Essays Tagged: "Literal translation"

It's in his mouth, a study on Chow Yun-Fat

es for Chow blowingsmoke and looking cool.In John Woo's over-the-top classic, Hard Boiled (the roughliteral translation of the Chinese title is Spicy-Handed GunGod), Chow plays with a toothpick. There ... said completelyimpossible, but Jillian has proven me wrong.) In herdiscussion of The Killer (rough literal translation of theChinese title: A Pair of Blood-Splattering Heroes), shementions the nickna ...

(8 pages) 90 1 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Indepth anaylsis of the origin (including cultural, political) of Korea and its first settlers.

ence of Korea as a nation: "Land of the Morning Calm" or "The Hermit Kingdom." The former is a semi-literal translation of Cho-Sun ("fresh morning"), the last Korean dynasty (1392-1910). When Koreans ...

(16 pages) 183 0 4.1 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

Analysis of Frost's "A Road Not Taken" by Jim Steinberg

t of Frost's ability to infuse his feelings/emotions at the time of the poem, into the reader. As a literal translation, The Road Not Taken is a narrative in which the speaker, Frost, encounters the c ...

(3 pages) 120 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Rammstein

people were hurt and killed, as the result of a crash during an American Air Force flight show. The literal translation of "ram-stein" is a battering ram made of stone. Word of RAMMSTEIN's horror roma ...

(1 pages) 18 1 4.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

The Agoge - Educational System of Sparta

d loyal. It is believed to have been triggered by Sparta's defeat against the Argives in 669BC. The literal translation of 'Agoge' is 'raising.'The aim of the system was to produce morally and physica ...

(6 pages) 19 0 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The art of Italy and Northern Europe from 1300 to

stently present in the south, the Italian Renaissance was not really a rebirth as is suggested by a literal translation of the word. It was actually a reemphasis and reinterpretation on the already ex ...

(7 pages) 40 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Audiovisual translation ( movie translation )

ethods 1.9.1 Word-for-word translation: in which the SL word order is preserved and the words 1.9.2 Literal translation: in which the SL grammatical constructions are converted to their 1.9.3 Faithful ... area in Turkey. 1.9 Methods General Translation methods is listed below: Word for word translation Literal Translation Faithful Translation Semantic Translation Communicative Translation Adaptation F ...

(36 pages) 59 1 3.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

On the Film Title Translation from English into Chinese from the Cultural Differences Aspect

p;……………………………..9-104.2 Literal Translation…………………………& ... e also in effect in film names. As mentioned in foregoing chapters, counterpart words with the same literal meanings in different cultures do not necessarily have the same connotational meanings. For ...

(19 pages) 30 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Isaiah: A Prophet For The Ages (Old Testament)

Bible and contains numerous prophecies about the coming of the Messiah. According to Jay P. Green's Literal Translation p.976, the following verses of Isaiah are quoted or alluded to in the New Testam ... dependence was acknowledged by other nations. Just as Isaiah had said, a modern state of Israel was literally was born in a single day! Just as Isaiah had also said, the birth of Israel came with grea ...

(12 pages) 21 0 0.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity