[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 总舵主纵然博知广闻，“老乌龟”是谁，却也不知，问道：“老乌龟？”
English:

[Assistant] 'The Old Devil?' The Helmsman's vast knowledge did not encompass any practitioner with that nom de guerre.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 汪淼说着发动了车子。
English:

[Assistant] Wang started the engine.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 亏了绊住，不然，早就飞了来了。”
English:

[Assistant] 'I thought something must have been detaining you. Otherwise you would have come flying here long since.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那男孩见他突然现身，脸上又缠了白布，微微一惊，但听他说来陪自己玩，登时脸现喜色，道：“好，你上来！”
English:

[Assistant] The other boy's first reaction was one of alarm, at the sight of this strange apparition with its head swathed in bandages. But alarm quickly turned to delight when he realized that he had found a sparring partner. 'Very well!' he replied. 'On guard!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 程先生觉着自己像躺在水里似的。
English:

[Assistant] Bathed in the moonlight, Mr. Cheng had the sensation that he was lying in water.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 余占鳌看看死人，又看看活人，一语不发。
English:

[Assistant] Yu Zhan'ao looked wordlessly first at the dead, then at the living.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那贾芸一面走，一面拿眼把小红一溜；那小红只装着和坠儿说话，也把眼去一溜贾芸：四目恰好相对。 小红不觉把脸一红，一扭身往蘅芜院去了。
English:

[Assistant] His eyes sought Crimson's; and hers, as she made pretence of conversing with Trinket, sought his. Their two pairs of eyes met and briefly skirmished; then Crimson felt herself blushing, and turning away abruptly, she made off for Allspice Court.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 杀人如麻的爷爷，打死“痨痨四”之后，左轮手枪掉在地上，他的胳膊像死蛇一样垂着，再也无力抬起来了。
English:

[Assistant] Though killing had become a way of life for Granddad, he dropped his arm to his side and let it hang there like a dead snake; the pistol fell to the ground.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 化妆室的光是充足的平均分配的光，没有抑扬顿挫，看上去都有些平铺直叙的。
English:

[Assistant] The harsh, unmodulated light of the dressing room made everything appear commonplace.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我有个宝贝与你，你天天看时，此命可保矣。”
English:

[Assistant] However, I have a precious thing here that I can lend you which, if you will look at it every day, can be guaranteed to save your life.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 只见贾蔷跑来叫：“快走，快走！”
English:

[Assistant] Just then Jia Qiang came running up: 'Hurry! hurry! You can go now.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 一时小童进来，雨村打听得前面留饭，不可久待，遂从夹道中自便门出去了。
English:

[Assistant] After a while the boy came in again and Yu-cun elicited from him that the visitor in the front room was now staying to dinner. It was obviously out of the question to wait much longer, so he slipped down the passage-way at the side of the house and let himself out by the back gate.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “再给我一支。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Give me another one.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叶文洁的第一印象就是，与当年的整齐划一相比，她们之间的差异变大了。
English:

[Assistant] The first impression Ye had was that, though the three had once seemed to be carved out of the same mold, they now looked very different from each other.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 陈清扬说，她到我的小草房里去时，想到了一切东西，就是没想到小和尚。
English:

[Assistant] Chen Qingyang said, when she went to my little thatched hut, she thought about everything except the little Buddha.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 一做坏事，师父你就在我头上这么一抓，这么一搓。
English:

[Assistant] 'I wouldn't want my Shifu to crunch my head up!


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他们如能进宫来将小郡主救出去，那么连鞑子皇帝也能绑架去了。 天下决没这个道理。
English:

[Assistant] If they could get in to do that, they could just as well get in to carry off the Tartar Emperor, and they've never tried to do that yet because they know it's out of the question.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “大哥…… 快点吧……
English:

[Assistant] 'Elder brother . . . do it now. . . .


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 有一段时间，气氛还好，人家说，问题清楚了，你准备写材料。
English:

[Assistant] For a while the atmosphere was not bad. They said my problem was pretty clear and all I needed to do was to write confessions.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 于是派人到云南外调，花了一万元差旅费，终于把它拿了出来。
English:

[Assistant] So they sent someone to Yunnan to investigate her case, spent over ten thousand yuan on the trip, and finally removed all the confessions from the file.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 爷爷甩甩头，把四十九颗大小不一的水珠甩出去，如扬撒了一片珍珠。
English:

[Assistant] Granddad shook his head, sending forty-nine drops, large and small, flying like so many pearls.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 总算他记得茅十八的教训，而与小玄子的扭打只是游戏，并非拼命，什么拗手指、拉辫子、咬咽喉、抓眼珠、扯耳朵、捏阴囊等等拿手的成名绝技，倒也一项没使。
English:

[Assistant] But for one reason or another (partly Whiskers' lecture, partly because this was, after all, only 'play-fighting' and not in deadly earnest) he didn't avail himself of a single one of the dubious tricks at which he excelled: the finger-twist, the pigtail-pull, the throat-bite, the eye-poke, the ear-yank, the grip-o'-the-balls.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 比方说，别人说我和陈清扬搞破鞋，这就是存在的证明。
English:

[Assistant] For example, others believed that Chen Qingyang had slept with me and that proved my existence.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “打倒一切反动学术权威！！”
English:

[Assistant] 'Down with all reactionary academic authorities!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 公公，你当真厉害。”
English:

