- 1旁白；畫外音（廣告、紀錄片裡看不到人的那個聲音）。注意跟「配音」（dubbing，蓋掉原聲、對嘴）不完全一樣
A voice-over is a voice you hear in a film, a TV programme, or an , spoken by someone you cannot see on the screen. The camera shows a beach, a product, a crowd of people — and a voice explains, or tells the story, or sells you something.
It covers several familiar things: the narrator of a documentary; the voice at the end of an saying the shop's name; a character's thoughts spoken aloud while we watch their face; and the translated voice laid over a foreign speaker in the news.
The word works three ways in practice:
- the spoken words themselves — 'The voice-over explains the history.'
- the job or skill — 'She does voice-over work for commercials.'
- as a verb, to voice-over something = to record that voice for it.
Writing note, and this is the part that trips people up: the spelling is . You will see voice-over, voiceover, and voice over all in print, from good publishers. The is the safest choice for the noun.
One distinction worth having: a voice-over is not the same as dubbing. In dubbing (配音) the original voice is removed and replaced, and the new voice tries to match the lips. In a voice-over the original sound usually stays underneath, quieter, and the new voice sits on top — which is exactly what 'over' means here.
「voice-over」指在電影、電視節目或廣告裡聽到的聲音，說話的人在畫面上看不到。鏡頭拍著海灘、商品或人群，同時有一個聲音在解說、講故事或推銷，這就是旁白。常見的例子有紀錄片的旁白、廣告結尾說出店名的聲音、角色的內心獨白，以及新聞裡蓋在外國人聲音上的翻譯。
這個字有三種用法。一是指那段旁白的內容，例如「The voice-over explains the history.」（旁白在解說歷史）；二是指這份工作或技能，例如「She does voice-over work for commercials.」（她替廣告做旁白的工作）；三是當動詞用，形式是「voice-over + 受詞」，意思是為某段畫面錄下那個聲音。拼法還沒有定論，名詞用連字號最保險。
它和配音不同。配音是把原來的聲音拿掉，換上新的聲音，還要盡量對嘴；旁白通常保留原聲，只是音量小一點，新的聲音蓋在上面，這正是「over」的意思。
From the word’s history
From voice + over.
由 voice（聲音）加 over（在上面）組成。
組成voice（聲音）+ over（在……之上）。字面就是「疊在畫面之上的聲音」——講的是聲音和影像的位置關係。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
voice-overnoun/ˈvɔɪsoʊvɚ/
- 1
A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.
- 2
A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content.
- 3
The voice audio track of such a broadcast.
- Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones). […] With Reality [Winner]’s voice-overs doing the bulk of the dramatic work, the movie depends heavily on editing to keep the action moving visually, and “Winner” may well prove to be one of the best-edited movies this year.
voice-oververb/ˈvɔɪsoʊvɚ/
- 1
broadcastingmediatelevisionTo supply the voice audio track for (a broadcast).
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