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OK, so I just pulled a search on the teamliquid website (and google for that matter) and couldn't find any results on Chinese vocabulary items for Starcraft 2. I Really WanT to learn starcraft 2 related vocabulary because if my friends ask about it Here, then I like to fill them in on What I like to do.
Right now I am in Taiwan, I know, they use different vocabulary and different accents from mainlanders. I can read over ONE thousand common characters in simplified script and my traditional script reading skills are developing quickly. If you think I have made mistakes in translations, then please, by all means correct it. I would also prefer to know the more colloquial, more popular, words that you call these items.
FORENOTE: google TRANSLATE iS NOT A RELIABLE TRANSLATION SOURCE.
There's quite a few terms I need to know, I had no clue I would be working on this for this long...
Um, just help out as you see necessary, from time to time, just looked at the clock and saw I spent nearly an hour on this.
1) Non-Starcraft items that are related to SC2: "Stream" or "streaming" "Xsplit" "Owned" "Replay" "Live for the Swarm!" "Ragequit"
2)Starcraft Items I need to know: Ladder Campaign Custom game "Tower Defense" game "Observer Mode" "Detectors" Hallucinations "engagement" "build (a structure)" Lift off (a Terran structure) Units: Structures: Mineral Fields Vespene geysers TurN (a structure in to something.( Ex: "Turning a Command Center Into an Orbital Command.)). Make (a building or a unit) Morph (a building or a unit) Unit compositions: Macro: Micro:
Protoss- 神族 Units Archons Zealots Stalkers Immortals Sentries Observers High TempLar Dark TempLar Probes Carriers Collossi Void Rays Phoenixes Mothership
Structures Nexus Pylon Gateway Warpgate Stargate forge cybernetics cOre Photon Cannon Robotics Facility Robotics Bay: Twilight Council: TempLar Archives: Dark Shrine: Fleet Beacon:
Terran- 人類 Command Center: Orbital Command Planetary Fortress BarrackS Bunker Reactor Tech Lab Engineering bay Missile Turret Sensor Tower Ghost Academy Factory Armory Starport Fusion cOre Refinery
Units: SCVs MULEs Auto-turrets Point Defense Drones Marines Marauders Medivacs Vikings Ravens Battlecruisers SieGe Tanks Thors Helions Reapers Ghosts
Zerg - 蟲族 Units: Zerglings: 小狗 Banelings: Drones: 工蜂(農民?- worker?) Roaches: Hydralisks: 刺蛇 Mutalisks: 飛龍 Corruptors: Queens: 后蟲 Ultralisks: 大象 larvae: 幼蟲 Overlords: 王蟲 Overseers: Brood Lords:
Structures: Hatchery: Hydralisk Den Lair: Hive: Ultralisk Cavern: Nydus Canal: Spore Crawler: Spine Crawler: Spawning pool: Evolution chamber: Roach Warren: Spire: Greater Spire: Infestor Pit: Creep: Creep Tumor:
Special Abilities / Upgrade names: Metabollic boost Glial Reconstruction Burrowing Claws Burrow Pneumatized Carapace Ventral Sacs Chitinous Armor Pathogen Glands Neural Parasite "extractor trick"
EMP Snipe Stim Deploy Point Defense Drone Salvage Liftoff (a building) Thor'S Cannon Technique SieGe Mode Blue flame Cloak
Psionic Storm Feedback Blink zealOt Charge Morph Archon Graviton beam Vortex Mass Recall Hallucinate Force Field
Builds / Unit Compositions: Mech Build MarinE Medivac Marauder Ling / BlinG / MuTa Roach/ Infestor/ Brood Lord Korean 4 gate 3 Gate robo Stargate Opening 6 racks "Cheese"
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the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese. you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here: http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/
for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants.
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Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
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On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote: Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
Yes they are, go watch a couple of mandarin streams and you'll find out for yourself.
