Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: 3 Curiosità

Ciao a tutti, come tradurreste queste frasi (più che altro le parti
marcate)?:
- BOCCA AL LUPO per il tuo esame
-il tuo comportamento..mi ha fatto PASSARE LA VOGLIA di passare la serata
con te   o (questo odore mi HA FATTO VENIRE VOGLIA di fragole)
- NON PRENDERTELA TI RIFARAI PRESTO!
inoltre che vuol dire
i'm straight  (o i'm straight with)...non ricordo bene!
Ciao e grazie!

 i'm straight  (o i'm straight with)...non ricordo bene!
In quale contesto?
Può voler dire
"Sono etero"
-- 
Enrico C
"Don't be so wimpy!"
wimpy: weak (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 i'm straight  (o i'm straight with)...non ricordo bene!
Be straight with me, sii sincero con me
-- 
Enrico C
"Although ascetic, he put acetic acid on his chips."
Acetic, acid, vinegar. - Ascetic, practiser of self denial.
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 - NON PRENDERTELA
Don't take it badly!
-- 
Enrico C

 Be straight with me, sii sincero con me
"Straight" significa anche eterosessuale.
-- 
Mary

 - BOCCA AL LUPO per il tuo esame
Give 'em hell!
Frances
-- 
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his firts training was in how to learn.
And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
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Give 'em hell!
Really?  I would say "give them hell" if it's a game or a match and you are
competing against someone.  In other words, if there is a "win" and a "loss"
give them hell is appropriate.  In case of an exam, I'd just say "good luck".
bye
Ari

 i'm straight  (o i'm straight with)...non ricordo bene!
Eheh detto cosě da solo vuol dire "sono etero", come diceva Mary. Poi dipende
dalla frase chiaramente :) Comunque, dubito fortemente che un qualunque
vocabolario non riporti traduzioni sicuramente migliori delle mie per questi
termini.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 con te   o (questo odore mi HA FATTO VENIRE VOGLIA di fragole)
GIVEN ME A CRAVING FOR / WANT
Zz

'En 25 Jan 2004 22:57:39 GMT, GFCARRERA 'égrapse:
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Er... Dunno, I'd thought the same, until an English friend of mine told me
so about my last exam... And I cannot say it's teen talk because the bloke
isn't a teen any more...
But, look, we also say "vai e ammazzalo!", referring to the teacher (right,
metaphorically talking, ok! And even when you actually like the
professor!), before sitting for an examination... 
Cheers
Frances
-- 
Gnóthi saūton
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 sitting for an examination
Ho visto usata anche la forma
"sitting an exam(ination)" e "sitting exams"
Probabilmente sono usate entrambe...
(?)
-- 
Enrico C
"It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise"
guts: courage (c) Dave's ESL Cafe Slang

 (?)
Never heard of it, but it may _very_ well be!
Dove l'hai vista, si fas est...?
Fr
-- 
The good teacher is a guide who helps others to dispense with his services.
R.S.Peters, Ethics and Education.
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 Fr
 
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=73988&dict=CALD
  to take an examination:
    After I've sat my exams, I'm going on holiday.
    AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH I sat for my exams today.

 exam, I'd just say "good luck".
I never heard of it in this context as well, but were it said to me, I'd
understand "give teachers hell", "fagli vedere chi sei". Pretty much what
Enrico was saying too.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

 Don't take it badly!
"Take it easy"?
Bye
Agostino
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Non ho mai sentito "Fingers crossed". It's ' "I'll keep my fingers corssed"  

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In GB si usa.
-- 
Mary

 - BOCCA AL LUPO per il tuo esame
Crepe il lupo! I say ... :-)
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> Non ho mai sentito "Fingers crossed".
A me lo dicevano i due docenti del British, prima di ogni esame. :-)
Uno irlandese, l'altra gallese, per la cronaca.
ciao
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 In GB si usa.
Anche in IT, "Incrociamo le dita" :)
-- 
Enrico C
"I'll be seeing ya, in Abyssynia."
Abyssynia, African country. - I'll be seeing ya. Parting salutation.
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 Crepe il lupo! I say ... :-)
Comunque, giusto per spaccare il capello in quattro, si dice "*In* bocca al
lupo!" e la risposta è "Crepi!" (o "Crepi il lupo!").
-- 
Giovanni Bajo

Non ho mai sentito "Fingers crossed". It's ' "I'll keep my fingers corssed"  
Io l'ho sentito.
-- 
Adam Atkinson (
gh...@mistral.co.uk
)
Poor Impulse Control

 Non ho mai sentito "Fingers crossed". It's ' "I'll keep my fingers corssed"
In GB e EIRE si usa spesso.
Frances
-- 
Lune...
Entends le cri d'un homme qui a mal
Pour qui un million d'étoiles
Ne valent pas les yeux de celle
Qu'il aime d'un amour mortel
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 > Non ho mai sentito "Fingers crossed". It's ' "I'll keep my fingers
corssed"
Fingers crossed is short form.

In GB e EIRE si usa spesso.
I know.  That's what Mary said.  I had never heard it before.
bye

 Fingers crossed is short form.
Like: "Break a leg" or "Knock 'em dead"
"Fingers crossed" can also be used a bit like "Touch wood" (often
accompanied by tapping one's own head with finger).
:o)

Like: "Break a leg" or "Knock 'em dead"
Break a leg and knock them dead are both in the imperative form, so there's
verb in the sentence. You can't extend those sentences.  Those are complete
sentences.  IT's the same for "knock on wood". " Fingers corssed" does not have
a verb in there, so that's why it sounds strange to me.  As I said, I'd never
heard it.  
bye
ari