[Assistant] 'You think of everything, Goong-goong, don't you!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 很快，纳米丝存在的第二个迹象出现了，而这险些让汪淼彻底崩溃。
English:

[Assistant] Soon, there was a second sign indicating the presence of the nanofilaments, a sign that almost made Wang break down.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我在那里交待问题，把什么都交待了。
English:

[Assistant] I confessed my errors there, making a clean breast of everything.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 你说这四样礼物，可难得不难得?
English:

[Assistant] Don't you think it was clever of them to get me those things?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 当时是下午两点钟，可是她像那些午夜淫奔的妇人一样，脱光了内衣，只穿一件白大褂，赤着脚走进山来。
English:

[Assistant] It was only two o'clock in the afternoon, but she took off her underwear, like women who sneak out for sex at midnight, and wore only a white smock, walking barefoot in the mountains.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 李力世道：“茅兄，你是客人，不用这么客气。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Mao, old fellow,' said Brother Li, 'you don't need to wait out here with us. You're our guest.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这会子有人，我也没精神了。”
English:

[Assistant] I've got company now, and besides, I don't feel in the mood to tell you.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 四十年前的这道光环，也像王琦瑶的人一样，不尽人意地衰老了。 这道光环，甚至还给王琦瑶添了年纪，给她标上了纪年。
English:

[Assistant] The aura surrounding the beauty pageant, no less than Wang Qiyao herself, had also faded after forty years, and it only served to date her by revealing her age.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 为了验证这不争的事实，慰问团来的那一天，我从山上奔了下去，来到了座谈会的会场上。
English:

[Assistant] To prove the indisputable fact, I went down the mountain the day the relief delegation arrived and took part in the delegation's hearing.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝道：“死也不降。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Never!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 大远的诚心诚意来了，岂有个不叫你见个真佛儿去的呢？
English:

[Assistant] After you've made such a long pilgrimage, we won't let you go home without seeing a real Buddha!


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他们对叶文洁都很敬重，在她面前彬彬有礼。
English:

[Assistant] They all treated Ye with great respect and were very polite toward her.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 汪淼一小时后到达市内，他在新天文馆前下了车。
English:

[Assistant] An hour later, Wang arrived at the new planetarium and got out of the car.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那东西傻头傻脑，恬不知耻，见了它，她就不禁怒从心起。
English:

[Assistant] It looked silly and shameless, and whenever she saw him, she just couldn't help getting angry.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 阿弥陀佛，那时才现在我眼里呢！”
English:

[Assistant] Ah, Holy Name! I think I can thee that blethed day already before my eyeth!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 原先的期待是有些落空，但那期待里的紧张却释然了。
English:

[Assistant] Her initial hopes may have been dampened, but the anxiety that came with anticipation had been relieved.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 等我“快”了以后，阵阵震颤就像从地心传来。
English:

[Assistant] I sped up and waves of vibration passed through me as if from the earth's core.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 当地人不喜欢避孕套，说那东西阻断了阴阳交流，会使人一天天弱下去。
English:

[Assistant] The locals didn't like to use condoms, holding that condoms block exchange between yin and yang and gradually weaken people.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 接着，一块红盖头蒙上来了，眼前陡地暗了。
English:

[Assistant] The next thing she knew, a crimson bridal veil came down over her head. Suddenly everything was swathed in darkness.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她觉得带刀很气派。
English:

[Assistant] She thought it was charming to carry a knife with her.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 汪淼迫不及待地抓过激光打印机吐出的第一张纸，用一枝铅笔划过曲线，将波峰问的距离与他刚拿出来的那张莫尔斯电码表对照起来。
English:

[Assistant] Wang grabbed the first page as soon as it came out of the laser printer, and, with a pencil, began to match the distance between the peaks with the Morse code chart he took out of his pocket.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 片厂里的神奇在光里聚集和等候着。
English:

[Assistant] All the mystery and grandeur of the film studio hung suspended in the light shimmering outside her veil.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 每次阉牛我都在场。
English:

[Assistant] I was present every time they castrated the bulls.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “你们不该忏悔吗？”
English:

[Assistant] 'Don't you think you should?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 流言总是鄙陋的。
English:

[Assistant] Gossip is base.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 后来，王琦瑶从屋角走出来想是要去洗手间。
English:

[Assistant] Eventually Wang Qiyao got up from the corner to go to the restroom.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝点点头。
English:

[Assistant] Trinket nodded.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 还不快去呢！”
English:

[Assistant] Then the thing to do is to go somewhere else, isn't it?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 海老公又道：“在上书房中偷书，手脚可得干净利落，假如让人瞧见了，你便有一百条性命也不在了。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Now,' went on Old Hai, 'if you go stealing books from the Upper Library, you've got to be very smart, very careful. If anyone spots you, you're as good as dead. A hundred times over.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 不料那和尚道士来过，用不着一切男人，贾芸仍种树去了。
English:

[Assistant] Then, after the monk's visit, the presence of the menfolk was no longer required and Jia Yun went back to his tree-planting.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那道人道：“原来近日风流冤家又将造劫历世，但不知起于何处？
English:

[Assistant] 'Well, well, so another lot of these amorous wretches is about to enter the vale of tears,' said the Taoist. 'How did all this begin?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 至于大家为什么要说你是破鞋，照我看是这样：大家都认为，结了婚的女人不偷汉，就该面色黝黑，乳房下垂。
English:

