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Translated a cute story from a book. Is it correct? The story: 娃娃抓蛤蟆 小河流水哗哗哗, 来了一胖娃娃, 抓了八只大蛤蟆。 游来一群小肥鸭, 见了蛤蟆叫嘎嘎。 Boy catches frogs. The water of the little stream rushes by, (when) a little fat child came by, (and) grabbed eight big frogs! A group of little fat ducks swims by, saw the frogs and said quack quack! I added some english words to make the story sound better is this still in line with the original story?

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Translated a cute story from a book. Is it correct?

The story:

娃娃抓蛤蟆                   A Little Child Catching Frogs   娃娃 usually means either a doll (which cannot be in this case) or a cute little girl.



小河流水哗哗哗,      A streamlet goes loudly a gurgling,
来了一胖娃娃,          Came a little child plump,
抓了八只大蛤蟆。      Catching eight big frogs.
游来一群小肥鸭,      A small paddling of little fat ducks came swimming by,
见了蛤蟆叫嘎嘎。     Upon seeing the froggies, they went quack quack.

Boy catches frogs.
The water of the little stream rushes by,
(when) a little fat child came by,
(and) grabbed eight big frogs!
A group of little fat ducks swims by,
saw the frogs and said quack quack!

I added some English words to make the story sound better. Is this still in line with the original story? Not bad a translation but you need to put them in a poetic form as in the original.  It is OK to add words so that the target language sounds good to the

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Translated a cute story from a book. Is it correct?

The story:

娃娃抓蛤蟆
小河流水哗哗哗,
来了一个胖娃娃,
抓了八只大蛤蟆。
游来一群小肥鸭,
见了蛤蟆叫嘎嘎。

Boy catches frogs.
The water of the little stream rushes by,
(when) a little fat child came by,
(and) grabbed eight big frogs!
A group of little fat ducks swims by,
saw the frogs and said quack quack!

I added some english words to make the story sound better is this still in line with the original story?

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Translated a cute story from a book. Is it correct?

The story:

娃娃抓蛤蟆
小河流水哗哗哗,
来了一胖娃娃,
抓了八只大蛤蟆。
游来一群小肥鸭,
见了蛤蟆叫嘎嘎。

Boy catches frogs.
The water of the little stream rushes by,
(when) a little fat child came by,
(and) grabbed  caught eight big frogs!
A group of little fat ducks swims by,
saw the frogs and said quack quack!

I added some english words to make the story sound better is this still in line with the original story?

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