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Chinese translation: 为人处事的技巧


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English term or phrase:ethical living skills
Chinese translation:为人处事的技巧
Entered by: Jenny Lu
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Social Sciences - Government / Politics
English term or phrase: ethical living skills
COE fosters building networks and coalitions of groups with common purposes to further the concept of building greater global cooperation, multicultural understanding, spiritual values and ethical living skills, as well as social responsibility.
Jenny Lu
China
Local time: 01:18
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Explanation:
實際上指為人處事的技巧。

做人， 做好人的技巧。

如果把道德一次譯出， 就不知所云了。

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-09 21:34:00 GMT)
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像做无产阶级革命事业接班人一样， 做有道德的人同样需要为人处事的技能。
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jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 13:18
Grading comment
thank you. I live it.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2TRYjyuan_us
4 -1高尚的生活方式Philip Tang
3 -1健康有原则的生活规律
Naikei Wong


  

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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
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Explanation:
實際上指為人處事的技巧。

做人， 做好人的技巧。

如果把道德一次譯出， 就不知所云了。

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-09 21:34:00 GMT)
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像做无产阶级革命事业接班人一样， 做有道德的人同样需要为人处事的技能。

jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 13:18
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 79
Grading comment
thank you. I live it.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Last Hermit: Exactly! Will you veto US invasion of Iraq? No. So yes? Nay. Abstain. Did you see the killings? No. Heard any of them? No. Speak of them? No. Good boy! Go back to your Disneyland.
5 hrs
agree  Scott Webber: 健康有原则的生活规律 and 高尚的生活方式 both overlook the two basic ideas in the original: skills and ethics! This translation is correct.
2 days3 hrs
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
健康有原则的生活规律


Explanation:
A big comprise here: I dropped “skills” to keep the rest, because

健康有原则的生活技能 is weird… (健康 / 有原则的 + 技能 cannot stand)…


The preferred term is “life skills” (in education/psychology texts), and the matching of “ethical” and “living skills” is downright atrocious… (The writer was not grasping the concepts when he / she used them)

Since "living" is by far broader and more directly linked to survival (than “social”),

I would not reduce it to a narrower translation (e.g. “social skills”). “Life skills” would include occupational functioning, and body care, for example. Cheers


BBC News | UK | Girls 'lack basic life skills'Nearly half of all schoolgirls do not possess the necessary life skills to survive in the modern world, and have never even boiled an egg.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2006-02-10 01:36:28 GMT)
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compromise...


    Reference: http://www.worldpeacecongress.net/en/2005/org.htm
    Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1805031.stm
Naikei Wong
Hong Kong
Local time: 01:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Scott Webber: The comments in this answer about psychology are mostly nonsense. Life skills (a basic ability to take care of yourself) is not what the original text has in mind by ethical living skills (skills to live morally).
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
高尚的生活方式


Explanation:
To me “ethical living skills” combined with all other “common purposes” = Carrying our life in a decent manner – a quality radiates from within!

To that - I like to call it “高尚的生活方式”!


Philip Tang
China
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Scott Webber: This translation leaves out both ethics and skills. [In response: I don't have a philosophical disagreement with you: ethical skills are probably necessary for nobility. I just think your translation is bad.]
1 day21 hrs
  -> Do you think you can live a "高尚的生活方式" without an ethical base? I think we are having a semantic problem here!
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