? "How Can You Be Angry at a Robot?: and two other futuristic short stories – Includes Spanish and German translations

By Jan Christian and Lucy Yang

How Can You Be Angry at a Robot?


Our technological world is moving forward at a great pace. New discoveries are happening every day that are making our lives easier, while presenting us with challenges too. These challenges include robots living with us in our own homes, new discoveries that may invade our privacy, and extra-terrestrials possibly working with us instead of attacking us!


Here are three stories that help us develop our ability to discuss these things in three languages. The Chinese characters are not presented according to HSK levels, but to make it easier, each story is presented in three formats: sentence by sentence translation, completely in pinyin, or completely in hanzi characters. Finally, each story is presented completely in English, Spanish and German. The student, therefore, can approach his study according to his or her level and goals.


This is especially effective for students looking to become translators. Translators must keep in mind that the direction of the translation is from English to Chinese and that his will affect the translation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669840008

Jan Christian

Lucy Yang was born in China. She has taught and translated at universities and businesses, including Hunan Normal (Teachers’) University, Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand, as well as German and Belgian firms. She now resides in Florida, USA. Jan Christian is a multi-linguist with degrees from UCLA and the University of Maryland. He has worked as a translator of Russian and Spanish. Lately he is working on improving his Chinese and helping others learn Chinese.

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你怎能跟机器人生气呢?

"How Can You Be Angry

at a Robot?

and two other futuristic short stories

– Includes Spanish and German

translations

JAN CHRISTIAN

Copyright © 2022 by Jan Christian.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Rev. date: 01/20/2023

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE PROFESSOR AND HIS THOUGHT MACHINE

教授和他的思想机器

HOW CAN YOU BE ANGRY AT A ROBOT?

你怎能跟机器人生气呢？

HEAVEN IS WAITING

天堂在等待

APPENDIX ONE

APPENDIX TWO

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We want to thanks Edmund Chua and Ranny Ran for

their Graded Chinese Reader series which

inspired us to create this reader.

And special thanks to Cris Arden at Xlibris for

making this possible

Three Modern Short Stories

We hope that you will enjoy these futuristic stories, designed for the intermediate level adult student who wants to develop his/her Chinese reading ability in a format that simplies the task of reading a short story.

Although written from a western point of view, these stories have been translated into Chinese from English with the express intent to help the Chinese language student learn new words and phrases that are used in today’s technological world.

Looking at a story entirely in Chinese and having to depend on a glossary can be tedious. To make it simpler, we have provided a translation after every two