Translation at discourse level

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Translation at discourse level

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• On the hill top stands the Yellow Dragon
  Monastery, a Taoist retreat built in the Ming
  Dynasty(1368-1644). A karst cave lies before it,
  and a stone tablet was erected behind. All but
  the top of the tablet has been eroded by calcium
  carbonate, and the inscriptions have become
  unreadable.
• On top of the hill stands the Yellow Dragon
  Monastery, a Ming Dynasty(1368-1644) structure
  for a Taoist retreat. In front of the monastery
  is a karst cave of infinite depth, and behind it
  stands a stone tablet, all but the top having
  been eroded by calcium carbonate and the
  inscriptions on the tablet hardly
  distinguishable.

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• There was a lively debate among the workers.
  There was enthusiasm for the idea. There was
  hardly a dissenting voice. There was full
  agreement on the subject in the end.
• After a lively debate on the subject, all the
  workers came to agreement without even a
  dissenting voice at last.

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• I went to the library in the afternoon. I took
  out a book. Then I put the book under my arm. I
  went home to eat supper. I opened the book after
  supper. Then I discovered that it was not the
  book I wanted. I was greatly annoyed. I was such
  a kind of man I always take a book while I do
  not look at it. I had nobody to blame but myself.
• In the afternoon, after borrowing a book from the
  library, I went back home for supper. What
  depressed me was that I didnt find that it was
  the wrong book until after supper. That is what I
  am like I take a book and run away without even
  a glance on it. There is nobody else to blame but
  myself.

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• When loneliness comes over you as a result of too
  much thinking, a favorite book will ease your
  mind and broaden your horizon. Reading a good
  book is like having a fireside chat with a close
  friend. At other times you may be so occupied
  with work or social intercourse as to have no
  time for books. Now you can peacefully listen to
  wise men of all times, enriching yourself with
  their ideas and enlarging your stock of
  knowledge. Or you can do other things to suit
  your taste enjoy a piece of music, attentively
  draw a picture or arrange for a near-end game of
  Chinese chess. If you are in the mood, you may as
  well open an album and let the photos bring back
  memories of those far away. Isnt any one of
  these a real pleasure in life?

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• Sept.10 is Teachers Day. What is the image of
  teachers in people's heart? Little reporters from
  the middle school attached to Qinghua University
  walked out of their school gate and interviewed
  76 passersby. The interview shows that 83 people
  think that teachers shoulder the important task
  of educating the next generation, they are the
  decisive factor of improving the whole people's
  cultural level, and they are worth of being
  respected.

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• Whats the teacher's image? On Teacher's Day,
  Sept.10, a group of teenage reporters from the
  middle school attached to Qinghua University took
  a poll on the street on seventy six passersby.
  Eighty six of those surveyed said that teachers
  should be held in high esteem because they are
  committed to the shaping of the younger
  generation, an undertaking crucial to achieving a
  higher level of education in China.

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• In 1953, America and England planned to use
  atomic bombs against Chinese aiding troops in
  Korea and to attack China with nuclear weapons.
  When the news was transferred to Beijing from
  diplomatic sources of a third country, the
  leaders of new China felt deeply worried and
  immediately decided to set up and develop atomic
  bomb and missile cause.

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• In 1953, when they learned from diplomatic
  sources of a third country that the United States
  and Britain were prepared to attack the Chinese
  troops in Korea with nuclear weapons, the leaders
  of new China, deeply concerned, decided that
  China must have its own atomic bombs and
  missiles.

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• I was gingerly edging along toward the bird when
  it fluttered away a little and stopped again,
  staring back with its small, black, bean-like
  eyes that had a look of distrust while seeking to
  be friends with me.

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• All over this winding stretch water, what meets
  the eye is a silken field of leaves, reaching
  rather high above the surface, like the skirts of
  dancing girls in all their grace.

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Practice

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• In Paris, cocktail parties and buffet dinners in
  honor of this or that provide an excellent
  opportunity to make a lot of friends. When
  strangers meet on such occasions, an Asian tends
  to present his name card respectfully with both
  hands before the conversation, which seems to be
  required by etiquette. However, the French
  usually are not so ready with such a formality
  that they will excuse themselves after exchanges
  of a few words of greetings or even after a
  rambling chat about everything under the sun.
  They will offer cards only when they find each
  other agreeable and hope to further the
  relationship. And it seems somewhat unnatural for
  them to do so before getting into conversation.

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• We should not be too romantic in interpersonal
  relations. Human beings are interesting in that
  they tend to first see good in a new
  acquaintance. This is like dining in a
  restaurant. You will be not only favorably
  impressed with the first dish or cold dishes, but
  also profuse in praise of the first two courses.
  However, the more you have, the more sober you
  become until the dinner ends up with all the
  flaws exposed. Consequently, your joy would give
  way to anger your praises would to criticism or
  even fault-finding and your nodding in agreement
  to shaking the head.

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• What accounts for all this is, in the first
  place, you are hungry when you start to eat. As
  the saying goes, Hunger is the best sauce, and
  vice versa. And in the second place,
  unfamiliarity, rather than familiarity, breeds
  freshness in you when you start to eat in a
  restaurant new to you, which is the so-called
  effect of defamiliarization.

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Thank you!