a little yardage and some screens

Indonesian translation: sehelai kain dan beberapa filter cangklong

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English term or phrase:a little yardage and some screens
Indonesian translation:sehelai kain dan beberapa filter cangklong
Entered by: ErichEko ⟹⭐

05:20 Mar 8, 2014
English to Indonesian translations [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / subtitle
English term or phrase: a little yardage and some screens
Seorang komandan berbincang dengan komandan yang posisinya akan ia gantikan di Vietnam (seting film: masa perang Vietnam)... sehingga si komandan lama itu akan menempuh perjalanan panjang untuk pulang, yang melewati Hiong Kong...

-Go through Hong Kong, pick up
a little yardage and some screens.

-No, I don't think so. My wife said not to bring anything
she couldn't either cook or play with.


apa ya artinya "pick up
a little yardage and some screens" di sini?

Thanks.
Yohanes Sutopo
Local time: 05:28
sehelai kain dan beberapa filter cangklong
Explanation:

yardage bisa jadi kain yang dijual dalam ukuran yard. Ini cocok u/ istri (namun akan ditolak karena istri maunya sesuatu yang bisa dimakan).

Kalau melihat film Perang Vietnam, sering kali digambarkan komandan tentara Amerika itu mengisap cerutu atau merokok dengan cangklong / pipa, yang merupakan kebiasaan dari PD II seperti pada gambar ini: http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g406/eboehmjr/Pipe Adver...

√ Nah, si komandan lama sudah kelamaan di Vietnam sehingga bisa jadi screen u/ cangklongnya sudah lewat usia pakai. Bisa diterjemahkan menjadi filter cangklong, filter pipa.

Tinggal lihat apakah komandan lama suka nge-cangklong. pick up sendiri bisa berarti membeli, seperti hasil surjaya ke-3.

SURJAYA ★★★
http://www.yourdictionary.com/yardage
yardage definition by American Heritage Dictionary
An amount or length measured in yards.
Cloth sold by the yard.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/smoking-pipe-screens.html
Smoking Pipe Screens
You Can Buy Various High Quality Smoking Pipe Screens

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?36,125043,1187305
So after quite the strange day I had yesterday, a friend called me up to go to a smoke shop to pick up some screens
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Indonesia
Local time: 05:28
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1sehelai kain dan beberapa filter cangklong
ErichEko ⟹⭐
2bawa (krim) pelindung mentari dan berlibur sebentar
Laurens Sipahelut
2kain dan layar
Ikram Mahyuddin


  

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bawa (krim) pelindung mentari dan berlibur sebentar


Explanation:
Jawaban saya bersifat spekulasi.

Ini merupakan kutipan dari film "The Green Berets" (1968); dialog lebih lengkap yg saya dapat online:

00:19:53 Better grab your gear.
00:19:59 I suppose you'll take the long way back home.
00:20:03 Go through Hong Kong, pick up a little yardage and some screens.
00:20:06 No, I don't think so.
00:20:08 My wife said not to bring anything she couldn't either cook or play with.


Kayaknya kuncinya ada pd kalimat yg saya tebalkan. Jadi, si prajurit masa baktinya sudah habis, dan komandannya (dengan bercanda) menyuruh dia untuk berlibur saja dulu lewat Hong Kong alih-alih langsung terbang pulang.

'Yardage' merupakan satuan ukuran panjang, tetapi dalam konteks ini dipakai sebagai ukuran jarak. 'Screens' saya berasumsi merupakan krim pelindung mentari.

Si prajurit menyahut (juga dng bercanda) bahwa isterinya sukanya oleh-oleh yg bisa dipakai untuk masak atau bermain. Jadi, 'yardage' dan 'screens' oleh si prajurit dijadikan sbg benda atau objek nyata. Ada sedikit permainan kata ('punning') di sini.

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Note added at 1 hr (2014-03-08 06:27:46 GMT)
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'Yardage' dan 'screen' juga merupakan istilah dl American Football. Artinya saya kurang paham, tetapi dl konteks dialog film ini bisa berarti: untuk apa langsung pulang, main saja dulu ke Hong Kong.

Menurut saya ini yg lebih pas.

Si komandan berkata di Hong Kong 'pick up some yardage and screens'. Si prajurit meningkahi permainan kata si komandan ('pick up') dng menyahut bahwa isteri dia tidak suka sama oleh-oleh yang aneh-aneh. 'Pick up' bisa dipakai untuk objek nyata maupun objek abstrak.

Laurens Sipahelut
Indonesia
Local time: 05:28
Native speaker of: Native in IndonesianIndonesian, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 76
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
sehelai kain dan beberapa filter cangklong


Explanation:

yardage bisa jadi kain yang dijual dalam ukuran yard. Ini cocok u/ istri (namun akan ditolak karena istri maunya sesuatu yang bisa dimakan).

Kalau melihat film Perang Vietnam, sering kali digambarkan komandan tentara Amerika itu mengisap cerutu atau merokok dengan cangklong / pipa, yang merupakan kebiasaan dari PD II seperti pada gambar ini: http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g406/eboehmjr/Pipe Adver...

√ Nah, si komandan lama sudah kelamaan di Vietnam sehingga bisa jadi screen u/ cangklongnya sudah lewat usia pakai. Bisa diterjemahkan menjadi filter cangklong, filter pipa.

Tinggal lihat apakah komandan lama suka nge-cangklong. pick up sendiri bisa berarti membeli, seperti hasil surjaya ke-3.

SURJAYA ★★★
http://www.yourdictionary.com/yardage
yardage definition by American Heritage Dictionary
An amount or length measured in yards.
Cloth sold by the yard.

http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/smoking-pipe-screens.html
Smoking Pipe Screens
You Can Buy Various High Quality Smoking Pipe Screens

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?36,125043,1187305
So after quite the strange day I had yesterday, a friend called me up to go to a smoke shop to pick up some screens

ErichEko ⟹⭐
Indonesia
Local time: 05:28
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  -> Pepatah Jambi ucapan terima kasih u/ Henny: Bajalan kincir kerno aek, begoyang dahan kerno angina. (Berjalan kincir karena air, bergoyang dahan karena angin) -> Bekerja bawahan/rakyat karena himbauan dan teladan pemimpin.
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kain dan layar


Explanation:
Sekadar menebak

Ikram Mahyuddin
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