Italiano
Recentemente stavo parlando con un amico cinese.
Si discuteva di un fornitore che è di statura veramente piccola, poi è anche magro magro e parla con un pesante accento, si mangia le parole, insomma non si capisce veramente niente.
Ad un certo punto il mio interlocutore dice: “È come un HABI.”
Al che rimango un po’ interdetto, e chiedo “Che cosè’ un HABI?”
E lui: “Ma sì, quelli del film, che erano tutti nani, poi ce n’era uno brutto.”
Continuavo a non capire. “Scusa, veramente non capisco di che film si tratti.”
Lui non capiva come potessi non conoscere questo famosissimo film. “È un film famoso. Sono tutti nani, e fanno la guerra con quelli brutti, ma ce n’era uno brutto e piccolo e nudo che li aiutava.”
Insomma ci ho messo un po’ ma alla fine ho capito che aveva visto “Il signore degli anelli” e non aveva capito niente, ma gli erano rimasti impressi i personaggi, e in particolare gli “Hobbit”.
中文
最近的某一日，我和一个中国朋友聊天，谈到了一个供应商。这人个子矮小，而且也很瘦很瘦。说话的时候，口音很重，还吞音。总之，我很难明白他想说什么。
这时候，我的朋友说了：“他就像‘哈比’”。
一瞬间，我有点懵懂，就问他：“‘哈比’是什么？”
“什么，就是那个电影，都是小矮子，还有一个特别丑。”
我还是一头雾水。“不好意思，我真是不知道你说的是什么电影。”
他搞不懂我怎么能不知道这部如此著名的电影呢！“是一部很有名的电影，都是侏儒，和那些怪物作战。还有一个矮矮的光着身子的丑八怪帮他们。”
半饷儿，我才明白，他说的是“指环王”！
但是他对那部电影真是一丁点儿也没理解，只是那些人物角色给他留下了深刻的印象罢了，特别是”Hobbit”。
English
One day I was chatting with a Chinese friend.
We were talking about a supplier, one who is very short, skinny, and talks with an heavy accent, also mumbles a lot, all in all I have extreme difficulty understanding what he says.
My friend said he was like a “HABI.”
I was a little surprised, and asked “What’s a HABI?”
He went on saying: “Come on, that movie, they were all dwarves, and there was one really ugly.”
I couldn’t recollect a movie like that: “Sorry, I don’t know which movie are you talking about”.
He couldn’t come to terms with the fact that I didn’t know that masteripece: “That is a really famous film. They are all dwarves, they go to war against the ugly ones, but there is one hideous and naked who helped them.”
Well I had to think well but in the end I realized that he was talking about “The lord of the rings”, of which he didn’t understand a shred, but he was impressed by the characters, in particular the “Hobbits”.