数字口译文档格式.doc

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1.“万”vs.millionand“亿”vs.billion

InChinese,onetendstosay“万”（tenthousand）and“亿”（onehundredmillion）ofwhichthereisnoequivalentinEnglish.InEnglish,thereare“million”（百万）and“billion”（十亿）.Yet,manytraineessometimesrefer“万”toas“million”and“亿”as“billion”.

2.ComparisonExpressions

ThewayscomparisonisexpressedinChineseare,insomerespect,differentfromthoseinEnglish,especiallywhenthequestionsofcountableanduncountablenounsareinvolved.Forexample,“中国1995年的国民收入比1980年翻了两番。

”isinterpretedinto“China’snationalincomein1995wasfourtimesthatof1980.”

3.MeasurementUnits

QuiteafewunitsofmeasurementinChineseusuallyhavetobeconvertedsoastofacilitateunderstanding.Forexample,inChinese,onetendstomeasurethemileageby“kilometers”whiletheEnglishspeakerusuallyresortto“miles”.

TheInterpretationofFigures

Thefundamentalsolutiontotheaforementioneddifficultiesliesinpractice.“Practicemakesperfect.”Toensureaccuracy,itisalwayshelpfulandreassuringtospeedilyjotthemdownastheoriginalspeakerisutteringthem.Itisveryriskytryingtodoalongseriesoffiguresininterpretingwithoutjottingthemdowninafeasibleway.InthecaseofinterpretingbetweenChineseandEnglish,figuresdorequireasufficientamountoftraining.

1.Twothingsthatareconsideredadvisable

Inthecourseoffiguresinterpretationtraining,thefollowingtwothingsareusuallyconsideredadvisable:

（1）Tolayemphasisonthespeedyandaccuraterenderingoffiguresinvolving“万”and“亿”asafirststep.

（2）Topracticetherapidreadingof5-digitnumbers,8-digitnumbersandthen10-digitnumbersinbothChineseandEnglish,thencombinethemwithvarious“unitsofmeasurement”untilaccuracyandfluencyareachieved.

2.Twopossiblesetsofsignstojotdownfiguresspeedily.

Here,wewishtointroducetwopossiblesetsofsignstojotdownfiguresspeedily:

（1）Usingcommas（,）,eachrepresentingonegroupofthreenaughts.Forexample,“fortythousand”canberepresentedby“40,”;

“sevenmillion”canberepresentedby“7,,”.

（2）Resortingto“th”,“m”,“b”and“tr”,respectivelyrepresenting“thousand”,“million”,“billion”and“trillion”.Forexample,“fortythousand”canberepresentedby“40th”;

“sevenmillion”canberepresentedby“7m”.

3.InterpretingCardinalNumbers

ItiseasytointerpretnumbersbelowonehundredbecausethereisaregularsetofnumeralsinEnglish.EquivalentsoftheChinese“百”and“千”canbefoundinEnglish,i.e.“hundred”and“thousand”.However,sincetherearenotequivalentcardinalnumbersof“万”and“十万”inEnglish,figuresinvolvingfiveandsixdigitsmustbeinterpretedwithcaution.Thereisanequivalentcardinalnumberof“百万”inEnglish,whichis“million”.ButnoEnglishequivalentscanbefoundfor“千万”and“亿”.So,ininterpretation,wemustconvert“千万”into“tenmillion”and“亿”into“onehundredmillion”.TheChinese“十亿”is“abillion”inAmericanEnglish.ButinBritishEnglish,itmustbeconvertedinto“onethousandmillion”.

4.InterpretingFractions

Fractionsarecomposedofthenumeratorandthedenominator.Cardinalnumbersareusedforthenumeratorwhileordinalnumbersareusedforthedenominator.Whenthenumeratorisone,thedenominatorisreadinitssingularform.Ifthenumeratorisnotone,thepluralformshouldbeusedforthedenominator.Incasethenumeratorandthedenominatorarebignumbers,botharepronouncedascardinalnumbers,buttheyarejoinedbytheword“over”inbetween.Forexample,23/75isreadas“23over75”.Thefullnumberinthefractionisreadasacardinalnumberandisconnectedbytheword“and”withthefractionnumber.

5.InterpretingDecimals

Thedecimalpointispronouncedas“point”.Allthenumeralsafterthedecimalpointarereadonebyoneasordinarycardinalnumbers.Forexample,“3.25”isreadas“threepointtwofive”.

Procedures:

1.Cardinals,fractions,decimalsandpercentages

Forcardinalnumbers,askstudentstofamiliarizethemselveswiththeconversionofnumbersbetweenChineseandEnglish,whichisalwaysabigheadacheforinterpreterssinceChineseadoptsafour-digitsystemwhileEnglishadoptsathree-digitsystem.Alsonotethat“and”isnotusedafterhundredsinAmericanEnglish.

Forfractions,studentsshouldnotonlyknowhowtodealwiththeinterpretingoffractionswithsmalldenominators,butalsofractionswithlargedenominators.Inthelattercase,“over”isusuallyuse