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走進 (2/2)
Chinese to English
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Grammatical Analysis
Sentence:昨晩有一個人偷偷的走進我家，我大叫：「有賊呀！有賊呀！」
First Attempt: Last night someone snuck into the house, and I called out, "Thief! Thief!"
Second Attempt: Last night there was someone sneaking into the house, and I called out, "Thief! Thief!"
Question One (1/2): I have provided two alternatives about which I would like you to comment. My second attempt, in particular, tries to capture the construction 有Ａ走進Ｂ. Please offer your own, if you think you can do better, but defend it with a good and proper explanation!
Question Two (2/2): What role does the character 走 play in the phrase 有Ａ走進Ｂ? Is it merely the first character of a dual character verb -- namely 走進? Is it some sort of dynamic helper as in the English constructions "get going", "get started", "get ready" ? Or, does it stand alone telling the method of entry -- namely, on foot? The word 走進 did not appear in my online dictionary!
The PRO aspects of these questions are your ability to answer the questions -- not simply provide correct translations of the terms.
Reference: http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/tsongkit/contents.html#p...
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First Attempt: Last night someone snuck into the house, and I called out, "Thief! Thief!"
Second Attempt: Last night there was someone sneaking into the house, and I called out, "Thief! Thief!"
Question One (1/2): I have provided two alternatives about which I would like you to comment. My second attempt, in particular, tries to capture the construction 有Ａ走進Ｂ. Please offer your own, if you think you can do better, but defend it with a good and proper explanation!
Question Two (2/2): What role does the character 走 play in the phrase 有Ａ走進Ｂ? Is it merely the first character of a dual character verb -- namely 走進? Is it some sort of dynamic helper as in the English constructions "get going", "get started", "get ready" ? Or, does it stand alone telling the method of entry -- namely, on foot? The word 走進 did not appear in my online dictionary!
The PRO aspects of these questions are your ability to answer the questions -- not simply provide correct translations of the terms.
Reference: http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/tsongkit/contents.html#p...
Warning: In order to provide ProZ.com users with the best glossary entries possible, more than one question for the same entry will be asked from time to time. Please keep in mind when responding that you will be graded on your responses to ALL questions asked.
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i felt someone sneaking into my apartment last night, and i burst out yelling"help, burglar inside "
JUST FYI
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Comment: "Final rendering: There was someone sneaking into the house last night, and I called out, "Thief! There's a thief!"
Acknowledgment: The responses this time were both humorous and disappointing. Although PK provided plenty of examples of the use of 走進, he failed to answer well my question about the use of 走. What I needed to see were examples of the sort 走Ｃ, where Ｃtakes on different forms and 走 retains the same meaning in each case.
Yuzouren, on the other hand, focused well on the question, but appears to have been more inventive than knowledgeable. The words 走進 and 走出 may well mean "enter" and "leave", and the words 上去 and 下來 may well mean "go up" and "come down", but it is difficult to conclude from these examples that 進, 出, 去, and 來 are used as anything but verbs in combination with other verbs to create new verbs. Moreover, Chinese grammar generally dictates that adverbs appear before the verbs they modify, unless they are specially formed, such as in the construction Ａ得 where Ａis a verb and the phrase 得Ｂis an adverbial modifier of Ａ.
Randy's entry simply made me laugh for several reasons far too complex to describe here and barely related to the question asked.
In any case, thank you everyone for your effort including Gio.
I flipped a coin twice: once for PK and Yuzouren, and once for PK(winner of first flip) and Randy. Randy won.
Discussion: Please see http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/tsongkit/part3/III-2b-g.html#s18 for further discussion regarding the context of this question.
My very best from the land of no mountains surrounded by sea on many sides."
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FYI
走 is verb.
進 is a direction adverb. opposite: 出
走進，走出 in and out
上去 下來 up and down
進 is a direction adverb. opposite: 出
走進，走出 in and out
上去 下來 up and down
10 hrs
GET INTO
GET, got=走
INTO=進
走進=GET INTO, got into
偷偷的走進=sneaking into =snuck into=溜進
sneak=To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
slip= a. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
b. To move stealthily; steal.
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INTO=進
走進=GET INTO, got into
偷偷的走進=sneaking into =snuck into=溜進
sneak=To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
slip= a. To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
b. To move stealthily; steal.
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