The camera zoomed in on the girl face.

对话

Rosalind: I’ve just seen an absolutely wonderful movie, so romantic.
Fiona: What was it about?
Rosalind: t was a very sad love story.
Fiona: How did it end?
Rosalind: The camera zoomed in on the girl’s face as her lover was being forced to leave her, probably for ever. Tears were just beginning to roll down her cheeks.
Fiona: Too gloomy for me I’m afraid. I like comedies.
罗莎琳：我刚刚看了一部非常好看的电影，非常浪漫。
菲奥纳：那部电影是在说什么？
罗莎琳：那是个很悲惨的爱情故事。
菲奥纳：故事怎么收场？
罗莎琳：女主角的情郎不得已和她诀别，而且可能永不回来。镜头拉近特写女主角的脸部，泪水开始沿她双颊滚滚而下。
菲奥纳：对我来说，这样的结局太忧郁了。我喜欢看喜剧。

照相机的自由焦距镜头，英文叫zoom lens，可把拍摄对象拉近或拉远。I took a close-up of the girl’s face at a distance using a zoom lens即‘我焦距镜头，从远处拍那位女孩面孔的脸部近距离特写’。Zoom也可以作动词。Zoom in (on someone/something)是‘拉近拍摄’，也作pan in；zoom out则是‘拉远拍摄’，也作pan out，例如：(1) I zoomed/panned in slowly on the huge crater the explosion had left in the road（我慢慢拉近镜头，拍摄爆炸在路面上留下的大洞）。(2) The camera zoomed/panned out to show her, standing all by herself, waving goodbye to her lover（镜头拉远，只见她独自一人站着，向情郎挥手道别）。Zoom in还可引伸解作‘集中注意某事’，例如：The paper zoomed in on the problem of child abuse（那份报纸特别探讨虐待儿童问题）。罗莎琳喜欢romantic电影。Romantic旧译‘罗曼蒂克’，是romance的形容词。古罗马人(Romans)用拉丁文(Latin)，后来拉丁文演变成意大利文、法文、西班牙文、葡萄牙文等等，统称为Romance languages（罗曼斯语）。中世纪时，教会仍用拉丁文，但一般人都用罗曼斯语，述说美人骑士的文学作品也是用罗曼斯语写成，所以romance有了今天所谓‘浪漫故事’的意思，而浪漫情怀也叫romance，例如：(1) On the bookshelf are some cheap romances（书架上有些低俗爱情故事）。(2) I love the romance of walking in the rain（我喜欢雨中散步的浪漫气氛）。