Entry: More Funny Sign Translations Thursday, December 16, 2004



  • Protect CircumStance Begin with Me (in a park, asking people not to litter)
  • Free Servict.  Politely to each other.  Pay attention to treasure.  Boware of Sun's dazzling. (at the top of Beijing's TV tower - posted on the telescope to look out over the city)
  • Slip Carefully (in a store while workers were mopping)
  • Pregnant Woman over 70 and disabled people lounge (in a railway station)
  • Civilized Behavior of Tourists is another Bright Scenery (posted along a mountain climbing path)
  • No Louding
  • No Moving In (as you come in to a shopping mall)
  • Sorry, Businessing now (hanging outside of a closed door to an office)
  • Tour the Hur tell:   Consume the Nur tell:  (I have no idea what this means)
  • Dangerous Goo:  Keep clear (as seen on a railroad cart passing by)
  • The Auspicious Hole (on a sign describing to tourists about a cave)
  • Genitl Emen ---->   (pointing to where men should go to the washroom)
  • Offer the seats to the Old, Weak, Sick, Cripple, and Gravid (in a hotel lobby)
  • The Shepherd's Purse reveals the winter bamboo shoots (describing a picture on a menu)
  • Be Sterilised (on a sign near in a restaurant suggesting that the customers wash their hands before eating) 
  • When old man's child go up hand ladder temporary need the family to accompany (better translation from the Chinese:  We ask that family members who are accompanying elderly persons and children please assist them when climbing the stairs.)
  • Women's Civilised Demonstrate Post (I don't really get what they were saying, either)
  • Danger!  Jumping into the Tunnel is Forbidden
  • Civilized Traffic Starts at Home
  • Don't Drive Tiredly (posted on the major highways around Beijing)
  • Flashing Street <-------
  • To Consult to a Telephone, To Throw to a Telephone  (outside a telephone booth, giving phone numbers for different operators and phone companies)
  • X Rat check (on a marquee at the airport security terminal)
  • Waiting Will Be Prosecuted (outside at the airport arrival /pick-up zone)


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