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翻译 - Η αγάπη είναι καθυστερημένη. (希腊语)

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2008年 一月 26日 18:59  

irini
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Question: "Love is retarded" means that love is ... mentally challenged? It is translated in Greek as "Love is late" but no amount of head scratching helps. I mean it IS possible to mean that, it just seems an odd choice of a participle.

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2008年 一月 26日 19:40  

kafetzou
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I don't think it means "late" - I think it means "stupid".
 

2008年 一月 26日 19:59  

Una Smith
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Maybe it is a joke? "retarded" can mean both late and stupid.
 

2008年 一月 26日 20:39  

dramati
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Probably really means retarded. Love is blind as well. Probably along the same lines.
 

2008年 一月 26日 22:20  

kafetzou
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David, when you say, "Probably really means retarded," it doesn't help the non-native speakers. They want to know which meaning of retarded it is.

irini, "retarded" is a word often used by children in North America to mean "stupid". This seems to me to be the most reasonable interpretation here.
 

2008年 一月 27日 05:26  

ahikamr
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Just to let you know - the Hebrew translation says: Love is stupid. But then again, the Hebrew translator can't know for sure.
 

2008年 一月 27日 09:14  

IanMegill2
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Yup, love is sure crazy all right -- that's what makes it so Wonderful...
 

2008年 一月 27日 17:26  

kafetzou
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OHMIGOD, Ian - you're a hopeless romantic!
 

2008年 一月 28日 00:20  

irini
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Thank you all so much! I think I found the perfect translation in Greek. Η αγάπη είναι καθυστερημένη. Kafetzoy, Mideia what do you think?
 

2008年 一月 28日 00:42  

kafetzou
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I don't think that's correct, irini. It doesn't mean it's delayed - it means it's stupid. Sorry, if I didn't make that clear.
 

2008年 一月 28日 01:09  

IanMegill2
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I guess you've been reading the poems on my website...
 

2008年 一月 28日 03:17  

kafetzou
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Nope - just your post above. I'm a pragmatist myself, so I'm afraid it would not be, shall we say, my cup o' tea ...
 

2008年 一月 28日 05:25  

IanMegill2
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Aw shucks, ya dont know whatcher missin...What's life without gettin yer heart broken every few years?

Well, I suppose there may be other ways of having a good time...
 

2008年 一月 28日 06:09  

kafetzou
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2008年 一月 28日 06:40  

dramati
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Roget's New Millenium Thesaurus gives some synonyms for retards as being: backward, birdbrained, defective, dim, dim-witted, dopey, dull, dumbbell, dumbo, dumdum, dummy, exceptional, feeble-minded, gorked, half-witted, held back, imbecile, lamebrained, mentally defective, moronic, numbskull, opaque, pinhead, retardo, sappy, simple, simple-minded, slow, slow-witted, stupid, subnormal, touched, underachieving, weak, yo-yo.

But I did notice that "exceptional" can be used in place of retarded. So you could say "love is exceptional".
 

2008年 一月 28日 07:18  

kafetzou
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NO YOU CANNOT, dramati! That's totally not the meaning here. I don't know if you're messing around or what, but please try not to mislead people. When they say "exceptional" in this list they mean that euphemism that's used for mentally handicapped people sometimes.
 

2008年 一月 28日 09:22  

dramati
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Well, maybe another would be "love is lamebrained?" To say love is retarded is really not it either...certainly not politically correct because of a whole spectrum of metally challenged people who have objected to that particular word "retarded". It would also not be in keeping with the general flow of the words to say that love is "mentally challenged" either...so a careful choice of a proper synonym would be in order here. Words can hurt as much as anything we can hurl at a person.
 

2008年 一月 28日 09:27  

dramati
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So why not use the Greek: "translated in Greek as "Love is late" to make it Love is always late or love always comes late.
 

2008年 一月 28日 09:29  

Mideia
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Η αγάπη είναι καθυστερημένη.I agree with that translation,it can cover both meanings, even though it goes more for stupid. And honestly I can't imagine why sb used retarded to caracterize love (I mean as stupid).So let's leave it that way.
 

2008年 一月 28日 16:14  

kafetzou
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dramati, I'd really appreciate it if you'd stay out of this discussion. You're only confusing the issue. The source text is the English, so there's no point in discussing alternative words for the English adjective "retarded".

I have explained the word completely above in my 26 January 2008 22:20 post.

The word does NOT mean "late" in this context AT ALL.
 
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