It was all good when Florence was translated as 翡冷翠 (fei2 laang5 ceoi3), but afterwards, people insisted on reinventing the wheel and call it 佛羅倫斯 (fat6 lo4 leon4 si1).
Chu Hei of Sung Dynasty : "Wind and moon has no bound, garden and grass are both green."
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
翠翠瞥了祖父一眼，见他眼睛红红的，知道他喝了酒，且有了点事情不高兴，心中想：“谁撩你生气？”
翠翠瞥了祖父一眼，見他眼睛紅紅的，知道他喝了酒，且有了點事情不高興，心中想：“誰撩你生氣？”
cuì cuì piē le zǔ fù yī yǎn ， jiàn tā yǎn jīng hóng hóng de ， zhī dào tā hē le jiǔ ， qiě yǒu le diǎn shì qíng bù gāo xìng ， xīn zhōng xiǎng ： “ shéi liáo nǐ shēng qì ？ ”
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Mandarin
东南形胜，三吴都会，钱塘自古繁华。烟柳画桥，风帘翠幕，参差十万人家。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: Watching the Tidal Bore 望海潮, by Liu Yong 柳永, Northern Song Dynasty; Translated by Xu Yuanchong 许渊冲Dōngnán xíngshèng, sānwú dōuhuì, qiántáng zìgǔ fánhuá. Yānliǔ huà qiáo, fēnglián cuì mù, cānchā shíwàn rénjiā. [Pinyin]Scenic splendor southeast of River BlueAnd capital of ancient Kindom Wu,Qiantang's as flourishing as e'er.
东南形胜，三吴都会，钱塘自古繁华。烟柳画桥，风帘翠幕，参差十万人家。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: Watching the Tidal Bore 望海潮, by Liu Yong 柳永, Northern Song Dynasty; Translated by Xu Yuanchong 许渊冲Dōngnán xíngshèng, sānwú dōuhuì, qiántáng zìgǔ fánhuá. Yānliǔ huà qiáo, fēnglián cuì mù, cānchā shíwàn rénjiā. [Pinyin]Scenic splendor southeast of River BlueAnd capital of ancient Kindom Wu,Qiantang's as flourishing as e'er.
Ｔｈｅ ｓｍｏｋｅｌｉｋｅ ｗｉｌｌｏｗｓ ｆｒｏｍ a ｗｉｎｄｐｒｏｏｆ ｓｃｒｅｅｎ ；
Adorned with painted birdges and curtains green, A hundred thousand houses spread out here and there.
Two golden orioles sing amid the willows green; A flock of white egrets flies into the blue sky. My window frames the snow-crowned western mountain scene; My door oft says to eastward-going ships “Goodbye!”.
The trees on the ground are particularly verdant; the lawn is particularly moist and green; the roads have also turned from a greyish white into a pale black; as for the kumquats, poinsettias, and yellow chrysanthemums for welcoming the spring at the front of the building, the flowers and leaves are particularly soothing, enchanting, and pleasing to the eye...