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There are some essential differences between Chinese and English

Chinese focuses on spatial expression, while English focuses on temporal expression.

Therefore, Chinese likes to use nouns to build a 3D spatial picture.

In English, on the other hand, they like to use verbs and time linear sorting to show the progression of events.

 

A Chinese poem that uses multiple nouns to create a painting:
Withered vines and old trees, faint crows, small bridges and flowing water, ancient roads and westerly winds and thin horses.

And the translator translates it as:

over older trees wreathed with rotten vines fly evening crows。

under a small bridge near a cottage, a steam floors。

on ancient road in the west wind a lean horse goes。


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