Translation of some interesting sentences (By Heidi Yeung)

Repeated words in the same sentences usually confuse us in translation. And we don't know the other meanings of the words in Chinese that we always use until we see the translation.Here are some sentences that I think are difficult to translate.

 

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

麻煩沒來找你，就別去自找麻煩。

* 第一、四個trouble是動詞，第二、三個trouble是名詞

 

I think that that that that that student wrote on the blackboard was wrong.

我認為那個學生寫在黑板上的那個“that”是錯誤的。

* 第一個that是連詞，引起賓語從句；第二、五個that是指示代詞“那個”；第三個that在這兒相當於名詞；第四個that是關係代詞，引起定語從句。

 

I know. You know. I know that you know. I know that you know that I know.

我知道。你知道。我知道你知道。我知道你知道我知道。

 

We must hang together, or we'll be hanged separately.

我們必須團結在一起，否則我們將被一個個絞死。

這是一句雙關語。前面的hang together是“團結一致”的意思，後面的hanged是“絞死”的意思。