Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Chinese term or phrase:
旅館
English translation:
hotel or other accommodation for travellers seeking a place to spend the night
Added to glossary by
Roddy Stegemann
Jul 1, 2006 06:19
18 yrs ago
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Sentence: 他每天晚上去報館做事，早上回旅舘睡覺，中午到飯館去吃飯。
1st Attempt: Every evening he goes to work at the newspaper. In the morning he returns to his hotel and sleeps. For lunch he goes to a restaurant.
Question: What is a 旅舘? Does it refer to a special kind of overnight accommodation, or can it be anything from a family run motel to a major international hotel -- including such things as an overnight hot spring, country cabin, roadside lodge, youth hostel, etc.?
As always you are welcome to comment on other parts of the sentence, as well.
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1st Attempt: Every evening he goes to work at the newspaper. In the morning he returns to his hotel and sleeps. For lunch he goes to a restaurant.
Question: What is a 旅舘? Does it refer to a special kind of overnight accommodation, or can it be anything from a family run motel to a major international hotel -- including such things as an overnight hot spring, country cabin, roadside lodge, youth hostel, etc.?
As always you are welcome to comment on other parts of the sentence, as well.
http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/tsongkit/contents.html#p...
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Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | hotel |
wherestip
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| 5 +2 | The second one |
xuhuanyu
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Proposed translations
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5 hrs
Selected
hotel
It typically refers to a hotel.
As you suspected, it could range anywhere from a five-star international hotel down to a bed-and-breakfast. As with restaurants, the way to tell them apart is to add something in the front:
高级旅馆 high class hotel
小旅馆 small hotel
简陋的旅馆 flea-bag hotel
As you suspected, it could range anywhere from a five-star international hotel down to a bed-and-breakfast. As with restaurants, the way to tell them apart is to add something in the front:
高级旅馆 high class hotel
小旅馆 small hotel
简陋的旅馆 flea-bag hotel
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Final rendering: Every evening he goes to work at the newspaper. In the morning he returns to his hotel and sleeps. For lunch he goes to a restaurant.
Discussion: Please see http://homepage.mac.com/moogoonghwa/tsongkit/part2/II-9b-g.html#s18 for further discussion.
Acknowledgement: My thanks to xuhuanyu for his quick response and wherestip for his confirmatory support and examples. As the latter are always very helpful I will cast my points toward wherestip this time around.
Thanks to anastasia for her continued support and interest.
Best wishes from the land of no mountains surrounded by sea on many sides."
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38 mins
The second one
it is a place from a family run motel to a major international hotel -- including such things as an overnight hot spring, country cabin, roadside lodge, youth hostel, etc.. Sometimes, it is a place just for a overnight sleep.
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