好评

English translation: Recommended

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Chinese term or phrase:好评
English translation:Recommended
Entered by: Thomas McConochie

23:15 Dec 15, 2018
Chinese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / Customer Reviews
Chinese term or phrase: 好评
This comes from customer feedback from a client's website. The client, paradoxically, wants me to reflect the source text as closely as I can, but also translate content so it reads fluently.

Could other translators please share your thoughts on translating usages of "好评" when the term is being given as part of a "好评" ("positive evaluation")? I am transalting the term freely as "I recommend it" or something to that effect because I don't think native speakers of English would say "positive evaluation" as a stand-alone comment within a paragraph of feedback. What do you think?

Source:
客栈环境很不错,老板很热情,办理入住非常方便,房间宽敞明亮,打扫的干干净净,家具很有特色,好评!
Translation:
The inn has a really nice environment. The boss is really nice and checking in is very convenient. The rooms are spacious and bright and they're kept really clean. The furnishings have a lot of character. I recommend it!
Thomas McConochie
Australia
Local time: 04:54
Recommended
Explanation:
A native English speaker would end such a review simply with ", recommended!"

In this way the "positive evaluation" is implied (I.e. I recommend it as I have a positive evaluation of the hotel)
Selected response from:

Gareth Callagy
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:54
Grading comment
Thanks for your suggestion and explanation. I agree that "Recommended" is a simple and effective way to localise the usage of "好评" in this kind of context.
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Summary of answers provided
4high praise
pkchan
4Positive Review or Excellent
Wiyi Henardo
4you deserve my positive review
jyuan_us
4Recommended
Gareth Callagy
3excellent
Cheryl Zhou
3Very good/great/lovely/five stars
Phil Hand


  

Answers


14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
high praise


Explanation:
or: with high remarks

好评 - Collins Dictionary
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/zh/dictionary/chinese.../好...
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'好评' 的英语Translation of | 官方柯林斯中文- 英语词典网上词典。10 万条简体中文单词和短语的英语翻译。 ... high praise ... 好评的翻译—— 柯林斯汉英词典.

pkchan
United States
Local time: 14:54
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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excellent


Explanation:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g308272-d12863849-R...
the traveler ratings are graded as: excellent, good, average, poor and terrible

Cheryl Zhou
China
Local time: 02:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Positive Review or Excellent


Explanation:
positive review or excellent often used to reflect the satisfaction of an user.

Wiyi Henardo
Indonesia
Local time: 01:54
Native speaker of: Native in IndonesianIndonesian, Native in ChineseChinese
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
you deserve my positive review


Explanation:
If you want 好评!fits into the context, you can say "you (your inn) deserve a (or my) positive review".

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Note added at 3 hrs (2018-12-16 02:55:50 GMT)
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What the speaker was trying to say is along the line of "you are very much liked".

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Note added at 8 hrs (2018-12-16 07:43:23 GMT)
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you deserve a positive review
your inn deserves my positive review

Either of these will serve well in the context.

jyuan_us
United States
Local time: 14:54
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese
PRO pts in category: 10
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Recommended


Explanation:
A native English speaker would end such a review simply with ", recommended!"

In this way the "positive evaluation" is implied (I.e. I recommend it as I have a positive evaluation of the hotel)

Gareth Callagy
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks for your suggestion and explanation. I agree that "Recommended" is a simple and effective way to localise the usage of "好评" in this kind of context.
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5 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Very good/great/lovely/five stars


Explanation:
I think Gareth's "recommended" is excellent.


Your sentence countains a couple of words that are bugbears of mine, so I just wanted to leave a note about them:

客栈环境很不错,老板很热情,办理入住非常方便,房间宽敞明亮,打扫的干干净净,家具很有特色,好评!
环境 - in this context not really environment. It's the inside of the inn, so maybe "nicely decorated"
热情 - nice is fine, but I think friendly would be slightly closer
方便 - I make a religion of never translating this word as "convenient", and you should, too! "Check in was easy/straightforward".
有特色 - character is good, could also consider unique, different, special


Phil Hand
China
Local time: 02:54
Native speaker of: English
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