Translation Help

[bossidy]

路上衣服叫雨给淋湿了， 样布就到一个朋友那里去借了一身衣服换上了。

I'm pretty sure this means that YangBu got drenched in the rain and went to a friend's where he borrowed and changed into some dry clothes, but I dont understand the use of 叫 in 衣服叫雨给淋湿了 and also the use of 身 in 一身衣服换上了. Can someone explain?

Thanks very much.

[roddy]

叫 can be used as passive marker, like 被.

身 is the measure words for a set of clothes, an outfit.

[waterluo]

叫in chinese could be"让,被"and so on.

一身could be called "一件"

we call them "Lingci" just appearing in chinese

YangBu got drenched in the rain and went to a friend's for borrowing a set of clothes and put on

and

we can translate it for short

YangBut went to a friend's for clothes to change because of drenching in the rain

[kudra]

In this case does 一身衣服 convey the meaning of *completely all* the clothes, i.e. anything he was wearing (on his body)?

Or am I reading too much into this, and 一身 is an standard unremarkable Number Measure for a set of clothes?

[semantic nuance]

叫 sb + V---to make sb V/adj. ex: 叫人感動 to make people touched

Here 叫can be replace by 讓, and means the same. 讓sb + V/adj

ㄧ身 here means 'all over your body', ex: 穿了ㄧ身潔白的衣服 to wear the white dress.

a saying in Chinese is 沒吃到羊肉, 倒惹了一身騷. (literally translated: haven't eaten mutton, and got oneself smell like mutton. It is used when you try to help solve the problems which aren't caused by you, but you end up becoming the target.

Hope it helps!

[HashiriKata]

The auxiliary verb 叫 in Chinese can be troublesome. It can be both a passive or causative marker (which are the opposites in English!), depending on the context:

Passive: 我的书叫人借走了。

Causative: 他让我去/不让我去。

I think Roddy is right here, as 被 can be replaced by 叫 or 让 in informal, colloquial speech (such as in the sentence quoted：

路上衣服被雨给淋湿了/ 路上衣服叫雨给淋湿了)