Hi,
These sentences are from a conversation between two people watching a film of Niagara Falls. (This isn't the whole conversation, obviously; there are large chunks of it that I understand OK.)
1. 女： これはきっとヘリコプターから撮ったんでしょうね。こんな場所から普通は見られ るはずがないから。
My translation: "This must have been shot from a helicopter. It's not usually possible to see from this kind of position."
Is this OK? In particular, is 見られる potential form with omitted (and unimportant) subject "one", or "people in general".
2. 男： わあ、こんどは滝のアップだね。水がこっちにも 来そうだね。
I don't understand in what sense アップ is being used. Could the first sentence mean "Hey, that's now the top of the waterfall, right?"
For the second sentence I get "And the water seems to be coming towards us". Is this OK? Is it reasonable to translate も here as "And..."?
3. 男： あ、ちょっとビデオ止めて。
Is this an imperative (the man is asking the woman to stop the video), or is the man saying he is stopping (or about to stop) the video himself?
4. 男： じゃあ、もう一度やって見るよ。こうやってしば らく流れるのを見ていて、そしてストップ。
"Well, try it again. Watch (the water) flowing for a short while, then stop (the video)."
Again, are these imperatives, as I've translated?
5. 女： あれ！うそ！今滝の水があがって行った・・・。
"Look! No way! Now the water is going upwards!"
I'm guessing she is describing an optical illusion (a bit like the one you get when credits stop rolling at the end of a show, and then everything seems to scroll in the opposite direction). Does that seem right? But then why is あがって行った in the past tense, given that she seems to be experiencing the illusion as she speaks?
These sentences are from a conversation between two people watching a film of Niagara Falls. (This isn't the whole conversation, obviously; there are large chunks of it that I understand OK.)
1. 女： これはきっとヘリコプターから撮ったんでしょうね。こんな場所から普通は見られ るはずがないから。
My translation: "This must have been shot from a helicopter. It's not usually possible to see from this kind of position."
Is this OK? In particular, is 見られる potential form with omitted (and unimportant) subject "one", or "people in general".
2. 男： わあ、こんどは滝のアップだね。水がこっちにも 来そうだね。
I don't understand in what sense アップ is being used. Could the first sentence mean "Hey, that's now the top of the waterfall, right?"
For the second sentence I get "And the water seems to be coming towards us". Is this OK? Is it reasonable to translate も here as "And..."?
3. 男： あ、ちょっとビデオ止めて。
Is this an imperative (the man is asking the woman to stop the video), or is the man saying he is stopping (or about to stop) the video himself?
4. 男： じゃあ、もう一度やって見るよ。こうやってしば らく流れるのを見ていて、そしてストップ。
"Well, try it again. Watch (the water) flowing for a short while, then stop (the video)."
Again, are these imperatives, as I've translated?
5. 女： あれ！うそ！今滝の水があがって行った・・・。
"Look! No way! Now the water is going upwards!"
I'm guessing she is describing an optical illusion (a bit like the one you get when credits stop rolling at the end of a show, and then everything seems to scroll in the opposite direction). Does that seem right? But then why is あがって行った in the past tense, given that she seems to be experiencing the illusion as she speaks?
