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German德语: auf Taubenfüßen gekommen

English英语 translation: crept up






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German德语词条或短语:auf Taubenfüßen gekommen
English英语翻译:crept up
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German德语至English英语翻译 [专业]
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German德语词条或短语: auf Taubenfüßen gekommen
Wir stehen am Anfang dieses Prozesses, den Castells ganz zu Recht eine Revolution nennt, die man nur deshalb nicht als solche wahrnimmt, weil sie auf Taubenfüßen gekommen ist, weil sie eine lange Latenzzeit hat.

A speech talking about the implications of digitilisation and globalisation for society.
The idea behind this phrase is most important as the rest of the speech is fairly factual. No flowery translations are needed!
babbleon
德国
crept up
说明:
because it has crept up on us...

is another option
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Claire Cox
英国
提问者给回答者的留言
"Crept up" is definitely the best suggestion in this otherwise no-nonense business presentation. Thanks to everyone for their creative input!
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所提供的全部ENGLISH英语翻译如下:
3 +6has been sneaking up
Johanna Timm, PhD
3 +1crept up
Claire Cox
4on little cat feet
Hilary Davies
2approached in hushed tones / pregnant silencexxxFrancis Lee


  

回答

13分钟   信心度: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 同仁同意(净值): +6
has been sneaking up


说明:
an allusion to Nietzsche's saying:
Die stillsten Worte sind es, welche den Sturm bringen. Gedanken, die mit Taubenfüßen kommen, lenken die Welt.
` It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come on doves' feet guide the world.'


Johanna Timm, PhD
加拿大
母语: German德语
此类别中专业问题的积分: 50

同仁对此翻译的评论(以及回答者的回复)
同意 itla: Just an alternative thought: revolutions that tread softly (but carry a big stick)?
9分钟

同意 Henry Schroeder: I suppose "creeping" is another option, but this is certainly the idea
11分钟
  -> good suggestion, thanks

同意 Olaf: with Johanna
12分钟

同意 Melanie Sellers
19分钟

同意 xxxFrancis Lee: great reference (Kaufmann), likewise the specific rendering ;-)
48分钟

中性态度 Ingeborg Gowans: I like dove's feet , it sounds a bit more elegant "sneaking up" sounds to me a bit too colloquial for an official spech
59分钟

中性态度 Craig Meulen: with ingeborg - if it's a direct reference to Nietzche's saying, then the translation can be a direct reference to an accepted translation of Nietzsche's saying.
16小时

同意 Anne Schulz: I also like doves' feet - maybe in quotation marks to mark it as a reference - because it conveys a lot of ideas (grey, fairly noiseless, inconspicuous, non-threatening, but suddenly all around) in a single expression.
17小时
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53分钟   信心度: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
on little cat feet


说明:
originally from "Fog" by Carl Sandburg, but I've seen it used in the media.

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Note added at 54 mins (2006-04-10 17:04:52 GMT)
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sorry, should have put the whole sentence - "because it has come on little cat feet".

Hilary Davies
英国
母语: English英语
此类别中专业问题的积分: 20
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1小时   信心度: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
approached in hushed tones / pregnant silence


说明:
I immediately liked Johanna's suggestion, execpt "sneak" does have something stealthy/dodgy/i.e. objectively (ergo: subjectively) untrustworthy about it, and that might not fit the context.
"Hushed tones" could sound too lame/harmless, "pregnant silence" too powerful, but given the rest of the sentence ...

xxxFrancis Lee
德国
在该领域工作
母语: English英语
此类别中专业问题的积分: 54

同仁对此翻译的评论(以及回答者的回复)
中性态度 Henry Schroeder: approached in pregnant silence? Perhaps where the cats have no tails, you know :-)
1小时
  -> "pregnant silence" was a stand-alone suggestion, albeit a wobbly-legged one - no doubt due to a certain disorienting taillessnes ;-)
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1小时   信心度: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 同仁同意(净值): +1
crept up


说明:
because it has crept up on us...

is another option

Claire Cox
英国
母语: English英语
此类别中专业问题的积分: 28
提问者给回答者的留言
"Crept up" is definitely the best suggestion in this otherwise no-nonense business presentation. Thanks to everyone for their creative input!

同仁对此翻译的评论(以及回答者的回复)
同意 Ken Cox: a possibility; 'crept up on us unaware' is a fairly common expression in English and fits the register
2小时
  -> Thanks Kenneth
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