该死的英文， 总是让我有挫败感

[beaucoup]

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

在英文论坛上见到一个短语：knock on wood。

knock on wood

1. said in order to avoid bad luck, either when you mention good luck that you…

dictionary.cambridge.org

不会倒霉？

 

[sabre的马甲]

在英文论坛上见到一个短语：knock on wood。

knock on wood

1. said in order to avoid bad luck, either when you mention good luck that you…

dictionary.cambridge.org

挺常用的

 

[sabre的马甲]

我不喜欢比。

比 和不喜欢比 不是一回事

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

上海博物馆，原来文字有一点啰嗦，我们在新的改建过程中，提出的标识文字建议。。。。当然，应该采用public，这样老外更懂。不过我们更多的政治考虑。。。文字中外同理。。这是刚来加拿大，移民中心让写的。。请提意见。
A journey with imagination



If a place makes you to ignore or conceal desires , swallow and suppress ideas, hide beliefs, stand in the shadow of who, if a city reminds you often of paying attention to unfair child education ,worrying about food safety daily and smog fog in the next time, then the desire to leave is constant, but why Canada? Because, on any person who desires this kind of leaving, Canada will bestow the gift of lucky charm with multichoice, my family among the others is only one of winners for this kind of choices in 2014.



And the person like us, with some kind of dusting background first landing the soil of Canada, we always like to say that this is the land of blue sky with fresh air which in some sense could been identified as parades on the earth according to the sayings of MR.DUPLESSIS who claimed Le ciel est bleu; l'enfer est rouge. of which is making me certainly a little bit confused unless I can find further explanation through personal exploration in the field of theology later on.



So this longest journey ,we have made so far, is just beginning, it is not from the physical experience of having made it that we know how very great the distance is, but social and cultural from very beginning, after our landing in 2014 as new immigrants . Just like the winter is always waiting time in Canada, for the spring flowers blossom, or the girl name of hurricane. We also would wish, not only us ,but to all others, to become a fully acculturate citizens of a country soon or later，not as foreign to my some new friends as China .
。

后辈大着胆子找找茬:
Paragraph 1:
1. If a place makes you to ignore doesn’t make sense, the sentence would be better without the to.
2. When talking about the many problems about the home country, the sentence suddenly poses the question “why Canada” which is too abrupt.
3. The lucky charm of multi choice doesn’t make any sense.
4. This kind of choices should be “these kinds of choices”

Paragraph 2:
1. The first sentence starts with “the person like us”; this doesn’t make sense, as person is singular, while us is plural.
2. “Dusting background” is confusing, and it should be “first land ON the soil of Canada”
3. The sentence is run on, without commas in the correct places.
4. The minister’s name is incorrectly written; it should be Mr. Du Plessis.
5. of which should be capitalized, as it marks the start of a new sentence.
6.Personal theology is not really relevant to the topic at hand.

Paragraph 3:
1. First sentence is run on.
2. There should be a “that” before “we have made so far”.
3. It would be best to stop the sentence after ”just beginning “, and start a new sentence after that.
4. Should be “for the spring flowers TO blossom”.
5. What are you trying to say with “ the girl name of hurricane”?
6. Should be “not only FOR us”.
7. Grammar problem with the sentence “ to become a fully acculturate citizens”. It should be “to become fully acculturated citizens”.
8. Last part makes more sense if it was “so as to be less foreign to my some friends as China itself”.

请各位老师指教……谢谢……

 

[beaucoup]

如果现在，我肯定不会这样写的。还是写得有一点冲。就是完成任务，当时应该是这样!

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

上海博物馆，原来文字有一点啰嗦，我们在新的改建过程中，提出的标识文字建议。。。。当然，应该采用public，这样老外更懂。不过我们更多的政治考虑。。。文字中外同理。。这是刚来加拿大，移民中心让写的。。请提意见。
A journey with imagination



If a place makes you to ignore or conceal desires , swallow and suppress ideas, hide beliefs, stand in the shadow of who, if a city reminds you often of paying attention to unfair child education ,worrying about food safety daily and smog fog in the next time, then the desire to leave is constant, but why Canada? Because, on any person who desires this kind of leaving, Canada will bestow the gift of lucky charm with multichoice, my family among the others is only one of winners for this kind of choices in 2014.



And the person like us, with some kind of dusting background first landing the soil of Canada, we always like to say that this is the land of blue sky with fresh air which in some sense could been identified as parades on the earth according to the sayings of MR.DUPLESSIS who claimed Le ciel est bleu; l'enfer est rouge. of which is making me certainly a little bit confused unless I can find further explanation through personal exploration in the field of theology later on.



