Glossary entry

Chinese term or phrase:

全方位性

English translation:

Full/complete/comprehensive range of

Added to glossary by Hamish Young
Jan 23, 2011 20:44
13 yrs ago
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Chinese term

全方位性

Chinese to English Social Sciences Engineering (general)
This is in a sentence in an academic article about the development of Taiwan's semiconductor industry. Here is the complete sentence.
VISC成功地衍生與生產DRAM得以填補台灣半導體產品線的缺口,使得台灣得以開始生產完整性與全方位性半導體產品,增進台灣在全球半導體產業供應鏈上之供貨能力.

Is there a standard English equivalent to 全方位性?

Thank you in advance!
Change log

Feb 6, 2011 16:07: Hamish Young Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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Full/complete/comprehensive range of

I couldn't find a standard equivalent - but one dictionary suggested 'comprehensive sex'.
Peer comment(s):

agree Ambrose Li : "a comprehensive range of" sounds right.
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Thanks, acli
agree David Zhang : "full range of" will be OK.
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Thanks, David
agree Rita Pang : comprehensive range sounds best to me
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Thanks, Rita
agree Sharon Toh, MITI MCIL : Yes, 產完整性與全方位性半導體產品 => full/complete and comprehensive range of semiconductor products. P.S. 'comprehensive sex' is a word-for-word translation (全方位 - comprehensive; 性 - sex) - lol. In this case, 性 stands for 性质 (nature), i.e. of a comprehensive nature.
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Thanks, Sharon
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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to produce semiconductors in a holistic manner or approach

The source term 完整性与全方位性 is an adverbial phrase that modifies the verb 生产 in the original text hence the above translation is just literal which can be back translated to the original by applying grammar rules. However, as we all know, nuances occur in translation which make back translation difficult or imposiible.

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Versatile

In that sentence, I would say it's 'versatile'.
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