How would you translate the following?

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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 :(
 
"I can't find anything I want to do" is fairly literal. "There's nothing I want to do" might be good.
 
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
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. :)
 
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.
 
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?
 
the one who is pursed by someone/an organization
 
the one who is pursed by someone/an organization

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.

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