[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: “是深刻！” 博士生举起一根手指说，同时对哲学家连连点头，“我也有这个想法，但不知道如何表达，您说得太好了。”
English:

[Assistant] 'You mean profound!' the doctoral student said, raising a finger. He nodded vigorously at the philosopher. 'I had the same thought, but I didn't know how to express it. You said it so well!'


[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: 我是这么想的：假如我想证明她不是破鞋，就能证明她不是破鞋，那事情未免太容易了。
English:

[Assistant] This is what I thought: if I wanted to prove she was not damaged goods and I could, then things would be too easy.


[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: 原来我们的问题是思想淫乱，作风腐败，为了逃避思想改造，逃到山里去。
English:

[Assistant] It turned out that we were loose in morals and corrupted in lifestyle, and what was more, in order to evade thought reform, we had fled into 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: 蕊初道：“是，是！”
English:

[Assistant] 'Yes,' said Blossom in a little voice.


[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: “往高粱地里走！” 劫路人按着腰里用红布包着的家伙说。
English:

[Assistant] 'Into the sorghum field!' the highwayman said, his hand still resting on the red-bundled object at his belt.


[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: 小兄弟的武功和茅爷不是一路，不知尊师是哪一位？”
English:

[Assistant] Well, clearly you didn't learn your technique from Mr Mao. Who was your teacher?'


[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，比起另外一些人来，她还是幸运的，至少是在为理想献身的壮丽激情中死去。
English:

[Assistant] And yet, compared to some others, she was fortunate. At least she died in the throes of passionately sacrificing herself for an ideal.


[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: 爷爷把父亲从背上放下，用力摇晃着，喊叫着： “豆官！ 豆官！
English:

[Assistant] Granddad lifted Father down off his back and shook him hard. 'Douguan,' he shouted in his ear, 'Douguan!


[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: 人群散去后，她站在那里，身体和四肢仍保持着老校工抓着她时的姿态，一动不动，像石化了一般。
English:

[Assistant] After the crowd dispersed, she remained like a stone statue, her body and limbs in the positions they were in when the two old janitors had held her back.


[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: 她让我再干那件事，别戴那捞什子。
English:

[Assistant] She wanted me to do it again, telling me not 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: 结果是三条一条也不成立。 队长家确有一棕色母狗，该母狗的左眼确是后天打瞎，而我不但能持枪射击，而且枪法极精。
English:

[Assistant] Finally, none of the three requirements could be established: the team leader did have a brown dog; her left eye was indeed blinded by a shot; I could not only aim a gun but was also was an excellent marksman.


[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: 父亲知道方七有个一岁多的儿子，方七的老婆有一对葫芦那么大的奶子，奶汁旺盛，灌得个孩子又鲜又嫩。
English:

[Assistant] Father knew that Fang Seven had a year-old son, and that there was so much milk in his mother's gourdlike breasts that he was growing up fair and plump.


[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: 跟我玩去。”
English:

[Assistant] Come and play 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: 大人说也不是；孩子再问：那他们是什么？
English:

[Assistant] The adult again says no. The child asks, 'Then who are they?'


[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: 更有个呆意思存在心里。
English:

[Assistant] But there was another, zanier, notion which contributed to this attitude.


[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: 宝玉才放了心，因饭后走到薛姨妈这边来闲逛。
English:

[Assistant] Bao-yu saw that there was no further cause for concern, and after his meal drifted off to Aunt Xue's apartment in search of amusement.


[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: 她说这没关系，干吧。
English:

[Assistant] She said that shouldn't be a problem and we could still do 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: “也不可能！
English:

[Assistant] 'Also impossible!


[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: 但我只是看着他，像野猪一样看他，像发傻一样看他，像公猫看母猫一样看他。 把他看到没了脾气，就让我走了。
English:

[Assistant] But I just stared at him, like a wild boar, like an idiot, like a male cat staring at a female one, until his anger vanished under my stare. Then he let me go.


[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: 我跳起来，拿了自己的衣服，拔腿就走。
English:

[Assistant] I jumped to my feet, grabbed my clothes, and ran.


[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: 海老公道：“定是你赢了钱，神气活现的惹人讨厌，否则别人也不会找上你。”
English:

[Assistant] 'You must have been acting too pleased with yourself after your win—that's probably what annoyed 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: 眼前便是一片深蓝的天空，悬挂着一些星星。
English:

[Assistant] Looking up, he would see a sprinkling of stars suspended in the deep blue sky above.


[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: 他身上流出的血把身下的冰烫得坑坑洼洼。
English:

[Assistant] The blood from his wounds pitted the ice beneath him with its heat.


[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: 军代表找我谈话，要我写交待材料。
English:

[Assistant] The military deputy had a talk with me, asking me to write a confession.


[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: 散会以后，队长说，你这个样子不像有病。
English:

[Assistant] After the hearing, the team leader said, You don't look sick at all.


[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: 在宝叔屋里几年了?
English:

[Assistant] How many years had she been working for his Uncle Bao?


[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: 我不应该因为尖嘴婆打了我一下而存在，也不应该因为她打了我一下而不存在。
English:

[Assistant] I shouldn't come into existence simply because a vixen hit me, nor should I stop existing because she hit 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: 我就像一根待解的木料，躺在她分开的双腿中间。
English:

[Assistant] I felt like a wedge for splitting wood, lying between her widely opened legs.


[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: 她立即将这微笑接了过去，流露出感激的神情，回了一笑。
English:

[Assistant] She immediately accepted his smile, responding with a look of gratitude before smiling back at 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: 所以我在路口上站了很久。
English:

[Assistant] So I stood at the crossroads for a long 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: 两人怔了一时，康明逊就绕到床边要看孩子。
English:

[Assistant] They stood there for a moment before Kang Mingxun walked around to the other side of the bed to take a look at the baby.


