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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary
just three situations...:-)
Hi guys,
may I ask you for help with these situations? I just finished my another english exercise, this time translated a document movie about Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen. I have a problem with understanding of these situations....
1) Brigitte is describing her first steps as moderator of very famous talkshow in Denmark.
I went to Denmark to do an interview and for fun they said, have you never thought about having an own talk show? And I said, actually not. A they said let's have a test so direct they gave me some questions and they had a couple editors from different magazines and I asked them questions and sort of threw away the cards, pretented to be the so-called female David Letterman or whatever.
First off all I have to say that I love David Letterman's talkshow, I like that guy...:-), but please what did she mean by "and sort of threw away the cards"...
2) Brigitte is describing her house where she moved in with her family four years ago. She said that when they first got there, there were basically just four walls and that they had to work really hard to make that house comfortable...Now to the point...:-)
This is actually the villa (that mentioned house) along the lake that has most land and it has flat land, not going up up up and it's wonderfull for the kids. You can play, in fact, we built a swimming pool, which is quite useful with the kids in summer. Even the dogs jump in there every now and then, so it was perfect for us (Please, what was perfect for them? That they've chosen that house or that they've built that swimming pool?). Of course it takes a lot of patiance, it takes money, headaches, banging from very early morning to the late night(???? Please what is she talking about?) but if you have enough passion and you really want it to work out, you can and that's what we decided to do.
Please, what was she talking about in the last part of this article? What takes a patiance, money, banging from very early morning?....Maintaining of that swimming pool or building of that house? I'm lost there...:-(
3) Brigitte is describing how she married Sly....She's regretting of that step.
My mistake was to marry that guy, I was too young to get married to him. I should have taken more time. I remember also friends were saying c'mon, he's Sylvestr Stallone, he's asked you to marry him so you should marry him. So I sort of, wouldn't say fought (????, did she mean, I didn't argue with them??? I haven't heard this phrase before..),but pushed a little bit into situation that figured it was not right for me. I could probably have gotten twenty million dollars suing him for this (for what? That she was pushed into marriage with him???), but I didn't do it. I just wanted to get out and get on with my own life.
Many thanks guys for help!
Best Regards
JCD
may I ask you for help with these situations? I just finished my another english exercise, this time translated a document movie about Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen. I have a problem with understanding of these situations....
1) Brigitte is describing her first steps as moderator of very famous talkshow in Denmark.
I went to Denmark to do an interview and for fun they said, have you never thought about having an own talk show? And I said, actually not. A they said let's have a test so direct they gave me some questions and they had a couple editors from different magazines and I asked them questions and sort of threw away the cards, pretented to be the so-called female David Letterman or whatever.
First off all I have to say that I love David Letterman's talkshow, I like that guy...:-), but please what did she mean by "and sort of threw away the cards"...
2) Brigitte is describing her house where she moved in with her family four years ago. She said that when they first got there, there were basically just four walls and that they had to work really hard to make that house comfortable...Now to the point...:-)
This is actually the villa (that mentioned house) along the lake that has most land and it has flat land, not going up up up and it's wonderfull for the kids. You can play, in fact, we built a swimming pool, which is quite useful with the kids in summer. Even the dogs jump in there every now and then, so it was perfect for us (Please, what was perfect for them? That they've chosen that house or that they've built that swimming pool?). Of course it takes a lot of patiance, it takes money, headaches, banging from very early morning to the late night(???? Please what is she talking about?) but if you have enough passion and you really want it to work out, you can and that's what we decided to do.
Please, what was she talking about in the last part of this article? What takes a patiance, money, banging from very early morning?....Maintaining of that swimming pool or building of that house? I'm lost there...:-(
3) Brigitte is describing how she married Sly....She's regretting of that step.
My mistake was to marry that guy, I was too young to get married to him. I should have taken more time. I remember also friends were saying c'mon, he's Sylvestr Stallone, he's asked you to marry him so you should marry him. So I sort of, wouldn't say fought (????, did she mean, I didn't argue with them??? I haven't heard this phrase before..),but pushed a little bit into situation that figured it was not right for me. I could probably have gotten twenty million dollars suing him for this (for what? That she was pushed into marriage with him???), but I didn't do it. I just wanted to get out and get on with my own life.
Many thanks guys for help!
Best Regards
JCD
Top answer
Hi JC, Threw away the cards probably refers to prompts. I believe in the early days of TV, promptors wrote the script by hand on huge cards, which they placed on a tripod. Of course one often writes notes on "index cards" to remind himself of things he wants to ask, or points he wants to make in a lecture.
- Hi JC, Threw away the cards probably refers to prompts.
- I believe in the early days of TV, promptors wrote the script by hand on huge cards, which they placed on a tripod.
- Of course one often writes notes on "index cards" to remind himself of things he wants to ask, or points he wants to make in a lecture.
- (The questions they gave her for the interview may have been on cards.
- ) which are simply large or small TV screens which the personality on TV can easily read, but which are not visible to the camera.
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Hi JC,
Threw away the cards probably refers to prompts. I believe in the early days of TV, promptors wrote the script by hand on huge cards, which they placed on a tripod. Of course one often writes notes on "index cards" to remind himself of things he wants to ask, or points he wants to make in a lecture. (The questions they gave her for the interview may have been on cards. P
Threw away the cards probably refers to prompts. I believe in the early days of TV, promptors wrote the script by hand on huge cards, which they placed on a tripod. Of course one often writes notes on "index cards" to remind himself of things he wants to ask, or points he wants to make in a lecture. (The questions they gave her for the interview may have been on cards. P
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Avangi many thanks for perfect answer! [Y][Y][Y]! Actually, the whole movie was just an interview with her, so it was totally without context. She was just sitting in the chair and telling the stories from her life, how they they were shooting the movies, like Red Sonja...it was quite interesting..
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I wouldn't say [something] - is just an expression when you are describing a situation that is difficult to define. You want to give people a general idea of what it's like but you also want to make sure they understand that the description is not 100% accurate.
For example:
"I wouldn't say I love him, but since he left I've been thinking about him all the time."
So for
For example:
"I wouldn't say I love him, but since he left I've been thinking about him all the time."
So for
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JCDentonand sort of threw away the cardsShe abandoned the questions she had previously planned to ask (which were already written on cards) and improvised others that came to mind spontaneously during the interviews.
Equivalent expression: She winged it.
CJ
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seme'I didn't actually fight but I did something very close to fighting'Hi again, Jack. Seme has a point here. "I wouldn't say" is often used as she suggests. That may have been Brigitte's intention. Your translation was a little unclear at that point about who was doing what, and it just seemed to me from the context that she meant it in the flip way,
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Hi Avangi,
After I read your answer I grabbed the meaning as "....so I didn't argue too much with them, but I was being pushed into situation which turned out to be not right for me." Where "I didn't argue too much with them" is in my opinion the same as "I didn't actually fight but I did something very close to fighting", so everything is ok...
After I read your answer I grabbed the meaning as "....so I didn't argue too much with them, but I was being pushed into situation which turned out to be not right for me." Where "I didn't argue too much with them" is in my opinion the same as "I didn't actually fight but I did something very close to fighting", so everything is ok...
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