Exercise Translation | Translation: English-Thai

Use the exercise passages to experiment with different translation processes, to learn English syntax and sentence structures, to develop effective reading strategies, and to hone your research skills.

Kornthong: word variation | Trying juveniles in an adult court and imposing criminal penalties, according to the conservative position, are effective ways for society to express outrage for the crimes of "out-of-control" youth and to satisfy its hunger for revenge.
Kittaya: number (plurality) | They represent violence, a segment of society lacking in self-control and without ethics and morals, and the failure of the family to instill traditional values--chief among them being the value of human life and respect for others.
Chanyarpath: determination | Although many of these juveniles are imprisoned for their crimes, which the law allows, they often are the easy victims of homosexual rape and other forms of violence at the hands of hardened adult criminals.
Napatsara: subject/noun phrase and modification | They represent violence, a segment of society lacking in self-control and without ethics and morals, and the failure of the family to instill traditional values—chief among them being the value of human life and respect for others.
Intira: classifier | It has served as the motivation for countless numbers of people to change their lifestyles, take self-defense classes, install home security systems and carry handguns for protection.
Nitchakarn: tense/aspect (future) | Children have been described as our future, our greatest resource, and hope for a better tomorrow.
Bunsangsom: adjectival phrase and modification | Fear of crime, especially random violence committed by young Americans, is among the nation's greatest concerns.
Parima: subject | Trying juveniles in an adult court and imposing criminal penalties, according to the conservative position, are effective ways for society to express outrage for the crimes of "out-of-control" youth and to satisfy its hunger for revenge.
Pimchanok: proper noun | Trying juveniles in an adult court and imposing criminal penalties, according to the conservative position, are effective ways for society to express outrage for the crimes of "out-of-control" youth and to satisfy its hunger for revenge.
Pimpun: verb phrase and modification | It has served as the motivation for countless numbers of people to change their lifestyles, take self-defense classes, install home security systems and carry handguns for protection.
Peerada: time | Children have been described as our future, our greatest resource, and hope for a better tomorrow.
Manutsanunt: number (amount) | For many Americans, though, children invoke fear.
Yolradee: gender | Although many of these juveniles are imprisoned for their crimes, which the law allows, they often are the easy victims of homosexual rape and other forms of violence at the hands of hardened adult criminals.
Sarunkorn: tense/aspect (past) | It has served as the motivation for countless numbers of people to change their lifestyles, take self-defense classes, install home security systems and carry handguns for protection.
Unchittha: tense/aspect (present) | Moreover, fear of crime has influenced politicians and laypersons to have the belief that a conservative justice system, which seeks to punish and deter, holds the most promise in reducing juvenile crime.
Kittiphum: date | Children have been described as our future, our greatest resource, and hope for a better tomorrow.
Chutikarn: speaking words | Others, however, contend that treating juveniles as adults is going too far.
Nicha: adverbial phrase | Moreover, fear of crime has influenced politicians and laypersons to have the belief that a conservative justice system, which seeks to punish and deter, holds the most promise in reducing juvenile crime.
Papatsamon: direct and reported speech | Others, however, contend that treating juveniles as adults is going too far.
Pornpreya: passive voice | Fear of crime, especially random violence committed by young Americans, is among the nation's greatest concerns.

Each student prepares a four-minute presentation to give in class that includes discussion of sentences in two argumentative text passages:

For argumentative text passages 1 (hyperaddictive games) and 2 (assisted suicide), each student prepares a four-minute presentation to give in class that includes

Kornthong: passage 2: The foundation of the medical vocation is that the doctor is servant to the patient's will.
Kittaya: passage 1: They are designed to push their way through the cracks of other occasions. We play them incidentally, almost accidentally. | passage 2: Not always, of course.
Chanyarpath: passage 1: They're less an activity in our day than a blank space in our day; less a pursuit than a distraction from other pursuits. | passage 2: There are times when the doctor must say no.
Napatsara: passage 2: Consider those cases in which outside values trump the patient's expressed desire.
Intira: passage 1: We have rock-paper-scissors and dominoes, in which sets of simple rules play out in complex scenarios. | passage 2: The first is life.
Nitchakarn: passage 2: Even if the patient asks you to, you may not kill him.
Bunsangsom: passage 2: In some advanced precincts—Holland and Oregon, for example—this is thought to be a quaint idea, and the state permits physicians to perform "assisted suicide."
Parima: passage 1: You glance down to check your calendar and suddenly it's 40 minutes later and there's only one level before you jump to the next stage, so you might as well just launch another bird. | passage 2: That is a terrible mistake, for the state and for the physician.
Pimchanok: passage 2: And not only because it embarks us on a slippery slope where putting people to death in the name of some higher humanity becomes progressively easier.
Pimpun: passage 2: Even if there were no slippery slope, there is a deeply important principle at stake: doctors are healers, not killers.
Peerada: passage 2: You cannot annihilate the subject you are supposedly serving—it is not just a philosophical absurdity, it constitutes the most fundamental violation of the Hippocratic oath.
Manutsanunt: passage 2: You are not permitted to do any harm to the patient, let alone the ultimate harm.
Yolradee: passage 1: Stupid games, on the other hand, are rarely occasions in themselves. | passage 2: Doctors are not just biotechnicians.
Sarunkorn: passage 2: They must make judgments about, yes, the soul.
Unchittha: passage 2: Before serving a patient's will, doctors have to decide whether it is perverse and self-destructive.
Kittiphum: passage 1: With rise of smartphones, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and the like have colonized our brains and shifted the entire economic model of the video-game industry.
Chutikarn: passage 1: Today we are living in a world of stupid games.
Nicha: passage 1: Humans have always played games | (Chess, you might say, is the king of stupid games, where stupid games meet genius.
Papatsamon: passage 1: Dice are older than recorded history. | But pre-video games were different. They required human opponents.
Pornpreya: passage 1: Ancient Egyptians played what archaeologists believe was something like sacred backgammon. | When you sat down to play them, chances were you meant to sit down and play them.