[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: 这一回，连吴佩珍都看出王琦瑶想去又不说的意思了，她非但不觉得她作假，还有一种怜爱心中生起，心想她看上去是大人，其实还是个孩子呀！
English:

[Assistant] This was one occasion when even Wu Peizhen saw through Wang Qiyao. But far from belittling her friend for being phony, Wu Peizhen felt a tenderness well up in her heart. Although on the outside she looks like a grownup, deep down she is still a child! Wu Peizhen thought to herself.


[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: 这些窟窿使她产生一个希望，就是也许能向我证明，她不是破鞋。
English:

[Assistant] Those holes also made her hope she might be able to convince me she was not 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: 王琦瑶很感激窗帘上的大花朵，易时易地都是盛开，忠心陪伴的样子。 它还有留影留照的意思，是好时光的遗痕，再是流逝，依然绚烂。
English:

[Assistant] Wang Qiyao was grateful to the large flowers on the curtains, which, no matter where they were placed, remained in full bloom, faithfully retaining the glory of bygone days.


[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: 其实我并非永远是混蛋。
English:

[Assistant] Actually I'm not always a bastard.


[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: 韦小宝大叫一声，痛得蹲了下来。
English:

[Assistant] He crumpled up and fell to the ground in excruciating pain.


[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: 爷爷咬牙切齿地骂道：“老狗！
English:

[Assistant] 'You old dog!' Granddad growled through clenched teeth.


[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: 两人站起身来对视一下，又困惑地看看周围，转身走出门去。
English:

[Assistant] The two stood up and looked at each other; then glanced around, confused, and left.


[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: 我听了这话格外恼火，想把他就地掐死，又想听他说出是什么好消息以后再下手。
English:

[Assistant] Infuriated by what he said, I was tempted to choke him right on the spot, but my curiosity about the great news got 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: 汪淼点点头，比起宇宙闪烁来，他宁愿接受这个超自然。
English:

[Assistant] Wang nodded. Compared to the idea of the universe flickering, he would prefer a supernatural saboteur.


[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: 莫非小桂子是福建人？
English:

[Assistant] 'Could the real Laurie have been a Fujianese?' he wondered.


[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: 凤姐笑道：“你只管坐着罢，这是我侄儿。”
English:

[Assistant] Xi-feng laughed at her discomfiture. 'Don't mind him; just stay where you are! It's only my nephew.'


[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: 她们只得站在一旁干等。
English:

[Assistant] They had no choice but to stand off to one side and wait idly.


[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: 你年纪还小，性子浮动些，也没做了什么坏事。
English:

[Assistant] On the other hand you're still young and comparatively unformed; and so far you don't seem to have done anything particularly bad.


[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: 于是又由严师母带头，向王琦瑶敬酒。
English:

[Assistant] And so, with Madame Yan leading the way, they all toasted Wang Qiyao.


[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: “从文学角度看，《三体》也是卓越的，那二百零三轮文明的兴衰，真是一首首精美的史诗。”
English:

[Assistant] 'I like the literary elements of Three Body. The rises and falls of two hundred and three civilizations evoke the qualities of epics in a new form.'


[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: 才在蘅芜院门口儿说的，二爷也听见了，不是我撒谎。
English:

[Assistant] Come to think of it, you were there when she said that, weren't you? It was when we were outside the gate of Allspice Court. So you can bear me 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: 那些绿眼睛的狗又向尸体聚拢过来，起初还畏畏惧惧，绿眼睛里跳着惊惧的火花。
English:

[Assistant] The green-eyed dogs returned to the corpses, timidly at 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: 等她终于找到表哥的门，表哥又不在，同他合住的也是一个青年，戴着眼镜，穿的却是做工的粗布衣服，让她进屋等。
English:

[Assistant] She finally found her cousin's place, only to discover that he was not home. The young man who shared the shack with her cousin asked her in. He was wearing a pair of glasses and a set of coarse cotton clothes.


[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: 芳香的硝烟迷散进雾。
English:

[Assistant] The sweet smell of gunpowder dissipated in the mist.


[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: 贾蓉等两个常常来要银子，他又怕祖父知道。
English:

[Assistant] Jia Rong and Jia Qiang, on the other hand, came frequently to his house to ask for their money, so that he was in constant dread of his grandfather finding out about the IOUs.


[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: 今见宝玉如此光景，心中便觉察了一半，不觉把个粉脸羞的飞红，遂不好再问。
English:

[Assistant] Observing the condition that Bao-yu was in, she therefore had more than an inkling of what had happened. Abandoning her question, she busied herself with his clothes, her cheeks suffused by a crimson blush of embarrassment.


[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: 凤姐回说：“前儿新近替老太太配了药，那整的太太又说留着送杨提督的太太配药，偏偏昨儿我已经叫人送了去了。”
English:

[Assistant] 'The other day when we were making up a new lot of pills for Grandmother,' said Xi-feng, 'you told me to keep any of the remaining whole roots for a medicine you were sending to General Yang's wife. I sent her the medicine yesterday, so I am afraid we haven't any left.'


[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: 当这位物理学教授走上批判台时，他那神情分明在说：让我背负的十字架更沉重一些吧！
English:

[Assistant] When this physics professor walked onto the stage in front of the crowd, his expression clearly said: Let the cross I bear be even heavier.


[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: 这蒋丽莉是专供听你哭她活着的吗？
English:

[Assistant] Sent here to listen to you ramble on about your grievances over 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: 他姐姐叫我去。
English:

[Assistant] His sister wanted me to come get 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: 它是阴沟里的水，被人使用过，污染过的。
English:

[Assistant] It is like sewer water, used, contaminated.


