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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Chinese

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[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]

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Entry #38299 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
jyuan_us
jyuan_us
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Winner
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get out of town
Good term selection
想了又想,还是觉得“​切,您还是回老家吧!​”“我是在设法回家啊​。”还是可以再现原文​效果的。
Jerry Yuan
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David Yuan
David Yuan
الصين
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我信你个鬼!
Flows well
Amazing! 比​“骗人!”更地道,符​合孩子心理。
Jerry Yuan
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Yifei Wang
Yifei Wang
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Meiyu Liu
Meiyu Liu
تايوان
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Sunny Song
Sunny Song
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Sihua Yang
Sihua Yang
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Yuemin Chen
Yuemin Chen
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alih5253
alih5253
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0000
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