#chinese sentences

[rongzhi]

OP: 在4岁宝宝身上装一台相机，让他自己去拍证件照……

↳ Putting a camera on a 4 year old baby and having him go get his ID picture taken alone.....

Translation request for anon. English added by me :)

#douyin #video #tiktok #translation request #every chinese kid i've ever met has been precocious as hell #meanwhile there is footage of me at 8 years old barely stringing together a coherent sentence #straight up Have you ever had a dream that. that u um you had you would u could do you would you want you you could do so you you you could

[bngrc]

Can someone explain to me, are alternatively link me to a grammar resource that explains the difference in usage between:

什么都不/没

什么也不/没

一点都不/没

一点也不/没

I've seen all of these pop up as various ways of expressing "not at all." I'm mostly confused about when to use 也 vs 都.

ETA:

Okay, based on the responses I've received, I think there's some major confusion regarding what kind of explanation I'm asking for in this post.

I am NOT asking about the general differences between 也 vs 都.

I am also NOT asking about the general differences between 不 vs 没.

I am asking about the 4 phrases I listed. The SPECIFIC 4 phrases that I listed:

什么都不/没 i.e. 我什么都不知道 - I don't know anything at all

什么也不/没 i.e. 我什么也没干 - I didn't do anything at all

一点都不/没 i.e. 这对他一点都不好 - This is not good for him at all.

一点也不/没 i.e. 我一点也没生气 - I am not angry at all.

I am ONLY asking how to differentiate between these 4 phrases, and these 4 phrases alone. All of them seem to mean basically the same thing, so I'm asking how I pick between them when trying to express the concept of "not at all."

That's it.

#chinese langblr #chinese vocabulary #chinese grammar #mandarinblr #I was doing french->chinese translation exercises in an app and all of these phrases were translations for “ne...pas...du tout" #with no way for me to determine why one translation was chosen over another for a given sentence

[xinyuehui]

I don't know if I want to write a massive essay about this, but they missed the whole point with all the characters, especially Ye Wenjie. I'm assuming everyone who said this portrayal is accurate and a raging angry Ye Wenjie is good is because they either never read the book, or non-Chinese, or both. (Or maybe projecting their own views on Maoism). Ye Wenjie received higher education during a time period where it wasn't common for women. She believed in science, she believed in people, but time and time again, the people in her life let her down and never showed any signs of remorse. What I've gathered from the text is that she isn't fuelled by rage, more so she is dead on the inside, she has lost all hope in people. Her decision to reply is not because she wants to destroy, she believes that a civilisation from a higher standpoint could save humans, and this roots in the fact that she is educated. She's not some crazy rage driving women who would ever say "time is a motherfucker", not even a Chinese equivalent.

I'm not sure why the writers decided to write Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining's relationships out of the story...Oh so she is rescued by a white man later on hmm??? (Coincidentally, all the characters driving the plot are also non-Chinese in this). Ye Wenjie marrying Yang Weining and giving birth to Yang Dong gave her a glimpse of light in the life from which she had lost hope. Spending time in Qijiatun also gave her a bit of warmth. When she pushed Yang Weining off the cliff, it marked another significant point, she was calm, cut the rope with no hesitation. She did not care to get herself entangled in romantic affairs. Making her have a child with Evans is laughable. They also dumb down Yang Weining, to the extent that Ye Wenjie had to explain 43+8=51 to him. Mind you, he was a real proper engineer. (Weirdly with all the diversifying, they did not keep a single male Chinese scientist in the main team huh)

Anyways, before I go on a tangent. The writers have fast tracked everything and left out the finer text about the characters in the book. I'm not sure if they missed the point or that nowadays the audience are ruined by fast media, something like the tencent version are simply too slow for the people in the west. Any of my moots and followers who watch cdramas will know that the real good stuff is all in the build-up. It's all the little text that adds up to a fleshed out character. If the culture difference is too much for Netflix, leading them to change all the characters and most of the plot, why not just buy a western ip. There's plenty of good western sci-fi ips.