[Assistant] As for why they say you're damaged goods, in my opinion it's because of this: People generally agree that if a married woman hasn't cheated on her husband, her face must be leathery, and her breasts must sag.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 天地会事务繁重，我没功夫再收弟子。
English:

[Assistant] The Triad Society keeps me so busy that I don't have much time for apprentices.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我说：什么道儿？
English:

[Assistant] What trick?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 走上前去，抓住她右耳，提了三下，又捏住她鼻子，扭了两下，哈哈大笑。
English:

[Assistant] He grasped her right ear and gave it a few pulls, then he pinched her nose between finger and thumb and twisted it a couple of times, laughing as he did so.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 所以，他也离不开这个群体，虽然是寂寞的，但要是离开了，就连寂寞也没有，有的只是同流合俗。
English:

[Assistant] Therefore Old Colour had to run with that crowd, lonely as he may have been. If he had left, he would have lost even the distinction of being lonely—he would have simply disappeared among the teeming masses.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 要不要我教你？”
English:

[Assistant] Want me to teach you?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我就一直躺着。
English:

[Assistant] So I had no choice but to stay put.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 其中有静默的间隙，便听见那教书的局促的呼吸声，带了一股胸腔里的啸音，是哮喘的症状。
English:

[Assistant] Whenever there was a lull in the show, she heard a faint whistling sound coming from the man as he breathed.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 下午三四点的太阳有点人意阑珊的，风贴着地吹，吹起她们的裙摆。
English:

[Assistant] It was three or four o'clock, the sunlight was waning and the wind picked up, rustling their skirts.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这件事叫人困惑的原因就在这里。
English:

[Assistant] That's what confused people.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “哦，那就对了。
English:

[Assistant] 'Ah, makes sense.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝道：“是，是。” 心想：“你只要再说一遍，我便过一百年也不会忘记。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Yes, Goong-goong!' piped Trinket, thinking to himself, 'Just say it once, and I'll never forget it, not in a hundred years!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 屋脊连绵起伏，横看成岭竖成峰的样子。
English:

[Assistant] The rooftop ridges rise and fall, extending into the distance; viewed from the side, they form an endless mountain range, and from the front, a series of vertical summits.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 后来我写，我和陈清扬有不正当关系，我干了她很多回，她也乐意让我干。
English:

[Assistant] Later on I wrote that Chen Qingyang and I had an indecent relationship, and that I had screwed her many times, and she liked being screwed by me.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 有几回，表哥不在片厂，她们便直接找他。
English:

[Assistant] A few times, when Wu Peizhen's cousin was not in the studio, they even went straight to look for the director.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 像这样有老虎天窗的弄堂，也是有些不同凡响的心曲，那硬是被挤压出来的，老虎天窗就是它的歌喉。
English:

[Assistant] In these longtang with the dormer windows, the songs of the heart have quite a distinctive sound, and the dormer windows are the throats through which the songs are forced out.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那是一部佛经，叫做《四十二章经》，这部经书模样挺旧的，一共有好几本，你要一起拿来给我。
English:

[Assistant] It's a Sutra, called the Sutra in Forty-Two Sections. It's very old. There are several copies of it. Just bring them all to me.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 你说谁不好，我替你打他。
English:

[Assistant] If anyone has been misbehaving, you have only to tell me and I'll have them beaten for you.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 绍琳凭着这个背景，在这知识分子重新得到礼遇的时候，很快青云直上。
English:

[Assistant] Based on this background, Shao Lin also rose quickly as intellectuals became favored again.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他还组织人力，要捉我和陈清扬的奸。
English:

[Assistant] He also arranged for people to trail Chen Qingyang and me, trying to catch us in the act of adultery.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这条斜坡好长，韦小宝直滚出十余丈，这才停住。
English:

[Assistant] The slope was a long one and Trinket must have rolled a dozen yards or more before his body came to rest.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 可是我过二十一岁生日时没有预见到这一点。
English:

[Assistant] However, that idea never crossed my mind on my twenty-first birthday.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那期待是茫茫然的，方向都不明，有什么未知在酝酿和发展，终于会有果实似的。
English:

[Assistant] Something was fomenting, she felt, from which something might just develop.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我在交待材料里写道，那时我放开她的腿，把她脸上的头发抚开。
English:

[Assistant] In my confession I wrote: I let go of her legs and parted the hair on her face.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “爹，咱的家没了……” 父亲说。
English:

[Assistant] 'Dad, our house is gone. . . .' Father said.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝道：“是！”
English:

[Assistant] 'Yes, sir,' said Trinket.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 今忽见他一夜不归，只料定他在外非饮即赌，嫖娼宿妓，那里想到这段公案? 因此也气了一夜。
English:

[Assistant] Seeing him now suddenly absent himself a whole night from home, and being incapable, in his wildest imaginings, of guessing what had really happened, he took it as a foregone conclusion that he had been either drinking or gaming and had probably passed the night in some house of prostitution --- a supposition which caused the old gentleman to spend the whole night in a state of extreme choler.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 红岸自译解系统的一名研制者移民到欧洲，去年写了一本书，你所说的传说大多来自于那本书，据我了解是真的。
English:

[Assistant] One of the researchers who developed the deciphering system for the Red Coast Project emigrated to Europe and wrote a book last year. Most of the rumors you hear came out of that book.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “足够了，”沙瑞山挥手打断了汪淼的话，“那你就应该知道，与我们观测的不同部分的微小不均匀不同，宇宙整体辐射背景波动是随着宇宙的膨胀，在宇宙时间尺度上缓慢变化的，以Planck卫星的精度，直到一百万年后都未必能测出这种变化，你却想在今天晚上发现它百分之五的波动？！
English:

