Translation Exercises for BMC Reading & Writing Units A, B, and 1-10
Translation Exercises for Unit A
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Write the city and phone number: Beijing 66913251
(2) Write the city and phone number: Taipei 2911-5183
(3) Write the city and phone number: Taishan 5619388
(4) Write the city and phone number: Taichung 2237-4156
(5) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Li Jing
(6) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Lin Taisheng
(7) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Wang Daming
(8) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): He Jingsheng
(9) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Lin Mingshan
(10) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): He Wenzhong
Translation Exercises for Unit B
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Write the city and phone number: Hong Kong 2696-5437
(2) Write the city and phone number: Shanghai 53594968
(3) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Jin Tianhu
(4) Write this personal name (one possible way that you’ve learned): Lin Anshan
(5) Write the following address: Tianjin Avenue
(6) Write the following address: Nanjing West Road
(7) Write the following: person from Taiwan
(8) Write the following geographical name: Henan Province
(9) Write the following address (watch the order!): Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
(10) Write the following address (watch the order!): Chengdu City, Sichuan Province
Translation Exercises for Unit 1
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Is Chinese hard?
(2) He is not too busy. And you?
(3) They (male and female) have all left.
(4) She is not too well. And Mrs. Wang?
(5) Mrs. Lin, Ms. Xie, thank you (plural)!
(6) I’m very busy; I’ll be leaving first now.
(7) Little He, are you also going to Beijing?
(8) Old Gao, how are you? Please sit down, please sit down!
(9) We’re all very well, thanks. And what about them (female)?
(10) They (female) are also all very well. How about you (plural)?
Translation Exercises for Unit 2
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Please don’t call me “Little He.” Thanks!
(2) This must be a Taiwanese person’s name?
(3) Miss Li, I suppose you must be very happy.
(4) This is my old roommate; her name is Gao Jinjin.
(5) Excuse me, what country is your roommate from?
(6) A: Are all of you Chinese? B: None of us is Chinese.
(7) Which company is called “Sino-American Company”?
(8) A: Are all of you Americans? B: Not all of us are Americans.
(9) Mr. Wen didn’t bring name cards; Mrs. Lin didn’t bring name cards, either.
(10) A: What’s your honorable surname? B: My last name is Wang. My name is Wang Dongshan.
Translation Exercises for Unit 3
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) I’m 18 years old this year.
(2) Your older sister is 21, right?
(3) In that case, let’s take the 9:15 one.
(4) Two male teachers, two female teachers.
(5) She is going at 3:00. What time are you going?
(6) How old are you? (the full form of the question)
(7) A: How much is that one? B: $2,500. A: Too expensive!
(8) One half are male students, one half are female students.
(9) How many male teachers? How many female teachers? (be polite!)
(10) A: How many hours? B: About half an hour—no, an hour and a half!
Translation Exercises for Unit 4
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Who is she? What’s her last name?
(2) Japanese is comparatively difficult, right?
(3) Mr. and Mrs. Wan have never been to America.
(4) Today is what month, what day? How about tomorrow?
(5) I don’t have an older sister. Do you have an older sister?
(6) November 12th? November 12th is precisely my birthday!
(7) Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays it’s open; Mondays it’s closed.
(8) This is my third time coming to China; I’m going to stay two weeks.
(9) When does that company open (its doors), and when does it close (its doors)?
(10) The population of Xian is relatively smaller, it seems it has only eight million people.
Translation Exercises for Unit 5
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) This place’s hotels are all too expensive.
(2) Excuse me, is there a person in this seat?
(3) She’s learning Chinese at Beijing University.
(4) That thing which you are looking for is over there.
(5) Do you know where it would be relatively better to eat?
(6) Old Li is a laborer; however, Little Li is a college student.
(7) Our colleague is going to return to her native country in July.
(8) I want that Pentium that is on top. Where is the on-off switch?
(9) If you’re looking for a student but he/she is not there, you can also ask the teacher.
(10) I searched on top, searched on the bottom, searched inside, searched outside, searched left, and searched right, but in all cases it wasn’t there.
