tooironic Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:09 AM Hey guys. Recently I realised that for all my years of study my 'emotions' vocabulary is scarily limited. So I'm trying to put together an 'emotions word list' if you will. Here's the ones I need Chinese equivalents for, if you would be so kind to help: anxious / nervous insecure guilty / ashamed lonely distant worthless useless left out humiliated shy safe proud ecstatic I would use dictionaries to look them up, but you know how emotions are usually such subjective and culture-oriented things, I didn't want to translate these unless I knew for sure it was 100% correct (I wouldn't want to express the way I felt to a Chinese person only to find out I wasn't using the right emotion!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:22 AM Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:22 AM You'll get, going on past responses, better results if you offer your best guess equivalents with the help of a dictionary and then ask for help spotting the ones that can be improved upon. Of course, you might get lucky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muyongshi Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM And you have to remember that there are so many different degrees of some emotions that it's going to be hard to get your so called "correct" ones... Example: guilty/ashamed 感到耻辱，内疚，觉得不好意思 and that's just a few..there's more... But here is some more anxious nervous: 担心，提心吊胆，忧虑，紧张 And to finish off with some straight forward ones... shy-害羞 ecstatic- 激动 lonely- 孤独 Sorry, I'm working on other things so I will let others fill in the blanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted March 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM Report Share Posted March 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM useless = 没用 safe = 安全 lonely = 寂寞 nervous/tense = 紧张 My vocab is not that hot either, maybe others can add to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaVandez Posted March 5, 2008 at 03:53 AM Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 at 03:53 AM Man you should include a few happy ones too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted March 5, 2008 at 04:21 AM Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 at 04:21 AM I would use dictionaries to look them up, but you know how emotions are usually such subjective and culture-oriented things, I didn't want to translate these unless I knew for sure it was 100% correct There are a ton of sample essay and reference books for chu-zhong students and above to help them with their writing and have pages and pages on how to say these emotions, describe animals, movements and contain sample sentence...etc, you name it. Much more useful than a dictionary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hidden12345 Posted March 5, 2008 at 04:39 PM Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 at 04:39 PM heifeng, would you mind posting a few links offhand to the sites you described in your post above? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heifeng Posted March 6, 2008 at 04:45 AM Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 at 04:45 AM I don't know any exact websites, but maybe you can find something here: www.zuowen.com and here otherwise you could easily spend an hr or 2 in a book store in the childrens test prep section flipping thru and comparing books containing all the adjective you will ever need and more...if you are in China that is:mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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