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Renvoyer la balle ? Qu'est ce que ça veut dire ? Combien d'années, elle s'est occupée de toi ? Qu'est-ce que t'as fait, à part de la merde ? Renvoyer la balle, ça te dit quelque chose ? Dans les sous-titres, la tournure "renvoyer la balle" signifie "you ought to return the favor." Cependant, dans mon dictionnaire, cela signifie "blame one another." Quel sens est correct?

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Merci, Denis!
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"renvoyer la balle" means mainly helping someone who helped you previously. The subtitle translation is right. Blame one another is not a correct translation from my point of view.
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Thank you, Michael! I see, when subtitlers make subtitles, there would be many cases where literal translation doesn't really work. :)
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In dialogue, really, the context is everything. Subtitlers have to decide whether to be literal, or to try to catch the essence and meaning. Here, the subtitler was no doubt of the opinion that the phrase chosen best reflected the character's meaning.

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