Timeline for What is the Chinese equivalent of "time to [A]"?
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| Aug 17, 2020 at 16:33 | vote | accept | 2ndQuantized | ||
| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:24 | comment | added | blackgreen | @2ndQuantized yes, perfect 1-to-1 translations that account for all nuances are very rare in two languages as different as English and Chinese are. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 17:45 | comment | added | 2ndQuantized | Based on your and Pedroski's answers and as I think more about the phrase "time to [A]", I am realizing that it has so many nuances in English that the relevant expressions in Chinese almost cannot be but situation-dependent. That is, it would be almost impossible for two quite distinct cultures to have an almost identical expression with exactly the same very varied nuances in various situations. | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 19:39 | history | answered | blackgreen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |