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日宽月长

English translation: Making greater progress day by day


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03:52 Jan 17, 2012
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Medical: Health Care
Chinese term or phrase: 日宽月长
翻开过去的每一页，迈瑞步幅日宽月长.

This is in a promotional video for the medical company Mindray.
MingGuang
English translation:Making greater progress day by day
Explanation:
For the whole sentence, you could just say:

For the past years, XXX has been making greater progress day by day (and month by month).

(You can just omit "and month by month" because the meaning is just the same. If you make progress day by day, of course you do month by month and year by year...)

(Publicity materials written in Chinese are often full of idioms and even phrases coined by the writers themselves. My experience is just to simplify them and give the "real" meanings in target languages.)



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Note added at 5 days (2012-01-22 07:54:52 GMT)
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If you would only agree that a step forward is a kind of progress...of course it makes sense to say "make some progress today" and "make greater progress tomorrow".

And how well you do translation has little to do where you are.

Likewise, such Chinese language is also seldom heard even in China. (I guess it's Taiwanese Chinese.) And I don't think "measurable progress" is any better than "greater progress"--it's just not so quantitative.
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4 +2Making greater progress day by day
mrbeijing
5Making measurable progress each and every day
MichelleYou
4making tremendous stridesMao Kong
3making wider steps and longer walk day after day, month after month
pkchan


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1 day13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
making wider steps and longer walk day after day, month after month


Explanation:
宽與长是指步幅，不是進展。

pkchan
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3 days13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Making measurable progress each and every day


Explanation:
I never heard people say "Making greater progress" in the U.S.

You may say "Making great progress day by day". But I think "Making measurable progress each and every day" would be more accurately here.

"each and every day" is the way to emphasize that it is absolutely every day, and often used in marketing language.

MichelleYou
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Making greater progress day by day


Explanation:
For the whole sentence, you could just say:

For the past years, XXX has been making greater progress day by day (and month by month).

(You can just omit "and month by month" because the meaning is just the same. If you make progress day by day, of course you do month by month and year by year...)

(Publicity materials written in Chinese are often full of idioms and even phrases coined by the writers themselves. My experience is just to simplify them and give the "real" meanings in target languages.)



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Note added at 5 days (2012-01-22 07:54:52 GMT)
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If you would only agree that a step forward is a kind of progress...of course it makes sense to say "make some progress today" and "make greater progress tomorrow".

And how well you do translation has little to do where you are.

Likewise, such Chinese language is also seldom heard even in China. (I guess it's Taiwanese Chinese.) And I don't think "measurable progress" is any better than "greater progress"--it's just not so quantitative.

mrbeijing
China
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agree  Sharon Toh: Agree with the translation and that we only need to render the actual intended meaning. Just for the asker's background info: 步幅 = 步伐的幅度; so, it literally means the extent of the pace of development or whatever is as wide as a day and as long as a month.
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邁瑞步幅日寬月長
making tremendous strides


Explanation:
Could work as promotional copy

Mao Kong
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