took a perspective from

Chinese translation: 从......的角度出发

22:20 Apr 6, 2011

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English term or phrase: took a perspective from

But with three different operating systems at practically equal levels of penetration, insurance carriers must find the resources to develop mobile applications for each -- or choose one and hope that it's a winner. Bob Wasserman, VP of e-business for Allstate ($27 billion in 2009 P&C and life premiums), says the insurer believes it is important that its mobile strategy includes all three of these platforms, as long as they continue to lead the marketplace.
"A while ago we ***took a perspective from*** a lot of our consumer-facing applications where we decided to build them out across BlackBerry, iPhone and Android platforms," Wasserman says. "If you're going to try to build out apps that are going to serve consumers, you have to look at the dominant players that are out there. Given the way this market is still forming, if I want to put out a far-reaching consumer app in the market, I have to address all three of those platforms. We want to serve a wide swath of consumer users."

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Local time: 21:15

Chinese translation:从......的角度出发

Explanation:
take a perspective from指从.....的角度看问题。如take a global perspective，即从全球角度来看。这句话翻译过来就是“日前我们采用了一种从应用角度出发来看问题的态度，以适应我们对开发跨越黑莓、iphone和Android平台的，面向消费者的大量应用的决策。”

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Local time: 21:15

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从...的角度出发

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从......的角度出发

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从......的角度出发

vivianzyan
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Local time: 21:15
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1 day 16 hrs confidence:

从...的角度出发

Explanation:
我认为 Vivianzyan 对 took a perspective from 的理解“”是正确的。但全句的理解和翻译略有不妥。我认为此处可较灵活地翻译为“从...的角度出发”：

日前我们从大量直接面向客户的应用程序的角度出发，进而决定通过BlackBerry、iphone和Android三大平台来扩建这些应用程序。
解释：第一段Bob认为因为三个平台各有不同，所以应采用三大平台，第二段解释这样做是为了更好地服务于消费者。

GOOGLE字典对perspective的解释：
http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|zh-CN&q=perspective&hl=zh-CN
另外两个英文在线字典网站的perspective的解释：
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/perspective
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/perspective

(附consumer-facing的解释：dealing directly with people who buy products or services - http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/consum...

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Note added at 1 day16 hrs (2011-04-08 14:53:36 GMT)
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Sorry, 打字打错了：
以...为出发点：
日前我们以大量直接面向客户的应用程序为出发点，进而决定通过BlackBerry、iphone和Android三大平台来扩建这些应用程序。

Reference: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|zh-CN&q=pe...

Ivan Niu
China
Local time: 21:15
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Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 248

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