So this longest journey ,we have made so far, is just beginning, it is not from the physical experience of having made it that we know how very great the distance is, but social and cultural from very beginning, after our landing in 2014 as new immigrants . Just like the winter is always waiting time in Canada, for the spring flowers blossom, or the girl name of hurricane. We also would wish, not only us ,but to all others, to become a fully acculturate citizens of a country soon or later，not as foreign to my some new friends as China .
。

后辈写完，发现自己评论的语气不够谦虚，请原谅……

 

[beaucoup]

里面也有一些隐喻东西。。一般加拿大人是看不懂的。你不错!

 

[beaucoup]

加拿大冬天每次暴风雪，名称都是女孩。。估计是传统？

 

[beaucoup]

你们有兴趣可以查一查

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

加拿大冬天每次暴风雪，名称都是女孩。。估计是传统？

这个学校老师有提过……
Because storms and hurricanes used to be named after women as it is an old tradition amongst sailors.

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

你们有兴趣可以查一查

这位老师的头像和红衣叔叔有一点儿相像……

 

[bloodwolfmoon]

血妹妹贴出的歌都是大叔们稀饭滴。

小毛叔：
偶来贴首新滴歌
不鸡道您稀饭不稀饭……

 

[———]

对于if后面的时态应用，我还是经常搞不清，经常误解。
今天早上贷款经理的邮件：
If you were to pay the balance off on the other loan, we would be able to seek approval from the long-term option.
我的回复：
Yes, I agree. I will send you the zero balance letter or pay off letter once I get it from intuit this month.
Thanks!
他的回复，显然我有些理解错了，
What I meant to say is that if you paid off Intuit earlier than the expiring date, we would be able to secure the other loan earlier as well.

我的回复，如果我理解对了，是不是就不用废话这么多：
We are not allowed to pay off earlier because it’s all set auto payments.

关于if后面过去式怎么理解，哪位大师解释一下。他说if you were to 说的是将来可能发生的事情的假设。

 

[哈法]

加拿大冬天每次暴风雪，名称都是女孩。。估计是传统？

应该是女人发起脾气来就像暴风雪一样

 

[sabre的马甲]

这个学校老师有提过……
Because storms and hurricanes used to be named after women as it is an old tradition amongst sailors.

Tropical cyclone naming - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

这儿有篇文章

 

[sabre的马甲]

对于if后面的时态应用，我还是经常搞不清，经常误解。
今天早上贷款经理的邮件：
If you were to pay the balance off on the other loan, we would be able to seek approval from the long-term option.
我的回复：
Yes, I agree. I will send you the zero balance letter or pay off letter once I get it from intuit this month.
Thanks!
他的回复，显然我有些理解错了，
What I meant to say is that if you paid off Intuit earlier than the expiring date, we would be able to secure the other loan earlier as well.

我的回复，如果我理解对了，是不是就不用废话这么多：
We are not allowed to pay off earlier because it’s all set auto payments.

关于if后面过去式怎么理解，哪位大师解释一下。他说if you were to 说的是将来可能发生的事情的假设。

好像跟语法关系不大，
I will send you the zero balance letter
We are not allowed to pay off earlier
不管是什么语法， 含义都是矛盾的，

 

[Tin Tin]

对于if后面的时态应用，我还是经常搞不清，经常误解。
今天早上贷款经理的邮件：
If you were to pay the balance off on the other loan, we would be able to seek approval from the long-term option.
我的回复：
Yes, I agree. I will send you the zero balance letter or pay off letter once I get it from intuit this month.
Thanks!
他的回复，显然我有些理解错了，
What I meant to say is that if you paid off Intuit earlier than the expiring date, we would be able to secure the other loan earlier as well.

我的回复，如果我理解对了，是不是就不用废话这么多：
We are not allowed to pay off earlier because it’s all set auto payments.

关于if后面过去式怎么理解，哪位大师解释一下。他说if you were to 说的是将来可能发生的事情的假设。

假设不可能发生的事情。就是婉转的说sorry I can't do it.

 

[哈法]

假设不可能发生的事情。就是婉转的说sorry I can't do it.

If I could I would.

 

[———]

好像跟语法关系不大，
I will send you the zero balance letter
We are not allowed to pay off earlier
不管是什么语法， 含义都是矛盾的，

谢谢你回复啊！你可能误解了。这里没有矛盾啊。说了将来时，一旦我还清了拿到清贷的通知书我就给他 。我没有解释前因后果。