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Re: [cjk] off-topic: translation of a poem title


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [cjk] off-topic: translation of a poem title
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 08:08:01 +0200 (CEST)

>>   宿業師山房待丁大不至
>
> So I would translate it as (it is probably a monk's retreat)
>
>   night staying at a/the/my honoured teacher's mountain hut, waiting
>   for (friend whose name is) Dīng Dà who does not turn up.
>
> It is also possible "大" is part of an affective form or nick name -
> (for "elder/eldest") - i.e. elder brother Ding or Ding the
> older/elder .

Thanks a lot!  I think I can now cook up something correct in
German :-)


    Werner

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