[Assistant] 'That's more than enough,' Sha interrupted, waving his hands. 'Then you must know that unlike the local variations we observe in different parts of the universe, the overall fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background is correlated with the expansion of the universe. It's a very slow change measured at the scale of the age of the universe. Even with the sensitivity of the Planck satellite, continuous observation for a million years might not detect any such shift. But you want to see a five percent fluctuation tonight?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 显然，一个专家的尊严，不允许他对这种违反专业常识的观测表现出过多的兴趣。
English:

[Assistant] The dignity of a specialist did not allow Sha to express too much interest in a request that clearly went against his professional knowledge.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他的老虎天窗开出去就是一片下斜的屋瓦，夏天有时候他在屋瓦上铺一张席子，再用根背包带系了腰，拴在窗台上，爬出去躺着。
English:

[Assistant] Outside his dormer window was a slanted portion of the roof. Occasionally, during the summer, he would climb out the window with a backpack, spread a mat out over the roof tiles, and, tying himself to the windowsill with a rope around his waist, spend the evening lying outside.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 蕊初点了点头。 韦小宝这才慢慢放开了左手，目不转睛的瞧着海老公。
English:

[Assistant] When she nodded to show that she understood, he slowly withdrew the hand from her mouth, though all the time keeping his eyes on the old eunuch.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叫什么？”
English:

[Assistant] Now—what's it called?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 寻思：“你死也不肯睁眼，难道我便输了给你？
English:

[Assistant] It was by now obvious that she would die sooner than open her eyes for him, but he was damned if he was going to admit defeat.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 父亲跟着爷爷走过因天空的灰暗而变得明亮起来的公路，在路东边那片同样被扫射得七零八落的高粱地里，翻看着那些东一个西一个的弟兄们。
English:

[Assistant] Father followed Granddad across the road, into the sorghum field to the east, which had also been swept by machine-gun fire. They turned over the bodies of more soldiers lying strewn across the ground.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “什么志和什么道呢？”
English:

[Assistant] 'What ideals do we have in common, exactly?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她女儿产生时，我已经离开云南了。
English:

[Assistant] When her daughter was conceived, I had already left Yunnan.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 不管怎么说，那也是她的黄金时代，虽然那时她被人叫作破鞋。
English:

[Assistant] After all, it was also her golden age, even though she was called damaged goods.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 要是那会儿加上高粱白粉和枪子药就好啦……”
English:

[Assistant] If I'd known to add some white sorghum powder and gunpowder, everything would have been fine. . . .'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 据说我这个二奶奶也不是盏省油的灯，奶奶惧她五分——这都是以后一定要完全彻底说清楚的事情——二奶奶为我生过一个小姑姑。
English:

[Assistant] Everyone said that this second grandma of mine was no economy lantern, and that Grandma was afraid of her, but this is something I'll clear up later. Second Grandma eventually had a girl by Granddad.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 爷爷兴奋地大叫：“刘大号！”
English:

[Assistant] 'Bugler Liu!' Granddad called out excitedly.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 虽然化了装，人家还是一眼就认出我来。
English:

[Assistant] Although I was dressed like a Thai, he still recognized me on sight.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 爷爷翻看着他们，父亲看到他们被打断了的腿和打破了的小腹。
English:

[Assistant] When Granddad turned them over, Father saw that their legs had been broken and their bellies slit open.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 山上那些阿伧铁匠打刀刃比我好，可是要比在刀上刻花纹，没有任何人能比得上。
English:

[Assistant] Those Ahcang blacksmiths on the mountain were better than me at forging blades, but for etching designs on a knife no one could match me.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝道：“我睡不着，到花园里走走。”
English:

[Assistant] 'I can't get to sleep,' said Trinket. 'I thought I'd walk around in the garden for a bit.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 弟每谓兄必非久居人下者，今所吟之句，飞腾之兆已见，不日可接履于云霄之上了。
English:

[Assistant] 'I have always insisted that you were a young fellow who would go up in the world, and now, in these verses you have just recited, I see an augury of your ascent. In no time at all we shall see you up among the clouds!


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 有人走过来，整理她的衣服，又走开了，带来一阵风，红盖头动了一下，抚着她的脸，是这一下午的紧张里的一个温柔。
English:

[Assistant] Someone came and straightened out her clothing and then quickly walked off set. The air whisked against her as he passed by. The crimson veil fluttered a bit, for a moment softening the anxieties of that afternoon.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这城市的夜晚总有着出其不意，每一点动静都不寻常。
English:

[Assistant] All kinds of odd things happened in the night in this city.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 清廷之意甚恶，晚村兄名头太大，亭林兄和小弟之意，要劝晚村兄暂且离家远游，避一避风头。”
English:

[Assistant] 'The Manchu Court has obviously got it in for us. You are too well known. Gu and I both think that you ought to leave here — for the time being, at any rate. Find somewhere away from here where you can shelter from the storm, '


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我敢打赌直到世界末日它也是条绿直线，要看到它显现肉眼看得到的变化，可能比看太阳毁灭还要等更长的时间。”
English:

[Assistant] I would bet that it's going to stay a flat green line until the end of the world, though. If you want to see it show the kind of fluctuation observable by the naked eye, you might have to wait until long after the death of the sun.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 吹鼓手如梦方醒，在轿后猛地吹响了大喇叭，大喇叭说：
English:

