A Collection of English Mandarin 2 5. 我坐渡轮去到在英格兰的朴茨茅斯（Portsmouth)，以后我坐火车去到埃克塞特(Exeter)。 Error : 去到 comes from ’go to' Correction: 去埃克赛特 Error analysis: unnecessary particle '到' Right collocation: 来到，回到，走到，看到，得到，做到 （particle）； 到某地去 (verb.) ；到那时 （preposition） 6 .我今天接到了一本學習文言文課本 Error: 接到了一本课本 comes from 'received a textbook' Correction: 我今天拿到了一本课本。 Common collocation: 接电话(answer the telephone)，接见(give an interview to), 接触 （come into contact with...）, 接管 （take over the charge of ...）,接近 （approach）, 接纳/ 接受 （receive） 3. 我希望我夠了聰明學習這兩門語言。 Error: 够了聪明学习这门语言 comes from ’intelligent enough to learn this language‘. Analysis: “够+adj.做某事” is a very very English way to say ’'you are capable to do something''. A better way to say it in Chinese is "希望我有能力把这门语言学好”。 7. 但是我覺察現代的中文和古文不同一. Error: 不同一 comes from ’not the same‘. Correction: 不一样 8. 我学习更多和更多天天。 Error 1: 更多和更多 comes from 'more and more' Correction: 越来越多， 越来越+ adj/adv = more and more ... Error 2 : put the time phrase at the end of a sentence. Correction : 一天又一天，我要学习越来越多的东西。 9. 但有时我不有足够时间研究更多 Error : 不有 Correction : 没有 Error analysis: We usually have to negative particle in Chinese, ’不‘ and '没' , Common collocation: 不知道，不开心，不喜欢，没有，没事，没写，没去 10. 我把很多汉字写了本子上以前我做了听力练习。 Error : 以前 Correction : 之前 Analysis: ’before‘ can be translated as '以前' and ’之前‘. "I was never late before." In this sentence 'before' means ’以前‘。 "I did some reading before I went to‘bed last night.'' In this sentence 'before' means ’之前‘, but in Chinese you have to read this sentence from the back to the front like ’Before I went to bed, I did some reading last night.‘ In Chinese we prefer to put the less important information first and the most important last.