Talk:Kino no Tabi:Volume5 Chapter4
On page 80 there's the following passage:「俺がおとりに出る。あの穴まで走るから。やつが顔を出したら仕留めろ。俺の腕の一本や二本は、今回我慢だ。」
And the translation goes like this: "I’ll be the decoy. I’ll run to that hole, and if he shows his face, take him down. Whether it’s an arm or two, this time, be patient."
The latter part seems quite odd, I believe that 「腕の一本や二本」is an expression, but i can't figure out what it means.
Wow... Did you check the original text? *0* I'm really new to this and I'm not so confident with some parts of my translation, so I'm glad someone checked! Thank you so much!
About that phrase, I thought it fits the context well so I did not check for idioms and translated it literally. I'm not sure if it's an expression, but I do know that 'ude' or arm refers to 'skill'. I checked some of my references but no luck. Maybe it's rare? If you do find out, feel free to edit the text ^_^
Ella.servantes 21:00, 23 June 2012 (CDT)
Actually, it was the other way around. :) I've read this chapter yesterday (in the original) and stumbled upon couple of sentences that didn't make sense, so i've checked if this chapter has been translated here.
I've also made minor translation corrections to the text, if you don't mind. All of them must be obvious except for the one about pink bullets. 「ばらの弾丸」 stands for 「散の弾丸」, meaning "a bulk of bullets". For example, Daijirin dictionary defines ばら【散】 as 「本来ひとまとまりや組になっている物を， ばらばらに分けたもの。 また， そのような状態。」
Dammitt 02:54, 24 June 2012 (CDT)
Not at all! I'm glad for the corrections. I find Japanese really tricky when the context does not show itself to me... Gotta study more....T_T Pink...LOL Now I want to hit my head for not wondering what he would use pink bullets for....^^; Thanks much!
Ella.servantes 04:10, 24 June 2012 (CDT)