[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: 她还捏过我的鼻子，因为本地有一种说法，说童男的鼻子很硬，而纵欲过度行将死去的人鼻子很软。
English:

[Assistant] She pinched my nose, for the locals believed that a virgin's nose would be very hard, and a man dying of too much sex would have a soft nose.


[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: 所以尽管严家师母有些不满足的地方，可也担待下来，做了真心相待的朋友。
English:

[Assistant] And even though Madame Yan was not satisfied, she could bear it and still treat Wang Qiyao as a true friend.


[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: 而我们，必须在行动被觉察前十秒之内，使存贮装置附近的敌人失去行动能力。
English:

[Assistant] So we must disable all enemies near the storage equipment within ten seconds of their detecting an attack.


[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: 三十多年后，我跟着哥哥在杂种高粱试验田里，与狡猾的麻雀展开过激烈坚韧的斗争。
English:

[Assistant] Three decades later, my older brother and I went into the sorghum field and engaged some crafty sparrows in a heated battle.


[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: 爷爷把左轮手枪里仅存的一颗子弹，打进了命悬一线的“痨痨四”的心窝。
English:

[Assistant] He pumped the last cartridge into the heart of the dying Consumptive Four.


[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: 韦小宝抓了一大把点心，放在怀里，走出屋去，想起茅十八与人订约比武，虽在狱中，也要越狱赴约，虽然身受重伤，仍是誓守信约，在得胜山下等候两位高手，这等气概，当真令人佩服。
English:

[Assistant] Trinket helped himself to a big handful of cakes and stuffed them inside his jacket. Then he too left the room. As he went, he found himself thinking of Whiskers' heroic stand at Victory Hill: now there was a man! Whiskers had pledged his word to fight, and nothing could have stood between him and the fulfilment of that pledge, not the walls of his prison cell, not even his own wounds.


[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: 虽然被人称做破鞋，但是她清白无辜。
English:

[Assistant] Even though people called her damaged goods, she was innocent.


[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: 这屋里你还藏不住，少时就来堆东西，等我寻个地方。”
English:

[Assistant] In the meantime you can t hide here, though, because they will shortly be coming in to store the stuff from Nanking here. I'll find somewhere else 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: 士隐送雨村去后，回房一觉，直至红日三竿方醒。
English:

[Assistant] After seeing Yu-cun off, Shi-yin went to bed and slept without a break until the sun was high in the sky next morning.


[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: 陈近南道：“你是我的第四个徒儿，说不定便是我的关门弟子。
English:

[Assistant] 'You are my fourth apprentice,' said the Helmsman, 'and probably you will be my last.


[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: 对他来说呢，也是需要有一个摩登背景衬底，真将他抛入茫茫人海，无依无托的，他的那个老调子，难免会被淹没。
English:

[Assistant] As for himself, he needed a modern backdrop to set himself off from everyone else; had he been thrown into the sea of people unattached, his old-fashioned style would have been completely drowned 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: 然后，他探身越过桌面，一把扯下了斯坦顿上校刚点燃的雪茄。
English:

[Assistant] Then he reached across the table and pulled Colonel Stanton's just-lit cigar out of his mouth.


[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: 然后，“小心火烛”的铃声便响起了。
English:

[Assistant] Soon, bells reminding people to watch their cooking fires began ringing.


[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，为了补偿，他请一个摄影的朋友，为王琦瑶拍了一些生活照，这些生活照果真情形大异，其中一张还用在了《上海生活》的封二，以“沪上淑媛”为题名。
English:

[Assistant] Later, in order to make things up to her, he had a photographer friend of his do a photo shoot for her—but this photo shoot turned into something quite extraordinary. One of the photos even made it into the inside front cover of Shanghai Life with the caption, 'A Proper Young Lady of Shanghai.'


[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: 你是哪个公公手下的？”
English:

[Assistant] Which of the Goong-goongs do you work for?'


[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: 海老公突然站起，问道：“鳌拜家有两部《四十二章经》？”
English:

[Assistant] The old eunuch jumped up in surprise. 'Did you say there were two copies at Oboi's place?'


[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: 我说过不教，便是不教，你再绕弯儿也没用。”
English:

[Assistant] The answer's no, so it's no use trying.'


[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: 原来她在医院工作，军代表要调戏她，被她打了个大嘴巴。 然后她就被发到十五队当队医。
English:

[Assistant] She used to work in the hospital, but when the military deputy tried to grope her, she gave him a big slap, and afterward, she was sent down to the fifteenth production team to work as a team doctor.


[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: 那天早晨，天空是澄彻美丽的蔚蓝色，太阳尚未出头，初冬的混沌地平线被一线耀眼的深红镶着边。 老耿向一匹尾巴像火炬般的红毛狐狸开了一土枪。
English:

[Assistant] THE SKY WAS a beautiful clear blue. The sun hadn't yet made an appearance, but the chaotic horizon on that early-winter morning was infused with a blinding red light when Old Geng shot at a red fox with a fiery torch of a tail.


[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: 虽是无根无凭，却是有情有意。
English:

[Assistant] Baseless and unreliable as these rumors may be, they are not without a certain warmth of feeling.


[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: 他一辈子都没弄清人与政治、人与社会、人与战争的关系，虽然他在战争的巨轮上飞速旋转着，虽然他的人性的光芒总是力图冲破冰冷的铁甲放射出来。
English:

[Assistant] He never did figure out the relationship between men and politics or society or war, even though he had been spun so violently on the wheel of battle. He was forever trying to squeeze the light of his nature through the chinks in his body armour.


