상해에 있는 번역 사업
데비드 Tan의
상해에 있는 좋은 동시 해석자는 1 RMB500까지 벌 수 있다 시간. 나는 저 내친구 (것은인지 누구) 그녀 있고 꿈 일이, 그리고 종료했음에 틀림없지 않는다 놀렸다. 그녀는 1개에서 2개의 지정을 달 번다, 5 일을 최대 취하고, 7,000 10,000 RMB 사이에서 달 지속한. 평균 현지 기준에 의하여, 달 10,000RMB는 안락하게 살 것이다 이젠 그만 보다는 더 많은 것 이다. 달에 있는 25 일의 나머지, 그녀는 그녀가 좋아하는 일을 하는 그것을 쓴다. 그녀는 마지막으로 안으로 종료한다 "압력"를 인용하는 1 일을 부른다.
압력? 무슨 압력? 누구가 지금 막 밝힌 무슨 반복지에서 아주 곤란한 무엇이. 당신이 두 언어 전부에서 유창한 경우에 너무 곤란하면 안되는가? 권리?
아니다!
나는 해석 또는 번역 사업의 나의 첫번째 맛을 최근에 얻었다. 내친구 그녀의 일로 압도되고 저를 그녀를 위한 powerpoint 발표의 작은 부분을 번역하도록 요구했다 (중국어를 영어로에서). 나는 얼핏 봄을 가지고 갔다. 각 활주에 약간 문장을 가진 대략 16 페이지이었다. 보인다 충분히 쉽게….또는 이렇게 나는 얼마 시간을 나가 필요로 하는지… 그녀가 저에게 질문했다는 것을 생각했다. 나는 자부하 이상의 30 mins. 소요되면 안된ㄴ다는 것을 응답했다. 나중에 60 분, 나는 아직도 마지막 몇 활주를 완료하기 위하여 고투하고 있다.
Sabrina는 맞은 더 일렀다. Without a proper glossary, knowing the background / objective, who the recipients of the information are, it is impossible to churn out any quality translation fast. Its like writing a letter and not knowing who you writing for. I kept needing to backtrack and make corrections on previous slides to ensure the overall coherence of the presentations. Same words can conjure different meanings and connotations to different audiences. I kept having to ask her how these are linked to other parts of the documents. It was finally finished at a “record” time of 1 hr 20 mins.
So next time, if you ever have a translator working for you, be kind to them! Provide them with information of your target audience/recipient info, background, objective and glossary. In return, you get better quality of work out of them, in a lot less time.
David Tan, Mad About Shanghai
October 30th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
thanks for sharing. Please be nice to us translators. :)
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Like the pros of other fields, they wont feel any pressure if he/ she is a quality and efficient translator.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:21 am
When translating something, you must know the whole story and understand it thoroughly. Otherwise, like what you said, you won’t be able to translate anything decent.
Translation is not just about replacing the every words with the other language, but “replacing” the whole thing (meaning…) with another language!
November 17th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
As a professional interpreter I cannot but chip in my 2 cents (looks like a buck now though))
From the obvious undercurrent of the author’s words I gather that he is not a professional translator - then the feeling you got from translating is about right.
Like the famous saying - having two hands does not make you a piano player as much as knowing two languages does not make you a translator, - you can understand that it is a skill and it is learned and practiced. Of course translating is not an easy job - what professionally done job is easy after all? - but it is a pleasant difficulty. Like with anything - a person should have a calling for a profession, and developed skills, which outweigh the difficulty. Simultaneous interpreting is the top-notch level in the profession, the challenge and the adrenaline can give you that - je-ne-sais-quoi ‘high’, but yeah, it sure gives the brain a certain stress. Though 5 days a month - she got herself a gravy train ride:) It’s a shame she quit. On the downside though perhaps switching between Chinese and Western sets of mind while interpreting is sure more difficult than doing it between Western languages, maybe it is the reason. But yeah, it all burns down to what you are saying, you gotta understand how your interpreter works and provide all the necessary background info and all. After all, you need to have some respect for the one whom you expect to relay in real-time a report you spent weeks writing up in another language. Nice post.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Agree. Translation not just repeat, but need to analysis. Few years ago, my foreign colleague asked me to be her translator in her lesson since there were quite a lot of hong kong people. However, the lesson content included so many techical terms. My english was not good enough, so, even the lesson ran smoothly lastly, i was not satisfy with what i did.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:22 am
Yes, it is not easy to be a good interpreter or translator. I am working as a freelance translator and interpreter in guangzhou. Last month I worked for a sluice gate manufacturer from Canada for their presentation meeting in China. I prepared 300pages of terminology in this industry and the meeting is only 2 hours. My daily translation is less than 3000 word a day as I need to find the exact meaning of the terms both in Chinese and in English.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
When you do translation/interpretation, you have to be very familar with the industry that you work for and very familar with their products and services it is providing.
This will require time to prepare yourself.
I don’t mind do some translations. It could be pretty challenging