The 12 Stages of the Burnout Cycle – Chinese Translation: Stage 02
I hope you haven’t burnt yourself out learning Chinese since the first part of this series! Here is the second stage of The Burnout Cycle translated into Chinese, this time looking at meeting your own high expectations by taking on more responsibility.
Image from the movie Pi
Stage 2 – Working harder
To meet their high personal expectations, they take on more work and buckle down. They become obsessed with handling everything themselves, which in turn demonstrates their notions of “irreplaceability.”
Vocabulary
Translation
Traditional
為了達到自己的高期望，他們會接受更多的工作並認真做。他們堅持管理所有的事情，這樣就能表現出來他們無法被替代的概念。Simplified
为了达到自己的高期望，他们会接受更多的工作并认真做。他们坚持管理所有的事情，这样就能表现出来他们无法被替代的概念。Pinyin
wèile dádào zìjǐ de gāo qíwàng, tāmen huì jiēshòu gèngduō de gōngzuò bìng rènzhēn zuò. tāmén jiānchí guǎnlǐ suǒyǒu de shìqíng, zhèyàng jiù néng biǎoxiàn chūlái tāmen wúfǎ bèi tìdài de gàiniàn.English
To meet their high personal expectations, they take on more work and buckle down. They become obsessed with handling everything themselves, which in turn demonstrates their notions of “irreplaceability.”
Note: I decided to go for ‘insist on’ (堅持) instead of ‘obsessed with’ in the Chinese version (堅持管理所有的事情) since using obsession in Chinese for this kind of thing seemed strange, though if you have a better way to translate this section please post below.
Keep an eye out next week for stage 3 of The Burnout Cycle in Chinese!
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Dave Flynn
Dave is a designer of websites, learner of Chinese and lover of technology. Originally from the UK , he's been living in Taiwan and learning Mandarin Chinese for the last four years. He founded and runs Chinese Hacks, a blog dedicated to effectively learning Chinese.
3 Comments
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Nice shot of you there Dave
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ha, the ChineseHacks lab actually quite similar to that set up
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Your vocab section translates 堅持（坚持）as “to handle; to manage”, but in the notes section this is correctly defined as “insist on”.
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