Can someone do the 'Objects In Space' translations?

POSTED BY: ChampagneSupernova
UPDATED: Monday, March 15, 2004 05:11
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CHAMPAGNESUPERNOVA

Monday, December 16, 2002 12:55 AM

Thanks in advance!

- Jayne
"Well, that's 'fay fay d'pian'. You saw it wrong."

- Inara (sorry, my closed caption didn't reveal the line but it's just after Wash makes a comment about Jayne's brain)
"----------------. This isn't a joking matter! This is about our lives & River's."

- Inara
"Any chance that 'shiong-mung duh kuang-ren' might survive?"

Did I miss any?

LUCHANAN

Monday, December 16, 2002 6:26 PM

Wow, this episode is pretty tought. I'm a native Chinese speaker and I can't make any of that out

Ni hao, wo shi Lucha Nan.

YINGHUOCHONG

Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:19 PM

I didn't watch this episode, but let's see...

'shiong-mung duh kuang-ren'
If this is the "easier pronounciation version", then I'm guessing the official Mandarin pingying should be: "xiong meng de kuang ren"
hypothesis: "fierce/violent madman"

'fay fay d'pian'
Huh? I need more context to figure out that last segment. "Fay fay" may be "fei fei" (fly fly or fat/chubby), but that sounds weird.

CANTTAKESKY

Sunday, March 2, 2003 6:18 PM

Kaylee: All three. Dead in an instant. With her eyes still closed.

Jayne: Well, that's fay fay d'pian. You got it all wrong.

Translation:
Jayne: Well, that's a fat lie. You got it all wrong.

I believe "fay fay d'pian" means "a lie that is fat." "Fay fay" means fat, and "pian" means lie. It is hard to be sure of course, but it makes sense in this context.

"Fat lie" is not a natural Chinese term, but a literal translation of an American idiom. So that makes it very unfamiliar to Chinese speakers.

When I find Inara's phrase, I'll try to figure that out too.

Can't Take Sky

FLAMETREE

Friday, January 23, 2004 8:00 AM

given the context " a big fat lie" does makes sense.

isn't huanghua more usually used for to lie?
shuo huanghau to tell a lie.

doesn't the verb pian (2) usually means to cheat, swindle deceive?

fei(2) is fat and fei(4) is useless or waste

another translation may be "unless or deceiving swindle" ?

Any other guesses?

CANTTAKESKY

Friday, January 23, 2004 9:21 AM

"Fay" could be the word for "useless" instead of "fat."

But "pian" still means lie, cheat, swindle...it is all the same word.

It could mean "useless lie" instead of "fat lie." Or it could mean "useless, fat lie" since "fay fay" was used twice.

Hard to tell, with the actors not hitting the right inflections.

I tend to just go with the "big, fat lie" translation.

Can't Take My Gorram Sky

OKKAY

Friday, January 23, 2004 8:30 PM

Straight from the script:

"Well that's < a babboon's ass-crack >
[FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen]"

And Inara's line:

< Shut up, you inconsiderate
schoolboys >! [BEE-jway, neen hen BOO-
TEE-TYEH duh NAN-shung!]

FORTUNATUS

Friday, January 23, 2004 8:41 PM

This site has translations, Chinese spellings, pinyin transliterations, and brief explanations for the translations.

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/episode2.html#ois

E.g.
fei4fei4 de5 pi4yan3
"FAY-FAY duh PEE-yen"
"a babboon's [sic] a-- -crack"
Jayne, about Kaylee's recounting of River's shooting

狒狒的屁眼㆒狒狒的屁眼
fei4fei4 baboon; de5 possessive marker; pi4yan3 anus [short for 屁股眼㆒屁股眼 pi4gu3[5]yan3; pi4gu3[5] butt; yan3 hole, literally: eye]

Related Expressions:
Hou2zi5 de5 pi4gu3[5]!, Trash
pi4gu3[5], Shindig
Tai4kong1 suo3you3 de5 xing1qiu2 dou1 sai1jin4 wo3 de5 pi4gu3[5], War Stories
Ti1 wo3 de5 pi4gu3[5]., Shindig

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THECRAZYIVAN

Monday, March 15, 2004 5:11 AM

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