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Need a word or phrase translated?
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Mike-san is correct. フケ is 吹け, and this would be from a set phrase エンジンを吹かす "to rev up an engine". フケ上がり/吹け上がりがいい means "(the engine) has good throttle response".
Could it be the abbreviation of ウインカー "blinkers/winkers"?2) The word "ウイ" in Electrics section it translates as "women" or "virus". There is another meaning also, I'm sure
I didn't find proper examples in the inet. So, the sole example is the line from the sheet:
<ウイ> S多A ("<Women> scratch Multi-rust")
Hello!
I'm reading a novel in which a character is about to pick up some strawberries that his friend had harvested. He then makes this comment:
あいつの育て方がよかったのか、かなり豊作だった。全部で百粒くらいだろうか。
He seems to be commenting on the way his friend grew those strawberries, but the interrogative particles in the sentences confuse me. Is he saying his friend's method is a good one or a bad one? And in the second sentence, is he saying there are around 100 strawberries?
Thank you for your time!
I'm reading a novel in which a character is about to pick up some strawberries that his friend had harvested. He then makes this comment:
あいつの育て方がよかったのか、かなり豊作だった。全部で百粒くらいだろうか。
He seems to be commenting on the way his friend grew those strawberries, but the interrogative particles in the sentences confuse me. Is he saying his friend's method is a good one or a bad one? And in the second sentence, is he saying there are around 100 strawberries?
Thank you for your time!
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あいつの育て方がよかったのか（どうかわからないが）、
It's not sure if his/her method was good, but...
Although the speaker actually thinks that the good harvest is probably due to his/her method.
It's not sure if his/her method was good, but...
Although the speaker actually thinks that the good harvest is probably due to his/her method.
The way I've translated this sounds a little odd to me, so I'm not sure if I have this right or not.
奪い尽くして抉りとった
あの男が在る限り残る疵をそう願った。
I stole everything and hollowed it all out.
The wounds will remain for as long as that man wishes it. (or is this more along the lines of "I wanted his wounds to remain"?)
Does this seem right or have I misunderstood something?
奪い尽くして抉りとった
あの男が在る限り残る疵をそう願った。
I stole everything and hollowed it all out.
The wounds will remain for as long as that man wishes it. (or is this more along the lines of "I wanted his wounds to remain"?)
Does this seem right or have I misunderstood something?
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The clause 奪い尽くして抉りとった seems to modify あの男 to me.
奪い尽くして抉りとったあの男
the man who stole everything from me and cut me deep
The speaker wanted his wounds to remain for as long as he lives.
奪い尽くして抉りとったあの男
the man who stole everything from me and cut me deep
The speaker wanted his wounds to remain for as long as he lives.
Thanks Mike. I got an answer from the seller. 申し訳ありませんが、ばら売りは致しません。 From Google translate "Sorry, We do not sell roses." What????
I want to change the question a bit to the following.
If I won, could you please ship only the disc in order to lower the shipping cost. (I do not want the rest of the stuffs. You can have it and resell it.) Is it rude to include what I said in brackets for Japanese people?
*the box set comes with an art book and some photos
I want to change the question a bit to the following.
If I won, could you please ship only the disc in order to lower the shipping cost. (I do not want the rest of the stuffs. You can have it and resell it.) Is it rude to include what I said in brackets for Japanese people?
*the box set comes with an art book and some photos
Lotorie
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Students A, B, C : 英語が標準だと思うのは間違いだ. (about the direction of writing)
Teacher : そうそう下から上への縦書きだってあるしね
アイルランドの才がム文字とか
Student (Irish guy): わかりました、もう否定しない (was complaining about Jappanese language writing vertically and from right to left)
マルがいっぱいもらえるようがんばります
Teacher :言葉通り次のテストでは満点
おお、 よくがんばった
サビスで花マルをあげたら
よし、よし
ぐる ぐる
嫌がられました
Student (Irish guy.) :先生！何これ？そんなにだめ？
Teacher : やっぱり、感覚は変えられないか
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I have problems with those three sentences.
