English for Chinese

Google Translate is increasingly popular. But more mistakes are also being found, especially when idioms are translated. One salient examp...

In researching a subject in history of Chongqing, I came across various English translations of the name of a building, "白公馆" in ...

I've seen too many Chinese use the word "recently" to translate "最近" incorrectly. Dict.org explains "recently...

> 一句文言，大家看怎么翻译合适？ > “ 民困于贪残之政，故托言大鼠害己而去之也。 ” This is a classical or literary Chinese sentence from "Interpretation of The Book...

> Hi there, a friend of mine gave me your email as a way to > translate Chinese to English.  I have attached a picture. > Can yo...

http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/TravelToChongqing.html "an amateur historian's cultural trip" Some interesting comment...

http://yong321.freeshell.org/misc/LearningForeignLanguages.html "好像有人说没有目的的学习是没有动力的。但要是我有了目的就坏了，不管是我自己还是别人给定个计划或目标什么的，我一定会失去动力的，因为我不想为了...

I'm organizing a database user group (formerly Oracle user group) at my work place. One trivial question comes up. Should it be "Da...

According to http://www.dict.org , "insight" primarily means "A sight or view of the interior of anything", as in "...

> 中學時候常常聽到的一句話“xx學生不是不聰明，就是不好好學”。 > 後來我就有想到，什麽是聰明？什麽是不聰明？不知道時間的寶貴、 > 學生時代學習機會的難得而只是貪玩，這是最大的不聰明 The Chinese sentence is playing with...