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- "希望我们很快可以再见。"
"希望我们很快可以再见。"
Translation:Hope we can see each other soon.
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These sentences are way too specific and do not allow for variability. My sentence was "I hope we can see each other again soon." That should be acceptable.
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It's too colloquial to leave out the subject of the sentence in English to insist upon it as the correct English answer. The default should be "I hope ..." and maybe also accept just "Hope ..."
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Absolutely. Sentences like these should begin with "Hopefully...", not just "Hope...".
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This is ridiculous. The correct answer offered is "Hope we can see each other soon". On my first effort, I wrote "I hope we can see each other soon" which was corrected to "I hope that we can meet again soon". On my second attempt, "I hope we can meet together soon." was changed to "I hope we can meet very soon." The contentious bits such as using "I" are accepted, but we're now nit-picking to an extraordinary degree. I'm being tested on my ability to remember a random English sentence, and not my comprehension of the texts.
1。Assuming 很快 is referring to the English "quickly", which they chose to term as "soon" in their translation, why is there no 的 before 很 ?
- How is "each other" implied ?
1。that wouldn't make sense 1. 我们 can also mean "us" or "ourselves" or i guess"each other". basically yes 我们 implies it.
Though it is done in casual conversation pretty often, dropping the subject "I" in English sentences like this is pretty colloquial. It seems a little odd to drop the "I" in the default translation.
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How do we know it's not, "we hope to see you again soon" ? What part of the phrase means each other?
I thought 'zaijian' meant 'good-bye'...wouldn't 'renshi' be a better word for 'meet'?
In this case, it literally means 'see again', just as how 'good-bye' would be 'see you again'. Anyway, as a semi-native speaker, I know that 'renshi' wouldn't really be used in this situation.
It also means see you again or see you later. If you look at the meaning of each individual character you can see where it comes from, 再 meaning again, 见 meaning see.
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Two different meanings of the English word 'meet'.
认识 primarily means 'know, be acquainted with' and only secondarily 'meet' in the sense 'get acquainted with'.
见 primarily means 'see' and therefore secondarily 'meet' in the sense 'have a meeting with'.
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It does come before 可以 which is the main verb. 见 falls under the umbrella of 可以.
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It isn't exactly an indicator of the time when something happens, so it might not obey the same rules anyway.
"I hope we see each other again very soon." Reported for acceptance as well.
It’s a difference of emphasis. In your sentence, the hope is about permission 可以. In the model answer the hope is about how quickly 很快 it can be done.
So, we’d translate it quite differently: “I hope we will be permitted to see each other again soon” or “I hope that soon we’ll be able to see each other” has quite a different focus.
When you take the emphasis off 可以 and focus on 很快, then the way we’d translate it becomes more like “I hope we can see each other again soon”.
Hope this helps.
You might need a word like 说. (Or a phrase, like but probably not: 祝你...)
The sentence given doesn’t include any saying or wishing. Just seeing/meeting again.
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再见 in previous XP as,well as this XP's hint was translate as good bye. How come 可以再见 is now means "can see each other soon"? Anybody help me please.
I hope we can meet soon... Should be accepted as well. It's kind of boring the restrictions of translation in English.
