smallwind Posted June 24, 2004 at 02:41 PM Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 at 02:41 PM 1.It all boils down to this. 2.These clowns want to take us for a ride. 3.We're not a couple of suckers. 4.Storming out 5.Your weekend was a bust?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizaberth Posted June 30, 2004 at 06:02 AM Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 at 06:02 AM hey, looks like we have american slang here. hmm.... if i did not interprete those slang wrongly, perhaps they should go like this:- 1. Zhe yi qie yan bian cheng ru ci. 2. zhe xie bu wu zheng ye de ren yao yue wo men chu qu. 3. wo men bu shi qi pian ren. 4. nu qi chong chong de chong chu 5. Ni de zhou mo zhen sao xing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokane Posted June 30, 2004 at 09:46 PM Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 at 09:46 PM It seems like some of those could have more than one meaning based on context - "It all boils down to this" could mean "So this is what everything has come to," as elizaberth has it above, or it could be "The most important part is this." Likewise, the "take us for a ride" in #2 seems like it could be either "try to put one over on us" or "compete with us" depending on context. Then again, that might just be my reading of those phrases... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokane Posted June 30, 2004 at 09:51 PM Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 at 09:51 PM Anyway, I'd translate "clowns" in #2 as something more like "不懂事的人," and the whole sentence as "这些小子想跟咱比一比." But then, I'm not a native speaker, and there are probably better/more colloquial ways of saying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
889 Posted June 30, 2004 at 11:04 PM Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 at 11:04 PM A sucker doesn't take someone for a ride; he gets taken for a ride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizaberth Posted July 1, 2004 at 01:52 PM Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 at 01:52 PM hur hur hur, lol, 是呀!因为他是傻蛋 好好玩哟! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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