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Chinese translation: 百萬名腳的足球高手

13:10 May 21, 2009

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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / 足球

English term or phrase: million-footed

He was running an experiment to see whether Brazil's million-footed talent factory could be grafted to an utterly foreign land via this small, silly game.
上文讲到巴西是一个生产足球天才的工厂。
这里的million-footed是什么意思？

Keli Zhang
China

Chinese translation:百萬名腳的足球高手

Explanation:
The soccer players of Brazil are known all over the world. Famous soccer players are often rewarded with million of dollars in their contracts. In your case, I feel "million-footed" means more toward the value of these talented soccer player (each foot is worth million of dollars).

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-05-21 20:31:56 GMT)
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I asked a friend of mine, his impression of the sentence is "many high-valued" soccer players. His interpretation makes sense. What do you think?

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Mandy Jou
United States
Local time: 09:18

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谢谢，从整句来看，这个解释更贴切。
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Summary of answers provided

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好/神脚众多的：比喻足球高手有的是

Adsion Liu

百萬名腳的足球高手

Mandy Jou

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好/神脚众多的：比喻足球高手有的是

Explanation:
million-footed talent factory 明显是比喻，将巴西比喻成天才工厂，在此工厂中，足球踢得好的神人有的是，就像在中国乒乓高/好手有的是一样。为比喻起见，中国乒乓用“手”，巴西足球就用“脚”呗。
以上供参考/润色。但愿有用。

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可谓“英雄所见略同”：-）但“million-feet”的表达不好，因为如用“million-feet”就会让人只理解为“脚很多”，而其实要表达的是“用脚踢球的人”，强调踢球这一动作/运动，故将“foot”一词动用，这在现在英语里是越来越流行的趋势之一。另：用“million-feet”作形容词时为“million-foot”，而非其复数形式:-)

Adsion Liu
Canada
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