This led to expressions of sarcasm, then gag gifts, and the rest, as they say, i
Chinese translation: 于是，先是演变为冷嘲热讽的说话，继而是搞笑的礼物，再下来，便是众所周知的事了／就不用说了。
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| English to Chinese translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | |||||||
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| this led to expressions of sarcasm, then gag gifts, and the rest, as they say, i 从这个 ... ... 按他们[法国人]说,其它的事是从前的。 Explanation: Just a try. In fact, this sentence is not very clear to me. It could means : After that, Parisians became ironic against rural people, then started to offer each others gag gifts (because as time passed, they have forgotten the history but they still want to have fun by trying to mock each others, so as they say [French people], "the rest is history". I think the author means : the origin of fish april is not important for French people. They just want to have fun on this day by mocking each others (on this day, everyone is trying to make others beleaving a big hoax). In fact, we very often say : "c'est du passé (从前)" (这是一个从前的事儿 = 不要再说 By this, we mean, "it's old and not important. No reason to mention it"). I think here, "history" means 从前 instead of 历史. |
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| this led to expressions of sarcasm, then gag gifts, and the rest, as they say, i 于是，先是演变为冷嘲热讽的说话，继而是搞笑的礼物，再下来，便是众所周知的事了／就不用说了。 Explanation: 10 ... and the rest is history informal used to say that everyone knows the rest of a story you have been telling(Longman 4) |
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| this led to expressions of sarcasm, then gag gifts, and the rest, as they say, i and the rest is history = something like 然后其他都不用说了(大家都知道了);从此都自然反战了到现在情况 Explanation: and the rest is history = something like 然后其他都不用说了(大家都知道了);从此都自然反战了到现在情况 It is this kind of meaning. I don't have an example to back it up. |
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