[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: 王琦瑶说：严师母，谢谢你不嫌弃我，还来看我。
English:

[Assistant] 'Madame Yan, I really appreciate you coming to see me . . . especially after all that's happened. I was worried you would look down on me,' Wang Qiyao 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: 如其那样，还不如一死了之。
English:

[Assistant] Better to die and be done with 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: 它有些像言语的垃圾，不过，垃圾里有时也可淘出真货色的。
English:

[Assistant] It is a bit like verbal garbage, but then again one can occasionally find small treasures in the garbage.


[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: 看了她的样子，我就开始捉摸：她那件白大褂底下是穿了点什么呢，还是什么都没穿。 这一点可以说明陈清扬很漂亮，因为她觉得穿什么不穿什么无所谓。
English:

[Assistant] As I looked at her, I began to wonder what was under her white smock, whether she had something on—or nothing at all, which would show what a beautiful woman Chen Qingyang was because she believed that it didn't really matter whether or not she wore underwear.


[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: 你千万别让人惦记上。
English:

[Assistant] You should never let other people keep you in mind.


[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: 余占鳌看他一眼，立即认出，老头人称“高丽棒子”，以杀狗为业。
English:

[Assistant] Yu Zhan'ao recognised him as the Korean dog butcher they called Gook.


[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: “是啊，微不足道。” 汪淼附和道。
English:

[Assistant] 'Yes, insignificant,' Wang mumbled.


[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: 忽听他房中嚷起来，大家侧耳听了一听，黛玉先笑道：“这是你妈妈和袭人叫唤呢。
English:

[Assistant] Just then a sudden commotion arose from the direction of Bao-yu's room, and the three of them stopped talking and turned their heads to listen. Dai-yu was the first to speak: 'That's your Nannie quarrelling with Aroma,' she 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: 西走一阵，又往北走，直奔我奶奶的名义丈夫单扁郎的村庄。
English:

[Assistant] After walking west for a while, he turned north, heading straight for the village where Grandma's nominal husband lived.


[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: 最后只剩了一个人。
English:

[Assistant] Finally there was only one person left.


[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: 这是无可怀疑的事。
English:

[Assistant] There was no doubt about 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: 一日到了中秋佳节，士隐家宴已毕，又另具一席于书房，自己步月至庙中来邀雨村。
English:

[Assistant] But then the Mid Autumn festival arrived and, after the family convivialities were over, Shi-yin had a little dinner for two laid out in his study and went in person to invite Yu-cun, walking to his temple lodgings in the moonlight.


[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: 她还不知道。
English:

[Assistant] She had yet to figure that 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: 就有人冲上台去，用细麻绳把她五花大绑，她就这样站在人前，受尽羞辱。
English:

[Assistant] Then someone would rush onto the stage and bind her into the loops of a five-petal knot with thin hemp twine. She stood like this in front of the crowd, submitting herself to all the shame and insults.


[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: 他打了一个战，肚子咕噜噜响一阵。
English:

[Assistant] He shivered. His stomach growled.


[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: 只要看那服装店就知道了，墙上，货架上，柜台里，还有门口摊子上挂着大甩卖牌子的，一代流行来不及卖完，后一代后两代已经来了，不甩卖又怎么办？
English:

[Assistant] You could tell this by looking at the clothing shops where advertisements for markdowns were posted all over the walls, shelves, and counters—even the stalls outside. Before the last season's clothes had sold out, they were two steps behind the latest fashion, which had already arrived. What choice was there but to run constant sales and markdowns?


[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: 吴佩珍自然是雀跃，浮想联翩，转眼间，已经在策划为王琦瑶开记者招待会了。 王琦瑶听她聒噪，便又后悔告诉了她。
English:

[Assistant] Wu Peizhen naturally jumped for joy as all kinds of wild ideas went flying through her head. In no time she was talking about organizing press conferences for Wang Qiyao, who regretted telling her friend about the screen test.


[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: 他还没有女朋友。
English:

[Assistant] Old Colour was still without a girlfriend.


[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: 王琦瑶从镜子里看见自己的形象，觉得自己的脸是那么小，五官是那么简单，不会有奇迹发生的样子，不由颓丧起来。
English:

[Assistant] Seeing herself reflected in the mirror, Wang Qiyao could not help feeling that her face was small and her features plain—she realized that a miracle would not occur—and this depressed 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: 于是我就坐上牛车，到总场医院去看病。
English:

[Assistant] So they carried me to the ox cart and sent me to the hospital at the farm headquarters.


[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: 这样，三颗卫星和一套地面观测设备同时证实了一件事：宇宙在闪烁！
English:

[Assistant] The three satellites and the ground-based observatory confirmed one fact: The universe was flickering.


[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: 见麝月一人在外间屋里灯下抹骨牌。
English:

[Assistant] Only Musk was left in the outer room, playing Patience under the lamp with a set of dominoes.


[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: 她提到二百零三轮文明，而汪淼经历的是一百九十一轮，这让汪淼再次确信了一点：《三体》对每个玩家都有一个独立的进程。
English:

[Assistant] She mentioned 203 civilizations, but Wang had only experienced 184. This told Wang that Three Body progressed independently for each player, possibly with different worlds.


[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: 父亲和爷爷手上，沾满了粘乎乎的血。
English:

[Assistant] Father's and Granddad's hands were covered with sticky blood.


[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: 雨村忙笑道：“不敢，不过偶吟前人之句，何期过誉如此。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Oh no!'Yu-cun smiled back deprecatingly. 'You are too flattering. I was merely reciting at random from the lines of some old poet.


[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: 他痛苦地祈望着日本人怒冲冲的脸，大声哭起来。
English:

[Assistant] He looked imploringly into the enraged Japanese face and began to wail.


