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 中文介绍见 [Wiki](https://github.com/wweir/sower/wiki)
 
-The sower is a cross-platform intelligent transparent proxy tool. It provide both socks5 proxy and DNS-based proxy. All these kinds of proxy support intelligent router.
+Sower is a cross-platform intelligent transparent proxy tool. It provides both socks5 proxy and DNS-based proxy. All these kinds of proxies support intelligent routing.
 
-If you already have another proxy solution, you can use it's socks5(h) service as a parent proxy to enjoy the sower's intelligent router.
+If you already have another proxy solution, you can use its socks5(h) service as a parent proxy to enjoy sower's intelligent routing.
 
 ## Installation
 
-To enjoy the sower, you need to deploy sower on both server-side(sowerd) and client-side(sower).
+To enjoy sower, you need to deploy sower on both server-side(sowerd) and client-side(sower).
 
 ## Sowerd
 
-_If you wanna use sower as secondary proxy to provide intelligent router, you can skip sowerd._
+_If you want to use sower as a secondary proxy to provide intelligent routing, you can skip sowerd._
 
-At the server-side, the sowerd runs just like a web server proxy. It will occupy two ports `80` / `443`.
+On the server-side, sowerd runs just like a web server proxy. It will bind two ports `80` / `443`.
 
-You can use your own certificate or the certificate automatically applied for by the sowerd from [`Let's Encrypt`](https://letsencrypt.org/).
+You can use your own certificate or the certificate automatically applied for by sowerd from [`Let's Encrypt`](https://letsencrypt.org/).
 
 There are two ways to run the sowerd service:
 
-1. run the shell command with root permission
+1. Run the command with root permission
 
    ```shell
    # sowerd -password XXX -fake_site 127.0.0.1:8080
    ```
 
-2. install as a systemd service
+2. Install as a systemd service
 
    ```service
    [Unit]
@@ -51,20 +51,21 @@ There are two ways to run the sowerd service:
 
 ## Sower
 
-A config file is required in sower client side. [Here](https://github.com/wweir/sower/wiki/sower.hcl) is an usable example in China.
+A config file is required on the sower client side. [Here](https://github.com/wweir/sower/wiki/sower.hcl) is a usable example in China.
 
-`Sower` will take 4 port by default with root permission. They are: `udp(53)` / `tcp(80)` / `tcp(443)` / `tcp(1080)`.
+`Sower` will bind 4 ports by default with root permission. They are: `udp(53)` / `tcp(80)` / `tcp(443)` / `tcp(1080)`.
 
-After do the next three step, you can enjoy the intelligent transparent proxy solution:
+After doing the next three steps, you can enjoy the intelligent transparent proxy solution:
 
-1. run the command line with root permission:
+1. Run the command with root permission:
 
    ```shell
    # sower -f sower.hcl
    ```
 
-2. changing your DNS server to `127.0.0.1` and
-3. setting your proxy to `socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080`.
+2. Change your DNS server to `127.0.0.1`.
+
+3. Set your proxy to `socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080`.
 
 ## Architecture