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Sentence #4400795

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becky82 becky82 January 9, 2024 January 9, 2024 at 3:02:00 AM UTC link Permalink

I think there's two issues with the Chinese 你在监狱做什么: (a) it lacks a Chinese question mark (i.e., ?), and (b) I may be wrong, but I don't believe it corresponds to the English here; I think it means "What do you do in prison?"

I would expect the Chinese for "What were you in prison for?" to be something like 你为什么在监狱里? or 你是因为什么入了狱? There's a bunch of ways of phrasing it.

DaoSeng DaoSeng January 10, 2024, edited January 10, 2024 January 10, 2024 at 1:26:24 AM UTC, edited January 10, 2024 at 1:27:48 AM UTC link Permalink

I added a tag for the question mark to be added, I unlinked the English, I added your suggested translation to the English, and I added an English translation to this sentence.

CK CK January 10, 2024 January 10, 2024 at 2:11:35 AM UTC link Permalink

@knifegod

You have several other sentences that don't have final punctuation.

You can find them all here to edit them.

https://tatoeba.org/en/activiti...es_of/knifegod

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #2643461What were you in prison for?.

你在监狱做什么

added by knifegod, July 23, 2015

linked by knifegod, July 23, 2015

unlinked by DaoSeng, January 10, 2024

你在监狱做什么?

edited by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 10, 2024

你在监狱做什么?

edited by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 10, 2024

linked by Yorwba, January 12, 2024