[Assistant] The musicians, as though snapping out of a trance, struck up their instruments. A trumpet blared from behind the chair:


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他说知道我没净身，要是来给我净身，那可乖乖龙的东……”
English:

[Assistant] I hope he doesn't think he's going to purify me. Holy ding-a-ling dongs!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 人家只好把这个东西放进了我们的档案袋。
English:

[Assistant] They had no choice but to place it into her file.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那小孩道：“所以‘问鼎’、‘逐鹿’便是想做皇帝。
English:

[Assistant] 'So 'asking about the cauldrons' and 'chasing the deer' both mean wanting to be Emperor, ' said the boy.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “爹，你说话呀，爹，你吃饼呀，吃了饼你去喝点水，你不吃不喝会渴死饿死的。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Say something, Dad. Eat that fistcake, then drink some water. You'll die if you don't eat or drink.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叶哲泰沉默着，他在忍受着头上铁高帽和胸前铁板带来的痛苦，不值得回应的问题就沉默了。
English:

[Assistant] Ye remained silent. Enduring the pain brought by the heavy iron hat and the iron plaque hanging from his neck, he had no energy to answer questions that were not worth answering.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 据我看来：第一件，无朝代年纪可考， 第二件，并无大贤大忠、理朝廷、治风俗的善政，其中只不过几个异样女子，或情或痴，或小才微善，我纵然抄去，也算不得一种奇书。”
English:

[Assistant] But as far as I can see (a) it has no discoverable dynastic period, and (b) it contains no examples of moral grandeur among its characters—no statesmanship, no social message of any kind. All I can find in it, in fact, are a number of females, conspicuous, if at all, only for their passion or folly or for some trifling talent or insignificant virtue. Even if I were to copy all this out, I cannot see that it would make a very remarkable book.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 忽然间一股巨大的快感劈进来。
English:

[Assistant] Just then a huge surge of orgasm sliced through her body.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝心道：“原来你学过武功，怪不得打你不过。
English:

[Assistant] Trinket engaged in a quick moment's reflection: 'Misty has obviously had lessons—that's why he keeps getting the better of me.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 天是那么蓝，阳光是那么亮，天上还有鸽子在飞。
English:

[Assistant] The sky was so blue, the sunshine so bright, and there were pigeons flying around in the sky.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 好危险，差一点爱上你。”
English:

[Assistant] I was just on the edge—I almost fell in love with you at that moment.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 是太后和皇上吩咐去取的，否则的话，我拿来给了你，别人也未必知道。”
English:

[Assistant] 'We were told to look for them by the Empress Dowager; otherwise I could have brought them to you without anyone knowing.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 其实这一天王琦瑶并非有事，也并非对片厂没兴趣，这只是她做人的方式，越是有吸引力的事就越要保持矜持的态度，是自我保护的意思，还是欲擒故纵的意思？
English:

[Assistant] Wang Qiyao did not, in fact, have any prior engagement, nor was she as reluctant as she appeared; this was simply the way she conducted herself—the more interested she was in something, the more she held back. This was her means of protecting herself—or then again, was it part of a strategy of disarming an antagonist by pretending to set her free?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 小红道：“既是进来，你老人家该别和他一块儿来；回来叫他一个人混碰，看他怎么样！”
English:

[Assistant] 'Any way, if he does come in,' said Crimson, ignoring her question, 'you can't just bring him in and then leave him, Mrs Li. You'll have to take him back again yourself afterwards. You don't want him wandering off on his own. There's no knowing who he might bump into.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 平儿听了，便作了个主意：“叫他们进来，先在这里坐着就是了。”
English:

[Assistant] Patience at once made up her mind what to do. 'Let them come in here. They can sit here while they are waiting.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这么一分担，两头便达到平衡，友情逐日加深。
English:

[Assistant] Thus an equilibrium of give-and-take was maintained between the two girls and they grew closer by the day.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 李嬷嬷道：“我有那样大工夫和他走!
English:

[Assistant] 'Gracious me! I haven't got that much spare time,' said Nannie Li.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那小孩道：“那个小女孩还在吃奶，难道也犯了罪么？
English:

[Assistant] That girl's only a baby,' said the boy. 'What can she possibly be guilty of?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 奶奶舒适地站着，云中的闪电带着铜音嗡嗡抖动，奶奶脸上粲然的笑容被分裂成无数断断续续的碎片。
English:

[Assistant] Grandma stood confidently; lightning crackled in the clouds overhead and shattered her radiant smile into a million shifting shards.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叶哲泰说，在受到如此重击后，他的口气还如此从容，这让绍琳很吃惊，也很恐惧。
English:

[Assistant] His tone, so calm and collected, surprised and frightened Shao Lin.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 好婶子，只当可怜我罢！”
English:

[Assistant] Come on, Auntie, be a sport! Just for my sake!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 它最是没有野心，没有抱负，连头脑也没有的。
English:

[Assistant] These are creatures without ambition, holding out no hopes; in fact, they do not even have the ability to think.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 后来他又说，今天他有一个特大好消息，要向大家公布。 但是他又不说是什么，只说我和我的“臭婊子”陈清扬今后的日子会很不好过。
English:

