The earlist account of Nüwa repairing the sky in ancient Chinese classics is as following:
姓名:梁力乔 学号0213100937
To cope with disasters, Nuwa resorted to refining the five-colored stones to mend the flawed sky. She cut off the feet of the great turtles and used them as pillars to support the sky so that the sky would not collapse. She killed black evil dragon to free the people of the state of Ji. Also, she piled up ashes of grass and wood to stop the flood.
姓名:黄钰涵 学号:0213701091
In ancient times, when four great pillars propping up the sky collapsed, the ground was also cracked. Since the sky was too broken to shield the whole world, flames that could not be put out were spreading everywhere and flood that could not be controlled was rushing all the time. Fierce beasts fed on innocent people, and monstrous birds preyed on the old and children. Under such circumstances, Nuwa refined rocks of five elements to replenish the sky, broke off the legs of a giant turtle and used them to support the four corners of the fallen sky. Then she killed the black dragon to save the people and checked the flood with reed ashes.
0213700995 罗亚曼
姓名:刘翾 学号:0213100936
姓名:许智钦 学号:0213701050
赵甜馨 0213701068
姓名:田飞扬 学号:0213701022
佘子晨 0213700990
陈凯丽 0213701087
In the ancient times, the four skyscrapers fell down, the nine provinces of China ripped through. The sky could not cover the earth any more and the earth also could not carry all things on the earth. The fires and the flooding were raging out of control. The vicious beasts swallowed the civilians and the fierce birds caught the old and weak people. As a result, Nuwa refined five colour stones to repair the sky. Also, she took the feet of the huge legendary turtle as the skyscrapers. And she killed the black dragon to calm down the province Ji. Finally, she heaped the ashes of spear up to control the flood.
——Huai Nan Zi by Liu An
0213700971 刘晓芸
0213700984 许鑫怡
In ancient times, four poles propping up the sky collapsed and the land cracked and split. Thus the sky was too broken to cover the earth and the land could not bear any burden on it either. At the same time, big flames scorched the world and floods invaded every corner of the earth. Beasts devoured innocent people and raptors preyed the old and vulnerable. To reverse such terrible situation, Nu-Wa refined stones of five elements to fill the big hole in the sky. Moreover, she broke off the legs of a giant turtle and used them to support the four corners of the fallen sky, killed the black dragon to save the people in Ji, and curbed the flood with reed ashes.
陈晓雪 0213700986
PHAN, THI THANH VY 0217409012
訾佳 0213700973
孙梦云 0213700998
姓名:高艳 学号:0213701030
姓名:卢雨欣 学号:0213701089
0213700952 蒋丛蔚
That being said, the goddess Nu-wa melted down rocks and moulded the amalgam into building blocks for celestial repairs, broke the limbs of the enormous turtle as four pillars to hold up the heaven, killed the black dragon to save the Ji Prefecture from peril, and accumulated the ashes of the reeds to ward off the deluge. Eventually, the heaven was made intact, the water was dried up, the Ji Prefecture found itself in peace, the beasts and fowls demised, and virtuous people survived.
钟诗彤 0213701133
陈锐 0213700982
Raging fire and torrential flood became unstoppable, ferocious beasts ate people and vicious birds use their claws to grab old people and children.
To help them out, Nuwa smelted five-color stones to mend the sky. Then she sacrificed a giant sea turtle and cut off its feet to support the sky, unwillingly killed the black dragon to save China, and used reed ash to stop the flood. Eventually, the world came to peace again.
Nvwa is a god who creates people and mend the sky, making great contributions to the development of humankind. It’s a positive image. So I don’t think we can directly translate the last sentence into “she killed blabla”... It sounds improper to her merciful image.
0213700966程思
英笔1班
姓名:王庆伦 学号:0213701017
In the ancient times, the four pillars that sustained the heaven broke down and the earth crumbled. The earth, which were not covered by the sky, failed to underpin everything. After that, fires and flood were seen everywhere with no signs of abation; beasts and creepy fowls preyed on people, the weak and the old in particular. To turn the tide, Nuwa took the five-coloured stone to salvage the heaven by cutting off the feet of the giant turtles to set them as the pillars. She also piled up reed ashes to stop the flood and slew the black dragon to rescue people in Jinzhou.
