Chinese translations for Shindig

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FFFAN

Saturday, November 2, 2002 2:29 AM

The dialogue in quotes is the Mandarin stuff. Sorry if it looks weird, but I'm just typing what was displayed in my closed captioning window.

1) Men playing pool: "Whay!"

It's an expression like, "what the heck" or "hey!"

2) Atherton: (See you soon), "bao bay."

Not sure, but it sounds to me like "dear" or "precious."

3) Zoe: Too much "foofaraw."

Um, not sure if this was supposed to be Mandarin or not. O_o Any ideas?

[UPDATE: I just looked up the word in an English dictionary and it means frills and flashy fluff. ^_^ So never mind!]

4) Badger: Nose in the air like he never "wun gwo pee."

Errr... I'm stuck on this one.

5) Badger: ...... "pee-goo" ......

rear end

I don't remember the line verbatim, but he was asking Mal to do the smuggling job.

6) Inara: "Lao pung yo nee [missing a word] chi lai hun yo jing shen."

Old friend, you look really well (each time I see you?). Sorry I missed one of the words - my CC got messed up.

7) Atherton: ... flying piece of "go se"...

dog shit

8) Kaylee: "Sheh-sheh" cap'n.

thank you

9) Kaylee: "Shuh muh?"

what? (what did you say?)

10) Kaylee: "Tsai boo shr." The extenders ain't braced.

Not sure but maybe she meant, "That's not it." (She was talking shop with some old men in that scene.)

11) Mal: This "whoon dahn" duel .....

basically stupid or idiotic

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Hope that wasn't too confusing!

VDODGY

Saturday, November 2, 2002 9:26 AM

It's supposed to be wun gwa pee - nose in the air like he never "smelled a fart."

Mark A Sheppard

BILLIAM

Saturday, November 2, 2002 10:30 AM

"wun gwo pee" literally means "smell dog fart". "Dog fart" usually means garbage or non-sense.

ILOVEJAYNE

Saturday, November 2, 2002 9:51 PM

"Foofaraw" is an old, kind of hick English word. My granny used to use it. It means pretentiousness, basically. The lavish decorations and stuff that seem absolutely ridiculous to Zoe. (To me, too.)

LUCHANAN

Sunday, November 10, 2002 8:34 AM

2) Atherton: (See you soon), "bao bay."

Not sure, but it sounds to me like "dear" or "precious."

* baobei = baby

10) Kaylee: "Tsai boo shr." The extenders ain't braced.

Not sure but maybe she meant, "That's not it." (She was talking shop with some old men in that scene.)

* cai bu shi = more like "yeah right!"

YINGHUOCHONG

Saturday, December 21, 2002 10:09 PM

I agree with the first translation of this phrase, because the words are "spelled" in a way to ease pronounciation, so "gwo" is different from "go". Besides that, the first translation of "gwo" makes the entire sentence sound more grammatically correct.

official pingying for that (if you care): wun guo pi (smelled - past - fart, "smelled fart before")

hope for less curses to translate

WHEEBS

Thursday, January 2, 2003 6:06 AM

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hope for less curses to translate

2Ni4bu 3xiangle 2nan1ting de 4hua ma?
You don't like speech that's hard on the ears? 2Wo 3you de 2shi4hou 4zaihu, 2biede 2shi1jian 2mei3you.
Sometimes that bothers me, othertimes I don't care.
3Wo 3mei4kan 3biede di1yi ge 3yan1chu.
I haven't seen any but the first show.

Wheebs Migullackuddy