News-related word of the day

[chrix]

Hehe, yeah I was rooting for the Saints...

I think we have a thread on baseball terminology in Chinese somewhere.. Though I think it's basically the same thing with American Football: as long as the sport in question is not popular in China, it will be make more sense to use English terms.

(Like I was thinking about how you'd say "quarterback", "interception", "two-point conversion", "turnover" etc in Chinese )

EDIT: I've been looking at some news reports in Chinese, and it's interesting how devoid they seem to be of such terminology, for instance this one.

Edited February 8, 2010 at 03:33 AM by chrix

[skylee]

超級盃 chāojíbēi Super Bowl

The term 超級碗 is also popular.

[Meng Lelan]

Oh! skylee's been watching the 超級碗 too. Ah we should have had a live watch of it online here. Maybe next year.

[chrix]

Like you can say 橄欖球 or 美式足球 too

[chrix]

全國人大會 quánguó rén dàhuì National People's Congress, abbreviation for 全國人民代表大會

But since this might be a well-known vocabulary item, here's another one, that has been making the rounds through the global press coverage on the NPC's first days in session:

財政赤字 cáizhèng chìzì budget deficit

[chrix]

醫療改革 yīliáo gǎigé, health care reform

[atitarev]

高铁网 (gāo tiě wǎng) - high speed railway network

[atitarev]

处死 (chǔsǐ), 处决 (chǔjué) - execution (putting to death)

Sorry, this is news related.

Edited April 8, 2010 at 03:44 AM by atitarev

[atitarev]

Outsourcing:

外包 (wàibāo), 委外 (wěiwài)

[skylee]

In Hong Kong outsourcing is usually 外判.

[atitarev]

skylee wrote:

In Hong Kong outsourcing is usually 外判.

Can this be a Mandarin synonym as well or is it only Cantonese?

[Scoobyqueen]

How about also using this thread to add typical constructions often found in newspapers?

For example:

寻求。。。。(的) 可能性

used to indicate that somebody is seeking to increase the likelihood of something typically a cooperation.

is there a better translation?

[chrix]

I would advise starting a new thread about that.

I intended this thread to be restricted to words that are in the news. Just have been a bit too busy recently, or otherwise I would have included words like "hung parliament" and so forth. Of course you are all welcome to pick up the slack any time ;)....

[atitarev]

hovercraft:

气垫船 (qìdiànchuán)

Hovercraft service opens on China-Russia border

Proper names of interest used (the names often differ in English, Russian and Chinese media):

Blagoveshchensk (Russian: Благовещенск Blagovéščensk)

布拉戈维申斯克 (Bùlāgēwéishēnsīkè) or 海兰泡 (Hǎilánpào)

Heihe (Russian: Хэйхэ)

黑河 (Hēihé)

Amur river (Russian: Амур) or Heilongjiang:

黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng), also 阿穆尔河 (Āmù'ěr-hé)

The province is called Хэйлунцзян in Russian but it's seldom used for the river.

[atitarev]

I have a question re: which word is more common for a bullet train in the Chinese context or a generic word for it?

I've seen bullet train - 子弹火车 in a comics translation from Japanese, Shinkansen - 新干线 directly from Japanese (also used in Japan on the Chinese language signs).

And i found these in the NCIKU dictionary: 子弹头列车, 高速火车, 高速客车.

Which word is commonly used in China for Chinese high speed trains - officially and colloquially, if they differ? Any of the above?

[skylee]

Which word is commonly used in China for Chinese high speed trains - officially and colloquially, if they differ? Any of the above?

高速火車 / 列車 / 鐵路. My impression is that 子彈火車 (and of couse 新幹綫) is used on shinkansen only. TGV is 法國高速火車/列車, AVE is 西班牙高速火車/列車. Or they are just called TGV火車 / AVE火車. But some people like to use 子彈火車 on various types of train.

[roddy]

You may also be able to refer to 动车组s (this is where the D in D字头 trains comes from, and I think apart from the maglevs these are as fast as it gets?). 动车组 means the carriages also have their own engines. The current class are referred to as the 和谐号s.

[atitarev]

Thank you both. :rolleyes:

[889]

Speaking of trains, there's now 被高速 bei gaosu, that is, being extorted by the high fares on the new high-speed service.

浙江人从“被高速”中发现商机 http://www.news365.com.cn/csj/csjzs/200912/t20091230_2574895.htm

http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E8%A2%AB%E9%AB%98%E9%80%9F

As a quick translation, I like "to be railroaded."

(The new high-speed trains are designated "G" for 高速动车 gaosu dongche on the Guangzhou-Wuhan and Zhengzhou-Xi'an lines, and "C" for 城际高速 chengji gaosu on the Beijing-Tianjin line; "D" trains are a step lower.)