Nov 20, 2010 18:25
13 yrs ago
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angielski term
smart set
angielski > polski
Literatura/sztuka
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"He can't possibly be thinking of marrying her."
"Why not? Because it'll make things socially awkward for us to invite him to our farewell party in Delhi with the 'smart set'?"
Małżeństwo Anglików w Indiach rozmawia o znajomym Hindusie. Rok 1947, Anglicy zaczynają masowo wyjeżdżać z Indii, stąd farewell party. "Smart set" to inni Anglicy oraz zaprzyjaźnieni Hindusi wykształceni w Anglii.
Brakuje mi dobrego określenia, szukam inspiracji.
"Why not? Because it'll make things socially awkward for us to invite him to our farewell party in Delhi with the 'smart set'?"
Małżeństwo Anglików w Indiach rozmawia o znajomym Hindusie. Rok 1947, Anglicy zaczynają masowo wyjeżdżać z Indii, stąd farewell party. "Smart set" to inni Anglicy oraz zaprzyjaźnieni Hindusi wykształceni w Anglii.
Brakuje mi dobrego określenia, szukam inspiracji.
Proposed translations
(polski)
Proposed translations
23 godz.
Selected
doborowe towarzystwo / doborowy zestaw towarzyski
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Jeszcze nad tym pomyślę, ale na razie jestem przy doborowym albo dobrym. Dziękuję wszystkim :)"
5 min
elegancki świat / wytworne towarzystwo
śmietanka towarzyska, eleganckie towarzystwo,
5 min
z Mądralińskimi
propozycja :)
12 min
elita
propozycja;
smart set - the fashionable elite
smart set - the fashionable elite
5 godz.
"wielki świat"
inna propozycja
2 dni 22 godz.
tu: nasza sfera
dałbym tak, w sumie oddaje snobizm
Reference comments
6 godz.
Reference:
Mr. William Archer, in an article in the July, 1914, Fortnightly Review, describes the famous Yacht Club of Bombay, the social center of official European life in the city, and says:
"No one of Indian birth except the servants, not even the Rajput princes or the Parsee millionaire may set foot across its threshold. It is the same with the Byculla Club; indeed, every club in India practically follows this model and makes itself a little England representing exactly the interests, the comforts and the vulgarities of an English Club." He further comments:
"Such a drawing of the color line is of course inexpressibly galling to a proud and sensitive people, who see their rulers, when the business of 'running the country is over, withdraw into impregnable caste-strongholds."
The following is declared an actual occurrence: An Indian Prince, the ruler of a Native State in India, visits England and by invitation dines with the King in the Buckingham Palace. He returns to India and finds himself not allowed to enter any English Club in Calcutta, Bombay, or any other leading city.
Says the editor of an Indian religious weekly: "Aside from the missionaries and the army the one meeting place of the British in this country, is the European Club of the neighborhood, the members of which form the most arrogant and exclusive body to be found. Those who know at first hand the types of people who constitute the members of these arrogant associations are tempted to say that with them an unblushing assumption of race-superiority takes the place of religion, club life is with them a substitute for church life, and their one aim is exploitation of the country and enrichment of themselves. The European clubs with this smart set are the most anti-Indian and reactionary bodies in the whole of India."
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism10.htm
"No one of Indian birth except the servants, not even the Rajput princes or the Parsee millionaire may set foot across its threshold. It is the same with the Byculla Club; indeed, every club in India practically follows this model and makes itself a little England representing exactly the interests, the comforts and the vulgarities of an English Club." He further comments:
"Such a drawing of the color line is of course inexpressibly galling to a proud and sensitive people, who see their rulers, when the business of 'running the country is over, withdraw into impregnable caste-strongholds."
The following is declared an actual occurrence: An Indian Prince, the ruler of a Native State in India, visits England and by invitation dines with the King in the Buckingham Palace. He returns to India and finds himself not allowed to enter any English Club in Calcutta, Bombay, or any other leading city.
Says the editor of an Indian religious weekly: "Aside from the missionaries and the army the one meeting place of the British in this country, is the European Club of the neighborhood, the members of which form the most arrogant and exclusive body to be found. Those who know at first hand the types of people who constitute the members of these arrogant associations are tempted to say that with them an unblushing assumption of race-superiority takes the place of religion, club life is with them a substitute for church life, and their one aim is exploitation of the country and enrichment of themselves. The European clubs with this smart set are the most anti-Indian and reactionary bodies in the whole of India."
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/European_Imperialism10.htm
Note from asker:
Otóż to, jest w tym mnóstwo rasowej arogancji, to się przewija też w innych fragmentach książki. Korci mnie, żeby wykombinować coś ze słowem "kasta". Bardzo dobry cytat, dzięki. |
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