The Shape of Water has the most Academy Award nominations this year with 13, including Best Picture. Now, just in time for Oscar voting, a new lawsuit could threaten the film's chances.
今年《水形物語(yǔ)》獲得了最多項(xiàng)（13項(xiàng)）奧斯卡金像獎(jiǎng)提名，其中包括最佳影片獎(jiǎng)。如今，正值奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)投票評(píng)選期，一項(xiàng)新的訴訟可能會(huì)威脅到這部影片的獲獎(jiǎng)機(jī)會(huì)。

The son of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Zindel filed a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming that The Shape of Water ripped off his father's 1969 play Let Me Hear You Whisper. In the play, a cleaning lady in a lab attempts to rescue a dolphin that's slated to have its brain dissected .
普利策獎(jiǎng)獲得者保羅?津德?tīng)柕膬鹤佑谛瞧谌崞鹪V訟，控告《水形物語(yǔ)》抄襲了他父親1969年的劇作《讓我聽(tīng)到你的低語(yǔ)》。在這部劇中，一名實(shí)驗(yàn)室的女清潔工試圖拯救一只大腦將被解剖的海豚。

In The Shape of Water, a janitor (Sally Hawkins) falls in love with a humanoid water creature (Doug Jones) that’s being held captive in a military lab.
而《水形物語(yǔ)》則主要講述了一名清潔工（莎莉?霍金斯飾）愛(ài)上了一個(gè)被囚禁在軍用實(shí)驗(yàn)室的水生人形生物（道格·瓊斯飾）。

In the lawsuit, Zindel claims the “Defendants have plainly incorporated numerous copyright protectible [sic] literary elements,” and that The Shape of Water producer Daniel Kraus knowingly cribbed his father's work:
在訴訟中，津德?tīng)柗Q“被告方顯然結(jié)合了大量受版權(quán)保護(hù)的文學(xué)元素”，而且《水形物語(yǔ)》的制片人丹尼爾·克勞斯故意剽竊了他父親的作品：

KRAUS is both on record as an admirer of Zindel's work, and came up with the “idea” for the Picture the very year Zindel's Play first aired on national television. These and other telling details from the writing and production of the Picture strongly evidence that Defendants knowingly infringed Zindel's Play.
克勞斯曾公開(kāi)表示自己欣賞津德?tīng)柕淖髌?，而且他是在津德?tīng)柕淖髌肥状卧趪?guó)家電視臺(tái)播出的那年提出了這部影片的“構(gòu)思”。這些情況以及這部影片創(chuàng)作和拍攝過(guò)程中的其他頗有說(shuō)服力的細(xì)節(jié)有力地證明了被告方故意抄襲津德?tīng)柕淖髌贰?/div>

But the Shape of Water's distributor Fox Searchlight isn't having any of it:
然而，《水形物語(yǔ)》的發(fā)行方?？怂固秸諢粲皹I(yè)公司不接受以上所有指控：

“These claims from Mr. Zindel's estate are baseless, wholly without merit, and we will be filing a motion to dismiss. Furthermore, the estate's complaint seems timed to coincide with the Academy Award voting cycle in order to pressure our studio to quickly settle. Instead, we will vigorously defend ourselves and, by extension, this groundbreaking and original film.”
“津德?tīng)栂壬P(guān)于版權(quán)的主張是毫無(wú)依據(jù)的，我們會(huì)提議駁回的。而且，這起版權(quán)投訴似乎特意選擇在奧斯卡金像獎(jiǎng)投票評(píng)選期提出，以便向我們公司施壓使我們盡快解決。但是，我們會(huì)積極為自己辯護(hù)，以此證明我們這部作品是原創(chuàng)的新電影?！?/div>

The chances of Zindel's lawsuit derailing The Shape of Water‘s Oscar showing are slim. The terrain for intellectual property is often too murky for accusers like Zindel to build a case with any traction.
津德?tīng)柕钠鹪V干擾《水形物語(yǔ)》奧斯卡獎(jiǎng)評(píng)選的可能性很小。對(duì)于像津德?tīng)栠@樣想要提起相關(guān)內(nèi)容牽涉訴訟的控告者而言，知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)領(lǐng)域往往太過(guò)于復(fù)雜。

A previous claim?that del Toro's latest movie stole ideas from a 2015 student film came and went in January. Moreover, accusations of plagiarism against high-profile films crop up like clockwork every year, especially around this time.
先前在1月份就有一份聲明稱，德?tīng)枴ね辛_新推出的電影竊取了一位2015級(jí)學(xué)生的電影構(gòu)思。此外，對(duì)于備受關(guān)注的影片，剽竊的控告每年都層出不窮，特別是在這段時(shí)期（各大獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)的評(píng)選期）。

But hey, maybe more people will read?Let Me Hear You Whisper now, so there's that.
不過(guò)，嗨，也許更多人現(xiàn)在會(huì)去讀一下《讓我聽(tīng)到你的低語(yǔ)》這部作品，所以這大概就是他們的目的吧。

（翻譯：Dlacus）