To build our city into a national sanitary city and beautify our common home

[GoodTaste]

Well, our city has already been a nation-level sanitary city, but this slogan still remains on the walls of many public buses. I am not sure whether the expression "To build our city into a national sanitary city and beautify our common home" is a proper slogan in English.

Is it a proper slogan?

 

[teechar]

I understand it, but I wouldn't say it's natural.

 

[GoodTaste]

Please make it natural if you'd like to.

 

[GoesStation]

I think it works fine in the context of an English-language slogan on the wall of a bus in China. It's not a great translation, but it's comprehensible (even if we have to guess what a "national sanitary city" might be) and worded like what it is: someone's best effort at translating what might be an equally clumsy slogan in Chinese. The nearest thing you might conceivably find in an American bus would say something like "Keep our city clean — Keep it beautiful".

 

[teechar]

Please make it natural if you could.[STRIKE]you'd like to.[/STRIKE]

Something like:
Keep Our City Clean And Beautiful.

 

[GoodTaste]

"Keep our city clean — Keep it beautiful".

Something like:
Keep Our City Clean And Beautiful.

:up: Got it.

"National sanitary city" is a product of politics in China and has no equivalent in English world.

 

[teechar]

"National sanitary city" is a product of politics in China and has no equivalent in the English-speaking world.

Correct.