Task One Pragmatic translationDirection: Translate the following common expressions for signs into Chinese.7. Admission by Ticket Only
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Task Two Translation AppreciationDirection: The following classic expressions are chosen from some famous Chinese poems. Translate them back into Chinese and recite both Chinese and English versions.1. In the green willow trees are two orioles warbling, In the blue sky is a single file of egrets flying.
2. Upon the globe we have friends heart to heart, We are like close neighbors, though far apart.
3. If you do not work hard when young and strong, You will feel sad in old age all day long.
4. Silkworms in late spring keep spitting silk till they die, Candles reduce to nothing before their tears dry.
5. An old horse aims at hundreds of miles away, Though it pulls a cart along very slowly.
6. Since two brothers were born of one mother, Why is one set bitter against the other?
7. Life is short for a mortal being, Over the wine at hand you should sing.
8. He died just on an expedition without gain, For this, heroes feel sorry and shed tears like rain.
9. A wild fire cannot burn them to the finish, They start afresh when the spring winds blow.
10. They in sky wished to be paired birds that fly wing to wing, They on earth wished to be twin branches together growing.
11. But not all people at table know, That each and every grain of food is the fruit of toil.
12. I have whetted one sword for a decade, Its sharp edge has not been tried since made.
13. If you do want to see much farther and better, Then you will have to ascend one more storey higher.
14. Children cannot well repay this tender feeling, Just as small grass finds it hard to repay warm spring.
15. When living, one ought to be a man outstanding, When dead, over other ghosts one ought to be ruling.
16. As of old, death is escapable for no human being, But in history I prefer to leave a good name shining.
17. The road of life is tediously long, I'll ceaselessly work to tell right from wrong.
18. I'm not afraid of breaking into powder, Leaving only purity the world over.
19. Above the sea appears the moon bright, My dear ones afar and I share its light.
20. Flowers are quite similar year after year, But men of different ages are not the same.