Как лучше перевести на английский "Не будьте бабами" (в тексте о солдатах)? Есть два варианта "бабы": molly-coddle и cissy, но я не знаю, насколько они употребимы на самом деле.
Это не совсем то, ИМХО, во-первых, это грубее, чем "бабы", во-вторых имеет оттенок какого-то подлого действия, которое обзываемого призывают не совершать. "Don't be a pussy" примерно эквивалентно русскому "не будь пидаром". Хотя, конечно, слэнг - штука тонкая, может сильно различаться от места к месту.
The soldiers clapped and laughed. One at a time they shook Eastridge's hand, then pounded both fists on the pins, digging the barbs into his chest until he bled. “Take the pain! Don't be a pussy!” one soldier in the crowd shouted...
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home David Philipps Macmillan, Nov 9, 2010 - 288 pages
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...Don't be a pussy!' 'What, you got sand in your clit?' 'My bitch grandma runs faster than you, and she's dead!
Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out Against the War Matthew C. Gutmann, Catherine Lutz University of California Press, Aug 4, 2010 - 214 pages
В армии не служил, но в фильмах часто презрительное обрашение к солдатам, которые по смыслу недостойны назывться мужчинами, - ladies. Типа когда drill-sergeant смешивает сдерьмом новобранцев.
Напр в Full metal jacket:
HARTMAN If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training ... you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war. But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings! You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit!
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Date: 2012-05-29 07:36 pm (UTC)Возможно зависит от social circles
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Date: 2012-05-29 10:07 pm (UTC)The soldiers clapped and laughed. One at a time they shook Eastridge's hand, then pounded both fists on the pins, digging the barbs into his chest until he bled. “Take the pain! Don't be a pussy!” one soldier in the crowd shouted...
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
David Philipps
Macmillan, Nov 9, 2010 - 288 pages
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...Don't be a pussy!' 'What, you got sand in your clit?' 'My bitch grandma runs faster than you, and she's dead!
Breaking Ranks: Iraq Veterans Speak Out Against the War
Matthew C. Gutmann, Catherine Lutz
University of California Press, Aug 4, 2010 - 214 pages
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Date: 2012-05-30 02:57 am (UTC)британский и американский слэнг сильно различается местами...
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Date: 2012-05-30 03:51 am (UTC)don't be twats :-)
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Date: 2012-05-30 07:27 pm (UTC)Напр в Full metal jacket:
HARTMAN
If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training ... you will be a weapon, you will be a minister of death, praying for war.
But until that day you are pukes! You're the lowest form of life on Earth. You are not even human fucking beings! You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian shit!