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Mar 22, 2007 16:52
17 yrs ago
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Chinese term
Singapore
Business & Legal Translator
Native in: English (Variants: Singaporean, UK, US) 
Works in: Chinese to English
脸上挂不住
Chinese to English
Other
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
站在场边指挥比赛的图拔脸上挂不住了，中场休息的时候，图拔将队员叫到了一起，开始了他少见的训话
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getting agitated
脸上挂不住 basically refers to feeling embarrased. But situation like in your sentence, I would imagine he is becoming agitated. or simply he is upset.
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or losing his cool
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or losing his cool
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks, everyone. I agree with Shang's interpretation, and all your suggestions are helpful. I think Tingting's "lose one's cool" sums it up."
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6 mins
Nai-Ching Ting
Native in Chinese
Works in field
32 years, for more than 22 million words
Native in: Chinese
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese
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feeling a losing of face
I guess the situation occurs when his team loses in a game.
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mojdrag
: This the perfect translation. All the angry and agitation came from "losing face".
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lose control of one's feeling; be disappointed at and mad with (bad performance of his players)
lose control of one's feeling; be disappointed at and mad with (bad performance of his players)
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Nai-Ching Ting和Fang Sheng回答了“脸上挂不住”的原意，但在这里表示教练的失望和愤怒
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Nai-Ching Ting和Fang Sheng回答了“脸上挂不住”的原意，但在这里表示教练的失望和愤怒
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Philip Tang
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Thanks Commuease!
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Fang Sheng
: or "lost it" in this context - "as he seeing this, he lost it..."
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Thanks Fang!
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tianhe51
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Thanks Tianhe!
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tulip855
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Thanks Tulip855!
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Philip Tang
China
China
Native in Chinese
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English
Works in field
China
Seasoned US hi-tech/management executive
Native in: English 
, Chinese
Works in: Chinese, Chinese to English, English to Chinese
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9 mins
Fang Sheng
Canada
Canada
Native in Chinese
Canada
Translation you don't feel translated
Native in: Chinese (Variants: Cantonese, Simplified, Mandarin, Traditional)
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English
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12
feeling shameful
I think non-Chinese can hardly understand the notion of "face" without knowing much about Chinese culture. "Shame" in Western context can pretty much work out in here. Or maybe it's a little too heavy, we can try "upset", meaning he's quite angry.
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or feeling much "irritated"...
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or he "couldn't hold the irritation on his face"... another idea.
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or put it in a quite colloquial way: "as he seeing this, he lost it..."
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or feeling much "irritated"...
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Note added at 31 mins (2007-03-22 17:24:27 GMT)
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or he "couldn't hold the irritation on his face"... another idea.
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or put it in a quite colloquial way: "as he seeing this, he lost it..."
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8 hrs
put a long face
我的理解：脸上挂不住，就是面部表情显现出不高兴的神情，或从面部表情就可以看出一个人高兴不高兴了。
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