The Archive · 1938

Translation Exercises

In addition to the vocabularies, there are forty groups of misceltaneous examples sandwiched here and there among the sections. These examples are numbered for reference, and where any of them illustrates some special point of idiom a note has been given immediately beneath it, Following each group of miscellaneous examples is a set of sentences in English, given'as an exercise for translating into Chinese. These sentences are numbered to facilitate reference to the key at the end of the book. Under the reading lessons will be found footnotes elucidating any particular difficulty that has not already been explained.

Part LI of the."Kuoyü Primer," covering 183 pages, contains miscellaneous vocabularies arranged in alphabetical order, a syllabic index to characters and phrases, a general index and the key to exercises for translating into Chinese.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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