... . When I met the sentence "And I knew we were doomed." (ÎÖ ª µÎaÇ× • ¶ã' ªÊ ÜÁ), I thought that the word "doom" means "dead". Without looking up the dictionary, I made a wrong translation. Another example of the importance of using dictionary is "I had the desperate idea that"(ÎÐÁ'Õ µÄÄÍ). At first, I thought that "desperate" means " ¾Ã¸Ãû µÄ". But I ignored another meaning ... that still need to be improved. I should learn some more skills and avoid some habit of translating English into Chinese, such as to avoid using too much " µa µÄ µ " or ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bilingual ballots are not needed by numerous people. Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? Who knows why? The focal ground in stopping bilingual ballot production is that they are unneeded. To become apart of the constituency you must be an American citizen. While ... positions of the candidates, how can they know who to vote for? Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. Bu...

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... known in the PRC (People's Republic of China) as a "heavy metal band with a splash of China. " Tang Dynasty had a high sense of Chinese pride and was a symbol of native masculinity, and thus wanted to further exemplify it through their heavy metal music band. The band identified itself with the wen ... between keeping old classical values as well as incorporating new and contemporary ideas. Heavy metal in China began in the early 1980's, where young chinese musicians and artists met foreign students in Beijing. The interest grew and more and more bands began to pop up in Beijing. The ba...

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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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... classes in some English courses in Kediri-, a city far from my hometown where people from different cities around Indonesia come to learn foreign languages like English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. I had learned Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure, Public Speaking, Accent, and Pre-TOEFL for about one year. A class that I liked most at that time was American Accent. It was tutored by my ... Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. Besides writing, I sometimes get a...

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... Adam's son Cal, can escape the pattern. Steinbeck expresses his opinion through Adam's insightful Chinese servant, Lee. After much research, Lee tells Samuel Hamilton and Adam Trask: Don't you see? The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in "Thou shalt," meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But ... ...

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... makes mistakes. The difference between him and other people is that he rectifies his errors as soon as he becomes aware of them. This term Superior Man is the English translation of Chinese, which originally means "Son of a Prince." It further indicates a very high stage of human development and refers to a "really good person." Confucius laid down a pattern of thinking followed by ... ...

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... the feeling that Frost Eyebrows is a very important cat. Frost Eyebrows is also "majestic as the dragons." Dragons are traditionally regarded as a very respectable creature that is deeply rooted into Chinese culture. Dragons are very powerful creatures, and this comparison adds to T"ung-Kuei's praise for cats. In Swinburne's "To a Cat," a great number of literary devices are used. Repetition is used ... Swinburne has been able to convey his feelings through the use of literary devices, it seems as though T"ung-Kuei has not, but this might solely be a result of the translation of the poe...

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... a woman, a very young woman of twenty-one years, and her parents were Asian; how could she possibly know what would be a good memorial for our nations heroes. Another problem was a translation problem. The arts professionals knew how to read Lin's drawing; they would have recognized the form, the setting, and the materials as standard elements in land-art pieces. The veterans ... they looked at Lin all they saw was an Oriental face that looked like the enemy they had been overseas fighting. To Americans the Oriental face has no distinction between Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, or Taiwa...

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... is around us and happened everyday, but none of us realized the message from the sea or the nature. "The rest might not, but I have treasur"d every notes," Is the translation real or right? It might be a dream to Whitman, but I am sure that is the self-reliance to Whitman not to all of us. It is hard to tell which ... is real and which is dream in this poem. It is like Chinese said "Play is life, life is play." The point in this poem is the beauty of the death, the understanding of the beauty of the death and the birth of ... ...

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... electromagnetic energy that flows through the, otherwise lifeless, human body? Some authorities refer to this energy as the "spirit" or "psyche." The Chinese theory of "chi" (pronounced chee) best describes this mysterious phenomenon. Chi, although null of a literal English translation, is the universal cosmic breath apparent in all life in the form of movement. Chi flows through the human body very similar ... ...

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