Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Indonesian term or phrase:
bang - quake
English translation:
lihat penjelasan
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mockingbird (X)
Jul 9, 2005 00:45
18 yrs ago
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Indonesian term
mockingbird (X)
bang - quake
Indonesian to English
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Okay the last question, can i refer to a explosion of quake as bang? (just to make the words being used become more variative). Btw, this is about the Tsunami
An almighty bang shakes the earth
The ground cracks, breaks up and splits
And releases the contents from beneath
The buildings are shaking hard
Then they collapse … hitting anything below
Thanks
Okay the last question, can i refer to a explosion of quake as bang? (just to make the words being used become more variative). Btw, this is about the Tsunami
An almighty bang shakes the earth
The ground cracks, breaks up and splits
And releases the contents from beneath
The buildings are shaking hard
Then they collapse … hitting anything below
Thanks
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | lihat penjelasan |
lwijaya
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| 3 | blow |
Roy Sukamto
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lihat penjelasan
I'm not sure, but "bang" implies that there's a sound that causes the earthquake, which surely is not what happens in an earthquake. Maybe "an almighty force"? or... "a pair of almighty hands shake the earth"? :)
some thoughts:
2nd line: "break up" and "split" sound the same to me. Refer back to the original text, or find more precise English words to correspond to the Indonesian words.
3rd line: maybe "pours forth its contents"? Although come to think of it, I don't know if "ground" (the subject of the sentence as you write it in the 2nd line) has "contents". It would make more sense for the earth to have "contents"
4th line: why do you suddenly switch to present continuous tense? It's not consistent with the lines above, or with the line that follows. So it should be "Buildings shake hard" (maybe "tremble"?)
5th line: maybe "crushing" instead of "hitting"? And it should be "everything" instead of "anything". I know "anything" is often translated into Indonesian as "apa saja", but here I'm guessing they want to say "segalanya", which is "everything"
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Note added at 2 days 1 hr 40 mins (2005-07-11 02:25:59 GMT)
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may I suggest \"crumble\" for \"hancur\" (2nd line)
3rd line: maybe \"pours forth the contents of the earth\"?
some thoughts:
2nd line: "break up" and "split" sound the same to me. Refer back to the original text, or find more precise English words to correspond to the Indonesian words.
3rd line: maybe "pours forth its contents"? Although come to think of it, I don't know if "ground" (the subject of the sentence as you write it in the 2nd line) has "contents". It would make more sense for the earth to have "contents"
4th line: why do you suddenly switch to present continuous tense? It's not consistent with the lines above, or with the line that follows. So it should be "Buildings shake hard" (maybe "tremble"?)
5th line: maybe "crushing" instead of "hitting"? And it should be "everything" instead of "anything". I know "anything" is often translated into Indonesian as "apa saja", but here I'm guessing they want to say "segalanya", which is "everything"
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Note added at 2 days 1 hr 40 mins (2005-07-11 02:25:59 GMT)
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may I suggest \"crumble\" for \"hancur\" (2nd line)
3rd line: maybe \"pours forth the contents of the earth\"?
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blow
just a suggestion
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Note added at 2 days 5 hrs 1 min (2005-07-11 05:47:03 GMT)
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well, hentakan can be translated as blow. Example the boxer get blows on his head. But because it is a poem, I do not know whether it is a \"beautiful\" word or not.
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Note added at 2 days 5 hrs 1 min (2005-07-11 05:47:03 GMT)
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well, hentakan can be translated as blow. Example the boxer get blows on his head. But because it is a poem, I do not know whether it is a \"beautiful\" word or not.
Discussion
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