Chinese to English Science Education / Pedagogy Grammatical Analysis

Sentence: 去外國旅行，多帶些美金利便些，你喜歡帶多少便帶多少吧！

Second Attempt: Taking US dollars when you travel abroad can come in handy. Take as many as you like.

Now that I have a better idea of what I translated, I can ask more detailed, and perhaps more useful questions. After you have answered these, I will respond thoroughly to all four.

Question Two: In the sentence part 多帶些美金利便些 what, in a literal sense, does the phrase 多帶些美金 mean? Does it mean"take more US dollars"?

Question Three: Recalling that the word 些 need not always be translated, the word does appear twice in the same sentence part. If I remember correctly, the phrase 多Ａ些 is a standard pattern. But, what about the second appearance of 些 in the phrase 利便些？Ｗhat role, if any, does the word play here?

Does it mean "somewhat useful", "more useful", or is it just a place holder that helps the first part of the sentence to flow? By way of example, does the pattern 多Ａ些ＢＣ些, whereＣ些 serves as a predicate adjective describing the nominalized verb phrase 多Ａ些Ｂ, exist? If so, can you think of, and provide other examples?

Question Four: Similarly, in the third part of the sentence does the clause 你喜歡帶多少便帶多少 correspond to a standard pattern, say 「Ａ喜歡Ｂ多少便Ｂ多少」. If so, could you please provide other examples?

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