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至急に何らかの手を打って止めなさい。

"Quickly hit something like a hand and stop."

I don't think that's the correct translation, but that's all I can think of at the moment. I don't have any experience with the phrase "何らかの", so because of that I'm not sure. I would greatly appreciate any thoughts on this. :?
 

何らかの means "whatever."
手を打つ is a phrasal verb, which in this case means "execute a measure (as solution, corrective action, etc.)."

The sentence means "take whatever measure urgently and stop it."
 
epigene said:
何らかの means "whatever."
手を打つ is a phrasal verb, which in this case means "execute a measure (as solution, corrective action, etc.)."
The sentence means "take whatever measure urgently and stop it."
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Wow, thanks for explaining that one. I would have never figured it out.
epigeneーさんがいてよがった!
 
返事が遅くなってごめんなさいね。私のことを考えてくれてありがとうございます。

Fuumeiさんも多くの同じような困難を経験しましたか？本当に大変でしたね。:emoji_sob:

その事件は私にも大変ショックを与えましたね。

もちろん、かばんをあちこちと捜しましたが、それは皆さんさんのかばんと同じようでした。。。

本がが２、３冊、衣類、化粧しなどのいほかに、かばんの中にホストファミリ名、住所、電話番号入っていましたよ。これは困ったことになりましたね。 :emoji_frowning2:

幸いに、交番が近くにありました。そして、警察はその情報を何とか突きとめることができました。また、彼らが私を家まで送ったので、タクシー代を支払う必要はありませんでした。
本当に感謝しました！！！ :emoji_pray:

東京の代わりにとてもよい雰囲気のある都市にいたからね。。。

今日、そんなに気に入っていた辞書を再注文してみます。:emoji_blush:
でも、財布やパスポートなどを盗まれるよりはましだったですね。
 
Hey everyone. Trying to translate another NHK news story. This time it's about the North Koreans who escaped North Korea for Japan. I'm stuck on the how this sentence works:

２日の早朝小型船に乗っていて見つかった６０代から２０代の夫婦と息子２人の家族４人について

More specifically, I'm stuck on 「６０代から２０代の夫婦と息子２人の家族４人について」

I'm reading it as:

...regarding a family of four, a married couple aged between 20 and 60 (seems like a pretty big gap???), and their two sons.

Something doesn't seem right here...
 
I'm pretty sure it's the sons in their 20's....
 
僕は関西弁しかええで！ しかも、どえらいおもろいよ。 何でも聞いてや、教えるよってに。。。
 
Bucko said:
Actually I know for a fact that the sons are in their 20s, but I can't see how it says that in the actual sentence.
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６０代から２０代の夫婦と息子２人

６０代から２０代 of this age range 夫婦と息子２人 (A family of four) .... I don't see how it does not.
 

Well sorry if I'm not good enough to see how the structure of the sentence works...I can't see what's nominalising what. And the ６０代から２０代 part doesn't have a まで or に which I would have expected. I'm reading 息子２人の家族４人 as "the two son's family of four" which of course makes no sense.

６０代から２０代の夫婦と息子２人の家族４人
 
I agree with Elizabeth. Very hard to explain why ,but I too can only interpret it that way. However I can see why you think this "窶啅窶唹窶佚｣窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶啣 窶唹窶佚｣窶堙娯?｢v窶｢w" is refering to the couple having an age difference ,because it comes dirrectly before the "couple" (窶｢v窶｢w), but because it has "窶堙??伉ｧﾅｽq窶啣ﾂ人" attached to the "窶｢v窶｢w" the "窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶啣 窶唹窶佚｣" is refering to the two sons.
 
Yeah, the "made" or "ni" part is left out a lot in these constructions.

The latter part is essentially read "Family of four made up of 2 sons and the couple." I'm at work now so can't explain well either or think of an analogy Bucko would be more familiar with. Hopefully someone else will ride in and save the day for all of us.
 
"６０代から２０代の" and "夫婦と息子２人" is how it should be broken up. The key point is "の". Read it like this ６０代から２０代の......夫婦と息子２人の.....家族４人。
Read it out loud and emphazize the "の". I hope this helps... But I don't think I can save the day。
 
I see. So there are three groupings there:
1) ６０代から２０代
2) 夫婦と息子２人
3) 家族４人

So the main group is 家族４人, of that is 夫婦と息子２人, and of 夫婦と息子２人 comes the less important information of ６０代から２０代.

分かりました！ありがとうございました！

Actually you've both saved the day! Damn I love it when I tear a Japanese sentence apart like I'm back in science class disecting a rat! (there's your anaolgy Elizabeth
 
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Bucko,

Your confusion is understandable. NHK news writers are not necessarily the best in the world...
 
It's a sequence from general to increasingly specific that read "back to front" will always make sense in Japanese. It won't necessarily be a matter of importance although ages are obviously to someone....what would become of a Japanese news story without them ???
 

あいにく、経験があります。子供のころはそんなこと。。よく起きました。 ですから、Elizabeth さんの気持ちをよく分かります。ものすごい事ですね、なにかを盗まれるのは。これからも、気を付けますね。
 
Hello, looking for a translation into Kanji for a painting I'm doing. The phrase I'm looking for reads: "unification of body mind and soul". Most appreciated!
 
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There must be something wrong with my computer. :emoji_fearful:
 
Ironman87 said:
Hello, looking for a translation into Kanji for a painting I'm doing. The phrase I'm looking for reads: "unification of body mind and soul". Most appreciated!
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"身と心と魂の統一": mi to kokoro to tamashii no touitsu. This translates literally as "unification of body mind and soul". However mind is also translated as "精神" "seishin", but this and "心" have the same meaning as mind or spirit. That being said using these as well as "魂" tamashi(the literal meaning of soul) does not make sense to me. So I would suggest using this translation :"身と魂の統一", mi to tamashii no touitsu or ". :"身と心の統一", mi to kokoro no touitsu. This literally means "Unification of body and soul" or in the second translation "Unification of body and heart".

I hope you understood that, if not I will try to explain better.
BTW,
"統合"（tougou) instead of "統一" could be used ,but I feel that "統一" is the best word for unification in this case.
 
Ironman87 said:
Hello, looking for a translation into Kanji for a painting I'm doing. The phrase I'm looking for reads: "unification of body mind and soul". Most appreciated!
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I think this may be most appropriate: 心身一如 (read shin-shin ichinyo)
 
epigene said:
I think this may be most appropriate: 心身一如 (read shin-shin ichinyo)
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Epigene, I think I saw something like this in a sumo article a long while back. The only thing I could say about it is that 95% of the population would not have a clue what it means. I mean, when I first saw "一如" I thought it read "ichijyo". But, I have to give it to you for knowledge of the language (Not that it means anything coming from me, as I am no scholar)
 
I think 心身統一 may be Chinese if the OP is looking for a more common sounding phrase....
 
Q !!

Well, may i know how do I say charcoal in Japanese ??

*I would like to know it in all different ways (eg. kanji, romaji & etc....):
 
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charcoal said:
Well, may I know how do say charcoal in Japanese ??
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Well, I don't really know what charcoal means, so I'm assuming it's a name? If that's the case maybe something like チャルコル (charukoru)? If n
 
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