How do you deal, with the Chinese sentence, with a ton of commas, that just goes on and on

[skylee]

I agee with roddy. I don't see a problem.

Why do you think you can take up a translation job if you can only read 1500 characters?

[Milkybar_Kid]

Your two examples above are baby sentences in comparison to some Chinese sentences. Take this sentence here:

 

 

經濟部能源局依據能源管理法，針對部門別能源效率管理與推廣、產業技

術推動與國際合作及節能教育宣導與訓練推廣三大方向，推行：能源查核

輔導、節能減碳技術服務、企業集團自發性節約能源推動、容許耗用能源

基準制度推動、強制性能源效率分級標示實施、節能標章推廣、節能產品

購置補助、實施車輛容許耗用能源標準、政府機關與學校「四省專案計

畫」、LED照明光電技術研發與產業推動、能源技術服務業ESCOs推廣、

能源資通訊技術研發與產業推動、高效率LED照明示範應用、廢熱回收技

術示範應用、高效率馬達示範應用、兩岸交流與國際合作、節約能源教

育、節約能源宣導、節約能源績優表揚、電費折扣與競賽等20項具體措

施，以落實全國、全民、全面節能減碳行動。

 

Obtained from page 6 of this:

 

http://web3.moeaboe.gov.tw/ECW_WEBPAGE/webpage/book/book05.pdf

[coolnicholas]

Roddy, your Chinese is so damn good!

[tysond]

不好意思 in response to receiving a gift = "You shouldn't have". 

That could mean; "You shouldn't have, because I feel embarrassed that I have nothing in return or I don't deserve it."   - or - "You really shouldn't have, because I now I feel like I owe you."  

 

 

 

Oh brilliant.   This has been bugging me for over a year.  

 

 See, that's the problem with posting here.  I think a lot of you are at a very advanced level, and you assume that everyone else must be as advanced as you. 

 

 

 

Apologize if I was rude.  If you ignore all the "Mine is longer than yours" comparisons, I hope you still got some helpful advice from this thread.

 

Learning Chinese is just a very humbling experience.

[陳德聰]

If it makes you feel any better, people actually go to school to learn how to make adjustments in syntax when translating because of things like this.