Feb 1, 2009 15:11
15 yrs ago
Hungarian term

csak a betanult szövegét ismételgeti

Hungarian to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Egy nagyon együgyű kereskedőről van szó, aki azt se érti, mit kérdeznek tőle, mindenre ugyanazt válaszolgatja. Lehet picit szlenges, de nem feltétlenül.

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keeps repeating his "mantra"

"repeats his mantra, no matter, what"
"he has his mantra", "ask him anything, he just repeats his mantra"....
Sokféleképpen meg lehet fogalmazni.

A mantra szót (az eredeti értelme mellett) használják arra az esetre, amikor valaki gyakran ismétel egy - általa jónak vélt gondolatot tartalmazó - vagy betanult szólást, szöveget, akár a témától függetlenül is.

He was a dull interview because his answers were the same, no matter what question you asked. He talked about hard work and defense. He just never answered the question, instead repeating his mantra of hard work and discipline.
hometownargus.com/content/view/912/29/

McCain kept repeating his mantra, “the fundamentals of the economy are strong.” mccainkeatingfive.com/?p=29

President Elect OBAMA's mantra was "its time for change".
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090115011902AAHwefL
Taking on Obama's mantra of "change,"
The Barack Obama mantra, "not too high; not too low"...
The Obama Mantra "Here you can see what the great depression was. But what we have now is a major credit crunch, not a great depression. ...
(Már kb 2 milliószor emlegetik Obamát a mantráival!)

Brown concludes by repeating his "do-nothing party" mantra at Cameron.
Brown repeats his mantra that the recession is global and claims that no government is copying Tory policy to counter the recession.
conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2009/01/live-blog-of-pm.html
The Lib Dem leader was repeating his mantra at every stump speech, but by now he (almost) meant it.
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/jun/08/uk.election20016

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agree anyone
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agree hollowman (X)
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agree Tradeuro Language Services
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agree Zsuzsa Berenyi
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neutral Michael Golden : This might work, as long as we are talking about some type of "slogan" here.
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regurgitates his standard spiel

én igy oldanám meg
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just keeps repeating the same old lines

another possibility
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2 hrs

just keeps repeating/dishing out the same old spiel

If you want it to be more "szlenges", I would suggest "dishing out" (it's already a little "szlenges" with the word "spiel" in there).
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He is like a broken record, vagy:parroting

broken record:
Is a term to express something that keeps repeating; one who continually repeats the same statement with little variation, if any.
(Derives directly from the ... term involving polyvinyl record albums, where such a "broken" record would repeatedly skip back a moment in what being played.)
To parrot:
To repeat or imitate, especially without understanding.

Example sentence:

"You're like a broken record, keep on saying the same thing over and over again"

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agree JANOS SAMU : Parroting a legjobb
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keeps repeating the few formulaic lines/phrases/sentences he knows

Nekem is a "mantra" tetszik legjobban, de így is lehet mondani.
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