Chinese translations for Safe
POSTED BY: FFfan
UPDATED: Monday, December 6, 2004 06:14
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I just typed the dialogue as it appeared in the closed captions. Hope it's not too confusing!
1) Young Simon: "Jien tah duh guay!"
Like hell! (Basically, he was cussing.)
2) Simon's dad: "Nah mei guan shee."
That has nothing to do with it. (Or, that's totally unrelated.)
3) Simon's dad: Yes, and you'd have access to any "tyen shiao duh" that filtered in from the cortex.
Heaven knows what
4) Young Simon: Dad, this is so "dah bien hua."
5) River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
biao-tze = cousin or nephew?
ur-tze = son
6) Kaylee: He's just so "swai." You just want to take a bite out of him all over, you know?
7) Simon: We get to live on a piece of "luh-suh" wreck.
Kaylee: Serenity ain't "luh-suh."
Crappy
8) Simon: Bullied around by our "boo-tai jung tzahng duh" of a captain.
9) Mal: "Fei hua."
Nonsense (literally, crap talk)
10) Mal: Wash, get down to the infirmary. "Ma shong!"
Fast, or on the double
11) Wash: "Lao tyen boo."
12) Mal: Wash, I want you to go to town and see if you can find that "jing tzahng mei yong duh" doctor.
Useless
13) Simon: "Mei mei" everything I have is right here.
Little sister
14) Patron: You're not a witch are you "nyen ching duh?"
Youngun, youngster
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Note: Jiangyin was the name of the planet/moon the crew visited to deliver their cargo.
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Thanks! This episode was drenched in Chinese phrases and I almost started to feel lost. This helps a lot. 
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I wish they'd use standard Hanyu Pinyin for Chinese in caption. It's so difficult to read :-)
I noticed you didn't translate all of it so I'm going to fill in the holes here :-) Hope you don't mind.
4) Young Simon: Dad, this is so "dah bien hua."
* da bianhua = big change
5) River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
biao-tze = cousin or nephew?
ur-tze = son
* I have no clue what the sentence means since it's not spelled in Hanyu Pinyin :-(
6) Kaylee: He's just so "swai." You just want to take a bite out of him all over, you know?
* shuai = handsome
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Quote:
Originally posted by luchanan:
5) River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
biao-tze = cousin or nephew?
ur-tze = son
* I have no clue what the sentence means since it's not spelled in Hanyu Pinyin :-(
It looks pretty much phonetic to me. I'd guess "Liao kou xue de biao ce he hou ce de er ce."
Then again, that doesn't make any sense to me. I don't know if it's my mis-pinyin-izing or the fact that it's been years since I last took Chinese.
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D'oh. I have no idea why it posted my last post twice. Weird.
Anyway, having actually gotten a couple of hours of sleep, I notice it actually all works out to real words as "Liao kou xue de biaozi he houzi de erzi."
I still don't know what it means, though. Does it look like anything to you, Lucha?
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11) "lao tyen boo"
Probably should be "lao tien foo", "old sky father" literrally, translates more like "Oh Lord", "tien foo" is Father/Lord.
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5) River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
"Salivating son of a cheetau and a monkey." Is my best guess... And i'm chinese but have a hard time figure it out. Seems appropritate for some type of insult.
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wow, this is so cool that you guys grab the closed captions translations of the chinese --- I have to go back and watch the older episodes again to see if I can figure out the translations based on syntax. my wife knows both dialects but can never understand the "Anglizations" of chinese words, whereas, I'm always making up English words that phoneticize chinese for her. Between the two fo us, perhaps we can clean up any missing translations
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Hello! This one of my first visits to the community :) I was watching this episode with my mother and these are the translations she came up with. Just another perspective ^_^
Young Simon: "Jien tah duh guay!"
Lit. "Meet his ghost."
Young Simon: Dad, this is so "dah bien hua."
Basically "talking crap"
River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
Erm.. hmm..
"Liou coe shway duh biao-tze.." could be "The ones who drool are.." Maybe.. I dunno
"hoe-tze duh ur-tse" could be "retarded son" - um.. depending on actual pronunciation. Can we get a dialect coach in here ^.^*
Kaylee: He's just so "swai."
Handsome (but I think we all knew that ;)
Simon: We get to live on a piece of "luh-suh" wreck.
Kaylee: Serenity ain't "luh-suh."
lit. "garbage"
Simon: Bullied around by our "boo-tai jung tzahng duh" of a captain.
Er.. literally "doesn't swear much"
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This was my take on em
Young Simon: "Jien tah duh guay!"
Lit. "You must have seen a ghost" - Your lying
Young Simon: Dad, this is so "dah bien hua."
"such a big change/suprise"
River: "Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze."
"you are the son of a salavating bitch and a monkey"
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