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Clive Posted 18 years ago
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Re: Help me correct my english-news translation from

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01font00Love at first sight happened when marketing officer Lu Yun was introduced to his girlfriend two years ago, but he recently has discovered that money is the most important thing.02font02br
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01font00 02font01font00Practically, money is the reason for a series of rows between this couple before they decided to break up early this year. “She says directly that we have to have a flat. 01i01u00No house means nothing02u02i00,” said Lu.00<<< What does this phrase mean? 02font02br
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01font00 02font01font00According to a recent survey conducted by China Youth Daily and the online community, more people have the same ideas as Yu’s girlfriend.02font02br
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01font00Nearly a half of 9,000 participants revealed that money and financial circumstances are the two most important thing when they are in love.02font02br
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01font00 02font01font00Many single people say that they have examined their partners’s finances prior to deciding about their marriage. 85.5% of the people who participated in the survey said that the younger generation is more interested in financial matters when deciding about the selection of a lover than previous generations were.02font02br
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01font00Lu told he was unable to buy a house. “hire purchase’s pay everymonth is $ 950,” said Lu, and “My salary is $1,100”.02font02br
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01font00Lu feels sorrow about his situation, but he wasn’t angry with his girlfriend. “The house’s price is high, the things become expensive. Having a rich husband means there is a happy marriage”, Lu said.02font02br
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01font00 00The survey displays that there are 40% participants balancing the true love during the search of a relation. And there are equipvanlent number to believe in love at first sight.02font02br
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01font00“I still believe that they choose each other by love”, says John Zhao, a public servant in BeiJing. “We have much choice and experience than our parents. But we considers the money marriage that doesn’t mean we don’t have the real love”.02font02br
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01font00Zhang Yuzhang, a professor on socilogy at Huazhong University, comments: “Love is a feeling and it needs material to be realised, strong and durable.”.02font0-
  

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0h00First of all, Thanks for your quick comments on my transtralion Clive02br 02br 01font 00No house means nothing02font 00<---How to say the phrase in English? In My Vietnamese understanding, it means "Finally, When a people has no private house is insignificant in any case"0-

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0h00First of all, Thanks for your quick comments on my transtralion Clive02br
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01font00No house means nothing02font00<---How to say the phrase in English? In My Vietnamese understanding, it means "Finally, When a people has no private house is insignificant in any case"0-
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1font00Hi,02font02br
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01font00No house means nothing02font00<---How to say the phrase in English? In My Vietnamese understanding, it means "Finally, When a people has no private house is insignificant in any case"02br
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00I think I missed correcting some of your sentences, so here they are.02br
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01font00Lu said he was unable to buy a house. “The mortgage payment every month is $ 950,” said Lu, "and my salary is $1,100”.02font02br
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0means that house is more important than the marriage or simply means that house is an important condition for the marriage. 0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00 02font01font00Practically, money is the reason for a series of rows between this couple before they decided to break up early this year. “She says directly that we have to have a flat. 01i01u00No house means nothing02u02i00,” said Lu.00<<&l
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0Thank you Clive02br
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01font00A house is an important condition for marriage02font00<---I totally agree with your smart explanation02br
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00I means a home not a flat<--You're right !0-
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1font00Zhang Yuzhang, a professor of socilogy at Huazhong University, comments: “Love is a feeling and01u00 it needs material to be realised, strong and durable02u00.”02font00 Say this last part another way, I don't understand it02br
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0Hi,02br
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00That sentence sounds OK, but say '01u00material 02u00possessions'.02br
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00Clive0-
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0Love is a feeling and it needs material(the house, money) to be realised, strong and durable0-
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0I base my suggestion on two Chinese sayings (not their actual versions) namely "love is great needing no 01b01u00materialistic 02u00(worldly) 02b00considerations" and the resultant choice sometimes unfortunate lovers have to make between "love and bread".02br
00Of course, 'bread' is used methaphorically here meaning wealth at least enough fo
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