為您自動翻譯，這很容易做到。

Or if you want to watch stuff from another country, but it's blocked where you are, you can.

或者，如果您想觀看其他國家的節目，但您所在的國家屏蔽了這些節目，您也可以觀看。

Just check the streaming service's terms and conditions first.

請先查看流媒體服務的條款和條件。

NordVPN works on Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, up to six devices at the same time, and there's a 30-day money-back guarantee.

NordVPN 可在 Windows、Linux、Mac、iOS 和 Android 上運行，最多可同時運行六臺設備，並提供 30 天退款保證。

所以，如果你不確定，還是試試吧。

When I first used it, I thought I'd only use it occasionally.

第一次使用時，我以為只是偶爾用用。