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Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes" » English to Chinese

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Source text in English

- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

- "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

- "The future ain't what it used to be."

- "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

- "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

There were 8 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase.

Entries submitted in this pair were rated on a per-segment basis. Listed below are all submitted translations of each individual source text segment.

Submitted segment translations

Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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Source text segment #9

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
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+26 | -2
A logical paradox. It implies that the other half of the lies are true, in which case they cannot be lies. There is perhaps a hint of criticism of the mass media, implying that nothing they say is true, even the true bits.
+9 | -2
I think this is self-deprecating. Yogi is allowing that half of the "lies" about him (obviously, depicting him in a negative light), are in fact true.
+3
The first comment hits the nail on the head.
+2
It's just another Yogi pun found in his illogical chest of knowledge.
+1
He probably meant that half of negative information about him is false, but what the audience might have understood is that the other half is true.
Lies might be all negative stories in the papers about him, where only some are true.
Half the lies they're telling about me ain't true. Another logistical paradox, there is no "half lies" like no "half-true." It's either lies or truth Showing disgust of person lied about. Половина из тех небылиц, что обо мн
+1 | -2
The normal expression is "half the stories they tell about me aren't true".

Translations of this segment (8 total; 8 unique)

他們說我的那些謊話有一半都是假話
他们瞎掰我的那些事儿，有一半都不是真的
那些有關我的謊話，一半都假的
涉及到我的假新闻，有大半不可信
他们谈论我的时候，有一半谎话都不是真的
他们所说的关于我的话，有一半都是假的
在他们散播有关我的谎言中，有一半都不是真的
他们说的关于我的谎话有一半不是真的
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