[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: 那天晚上我请陈清扬来吃鱼，所以应该在下午把鱼弄到手。
English:

[Assistant] I had invited Chen Qingyang over to eat fish with me that night, so I was supposed to catch fish in the 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: 我心中正有个难题，好久拿不定主意，原来小兄弟果然不是给净了身，做了太监！”
English:

[Assistant] 'If you haven't been mutilated and you aren't a eunuch, this suggests a way out of a difficulty that has been bothering me for some 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: 宝玉无精打彩，只得依他。 晃出了房门，在回廊上调弄了一回雀儿，出至院外，顺着沁芳溪，看了一回金鱼。
English:

[Assistant] Bao-yu followed her advice, albeit half-heartedly, and went out into the courtyard. After visiting the cages in the gallery and playing for a bit with the birds, he ambled out of the courtyard into the Garden and along the batik of Drenched Blossoms Stream, pausing for a while to look at the goldfish in the 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: 他听到奶奶骂他是个恶狼崽子，跟那个恶狼爹是一样的畜牲。
English:

[Assistant] She lashed out at him, calling him a wolf cub, as mean as his wolf of a father.


[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: 你问他作什么？”
English:

[Assistant] Why do you ask?'


[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：“死约会不见不散，大丈夫一言既出，…… 马难追。” 这“驷马难追”的“驷”他总是记不住，只得随口含糊带过。 小玄子哈哈大笑，说道：“不错，大丈夫一言既出，…… 马难追。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Live or die! Excellent kungfu! My word is my wand!' cried Trinket, and Misty burst out laughing. 'It certainly is!'


[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: 在车站上陈清扬说，这篇材料交上去，团长拿起来就看。
English:

[Assistant] At the train station, Chen Qingyang told me when she submitted this confession, the regimental commander read it immediately.


[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: 从此空空道人因空见色，由色生情，传情入色，自色悟空，遂改名情僧，改《石头记》为《情僧录》。
English:

[Assistant] As a consequence of all this, Vanitas, starting off in the Void (which is Truth) came to the contemplation of Form (which is Illusion); and from Form engendered Passion; and by communicating Passion, entered again into Form; and from Form awoke to the Void (which is Truth). He therefore changed his name from Vanitas to Brother Amor, or the Passionate Monk, (because he had approached Truth by way of Passion), and changed the title of the book from The Story of the S tone to The Tale of Brother Amor.


[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: 所以我向她要求此事时就说：老兄，咱们敦敦伟大友谊如何？
English:

[Assistant] So whenever I asked her for sex, I would say, Old pal, how about strengthening our great friendship 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: 它周围是一片剑麻地，剑麻总是睛绿色，剑麻下的土总是鲜红色。
English:

[Assistant] A patch of sisal hemp, a perennial dark green in color, surrounded the house, but the clay underneath was red.


[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: 时间还早，一会回来放你们。
English:

[Assistant] It's still early. I'll come back after a while and then let you two leave.


[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: 陈清扬当时二十六岁，就在我插队的地方当医生。
English:

[Assistant] That year Chen Qingyang was twenty-six and a doctor who happened to work where 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: 韦小宝笑道：“呸，你不会摔交！”
English:

[Assistant] 'You're hopeless!' cried Trinket with a grin. 'You obviously don't know the first thing about wrestling.'


[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，我很年轻时就饿纹入嘴，眼睛下面乌黑。
English:

[Assistant] Chen Qingyang said my mouth had lines around it even when I was very young, and dark circles always showed under my 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: 后来它哞了一声跑开了，只剩我们两人。
English:

[Assistant] Later it lowed and ran away, leaving the two of us alone there.


[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: 潘寒没有说话，那种兴奋的光芒又在双眼中亮起来。
English:

[Assistant] Pan said nothing. That glint of excitement appeared in his eyes 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: 墨水河盛产的白鳝鱼肥得像肉棍一样，从头至尾一根刺。 它们呆头呆脑，见钩就吞。
English:

[Assistant] The white eels of the Black Water River, like plump sausages with tapered ends, foolishly swallowed every hook in 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: 唉，叶老师要在就好了，她在这方面造诣很深。”
English:

[Assistant] Well, it would be much better if Professor Ye were here. She accomplished a lot in this 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: 片厂的经验确是不寻常的经验，它带有一些人生的含义。
English:

[Assistant] Time spent in a film studio is never humdrum; the experience always hints at life's greater meaning.


[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: 好二爷，你既拣了，给我罢，我看他拿什么谢我。”
English:

[Assistant] Oh Mr Jia, please let me have it if you've picked it up and I'll be able to see what she will give me for 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: 说到这里，叹道：“可惜我身子越来越不成了，恐怕不能再等。
English:

[Assistant] He sighed again. 'Unfortunately my health is getting so bad that I doubt if I can wait that long.


[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: “我们还没有惊动‘审判日’号，这艘巨轮目前仍以合法的身份行驶在大西洋上，它已向巴拿马运河管理局提出申请，将于四天后通过运河。
English:

[Assistant] 'We haven't yet done anything to draw the suspicion of Judgment Day. The ship still sails the Atlantic freely. It has already submitted plans to the Panama Canal Authority to pass through the canal in four days.


[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: 余占鳌说：“劫路的都说家里有八十岁的老母。” 他退到一边，看着轿夫和吹鼓手，像狗群里的领袖看着群狗。
English:

[Assistant] 'Every highwayman says he's got an eighty-year-old mother at home,' Yu Zhan'ao said as he stepped aside and glanced at his comrades, like the leader of a pack sizing up the other dogs.


[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: 两边又有一副对联道：
English:

[Assistant] A couplet in smaller characters was inscribed vertically on either side of the arch:


[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: 她在一边看着，面带惊恐之状。
English:

[Assistant] She looked back at this with a surprised and fearful expression.


[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: 瘦小女人说，她的声音尖尖的，仿佛时刻都带着一种不知从何而来的惊恐。
English:

[Assistant] The thin woman's voice was sharp, as though she was always frightened of something.


