Summary
1. Causing of the mistakes: The translators of the above mentioned signs are doing a simple job: consulting a dictionary for a Chinese character, then adding them up, without even changing the order of the words. Strictly speaking, it can’t be called “translation” at all. The English versions read like nonsense, and sometimes they can be quite ridiculous. It is assumed that those translations are done by translation software (machine translation) instead of individuals.
2. Ways of avo