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Usage 1 - "boy":
Sentence:
朋友的孩子是一个奇怪的男孩。
English:
[Our] friend's child is a strange boy.
Top-Down Words:
奇怪 qíguài - strange; odd
Sentence:
男孩不要用瓶子打女孩。
English:
Boys shouldn't hit girls with a bottle.
Top-Down Words:
瓶子 píngzi - bottle
*Sentence:
但是有个小男孩说,他想成为超人。
English:
But a little boy said he wants to become Superman.
Top-Down Words:
超人 chāorén - superman
成为 chéngwéi - to become, to prove to be
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Jerod Cox
Hey guys, sorry I was translating this sentence, 男孩不要用瓶子打女孩, in my flashcard session this morning and was wondering why it is translated as "Boys shouldn't use bottles to hit girls." versus "Boys don't want/desire to use bottles to hit the girls."? Thanks for everything.
Mandarin Blueprint
Hey Jerod,
Good question, 不要 can be translated as "do not want," but it's also a synonym for 别 or "don't." In this context, because the speaker is making a general statement about boys and girls and not talking about a specific boy or girl, then "shouldn't" is a reasonable translation.
If I were saying, for example, 小王, 不要用瓶子打女孩, it would translate as "Xiaowang, don't use bottles to hit girls," because in that case we're talking about a specific person (小王) and not just "boys in general 男孩."
MB Team
This is where Luke and Phil talked about your question in the Mandarin Blueprint Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sti0orPioGI&t=4040s