Dec 8, 2020 12:37
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Native in: Italian (Variants: Standard-Italy, Florentine, Tuscan / Toscano, Venetian)
Works in: Chinese to Italian, English to Italian, Italian to Chinese, and 3 more.
真是何等的豪爽之举，风雅之事!
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Poetry & Literature
Hello everybody!
[General context: China, a group of people is running away from an air raid, they take shelter nearby a lake, in the countryside, they picnic and seems like they can forget for a moment the war around them.]
倘能忘记了在宜山“逃警报”，而当作在西湖上picnic看，我们这下午真是幸福！从两岁的到七十岁的，全家动员，出门游春，还邀了几位朋友参加。\真是何等的豪爽之举，风雅之事！\
唉，人生此世，有时原只得作如是观。
I am not sure on how to translate the second-to-last sentence, any ideas?
PS. I'm Italian, I'm transalting this into Italian, but I didn't receive any suggestions from my Italian colleagues :D
Hope you can help! Thanks!
[General context: China, a group of people is running away from an air raid, they take shelter nearby a lake, in the countryside, they picnic and seems like they can forget for a moment the war around them.]
倘能忘记了在宜山“逃警报”，而当作在西湖上picnic看，我们这下午真是幸福！从两岁的到七十岁的，全家动员，出门游春，还邀了几位朋友参加。\真是何等的豪爽之举，风雅之事！\
唉，人生此世，有时原只得作如是观。
I am not sure on how to translate the second-to-last sentence, any ideas?
PS. I'm Italian, I'm transalting this into Italian, but I didn't receive any suggestions from my Italian colleagues :D
Hope you can help! Thanks!
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | Such uninhibited indulgence! |
David Jones
|
| 5 | What a generous move! What a delighting thing! |
Bruce Guo
|
Proposed translations
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David Jones
Taiwan
Taiwan
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Taiwan
Chinese to Eng (English native speaker)
Native in: English
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Such uninhibited indulgence!
I came up with a few possibilities, the top one is my favourite because I'm imagining that the family is seeing the moment of having a picnic by a lake during a war (WW2 / the CCP / KMT civil war?) either way, it's a moment of escape.
I'm also imagining them talking in 1930s WW2 clear English (like the attached video of Soong May-Ling aka Madame Chiang Kai Shek who's English was impeccable)
真是何等的豪爽之举，风雅之事!
- Such uninhibited indulgence!
- Such a wanton act of forgetting!
- An uninhibited moment of pure elegance！
- A charming act of letting go！
- A bold moment of letting go!
For me the point was 'this is a big deal' 真是何等的 'bold action (event happening) 豪爽之举，
风雅之事! - I was a quite liberal with this - translating it as letting go / indulgence - but I felt it fit the tone.
Hope this helps :)
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Note added at 22 hrs (2020-12-09 11:03:21 GMT)
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風雅之事 I suppose you could try "what a thing of elegance!" or "what a thing of beauty" but I feel that 事 in this context is a bit more of this "moment" of beauty amidst the chaos... Anyway good luck :)
I'm also imagining them talking in 1930s WW2 clear English (like the attached video of Soong May-Ling aka Madame Chiang Kai Shek who's English was impeccable)
真是何等的豪爽之举，风雅之事!
- Such uninhibited indulgence!
- Such a wanton act of forgetting!
- An uninhibited moment of pure elegance！
- A charming act of letting go！
- A bold moment of letting go!
For me the point was 'this is a big deal' 真是何等的 'bold action (event happening) 豪爽之举，
风雅之事! - I was a quite liberal with this - translating it as letting go / indulgence - but I felt it fit the tone.
Hope this helps :)
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Note added at 22 hrs (2020-12-09 11:03:21 GMT)
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風雅之事 I suppose you could try "what a thing of elegance!" or "what a thing of beauty" but I feel that 事 in this context is a bit more of this "moment" of beauty amidst the chaos... Anyway good luck :)
Note from asker:
| Thank you very much for the suggestions! I like the first one too, and also the use of "letting go". The book is about the second sino japanese war, we're in 1938 here. Anyway yes, I agree with you on the "moment of escape" that people are living in this episode, and also on the necessity of being a bit liberal with the translation of this particular sentence, otherwise would sound very strange. Especially in Italian! |
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What a generous move! What a delighting thing!
豪爽，这里是慷慨、大方的意思，即generous；
风雅，这里是很令人愉快的、令人惬意的，可以用delighting, pleasant, amiable, agreeable之类的词语。
句型为感叹句，what a xxx it is，或How adj it is!这里适合用what开头的感叹句
风雅，这里是很令人愉快的、令人惬意的，可以用delighting, pleasant, amiable, agreeable之类的词语。
句型为感叹句，what a xxx it is，或How adj it is!这里适合用what开头的感叹句
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