[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: 韦小宝点头道：“沐王府要行刺这姓吴的小汉奸？”
English:

[Assistant] Trinket nodded. 'They've come to assassinate the Little Traitor, you mean?'


[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: 不知过了多久，那个天文馆的工作人员出来了，问汪淼看完了没有。
English:

[Assistant] He didn't know how long he stayed there. The planetarium staffer finally emerged and asked him whether he was done.


[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: “上帝是不存在的，一切宗教，都是统治阶级编造出来的麻痹人民的精神工具！” 口号平息后，那个小女孩儿大声说。
English:

[Assistant] Once the slogans died down, the girl shouted, 'God does not exist. All religions are tools concocted by the ruling class to paralyze the spirit of the 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: 就在这时，响起了敲门声，开门后叶文洁首先看到哨兵，他身后有几支松明子的火光在寒风中摇曳着，举火把的是一群孩子，他们脸冻得通红，狗皮帽上有冰碴子，进屋后带着一股寒气。
English:

[Assistant] Just then, someone knocked on her door. When she opened it, Ye first saw the guard, and then, behind him, the fire of several pine branch torches flickering in the cold wind. The torches were held aloft by a crowd of children, their faces bright red from the cold, and icicles hung from their hats. When they came into her room, they seemed to bring the cold air in with them.


[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: 我又说，你怎知我有投机倒把问题？
English:

[Assistant] Again I asked, How do you know I had a speculation problem?


[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: 一面说，一面出神，想了一回，方笑道：“是了，前儿晚上莺儿拿了去了。”
English:

[Assistant] She thought a bit, then laughed at herself as she remembered: 'Of course. Oriole took it, the evening before last.'


[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: 这就像是旧景重现，却想不起是何时何地的旧景。
English:

[Assistant] A powerful sense of déjà vu gripped her, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not remember where she had seen this scene before.


[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: 只是左等不见人影，右听也没声响，心中害怕，不住猜疑道：“别是不来了，又冻我一夜不成？”
English:

[Assistant] Yet, though he waited and waited, not a human shape appeared nor a human sound was heard, and he began to be frightened and a little suspicious: 'Surely she won't fail me? Surely I shan't be made to spend another night in the cold...?'


[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: 那男孩扑上去扠住他头颈，喝道：“投不投降？”
English:

[Assistant] The boy leapt astride him, pinned his head to the floor, and cried: 'Well! Surrender?'


[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: 大家对这种明火执仗的破鞋行径是如此的害怕，以致连说都不敢啦。
English:

[Assistant] People were so afraid of this kind of damaged-goods behavior in broad daylight that they didn't even dare talk about 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: 那贾芸口里只得顺着他说。
English:

[Assistant] Jia Yun did his best to keep up with 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: 余司令说：“你好大的命！”
English:

[Assistant] 'The heavens have smiled on you,' Commander Yu 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: 因此，这次任务十分困难，有人甚至认为是不可能完成的。”
English:

[Assistant] Thus, this is a very difficult task. Some think it's impossible.'


[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: 那片山上没人，刘大爹躺在床上要死了。
English:

[Assistant] There was nobody else on that part of the mountain, and Grandpa Liu lay on his deathbed.


[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: 天边起了一片云，惨白惨白，翻着无数死鱼肚皮，瞪起无数死鱼眼睛。
English:

[Assistant] A cloud came over the horizon, pale as countless dead fish bellies turned up and countless dead fish eyes gaping.


[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: 宝玉才走上来，要扳他的身子，只见黛玉的奶娘并两个婆子却跟进来了，说：“妹妹睡觉呢，等醒来再请罢。”
English:

[Assistant] Bao-yu went over intending to turn her back again, but just at that moment Dai-yu's old wet-nurse came hurrying in with two other old women at her heels: 'Miss Lin's asleep, sir. Would you mind coming back again after she's woken 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: 那文士道：“不错。
English:

[Assistant] 'It does,' said the man.


[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: “3K眼镜？”
English:

[Assistant] 'Three-K 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: 不知究竟如何？”
English:

[Assistant] What was it, exactly, that brought you here?'


[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: 程先生的泪渐渐止了，坐在那里不作声。
English:

[Assistant] Mr. Cheng gradually stopped crying and sat in silence.


[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: 史强说完，站在那里等了几秒钟，举起双手对着还没有反应过来的人们说：“完了，就这些。” 说完转身走出了会场。
English:

[Assistant] After Shi Qiang finished speaking, he stood and waited a few seconds. Then he raised his hands, said to the stunned crowd, 'That's it,' turned, and left.


[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: 她说着做女人的道理，有关青春的短暂和美丽。
English:

[Assistant] She spoke eloquently about how a woman must treasure her youth and beauty, which would disappear before she knew 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: 它们又敢把皇帝拉下马，也不以共和民主的面目，而是痞子的作为，也是典型的下三烂。
English:

[Assistant] They wouldn't hesitate to pull the emperor down off his horse—not in order to install a new republic, but merely as an act of defiance.


[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: “没关系，我已经没有放射性了。” 史强对坐在旁边的汪淼说，“这两天，我让人家像洗面口袋似的翻出来洗了个遍。
English:

[Assistant] 'Don't worry,' Shi Qiang said to Wang, as he sat down next to him at the meeting table. 'I'm not radioactive anymore. The last couple of days they've washed me inside and outside like a flour sack.


[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: 宝玉笑道：“好丫头!
English:

[Assistant] 'Good girl!' said Bao-yu.


