All the world is a stage.

Chinese translation: 大千世界是个舞台

06:25 Mar 29, 2002

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Art/Literary

English term or phrase: All the world is a stage.

quotation from shakespeare's "as you like it."

I'd LOVE to have it translated into calligraphy, if possible... thanks in advance!

PHLmatthew

Chinese translation:大千世界是个舞台

Explanation:
The translation is done by Mr. Huang Zhaojie, one of the most famous translator of Shakespear's dramatic writings.

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Yubing YANG (X)

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many thanks. :)
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大千世界是个舞台

Yubing YANG (X)

4 +2

Libin PhD

ding_ding

Xiaoping Fu

Chinexpert

???????

zwcorp

世界之大，无奇不有

Wei Jiang

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8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

整个世界就是一个舞台。

Explanation:
整个世界就是一个舞台。

Libin PhD
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in pair: 522

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

大千世界是个舞台

Explanation:
The translation is done by Mr. Huang Zhaojie, one of the most famous translator of Shakespear's dramatic writings.

Yubing YANG (X)
PRO pts in pair: 8

Grading comment

many thanks. :)

4 hrs confidence:

人生如戏，戏如人生

Explanation:
If you are looking for an exact translation of Shakespeare's sentence, all the answers above given by my colleagues are very nice.

What I am suggesting is a Chinese saying that is very close in meaning with the sentence from "As you like it".
If you don't mind too much about the exact words said by Shakespeare, then this one would be more suitable for Chinese calligraphy.

人生如戏，戏如人生(ren2sheng1 ru2 xi4,xi4 ru2 ren2sheng1) "Like is like a drama, and a drama is like life."

人生 = people's life
如 = like
戏 = drama

At the following like, you can find a gif file containing these characters.

Reference: http://www22.brinkster.com/fxp2002/lifeisdrama.html

Xiaoping Fu
Canada
Local time: 03:41
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in pair: 2566

1 day 16 hrs confidence:

茫茫世界如一出正在上演的戏

Explanation:
茫茫世界如一出正在上演的戏

The context being all the world is like a stage, everyone is just an actor acting out his part...

In Chinese, the literal translation of "stage" is "舞台", but it is just a physical entity, whereas in English, it also implies a performance. Therefore, I think "正在上演的戏", meaning "a play being acted out", is closer to the original expression.
"茫茫世界" really means "the whole world" but is a much more poetic and relevant Chinese expression. "如" means "like" but is a more classical form as Shakespeare is classical English.

ding_ding
PRO pts in pair: 4

5 days confidence:

悽奅廇惀堦槩戝晳戜

Explanation:
悽奅=shi4jie4, world
廇惀=jiu4shi4, is
堦槩=yi2ge4, a
戝=da4,big
晳戜=wu3tai2,stage

Chinexpert
Local time: 17:41
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in pair: 205

6 days confidence:

???????

Explanation:
more consise ,more common

zwcorp
Local time: 18:41
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in pair: 54

20 days confidence:

世界之大，无奇不有

Explanation:
You don't have to be literal, do you?

Wei Jiang
China
Local time: 18:41
Native speaker of:

Chinese

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