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Change log entry 53777
Processed by: richwarm (2014-05-07 22:32:43 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 51582 - submitted by 'klosey' >>
https://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/%E6%AF%AB%E4%B8%8D%E7%95%99%E6%83%85

http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E6%AF%AB%

E4%B8%8D%E7%95%99%E6%83%85/101920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_quarter
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Editor: Google Translate's "mercilessly" probably comes from the correlation between 毫不留情地 and "mercilessly". The nciku link doesn't work.

"show no quarter" has four times as many G hits as "give no quarter", and Merriam-Webster Word Central has the following in its definition of "quarter":
6 : MERCY 1a <show no quarter to the enemy>
http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?quarter
Diff:
- 毫不留情 毫不留情 [hao2 bu4 liu2 qing2] /to show no quarter/
# + 毫不留情 毫不留情 [hao2 bu4 liu2 qing2] /mercilessly/to show no mercy/to give no quarter/
+ 毫不留情 毫不留情 [hao2 bu4 liu2 qing2] /to show no quarter/ruthless/relentless/
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