I can't help but think they want to do this because they wanted to film the scene where Ye Zhetai is beaten to death. Have an excuse to turn Ye Wenjie an angry woman. We all know why. If they really cared about showing a true China during that time, they would have spend some care with the Red Coast details as mentioned above (we did not have screens in 1960s that display Chinese text!!! And definitely no simplified Chinese characters on computers!!!!). Instead of having her snog Bai Mulin off - unrealistic since people were a lot more conserved back then, they would not have done this and it's ooc for Ye Wenjie. Falling in love with Evans - a real blasphemy. I guess the 3 Body Problem here means 3 bodies pounding at each other. Jin-Raj-Will also seem to have their own 3 body problem going on too.

(One last tangent) Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong(Vera) as scientists not believing in god but having monks at her funeral ??????????? Not even a typical normal Chinese funeral will have monks. The stereotype enforcing is real.

#okay i did say im not writing a massive essay in sentence 1 but i got carried away #3 body problem #three body #also changing the game to a mongol background - as if it isnt obv enough what they are trying to do #i cant help but to think that this adaption being bad is what they intended #typical viewer will not care to read the original they'll pass this as bad chinese media and leave a bad impression on china overall

[gael-garcia]

okay but, that's the dream

(Bela Tarr reflecting on film.factory, which went bankrupt after 3 years)

#i laughed out loud at chinese dumplings BUT PLS LET'S MAKE DUMPLINGS TSAI MING LIANG #apichatpong weerasethakul #LET ME MEDITATE WITH HIM #tsai ming liang #reygadas ehh but i do like swimming #gael garcia bernal #i'll just watch from the side w/e #someone on twitter brought film.factory up i had to go back and reminisce #film.factory #bela tarr #i google translated so that he in the last sentence is probs an it #juliette binoche #tilda swinton

[merlyn-bane]

Six Sentence Sunday

A little bit of platonic cuddling from home, anyone?

Obi-Wan plops down on the sofa next to Quin once he finishes getting Ahsoka to sleep, leaning against his friend’s side and resting against his shoulder. Quin shifts to accommodate him without thought, resting his arm along the back of the couch behind him. Obi-Wan stares blankly at the tv screen, barely absorbing whatever Quin’s watching. “Do you think Yaddle would maybe be okay with taking the kids on Friday or Saturday night?” Quinlan snorts softly. “Are you kidding? She’s been asking nonstop since that night we went out with Shaak and everybody when we’re going to bring the kids over so that she can teach them how to make dumplings. Apparently I’m not allowed to teach them ‘bad habits’ I found in hack videos until she gives them a decent foundation.”

I think this is about six sentences anyway lol. Obi's been having a rough go of it and he deserves to be held a lil' bit.

#yaddle is chinese in this au btw #i love the family dynamics in this story so much #six sentence sunday #wips #my wips #writing #my writing #obi wan kenobi #quinlan vos

[5-cz]

Word of Honor Vocab - Episode 2

after much too long, here we go

若 (ruò) - as if; like

美若天仙

诚意 (chéng'yì) - good faith/sincerity

表明诚意

变数 (biàn'shù) - variable

此事变数很大

步法 (bù'fǎ) - footwork

你的步法很厉害

偏偏 (piān'piān) - lightly/airily; unrestrained

蝴蝶在花丛中偏偏飞舞 翩翩少年

仙 (xiān) - celestial being; immortal

凡人和神仙

眼疾 (yǎn'ji2) - eye trouble/ eye disease

我爷爷有眼疾所以它不看清楚

飘飘 (piāo'piāo) - to float about/to flutter

红旗飘飘

流风 (liú'fēng) - customs handed down from past generations

流风余韵

仿佛 (fáng'fú) - seemingly/as if

这事她仿佛已经知道了

轻 (qīng) - light (weight)

工作很轻

所谓 (suǒ'wèi) - what is called/what is known as; so-called

所谓团结，并非一团和气 他所谓的朋友都背弃了他

壶 (hú) - kettle/pot

壶里是开水

独酌 (dú'zhuó) - to drink alone

如果你很难过，你应该不独酌

尾随 (wěi'suí) - to tag along after

尾随其后

究竟 (jīu'jìng) - outcome/what actually happened

大家都想知道个究竟

妨 (fáng) - hinder/hamper; harm

你试一试也无妨 会妨大事

明示 (míng'shì) - to explicitly instruct

我明示你得做你的功课但是你还没做完了！

傻 (shǎ) - stupid/muddleheaded

吓傻了

剑 (jiàn) - sword

剑柄 拔剑

#as always corrections are welcome #most of the sentences are from pleco but where pleco had none i had to come up with some #i have two more vocab lists planned for word of honor and hopefully i get to them soon #m vocab #mandarin #chinese #mandarin studyblr #mandarin vocab #learn mandarin #learn chinese #chinese langblr #chinese studyblr #mandarin langblr #word of honor #shan he ling #山河令 #langblr #chinese language #普通话

