English Reading Wizard
Full machine translation has made substantial achievements, but its quality hasn't reached a satisfactory level. Figure 1 shows such a system's Chinese-to-English translation. English speakers can get a rough sense of what the original Chinese text describes, but they'll probably have difficulties understanding the details. (For an example machine translation system, see Babelfish, http://babelfish.altavista.com.)
Example Chinese-to-English results from a full machine-translation system.