The first one : The Irish student has no problems with caracters ? "mu-moji" ?
The second : Is the student pestering or something like that ?
The third : Is the teacher saying that her intuition is good, the student didn't understand the flower ?
Thank you in advance.
Teacher : そうそう下から上への縦書きだってあるしね
アイルランドの才がム文字とか
Student (Irish guy): わかりました、もう否定しない (was complaining about Jappanese language writing vertically and from right to left)
マルがいっぱいもらえるようがんばります
Teacher :言葉通り次のテストでは満点
おお、 よくがんばった
サビスで花マルをあげたら
よし、よし
ぐる ぐる
嫌がられました
Student (Irish guy.) :先生！何これ？そんなにだめ？
Teacher : やっぱり、感覚は変えられないか
---
I have problems with those three sentences.
The first one : The Irish student has no problems with caracters ? "mu-moji" ?
The second : Is the student pestering or something like that ?
The third : Is the teacher saying that her intuition is good, the student didn't understand the flower ?
Thank you in advance.
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Google is your friend; Google Translate is not your friend.
ばら売り doesn't refer to selling roses; it refers to selling items separately (breaking up a set). He says they don't do that. Your options are to take the box set or forget about it.
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1)
That's オガム文字 "Ogham".
Ogham - Wikipedia
2)
The Irish student didn't like 花マル.
3)
Well, I couldn't change his sense.(I succeeded to change his idea that left-to-right horizontal writing in English is standard, but that doesn't mean he changes his natural sense that flower circle is not the symbol of good work.)
inv3stment
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他のセラーから買ってみるつもりです。
Thanks investment. I actually want the following translate.
If I won, could you please ship only the disc in order to lower the shipping cost. (I do not want the rest of the stuffs. You can have it and resell it.) Is it rude to include what I said in brackets for Japanese people?
*I want to buy a DVD Boxset from Yahoo Auction. It comes with an art book and some photos. I want to lower the cost of shipping.
If I won, could you please ship only the disc in order to lower the shipping cost. (I do not want the rest of the stuffs. You can have it and resell it.) Is it rude to include what I said in brackets for Japanese people?
*I want to buy a DVD Boxset from Yahoo Auction. It comes with an art book and some photos. I want to lower the cost of shipping.
inv3stment
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Jref is not Google translate.
It is expected that you put some effort.
It is expected that you put some effort.
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That is the case for most of the site. This one thread is the exception, so please feel free to go ahead and do the translation for him.
inv3stment
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ok, I will give a try but I am sure my translation will be wrong.
勝ったら、(I don't know if you can use 勝つ for auctions), 送料は安くするために、ディスクだけ送ってもいいですか？
can people with more experience in Japanese please correct what I've done.
Hi everyone! New to the forum, and I have a little request for help. To give some background, I'm an artist working on some interior pieces for a hotel in Norway. My work plays with the interaction of meanings in images vs. meanings in words.
My question for the forum is this: In English, the word 'delicate' can be used to mean brittle or vulnerable (like an ecosystem), as well as to mean, somewhat archaically, a choice food (like eel or oysters). Does an equivalent or similar word or phrase exist in Japanese, carrying a similar double meaning?
Many thanks in advance!
My question for the forum is this: In English, the word 'delicate' can be used to mean brittle or vulnerable (like an ecosystem), as well as to mean, somewhat archaically, a choice food (like eel or oysters). Does an equivalent or similar word or phrase exist in Japanese, carrying a similar double meaning?
Many thanks in advance!
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It strikes me that my question may be unclear. I'll try to describe my image, and then the verbal double meaning I'm looking for.
Broadly, the piece deals with the clash of globalized vs indigenous culture. The image is of a part woman, part sea creature, in an angelic pose, being plucked up by a pair of chopsticks (presumably by a giant hand, out of frame). Behind her and around her are patterns and markings from coastal African tribes, containing references to tribal maritime culture and history.
The word or phrase I'm looking for here would be incorporated as a very commercial-looking title, as if advertising a product (i.e. "Delicacy"). Its function will be to connect the ideas of food / flavor / taste / consumption with the notion of something rare, fragile, and exhaustible.