[Assistant] After a while, he said he had wonderful good news to announce later that day, but wouldn't reveal what it was except that 'the rotten whore' Chen Qingyang and I were going to have a really hard time from now on.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 闭上眼睛，回想茅十八在酒馆中跟满洲武士打架的手法，却模模糊糊的记不明白，不禁有些懊悔：“茅大哥要教我武艺，我偏不肯学，这一路上倘若学了来，小玄子力气虽比我大，又怎能是我对手？
English:

[Assistant] He lay there, trying to remember Whiskers' fight with the wrestlers in the tavern. He wished he could remember the details more clearly. 'If only I'd taken old Whiskers up on his offer! With him as my teacher I could have learnt a thing or two on the way up here, and then I could have put Misty in his place—even though he is stronger than I am.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 再说，只消做得几件坏事，师父你这手功夫便不能传授徒儿了。”
English:

[Assistant] And besides, if I did do a few bad things, and you did crunch me up, with me gone, who'd there be to pass on your secrets!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 《石头记》缘起既明，正不知那石头上面记着何人何事， 看官请听——
English:

[Assistant] The origin of The Story of the Stone has now been made clear. The same cannot, however, be said of the characters and events which it recorded. Gentle reader, have patience!


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “确实与我无关，”绍琳的丈夫冷冷地点点头，“我是在转达你母亲的意思。”
English:

[Assistant] 'You're right,' Shao Lin's husband said coldly. 'I'm only passing on a message from your mother.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 因为是本人写的，交还本人。
English:

[Assistant] Since she was the author, they returned them to her.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 海老公倘若手指没给割断，韦小宝滚下斜坡之声自然逃不过他耳朵，只是他重伤之余，心烦意乱，加之做梦也想不到这小鬼中了自己这一掌竟会不死，虽然听到声音，却全没想到其中缘由。
English:

[Assistant] If the old eunuch had not been so distracted by pain, he would probably have heard something; though so certain was he that the boy was dead, that even if he had, he would probably have attributed the sound to some other cause.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 外曾祖父后来又说单家公子饱读诗书，足不出户，白白净净，一表人材。
English:

[Assistant] Later on, Great-Granddad told her that the well-educated Shan boy had the fair complexion of a young scholar from staying home all the time.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 贾瑞叫道：“让我拿了镜子再走——”
English:

[Assistant] He cried out as they dragged him: 'Wait! Let me take the mirror with me . . .!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 别的批判对象戴的高帽子都是用竹条扎的框架，而他戴的这顶却是用一指粗的钢筋焊成的，还有他挂在胸前的那块牌子，也不是别人挂的木板，而是从实验室的一个烤箱上拆下的铁门，上面用黑色醒目地写着他的名字，并沿对角线画上了一个红色的大叉。
English:

[Assistant] Other victims wore tall hats made from bamboo frames, but his was welded from thick steel bars. And the plaque he wore around his neck wasn't wooden, like the others, but an iron door taken from a laboratory oven. His name was written on the door in striking black characters, and two red diagonals were drawn across them in a large X.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “这东西现在在哪儿？”
English:

[Assistant] 'Where can I find these glasses?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她再也不想理会别的事，而且在那一瞬间把一切都遗忘。
English:

[Assistant] She no longer cared about anything else, and at that moment she had forgotten everything.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 因为他们都不要，所以都发泄在陈清扬身上了。
English:

[Assistant] Since they didn't want my friendship, I unloaded all of it on Chen Qingyang.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叶文洁听到耳边的一声啼哭，她吃力地转过脸，看到了婴儿粉嘟嘟、湿乎乎的小脸儿。
English:

[Assistant] Ye heard a cry next to her. Turning her head with great effort, she saw the baby's pink, wet, little face.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 贾蓉喜的眉开眼笑，忙说：“我亲自带人拿去，别叫他们乱碰。” 说着便起身出去了。
English:

[Assistant] Delighted with his good luck, Jia Rong hurriedly forestalled her. 'I'll get some of my own people to carry it. Don't put yours to a lot of trouble!' and he hurried out.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他一面胡扯，一面偷看小郡主的脸色，见她睫毛不住颤动，显然又是愤怒，又是害怕。
English:

[Assistant] All the time he was gabbling this nonsense, her eyelids never ceased to flutter. He could tell that she was both very angry and very frightened.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他们各自和舞伴悠然走步，有时目光相遇，便会心地一笑，带着些邂逅的喜悦。
English:

[Assistant] During the next number, they each danced with their respective partners but their eyes occasionally met, whereupon they exchanged a knowing smile, lit up with the joy of this chance meeting.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她的眼睛是漠然警觉的表情，使程先生觉着自己是个陌生人，就退回到沙发上，重新看报纸。
English:

[Assistant] There was alarm in her eyes and a distant look that made Mr. Cheng feel like a stranger. He retreated to the sofa and went on with reading his newspaper.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 其实这六个人中，汪淼有两个已经认识。
English:

[Assistant] Actually, of the six, Wang already knew two.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 据此也该打，何况是撒谎！”
English:

[Assistant] That in itself would constitute sufficient grounds for chastisement. But in addition to that you are lying!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她的出身、来历已被岁月的沙尘深深掩埋。
English:

[Assistant] The sands of time had long since interred her origins and background.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 父亲常走这条路，后来他在日本炭窑中苦熬岁月时，眼前常常闪过这条路。
English:

[Assistant] Father had taken this path so often that later on, as he suffered in the Japanese cinder pit, its image often flashed before his eyes.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝自言自语：“原来这臭花娘嫌自己脸蛋儿不美，想要我在她脸上装扮装扮，好，我先刻一只乌龟！”
English:

