Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Japanese term or phrase:
車端連結部
English translation:
rail car/coach coupler
Added to glossary by
Shannon Morales
May 1, 2013 22:19
11 yrs ago
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Japanese term
United States
Punctual, Personable, Perfectionist
Native in: English 
Works in: Japanese to English, Spanish to English
車端連結部
Japanese to English
Tech/Engineering
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
Trains
The context is freight trains, and this particular sentence refers to installing lights to allow nighttime work on 車端連結部. Surely there's a fixed English term meaning "the connecting parts on the ends of train cars," but I'm having trouble finding it. Thanks in advance!
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | car/coach coupler |
Yuki Okada
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| 4 | articulated sections on the ends of train cars |
Naoki Watanabe
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| 3 | 'walk through' inter-carriage connection(s) |
Marc Brunet
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Proposed translations
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6 hrs
Yuki Okada
Canada
Canada
Native in Japanese
Works in field
Canada
Engineering translator
Native in: Japanese
Works in: English to Japanese, Japanese to English
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car/coach coupler
I think you can simply call it a "coupler." If you like, you could add "car" in Canada and the US, or "coach" in the UK. Elsewhere, I don't know... You could also add "section" at the end if you want to diligently express the "部" part, although I do not think it is necessary.
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Comment: "Thanks to all!"
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Naoki Watanabe
United States
United States
Native in Japanese
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English
United States
Technical Translation and Interpreting
Native in: English 
, Japanese
Works in: English to Japanese, Japanese to English
articulated sections on the ends of train cars
連結部 can be translated as articulated sections.
Reference:
2 hrs
Marc Brunet
Australia
Australia
Australia
To seize the 'point' beyond the words
Native in: French
Works in: Japanese to English, Japanese to French, French to English
'walk through' inter-carriage connection(s)
「連結」suggests an additional function that 'link' or 'couplings' would not convey, even though the coupling assemblies we see on modern trains are very advanced, including the transmission of: braking signal/power, security signaling, lighting, LAN/WiFi communication support, apart from a very tight mechanical link that can be secured or released by radio signal. For this reason, interpreting 「連結｣ as the advantage for passengers to be able to walk through the train from one end to the other as if it were a single carriage, thus: 'walk through'~
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-02 00:50:17 GMT)
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Apologies for not reading, first, your reference to 'freight' trains. In which case the 'walk through' qualifier is irrelevant. The rest of the compound term could work though, based on the description supplied.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-02 00:54:50 GMT)
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PS: No it does not. "Carriage' connotes a train car for passenger use.
Would then simply settle for 'rail-car connections'
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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-05-02 01:57:48 GMT)
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One more suggestion: if those railcar connections are very basic, then 'connection is too elaborate. Would just go for
"rail car couplers'
see : https://www.google.com.au/search?q=train carriage connection...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-02 00:50:17 GMT)
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Apologies for not reading, first, your reference to 'freight' trains. In which case the 'walk through' qualifier is irrelevant. The rest of the compound term could work though, based on the description supplied.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-02 00:54:50 GMT)
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PS: No it does not. "Carriage' connotes a train car for passenger use.
Would then simply settle for 'rail-car connections'
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Note added at 3 hrs (2013-05-02 01:57:48 GMT)
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One more suggestion: if those railcar connections are very basic, then 'connection is too elaborate. Would just go for
"rail car couplers'
see : https://www.google.com.au/search?q=train carriage connection...
Example sentence:
Many modern urban & suburban trains feature full width inter-carriage connections so that passengers may not even realise that they are walking from carriage to carriage...
Reference:
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