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In a Chinese text, if I used a quote that was in English, but was translated into Chinese, how would I indicate this?
For example, if Tom said "I have a house", and to quote Tom in the text, I wrote:
汤姆说：“我有一套房子”。
Where and how would I indicate that “我有一套房子” is a translation from English?
Once an English sentence is translated into Chinese, you can treat it as Chinese.
(上引号 - upper quotation mark) = 「
(下引号 - lower quotation mark) = 」
Tom said "I have a house" = 汤姆说：「我有一套房子」。
It is very common for people to use English quotation mark in Chinese text, there is nothing wrong with 汤姆说：“我有一套房子”.
In a Chinese text, if I used a quote that was in English, but was translated into Chinese, how would I indicate this?
I would write:
汤姆说：「我有一套房子 (I have a house) 」。
汤姆说："我有一套房子 (I have a house)".
If you don't want to use English in the sentence at all, you can write:
汤姆说：「我有一套房子 (英文) 」。
汤姆说："我有一套房子 (英文)".
