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crystalhut
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how to say 倾国倾城？

谢谢

2007-10-13 01:54 PM

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Hi:
How about "drop dead gorgeous"?

2007-10-15 01:17 PM

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upset the down

2007-10-16 10:03 PM

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一顾倾人城，再顾倾人国

one glance could conquer a city and whose second glance could vanish an empire.

2007-11-30 08:07 PM

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femme fatale

"倾国倾城"

2007-11-30 09:16 PM

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OK the Lao Wai who can't Chinese's input

#1 = no idea. I don't read Chinese

#2 = really pretty

#3 = sorry, sounds like Chinglish to me.

#4 = ok, vanish should be vanquish. OK A little overly poetic but it gets the message across I guess.

#5 = okay now we're saying she's not only really pretty (#2) BUT she also is so sexy she should probably be avoided. This is NOT a woman you take home to meet your parents... if she even gives you her real name after she uses you for whatever she can squeeze out of your exhausted and grateful self.

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2007-12-1 12:22 AM

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Helen of Troy it is an idiom coming from the tale of Troy war...

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2007-12-2 11:37 PM

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hotest?

2007-12-3 10:45 AM

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我好早就想问这个翻译了，所以我自己到处找了资料

倾国倾城的英语怎么说：http://www.yamedie.cn/?p=51

2007-12-4 07:12 PM

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倾国倾城:
直接翻译是A girl’s comeliness overwhelmed the people of a country or a city.

做品牌用根本含义：
wondrous beauty

另外几个参考：

1、(of a woman ) lovely enough to cause the fall of a city or a state;

2007-12-4 07:17 PM

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anwser here!

god`s beauty intoxicating a whole country and all its states!

2007-12-4 08:33 PM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by qizhihui at 2007-12-4 20:33
god`s beauty intoxicating a whole country and all its states!

mmm no mention of a woman there at all....

2007-12-4 11:04 PM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by meicecream at 2007-12-4 19:17
倾国倾城:
直接翻译是A girl’s comeliness overwhelmed the people of a country or a city.

做品牌用根本含义：
wondrous beauty

另外几个参考：

1、(of a woman ) lovely enough to cause the fal ...

comeliness? OK nobody says comeliness unless they ride a steed to work and spend their weekends jousting.

I guess the "problem" is if you're trying to express that a woman's beauty is THAT breathtaking well you're on your own. There is no single, cookie-cutter term for that sentiment.

2007-12-4 11:08 PM

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倾国倾城: Literally, a woman so beautiful that she can single-handedly bring down an Empire (or a city, for whatever reason)!

2007-12-4 11:29 PM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by jl2315 at 2007-12-4 23:29
倾国倾城: Literally, a woman so beautiful that she can single-handedly bring down an Empire (or a city, for whatever reason)!

damn, hook me up!
I'd love to be brought down single-handedly!

2007-12-4 11:35 PM

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