World Cup

dawg888
June 30, 2010, 04:06 PM posted in General Discussion
@pretzellogic, thanks for the posts on the world cup. There are some football/soccer terms that would be helpful to know in mandarin: the pitch, goalkeeper, off side, penalty kick, penalty box, and throw in.
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pretzellogic
July 01, 2010, 02:48 AM

i'm working on it.....

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dawg888
July 05, 2010, 05:20 AM

Football terms found in NCIKU:

Pitch = Qiu2chang3

Goalkeeper = Shou3men2yuan2

Offside = Yue4wei4

Corner kick = Jiao3qiu2

not sure about "throw-in" word as Fa2jie4wai4qiu2 and "penalty box" as Fa2qiu2qu1

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pretzellogic

Google translate has throw-in as "rēng zài", which I believe literally means "throw at". The only thing we can do is listen for these phrases during the game.

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pretzellogic
July 10, 2010, 03:39 PM

Penalty kick -  点球大战

 

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pretzellogic

Actually, this is more like penalty kick shootout, or penalty shootout. - 点球大战