Hello all! Today's post is a sweet and cute short story that I enjoyed reading and translating. The story talks about a Dad who, inspired by his Boss' new resolution to become a perfect Boss, decided that he too should try to become a perfect dad by satisfying all his kids' needs/requirements but in the end...(lol read it to the end for a funny ending).
A few words about the names in this story. This was a children's story so it uses really childish names for all the children. So if some of the words seem unfamiliar or don't make sense to you, don't worry they are just silly cute children's names. Many of them are intended to be puns as well, playing on fact that the father works in a bakery. Note that because of this I have retained their Chinese names in the translations and just treated them as Chinese names.
However I thought it's worth while to list the children's names and their English translations so you can get the puns intended:
- 面包宝宝 (miànbāo bǎo bǎo) - translates literally to Baby Bread. 宝宝 is also an endearing term that parents call their babies, it's like darling, dear, or precious bub (lol who calls their kids precious bub??).
- 甜甜 (tián tián) - literally means Sweet Sweet, meaning Sweety I guess?
- 小奶人 (xiǎo nǎi rén) - literally means Small Milky Person. I think this is supposed to mean Small Milky Baby.
- 点点 (diǎn diǎn) - literally means Dot Dot which I believe is referring to the piping icing needle device used to decorate the cake with icing or fondant.
Key words to learn:
建议 (jiàn yì) - suggestion; advice
凶巴巴 (xiōng b ābā) - a fierce or strict dad
完美 (wán měi) - perfect or perfection. The way I think of this word is to look at it's constituent characters. 完 means completed and finished. 美 means beautiful. So perfection means to be the finished article of beauty.
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