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Dec 15, 2018 23:15
5 yrs ago
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Chinese term
Australia
好评
Chinese to English
Marketing
Tourism & Travel
Customer Reviews
This comes from customer feedback from a client's website. The client, paradoxically, wants me to reflect the source text as closely as I can, but also translate content so it reads fluently.
Could other translators please share your thoughts on translating usages of "好评" when the term is being given as part of a "好评" ("positive evaluation")? I am transalting the term freely as "I recommend it" or something to that effect because I don't think native speakers of English would say "positive evaluation" as a stand-alone comment within a paragraph of feedback. What do you think?
Source:
客栈环境很不错，老板很热情，办理入住非常方便，房间宽敞明亮，打扫的干干净净，家具很有特色，好评！
Translation:
The inn has a really nice environment. The boss is really nice and checking in is very convenient. The rooms are spacious and bright and they're kept really clean. The furnishings have a lot of character. I recommend it!
Could other translators please share your thoughts on translating usages of "好评" when the term is being given as part of a "好评" ("positive evaluation")? I am transalting the term freely as "I recommend it" or something to that effect because I don't think native speakers of English would say "positive evaluation" as a stand-alone comment within a paragraph of feedback. What do you think?
Source:
客栈环境很不错，老板很热情，办理入住非常方便，房间宽敞明亮，打扫的干干净净，家具很有特色，好评！
Translation:
The inn has a really nice environment. The boss is really nice and checking in is very convenient. The rooms are spacious and bright and they're kept really clean. The furnishings have a lot of character. I recommend it!
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14 hrs
Gareth Callagy
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Technical Translator FR/ZH-cn > EN
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US) 
Works in: French to English, Chinese to English, English
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Recommended
A native English speaker would end such a review simply with ", recommended!"
In this way the "positive evaluation" is implied (I.e. I recommend it as I have a positive evaluation of the hotel)
In this way the "positive evaluation" is implied (I.e. I recommend it as I have a positive evaluation of the hotel)
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Comment: "Thanks for your suggestion and explanation. I agree that "Recommended" is a simple and effective way to localise the usage of "好评" in this kind of context."
14 mins
high praise
or: with high remarks
好评 - Collins Dictionary
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'好评' 的英语Translation of | 官方柯林斯中文- 英语词典网上词典。10 万条简体中文单词和短语的英语翻译。 ... high praise ... 好评的翻译—— 柯林斯汉英词典.
好评 - Collins Dictionary
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'好评' 的英语Translation of | 官方柯林斯中文- 英语词典网上词典。10 万条简体中文单词和短语的英语翻译。 ... high praise ... 好评的翻译—— 柯林斯汉英词典.
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Cheryl Zhou
China
China
Native in Chinese
Specializes in field
China
Native in: Chinese (Variant: Simplified) 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese
excellent
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g308272-d12863849-R...
the traveler ratings are graded as: excellent, good, average, poor and terrible
the traveler ratings are graded as: excellent, good, average, poor and terrible
6 hrs
Wiyi Henardo
Indonesia
Indonesia
Native in Chinese
Indonesia
Work Hard, Play Hard !
Native in: Indonesian (Variant: Standard-Indonesia) , Chinese (Variant: Simplified)
Works in: English to Chinese, Indonesian to Chinese, Chinese to Indonesian, and 6 more.
Positive Review or Excellent
positive review or excellent often used to reflect the satisfaction of an user.
3 hrs
you deserve my positive review
If you want 好评！fits into the context, you can say "you (your inn) deserve a (or my) positive review".
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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-12-16 02:55:50 GMT)
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What the speaker was trying to say is along the line of "you are very much liked".
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Note added at 8 hrs (2018-12-16 07:43:23 GMT)
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you deserve a positive review
your inn deserves my positive review
Either of these will serve well in the context.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-12-16 02:55:50 GMT)
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What the speaker was trying to say is along the line of "you are very much liked".
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Note added at 8 hrs (2018-12-16 07:43:23 GMT)
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you deserve a positive review
your inn deserves my positive review
Either of these will serve well in the context.
5 days
Very good/great/lovely/five stars
I think Gareth's "recommended" is excellent.
Your sentence countains a couple of words that are bugbears of mine, so I just wanted to leave a note about them:
客栈环境很不错，老板很热情，办理入住非常方便，房间宽敞明亮，打扫的干干净净，家具很有特色，好评！
环境 - in this context not really environment. It's the inside of the inn, so maybe "nicely decorated"
热情 - nice is fine, but I think friendly would be slightly closer
方便 - I make a religion of never translating this word as "convenient", and you should, too! "Check in was easy/straightforward".
有特色 - character is good, could also consider unique, different, special
Your sentence countains a couple of words that are bugbears of mine, so I just wanted to leave a note about them:
客栈环境很不错，老板很热情，办理入住非常方便，房间宽敞明亮，打扫的干干净净，家具很有特色，好评！
环境 - in this context not really environment. It's the inside of the inn, so maybe "nicely decorated"
热情 - nice is fine, but I think friendly would be slightly closer
方便 - I make a religion of never translating this word as "convenient", and you should, too! "Check in was easy/straightforward".
有特色 - character is good, could also consider unique, different, special
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