Chinese translation Skills - 英中笔译心得

1. 接到翻译的单子的时候，是可以立即向客户反馈信息的

这不是最重要的，但是英中笔译技巧中第一个用到的技巧。客户可能没有说交期，你可以问他，包括他所在的地区的时区 - 因为客户可能在美国也可能在日本；你也可以问有没有参考的资料，如网站、有关文件；或者约定翻译过程中需要联系客户时的联系方式；交给客户的是中英双语还是纯中文...
你做的翻译越多，你的经验就越多，你知道的与客户沟通时的注意事项也会越来越多。

2. 通常按从头到尾的顺序翻译，但有时候可以先跳过一些内容

Chinese translation Skills - 英中笔译示例2

This post is wrote in Chinese -Mandarin.

插句话：

These assessments are adiminstrated to students several times throughout the year. The information in the chart below will help you interpret your child’s scores.

译法1：
在整个学年，这种考试将进行好几次。下表列出你的孩子在此次考试中的成绩：
译法2：

在整个学年，这种考试有好几次。下表列出你的孩子在此次考试中的成绩：

分析：
译法2，好就好在将'are adiminstrated to students' 直接用 ‘有好几次’代替了。明显，‘考试有好几次’是更为地道的中文写法。这就是翻译质量‘好’与‘极好’之间的区别。

2. 英中笔译示例及解析

How can we know it is a good Chinese translation

How can I know it is a good Chinese translation?

You will always have a concern when you get a Chinese translation from a freelancer, especially you do not know Chinese.

You hire a Chinese proofreader, He or She make an overall comments on it. Or you get the comment from your client. The feedback may be positive, you will be relax.

However, the feedback may be negative. You forward them to the translator.

The translator say ‘sorry’ but sometimes you will get some responds from the translator as the following:

“I revise some texts - but not all as I insist that some translations are appropriate…”
“It is language art, not math. Even the proofreader made corrections, you send the translation to third person, and new issues possibly are occurred… it is endless!  ”

Translation English -Chinese: Legal - Criminal Record Document of Lithuania

Translation English -Chinese: Legal -  Criminal Record Document of Lithuania

English text

Chinese Translation -Health and Beauty

Chinese Translation -Health and Beauty

Baby Cleansing Mousse

婴幼儿泡泡沐浴露