姓名:王顾民;学号:0213701013
贾钧涵 0213700948
姜子梁 0213100942
吴红萱 0213100939
0213700991 刘昱汝
刘若琪 0213700969
0203700968 王汉一
陈安妮 0213700950
姓名:火豫萱 学号:0213700988
王惠 0213700976
徐浪 0213701025
阮敏芝 0213700965
谷浩 0213701075
高伟华 0213700974
姓名:杨佳琦 学号:0213701085
姓名:吴佳寅 学号:0213701111
I have added some conjunctions to show the inner connection between different phenomena because writings in classical Chinese tend to omit such kind of words. Also I avoid using direct „negative“ verbs to describe Nüwa’s action because of her perfect positive figure in the Chinese culture.
陈碧波 0213700016
李艺 0213701020
王一凡 0213701003
The sky fell down and the earth crumbled
Fire and flood was too rampant to stop
Beasts ate humans and eagles attacked the old and the children with their claws
So Nvwa made five-colored stone to repair the sky
She cut off the feet of the giant turtles to make pillars
Killed the black dragon(monster in the sea) to save people
And used reed ash to stop the floods
0213700989 陈佳鑫
高成 0213701049
口译2班 刘芳雨
0213701021
姓名:季畅宇 学号:0213701110
姓名:冯馨羽 学号:0213701066
To save the catastrophe, the goddess Nüwa refined the five-colored stone and used it to repair the heavens; cut the limbs of the giant turtle to fix the pillars holding up the ends of the earth; killed the dragon to save the Land of Ji; and collected reed ashes to control and stop the flood. The chaotic world then was in order once again.
Ishola Labake Sikirat 0217409024
姓名:黄思怡 学号:0213701044
叶加远 0213701130
Once upon a time, the four pillars that supported Heaven crumbled and the nine continents were cracked. Heaven and Earth were in such serious disruption that nothing could be held up. Fires blazed out of control, water flooded in great expanses, wild beasts devoured innocent human beings while predatory birds snatched the elderly and the weak. After witnessing the chaos, Goddess Nüwa smelted a five-colored stone to patch up Heaven. Then, she cut off the four legs of the great turtle Ao to use as the new four pillars, slew the black dragon to stop the floods in Ji Province, and burned reeds into ashes to check the surging waters.
许泳欣 0213701074
Once in ancient times, four big columns which connected the sky and the earth fell down, tearing the kyushu into pieces. At the same time, the sky could not cover the earth, the earth could not bear the weight of everything on it. Unstoppable fires and floods were spreading everywhere, while weird beasts were swallowing people and fierce birds were preying on the old and weak. To address these problems, Nuwa smelt five-color stone to repair the sky. Then she cut down the aojiang foot to rebuild the four big column and killed the black dragon to save Jizhou’s inhabitants. Finally, she piled up the reed ash to stop the flood.
闫一萱 0213701097
英语口译二班 梁司颖 0213701019
范文君 0213100941
英语口译1班 陈晶雨 0213701067
钱婧旖 0213701113
陈悦 0213700946
王烁媛 0213701125
李颖怡 0213701006
姓名:陈学斌 学号:0213700959
Seeing this, Nü Wa decided to save the world. First she cut off the feet of a giant turtle to replace the pillars. Then she killed the black dragon that was a dire threat to people’s lives. She also collected reed ashes, bringing the floods under control.
谢志浩
0213700958
Aeons ago, the world underwent a catastrophe. The Heaven could no longer cover everything underneath because the four pillars supporting the Heaven collapsed. The Earth cracked so much so that it could not underpin everything aboveground. Flames were too rampant to be quenched; floods were too widespread to subside; ferocious beasts were feeding on benevolent people; fierce eagles were swooping on the old and young.
Seeing this, Nü Wa decided to save the world. First she smelted Five-colored Stones to mend the sky. Then she cut off the feet of a giant turtle to replace the pillars. After that she killed the black dragon that was a dire threat to people’s lives. She also collected reed ashes to clog the course of water, bringing the floods under control.
谢志浩
0213700958
张晓惟 0213701004
陈子盈 0213801585
——"Huai Nan Zi" by Liu An
张文萱 0213100935
佘能轩 0213701076
余虹村 0213700972
左定昌 0213701099
The whole world was in chaos. People were hopeless and scared. Seeing this, Nüwa then looked up the sky, thinking ways to repair the sky.
She travelled around the world to find the magic muds. When she collected all of them, she put a spell on the muds, which magically covered the gap.
At once, floods and fires stopped. Then she used four limbs of an old turtle to support the sky.
