Pirin wrote:David and Bui wrote:Thank you, Khun Pirin and Tgeezer for the sample sentence and the translations. I like the simplicity and directness of Tgeezer's translation. May I offer several more for consideration?
หลักการบริหารงานเชิงพุทธศาสตร์อาจจะเป็นแนวทางที่มีความสอดคล้องกับหลักการบริหารงานสมัยใหม่ก็ได้
Administrative principles within Buddhism might follow a path which is commensurate with modern principles of management.
Buddhist principles of management might reflect modern methods of administration.
Khun Pirin, please let us know what message the Thai sentence is communicating. Thanks.
Perhaps, Bhuddist principles of administration
correspond roughly to modern business administration.
Very interesting Pirin. Your translation
อาจจะเป็น...
ก็ได้ as 'roughly' . I have taken the meaning of
ก็ได้ from
ไปก็ได้ กินก็ได้ > "it's possible and I have no serious objections to it because
I can't find any reason why not." อาจจะเป็น > may be the case, so I chose "could be" .
บริหาร is a verb: use power, look after and arrange things.
งาน is the object to which all those definaions can be applied.
บริหารสมัยใหม่ I see as: those three things applied to the things we do in our everyday lives nowadays.
การบริหารงาน is doing all those verbs and applying them to what we do.
หลัก is the 'pillar' on which everything is built. The first, or more fancy; "principle thing" from where we make the noun 'principles'.
It's difficult to accept that most Thai words only have real meaning when translated into English but that is what most native English speakers need to do; I try to avoid long words in favour of clarity.
So the two expressions
หลักการบริหารงาน come down to, principles, Buddhist principles and modern principles.
It calls them
แนวทาง 'way of behaving' and says that they could be in line with modern principles.
So I get: Buddhist principles could be a way of behaving which has the quality of being in line with modern principles.
Now if we let English govern the piece we can make it more fancy.
This was my first attempt:
Bhuddist principles of administration are probably not in conflict with modern business administration.
Now I would refine it; take out
การบริหารธุรกิจ because it isn't in the original and following my reasoning above I get:
There is no reason why Buddhist principles should not be applied nowadays.