Please Translate

[Godezz DeBarr]

Can you please translate: Ashley Michelle Grimsley

It is a female name, everytime I look up the translation of this name and ask a native of China they say that it is wrong and give me another translation that when I show someone else they say it is wrong.

Thanks so much for your help again.

[imron]

everytime I look up the translation of this name and ask a native of China they say that it is wrong and give me another translation that when I show someone else they say it is wrong.

That is because there is no correct way to translate names. Have a read of the following two threads, which discuss some of the issues involved with "translating" English names into Chinese:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/12372-name-translation

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/10886-chinese-characters-for-names

[geek_frappa]

Can you please translate: Ashley Michelle Grimsley

You generally do not translate names. However, you can transliterate them. ... cautiously.

Cautionary tales await you here: http://www.hanzismatter.com/

[skylee]

And also the OP's own post which requests translation for another name -> http://www.chinese-forums.com/showthread.php?p=136037#post136037

[chingcc]

i think there is no standard way to translate Engllish into Chinese

try ask 10 people then u may have more than 10 different names as a result, except those common names like John, Peter

e.g. John ---> 約翰

i read many books which are translated by Taiwanese, Chinese or HongKonger, there are different translations for ONE name

e.g. Nina --- >妮娜, 麗娜; Anna ---> 安妮, 安里, 安娜

hope this helps.

[LaoZhang]

I think nice succinct way of putting it is:

There is no standard convention for writing foreign words in Chinese characters.

[WindyFire]

maybe you can translate it to 阿什莉 米歇尔 格蕾姆蕾

[neverain]

ah....don't worry about it.

if the pronounciation of those characters sounds like the original pronounciation,that's OK.