Engrish 2

[阿暪]

原Engrish討論串

Examples of Chinglish


Anti-Earthquake Memorial: actually an Earthquake Memorial



The City Bank Apartment Hotel



The following are some instances of Chinglish, along with a description of where they may be found and what they mean when correctly translated into English:

To take notice of safe: The slippery are very crafty. (Beijing) = Be careful, slippery slopes.
To put out Xuanda Expressway. To put in Jingzhang Expressway. (Xuanda Expressway) = Now leaving Xuanda Expressway, now entering Jingzhang Expressway.
Decimbing path. (Jingzhang Expressway) = Descent.
Rain or snow day. Bridge, slow-driving. (All expressways in Hebei) = Slow on bridge in case of rain or snow.
Oil gate. / Into. (4th Ring Road (Beijing)) = Filling station. / Entrance.
Smoking is prohibited if you will be fined 50 yuan. = Smoking is prohibited, penalty for violators is 50 yuan.
Please come down from your bicycle. = Please dismount from your bicycle.
If you have trouble ask for the policeman. or If in trouble find police = In case of trouble, dial the police.
Being urgent call 110 quickly. (Beijing) = In cases of emergency, please call 110. (110 = police phone line in China, equivalent to 911 in the USA and 999 in the UK.)
Complaining tel. (投诉电话)= Customer service telephone.
When you leave car, please turn off door and window, take your valuable object = Be sure to lock your doors and windows and take all valuables with you.
Engine room is serious place. = Engine room - Caution.
Don't forget to take your thing. = Don't forget your personal belongings.
Visit in civilisation, pay attention to hygiene!(文明参观，注意卫生) This is a message mainly aimed at locals and other people who would otherwise visit somewhere in a sloppy manner.
Deformed man toilet. = Public toilet for the disabled.
Crippled restroom. = Public toilet for the disabled.
When you across hard you can ring TEL (number). = In case of emergency, please call (number).
Danger! Inhibition astraddle transgress. = Danger! No entry.
X Bank Shaoguan Cent Company (某银行韶关分公司) = X Bank Shaoguan Subsidiary
To run business (營業中 [lit. "operating"] - commonly seen sign in mainland China and Taiwan) = Open.
Drink tea (休息中 [lit. "resting"] - commonly seen sign in Taiwan) = Closed.
Many Function Hall (多功能室) (Shanghai) - Multifunctional Hall
We can't stand the sight of mattress fragrant grass = Don't step on the grass
Fragrant fragile walnut meat biscuits = type of walnut cookie, made by Dali Group
Burnt meat biscuit = type of meat flavoured biscuit
Please Drive Correctly = traffic sign reminding people to obey the traffic rules
New Shipu Hotel = not a hotel but a restaurant. The confusion probably results from the similarity between the Chinese word for restaurant - fan guan (饭馆), and the word for hotel - fan dian (饭店), both literally meaning "Meal Shop".
Welcome to our fine restaurant = sign in a hotel room (Note: see note above)
No gambling promote leagal entertainment = anti-gambling propaganda poster by the Beijing police.
Convenient = instant noodles, (方便面)Beijing
Haw a thick soup = Hawthorn (made by a Chengde company)
Small two pots of heads = Erguotou(二锅头), a local spirit, appearing on a menu inside Oriental Plaza, Beijing
China smoke wine & A Smoke a Wine(中国烟酒) = Cigarette and wine shops, Beijing
Japanesque Milk Cracker = Japanese was spelt incorrectly as Japanesque.
The luxuring nothing rail remote controlling stretches out and draws back the door(豪华无线遥控伸缩门) = Label found on an electronic retractable security gate in Beijing.
Shopping's center = Shopping centre entrance in Beijing.
Do not be occupying while stabilizing = Do not use the toilet while the train is stopping at a station. (Train toilets)
Deep fried ghost variant, deep fried devil and oil fried ghost =油炸鬼= commonly known in 'proper English' as a 'Chinese donut.' It is not a donut (i.e not round, more like a submarine sandwich); basically a savoury flavoured "deep-fried foot-long piece of dough." It is a popular Chinese breakfast item. Usually served with congee (rice porridge) or soy milk. You will encounter this term only in Cantonese speaking parts. The Mandarin terminology does not translate the same.
Disabled Elevators (残疾人电梯) = Elevator for handicapped people. (CKS International Airport, Taipei)
Speaking cellphone strictly prohibited when thunderstorm - (Beijing) = talking on cellphones not allowed during thunderstorms
No entry in peacetime = Emergency exit (Beijing Capital International Airport)
No noising and No speak aloud = No yelling (Beijing)
The too longer, too higher, overweight and the dangerous things are not allowed to be carried = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing
The older, the children, the deformities, the patients and the pregnant women should take the escalator with his guardian together. = Escalator, Xidan, Beijing
Xin Zhong Guo Kids Stuff = shop selling commodities for children, Wangfujing, Beijing
Question Authority = If you have questions, please ask the official in charge.
Extraordinary Door (非常门) = Emergency Exit. The confusion may result in the usage of 非常, where it means "Emergency" in Japanese, whereas it means "Extraordinary" in Chinese. A more proper term in Chinese for "Emergency Exit" would be 緊急出口 or 緊急門.

本篇文章已被 黃巾小賊 於 Jun 4 2006, 08:52 編輯過

[黃巾小賊]

有人話今日唐英年在昂坪360致辭時說Ngong Ping San Luk Ling。
主持說的是正常的Ngong Ping Three Sixty。

財爺示範接軌？

本篇文章已被 黃巾小賊 於 Nov 9 2006, 10:26 編輯過

[鮑鮑]

唐英年掛住「碌齡」?

[孫堅文台]

廣州地鐵的廣播係統:下一站体育中心,the next station is Ti Yu Zhong Xin