ばちが当たる

English translation: incur a curse/get my comeuppance(from god)

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English translation:	incur a curse/get my comeuppance(from god)

04:44 Jan 24, 2002

Japanese to English translations [Non-PRO]

Japanese term or phrase: ばちが当たる

＿＿先生の凶報を教えてくれた代わりにご飯をご馳走してくれるというけれど、そんなことをしたら私の方が神様からばちが当たるよ。

Kei

incur a curse, get my comeuppance (from god)

Explanation:
Bachi ga ataru is not only to be cursed, but also to have deserved it, or behaved in a way to incur the curse.

Alternatively, this expression is a bit old,but so is the text by the look of it, "to get ones comeuppance" means something similar.

"If you keep behaving like that you get your comeuppance you know!"

Selected response from:

Timothy Takemoto
Local time: 12:03

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incur a curse, get my comeuppance (from god)

Timothy Takemoto

to be punished (by god)

mkj (X)

to be damned, cursed

Sisal (X)

Answers

20 mins confidence:

to be damned, cursed

Explanation:
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Note added at 2002-01-24 05:06:10 (GMT)
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I think bachi here is the word for punishment. So the phrase would mean to be...accursed...I\'m guessing...

Sisal (X)

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

incur a curse, get my comeuppance (from god)

Timothy Takemoto
Local time: 12:03
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English
PRO pts in pair: 65

3 days 3 hrs confidence:

to be punished (by god)

Explanation:
From the tone of the Japanese sentence, the speaker is not referring to God of Christianity; this god can curse people and their land for generations if he chooses to. Thus, the English words such as "curse" and "damn" sound very strong and negative to me, and their effects seem to be long-lasting. Average Japanese people do not regard Shinto gods as personal and severe as Christians do their God. The people still have the sense that something bad might happen to them eventually if they do something bad intentionally and that it is a sort of punishment from above. However, it's not normally regarded as severe and long-lasting as a curse or damnation.

mkj (X)
United States
Local time: 20:03
PRO pts in pair: 159

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