Translation challenge, May 2019

The botanical artist, that’s who. And they will also cite genus, species, variety and cultivar. These people are the most detail oriented renderers on earth. 植物画专家人就会知道了！他们也会引证植物的属,种类,品种,栽培品种。这些艺术家...

I'm now going over some of my previous translations with a Chinese teacher and it's been enlightening. Her English is excellent so she can understand what I'm trying to say. It turns out the Ch...

Drawing plants should be easy. Who knows what a plant really looks like, anyway? It’s not like drawing my brother, Stu, where close family and friends can say, “Yep, that’s Stu!” 画植物应该是容易的。谁真地知道植物像...

Started translating a new blog episode "The Cult of Botanical Artists" "植物画家文化"。I just finished a beginner’s class in botanical drawing at my local high school’s continuing ed program. 我在本地的高中刚刚完了...

I decided to make a note of all the ‘movement’ sentences in a Chinese novel I’m reading and that has helped me figure some of the translation sentences using things like 落过去 so that’s given me a b...

I have to stop at Broadway for a light, and brace myself as he comes up and stops right beside me, and drops the trash he had picked up into the waste receptacle next to me. 我在路口转角必须停等红灯。他走往我来停在我旁...

I give him wide berth, but as I pass by, he stands up slowly and with an unsteady step begins to follow behind me. 我走过他的时候我离他让很多空间。可是他慢慢地起站开始不稳地跟随我。

Started a new blog translation: I’m walking on 58th Street on my way to work near Columbus Circle, and I see ahead of me a disheveled homeless man bent down picking something up off the sidewalk. ...

Homework: I’ve given your letter to Mr. Wang. 我把你的封信给了王先生。We will reach Lesson 40 by the end of this term. 我们这个学期节底会达第四十学课。I’ve taken that cup of tea to Mr. Wang’s classroom. 我把那杯茶带去王老师的教室。 Blog: ...

Homework: I didn’t get to eat the Chinese food that my younger sister had cooked. 我没机会吃我妹妹做过的中饭. I read your letter, but I couldn’t understand it. 我看过你的封信可是不懂了。 My blog story: To which the gentl...

Homework: This morning Mr Wang didn’t explain the grammar very clearly. 今天早上汪老师没有解释语法得不清楚。Yesterday, I went to the bookshop and got a hold of the book that you recommended. 我昨天去书店买你对我举荐的书。I have ti...

Something different today, doing teacher assigned translation: You have written that character incorrectly. There is a stroke missing here! 中文：你写了那个汉字不对。在这儿差一个笔画。

Grappling with lots of place/action phrases like something ‘bouncing across a roof’. 蹦蹦跳跳地通过了? Falling past the window above my computer screen 落过电脑屏幕上的窗户? Will have to check!

English: The elderly man briefly glances at the solicitor as they walk on by. 中文：老年夫妇在走过桌子前面时候，男士向志愿者瞟了一眼。

Translating How to play adventure text games with a Chinese teacher

English: The man says to everyone passing by, “Show your love for the homeless.” Any amount of money will be accepted. 中文: 男子对路过的每一个人说, 请帮助无家可归的人。向无家可归的人表达你的爱。任何数额的钱都可以。

English: On the table is a large glass jar. The glass jar contains dollar bills and lots of change. There is a sign that reads, “Help Feed the Homeless.” Chinese: 桌子上有一只很大的玻璃罐子。罐子里有很多的钞票和零钱还有一张手写...