inner-magpie
Chinese translation: 收藏人的心理
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|  Selected response from: wherestip United States Local time: 13:53 | ||||||
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| 3 +3 | 收藏人的心理 |
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| 4 +1 | "追求时尚的内心自我" |
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| 4 | 此类手机最能迎合想得到物美价廉的东西的收藏人的心理。 |
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| 2 | your hobby of collecting and keeping cheap stuffs |
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| 2 | inner soul |
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your hobby of collecting and keeping cheap stuffs Explanation: Just guessing Reference: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=33786 |
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inner soul Explanation: I am just guessing here. could it mean inner soul or something like that? What is the context? It would help if you provide a context. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 50 mins (2007-02-23 15:39:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- 有点像收藏癖 |
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23 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1"追求时尚的内心自我" Explanation: a magpie 最容易被光鲜的闪亮的物体吸引。这款手机应该是设计得很光鲜时尚，所以会被你的"追求时尚的内心自我"追捧。 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day1 min (2007-02-24 14:50:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or "内心时尚的您" |
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28 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +3
peer agreement (net): +3收藏人的心理 Explanation: a magpie likes to collect little gems and trinkets. So an inner-magpie refers to someone who likes to collect or hoard stuff, and also that instinct of doing so. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 23 hrs (2007-02-24 14:41:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.northcoastjournal.com/SEP95/HISTORY_.HTM Lunch boxes were hot items to collect a while back, she said, but then so many people were investing in them that the value eventually went down. "Sometimes you can guess wrong," she said. Israel confesses to being a "magpie collector," but she is trying to wean herself from the addiction. "Some people seem to be magnets for things and the only way you cure it is to not go out and look," she says with a wry grin. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day4 mins (2007-02-24 14:53:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://sucka-sc.arlette.us/ One day when I was there to fix yet another of my parents’ computer problems, I spied a yellowing book tucked into a plastic bin full of doll clothes with ripped seams. My own inner magpie, honed by a childhood spent in Goodwill and Salvation Army stores, knew it was something good. I picked it up, the cracking Mylar dust jacket flaking in my hand, and checked out the illustration on the front. > Juliazou: 各位说得都很有道理，可是不好放到整个句子的翻译里去呀。要不然稍微意译一下呢？ 这款手机将成为您收藏单上最想要的东西。请各位指正，谢谢！ I agree with what you're saying. IMO the important thing in translating terms or phrases like this, is to understand their basic meaning, and how they are typically used. Once that is achieved, one could decide on the nuances of how these terms/phases are used in a particular context. The rendering into the target language should come naturally and instinctively. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day20 mins (2007-02-24 15:09:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- BTW, it also refers to someone's ability to spot something worthwhile among an enormous amount of items that overwhelms, like a magpie with keen eyes. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day40 mins (2007-02-24 15:29:38 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- More for your reference ... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/11/18/1100748128612.h... Swift affirmed the magpie-like acquisitiveness of the creative imagination: "It is in the nature of literature that books may derive from or be influenced by others. Equally, there are certain things for which there is no literary patent or monopoly." The Belgian-Australian writer Pierre Ryckmans, who has published fiction under the pen name Simon Leys, was blunter and more acerbic, commenting that Frow's attack "betrays a level of understanding of the creative process that only a professor of deconstructive semiotics could reach". |
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