--- In [email protected], "ai3131" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "Just outside the city there is wetland. There, one finds > > crocodiles, *lions, deer, ducks, cranes, hawks, swallows, tanuki- > > like creatures called "raccoons", frogs, and a large variety of > > insects, including an abundance of mosquitoes. The place is most > > interesting and beautiful, but the hydrology has been disturbed to > > divert water for human use and to drain land for development." > OK, here goes (nothing)... > > "Machi no kôgai ni numachi ga arimasu.Asoko ni wani ya hyôshi ya > shika ya kamo ya tsuru mo ga imasu. Sara ni,taka ya tsubame ya > RAKKUUN ya kaeru mo ga imasu. Saigo ni iro-iro no mushi-ka itte > takusan no ka ga imasu. Tokoro wa totemo omoshirokute utsukushii > desu. Demo, ningen benri no tame ni mizu wa magiremashita. > Jûtakuchitai no tame ni numachi wa nagasemashita. Sore de, asoko no > suitai ga midasemashita." > > The sentence containing all the animals would be a run-on sentence, > in Japanese or English, so in translation I broke it up into three. > > I do not know how to link more than two dependent clauses within a > sentence in Japanese, so I had to separate the last sentence into > three. Sorry. > > - Arian I. A corrected version of your translation is as follows: > Machi no kôgai ni numachi ga arimasu. SOKO ni WA wani ya HYOU ya > shika ya kamo ya tsuru ["mo" deleted] ga imasu. Sara ni, taka ya tsubame ya > TANUKI NI NITA RAKKUUN TO YOBARERU DOUBUTSU ya kaeru mo ["ga" deleted] imasu. MATA takusan no ka O FUKUMU SAMAZAMANA mushi-MO imasu. SOKO wa totemo KYOUMIBUKAKU utsukushii TOKORO > desu. SHIKASHI, ningen GA TSUKAU tame ni mizu NO NAGARE GA KAERARE, KAIHATSU no tame ni KANTAKU SARETA TAMENI SOKO NO > suitaiKEI WA MIDARETESHIMAIMASHITA." Kamui ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Japanese_Language/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
