... direct understanding of the material. The result also shows that its unpractical and unfair to ask all the students to give up the translation process, which gives them great help in listening comprehension. In the students mind, English and Chinese usually work together in order to catch the meaning of the material. In table 2, the most outstanding feature is that 67.1% students ... make much progress if he/she doesnt do any exercises after class. In addition, 46.3% students hold the opinion that the influence of Chinese is very great. The attitude toward Chinese influence and the meth...

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... lots of names of disease were named by English, if she needed to check it, she had to search the English name not the Chinese translation because translation could not help her find the important information. The other area that uses English so often is computer. Because my major is computer ... There are lots of ways to create the China English. First is by transliteration, like RMB (Renminbi means Chinese money), Maotai, Putonghua (standard Chinese) and etc. Second is by Loan translation or calque, like the Spring Festival, One China policy, Beijing opera and etc. Because the China En...

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... and development. Through the eyes of the daughters, there is the continuation of the mothers' stories and how they lived in America. The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become "Americanized," at the same time showing off their heritage while their mothers watch on, dismayed. The ... 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 ... the...

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... Jonathan D. Spence in the 1970s has given English-speaking people a chance to understand what went on in the mind of such a long-ruling Chinese emperor. His book, Emperor of China, is often difficult to decipher when readers have to decide why he chose certain passages over others; yet Spence ... ability aroused confidence in his people; he also cared, arguably more than any other in history, about the people in his enormous empire. Spence's translation as a self-portrait of K"ang-hsi also shows how the emperor desired to be pure and to always seek improvement in all areas of life. ... ...

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... are as complex and emotional as any relationship could ever be. What the film attempts to show us is that the mothers are Chinese and their daughters are Chinese-American and face a set of problems, that although may seem different than a Caucasian mother-daughter relationship really are not beyond the ... 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 cultu...

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... , the Unmanifest ONE. "Te" is the Manifestation of Tao in the objective world-process. "Ching" means simply "classic" or "canon." The complete work "Tao-Te Ching" consists of about 5,000 Chinese 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 ... of Westerners...

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... 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, ... Bodhidharma transmitted the patriarchship of his lineage to Hui-k'o, and soon afterwards, Bodhidharma died in 528. A few years after his death, a Chinese official reported encountering Bodhidharma in the mountains of Central Asia. Bodhidharma was reportedly carrying a staff from which hung a single sandal, and he ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School