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a carrot-and-stick policy

Arabic translation: سياسة العصا و الجزرة


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English term or phrase:a carrot-and-stick policy
Arabic translation:سياسة العصا و الجزرة
Entered by: Fuad Yahya
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06:40 Feb 14, 2004
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics
English term or phrase: a carrot-and-stick policy
This station is part of a project to re-colonise the Arab homeland that the United States seeks to implement through a carrot-and-stick policy," it said.
Hamdani
سياسة العصا و الجزرة
Explanation:
وهي التي تستعمل مع الدواب كي تواصل السير للأمام لملاحقة جزرة معلقة على طرف عصا يحملها الراكب.
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Deena Moghrabi
Local time: 09:20
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Summary of answers provided
4 +13سياسة العصا و الجزرة
Deena Moghrabi
5 +10سـياسة الترغيب والترهيبFuad Yahya
5 -1سياسة جوِّع كلبك يتبعك
Abdelazim Abdelazim


  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +13
سياسة العصا و الجزرة


Explanation:
وهي التي تستعمل مع الدواب كي تواصل السير للأمام لملاحقة جزرة معلقة على طرف عصا يحملها الراكب.

Deena Moghrabi
Local time: 09:20
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Saleh Ayyub
20 mins
agree  Shazly: سياسة الجزرة والعصا
54 mins
agree  Ahmed Ismail
1 hr
agree  jenan
1 hr
agree  Joseph Samir
2 hrs
agree  Randa F: وهي أيضاً مصطلح سياسي صحفي
7 hrs
agree  Awadh Balaish
7 hrs
disagree  Ali Darwish: Calque translation doesn't work unless the person reading the translation is familiar with the original expression, which defeats the purpose of translation in the first place. What the media use isn't necessarily correct. Error replication not justified.
10 hrs
agree  ALI HASAN
13 hrs
agree  Mueen Issa
1 day2 hrs
agree  Musab Hayatli
1 day7 hrs
agree  Alaa Zeineldine: Ali's comment applies in many situations, but in this case, the alien expression has been used in the Arabic media often enought to have become familiar.
2 days13 hrs
agree  htms
2 days14 hrs
agree  AHabchy
6 days
agree  AhmedAMS
11 days
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +10
سـياسة الترغيب والترهيب


Explanation:
أو سـياسة الوعد والوعيد

Fuad Yahya
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 164

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jenan
9 mins
agree  Ahmed Ismail
44 mins
agree  Awadh Balaish: لقد أصبحت عبارة العصاء و الجزرة شائعة و خصوصا في مختلف و سائل الأعلام و من الأفضل للمترجم الن يقبل ما هو مستعمل ولا أعترض على ترجمتك للمعتى
6 hrs
agree  Ali Darwish
9 hrs
agree  umsarah: This is more familiar to Arab readers
11 hrs
agree  Alaa Abdulsalam
21 hrs
agree  Sam Shalalo
5 days
agree  AhmedAMS
11 days
agree  يونس طه
2423 days
agree  Abdurrahman Mahanna
2922 days
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
سياسة جوِّع كلبك يتبعك


Explanation:
The idiom stems from a trick used in former times to keep rabbits moving forward by "stimulating" them by a carrot tied to a stick which a person moves from a distance.

Abdelazim Abdelazim
Local time: 08:20
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Ali Darwish: Actually, your translation works with the alternative idiomatic expression, "carrot on the stick", which is not the same as “carrot and stick”. The original Arabic idiom is: أجع كلبك يتبعك.
22 hrs
  -> But I have never read your proposed alternative idiomatic expression, "carrot ON the stick."
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Changes made by editors
Jan 11, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
LevelNon-PRO => PRO
Jan 11, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
FieldArt/Literary => Social Sciences
Field (specific)Journalism => Government / Politics


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