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Journalism | | Chinese term or phrase: 一家之言 | {独立视角，一家之言}俯仰天地，皆成心得
This is a promo for a commentary program. I have "unconventional perspectives" for 独立视角, can I use "unique observations" for 一家之言? Thanks. |
| WilmanKudoZ activityQuestions: 765 ( 3 open) ( 27 closed without grading) Answers: 108
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| | penetrating insight | Explanation:
I'm not sure you want to be translating this quite so literally. When I have something like this to translate, I hit the thesaurus:
insight, acute, penetrating, wise, shrewd, clarity, perceptive, critical, lucid, comprehensive
Then you just throw some words together to see what sounds good. Trying to hit the exact meaning of the Chinese phrase is just going to leave you with something clunky.
e.g. For the whole 16 characters, you could have:
Critical insight, global vision
or if that's too short:
Insights from around the world - unique perspectives and clarity |
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 Phil Hand
China
Local time: 19:25
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Explanation:
I'm not sure you want to be translating this quite so literally. When I have something like this to translate, I hit the thesaurus:
insight, acute, penetrating, wise, shrewd, clarity, perceptive, critical, lucid, comprehensive
Then you just throw some words together to see what sounds good. Trying to hit the exact meaning of the Chinese phrase is just going to leave you with something clunky.
e.g. For the whole 16 characters, you could have:
Critical insight, global vision
or if that's too short:
Insights from around the world - unique perspectives and clarity
| Phil Hand
China
Local time: 19:25
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Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| Apr 29, 2011 - Changes made by Wilman: | | Field (specific) | Media / Multimedia => Journalism |
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