Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

only the strong survive

Chinese translation:

强者生存

Added to glossary by Libin PhD
Apr 4, 2002 17:57
22 yrs ago
English term

only the strong survive

Non-PRO English to Chinese Other
Only the strong survives
Proposed translations (Chinese)
4 +7 强者生存
4 +1 强者独存
4 +1 是金子才会闪烁耀眼光芒

Proposed translations

+7
15 mins
Selected

强者生存

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强者生存

qiang2 zhe3 sheng1 cun1

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Note added at 2002-04-04 19:37:10 (GMT)
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This is in parallel to the famous quote \"survival of the fittest in natural selection\". 物竞天择,适者生存。

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Note added at 2002-04-05 00:29:16 (GMT)
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强者生存,也就意味着弱者生存不下去,only已经包含在其中,如果加入的话,简洁性要打折扣,与“适者生存”的联想也不那么鲜明了,所以觉得还是不明确加上为好。
Peer comment(s):

agree Joseph Du : if the first word ONLY is not stressed
6 hrs
Thanks, Joseph. 其实,在日常使用中,你的“唯有强者方能生存”就挺好。指示这里与进化论的一个主要结论有联系,我在考虑时相多保留一些联想。但是,有时想得太多反而不一定就好。
agree Xiaoping Fu : This is one of Iverson's 20 tatoos. His had a very hard chilhood. So I would like to suggest “强者生”. It's shorter and sounds stronger.
6 hrs
Thanks, Xiaoping. I think “强者生”用于tatoo很妙。
agree Scott Li : the suggestion of Xiaoping's is really excellent for use in Tatoo purpose.
9 hrs
agree DavidYuan (X)
12 hrs
agree hjl
1 day 14 hrs
agree zwcorp
7 days
agree Chinoise
118 days
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+1
29 mins

强者独存

or 唯有强者 方能生存

强者: The strong
生存/存: survive
唯有/独: only
方能: can
Peer comment(s):

agree Chinoise
118 days
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+1
6 hrs

是金子才会闪烁耀眼光芒

Another choice
Peer comment(s):

agree Chinoise
118 days
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