Good Places for Chinese Translations

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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 15:21
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PIZ

Friday, July 7, 2006 12:58 AM

Can anyone point me to good web sites or other sources to do English-to-Chinese translations? I have some phrases I want to translate for my fanfic.

Thanks!

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"That's what government's for: get in a man's way." - Mal

PENGUIN

Friday, July 7, 2006 12:59 AM

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

PIZ

Friday, July 7, 2006 1:14 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Doesn't that only give the Chinese characters and not the phonetic spelling? That's what it did when I last tried it. Or is there an option I missed?

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"That's what government's for: get in a man's way." - Mal

ARCADIA

Friday, July 7, 2006 1:17 AM

http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html

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"Objects in Space"

River: It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think...
http://www.stillflying.net/ <-- Check it out!

PIZ

Saturday, July 8, 2006 5:29 PM

Any other suggestions?

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"That's what government's for: get in a man's way." - Mal

LVS2READ

Saturday, July 8, 2006 7:23 PM

Piz,

These are the ones I use:

http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/index.html
The 'official' pinyary

http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/living_impaired/120078.html
Specific to Firefly

http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/mandarin.htm Not work safe due to some of the sidebar ads.

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddictbasic
A dictionary where you can enter either the Chinese or the English, and results can be shown with either accent marks or sound numbers.

http://gb.waiyu.org:9000/
Another dictionary. This one also lets you builds sentences if you enter a combination of English and Chinese words.

http://www.pristine.com.tw/lexicon.php
Another dictionary.

Hope these help!

"I love my captain."

PIZ

Saturday, July 8, 2006 8:18 PM

These are great - thanks, everyone!

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"That's what government's for: get in a man's way." - Mal

FFYING2

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 5:07 AM

Thanks for the link, Lvs2read. Note that my site is now at: http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net

Ying

Firefly Funsite http://fireflyfunsite.kevinsullivansite.net
Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net
Browncoats.com http://www.browncoats.com

Blog http://languageandhumor.net

LVS2READ

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 12:51 PM

FFYing2,

Thanks for the update! Fixed my bookmark. *g*

"I love my captain."

ATIGDNG

Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:05 PM

Or just go and live in China for a few years, it fixes the problem too, worked for me.

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