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英翻中: 稅收法: 稅表準備  Tax preparation:  Circular 230 and Internal Revenue Code § 6694

I am not a tax specialist nor do I have a degree in taxation.  Below is just my attempt to translate the meaning of a statement regarding tax practitioner around tax preparation.  My Chinese is not good so the translation may sound awful.     

Managed float regime
管制性的浮動匯率體制

The current international financial environment in which exchange

*Translated by Elisa on 10/04/09 - 版權所有*

The study found it is early oestrogen exposure that "masculinises" boys to be boys – a phenomenon that owes more to "girl power" than was ever suspected.

=> The study found that it is early oestrogen exposure that masculinizes boys to be boys 

*Translated by Elisa on 8/25/09- 版權所有*

This is a question I answered at Yahoo Knowledge, but since the subject line is vague, I knew that someone would report it to be removed.  Just to make sure that others can still benefit from the quality answer I provided, I decided to post it here. 

This is it. 

While the optimist in each of us wants these claims to be true, the findings from the task force, led by Tufts University biochemist Norman Krimsky, deliver a sobering dose of reality.

雖然我們樂觀地希望這些宣稱是真的, 然而由Tufts大學生化學家 Norman Krimsky 所帶領的工作人員所研究出的結果, (潑了把冷水) 讓我們回歸現實.

Someone has mistaken this poem to be Shakepeare's.  Not all well-written poems or famous quotes came from Shakespeare.  I think that this is a pretty good poem and would like to share it with you.  I tried to translate it into Chinese.   The translation is very close to what was translated by others.  Maybe not as beautiful.

See http://www.zftrans.com/bbs/read.php?tid=4772&fpage=1&toread=&page=4

Poetry by Robert Herrick - To Electra 

I dare not ask a kiss,
I dare not beg a smile;

This is my first attempt to translate a poem by Shakespeare.  Pardon me for my poor Chinese translation.

Sonnet 19: