User:Zhang Mengzhe

My name is Zhang Mengzhe and I am an English major student. I hope to further improve my translation skills by learning the differences between Chinese and Western languages and cultures. Although I took similar courses in my undergraduate study, I think the content in graduate stage will be more in-depth and rich. I believe this learning time will be very interesting, the new school year has begun!

==Oct 31, 2024 I took lessons today and it's very happy to know more about dumplings thanks to the presenter.

==Nov 1, 2024 No translation today! Having leisure time is also a part of life, I think. But I also went to teach a girl English as usual.

==Nov 2,2024 Since the beginning of this term, I have worked as a part-time English teacher to help some students in the Update from Junior College Student to University Student Exam. This time I prepared all the teaching materials beforehand as always, however, I got the date wrong! I thought the teaching day is Nov 3,but actuaccly it was today. On the way to the library about 9:05 in the morning, I received a message from another teacher in the tutoring center, which was said when I can arrived and the students had already waited, when I was enjoying my breakfast and planning what to do in the library. Oh, my gosh! I got off the bus immediately, and took the subway and then took a taxi to the tutoring center. The class time was originally 9 O'clock, but when I arrived there, it was past 10 O' clock. Thanks to the help of another teacher and students, I could finished today's teaching. What an amazing day! But It will never ever ever ever happen again, I swear!

==Nov 3, 2024 In the first half of the year, I went to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province to take the Shanghai Interpretation Accreditation Exam, but fortunately I failed. So when it comes to the autumn exam, I enter for it again. Therefore, getting prepared for the exam has been my main task recently. I hope this time I could be a lucky dog.

==Nov 4, 2024 It's so difficult to concentrate on study during the period, which may be the excuse I find for my laziness. Knowing English listening materials are talking about is so though, not to mention to interpret them in Chinese. Oh, who can rebuild the Tower of Babel for me so that I needn't to do translation and interpretation anymore.But if that happen, I cann't find a job anymore!

==Nov 5, 2024 Having literary translation course today makes me get the importance of tenses and verbs. Adoption of correct and vivid verbs allows the translation to be rich of literariness and idiomaticity, but unfortunately, I am not capable of fulfilling the principle because of my limited reading and poor vocabulary. There is a need to read more Chinese and foreign literary works, I think, especially for me as a language learner. Sometimes when I read some materials whether in English or Chinese, it's challenging for me to speak it out and repeat to others in my own words because the process of thinking and undering only happen in my mind. Hence,the fact is that I know what I want to say but I don't know how to say or just can't say. In these two aspects, more efforts should be made.

==Nov 6, 2024 Nearly overwhelemed by the tasks.

==Nov 7, 2024 English interpretation has become a routine, to be honest, I just do some listening exercises to improve my listening skills. As for the shorthand, its's another story. And maybe I need to review some marks of interpretation to help me write something important in the exam. Although the schedule recently is so full, it's alao an opportunity to enrich myself.

==Nov 8, 2024 Firday is always a good day as an end day of weekdays, and besides we have no classes today.

==Nov 9, 2024 When it comes to late night, my stomach always calls like: feed me some chocolate, chips or some else high-heat food. And then once fed, fat comes. It doesn't matter, only taking enough energy can help me go through the cold winter.

==Nov 10, 2024 I never thought that one day I could make a diary like this, and it's a good way to record my life even just several sentences everyday.

==Nov 11, 2024 Although it's 11.11, a shopping festival, I don't have a shopping plan because it seems like I don't need anything. In recent days, consumption downgrading triggers great attention and discussion on the Internet, it actually reflects people's consumption changes due to decreased income and negative anticipation for economic growth in the post-pandemic period. The public are increasing price-sensitive and begin to prioritize quality over price. I've discussed this issue with my friends, they all believed that we should buy ourselves some gifts we really want when got the salary but it should be within the price range.

==Nov 12, 2024 Talking with friends and uttering complaints have already been a routine, but as more and more friends come into workforce, our dialogues beome more about negative things, including the employment, salary, renting, commuting and so on. It's hard to find a time to travel together because everyone is busy with something. We have little expectation of the future, and just want to live in the moment. We have a deal recently, saving money for a foreign travel in 2025. Hope that it will come true.

==Nov 13, 2024 Changsha enjoys sunny days recently unlike its previous years, but next week is likely to welcome a cooling time. It doesn't matter because I really expect the coming of winter. The smell of cold air, blowing wind, whirling snow, sugar-coated haws, reunion in the Spring Festival, chats with families and close friends and so on, all these are my expectations.