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How would I explain the following phrases in Chinese:

"Do the math!"

"Chillin'"

"You're going down!"

"Don't front" (put up a superficial facade different from reality)

Posted

some contexts might help - for example, the third one: is this said to someone standing in quicksand, a West Bromich Albion fan, a doctor refering to blood pressure...?

Posted

Slang, by its very nature, is untranslatable.

Posted

I think Liuzhou is right, but here's a page that might be interesting to you(that also includes an offensive comment at the end, sorry, and a lot of Very Rude Words):

http://www.zohu.net/b18/73932.htm

According to this website which also contains lots of very rude words:

http://club.learning.sohu.com/read_art_sub.php?b=english&a=40909&sr=

'Chillin'' could be '身心放鬆一下' shen1xin1 fang4song1 yi2xia4 ('relax a bit').

Being English, I don't know exactly what 'do the math!' means, but on this page http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/archive/topic/221985-1.html

someone tranlslates it as '你自已算算看吧' ni3 zi4ji3 suan4suan4 kan4 ba5 ('calculate it yourself and see').

Of course these aren't explanations, but translations...

Posted
Just wondering if you had to translate 吃蕉, what would you use?

What does that mean? Some idiom? Makes me think of some kind of crude idiom....

Posted
ol..... I was right.

吃蕉 means "screw you" or "go f yourself"

hmmm. never heard of it. And personally I think if it's in mandarin, it's not a good swearing due to its sound.

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