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I am Chinese, so I am going to translate the first couple for you, for the units you can get them from the website. And people in mainland China call them differently from people from Taiwan for some units. :D
1) Non-Starcraft items that are related to SC2: "Stream" or "streaming" - 直播 "Xsplit" "Owned" "Replay" - 錄像 "Live for the Swarm!" - 為蟲族而生 "Ragequit" - don't think there is a term for that
2)Starcraft Items I need to know: Ladder - 天梯 Campaign - 戰役 Custom game - 自定遊戲 "Tower Defense" game - 塔防遊戲 "Observer Mode" - not sure if there is one for that "Detectors" - 反隱單位 Hallucinations - 幻象 (maybe) "engagement" - 交戰 "build (a structure)" - 造 Lift off (a Terran structure) - 飛起 Units: - 單位 Structures: - 建築 Mineral Fields - 晶礦 Vespene geysers - 氣礦 TurN (a structure in to something.( Ex: "Turning a Command Center Into an Orbital Command.)). - 升級 (it means upgrade, but it is an upgrade) Make (a building or a unit) - 造 Morph (a building or a unit) - 造 Unit compositions: - 兵種搭配 Macro: - 運營 Micro: - 微操
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On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote: Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
yes.
in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo
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Templars are called lightning 闪电 because you know you use them to storm and nothing else.
Zealots are called XX because the XX sound they make when they attack in BW
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On February 27 2012 22:56 lhr0909 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote: Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
yes. in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo I don't know about that alot of people call them 胖子 too. (Fatties)
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I think most Chinese commentators like to call anything that adds population limit "房子" (houses). This include supply depots, overlords, etc.
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For the unit names, as officially defined by Blizzard:
http://www.battlenet.com.cn/sc2/zh/game/unit/
I think it also defines all the other stuff too, maybe except for upgrade/tech buildings but most of the time gamers just refer to them by their hotkey anyway, so VC is Twilight Council and VA is Armory.
Also my personal favourite name for Marauders is 城管 :D
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I dont speak chinese and only speak Japanese and when I look at the characters youve suggested for drone I think theyre wrong. 農民 is farmer and some other word is proboably better!
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On February 27 2012 23:09 Mobius_1 wrote:For the unit names, as officially defined by Blizzard: http://www.battlenet.com.cn/sc2/zh/game/unit/I think it also defines all the other stuff too, maybe except for upgrade/tech buildings but most of the time gamers just refer to them by their hotkey anyway, so VC is Twilight Council and VA is Armory. Also my personal favourite name for Marauders is 城管 :D 城管 is such a weird name though. But yeah it sounds awesome but I don't really think it makes much sense
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On February 27 2012 20:23 ETisME wrote:the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese. you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here: http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants. Nah, Mainland SC2 version has some different names compare to the TW version. Like Drones is "Nong min" in Mainland but "Gong chong" in TW version. The Queen name is different too. Also, mainland players and casters use informal names for many of the units.
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On February 28 2012 00:01 Caphe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2012 20:23 ETisME wrote:the vocab is the same, it's just that one is simplified and one is traditional chinese. you can get most of the official translated names over the tw battlenet here: http://tw.battle.net/sc2/zh/game/unit/for workers, they tend to use 農民 instead, and it means farmers/peasants. Nah, Mainland SC2 version has some different names compare to the TW version. Like Drones is "Nong min" in Mainland but "Gong chong" in TW version. The Queen name is different too. Also, mainland players and casters use informal names for many of the units. exactly.
Alright, so I stepped out for a while and I want to say thanks guys. I'm a foreigner, not a "banana" who is learning these terms.
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I didn't know people use the term banana seriously I've only ever heard ABC used.
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here are some easy ones. Gateway : BG cybernetics cOre : BY Twilight Council: VC
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On February 28 2012 01:29 OopsOopsBaby wrote: here are some easy ones. Gateway : BG cybernetics cOre : BY Twilight Council: VC lol I laugh at that too
btw barracks is BB factory is VF Starport is VS
just continuing the trend
4 BG 实在是太强了
Or。。。
TvP啊。。。我还不如给他来个真善美。 TvP....Time for me to 1/1/1
The 真善美 is a real punchline character, it came from the cult religion in China which the government kind of stomped on. and they had a punchline in their propaganda which was 真善美 and we SC2 players refer to 1/1/1 as 真善美 because it's evil like the cult.
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On February 27 2012 22:14 divinesage wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote: Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
Yes they are, go watch a couple of mandarin streams and you'll find out for yourself. Oh god that is weird :S
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On February 27 2012 22:56 lhr0909 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2012 21:43 theBALLS wrote: Dude
Are Zerglings really called "Puppies" and Ultralisks "Big Elephants"?
yes. in China Marauders are called 光头 (bald head). Which is the best imo I think Blizzard is trolling the Chinese scene
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