Glossary entry

Chinese term or phrase:

好评

English translation:

Recommended

Added to glossary by Thomas McConochie
Dec 15, 2018 23:15
5 yrs ago
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Chinese term

好评

Chinese to English Marketing Tourism & Travel Customer Reviews
This comes from customer feedback from a client's website. The client, paradoxically, wants me to reflect the source text as closely as I can, but also translate content so it reads fluently.

Could other translators please share your thoughts on translating usages of "好评" when the term is being given as part of a "好评" ("positive evaluation")? I am transalting the term freely as "I recommend it" or something to that effect because I don't think native speakers of English would say "positive evaluation" as a stand-alone comment within a paragraph of feedback. What do you think?

Source:
客栈环境很不错,老板很热情,办理入住非常方便,房间宽敞明亮,打扫的干干净净,家具很有特色,好评!
Translation:
The inn has a really nice environment. The boss is really nice and checking in is very convenient. The rooms are spacious and bright and they're kept really clean. The furnishings have a lot of character. I recommend it!

Proposed translations

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Recommended

A native English speaker would end such a review simply with ", recommended!"

In this way the "positive evaluation" is implied (I.e. I recommend it as I have a positive evaluation of the hotel)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for your suggestion and explanation. I agree that "Recommended" is a simple and effective way to localise the usage of "好评" in this kind of context."
14 mins

high praise

or: with high remarks

好评 - Collins Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/zh/dictionary/chinese.../好...
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'好评' 的英语Translation of | 官方柯林斯中文- 英语词典网上词典。10 万条简体中文单词和短语的英语翻译。 ... high praise ... 好评的翻译—— 柯林斯汉英词典.
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3 hrs

excellent

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g308272-d12863849-R...
the traveler ratings are graded as: excellent, good, average, poor and terrible
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6 hrs

Positive Review or Excellent

positive review or excellent often used to reflect the satisfaction of an user.
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3 hrs

you deserve my positive review

If you want 好评!fits into the context, you can say "you (your inn) deserve a (or my) positive review".

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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-12-16 02:55:50 GMT)
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What the speaker was trying to say is along the line of "you are very much liked".

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Note added at 8 hrs (2018-12-16 07:43:23 GMT)
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you deserve a positive review
your inn deserves my positive review

Either of these will serve well in the context.
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5 days

Very good/great/lovely/five stars

I think Gareth's "recommended" is excellent.


Your sentence countains a couple of words that are bugbears of mine, so I just wanted to leave a note about them:

客栈环境很不错,老板很热情,办理入住非常方便,房间宽敞明亮,打扫的干干净净,家具很有特色,好评!
环境 - in this context not really environment. It's the inside of the inn, so maybe "nicely decorated"
热情 - nice is fine, but I think friendly would be slightly closer
方便 - I make a religion of never translating this word as "convenient", and you should, too! "Check in was easy/straightforward".
有特色 - character is good, could also consider unique, different, special
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