[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: 是历史！ 是历史了！” 粗壮女人兴奋地对叶文洁挥着一只大手说，“现在是新时期了，谁还会记得我们，拿咱们当回事儿？
English:

[Assistant] The thickset woman waved an arm excitedly at Ye. 'History! History! It's a new age now. Who will remember us? Who will think of us, including 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: 韦小宝心道：“老甲鱼捉小甲鱼！” 可是毕竟不敢说出口，眼珠骨溜溜的乱转，寻思脱身之计。 海老公坐在他床沿上，轻轻的道：“你胆大心细，聪明伶俐，学武虽然不肯踏实，但如果由我来好好琢磨琢磨，也可以算得是可造之材，可惜啊可惜。”
English:

[Assistant] 'Turtle yourself!' thought Trinket, but didn't dare say it out loud. His eyes were darting all round him, looking for some means of escape; but the old eunuch sat himself down beside him on the bed and began addressing him in a low, almost mournful voice. 'You're bold but not careless,' he said. 'You're a sharp, intelligent lad. You haven't shown much willingness to exert yourself, but if I could have taken you in hand and knocked you into some sort of shape, you might have made quite a promising little fighter. It seems such a pity.'


[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: 拍电影的窍门懂得了不少，知道那拍摄完全不是按着情节的顺序来的，而是一个镜头一个镜头分别拍了，最后才连成的。
English:

[Assistant] They learned quite a few inside secrets about filmmaking. They learned that movies are never shot in sequence, but are made one scene at a time and only edited together in the final stages.


[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: 黛玉啐道：“我难道叫你远他? 我成了什么人了呢?
English:

[Assistant] 'Whatever do you take me for? Do you think I want you to be any less close to her because 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: 没必要做的事就别做。
English:

[Assistant] Things unnecessary to do shouldn't be done.


[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: 他在扬州看白戏倒也看得多了，不过戏台上的那些太监，服色打扮跟海老公、老吴他们全然不同，手中老是拿着一柄拂尘挥来挥去，唱的戏文没一句好听。
English:

[Assistant] In Yangzhou he'd seen all sorts of plays, but the eunuchs on stage were never dressed anything like Old Hai, or his new gambling friend Wu. And the stage eunuchs always held those long horsehair fly-whisks, and kept waving them around in the air. And anyway, he had never understood a word of what they were singing.


[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: 虽然活了四十多岁，眼前还是奇妙的新世界。
English:

[Assistant] Even though she had lived more than forty years, the world before her eyes still appeared miraculous and new.


[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: 她用不灵活的手把痕迹掸掉，只掸了前面，掸不了后面。
English:

[Assistant] She tried to flick the ashes off with her stiff fingers, but could only do the front, not the back.


[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: 忽见周瑞家的笑嘻嘻走过来，点手儿叫他。
English:

[Assistant] Just at that moment Zhou Rui's wife appeared, her face all wreathed in smiles, and advanced towards Grannie Liu beckoning.


[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: 上午登记结婚，下午离婚。
English:

[Assistant] So we registered to get married in the morning and divorced in the 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: 海老公点了点头，咳嗽了几声，道：“前几年练功夫，练得走了火，惹上了这咳嗽的毛病，越咳越厉害，近年来自己知道是不大成的了。”
English:

[Assistant] The old eunuch nodded and coughed for a bit. 'A few years ago I overtaxed my body in some way while I was training. It brought on this cough which just seems to get worse and worse. This last year I've begun to realize there's no hope 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: 说着拄着拐一径去了。 小红听说，便站着出神，且不去取笔。
English:

[Assistant] She hobbled off on her stick, leaving Crimson standing there in a muse, her mission to fetch the tracing-brush momentarily forgotten.


[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: 我想证明我自己的清白无辜，只有以下三个途径：1、队长家不存在一只母狗；2、该母狗天生没有左眼；3、我是无手之人，不能持枪射击。
English:

[Assistant] Three things could have proved my innocence: 1. The team leader had no dog; 2. The dog was born blind in the left eye; 3. I'm a man with no hands who can't aim a gun.


[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: 爷爷把睡着走的我父亲背起来，用一只受伤的胳膊，一只没受伤的胳膊，揽住我父亲的两条腿弯子。
English:

[Assistant] Granddad hoisted Father, who was asleep on his feet, onto his back and wrapped his arms – one healthy, the other injured – around Father's legs.


[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: 海老公道：“他们会问你，到上书房干什么，你就说人望高处，盼望见到皇上，能够在上书房当差。
English:

[Assistant] 'If they ask you why you want to go to the Upper Library, you say that you're longing for a glimpse of His Majesty, so you just want a chance to perform some little errand there.


[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: 韦小宝大怒，翻滚过去，用力抱住了男孩的双腿，使劲拖拉，那男孩站立不住，倒了下来，正好压在韦小宝身上。
English:

[Assistant] Trinket was furious. He came tumbling back, wrapped both arms round the boy's legs, and tugged at him with all his might. The boy crashed down right on top of 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: 只听空中叫道：“谁叫他自己照了正面呢!
English:

[Assistant] But just at that moment a voice was heard in the air saying, 'Who told him to look in the front?


[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: 父亲应声弹起，与罗汉大爷抢过去，每人抓住一面早就铺在地上的密眼罗网的两角，把一堆螃蟹抬起来，露出了螃蟹下的河滩地。
English:

[Assistant] Father sprang into action before the shout died out, snatching two corners of the tightly woven net they'd spread on the ground beforehand; they raised it in the air, scooping up a layer of crabs and revealing a clear spot of riverbank beneath them.


[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“老克腊”这种人，到八十年代，几乎绝迹，有那么三个五个的，也都上了年纪，面目有些蜕变，人们也渐渐把这个名字给忘了似的。
English:

[Assistant] By the eighties, people who fell into the category of 'Old Colour' were virtually extinct. The surviving handful were all fairly advanced in age, their erstwhile shape completely transformed; eventually even the term itself was forgotten.


