Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Chinese term
United States
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Native in: English 
Works in: German to English, Japanese to English, French to English, and 3 more.
Ａ喜歡Ｂ多少便Ｂ多少 (4/4)
Second Attempt: Taking US dollars when you travel abroad can come in handy. Take as many as you like.
Now that I have a better idea of what I translated, I can ask more detailed, and perhaps more useful questions. After you have answered these, I will respond thoroughly to all four.
Question Two: In the sentence part 多帶些美金利便些 what, in a literal sense, does the phrase 多帶些美金 mean? Does it mean"take more US dollars"?
Question Three: Recalling that the word 些 need not always be translated, the word does appear twice in the same sentence part. If I remember correctly, the phrase 多Ａ些 is a standard pattern. But, what about the second appearance of 些 in the phrase 利便些？Ｗhat role, if any, does the word play here?
Does it mean "somewhat useful", "more useful", or is it just a place holder that helps the first part of the sentence to flow? By way of example, does the pattern 多Ａ些ＢＣ些, whereＣ些 serves as a predicate adjective describing the nominalized verb phrase 多Ａ些Ｂ, exist? If so, can you think of, and provide other examples?
Question Four: Similarly, in the third part of the sentence does the clause 你喜歡帶多少便帶多少 correspond to a standard pattern, say 「Ａ喜歡Ｂ多少便Ｂ多少」. If so, could you please provide other examples?
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| 4 | IMHO |
Philip Tang
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| 4 | take as much as you like |
Shaojie Huang
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| 3 | some examples that have the same pattern |
wherestip
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Proposed translations
China
Seasoned US hi-tech/management executive
Native in: English , Chinese
Works in: Chinese, Chinese to English, English to Chinese
IMHO
What's wrong by saying - 你喜歡帶多少都可以?
Although WHERESTIP above has provided quite a few good usage examples applying this pattern, but try to avoid using this pattern in writing (especially formal writing).
China
quality Chinese/English translation
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese
take as much as you like
I don't think "more" works here. When you say "more" something, you always mean "more...than...", or it is clear what you are comparing your amount/degree with so the "than..." part is omitted. This is not the case here. There is no comparasion whatsoever.
Off the point: I have a conscious dislike of this word "abroad". The native speakers don't seem to use it as often as we do in China.
some examples that have the same pattern
你打算怎么办就怎么办吧 do it in whatever way you plan on doing it
他想上哪儿便上哪儿好了 Let's go wherever he wants to go
(or) Let him go wherever he wants to go
我想去哪儿就去哪儿! I'll go wherever I please!
你想玩儿多久就玩儿多久呗 go ahead and play however long you want to play
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Note added at 15 hrs (2006-05-30 22:43:22 GMT)
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rather, go ahead and play as long as you want to.
The oddly worded sentence was to show the parallelism among the sentences
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