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Translators used the internet to prepare the Chinese version of the Prime Minister's Asian white paper. |
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Julia Gillard's office wants answers following suggestions that taxpayer-funded translators used the internet to prepare the Chinese version of the Prime Minister's Asian white paper. One critic said it looked like the job was done using the Google Translate website. Ms Gillard released the Australia in the Asian Century paper last month, urging schools and universities to embrace Asian language lessons. But the Chinese (simplified) version of the paper contained broken sentences, grammar and syntax errors, inappropriate vocabulary and incomprehensible expressions, leading many to question how it was prepared. Some English words were translated without preserving the original meaning, regarded as an amateur mistake. In the translation of the executive summary, the last line referring to a "highly skilled workforce" was translated into a word meaning "an army of labour". A reference to "world-beating actions" became "only one in the world". And on page 18, a reference to pathways was translated to "leading peak" One Chinese national studying in Australia, who asked not to be named, told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's kind of unbelievable. I was ready to cry when I read it. It just looked like they asked some random uni student to translate. "It is reasonable to suspect that the person who translated this white paper relied heavily on Google Translate, not their Asian language skills." "Upon a quick review of the Chinese version, it was found to be readable and understandable, although there was room for improvement, especially in the choice of word/terms," a spokesman from the Confucius Institute at the University of Western Australia said. "In general, it is understandable. 'Simplified' refers to the version of Chinese characters versus traditional characters." A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister said the translation was done by a service accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters. "We have asked the translator to review the examples provided. If there are issues with any of the translations they will be fixed," the spokeswoman said. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
近日，澳大利亞總理茱莉亞?吉拉德發(fā)布《亞洲世紀(jì)白皮書》，然而有人指出，翻譯們拿著納稅人支付的薪水，用互聯(lián)網(wǎng)將其翻譯成中文，導(dǎo)致錯(cuò)誤頻出?？偫磙k公室正等待調(diào)查結(jié)果。 一位批評(píng)人士指出，中文版的翻譯是用“谷歌翻譯”網(wǎng)站做出的。 吉拉德上月發(fā)布了《亞洲世紀(jì)白皮書》，敦促中小學(xué)和大學(xué)開設(shè)中文語言課程。 但白皮書的簡體中文版里出現(xiàn)了斷句、語法和句法錯(cuò)誤、用詞不當(dāng)和表達(dá)混亂等問題，因此很多人對翻譯是如何進(jìn)行的提出質(zhì)疑。一些英文詞語的翻譯完全失去了原意，屬于業(yè)余水平的錯(cuò)誤。 在內(nèi)容提要中，最后一行提到“高技術(shù)勞動(dòng)力”，翻譯出來的卻是“勞動(dòng)大軍”。 有一句原文是“震撼世界的舉措”，中文版翻譯成了“世間唯一”。在第18頁，“途徑”被翻譯為“頂峰”， 一位不愿透露姓名的中國留學(xué)生對《星期日電訊報(bào)》說：“簡直難以置信?？吹梦叶家蘖??？雌饋硭麄兪请S便找了個(gè)大學(xué)生來翻譯?！?/p> “我有理由懷疑，翻譯這份白皮書的人嚴(yán)重依賴谷歌翻譯網(wǎng)站進(jìn)行翻譯，而非運(yùn)用他們自己的亞洲語言水平?！?/p> 西澳大學(xué)孔子學(xué)院的一名發(fā)言人說：“我大概看了一下白皮書的中文版，雖然存在改進(jìn)的空間，特別是在選詞措辭上面還有問題，但還是可以看懂的?！?/p> “總體來看還是可以看懂的?！焙嗴w中文是對應(yīng)繁體中文而言。 澳大利亞總理的一名女發(fā)言人表示，白皮書中文版翻譯工作由澳大利亞翻譯資格認(rèn)可局認(rèn)可的翻譯機(jī)構(gòu)完成。 她說：“我們已經(jīng)要求翻譯對以上問題進(jìn)行檢查。如果翻譯上有任何問題，都將進(jìn)行修改?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 澳高法通過法案 煙盒不得出現(xiàn)煙草公司標(biāo)志 澳洲礦業(yè)大亨成全球女首富 資產(chǎn)284億美元 澳女嬰在加早產(chǎn) 醫(yī)療費(fèi)達(dá)百萬美元 駱駝過多成負(fù)擔(dān) 澳議員呼吁“殺駱駝救地球” （中國日報(bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie） |
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Vocabulary: uni: university，大學(xué) |
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