Whaaa?

[troger]

I'm taking Elementary Chinese at college right now and when I told my friend he sent me a jpg to translate for him. I can't make sense of it but I'd like to help him out. Could you all help?

[creamyhorror]

Post the jpg

[troger]

Sorry about that. I uploaded it but it must have not worked.

[rivercao]

It's about two lovers talking online.

Too much informal words and I don't think it's a good learning material.

However if you really want to have a translation of that, I can do it tomorrow.

[xiaocai]

I don't think this would be appropriate for elementary Chinese reading, to many slangs and typos as well.

BTW, most likely they are from Sichuan, or Chongqing...

It kind of goes like this:

A: Very well. So you had shower together. That's great. Have fun then.

B: WTH are you talking about?

A: Obviously I've been jealous you d**khead. If I took a photo with me bathing in bikini with a couple of some other guys, wouldn't you have gone mad?

B: Honey, they (lovers I suppose?) do that in pairs, and we just went to a hot spring how would you call that 鸳鸯浴 (don't know how to translate, probably "intimate bath"?)? It is no difference from swimming in a public swimming pool together... Fine, I will go swimming with you next time and you wear down jacket and 棉裤 (don't know how to say this, cotton-padded pants?) and gloves and scarf.

A: No way, you stink.

B: You are mine. I dreamt that you don't love me any more, and then I beat you up for that, and your dad also no longer likes me as well. What am I supposed to do?

Don't know how to translate the rest, my English is still not good enough. And the translation above is not 100% or even 80% accurate, since I don't know the corresponding words in English. Someone else on this forum may be able to help you.

Edited April 18, 2010 at 01:21 PM by xiaocai

[rivercao]

A: Very well. So you had shower together. That's great. Have fun then.

B: WTH are you talking about?

A: Obviously I've been jealous you d**khead. If I took a photo with me bathing in bikini with a couple of some other guys, wouldn't you have gone mad?

B: Honey, they (lovers I suppose?) do that in pairs, and we just went to a hot spring how would you call that 鸳鸯浴 (don't know how to translate, probably "intimate bath"?)? It is no difference from swimming in a public swimming pool together... Fine, I will go swimming with you next time and you wear down jacket and 棉裤 (don't know how to say this, cotton-padded pants?) and gloves and scarf.

A: No way, you stink.

B: You are mine. I dreamt that you don't love me any more, and then I beat you up for that, and your dad also no longer likes me as well. What am I supposed to do?

Fairly enough, I don't think this kind of materials are necessarily worth translating.

"鸳鸯浴" can be "man and woman bathing together"?

[troger]

Thank you so much. To give you some background, my friend is dating a Chinese International student but he suspects she is still in love with her ex. He really likes her so he wanted to be sure before he made any rash decisions about letting her go. So he got a screen shot of a conversation between them. I suspect this will break his heart... such is life. If it isn't too much trouble could I get the last two lines? Just so I can give him the full report.

[xiaocai]

So basically the conversation happened after she went out with your friend? I don't think he needs more report or whatsoever to let her go. She was obviously flirting with some other guy, who could be her ex but also could be someone else, on the IM, and you can tell your friend do not waste any more time on her.

[troger]

Yes the have been dating about six months now and that conversation happened when they were dating and it is her ex boyfriend, my friend is sure of that. Apparently she claims they have a more brother sister relationship now. Is there any way she could have meant that she loved him like a sibling or is this very much a discussion between two lovers?

[rivercao]

Girl: Sigh, I feel I already used to be in the situation that you are not online when I got back from work, then at night you began to have classes. No matter how many nights had I kept the mobile phone switch on, you never called me, so I’m now getting back to the old scenario that switching the mobile off before sleeping. We had no conversation for a long time, why is things going in this way? Why is that you still haven’t called me week after week, even had not left a message saying ”I miss you”. This winter you won’t be back, then how about this summer? By then, will you still be familiar with me and be loyal on me?

Boy: I definitely will be back, of course I will be familiar and loyal…

Last week I went to Colorado, and didn’t get back until Sunday. I didn’t bring my computer with me, so I didn’t call you. Last night I called you, but your phone is unavailable.

Girl: I’m going to be crazy, can you stop calling that number please? I've been using my new number for as long as 5 months gentleman.

Trog, it's the 2nd part.

[xiaocai]

Yes the have been dating about six months now and that conversation happened when they were dating and it is her ex boyfriend, my friend is sure of that. Apparently she claims they have a more brother sister relationship now. Is there any way she could have meant that she loved him like a sibling or is this very much a discussion between two lovers?

Probably there is something lost in translation but the original conversation in Chinese is for sure flirtatious to me and if it ever happens between brother and sister then something must be terribly wrong as well.

[Lu]

Maybe it's just me, but I think that if he can trust her so little that he is resorting to making screen shots of her private conversations, then this relationship is already doomed.

I wish your friend all the best though, it sucks when such a thing happens.