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Put the underlined sentences into Chinese / English，using the technique of negation. And please also explain what translation skills you are using.

① Yu Qian, a 28-year-old attorney, says she does not mind that her mother regularly attends matchmaking events, but refuses to marry a man simply because of parental pressure.

“I could get married today if I wanted to,” Ms. Yu says. Instead, however, she has chosen to pursue a master‟s degree in international business law at the University of Amsterdam, something she insists would not be possible if she were already married.

“In China, marriage is not just a matter between two people,” she says, “it‟s more about two families. If I were married, my decision to go abroad would have been a decision made by two families, and it would get too complicated.” So complicated, she says, that she pr obably wouldn‟t have gone.

② While Yu has chosen to pursue her dream in defiance of her mother's wishes, she acknowledges it isn‟t easy.

Professor Xiao Suowei, a sociology professor at Beijing Normal University who studies Chinese marital and familial relationships argues that ③ because Chinese children are raised in philosophically Confucian households where respect for one‟s parents is paramount, even grown children are vulnerable to criticism. “These women care about their parents – theirs are the opinio ns that really matter to them,” Xiao stresses. “It doesn‟t matter what other people say, but when their parents tell them, …You should get married, otherwise you never will. If you don‟t get married at 28, you are an undesirable woman,‟ can you imagine how that makes them feel? It‟s really terrible.”

Still, in a society where young women are often criticized for being overly materialistic when it comes to marriage, Xiao believes that many shengnv are sincerely looking for the right person. ④ That they are holding onto their marriage ideals even as they get older says a lot about their determination.

① Yu Qian, a 28-year-old attorney, says she does not mind that her mother regularly attends matchmaking events, but refuses to marry a man simply because of parental pressure.

② While Yu has chosen to pursue her dream in defiance of her mother's wishes, she acknowledges it isn‟t easy.

③Because Chinese children are raised in philosophically Confucian households where respect for one‟s p arents is paramount, even grown children are vulnerable to criticism.

④ That they are holding onto their marriage ideals even as they get older says a lot about their determination.

⑤Hangzhou made a lasting impression on foreign tourists.

⑥The sound of paddling was the only thing we heard as we passed under stone-arch bridges and alongside banks of bamboo and willow trees. High up in the hills a lone pagoda kept watch over the West Lake; a fishing boat sat almost motionless in the water; a songbird rested in a willow tree.