Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Japanese little translation (only who understand it well )?

Question:


Hi, how I can translate this sentence?

MOTIVATIONを下げず前をむいていっぽいっぽ。

Motivation one after one? etc.... etc?

Thank you!

Answer:


MOTIVATIONを下げる = to lose motivation (to lower literally)

前をむく = to look forward, to face forward (metaphorically: to go on, to fight on, to hang on)

いっぽいっぽ = step by step

Masu stem + zu = without (especially without something that is expected or predictable)

My translation:
Without losing your motivation, continue (your life/fight) step-by-step.
But really, there are a lot of ways you could say the same thing, for example:
Without losing motivation, follow down your path step-by-step.

But my example felt to be the one that is still rather close to the original Japanese one but is not very unnatural in English.

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