Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Indonesian term or phrase:
menyesakkan dada
English translation:
chest-constricting
Indonesian term
Indonesia
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menyesakkan dada
Proposed translations
Indonesia
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Native in: Indonesian (Variants: Pasemah/Besemah, Minangkabau)
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chest-constricting
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-11-03 09:06:10 GMT)
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Contoh pemakaian dalam kalimat:
A sip of this stabbed me in the memory (childhood, summer, Idaho, pie) in a visceral, *chest-constricting* way....
http://www.foodieview.com/restaurant/the-beacon-pub/forest-p...
Does not that feeling of "guilt" that sionnach experienced on Thanksgiving have the same *chest-constricting* quality?
http://wordie.org/words/wordasphyxia
Now I'm back to those long, *chest-constricting* hours lying awake, desperate, like Pnin, for a cool, fresh, soothing third side of the pillow.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/vncol14.htm
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-11-03 09:19:50 GMT)
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Jadi,
masalah2 yg menyesakkan dada = chest-constricting problems
United States
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suffocating
Saya mengusulkan terjemahan kalimat tsb menjadi: "suffocating problems."
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Note added at 39 mins (2008-11-03 06:47:52 GMT)
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Suffocating kan artinya tidak bisa/sulit bernafas. Menurut saya ini menggambarkan makna dalam kalimat Bahasa Indonesia.
Indonesia
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, Sundanese (Variant: Asli)
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pain in the neck
jauh sih dada sama leher...
tapi gak bisa secara literal diterjemahkan seperti itu....
nanti ada ada yang bilang "my brxxxx is to full gimana?"
Indonesia
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heart breaking
Aq rasa bisa diterjemahkan jd
Problems that break our heart
suck the life out of our energy
Indonesia
Legal, Marketing, Biz, Software, Games
Native in: Indonesian (Variant: Standard-Indonesia)
Works in: English to Indonesian, Indonesian to English
heart sinking
Dalam contoh di bawah, orang yang terlalu keras tertawa mungkin sebenarnya ingin melupakan masalah yang menyesakkan dada.
..the person with the loudest laugh is trying to forget a disastrous relationship, stress at work, or some other heart-sinking problem.
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