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#3	Mandarin Chinese by Ethan
Mandarin Chinese	English
所以不出所料，他自問人類有沒有改變不一樣的。但是這個地方有更多的動亂。因如此，儘管證據，把我連起來得不一樣，我發現我不是活人。可能其實我是一個完全不一樣的東西的或者一個對他的危機。我會讓他信我依然是 ”丹“。我以前不是一個靈魂。 Suǒyǐ bù chūsuǒ liào, tā zìwèn rénlèi yǒu méiyǒu gǎibiàn bù yīyàng de. Dànshì zhège dìfāng yǒu gèng duō de dòngluàn. Yīn rúcǐ, jǐnguǎn zhèngjù, bǎ wǒ lián qǐlái de bù yīyàng, wǒ fāxiàn wǒ bùshì huó rén. Kěnéng qíshí wǒ shì yīgè wánquán bù yīyàng de dōng xī de huòzhě yīgè duì tā de wéijī. Wǒ huì ràng tā xìn wǒ yīrán shì” dān “. Wǒ yǐqián bùshì gè línghún.	"Therefore, no surprise, he asks himself if humans have become different. However in this place, there’s more unrest. Because of this， despite the evidence, it connects me differently from each other, I have discovered myself to not be a living person. Perhaps, I am actually a thing that is completely different or therefore a danger to him. I will make him trust that I am still Dan. I was not a soul"

Mandarin Chinese by Ethan

Mandarin Chinese

English

所以不出所料，他自問人類有沒有改變不一樣的。但是這個地方有更多的動亂。因如此，儘管證據，把我連起來得不一樣，我發現我不是活人。可能其實我是一個完全不一樣的東西的或者一個對他的危機。我會讓他信我依然是 ”丹“。我以前不是一個靈魂。

Suǒyǐ bù chūsuǒ liào, tā zìwèn rénlèi yǒu méiyǒu gǎibiàn bù yīyàng de. Dànshì zhège dìfāng yǒu gèng duō de dòngluàn. Yīn rúcǐ, jǐnguǎn zhèngjù, bǎ wǒ lián qǐlái de bù yīyàng, wǒ fāxiàn wǒ bùshì huó rén. Kěnéng qíshí wǒ shì yīgè wánquán bù yīyàng de dōng xī de huòzhě yīgè duì tā de wéijī. Wǒ huì ràng tā xìn wǒ yīrán shì” dān “. Wǒ yǐqián bùshì gè línghún.

"Therefore, no surprise, he asks himself if humans have become different.
However in this place, there’s more unrest.
Because of this， despite the evidence, it connects me differently from each other, I have discovered myself to not be a living person.
Perhaps, I am actually a thing that is completely different or therefore a danger to him.
I will make him trust that I am still Dan.
I was not a soul"

VOCAB

所以	Suǒyǐ	conj	so, therefore
不出所料	bùchūsuǒliào	conj	as expected
他	tā	pron	he, 3P
自問	zìwèn	v	to ask oneself
人類	rénlèi	n	humanity
有	yǒu	v	to have
沒	méi	neg	to not (have)
改變	gǎibiàn	v	to change
不一樣	bùyīyàng	adj	different
的	de	prt	genitive marker, relativizer, attributive
但是	dànshì	conj	but
這個	zhège	dem	this
地方	dìfāng	n	place
更多	gèngduō	adj	more
動亂	dòngluàn	n	turmoil, chaos, disturbance
因如此	Yīnrúcǐ	conj	because of this
儘管	jǐnguǎn	conj	despite, even though
證據	zhèngjù	n	evidence
把	bǎ	prep	(used to shift object in front of the verb)
我	wǒ	pro	I, 1P
連起來	lián qǐlái	v	to connect
得	de	prt	(used to link a verb or an adjective to a verb, basically forms an adverb)
發現	fāxiàn	v	to discover
不	bù	neg	not
是	shì	v	to be
活人	huórén	n	living person
可能	kěnéng	conj	perhaps, maybe
其實	qíshí	adv	actually
一個	yīgè	prt	a, one
完全	wánquán	adj	completely, totally
東西	dōngxī	n	thing
或者	huòzhě	conj	or
對	duì	prep	to, toward, for
危機	wéijī	n	danger, risk
會	huì	v	to be likely to, to be sure to
讓	ràng	v	to make (sb to do sth), to cause (sb to do sth)
信	xìn	v	to believe, to trust in
依然	yīrán	adv	still, as before
丹	dan	per	person’s name
以前	yǐqián	adv	before, in the past
靈魂	línghún	n	soul

GRAMMATICAL NOTES

有

有 can be used like English’s to have, as in “you haven' t discovered the evidence?”

你沒有發現證據

有沒有

The V neg V construction is one way of constructing a neutral polar question in Chinese.

把

Normally Chinese is SVO, but with 把 is becomes S 把O V