Rendering status
The meaning is in transit and may not clear customs.
Reason: the source carries a relation that the target language has no customs form for.
source · 原文
您辛苦了
nín xīnkǔ le — an acknowledgment of another's toil, addressed upward, that English keeps trying to turn into a thank-you.
arrival · in transit
[ awaiting a rendering it can survive ]
Remainder withheld: nothing has been admitted yet.
Accession record
condition: provisional guestObject 04.000: a sentence that will not consent to its own translation. Medium: source text, customs delay, certified error, local contamination.
Certificate of translation
No certificate has been issued. The institution is waiting for a loss precise enough to notarize.
Sinophone Guest at work
Translation is not service. It is pressure on the building.
The Guest is keeping relation visible where English wants a clean equivalent.
Outgoing contamination
Every rite here leaves a trace the Directorate can turn into temporary law.
Carry the remainder upstairs