Flying Laptops

RJ
October 08, 2012, 12:59 PM posted in General Discussion

Can anyone provide the hanzi for the Mandarin used at the beginning of this commercial?

 

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pretzellogic
October 08, 2012, 02:11 PM

I'm probably wrong, but here goes.....

 

1st woman: 需速冻室的鳖     。

2nd woman: 我的微薄,现在非写不可

 

In places where you wait for the elevators, there are flat panel TVs on the wall.  They only showed the first 5 seconds and the last scene where the woman has her laptop not plugged in.  They didn't show any of the fight scenes.  Interesting.  

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RJ

Originally they showed the long version here on TV but now only the short. Its a common technique in advertising to save money.

The dialog must also match the English subtitles (although I suspect the translation is poorly done)

1st woman: "Relinquish the power to me"

2nd woman: "but I need to update my fashion blog"

I cant sort it out but now I think the second woman says:

2nd woman: 我的微博,现在非写博客

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zhenlijiang

I think pretzellogic got it right for the 2nd woman's line. There was an old QW on the 非...不可 construction. "I can't not write now" / "I've got to write now ."

The 1st woman's line I have trouble with but how about 电源, power supply, for the last word.

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toianw

A: 速速让出电源 (maybe)

B: 我的微博现在非写不可

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RJ

ah, got it. thanks.

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RJ

I still cant make out A, but you are much closer than I got. How humbling this language can be.