Translation Exercises for Unit 6
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) She really likes her boyfriend.
(2) You’re 50? You look very young!
(3) They work at China Northwest Company.
(4) Where were you born and where did you grow up?
(5) The food here is delicious! I like to eat it very much.
(6) What grade in elementary school is your daughter in?
(7) The principal of Taipei American School is my good friend.
(8) My last name is Lin; I forgot to give you (polite!) my name card.
(9) A: Why doesn’t she work? B: Because her son is still small, she can’t work.
(10) In our family there are eight people. I have one older brother, two older sisters, and two younger sisters. I don’t have younger brothers.
Translation Exercises for Unit 7
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) I’ve heard that you’re from Shanghai. When did you arrive?
(2) She originally worked in a factory; now she’s a college student.
(3) I feel that after you arrive in China, you can learn many things.
(4) Did you go alone to the Great Wall? Did you go together with a friend?
(5) In the beginning I didn’t much like Japanese, but now I like it very much.
(6) I’ve learned about 200 Chinese characters; some I can write, others I can’t write.
(7) My cousin (younger, female) doesn’t live in Taichung City, she lives in Taichung County.
(8) Taiwanese, at first I learned it in the U.S. Later I again studied in Taiwan for several months.
(9) I can speak spoken Chinese, and I can also write Chinese characters, but I don’t write them very well.
(10) Five years ago I learned Cantonese, but now I have forgotten all of it. (don’t use 都 for “all”; use what you learned in this lesson)
Translation Exercises for Unit 8
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Excuse me, how do you get to Tiananmen?
(2) She is probably waiting for me at Capital Airport.
(3) Please walk toward the south; don’t walk toward the north.
(4) Old Sister, how many pieces of luggage do you want to bring?
(5) I have heard that one person can only take one piece of luggage.
(6) That place is very close to here; why do you say it’s far from here?
(7) If you go by car, how long a time is needed to go from Beijing to Tianjin?
(8) A: Who is the driver? B: Mr. Xie. I called him on the telephone an hour ago.
(9) On this road there are too many cars; we have no choice but to change to another road.
(10) Because there are too many cars, at the time when people get off from work, traffic is not very good.
Translation Exercises for Unit 9
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) Who knows how many animals the Beijing Zoo has?
(2) Do you sell bus tickets here? I need to buy two tickets.
(3) Remember to eat breakfast at 7:00 tomorrow morning.
(4) I just arrived at Capital Airport; there are too many people there!
(5) I can’t find that Chinese language center that you talked about.
(6) First find the public bus station, then get on the bus and buy tickets.
(7) The next station is none other than Zoo; you should prepare to get off.
(8) From here please go straight to the intersection; in about 3 minutes you’ll arrive.
(9) She’s not a local person, she’s Japanese; therefore, she’s not very clear either where the Peace Hotel is.
(10) Formerly, street car tickets only cost ten cents; later they cost fifty cents; I hear that now they cost a dollar.
Translation Exercises for Unit 10
NAME __________ COURSE __________ DATE __________
Instructions: Translate the following into Chinese characters. If you have forgotten a word or character, check in the corresponding lesson of your textbook or consult the glossaries.
(1) The weather here is both dry and hot, and it seldom rains.
(2) Starting from this evening, it’s likely to get colder and colder.
(3) Your spoken Vietnamese, you already speak it very accurately.
(4) That classmate of yours seems (to have the appearance of being) very sad.
(5) What is the high temperature tomorrow? And what is the low temperature?
(6) Actually, it’s possible you can’t see from looking, but it’s just drizzling right now.
(7) You came at just the right time; the weather today is too good, neither cold nor hot.
(8) Recently it’s been so hot one could die; in the future, I don’t necessarily want to live in this place.
(9) A: Good morning! Come in. B: The weather today is not bad; the sun has come out!
(10) I feel that the climate on the east coast is better than the west coast, but my roommate feels that the climate on the east coast is not as good as on the west coast. (don’t use 可是; instead, use a synonym of 可是 that you learned in this unit)