So I guess my question breaks into two parts, the first being: is there a Japanese word for "delicacy" or "delicate" that carries the same double meaning as the English word?-- that is, a word or phrase that can be used to describe both a choice food, and a condition of fragility or scarcity / costliness.
Secondarily, if no such equivalent exists, perhaps there is a phrase or word that speaks more generally to the relationship between fragility / exhaustibility, and desirability / flavor?
I've of course consulted dictionaries, but still find it difficult to know which word will contain the kind of double-meaning that resonates with the native ear.
Much appreciative of any suggestions from fluent speakers!
Broadly, the piece deals with the clash of globalized vs indigenous culture. The image is of a part woman, part sea creature, in an angelic pose, being plucked up by a pair of chopsticks (presumably by a giant hand, out of frame). Behind her and around her are patterns and markings from coastal African tribes, containing references to tribal maritime culture and history.
The word or phrase I'm looking for here would be incorporated as a very commercial-looking title, as if advertising a product (i.e. "Delicacy"). Its function will be to connect the ideas of food / flavor / taste / consumption with the notion of something rare, fragile, and exhaustible.
So I guess my question breaks into two parts, the first being: is there a Japanese word for "delicacy" or "delicate" that carries the same double meaning as the English word?-- that is, a word or phrase that can be used to describe both a choice food, and a condition of fragility or scarcity / costliness.
Secondarily, if no such equivalent exists, perhaps there is a phrase or word that speaks more generally to the relationship between fragility / exhaustibility, and desirability / flavor?
I've of course consulted dictionaries, but still find it difficult to know which word will contain the kind of double-meaning that resonates with the native ear.
Much appreciative of any suggestions from fluent speakers!
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The same text I gave you before will work just fine.
---------- Post added at 20:36 ---------- Previous post was at 20:33 ----------
That's a very good try. For winning an auction use 落札する
送ってもいいですか would be asking if it is alright for you to send something. You need to use the verb plus one of the giving/receiving auxiliary verbs: 送って頂けますか？ (Note that it is in the potential form: いただけます instead of いただきます).
Help please!
I'm extremely frustrated in translating this piece. It's not just standard Japanese, I'm guessing there's some kind of colloquialisms thrown in there, and it must be an old guy talking...やうな、きはまる、思へない etc...
If anyone could help me figure out these sentences, I'd really appreciate it.
わたしにはこれが、時間と労力のまつたくの無駄づかひのやうにしか思へない。
文学的、あまりに文学的といふことにならうか。
しかし、国語教育と文学との結(むす)びつきは、本来こんなところにあるのではない。
I don't think that this is a complete waste of time and effort.
Literary, has it been decided so it's excessively becoming literary? <<< yeah, I know it's bad
However, the connection between literature and Japanese language education is, essentially [こんなところにあるのではない]
I'm extremely frustrated in translating this piece. It's not just standard Japanese, I'm guessing there's some kind of colloquialisms thrown in there, and it must be an old guy talking...やうな、きはまる、思へない etc...
If anyone could help me figure out these sentences, I'd really appreciate it.
わたしにはこれが、時間と労力のまつたくの無駄づかひのやうにしか思へない。
文学的、あまりに文学的といふことにならうか。
しかし、国語教育と文学との結(むす)びつきは、本来こんなところにあるのではない。
I don't think that this is a complete waste of time and effort.
Literary, has it been decided so it's excessively becoming literary? <<< yeah, I know it's bad
However, the connection between literature and Japanese language education is, essentially [こんなところにあるのではない]
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The problem is that the text appears to be pre-war...from the era before the reform in kana usage.
The large つ in まつたく is now a small っ
The へ in 思へない is now え
The ふ in といふ is now う
It isn't that hard to read once you get the hang of it. You just need to read up on 旧仮名遣い (きゅうかなづかい)
The large つ in まつたく is now a small っ
The へ in 思へない is now え
The ふ in といふ is now う
It isn't that hard to read once you get the hang of it. You just need to read up on 旧仮名遣い (きゅうかなづかい)
