.serving Western, Oriental & Continental cuisine-a unique metropolitan signature

Japanese translation: ユニークな都会の味わい

19:25 May 3, 2004
English to Japanese translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: .serving Western, Oriental & Continental cuisine-a unique metropolitan signature
Please give appropriate translation of -a unique metropolitan signature.
Hiroyasu Satoh (X)
Local time: 21:34
Japanese translation:ユニークな都会の味わい
Explanation:
手元のOxford Concise English Dictionaryには、signatureは"a distinctive product or characteristic by which someone or something can be identified"と書かれていますので、ちょっと飛躍しますが、「趣」とか「持ち味」のように解釈してみました。シドニーのレストランでみられそうなフレーズです。
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Mariko Kobayashi
Australia
Local time: 22:34
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Thank you Mariko,
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Summary of answers provided
4首都圏のユニークな名物レストラン(またはマーケット)
humbird
3 +1ユニークな都会の味わい
Mariko Kobayashi
1特徴的・ブランド
Maynard Hogg


  

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首都圏のユニークな名物レストラン(またはマーケット)


Explanation:
Signatureというのはもともと署名ということですが、最近ではなにか「特別なもの」というような意味で使われるようで、どうやらITが語源かとも思われます。そこでこのような訳語になりました。この文脈だけではレストランくさいですが、エスニックなマーケットとも考えられます。文脈はあなたの手中にあるのですから、ご自分でも応用して適語を探す参考になればと思います。

humbird
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.serving western, oriental & continental cuisine-a unique metropolitan signature
ユニークな都会の味わい


Explanation:
手元のOxford Concise English Dictionaryには、signatureは"a distinctive product or characteristic by which someone or something can be identified"と書かれていますので、ちょっと飛躍しますが、「趣」とか「持ち味」のように解釈してみました。シドニーのレストランでみられそうなフレーズです。

Mariko Kobayashi
Australia
Local time: 22:34
Native speaker of: Japanese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you Mariko,

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agree  Minoru Kuwahara: this is the cuisine, right? : ) -
4 hrs
  -> Thank you. I always find "signature" very difficult to translate.
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.serving western, oriental & continental cuisine-a unique metropolitan signature
特徴的・ブランド


Explanation:
As Mariko has already pointed out, a "signature" is a unique, immediately recognizable mark or marking of some sort. (The unique bit works fine in theory, but...)

Maynard Hogg
Canada
Local time: 05:34
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