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  <p>余入宫为奴，盖因唐诗酒色。今上昏庸，诸子腐败，皆不足爱也。</p>
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<p>@倪阔乐's answer looks like a machine translation of the original English text. Ancient Chinese people don't talk like that.</p>

<p>"情" is emotion, not sex.</p>

<p>"腐產" as rotten offspring? Not even close.</p>

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2014-10-28T09:55:06.297Z
@倪阔乐 “酒色” as an idiom means strictly “liquer and sex”, with your self-invented “情酒” no one is sure if it's sex or something else. “腐产” is another such invention. “产” can be “production” or “wealth”, seldom does it mean “offspring”. But above all, the colossal single sentence structure just isn't classical Chinese at all.
Wang Dingwei
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2014-10-28T10:00:01.530Z
“腐败” is no different from “腐”, so I don't think there is a disagreement.
Wang Dingwei
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2014-10-28T10:07:33.957Z
I forgot to add a double quote to the word talk. They do “talk” in classical literatures.
Wang Dingwei
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2014-10-23T05:03:09.540Z
2014-10-23T05:03:09.540Z
Wang Dingwei
<p>could you make some annotation with regard to the grammar needed to translate.</p>

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2014-10-13T16:03:35.377Z
This is the best translation request I've ever seen.
Stumpy Joe Pete
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2014-10-23T05:32:09.353Z
I wonder what kind of sex has driven you to become an eunuch...
Wang Dingwei
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2014-10-23T06:24:10.497Z
Hmmm that sounds certainly like Lord Varys...
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how do you say in 文言 "I became an eunuch because of the sex and drugs and tang-poems, not because i love the king and his rotten offspring"?
# how do you say in 文言 "I became an eunuch because of the sex and drugs and tang-poems, not because i love the king and his rotten offspring"?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-13)

could you make some annotation with regard to the grammar needed to translate.

**Tags:** grammar

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This is the best translation request I've ever seen.  
> **username_2**: I wonder what kind of sex has driven you to become an eunuch...  
> **username_3**: Hmmm that sounds certainly like Lord Varys...  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-10-23. Score: 3

> 余入宫为奴，盖因唐诗酒色。今上昏庸，诸子腐败，皆不足爱也。

@倪阔乐's answer looks like a machine translation of the original English text. Ancient Chinese people don't talk like that.

"情" is emotion, not sex.

"腐產" as rotten offspring? Not even close.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: @倪阔乐 “酒色” as an idiom means strictly “liquer and sex”, with your self-invented “情酒” no one is sure if it's sex or something else. “腐产” is another such invention. “产” can be “production” or “wealth”, seldom does it mean “offspring”. But above all, the colossal single sentence structure just isn't classical Chinese at all.  
> **username_2**: “腐败” is no different from “腐”, so I don't think there is a disagreement.  
> **username_2**: I forgot to add a double quote to the word talk. They do “talk” in classical literatures.  

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