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'Landing' and its Chinese Translation
To bring across an idea non-existent in the target language is a perennial challenge to the translator. Nevertheless, translating an item...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
'Rolling plan': how should it be translated into Chinese?
'Rolling' in the sense of 'progressive / subject to periodic review', for example, 'rolling programme', 'rolling policy', and 'rolling...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Jun 30, 2021
- 1 min
Chinese translation of 'a group of'
Introducing themselves on social media platforms or in newspapers, some people writing in Chinese often start with 'we are a group of...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Jun 27, 2021
- 1 min
Over-height = 超高?
AVOID UNNECESSARY NEOLOGISM An electronic notice has been displayed on motorways in Hong Kong in recent weeks: 'No Over-height Crane'....
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Jun 18, 2021
- 1 min
What is the Point of Studying Translation at University in Hong Kong?
Translation has ceased to be a subject in secondary schools in Hong Kong for decades. It is now usually one of the undergraduate...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Feb 4, 2021
- 1 min
How to Translate 'Accessible Toilets'?
In Hong Kong, the toilets specially designed for wheelchair users had been known as ‘disabled toilets’ for a long time. The Chinese...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
感慨 in English
The recent death of Fou Ts'ong reminds me of the letters from his father, which culminated in a collection entitled Fu Lei jia shu 傅雷家書...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
仁心仁術
'Shu 術’, instead of skills, in fact means ‘road in a state (yi zhong dao ye 邑中道也)’, according to Key to Chinese Characters (Shuowen jiezi...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Dec 28, 2020
- 1 min
湯 Soup or Hot Water?
In Chinese-speaking communities, 湯 means 'soup'. In Japanese, however, its meaning is 'hot water'. As a matter of fact, it finds its...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Dec 26, 2020
- 1 min
氷 (Ice)
One who has been to Japan may probably have seen 氷, which is a character of the Kanji, the set of ideographs based on Chinese characters...
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Y.K. CHEUNG
- Dec 22, 2020
- 1 min
Quarantine
'Quarantine' has made its way to become the Word of the Year 2020 of Cambridge Dictionary. Quarantine measures have been put in place in...
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