Everthing was back to what it used to be. Nüwa's face split into a wide smile and people cheered.
朱纯玲 0213701046
何咏婷 0213701052 谢谢老师
Fierce birds clawed at old people and children. Therefore, Nuwa smelt colored stones to repair the holes in the sky, cut off the horns of giant turtles to make the four-side optimus prime, kill the black dragon to save China, gather reed ashes to quench the waters of prostitution, and use reed ash to stop the flood. The sky was mended, the pillars of heaven and earth were erected again, the flood receded, the land of China was restored to level off, the fierce birds and beasts died, and the good people could live on.
苏滢涵 0213701131
马晞茹 0213700975
张奕林 0213700979
Witnessing the sufferings, Nüwa decided to do something. She processed the five-colored stones to fix the sky, killed an enormous tortoise and used its leg to replace the broken pillars. In Jizhou, she killed the vicious black dragon for the local people. To stop the rampaging flood, she accumulated ashes to absorb the water. With her efforts, the world finally restored peace.
卓倩倩 0213701038
0213701011 朱棋钰
In ancient times, the four pillars supporting the sky collapsed and the land was filled with depressions. Under such circumstance, the sky and the land can’t contain the world. What’s more, the fire and flood were raging, beasts were eating people, and fierce birds were preying on the elderly and weak ones. To save the world, Nüwa forged stones of five colors to mend the sky, chopped down the feet of the giant turtle to prop up the sky, killed the monster to save the life of her people, and blocked the flood with the ash of reeds.
Long, long ago, the edges of the earth collapsed, and the land cracked. The sky was destroyed so that it could not cover the land. The earth became a hell to the creatures. The rampant fire burned the forest, and the flood overwhelmed the land. Beasts ate the human, and fierce birds caught the old and kids. To save the world, the goddess Nu-wa moulded five-color stones to repair the sky. She broke off turtles’ legs to hold up the sky, killed black dragons to save the Yi State and collected ashes of reeds to control the flood.
热米拉 0213300977
张庆美 0213701047
In the ancient past, the four pillars that uphold the azure sky crumbled inexplicably, causing the crackdown of the earth. The sky did not completely cover the earth; The earth did not hold up the sky around its circumference. The wildfire was blazing consistently and the flood was raging unceasingly. Ferocious animals devoured innocent people; predatory birds swallowed the elderly and the weak. Having had witnessed this, Nvwa gathered five-colour stones to mend the azure sky. She then killed the giant turtle named Ao and used its four legs to pillar the sky. She killed the black dragon to save the middle land. She also gathered a huge amount of ashes from the burning reeds to harness the flood.
Huainanzi by Liu'an
周琨杰 0213701045
鲍瑾 0213700949
欧慧敏 0213700970
姓名:朱一璇 学号:0213701141
A long long time ago, the four supporting pillars of the sky collapsed, then the sky fell apart and the land scattered away. The sky could no longer shelter the world, nor could the earth accommodate all creatures. The whole world was reduced to a disastrous chaos. Wild fires kept burning everywhere and torrents of the floods nearly submerged the land. Ferocious beasts preyed on kind people while violent hawks fed on the vulnerable. In that critical period, Nüwa came to save the mankind. She forged a five-color stone to mend the sky, chopped off the legs of the Giant Turtle to serve as new pillars, slaughtered the black dragon to protect the people on the land Ji and gathered reed ashes to plug up the floods.
罗舒维 0213701092
王梦雪 0213701101
In ancient times, the four Optimus pillars fell, the land of Kyushu was destroyed, the sky could not cover the earth, the earth could not carry everything, the fire would not go out, the floods would not stop, the beasts devoured the good people, and the ferocious birds attacked the old and weak. So Nüwa smelted the five-color stone to repair the sky, cut off the foot as the primordial pillar, slayed the black dragon to calm Jizhou, and piled up reed ash to stop the flood.
靳家兴 0213701137
Then Nuwa smelted the five colored stones to repair the heaven, cut off the four feet of a turtle in the sea as the four pillars of heaven, killed the water monster to relieve Jizhou, and collected reed ash to block the flood.
