... material directly if the sentences are comparatively simple. But they cannot understand the complex sentences directly. As compensation, they have to rely on the process of inner translation. But its just the translation strategy slows down the speed of comprehension. Students who choose B and C take up 34.2%. The data shows that most of the students can understand the ... College English Syllabus ( Beijing High Education Press, 1998), I summarized a few learning-strategy training methods in the teaching of listening comprehension: preview and prediction, imagination and inference, comp...

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... do have difficult time relating to their daughters, there is not only a generational gap: June Woo " I talked to her in English and she answered back in Chinese" There is also a translation gap: June Woo "We translated each others meanings and I seemed to hear less, while my mother heard more" And cultural gap: Lindo Jong "Why I should pay $90 for hair cut ... ...

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... as when she watched her brother drowning. She compares her loss of faith in love to her mother's loss of faith in God. The third section is ironically named American Translation because when the mothers give advice regarding their daughters' problems, the daughters either take the advice to mean something other than the mothers had intended, or they simply ignore it ... ...

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... . But this thinking did not stop the progress of the reformers; by the end of the self-strengthening movement there were already in place two naval arsenals, a foreign office, and a translation school concerned with both linguistics and Western curriculum. The Chinese looked on these accomplishments as a restoration of a more effective and moral Chinese state. By the 1890's the products of the ... ...

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... characters, contained in 81 short chapters, divided into two sections. In its original form it possesses a peculiar and distinctive charm, a rhythm of its own, which cannot be reproduced by a literal translation into English. It is only possible to catch glimpses of this spirit - this rhythm of life - by reflection on the words which veil and yet at the same time partially ... ...

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... of the Theravada Pali Canon of scriptures known as the Khuddaka Nikaya. There are a number of closely related Mahayana works. The Fa Chu Ching, would appear to be a direct, Chinese translation of the Dhammapada. It's believed that the Buddha lived from 563 to 483 B.C. in India. He started out life as Prince Gotamma, but later became known as the Buddha as ... ...

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