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From :   Lee Kong

Date : 2009-07-14 / 10:13PM

Benny, please let me know if there are any mistakes in the Chinese translation I’ve done below:

In 1974, three Chinese farmers made a stunning archeological find, one that would prove that the technology of the ancient Chinese was by far the most advanced in the world. While digging a well the farmers stumbled on broken pieces of a statue; they had discovered one of the legendary terracotta warriors of Qin Shi HuangDi, the first emperor of China. Excavation of a vault below revealed thousands of soldiers in battle formation, an entire army designed to follow its emperor into eternity. 250 years Before Christ this powerful force ruthlessly conquered all the rival kingdoms of China and unified them into an empire. Archeologists believe that they have uncovered part of the answer as to what made this army so invincible.

在一九七四年,三个中国农夫发了考古学的一个极好的发现,证明着古代中国人的技术是显然在世界上最先进的。在挖一口井的时候,农夫绊倒意外地发现了碴儿的雕像;他们发现了一个秦始皇帝(中国的第一个皇帝)的传奇陶瓦战士。在下面的拱顶透露数以千计的士兵编成战斗队形,整个军队旨在跟随它的皇帝入永恒。公元前二百五十年这个强大的力量残忍地征服了所有的竞争对手中国的王国和统一成一个帝国。考古学家认为,他们发现了究竟是什么原因组建了这支常胜军的一部分答案。

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-07-14 / 10:51PM

Hi Lee Kong, it is a very good translation, here are some of my suggestion:

1. You should translate “farmer” as “农民”, instead of 农夫

2. 传奇陶瓦战士 should be “兵马俑”

Benny



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