动手能力

English translation: manipulative ability

09:35 Apr 7, 2004

Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Health Care / Children's swing set

Chinese term or phrase: 动手能力

促进儿童的动手能力、运动能力、协调能力、团体协作意识、勇敢精神....

3岁以下儿童或不具备动手能力的儿童不得使用本器械。

Denyce Seow KudoZ activity Questions: 1852 (9 open) (54 closed without grading) Answers: 1534 Singapore
Local time: 16:08

English translation:manipulative ability

Explanation:
Manual ability is simple and gets the point across, but I know that 'manipulative ability' is a big thing in child pedagogy. Googling spits up 119,000 hits . . .

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Note added at 3 hrs 48 mins (2004-04-07 13:24:01 GMT)
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For your 动手意识 problem, try manual awareness.

Selected response from:

Peter Smith
Taiwan
Local time: 16:08

Grading comment

I was torn between "hands-on ability" and "manipulative ability" but after considering the whole context, I'm going for the latter.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

2 +4

practical ability, working ability, initiative, hands-on ability...

chica nueva

3 +2

manipulative ability

Peter Smith

ability to do certain skills with his/her hands

Edward LIU

Moving ability

surinder kumar

manually operating ability

Jianming Sun

practical approaching ability

Phoebe321

hands mobility

Kika Capretti

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

36 mins confidence:

动手能力 ability to do certain skills with his/her hands

Explanation:
ability to do certain skills with his/her hands

or

ability to use his/her muscles.

Edward LIU
Canada
Local time: 04:08
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 43

45 mins confidence:

动手能力 Moving ability

Explanation:
动手 does mean to start acting or start themovement.
能力 mean ability

surinder kumar
India
Local time: 13:38
Native speaker of:

English,

Chinese

59 mins confidence:

manually operating ability

Explanation:
I met this word once in my past translation job. After some discussion with somebody, we decided translated it this way. I don't know whether it is suitable for children.

Jianming Sun
Local time: 16:08
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Chinese
PRO pts in category: 87

1 hr confidence:

动手能力 practical approaching ability

Explanation:
罗嗦点，但意思会完整点。

Phoebe321
Local time: 16:08
Native speaker of:

Chinese

1 hr confidence:

动手能力 hands mobility

Explanation:
hands mobiliy
just an option

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Note added at 1 hr 13 mins (2004-04-07 10:48:52 GMT)
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hands mobility

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Note added at 3 hrs 6 mins (2004-04-07 12:42:27 GMT)
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manual skill

Kika Capretti
Local time: 10:08
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Italian

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

动手能力

manipulative ability

Peter Smith
Taiwan
Local time: 16:08
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

I was torn between "hands-on ability" and "manipulative ability" but after considering the whole context, I'm going for the latter.

32 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

动手能力 practical ability, working ability, initiative, hands-on ability...

Explanation:
Googling threw up these, many from CVs, educational syllabuses, etc. None seems particularly good, but perhaps it is a start...

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Note added at 1 day 21 hrs 15 mins (2004-04-09 06:51:05 GMT)
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Well, of course, initiative is very different from the other three. Does the context (that list) give a clue? Perhaps it really is \'manual skills\' or \'manipulative ability\' (my first thought, before I googled)...

\'initiative\' is great, sort of proactiveness, ability to experiment and try things, but does it make sense in the context of swings, and in this text?

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Note added at 2 days 2 hrs 48 mins (2004-04-09 12:24:22 GMT)
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I think 动手 must be like 动身, to get moving, to get going ...

=> the ability to set your hand to a task, to take the initiative and physically do something, the ability to apply yourself to a practical situation, to take action to make something happen,make something work physically

=> you have to slide down the slide, crawl through the tunnel, get on the swing and swing on it...

chica nueva
Local time: 20:08
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

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