[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: 照我的看法，每个人的本性都是好吃懒作，好色贪淫，假如你克勤克俭，守身如玉，这就犯了矫饰之罪，比好吃懒作、好色贪淫更可恶。
English:

[Assistant] In my opinion, craving good food and aversion to hard work, together with lust for beauty and sex, make up a human being's basic nature. If you were a hard worker who lived a frugal and chaste life, you would commit the sin of hypocrisy, which was more disgusting than greed, sensuality, or laziness.


[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: 他自己住一个三层阁，将棕绷放在地上，唱机也放在地上，进去就脱了鞋，席地而坐，自成一统的天下。
English:

[Assistant] He himself occupied the third-floor tingzijian: his palmwood cot lay on the floor along with his record player. As soon as he entered his room, he would take off his shoes and, sitting on the bare floor, enter into his own little universe.


[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: 一切都是浓烈和温热的：铺着厚厚乌拉草的火坑、铜烟锅里的关东烟和莫合烟、厚实的高粱饭、六十五度的高粱酒…… 但这一切，又都在宁静与平和中流逝着，像屯子边上的小溪一样。
English:

[Assistant] Everything was warm and intense: the heated kang stove-beds lined with thick layers of ura sedge, the Guandong and Mohe tobacco stuffed in copper pipes, the thick and heavy sorghum meal, the sixty-five-proof baijiu distilled from sorghum—all of these blended into a quiet and peaceful life, like the creek at the edge of the village.


[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: 有人让我鉴定走私表，我说值多少就值多少。
English:

[Assistant] Some of them let me appraise the smuggled watches. Whatever the value I suggested, that would be the price, the watch would be worth that much.


[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: 房间里四个人有三个人在哭，真是乱得可以。 康明逊忍不住说：王琦瑶还在月子里，不能伤心的。
English:

[Assistant] Of the four people in the room, three were now in tears. Aghast at the chaos, Kang Mingxun felt impelled to say, 'It is less than a month since Wang Qiyao gave birth. She should still be resting and we should try not to make her upset.'


[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: 陈清扬从山上背柴回来，撩起衣裳，露出极壮硕的乳房，不分青红皂白，就给其中一个喂奶。
English:

[Assistant] When Chen Qingyang would come down from the mountain with firewood on her back, she would pull up her clothes, revealing her full and firm breasts, and, without making any distinction, feed one of the babies.


[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: 说着自己便出房来。 出了怡红院，一径往宝钗院内来。
English:

[Assistant] She left the room and walked out of the gate of Green Delights and in the direction of Bao-chai's courtyard.


[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: 宝玉道：“何苦来?
English:

[Assistant] 'Oh, really, really!


[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: 它们是那些正经话的作了废的边角料，老黄叶片，米里边的稗子。
English:

[Assistant] Gossip is made up of fragments discarded from serious conversations, like the shriveled outer leaves of vegetables, or grains of sand in a bag of rice.


[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: 结果真的在龙潭湖庙会上见到了我。
English:

[Assistant] Subsequently, she did run into me at Dragon-Lair Lake Temple Fair.


[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: 吕留良气愤道：“清廷皇帝倘若将我捉到北京，拼着千刀万剐，好歹也要痛骂他一场，出了胸中这口恶气，才痛痛快快的就死。”
English:

[Assistant] Lü Liuliang looked angry. 'Let the Tartar Emperor have me arrested and carried off to Peking!' he said. 'If I could curse him to his face and get rid of some of the anger that is pent up inside me, I think I should die happy, even though it meant having the flesh cut slice by slice from my bones!'


[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: 这时好像不那么冷了，四下里传来牛铃声。
English:

[Assistant] It didn't feel that cold anymore, and the sound of buffalo bells floated all around.


[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: 那蓉大爷才是他的侄儿呢。
English:

[Assistant] Now Master Rong, he is her real nephew. That's the sort of person a lady like that calls 'nephew' .


[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: 上面说，这样写太简单， 叫我重写。
English:

[Assistant] But it came down from above that what I wrote was too simple, and they asked me to start 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: 陈清扬按捺不住好奇心，终于扔下一切，上山找我来了。
English:

[Assistant] Unable to overcome her curiosity, Chen Qingyang finally dropped everything and went up the mountain to look 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: 方家就断了香火啦……”
English:

[Assistant] Fang family line ended. . . .'


[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: 还是要站一个至高点，再找一个好角度：弄堂里横七竖八晾衣竹竿上的衣物，带有点私情的味道；花盆里栽的凤仙花、宝石花和青葱青蒜，也是私情的性质；屋顶上空着的鸽笼，是一颗空着的心；碎了和乱了的瓦片，也是心和身子的象征。
English:

[Assistant] To return to the highest point in the city and look down on it from another angle: clothes hanging out to dry on the cluttered bamboo poles hint at the private lives and loves that lie hidden beneath. In the garden, potted balsams, ghost flowers, scallions, and garlic also breathe the faint air of a secret affair. The empty pigeon cage up on the roof is an empty heart. Broken roof tiles lying in disarray are symbols of the body and soul.


[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: 老爵士乐里头的时间，确是个好东西，它将东西打磨得又结实又细腻，把东西浮浅的表面光泽磨去，呈现出细密的纹路，烈火见真金的意思。
English:

[Assistant] The passage of time associated with those old jazz records was indeed a good thing; it had smoothed things out until they were strong and fine, rubbing off the superficial layers to reveal the inner grain, like gold emerging when the fire has burned away the dross.


[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: 我们待在穷乡僻壤里，真是叫天天不语，叫地地不应啊。”
English:

[Assistant] We were stuck in those forgotten villages and no one cared about us at all.'