My three-quarter-long coat?
Today it’s a lovely day. The sunshine is warm and comfortable. It’s winter now, so I still put on my down coat which is long to my knees. I also have a three-quarter -long autumn coat. Actually I am not sure about the length of this coat which is long to my thigh, is it a three-quarter coat? I showed the coat to one of my friends who is from England and he said is a three-quarter coat. However I don’t think the coat is three quarters of my body, so I am a little bit confused.
Your corrections and answers are welcome, thanks
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My three-quarter-long coat?
Today it’s is a lovely day. The sunshine is warm and comfortable. It’s winter now, so I still have to put on my down coat which is long reaches to my knees. I also have a three-quarter length-long autumn coat. Actually, I am not sure about the length of this coat which is long reaches down to my thigh,; is it a three-quarter coat? I showed the coat to one of my friends who is from England and he said it is a three-quarter coat. However I don’t think that the coat is three quarters of my body, so I am a little bit confused.
Your corrections and answers are welcome, thanks
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My three-quarter-long coat?
Today... It’s a lovely day. The sunshine is warm and comfortable. It’s winter now, so I still can put on my knee length down coat which is long to my knees. I also have a three-quarter-long autumn coat. Actually I am not sure about the length of this coat. It reaches to which is long to my thighs. Is it this what you call a three-quarter coat? I showed the coat it to one of my a friends who is from England, and he said is a three-quarter coat who indeed verified that it was so. However, I don’t think the coat that it is so as it does not cover is three quarters of my body. So I am a little bit confused.
Your corrections and answers are welcome. Thanks.
From the view point of the industry, it is so. People are short and people are tall. So the length varies. For example, most Asian men and women are smaller framed that their white counterparts. So they shop their adult sized clothes from the teenager section. To them, it is not teenage clothing but adults. However, the industry do not consider it to be so. Anyway, for them it is a great bargain because teenager clothing is so much cheaper than the same adult versions!
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Thanks. This is not my translation. I don't dare to try to aspire to such heights. It was from a Sinologist. I read it in an in-flight magazine, a long time ago. I'm interested in translating classical Chinese poems and stories into English. This is my hobby. Too bad italki had disabled the "Group" feature. I used to have a group called, "A Poet's Soul" where we discuss finer points in translation. However, you still can access it by scrolling through in the "answers" section for my posting. It is quite tedious to do so instead of doing by group.
Let me know if you have also the same interest. If so I shall try to figure a way to connect others with the same interest.
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