Beiträge: 10
Sprache: English
skeptikulo (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 12:19:29
Thank you guys!
Rogir (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 12:48:44
skeptikulo (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 13:02:24
zixhwizs (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 13:31:49
I'm not sure how to say that in Esperanto, though. Perhaps, "volvis, preta ataki"
Miland (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 14:19:20
An Esperanto translation of 'coiled and ready to strike' might be kurbiĝa kaj preta ataki. It depends on exactly what you want to say.
skeptikulo (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 15:22:11
"When you don't like someone, or someone does something you hate, you growl, you hiss or you coil to spring."
Originally this was a french text, and now I see that the french translator (a friend mine) mistook the word "strike" for "spring". I've called her to ask about the "coil to spring" and she said something like:
"I wasn't sure of the words, I think crouch is kinda the same so." (her accent is beautiful but also bugs me)
Thank you very very much... It took 8 hours of hard work to solve this problem. I spent all the friday on it.
RiotNrrd (Profil anzeigen) 9. Mai 2009 18:26:59
1: A coiled wire.
2: A place where underground water comes to the surface.
3: The season that starts (in the northern hemisphere) on March 21st.
4: To jump at something.
(There might be more, but I can't think of them at the moment).
Isn't English fun?
ceigered (Profil anzeigen) 10. Mai 2009 08:38:46
RiotNrrd:Yeah, "spring" is one of those English words that has a whole set of meanings, none of which really seem all that related to one another.So is Chinese:
1: A coiled wire.
2: A place where underground water comes to the surface.
3: The season that starts (in the northern hemisphere) on March 21st.
4: To jump at something.
(There might be more, but I can't think of them at the moment).
Isn't English fun?
道 dào
1. direction, way, method, road, path
2. principle, truth, reason
3. skill, method
4. Tao (of Taoism)
5. A measure word (apparently used for orders, memos and questions: 一道命令, yi dao mingling - one order)
6. to say, to speak, to talk
This is why translation is fun!
![rido.gif](/images/smileys/rido.gif)
(I had to think "wait, spring doesn't start on 21st of March, that's Autumn!" at first because I'm Australian)
russ (Profil anzeigen) 14. Mai 2009 15:39:50
Miland (Profil anzeigen) 14. Mai 2009 15:47:32
russ:Another idea: kaŭri por salti.Sounds like a very good idea!