Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

a disgrace to someone

Turkish translation:

... i utandıran

Added to glossary by mustafaer
Oct 1, 2009 11:10
15 yrs ago
English term

a disgrace to someone

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Greetings,

This phrase is used of modern Britain, and means that the values so dear to Winston Churchill: political freedom, courage, responsibility, morality etc. are no longer respected and almost everyone has become selfish, spineless etc.

I first thought I might use “Çörçil’in yüzkarası” but my worry about that it that it might be thought that something bad is being said about Churchill, but of course the opposite is the case: Churchill himself is seen as wonderful and modern Britain as having let him down by not living up to his ideals.

All the best, and many thanks,

Simon
Change log

Oct 7, 2009 15:12: mustafaer changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/61459">SeiTT's</a> old entry - "a disgrace to someone"" to ""... i utandıran""

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... i utandıran

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agree Balaban Cerit : yes, or we can use the "...için utanç kaynağı"
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agree Serkan Doğan
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agree Erkan Dogan : "birisi için utanç kaynağı"
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agree Özden Arıkan : "utandıran"ın devamına bir isim gelemiyorsa, utanç kaynağı daha iyi tabii; ama bence soranın önerdiği "yüzkarası" da gayet uygundur
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agree nalan ceper
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(e) ayıp etmek

If used correctly 'ayıp' might cover the meaning well.

What exactly is the sentence though?


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Note added at 14 mins (2009-10-01 11:24:53 GMT)
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I have found an example for this usage.

You are a disgrace to your country.
> Yurduna ayıp ediyorsun.

Ref. http://forreasonsunknown-cem.blogspot.com/
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neutral foghorn : what a shame!
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... için utanç verici / yüz kızartıcı

Telif ihlali olacak ama Queen'in parçasında geçer:

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on your face
You big disgrace
Kickin' your can all over the place

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yüzkarası

En başta düşündüğünüz kelime en uygundur.

Ailesinin yüzkarası dendiğinde aile için kötü bir şey söylenmemiş hatta aile yüceltilmiş olmaktadır.
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agree Özden Arıkan
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agree Balaban Cerit : I agree with Fatih that the usage of the word "yüzkarası" wouldn't seem as if something bad was being said about Churchill.
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gözden düşürücü

Böyle de yorumlanabilir.
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...'in savunduğu değerlerin erozyonu

Many people think that a similar thing is happening in Turkey
as well: that we are not as generous as we used to be,
we are not defending our principles as hard as we used to do, etc.
When we talk about this phenomenon, we say "değer erozyonu".
Probably then, we could translate what you say as "Churchill'in savunduğu değerlerin erozyonu/aşınması".
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