These Chinglish Phrases Will Make You Confused...

College English Test Band 4 and 6 are held twice a year. 

They are optional tests but still cause some students nightmares because a good score is a prerequisite to get an interview with most companies. The translation questions in the test are always the hardest, but also provide the opportunity for the most fun. A lack of vocabulary can make for some interesting, and incredibly creative, phrases.  

So we’ve made a fun test to see if you can guess what the original meanings of the below Chinglish sentences are.

01

I go to work by popular car today.

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BUS

02

people who come from the countryside/people who plant grass

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Farmers

03

Do you have the air paper?

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Did you get the airplane ticket?

04

What do you think of 

China’s boss/ The Yellow King?

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What do you think of  the  Chinese emperors?

05

I really want to go to warm-water thing/ Gulugulu water in winter.

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I really want to go to a hot spring in winter.

06

I drink medical grass tea when I’m sick.

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I drink herbal tea when I'm sick.

07

Chinese laoban/big-money-makers?

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Entrepreneur

08

I’m gonna buy a ‘new strategy car’

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I’m gonna buy a new energy car.

09

Trying to explain a word by "Make love every day but have no baby", What is that word?

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Infertility

10

“One day is your teacher, day day is your father.”

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He who teaches me for one day is my father for life.

11

"The bird's bedroom"

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bird's habitat/Bird's nest

What other Chinglish phrases have you heard?  

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Author: Xin Leung

Editor: Crystal Huang

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