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翻译指导

ABBOTTPPD

LOCALIZATIONSTYLEGUIDE

SimplifiedChinese

Version1.1

TableofContents

INTRODUCTION3

LINGUISTICGUIDELINES5

Terminology5

SimplifiedChineseflavor5

Style5

Mannerofaddressingthereader5

Imperative6

Gerund（-INGforms）6

Possessive6

Plural7

Passive/activevoice7

TYPOGRAPHY&PUNCTUATION8

Quotationmarks8

Period8

Bulletlists8

Nameofproducts8

Nontranslatableitem9

Acronyms9

Spaces9

NUMBERS,SYMBOLSANDUNITS10

Unitsofmeasure（imperialandmetric）10

Symbolsandunitsofmeasure10

Temperatures11

Decimalandthousandseparator11

Mathematicalsigns11

Hourformat12

Currencysymbol（$）12

Dateformat12

Phonenumbers12

MISCELLANEOUS13

Countrynames13

Taglinesandlogos13

Trademarksandothersymbols13

Pronunciationnotesonsourcefiles13

STYLEGUIDEMAINTENANCELOG14

INTRODUCTION

Purposeoftheguide

ThepurposeofthisStyleGuideistoserveasalinguisticreferencetoestablishgrammar,styleandterminologyguidelinesforthetranslationofAbbottpackageinsertsandpromotionaldocumentsinto“international” SimplifiedChinese.

Achievingaconsistentandunifiedstyleisimportanttoprojectanimageofprofessionalismandreliability,promotequalityacrossprojectsandminimizecostlyrevisions.

TermsthatcouldbeoffensiveorambiguousforanyofSimplifiedChinesespeakersshouldbeavoided,aswellasregionalismsorlocalvariations.

Company:

ABBOTT

Abbottisaglobal,broad-basedhealthcarecompanydevotedtodiscoveringnewmedicines,newtechnologiesandnewwaystomanagehealth.Ourproductsspanthecontinuumofcare,fromnutritionalproductsandlaboratorydiagnosticsthroughmedicaldevicesandpharmaceuticaltherapies.Thecomprehensivelineofproductsencircleslifeitself-addressingimportanthealthneedsfrominfancytothegoldenyears.

Abbotthassales,manufacturing,researchanddevelopment,anddistributionfacilitiesaroundtheworld,closetowhereourcustomersneedustobe.Abbottisrecognizedfortheirglobalreachandabilitytoservecustomersaroundtheworld.

Division:

PharmaceuticalProducts（PPD）

Abbott’spharmaceuticalproductsincludetreatmentsforpeoplewithHIV;therapiesforsufferersofrheumatoidarthritis,Crohn'sDiseaseandotherautoimmunedisorders;drugsforthetreatmentofpeoplewithmigraines,epilepsyandmaniaassociatedwithbipolardisorder;antibiotics;andspecializedmedicinesformanagingobesity,thyroiddisease,highcholesterol,hypertension,dyslipidemiaandcancer.

ListofPharmaceuticalProducts

Formoreinformationaboutthecompany,pleasevisit:

DocumentTypes

Therearetwotypesofdocuments:

Packageinserts

Promotionalmaterial

RecommendedLinguisticReferences:

∙当代英汉医学实用词典，主编：

曾宪灵，金福生；出版社：

世界图书出版公司；出版时间：

2008-8-1

∙英汉医学辞典（第三版）作者：

陈维益主编；出版社：

上海科学技术出版社；出版时间：

2009-4-1

∙英汉汉英医学分科词典：

药学分册作者：

翁心植　等主编；出版社：

世界图书出版公司

∙英汉医学缩略语词典作者：

张西臣，刘庆双，刘兆铭主编；出版社：

科学出版社；出版时间：

2004-6-1

LINGUISTICGUIDELINES

Terminology

Priorities:

Firstfollowclient-specificglossaryandstyleguide,andthenreferencematerialandtranslationmemories（TMs）.

SimplifiedChineseflavor

AbbottPPDdocumentsaregoingtobedistributedintheUSmarket,thereforetheinternationalSimplifiedChineseistobeusedinalldocumentation.Localvariationsandexpressionsshouldbeavoided.

Style

TheaccuracyofthetranslationiscrucialforPharmaceuticaldocumentsthereforethewordingoftheEnglishtexthasbeenselectedcarefully.Thetranslationshouldbeasliteralaspossiblewithoutcompromisingthereadabilityormeaningofthetranslatedtext.Thetextshouldsoundnatural,beeasytoread,andbeabletopassasatextoriginallywritteninthetargetlanguage.

Notethatdistinctionsbetweenwordssuchastheonesshownbelowshouldbekeptclearlyinthetranslation.

may

can

must

should

most

more

intensity

severity

constantly

regularly

worsen

Increase

switch

change

serious

severe

high

higher

Thestyleshouldbeconsistent.Thesametermsshouldhavethesametranslationacrossallfilesanddocuments.Makesuregrammaticalandpunctuationrulesareusedcorrectlyinthetranslation.

Thedifferentdocumenttypesmayrequiredifferentregisterandtone.Pleasemakesureyoufollowtheregisterandtoneofthesourcetext.

Mannerofaddressingthereader

InSimplified,theformalwayofaddressingthereadershouldbeusedinalltypesoftext.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

Ifawakenedbyflushingatnight,youshouldgetupslowly.

如果夜间因发热而醒来，您应该慢慢地起床。

如果夜间因发热而醒来，你应该慢慢地起床。

Theuseoftheterm您shouldbeavoidedwheneverpossibleinordernottofallintoaredundantandmonotonousstyle.Itshouldonlybeusedwhennecessarytodeterminewhoneedstodoanaction.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

Ifyouhavediabetes,checkyourbloodsugarlevels.

