StChris Posted January 1, 2014 at 03:55 AM Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 at 03:55 AM Short Scene 8: Winners and Losers 奋斗, Ep. 29, 24:18-26:47 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODUyMzU1NjA=.htmlA father gives his son some advice on how to be successful in business, with some reflections on his time in America.射击 she4ji1 shooting俱乐部 ju4le4bu4 club嗡嗡 weng1weng1 buss, hum愤怒 fen4nu4 anger, indignation发泄 fa1xie4 give vent to, let off观察 guan1cha2 observe阶层 jie1ceng2 social class缺乏 que1fa2 lack回旋余地 hui2xuan2yu2di4 room for manoeuvre窄巷 zhai3xiang3 narrow path (alley)甚至 shen4zhi4 even (to the extent that)华尔街 hua2er3jie1 Wall Street摆 bai3 put, place尽管 jin3guan3 Even though...延 yan2 ??????思维 si1wei2 thinking由于 you2yu2 As a result of..., Due to...不知不觉 bu4zhi1bu4jue2 unwittingly, uncounsciously 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted January 1, 2014 at 05:58 PM Report Share Posted January 1, 2014 at 05:58 PM Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tianjin42 Posted January 2, 2014 at 08:55 AM Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 at 08:55 AM Just want to say thanks for these. I have only sat down with one but will be working through them - very useful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ania Posted January 5, 2014 at 11:12 PM Report Share Posted January 5, 2014 at 11:12 PM I hope someday I will be able to watch videos like that and understand them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tianjin42 Posted January 12, 2014 at 07:02 AM Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 at 07:02 AM Okay, finally got around to properly going through one of these. Again, thanks. My method is to watch through without looking at the subtitles. Then watch through with subtitles before watching a third time and stopping where required. I found that this was tricky without subtitles – more difficult than usual in fact. I live in Beijing so the accent shouldn’t be a major issue – it just seemed the speed and delivery made it quite difficult to pick up the words. Also, apart from learning that this particular actor doesn’t have much of a golf swing, I was interested in how he used 麻. After shooting the gun 连手都麻了. I would probably translate this as something like “Even my hands were tingling”. I do understand麻but haven’t encountered it much so it is useful to see it in context. A question from 25:15. The father explains that the people at the club 都是来自中下阶层的人. Here I am not entirely sure about word division. Is he saying “all of those people were from a lower social stratum than you” or is the 下 here implying simply lower class? Also above it seems there is some confusion with 延. Not sure here - my feeling is that in the sentence 他们共同延用了一个特点, the father is explaining that these types of people have in common that they remain narrow-minded (the 特点 in question) . Feel free to clear this up as I am not 100% on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gato Posted January 12, 2014 at 03:42 PM Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 at 03:42 PM I would probably translate this as something like “Even my hands were tingling”. I do understand麻but haven’t encountered it much so it is useful to see it in context. Probably better translated as "numb" in this context. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StChris Posted January 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 at 11:34 AM Hi. Glad you're all getting something out of these. I would translate 都是来自中下阶层的人 as "people from the lower middle-class". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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