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自娱自乐

千里清江凭目阔 ----- 这个‘凭’字似乎是重点吧？所以，as ....as 可能没法完全地表示出来。

凭 = 由着，听任：任～。听～。

青衫来客

I will resume our discussion later this everning, becauseI will have a long meeting for the whole day.

海外逸士

紅圖章不能把詞蓋掉﹐看不清。

自娱自乐

原帖由 自娱自乐 于 2009-7-15 6:09:00 发表
千里清江凭目阔 ----- 这个‘凭’字似乎是重点吧？所以，as ....as 可能没法完全地表示出来。

凭 = 由着，听任：任～。听～。

cont.
你的句子和‘天高任鸟飞，海阔凭鱼跃’如出一辙，其中的含义就是‘如此。。。，以至于。。。’，那么在英文里就是 'so...that / so ...as to...' 来表示 to such a great degree. 如 ‘she is so stupid as to believe in those nonsense her busband talks about‘
as ...as 似乎是同级比较，如‘this fan is as big as my hand‘， 所以呢，river is as spacious as my eyesight can stretch is not fit to your Chinese line in my humble opinion.
你再体会一下，看看我说得对不对。

青衫来客

原帖由 自娱自乐 于 2009-7-15 8:39:00 发表
[quote] 原帖由 自娱自乐 于 2009-7-15 6:09:00 发表
千里清江凭目阔 ----- 这个‘凭’字似乎是重点吧？所以，as ....as 可能没法完全地表示出来。

凭 = 由着，听任：任～。听～。

cont.
你的句子和‘天高任鸟飞，海阔凭鱼跃’如出一辙，其中的含义就是‘如此。。。，以至于。。。’，那么在英文里就是 'so...t [/quote]
What I really mean is if the river is wide or not, just depends on how far you can see. Your eyesight decides the width of the river. This is a figurative speaking, more mentally than physiologically. We can put it in a simply way,that is if you can see much farther, then the river is that farther.

青衫来客

Wtih regard to the last line of the second stanza, how about "The lonely cloud is hard to follow when flying a pair of swallows"  ?  As you can see, the internal ryhme is required and that is why I insist on placing the word hollow in here.

青衫来客

原帖由 周道模 于 2009-7-14 21:14:00 发表
beining?    being?

swallow?      swallows?

Thanks a lot, Mr. Zhou, for your correcting my oversight.

青衫来客

My heartfelt thanks for the unexpected attention from you, sir.