[Assistant] 'I see,' said Trinket, pretending to be talking to himself. The little tart knows she's not good-looking. She's decided she wants a bit of decoration on her face to improve her looks. All right, then. I'll carve the turtle first.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 当下父子二人走进书房。
English:

[Assistant] Indoors the two of them went, and into his study.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 叶哲泰的出现使下面的人群兴奋起来，刚才已有些乏力的口号声又像新一轮海潮般重新高昂起来，淹没了一切。
English:

[Assistant] His appearance excited the crowd. The shouting of slogans, which had slackened a bit, now picked up with renewed force and drowned out everything else like a resurgent tide.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 一阵倦意上来，他推推搡搡地回到方才的圣坛，像一堵墙壁样囫囵个儿倒下，呼呼噜噜地睡过去。
English:

[Assistant] Feeling suddenly weary, he pushed his way through the sorghum and returned to the sacred altar, where he collapsed like a toppled wall and fell into a sound sleep.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这两人则是什么也听不见了。
English:

[Assistant] But Wang Qiyao and Kang Mingxun didn't even notice.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 雨村饮干，忽叹道：“非晚生酒后狂言，若论时尚之学，晚生也或可去充数挂名。
English:

[Assistant] Yu-cun drained the cup, then, surprisingly, sighed: 'Don't imagine the drink is making me boastful, but I really do believe that if it were just a question of having the sort of qualifications now in demand, I should stand as good a chance as any of getting myself on to the list of candidates.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: “汪先生，您…… 不是搞这个专业的吧？”
English:

[Assistant] 'Mr. Wang, I take it you're not a specialist in the field?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 看完了面红耳赤，就像你的小和尚。
English:

[Assistant] And after he finished reading his face was red all over, just like your little Buddha.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 你们自己以假为真，为何烧我此镜？”
English:

[Assistant] It is you who are to blame, for confusing the unreal with the real! Why then should you burn my mirror?'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 一切法律书上都是这么写的。
English:

[Assistant] So it is written in all the law books.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 总舵主没想到他会问及此事，微微一笑，道：“赌钱虽不是好事，会规倒也不禁。
English:

[Assistant] The Helmsman was unprepared for a question of this nature. 'Gambling is not a good thing,' he said with the faintest of smiles, 'but there is nothing in the rules which forbids it.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 韦小宝本来脸皮甚厚，倘若旁人如此称赞，便即跟着自吹自擂一番，但在这位不怒自威的总舵主面前，竟然讷讷的不能出口。
English:

[Assistant] Although Trinket had enough cheek to shame the devil and would normally, if anyone else had praised him like this, have treated it as an excuse to show off, he found himself, in the presence of this Helmsman with his gentleness and his air of quiet authority, completely tongue-tied.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 不在话下。 这里贾芸随着坠儿逶迤来至怡红院中，坠儿先进去回明了，然后方领贾芸进去。
English:

[Assistant] Our narrative now follows Jia Yun and Trinket along the winding pathway to the House of Green Delights. Soon they were at the courtyard gate and Jia Yun waited outside while she went in to announce his arrival. She returned presently to lead him inside.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 在此之前不久，我还借了罗小四的汽枪，用一碗绿豆做子弹，在空粮库里打下了二斤耗子。
English:

[Assistant] To make matters worse, I'd borrowed an air rifle from Luo Xiaosi not long before the incident, and using a bowl of mung beans as bullets, killed a couple of pounds of mice in an empty granary.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 在这种时候，我又觉得用不着去证明自己是存在的。
English:

[Assistant] At those moments, I felt it was unnecessary to prove my existence.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 雨村起身也让道：“老先生请便。
English:

[Assistant] Yu-cun rose to his feet too. 'Please do not distress yourself on my account, sir.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 说着，便叫紫鹃说：“姑娘醒了，进来伺候。”
English:

[Assistant] Nightingale! Come inside now! Your mistress is awake.'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 而我可能不是敌人。
English:

[Assistant] It was possible that I was not her enemy.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这些大都是年轻人的聚会上，王琦瑶总是很识时务地坐在一边，却让她的光辉为聚会添一笔奇色异彩。
English:

[Assistant] These were mostly parties for young people, and, knowing her own place, Wang Qiyao would usually sit off to one side. Nevertheless, her elegance would still add a touch of distinction to the party.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 它蚕食般地一点一点咬噬着书本上的记载，还像白蚁侵蚀华厦大屋。
English:

[Assistant] Like woodworm, it slowly chews up the books and records, eating away magnificent buildings like an army of termites.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 听见他们说，如今上了年纪，越发怜贫恤老的了，又爱斋僧布施。
English:

[Assistant] They say that now she's getting on in years she's grown even more charitable and given to good works than she was as a girl.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我跟小玄子商量，他说你在下毒害我……”
English:

[Assistant] 'I asked Misty about it and he told me you were trying to poison me . . .'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 今儿我明明已骑在他身上，只不过他力气大， 翻了过来。
English:

[Assistant] I had him on the ground today, it's just that he was too strong for me: he managed to buck me off.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 后来我知道，父亲对你讲了善意的谎言，他与爱因斯坦只有过一次短得不能再短的交流。
English:

[Assistant] Later, I found out that your father had told you a white lie. He and Einstein had only one very brief conversation.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 几只灰溜溜的狗躺在墙犄角里小心翼翼地叫着。
English:

