我本想把你所有的中文都改完，但我发现因为网站的设置，我改不了你用繁体字写的文章。

谢谢你提醒我。你解释的很清楚。

确实比较顺口，谢谢

有道理，谢谢你

我明白了，谢谢你

没有关系，我很高兴你帮我改了这篇文章

谢谢你，Martin

Thanks very much for taking the time to correct this and provide explanations. This really helps me.

很有意思，谢谢你

When I expand the Notes section, the content (some English text) is visible to me. Odd that it wouldn’t be visible to you. Maybe there’s a bug website.

不客气

When I expand the Notes section, the content (some English text) is visible to me. Odd that it wouldn’t be visible to you. Maybe there’s a bug.

加油哦

oh my gosh, I found it. I can't believe I've been ignoring it.

如果你可以选择任何地方度过这个夏天，你会选择哪里？

我会回到生养我的Vermont，并在那里找套房子租上三个月。这样我就可以有充足的时间，去重新认识我的家人，朋友和同学们，而不必像从前那样来去匆匆。
我已经有20多年没在家乡生活过了。这期间，家人和朋友们的生活发生了许多变化。虽然一些重要的事情我知道个大概，但我不清楚20年间他们到底变化了多少，他们的性格、思维是否也随之改变了。从前每次回去，为了能和他们每个人都见上一面，我总是来去匆匆，从未和他们好好聊过天。当然，这20年间，我会给他们打电话，会定期发送问候邮件或短信，但这和切身与他们共度 "美好时光 "是不一样的。

我相信如果我能在那待上三个月，我会有足够的机会与我深爱的每一个人共度时光，比如和这个人去爬个山，与那个人共进午餐或晚餐，亦或者和另一人在花园一起劳作等等。如此一来，我能重新维系与他们的关系，成为一个好弟弟、好侄子、好舅舅和好朋友。

PS: This article is based on your English essay and Chinese essay, translated first and then revised.

and I have a question about English tenses
“ Every time I go back, I’m always so busy running around from home to home, trying to see all of them, that I never get to really talk to any of them. Of course I call some of them on the phone, in the meantime, and send regular emails or occasional texts to others, but it’s not the same as spending “quality time” with them in person.”
Why don't you use the past tense in this passage?

Thanks for the translation. It’s interesting to compare your words & expressions to mine.

> 回到生养我的Vermont
I wasn’t born there. I moved there when I was five years old and lived there till I was 20. Can I still say 生养 even though I wasn’t born there?

> Why don't you use the past
> tense in this passage?
I use the present tense because I’m describing something that I’ve done repeatedly in the past, and that I expect to do again in the future. From a grammatical point of view, it’s like describing a habit: “Every time it rains, I use an umbrella,” means I’ve done this repeatedly and expect to continue to do it.

>当然可以。因为中国人一般会把故乡比喻成母亲，所以一般会用“生养我的这片土地”，去形容故乡。因此，即使不是出生在这里，只要觉得是故乡，就可以用，并没有严格的限制

当然，如果要严谨，你改成 “回到我长大的Vermont” 也是可以的，没有错误的

>谢谢关于时态的解惑。太长时间没用英文书写，越来越生疏了。非常感谢

> 因此，即使不是出生在这里，
> 只要觉得是故乡，就可以用，
> 并没有严格的限制
好的，我明白了。谢谢你！

> 谢谢关于时态的解惑。太长时
> 间没用英文书写，越来越生疏了。
不客气！我对中文有同样的感觉。因为这么久没读没写，所以曾经会的一些，我已经忘光了

Hey Kent! I was reading the “about me” section of your profile here in LangCorrect, and I noticed that you included a quote from me! I don’t mind, but am just wondering why.

Here’s the quote: “Thanks for your help, but I’m more interested in knowing which parts I wrote incorrectly than learning natural-sounding ways of saying this. I meant it as a joke—nothing I wrote is actually true. Could you tell me which of the things you corrected were actual errors?”

It came from the discussion on this post: https://langcorrect.com/journal/外國朋友/

HI！JoeTofu. Thanks for following me.


关于你的那句话，请别误会，其实我只是想用这个提醒自己，可能很多时候写作者需要的是先改错，后改为更地道的说法。但有时候，作为母语者，会忘记这一点。

虽然我自己说 ”One of my principles in correcting Chinese texts is not only to correct errors in usage and spelling, but also to make the corrected text more natural.“ 但有时候也会忘记。

而你的那句话，正好证明了我的这个”correction principle“，是正确的，是被写作者们需要的。所以就很冒昧地直接引用了。其实，我是想收藏的，但是langcorrect这里没有收藏这个选项，所以就直接放我的profile上了。抱歉

如果你感到被冒犯，我在这里道歉。如果需要，我会立刻删除

不要说道歉！我问你这个问题只是因为我好奇而已。欢迎你引用我那些 :-)

哈哈哈哈，好的，谢谢！

谢谢你，satyras！