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Everyone is welcome to discuss the issue of context.

2008-01-03View Original

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Many times, you know the meaning of a sentence, but after translation, it loses the feeling, tone or quality of the original text. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve both semantics and context. Let me give you an example of mine first.: The thing is like this, we asked some questions about the PFD given by the foreigner, and the foreigner answered our questions one by one. Finally, he wrote this: We do not see any “show stopper” type issues . I translated it like this: “We don't see any critical issues. ” Here he used a rather playful word "show stopper". Although I knew what he meant, I couldn't find a corresponding word in Chinese to translate it. Have you had similar experiences? Or can you share your thoughts on this "show stopper"? Everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion :D
Reply #22008-01-03
“"show stopper" originally meant: The performance was interrupted by prolonged applause. Here, the whole sentence is translated as: We don't see any outstanding issues.

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