如患有糖尿病，应检查血糖水平。

如果您患有糖尿病，应该检查您的血糖水平。

Imperative

Theimperativetenseshouldbeusedwhengivinginstructions,particularlyinlistsandbulletpoints.Makesuretoconsistentlyusetheimperativesentenceratherthanthedeclarativesentence.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

Donotuseifthesealsarebrokenormissing

如果密封破损或缺失，请勿使用

如果密封破损或缺失，您不要使用

Gerund（-INGforms）

ProgressiveformsinEnglisharegenerallyavoidedinSimplifiedChinese,especiallywhenincludedintitles.Translatesectiontitlesandingeneral–ingformswithanounorverb.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

Choosingandpreparinganinjectionsite

注射部位的选择和准备

正在选择和准备注射部位

Progressiveformsareonlyacceptablewhentheyrefertoanactionwhichistakingplaceinthatmoment.Forexample“Printing...”

Possessive

ThecommonuseofpossessivepronounsinEnglishshouldbeavoidedinSimplifiedChinese.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

Ifyoufeelpaininyourchest

如果感觉胸部疼痛

如果您感觉您的胸部疼痛

Plural

Theoptionalpluralrepresentedbytheletter“s”betweenbrackets,asin“bodypart（s）”shouldbeavoidedwheneverpossible.Thesingularformofthenounshouldbeusedinstead.Example:

English

Right

Wrong

bodypart（s）

身体部位

身体部位（多个）

Passive/activevoice

Usetheactivevoice:

English

SimplifiedChinese

HUMIRAisadministeredbysubcutaneousinjection.

HUMIRA经皮下给药。

TYPOGRAPHY&PUNCTUATION

Quotationmarks

Quotationmarksareusedwhenreferringtochapters,sectionsandtopics.

English

SimplifiedChinese

[seeWarningsandPrecautions（5.1,5.2）andAdverseReactions（6.1）]

[请参阅“警告和注意事项”（5.1,5.2），以及“不良反应”（6.1）]

Fornestedquotations—thatis,aquotationwithinaquotation—usesinglequotationmarksindoublequotationmarks,bothareallDouble-Bytedquotationmarks.

Quotationmarks canbeusediftheydenoteemphasis.Quotationstyle,whetherdoubleorsingleintheoriginalEnglish,shouldbe doubleinChinese.

English

Right

Wrong

NIASPANraises“good”HDLcholesterol…

NIASPAN可提升“好”胆固醇（HDL）水平

NIASPAN可提升'好'胆固醇（HDL）水平

Period

Useaperiodattheendofallcompletesentences.Inasentenceendingwithatermwithinquotationmarksorbrackets,theperiodshouldgooutsidetheclosingquotationmarkorbracket.

Sentencesendingwithellipsis,questionmarkorexclamationmarkdon’thaveaperiod.

Inbulletlists,beconsistentwiththeuseorlackofafinalperiod.SeeBulletlistsbelow.

Bulletlists

UsethesamepunctuationforbulletlistsasintheEnglishtext.

Nameofproducts

NameofproductslikeHUMIRA,KALETRA,NIASPAN,etc.sometimesappearinthetextinalluppercaseletterandinotherinstancesitonlyhasthefirstletterinuppercase.Please,applycapitalizationasitappearsintheEnglishversion.

English

Right

Wrong

HUMIRAisadministeredbysubcutaneousinjection.

HUMIRA经皮下给药。

Humira经皮下给药。

Nontranslatableitem

Foralistofnontranslatableitems,checktheAbbottPPD_Sourceterms_ZH-Sglossary.

Acronyms

EnglishacronymsthatarecommonlyusedinSimplifiedChinesearegenerallykeptinEnglisheveninSimplifiedChineseliterature.Forexample:

WHO,HIV.

ThequestioniswhetheracronymsforcommondiseasesorhormonesshouldbelocalizedintoSimplifiedChineseornot.Forexample:

BUN（bloodureanitrogen）,CPK（creatinephosphokinase）,etc.Forthistypeofacronym,whenitappearsinachapterorahelptopicthefirsttime,itshouldbetranslatedintoSimplifiedChineseandwiththeacronymincludedintheparentheses.

Forexample,

English

SimplifiedChinese

BUN

血尿素氮（BUN）

InSimplifiedChinese,pluralacronymsandabbreviationsdonotagreeinplural.Pleasejustdropthe“s”.

Spaces

MakesuretherearenospacesbetweenChinesecharacters,orbetweenChinesecharactersandEnglishwords.

English

Right

Wrong

apolipoproteinA-I

载脂蛋白A-I

载脂蛋白A-I

luerlockconnection

luer锁接头

luer锁接头

NUMBERS,SYMBOLSANDUNITS

Unitsofmeasure（imperialandmetric）

InAbbottdocuments,wewillfindunitsofmeasureinmetricsystemandimperialsystemdependingonthecontext.PleasefollowtheEnglishtextforallunitsofmeasure.Don’tprovidemetricequivalentinparenthesisunlessitisdoneintheEnglishversion.ThesetranslationsareforUSaudiences.Examplesofunitsofmeasure:

1-Below160mg/dLifyouhaveoneornoriskfactors

2-Tellyourdoctorifyoudonotloseatleast4poundsinthefirst4weeksoftakingMERIDIAandeatingalowcaloriediet.

3-Ifyouchooseyourabdomen,youshouldavoidthearea2inchesaroundyourbellybutton（navel）.

Symbolsandunitsofmeasure

Whenusingsymbolsorunitsofmeasure,aspaceneedstobeinsertedbetweenthenumberandthecorresponding