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I'm trying to translate this sentence into German and Esperanto, but it's not clear to me what a "substitute writer" is.
A scribe. Someone who writes on behalf of someone else.
When I put the Chinese sentence through the Google translator, the word "ghostwriter" is used. Here's the definition from the concise Oxford:
ghostwriter
■ noun a person employed to write material for another person, who is the named author.
Ghostwriter implies it's some sort of professional situation, for writing a book. This is just a daughter-in-law writing some letters for her husband's mother. It doesn't have to be translated as a noun here - it could be rendered as something like "stoop to writing letters for your mother."
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After a while, my father got angry and said “It seems your wife will not stoop to being a substitute writer!”
added by eastasiastudent, February 2, 2011
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