[sleepless-rants]

"Durin this", "albedo that" when are we gonna talk about the one horned white horse in cinnabar spindle lore?

is it refering to subject two (which desperately needs a symbolism deep dive because holy shit) or did rhine just feel like making a unicorn too at some point

#“rhine caused the cataclysm” wrong she was making her fantasy princess kingdom with unicorns and dragons and princes #i also heard someone say its a translation error so if any chinese players can check up on that real quick #if it is subject two #albedo whitening stage white unicorn but its actually the rubedo/nigredo stage creation purity etc etc #too tired to put my thoughts into coherent sentences #genshin #rhinedottir #albedo #genshin lore #genshin impact

[neige-leblanche]

also y'all

does anybody have the original japanese of this line from book 5 ch 27???

bc rereading it i was like. O_O. is he. not talking about vil.

i was thinking like "the first read through you're definitely meant to think so, and vil did absolutely change rook's life, but with context from both book 6 and his halloween vignette, what he's describing here leans more towards the latter" which is like. masterful gaybait i can't even be mad. it's like that post saying "some gaybaiting is like a box propped up with a stick and a block of cheese underneath" except this has all the intricacy of a steampunk clock.

but my VERY shoddy japanese skills r telling me the line translates more to "beauty in your eyes and the darkness, lighting up your entire life for you—in a time in your existence when you'll be able to have [such an experience] (expanding on the prev line where he says they'll be able to understand his ideology in the future)"

^ and i probably mangled this so bad but the main point is i didn't hear him refer to a "someone" like he does in the english tl & i'm wondering if i missed it or if it was in fact added!!!

#txt #how should i tag this to potentially reach ppl who know the answer #twisted wonderland #rook hunt #i was gonna say the sunbeam simile does lean the other way too but iirc he does describe vil as radiant in an earlier scene so that's moot #anyway even if my translation is right you can interpret it as either of the ways i was talking about but it is/would be much more openended #much more cryptic and rookish hahahahaha #japanese is so hard dawg i only had to look up one of the words in this line to understand p much all of them but i still struggled so hard #figuring out what the words meant together😭💔 #& inb4 i'm having monolingual struggles i speak mandarin chinese as a second language which Also uses topic-comment structure #i do have way less experience w japanese though & one sentence of modern japanese can feel like a paragraph of mencius to me. #modern mandarin does not do 5d chess with language quite so much

[mejomonster]

So Im feeling like... the book title Little Mushroom gave me as widely incorrect a first impression as Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun did...

(For context: I avoided reading 2ha at first because I feared it would be extremely fluffy. Im not into fluff. It was only once I saw how angsty and heavy and dark it was by friends who'd read it that I was like oh perhaps Ill give it a chance.)

(Also related: i suspect, because i keep misjudging certain titles as Too Fluffy for me, that Mistakenly Saving the Villain is probably deeply emotional and developed and angsty and I probably dont need to avoid it from fear itll be fluff city).

Anyway I got Little Mushroom a while ago because any time Peach Flower House releases print english copies of danmei I at least consider getting them, and Little Mushroom is sci fi so of course I fucking got it. ToT but i still fear just a tiny bit, oh man cute title, what if this is too cute for my tastes.

Well im glad my guess was wrong. Ive only started reading, but I love the opening and the writing style, i AM SUPER into sci fi right now (im reading star trek Fanfic Observations by janon and The Expanse series i am in DEEP to sci fi right now mindset wise), and im thrilled by the blurb on the back of Little Mushrooms and the potential im about to get into.

The author blurb mentioned Shisi wrote C Language Cultivation. My head spinned.

I have belated realized ive actually been a fan of this author a WHILE. Ive been reading C Language Cultivation in chinese for like the past year, and the authors novel The Cats Rose is one I was eyeing to buy for a while. I cant believe I didnt connect that the writer of C Language Cultivation also wrote Little Mushroom. I suspect I probably would love all this authors books at this rate.