潘虹羽 0213701139
0213701116 赵雨秋
娄晓君 0213701120
刘伟 0213701042
阎雪晗 0213700987
王晓文 0213701062
曹苏媛 0213701109
In ancient times, the pillars supporting the sky began to rot and the land began to crack. so that the heaven cannot covered all the things and the earth cannot contained all creatures. The fire continued to burn without ceasing, and the floods kept surging. Ferocious animals ate innocent people, and ferocious birds caught the elders and children away. It was at this time when Nuwa molded the five-colored stones to mend the heaven, chopped off the legs of the Great Turtle to support the four pillars of the heaven, killed the black dragon to save Yizhou and accumulated the ashes of the reeds to resist excessive flooding.
时一杰 0213701142
姓名:林志颖 学号:0213701138
李飞彤 0213701054
姓名:曹芝源 学号:0213701069
马瑜含 0213700956
姓名:汤晓文 学号:0213700994
姓名:杨智婷 学号:0213701018
In ancient times, the four pillars supporting the sky collapsed and the earth cracked. Consequently, the sky could not cover as much as it used to do, nor could the earth carry the same as before. Fire raged so rampantly that it showed no sign of dying, and flood sweeped over everything so relentlessly that it seemed impossible to recede. Kind people fell prey to beasts, and falcons fed on children and elders. In light of the disaster, Nuwa patched the broken sky with stones forged from five-coloured ores, held up the sky with feet severed from the Great Turtoise, saved Ji State by slaying the black dragon, and blocked flood with reed ash.
0213701029 瞿甫
朱若芊 0213701072
孙毓 学号 0213700963
姓名:沈天超 学号:0213701034
رد: Nüwa repairs the Sky
钟子轩 0213701107
洪安楠 0213701088
Hence Nvwa collected a pile of luminous stones to mend the sky, and held it up with the feet of giant turtles. She killed the devil dragon in the river to quell the flooding, and used the reed ashes to dry the land.
龚晗潇 0213700967
She cut off the legs of a giant turtle to replace the four pillars that supported the sky, killed the black dragon to save the people on the land of Ji, and managed to control the floods with reed ashes.
姓名:邢昕妍 学号:0213700957
0213100938 钟震昊
Witnessing the view of apocalypse, Nüwa melted down a great quantity of rocks and, on the Incredible Crags of the Great Fable Mountains, she moulded the amalagam into 36501 large building blocks, the so-called five-colored stones, to mend the sky, remaining only one block unused. To erect the four pillars to hold the heaven, she cut off the four legs of the great tortoise. To rescue the people of the state Ji, she killed the dragon monster. To dry up the inundation on land, she accumulated the ashes of reeds. From then on, the world was repaired and the innocent people survived.
钱佳悦 0213701128
In ancient times, the four heavenly pillars tilted and the earth collapsed. The sky damaged and couldn't completely cover all things and the earth couldn't fully carry all things. The fire burns and does not go out. The flood is vast and the ocean does not subside. Beasts devour good people and ferocious birds catch old, weak and young people. So Nu Wa refined five colored stones to fill the sky. She cut off the four feet of the big turtle to erect four beams and columns. She also killed the black dragon to save Yizhou and accumulated reed ashes to stop excessive floods.
张影影 0213701124
郭亨玉 0213701053
余点 0213701041
Therefore, Nuwu melted the colorful stone to repair the sky, broke the turtles' legs to uphold the sky. She also killed the black dragon to save Jizhou, as well as accumulating the ash to fight against the flood. In the end, the sky was repaired and flood dried. Jizhou once again became a peaceful land, since all those monsters were eliminated and kind people eventually survived.
姓名:祝诗萌 学号:0213701061
As Mrs.Jiang asked us to “rewrite” the story, I added some reasonable details to make it more vivid.
姓名:郦若园 学号:0213700953
姓名:刘芳琳 学号:0213701037
姜超 英语口译1班 0213701065
姓名:马菽培 学号:0213701059
0213701033 李秋琪
阳彬 0213701009
0213701093 范一蕾
0213701035 周鸿钰
0213700960 柯彐儿
姓名:陈奇 学号:0213701140
黄睿琪 0213700014
In ancient times, the four pillars that supported the sky were tilted and the earth was cracked. The sky could not cover all the earth and the earth could not keep all creatures alive anymore. The fire kept burning and could not be extinguished, and the fierce flood didn’t subside. Fierce beasts devoured kind people, and ferocious birds preyed on the weak. Nüwa melted the five-colored stone to mend the sky and cut the legs of giant turtles as the four pillars to support the sky. She slew the black dragon to save the world and accumulate the ashes of reeds to control the excessive flood.
0213701123 吕珊