Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
See des grossen Glanzes, Gi-nan
English translation:
Great Light Lake, Jinan
Added to glossary by
Nancy Arrowsmith
Dec 16, 2002 03:03
21 yrs ago
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German term
"See des grossen Glanzes"
German to English
Science
Geography
Geography
One again, a Chinese geography question, because I only have the German name, and not the Chinese original. It is a lake in Gi-nan. Does anybody know the English equivalent?
Proposed translations
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4 +3 | Great Light Lake | Giusi Pasi |
3 | Mirror Lake? | Kim Metzger |
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Great Light Lake
I think it is this: www.chinaetravel.com/city/c035.html
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www.chinaetravel.com/city/c035.html
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I failed box, sorry :-(
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Note added at 2002-12-16 03:39:07 (GMT)
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www.chinaetravel.com/city/c035.html
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Note added at 2002-12-16 03:39:54 (GMT)
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I failed box, sorry :-(
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you all for your help. Chris, do you know of a reference I could use to get consistent translations of place names? It's a 600 page novel, so there are lots of them, and I don't want to waste everybody's time."
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Mirror Lake?
Jingbo Lake
This lake lies in a southeast portion of Ning’an County, Heilongjiang Province. According to legend, a beautiful and kindhearted girl named Hongluo lived here. She had a magic mirror. Wherever disaster occurred, she would flash her magic mirror and restore happiness to the people. The celestial empress wanted to get hold of the mirror and sent a deity to steak it away. Hongluo followed the rays of the mirror to the celestial palace, where, seeing the mirror in the hands of the celestial empress, she tried to take it back. But in the scramble, the mirror fell from the sky to the earth – where it instantly became the beautiful Mirror Lake.
The Mirror Lake is, in fact, a dammed lake caused by an ancient volcanic eruption during which the Mudan River was blocked by lava. Covering 1,200 square kilometers, the quiet and clear lake is surrounded by towering mountains and dense forests. Water flowing out from the north bank of the lake forms a waterfall called Diaoshuilou, the biggest in Northeast China. This splendid fall, twenty-five meters high and forty-three meters wide, thunders down a precipice to a deep pool below.
This lake lies in a southeast portion of Ning’an County, Heilongjiang Province. According to legend, a beautiful and kindhearted girl named Hongluo lived here. She had a magic mirror. Wherever disaster occurred, she would flash her magic mirror and restore happiness to the people. The celestial empress wanted to get hold of the mirror and sent a deity to steak it away. Hongluo followed the rays of the mirror to the celestial palace, where, seeing the mirror in the hands of the celestial empress, she tried to take it back. But in the scramble, the mirror fell from the sky to the earth – where it instantly became the beautiful Mirror Lake.
The Mirror Lake is, in fact, a dammed lake caused by an ancient volcanic eruption during which the Mudan River was blocked by lava. Covering 1,200 square kilometers, the quiet and clear lake is surrounded by towering mountains and dense forests. Water flowing out from the north bank of the lake forms a waterfall called Diaoshuilou, the biggest in Northeast China. This splendid fall, twenty-five meters high and forty-three meters wide, thunders down a precipice to a deep pool below.
Peer comment(s):
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Chris Rowson (X)
: That´s a lovely lake you have there, but it´s in the wrong province, isn´t it? (Though it´s difficult to be sure, with different transliterations of different Chinese languages)
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Right, I think Giusi has it right.
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