#rant #little mushroom #lb #i noticed on novelupdates that c language cultivation is barely translated #i could. take a stab at it #mm #but there is someone working on it and i dont wanna bother them if they dont want multiple translations #and i imagine theyre probably a better translatlr. #i just do not have time to consistently translate anything cause im trying to write novel drafts ToT #(but id try a project 20 chapters or less! i could probably translate someyhing that short in a reasonable time frame) #but also like... reading a novel is way easier than translating #i can get the gist of chinese sentences but picking the very specific nuanced equivalent of Each single word in every sentence?? #i struggle significantly and debate what would fit better and agh

[deanpinterester]

reading books translated to chinese got me like PLEASE let me be your proofreader PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

#uhhhh me #they do a good job but at a point it also becomes abundantly clear the translator doesn't know english to the intricate level #'blood drains from her face' gets translated to 'she's bleeding from her face' #also. taking the translator gently by the shoulders. you do NOT need to translate every instance of 'well' and 'um' and 'uh' #you should know this. we don't talk like that in chinese. #i know translating is hard bc u have to value accuracy but u also have to value flow #i certainly can't do it. my chinese vocab is shit #but that's why i just want to be the consultant. i can point to bits and be like 'that's not what it means' #some sentences got translated to the opposite of the original text and i'm silently yowling #PLEASE. I CAN HELP. I CAN BE YOUR PROOFREADER.

[astranauticus]

SO I've loved this song and this band for ages (have you ever seen a live pop song performance with a harp? you have now) so I figured it's about time I did a translation

我用什么把你留住 - 福禄寿

How can I make you stay? - Floruitshow

你忘了 划过伤口的冷风

You've forgotten the cold winds blowing over open wounds

你信了 不痛不痒就算过了一生

You've believed that you can let your life pass in numbness

你 为什么 看见雪飘落就会想唱歌

But why do you feel like singing when you see the snow fall?

为什么 在放手时刻眼泪会掉落

Why do your tears fall in the moment of letting go?

一个一个走过

One by one, they pass by

一个一个错过

One by one, you miss your chance

一遍一遍来过

One by one, the story repeats

一次一次放过

One by one, you let them go

一声一声笑着

Time and again, you laugh

一声一声吼着

Time and again, you scream

一幕一幕闪着

Time and again, the scenes flash by

刺痛我

Bringing me pain

因为享受着它的灿烂

Because we're enjoying its brilliance

因为忍受着它的腐烂

Because we're enduring it's rottenness

你说别爱啊 又依依不舍

You say don't fall in love, yet you're unwilling to let go

所以生命啊 它苦涩如歌

And so life itself is bitter as song

因为享受着它的灿烂

Because we're enjoying its brilliance

因为忍受着它的腐烂

Because we're enduring it's rottenness

你说别追啊 又依依不舍

You say don't chase after it, yet you're unwilling to let go 所以生命啊 它苦涩如歌

And so life itself is bitter as song

你睡了 可时间它依然走着

You've fallen asleep, but time is still passing

你怕了 恍然抬头梦却醒了

You've gotten afraid, but you jolt upright and awake from dream

你会静默 手握着星火等在至暗时刻

You stay silent, holding onto starlight as you wait through your darkest hour

你被击破 当熟悉呢喃又穿透耳朵

Your mind is struck, when familiar murmurs pierce your ears once more

一个一个走过

One by one, they pass by

一个一个错过

One by one, you miss your chance

一遍一遍来过

One by one, the story repeats

一次一次放过

One by one, you let them go

一声一声笑着

Time and again, you laugh

一声一声吼着

Time and again, you scream

一幕一幕闪着

Time and again, the scenes flash by

刺痛我

Bringing me pain

因为享受着它的灿烂

Because we're enjoying its brilliance

因为忍受着它的腐烂

Because we're enduring it's rottenness

你说别爱啊 又依依不舍

You say don't fall in love, yet you're unwilling to let go

所以生命啊 它苦涩如歌

And so life itself is bitter as song

因为享受着它的灿烂

Because we're enjoying its brilliance

因为忍受着它的腐烂

Because we're enduring it's rottenness

你说别追啊 又依依不舍

You say don't chase after it, yet you're unwilling to let go 所以生命啊 它苦涩如歌

And so life itself is bitter as song

想不想看花海盛开

Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?

想不想看燕子归来

Do you want to see the swallows returning?

如果都回不来

If none of them come back

那么我该为了谁而存在

Then who should I live for?

想不想看花海盛开

Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?

