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Tips for translating from Chinese to English: Avoiding overtranslation When translating between languages and cultures as different as Chinese and English, the problem is the inadequacy of the target language to express the source. Chinese, with its incredible succinctness, can often express in a couple of characters what seems to need a phrase to say […]https://gengo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017_04_19-header.png