Longer sentences from WSC chap 48 part 2
- 我走进客厅，一看这些人我都不认识。何先生说，“这都是我的老朋友，我给你们介绍介绍。”
- 有许多华侨在外国已经住了好多代了，可是他们还保存着中国传统上的文化。举个例子来说吧，我父亲就是这样的一个华侨。
- 一九零八年某月某日杭州来一个怪人。他说他住在乾隆年间。听说乾隆皇帝已经八十了，他要到北京去给他拜寿去。
- 美国历史学会昨天在纽约招待从北京和台湾来美国开会的中国学者。
- 尽管时代发生了许多的变化，华侨社会里有许多人仍然保留着崇拜祖先的习惯。
- 他们一齐走到革命英雄的墓前，恭恭敬敬地向革命英雄致敬。
- 各位来宾，欢迎你们到我们这里来参观。你们看到不对的地方，希望你们不客气地批评，让我们知道怎么去改正这些缺点。
- 我们真是吃得酒醉饭饱，非常感谢你们热情的招待。
- 为了庆祝美国立国二百周年，美国各地都举行了盛大的宴会。
- 戏院的人都走了。他一个人跑到戏台上唱起歌来了。
- 北方到了夏天的时候，农村附近，遍地种的都是高粱。
- 今年的世界运动会里有七项比赛没有澳洲代表参加。
- 我住的地方包伙食。房东太太自己下厨房做饭。星期六星期天她不做早饭，他说她做了也没人吃。
Notes：one of the tougher conversions from traditional to simplified was:
尽管 -- 儘管,
Also, 某 I originally misspelled in pinyin as mo, when it is actually mou. Broke my confidence and had to look it up.
Another one that was a problem: "唱起歌来了" which in the IME originally came out as "唱起哥来了。“ which is either weird or humorous. I can not rule out some rude idiomatic meaning either, although I'll let a native speaker weigh in on that.
A question: in # 16, is Emperor Qianlong supposed to be 80 yrs old. I thought the usage was 八十岁。Is the "岁" optional here in written Chinese but required in spoken Chinese?
Labels: chapter 48
posted by kudra at 10:23 PM
3 Comments:
Nice! Looking good to me :)
Yes, 某's pinyin is a tough one.
As to 岁, it is optional in both spoken and written Chinese, in my opinion.
Funny you mentioned 哥 and 歌, Prince Roy had similar problem earlier:
http://www.princeroy.org/?p=483
The 哥,歌,problem is indeed curious. There are probably a whole class of typo's which plague Chinese as a 2nd Language learners of our(Price Roy's, and my) generation associated with using IMEs.
Might be an interesting study for a graduate student in, hmm I don't know what department. Of course not all IME's are the same, so it would be a bit messy, but that is what grad school dissertations are for. Of course as the IME's get smarter the problems may go away.
This block of sentences seemed a bit easier. Or maybe it's related to the high quality of my daughter's new Mandarin parent/tot teacher.
一齐 in sentence 19, is not actually in the vocabulary for chap 48. Plecodict shows this as "at the same time"
齐 was introduced in chap 47, sentence 13, in the context of 整齐, meaning "orderly, neat."
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