English for Chinese

This is an abridged English translation of my article in Chinese 学术翻译：直译或意译？ (Scholarly translation: literal or free translation?). In 198...

You frequently see the Apply button on a computer. For instance, after you make some configuration changes, you can press OK to apply the ch...

In a recent Facebook posting, I read I keep coming across the same opinion, something along the lines of "we should all be learning C...

A joke found on the Internet. (Two lines omitted from the original.) 某公司招聘，好多人打来电话说保安不让进，希望派人接一下。考官说如果你连保安都对付不了，还是别来了。 最后翻墙进来的成海外市场专员； ...

It's a known fact that a Chinese student learning English tends to mix up "he" and "she" in speaking, with "he...

In August, 2012, I blogged that "第几" has no English equivalent . (If you haven't already read it, you may want to take a quick...

On Weibo, the Chinese microblogging web site, there's an article titled "甲骨文的呼唤" (the Call of Oracle Bone Script), where I re...

A Christian friend of mine introduced me to The Reverend Wang Zhiyong (王志勇)'s translation of The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of...

The standard translation of the word "modern" into Chinese is "现代" (literally, "present time or epoch"). But ...

The Chinese word "以为" means "thought", as in "I thought it was Tuesday today" (我以为今天是星期二). There's only on...