How would you translate the following?

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BBuu

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• 27 May 2011

• #1

I'm suffering from not being able to translate a Japanese phrase in the middle of work, and I'll be glad if anyone can lend me a hand.
やりたいコトがみつからなくて・・・・
'yaritai koto ga mitsukaranakute' is pretty obvious to me, but I can't think of a good way to express it in English in the closest to original way.
Any suggestions?
Thank you

 

Glenn

一切皆苦

8 Jan 2004

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• 27 May 2011

• #2

"I can't find anything I want to do" is fairly literal. "There's nothing I want to do" might be good.

 

Elizabeth

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22 Apr 2003

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• 28 May 2011

• #3

BBuu said:

I'm suffering from not being able to translate a Japanese phrase in the middle of work, and I'll be glad if anyone can lend me a hand.
やりたいコトがみつからなくて・・・・
'yaritai koto ga mitsukaranakute' is pretty obvious to me, but I can't think of a good way to express it in English in the closest to original way.
Any suggestions?
Thank you

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Katakana コト is just insane. :roflmao: I do think that やりたい and したい are pretty much interchangeable. The nuance is different but use the latter is broader. Use it when you need to be polite.

 

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WaterFox

Might it be 冷やしきつねうどん？

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• 28 May 2011

• #4

I can't find anything that I want to do.
I still don't have anything that I want to do.
I have nothing that I want to do.

 

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BBuu

後輩

27 May 2011

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• 28 May 2011

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• #5

thank you guys, you helped me so much

 

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BBuu

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27 May 2011

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• 6 Jun 2011

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• #6

Also, on the same matter I'll be happy if someone told me what translation will be best for "追われる身". I assume it'll be pursued, but I'm not sure?

 

Toritoribe

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• 6 Jun 2011

• #7

the one who is pursed by someone/an organization

 

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BBuu

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• 6 Jun 2011

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Toritoribe said:

the one who is pursed by someone/an organization

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but in case it's a title of something, and the organization/person is not mentioned, would it be reasonable to translate it only as 'pursed'?
I mean, it's a name.

:?

 

Toritoribe

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• 11 Jun 2011

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Yeah, unlike 追われる人, 追われる身 focuses on a state that someone is in "being pursued". So "Pursued" might fit as a title.