May 2, 2004 06:05
20 yrs ago
English term

Such count for nothing

English to Chinese Social Sciences History
After two more trips to Asia, he returned to the Arnold and was appointed its "keeper" in 1927. He and his wife died in a car accident in 1930--an ordinary end for someone who had survived so many hardships abroad. "Such count for nothing," he wrote, "since I have lived in nature's boundless halls and drunk deeply of her pleasures. To wander through a tropical or temperate forest with tree trunks more stately than a gothic column, beneath a canopy of foliage more lovely in its varied forms than the roof of any building fashioned by man . . . where does hardship figure when the reward is such?"
Proposed translations (Chinese)
5 +9 这算不上什么

Proposed translations

+9
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这算不上什么

这算不上什么
Peer comment(s):

agree Edward LIU
5 mins
agree Wenjer Leuschel (X) : ...where does hardship figure when the reward is such?
13 mins
agree Jade Lai
47 mins
agree Roddy Stegemann : 1323/251 = 5.27 = someone's ratio of take to give. What is the number 38?
56 mins
agree Andreas Yan
1 hr
agree Silvia_P
3 hrs
agree lanbai
3 hrs
agree David Wang
5 hrs
agree Danbing HE
2 days 8 hrs
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