By Articles, Translation

abbie, thank you so much for your help and your words, in fact , I am always not confident in my translation work, so far I can't manage to use definite articles"the" correctly ,which has troubled me a lot since i began to learn english a few years ago. :( do you have msn ,maybe we can...

I came across this question on a Chinese forum, so I did a little research on this. The Reuters excerpt apparently came from a Chinese newspaper, and here is the Chinese translation of the last line: ?????????????????,????????? If you read the whole Reuters article, you'll find out who the...

Hi MrP. Many thanks for your suggestions, some of which were excellent (such as “help to dispel the confusion”). I have some questions about the suggestions and I added other doubts. 1) You suggested: “The analysis of these issues is important because by clearing them up we will gain a better...

Dear Mountainhiker, I see you have lot of great ideas! Maybe one, quick for me too ! I am applying for a traineeship at the European Commission- Brussels, General Directorate of translation. I shall attach my CV in order to have an image an give me a hint, please. I am really stuck, I Ifind no...

By just briefly looking over it and not being much of an editor I found these: 1. "The TOEFL test is a test that measures the ability in English for both nonnative and native speakers who attend the university." -- You don't need "is a test that" because we know it's a test because you just...

there is a short paragraph which is translated from Chinese into English. but i feel the translation isn't very good. i need your help! the summary idea of this paragraph is to introduce a magazine. i called it for short. thank you very much! your advice is hereby earnestly solicited. the...

Hi Sunflower, Your letter is fine, with some subtle exceptions. But just be careful because "major" and "common" are often very similar. As I demonstrated, sometimes you can use the words interchangably. From my quick and uneducated reading of the following URL I tend to agree that...

Hello Aastha One way of extending your vocabulary would be to take a short passage from a different kind of English every day - say 40 lines - and translate it into your own language. Write down the phrases and words you have to look up in the dictionary. Learn these words and phrases before you...

Hello all 'He has a tolerable English' is possible, but quaint. A more likely context would be e.g. 1. 'This essay is written in a tolerable English.' The purpose of the indefinite article here is to give the sense of 'a particular kind of', or 'a particular brand of', i.e. here, 'this essay...

Jobb, You are working so hard at this! It seems you are translating a whole article from, is it Chinese, maybe? Many of your examples seem to be successive parts of the same long text. Am I right? You're working so earnestly at this, it makes me smile. At the rate you are going, will you...