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Latest post Wed, Jun 27 2007 10:21 AM by Lcchang. 3 replies.
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Lcchang  +  384151 Mon, 25 Jun 07 05:10 PM
Someone was asking me to translate some article from Chinese to English. The following is my final draft. Please tale a look and advise on it. Thanks. LCCHang.

A useful source of information indicates that the marriage rate has been going under year by year, which has been accompanied by the low birth rate as well. The increasing population of the elders is causing an aging society.


The more developed the society has, the higher standard has been required by those who look for their better halves. On the other hand, more of those self-determined minds have lead to the choice of being single.


Marriage is accomplished by a couple wishing to form a family, and a firm economic basis is the essence of it. However, due to the economy which has been in a sorry-state for a long while, many people still choose to hold off getting married.


It isn't an easy job to higher both the marriage and the birth rate.
Before doing that, the economical authority should consider how to save people the trouble of the recession in the first place.


Maintaining a family in harmony is the key to a happy marriage. Therefore, choosing an optimum significant other is an important step.

As far as the high divorce rate and the low marriage rate are concerned, not only the government but also every citizen should tax their strength to solve the social problem like this, shouldn't we?

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Scryed  +  384323 Tue, 26 Jun 07 05:21 AM

my English is not great, but I'll do my best to help (this text sounds similar to the situtation in Hong Kong)

A realiable source of information indicates that the marriage rate has been going down on a annual basis, which has been accompanied by a low birth rate.  The increasing population of elderly is causing an aging society.

The more developed the society has, the higher standard has been required by those who look for their better halves. On the other hand, more of those self-determined minds have lead to the choice of being single.

Marriage is accomplished by a couple wishing to form a family, and a firm economic basis is the essence of it. However, due to the economy which has been in a sorry-state for a long while, many people still choose to hold off getting married.

It isn't an easy job to increase both the marriage and the birth rate.
Before doing that, the economical authority should first consider how to save people from the trouble of the recession.

Maintaining a family in harmony is the key to a happy marriage. Therefore, choosing an optimum significant other (very awkward use of words, I suggest "the right companion"
) is an important step.

As far as the high divorce rate and the low marriage rate are concerned, not only the government but also every citizen should work hard to solve this social problem, shouldn't we?

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having to re-learn English from the basics due to the fact I suck at it.
Feebs11  +  384683 Wed, 27 Jun 07 03:42 AM
 Scryed wrote:

my English is not great, but I'll do my best to help (this text sounds similar to the situtation in Hong Kong)

A realiable source of information indicates that the marriage rate has been going down on a annual basis, which has been accompanied by a low birth rate.  The increasing population of the elderly is causing an aging society.

The more developed the society has [is], the higher standard has been required by those who look for their better halves [a spouse/a partner/husband or wife}. On the other hand, more of those self-determined minds have lead [led] to the choice of being single.

Marriage is accomplished by a couple wishing to form a family, and a firm economic basis is the essence of it. However, due to the economy which has been in a sorry state for a long while, many people still choose to hold off getting married.

It isn't an easy job to increase both the marriage and the birth rate.
Before doing that, the economical authority [the authorities/the government] ((economical=
marked by careful, efficient, and prudent use of resources)) should first consider how to save people from the trouble [problems] of the recession.

Maintaining a family in harmony is the key to a happy marriage. Therefore, choosing an optimum significant other (very awkward use of words, I suggest "the right companion"
) is an important step.

As far as the high divorce rate and the low marriage rate are concerned, not only the government but also every citizen should work hard to solve this social problem, shouldn't we?



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Lcchang, 2 yr 152 days ago

Thanks a lot.

LCChang

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