不积跬步，无以至千里；不积小流，无以成江海。
《荀子 | 劝学篇》
Without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without small streams accumulated, rivers and sea cannot be formed.
I hope, however, that it will prove equally useful to other Chinese who are called upon to write English and who wish to improve their mastery of it.
But to one degree or another, the work of all but the most highly trained and experienced among them will inevitably contain elements of Chinglish.
My purpose is rather to show translators–and, by extension, others who are writing directly in English–how to recognize elements of Chinglish in a first draft and how to revise it so as to eliminate those elements.
Translation is not a science but a craft, and craftsmen in any field may have different opinions as to the best solution to a given technical problem.
The criticism and advice of these two knowledgeable editors, one native speaker of each language, have been, quite simply, indispensable.
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