CET-4 Translation Exercise: Porcelain

Please translate the following passage into English:

Porcelain is an article made of selected porcelain clay or pottery stone through technological processing. Although porcelain is developed from pottery, they are different in raw materials, glaze color and firing temperature. Compared with pottery, porcelain has a harder texture, a more transparent body and a better luster. Porcelain is called china in English, because the first porcelain was made in China. Porcelain promotes the economic and cultural exchanges between China and the outside world, and profoundly affects the traditional culture and lifestyle of other countries.

Reference translation:

Porcelain is a material made of selected porcelain clay or pottery stone through technological processing. Although porcelain is developed from pottery, they are different in raw materials, glaze and firing temperature. Compared with pottery, porcelain has stronger texture, more transparent body and better luster. It is called china in English because it is made in China. Porcelain promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between China and the outside world, and also profoundly influenced the traditional culture and lifestyle of other countries.

1. Porcelain is an article made of selected porcelain clay or porcelain stone through technological processing. Selected? Can be translated into carefully selected, the word formation of this well+adjective is: well-formed (slim structure is good), well-trained (well-trained), well-proportioned (well-proportioned); ? Process flow? Can be translated into technical process; ? Made it? Bemade from, from means you can't see the raw materials. The synonym group bemade of, of means that raw materials can be seen.

Although porcelain is developed from pottery, they are different in raw materials, glaze color and firing temperature. Compared with pottery, porcelain has a harder texture, a more transparent body and a better luster. Developed from ...? It can be expressed by develop from; ? Raw materials? Can be expressed by raw materials; What does raw mean? Raw; Raw? , can also form phrases: raw water, raw coal, raw data. ? Harder texture? Namely. Harder texture? , which can be translated as tougher texture; ? Is the body more transparent? Namely. More transparent body? , which can be translated into transparent body.

3. Porcelain has promoted the economic and cultural exchanges between China and the outside world and profoundly influenced the traditional culture and lifestyle of other countries. There are two predicate verbs in this sentence, namely promote and influences, which are connected by and. ? Economic and cultural exchanges? Economic and cultural exchanges.

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