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Interesting translation of brand names(English to Chinese)
“Sprite” is a lemon flavored soft drink of Coca-Cola Company. “Sprite” originally means energetic demon. Its potential consumers are those who are young, lovely and active. But it used to be translated into “事必利”which means everything must go well. Though the Chinese people prefer something auspicious like the number 8 that have a similar pronunciation with the word “发”(being rich)in Chinese, the Chinese consumers were not interested in the first translator’s good intention. How did it happen in this way? It is because “Sprite” has been oriented at the young market. Its target consumers are the young people. Generally, the young are less likely to believe in that something auspicious can bring them good luck. They tend to like something positive, stylish and passionate. So the name “雪碧”is exactly what they want. “雪碧”shows that after they have this kind of drink, they will feel cool especially in the overwhelming summer.
It is no doubt that since the Chinese brand name was substituted, “Sprite” has become increasingly popular among the young consumers.
“Mild Seven”, made by Japan Tobacco Inc, has been selling like hot cakes worldwide as hot as “555” and “Marlboro”, especially among ladies for its moderate taste and subtle smell. It is widely known as “七星”in China. However, it used to be named as“万事发”.Obviously, the former one is better than the latter. Firstly, “万事”is one of the Chinese people’s taboos for the reason that it makes them think of the unlucky words like “多事之秋”or “东窗事发”which all mean the unexpected accidents keep happening. That is never what the Chinese consumers expect regardless of the first translator’s intention to wish everything thrive. But “七星”is derived from the Number “7”. From the Japanese’s perspective, “7” is a lucky number. They believe in that “7” can keep them safe and happy. So they retranslated “Mild Seven” into “七星”,which not only sounds good to the Chinese, but also show the Japanese culture around the globe. The retranslation of “Mild Seven” is in time and correct,because they realized they could not put the cultural background and national psychology of the target language country aside if they expected bigger success.
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Can "learned" be used as an adjective?
Can I say she is learned?
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Truly madly deeply do
Being in love, one will act childishly and weirdly.
Being in love, one will be able to link everything that has slight relations with the one.
Being in love, one will be amazingly patient and torlerant.
Being in love, the other will be always on one's mind,overwhelmingly.
If they love each other, that will be fantastic.
What if only one loves, the other doesn't care at all.
One will definitely be hurt.
Meanwhile, the other will be damn annoyed.
Therefore, one'd better let go of love if that is true love.
Love is free.
Love is to loose love to make love free.
Love is to keep the pain to oneself.
Truly madly deeply hope the other can stay happy in the rest of life.
Is one pretending to be great?
Maybe...
But who cares?
April 10, 2012
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Can I say "you never can be selfish".
my friend insist it's Chinglish. but I don't think so.what is your opinion?thanks a lot...Haha. I am so happy that many people voiced their views.However different people have different ideas. Some said yes,while others said no. So i am still confused.I hope more guys will leave their comments.
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How many meanings does" I love Annil" have? and what are they?
I saw this on a website. but i am so confused. thanks for your answers.
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This content violates our Community Guidelines.January 28, 2012
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Is it sentence right? from gramma. Thanks for your answer.
Compared with China has a large population of more than 1.3 billion,UK only has a population of 61 million.I‘m sorry, Actually, i want to say "Compared with China haing a large population of more than 1.3 billion,UK only has a population of 61 million."
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What do you think a good girl and a good boy should be like?
Do boys fall in love with a girl with good looks more easily than an ordinary- looking girl?
When planing to start a new love relationship, what are the most important factors that will affect your decision?
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the cyber love
what's your opinion about the love on the net? Do you think it can work?
From my point of view, I really prefer to believe it can work, but it's really really very hard to keep on without the hard work of both sides.
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Do you believe in horoscopes?
what do you think of scorpio girls?<img title="Laughing" src="http://www.italki.com/Scripts/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" />
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