想不想看燕子归来

Do you want to see the swallows returning?

如果都回不来

If none of them come back

那么我该为了谁而存在

Then who should I live for?

因为享受着它的灿烂

Because we're enjoying its brilliance

因为忍受着它的腐烂

Because we're enduring it's rottenness

你说别爱啊 又依依不舍

You say don't fall in love, yet you're unwilling to let go

所以生命啊 它苦涩如歌

And so life itself is bitter as song

在这浩瀚星河你是什么

What are you, in this vast sea of stars?

在她温柔眼眸的你是什么

What are you, in her gentle eyes?

闪着光坠落 又依依不舍

Shimmering as you fall, yet you're unwilling to let go

所以生命啊 它璀璨如歌

And so life itself is brilliant as song

你一定要看到花开

You must stay to see the flowers bloom

你一定等燕子归来

You must wait till the swallows return

想着它们都会回来

Knowing that they will come back

你誓死为了这些而存在

You swear on your life that you will live on for them

你一定要看到花开

You must stay to see the flowers bloom

你一定等燕子归来

You must wait till the swallows return

想着它们都会回来

Knowing that they will come back

你誓死为了这些而存在

You swear on your life that you will live on for them

#floruitshow #translations I made #cpop #cpop translations #chinese langblr #mandarin langblr #this song is so full of like. the kinda deeply poetic and concise language that doesnt convert to english very well #so some of the lines just get real fuckin long KJSDHFKSDJHF #also this song does a lot of that thing where chinese doesnt necessarily require a sentence to have a subject #so some of the lines are actually pretty... vague/up to interpretation? #so like... some liberties may have been taken lol #also holy crap this song is bloody long

[rotten7rat]

BATFILES: Cassandra Cain

FULL NAME: Cassandra Cain

ALIAS: Black Bat, prev. Batgirl, prev. Orphan

DATE OF BIRTH: January 26, 1997

HAIR: Dark brown, straight

EYES: Brown

SKINTONE: Tanned

HEIGHT: 5'3"/160cm

WEIGHT: 123lbs/56kg

ETHNIC BACKGROUND: Chinese, English, Scottish

DISTINCTIVE SCARS AND MARKINGS: two bullet scars on left thigh, several scars on both forearms and hands, small scar on right cheekbone

LANGUAGES: English and ASL

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: due to the speech isolation she suffered through the critical period of speech development, she has not mastered correct grammar

#batfamily #dc comics #dc universe #cassandra cain #blackbat #batgirl #orphan #I studied the case of Genie for her speech development #because she acquired language so late in her life she missed that critical period of development #so realistically she would struggle to form complex sentences #she had a much easier time with ASL #her speech comprehension is good though #she and jason have matching scars on their cheekbones #the first time she points it out happily he is baffled #coz his face is busted and thats what she notices #her languages next to everyone elses looks so normal #sorry but chinese is out of the question #someone would speak cantonese or something at her and she would just cry #batfiles

[romanceyourdemons]

just fucking learned the screenplay for call me by your name (2017) is written by james ivory. of merchant ivory fame

#other takeaways from that wikipedia scroll is it was very popular among straight chinese women who ‘perceived it to be’ a western bl #which okay that’s an invitation to a conversation #but it’s also one of the funniest sentences i’ve ever seen #ryddles

[mandarinmoon]

curious if anyone learning chinese has used Clozemaster - and if so, how are you finding it?

as soon as i saw the chatgpt generated explainations, alarm bells went off! I don't know if I'm letting my chatgpt/AI sceptic mindset cloud my judgement but not super convinced by the accuracy of it...

like 睡觉??!? somehow I don't think we're talking about 睡觉 here... 😭

#clozemaster beating duolingo in the unhinged sentence category #中文 #language learning #汉语 #chinese langblr #mandarinmoon

[bingus35]

I know OP Grand collection has some of the more out there cards but what is this 😭

#one piece grand collection #trafalgar law #eustass kid #killer #bepo #the fuck does ‘oriental medal gacha’ even mean #also why does kidlaw remind me of those 2 guys from the unintentionally homoerotic soviet-chinese propaganda posters #<- sentence previously unsaid in human history

[marilearnsmandarin]

#coincidentally came across this sentence in today's lesson #it's true here in the southern hemisphere #SuperChinese #chinese language #chinese langblr #mandarinblr #中文