[Assistant] A few grey dogs barked tentatively.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 她在黑漆漆的房间里睁着眼，心想：片厂是个什么地方呢？
English:

[Assistant] She opened her eyes in the pitch-dark bedroom and wondered: Just what kind of place is this film studio anyway?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 但按照概率来说，人多了也会沙里淘金地出现精英。
English:

[Assistant] But with so many people, the probability of someone extraordinary showing up was also quite high.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 还有来请上门去打针的，那样的话，她们便提一个草包，装着针盒、药棉，白布帽和口罩，俨然一个护士的样子，去了。
English:

[Assistant] Once in a while, when someone requested a house call, they hurried off in white cap and surgical mask. Lugging a straw bag containing the needles and medicinal cotton, they looked very much like professional nurses as they scurried down the street.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他们说站在单家院子外，就能闻到一股烂肉臭味，单家的院子里，飞舞着成群结队的绿头苍蝇……
English:

[Assistant] He said the stench of rotten flesh drifted beyond the Shan compound, which swarmed with horseflies. . . .


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 夏末秋初，阳光茂盛，轿夫们轻捷的运动使轿子颤颤悠悠，拴轿杆的生牛皮吱吱地响，轿帘轻轻掀动，把一缕缕的光明和比较清凉的风闪进轿里来。
English:

[Assistant] Summer was giving way to autumn, and the sunlight outside the sedan chair was brilliant. The bouncing movements of the bearers rocked the chair slowly from side to side; the leather lining of their poles groaned and creaked, the curtain fluttered gently, letting in an occasional ray of sunlight and, from time to time, a whisper of cool air.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 罗小四说前几天你还开会斗争过他，尖嘴婆打了他一板凳，差点把他打死。
English:

[Assistant] Luo Xiaosi said, Just a few days ago you called a meeting to denounce him, and the vixen hit him with a stool and almost killed him.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 我和陈清扬连在一起，好像两只海豚一样。
English:

[Assistant] Chen Qingyang and I were connected, just like a pair of dolphins.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那天晚上我在后山上抽烟。
English:

[Assistant] I smoked on the back slope of the mountain that night.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 后面宝钗黛玉见凤姐儿这般，都拍手笑道：“亏他这一阵风来，把个老婆子撮了去了。”
English:

[Assistant] Watching this sudden exit, Bao-chai and Dai-yu laughed and clapped their hands: 'How splendid! Just the sort of wind we needed to blow the old woman away!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 谁能证明我搞了破鞋？
English:

[Assistant] Who could prove I did?


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这摆设和画，是沉稳的色调，酱黄底的，是真正的华丽，褪色不褪本。
English:

[Assistant] The painting was done in somber hues, with a dark yellow base; it had true distinction, and even though the colors were faded, its value had appreciated.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 父亲转身时看到了趴在河水边，用鲜血流红了一片河的王文义的小个女人。
English:

[Assistant] As he spun around, his eyes settled on the tiny figure of Wang Wenyi's wife lying at the edge of the river, the blood from her wounds staining the water around her.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 周瑞家的听了道：“嗐! 我的老老，告诉不得你了!
English:

[Assistant] 'Oh Grannie, you have no idea!' said Zhou Rui's wife.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 婚期终于到了，奶奶被装进了这乘四人大轿，大喇叭小唢呐在轿前轿后吹得凄凄惨惨，奶奶止不住泪流面颊。
English:

[Assistant] Finally, to her relief, her wedding day arrived, and as she was placed inside the sedan chair, carried by four bearers, the horns and woodwinds fore and aft struck up a melancholy tune that brought tears to her eyes.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 那李嬷嬷脚不沾地，跟了凤姐儿走了，一面还说：“我也不要这老命了，索性今儿没了规矩，闹一场子，讨了没脸，强似受那些娼妇的气！”
English:

[Assistant] Unable to hold her ground, the old Nannie was borne off in Xi-feng's wake, muttering plaintively as she went: 'I wish I was dead, I really do! But I'd sooner forget meself and make a scene like I have today and be shamed in front of you all than put up with the insolence of those shameless little baggages!'


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 这件事待放下又放不下，待要问去又怕人猜疑。
English:

[Assistant] Though Crimson could still not dismiss the matter entirely from her mind, she did not ask anyone about it for fear of arousing their suspicions.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 要是他回来时我不在，司务长也不能包庇我。
English:

[Assistant] If I were not here by the time the military deputy returned, he couldn't cover for me.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 王文义不敢叫了。
English:

[Assistant] Wang Wenyi didn't dare make a sound.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 他应该随时随地看住我，可是天一黑我就不见了。
English:

[Assistant] He was supposed to keep an eye on me every minute, but I disappeared as soon as it got dark.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 所以我还是戴着那捞什子。
English:

[Assistant] That was why I continued to wear the rubber thing.


[System] You are a helpful assistant that translates Chinese to English.

[User]
You will be given a Chinese sentence to translate. If it is an incomplete sentence, or if you are unsure about the meaning, simply copy the input text as your output. Do not output any additional sentence such as explanation or reasoning.

Chinese: 晒台和阳台，还有窗畔，都留着些窃窃私语，夜间的敲门声也是此起彼落。
English:

[Assistant] Echoes of secret whispers linger around the flat roof, the balcony, and the windows. At night, the sounds of rapping on the doors rise and fall in the darkness.