I’ve been tagged by Jenny on this one, but I ask for three volunteers as I don’t want to obligate anyone. Short form instructions, pick up the closest book, turn to page 123, count down fice sentences, write the next three sentences, list title and author, tag three more people.
８．他本人沒來．他太太來了．
９．文學學報比文學月報好的多．
This is made a bit more difficult because it is from lesson 16 and I am only on lesson 8 of The Beginning Chinese Reader by John DeFrancis translations are below.
Number 8 is pretty easy for me.
8. He is not coming himself. His wife is coming.
I was a bit confused by number 9, until I realized that I was translating 比 (bi3 compared to) as 北 (bei4 north). Actually Katherine realized this, and boy did it make a lot more sense after that.
9. The Literature Journal is much better than The Literature Monthly.
So there ya go an insight into the ultra-exciting sentences in beginning chinese instruction books. Does anyone else want to volunteer with their three sentences?
September 28th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Well since you said book, and I am staying in a hotel there were only two choices: “The Spirit to Serve: Marriott’s Way” or “Holy Bible (Gideon Version)”.
Marriot’s Way contained the end of a chapter with only 3 sentences on page 123.
The Bible contained the following in reference to the cleansing of leprosy:
Leviticus 14:12-13 “And the priest shall take one male lamb and offer it as a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before the Lord. Then he shall kill the lamb in the place where he kills the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place; for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering. It is most holy”
September 29th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Can you read this?
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September 29th, 2006 at 10:40 am
Frank, That is the best response to 3 sentences I have seen so far.
September 29th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Holly,
I am getting a 403 permission denied error the link, can you email it to me. If it is Chinese, either Katherine or I should be able to take care of it!
-Randy