English-Chinese Translation of Science and Technology Texts Based on the Differences Between Chinese and Western Modes of Thinking

As a tool for human communication,the use of language is affected by the way of thinking in cross-cultural communication.Due to the differences between Chinese and Western cultures,the way of thinking varies under the influence of such cultural differences.In the process of translation,the influence of the different thinking mode on translation activities cannot be ignored.At present,a lot of studies and researches have focused on the influence of Chinese and Western thinking mode on translation.However,it is still worthwhile to study what specific influence the difference between Chinese and Western thinking mode will exert on the translation process of science texts and what kind of measure should be taken to solve the negative influence brought by the differences when we are translating.This paper aims to discuss the influence of thinking differences between Chinese and Western countries on the process of English-Chinese translation of science and technology from the perspectives of long sentences,passive voice and nominalization,and how the translators should appropriately adjust their thinking pattern and use reasonable skills to eliminate the potential negative interference caused by the difference and achieve a better transformation between English and Chinese.

Skopos Theory to Strategies for Translating Rhetorical Devices in Science Fiction: A Case Study of The Rural Teacher

As the first winner of"The Hugo Award"in Asia, Liu Cixin has applied an army of rhetorical devices in his scientific fictions. How to translate these rhetorical devices is of great importance to the appreciation of the science fictions. With the aim of researching the strategies of the translation of the rhetorical devices in the Science Fiction, this paper has a discussion on the strategies of translating the rhetorical devices in English in the light of the Skopos Theory. It is hoped that this study may be of some help to future translation practitioners who want to translate China's SF works into foreign languages and the teaching of the same.

论尤金·奈达笔下Science of Translating的翻译

英语Science of Translating译成"翻译科学"违背和颠覆了翻译定义,将尤金·奈达笔下的Science of Translating译成"翻译科学"是误译,是违背和颠覆翻译定义却广为人接受的翻译范例。英语"科学"仅指自然科学,而汉语"科学"指自然科学和人文社会科学。翻译是科学和非科学之争论在中国翻译理论界一直激烈存在,现在依然没有结论。研究发现,争论一是因为不同的定义而引起,二是因为对奈达观点的误解而引起。按英语的"科学"定义,翻译不是科学;按汉语"科学"定义,翻译是科学。然而,中国主流派译论家编写的教科书说,"翻译是科学"的观点是根据奈达的观点而得来。可是,奈达笔下的Science of Translating被理解和译成"翻译科学"是误读和误译,中国人完全根据汉语"科学"的定义说翻译是科学。

奈达翻译理论新解——奈达代表作书名Toward a Science of Translating的名与实

奈达代表作书名Toward a Science of Translating译成"翻译科学探索"引起译论界高度的关注和激烈争论。译文"翻译科学探索"中的两个词——"翻译科学"和"探索",都值得很好的商榷。Toward a Science of Translating的真正含义是"迈向翻译学"。

Study on the Application of the Online Course——Translation of English for Science and Technology

Computer technology is indispensable to modern education and the online education is a useful platform for online re sources which integrates computer technology into teaching process. This paper, based on the research of online course-Transla tion of English for Science and Technology, demonstrates the function of the online educational technology in the teaching of Translation of English for Science and Technology and points out the shortcomings of this platform.

Topology Search of 3-DOF Translational Parallel Manipulators with Three Identical Limbs for Leg Mechanisms

Three-degree of freedom（3-DOF） translational parallel manipulators（TPMs） have been widely studied both in industry and academia in the past decades. However, most architectures of 3-DOF TPMs are created mainly on designers＇ intuition, empirical knowledge, or associative reasoning and the topology synthesis researches of 3-DOF TPMs are still limited. In order to find out the atlas of designs for 3-DOF TPMs, a topology search is presented for enumeration of 3-DOF TPMs whose limbs can be modeled as 5-DOF serial chains. The proposed topology search of 3-DOF TPMs is aimed to overcome the sensitivities of the design solution of a 3-DOF TPM for a LARM leg mechanism in a biped robot. The topology search, which is based on the concept of generation and specialization in graph theory, is reported as a step-by-step procedure with desired specifications, principle and rules of generalization, design requirements and constraints, and algorithm of number synthesis. In order to obtain new feasible designs for a chosen example and to limit the search domain under general considerations, one topological generalized kinematic chain is chosen to be specialized. An atlas of new feasible designs is obtained and analyzed for a specific solution as leg mechanisms. The proposed methodology provides a topology search for 3-DOF TPMs for leg mechanisms, but it can be also expanded for other applications and tasks.

Application of a Web Search Engine in Translating Business Terms in English-Chinese Dictionaries

Web search engines are important tools for lexicography.This paper takes translation of business terms("e-commerce"and"e-business")as an example to illustrate the application of web search engines in English-Chinese dictionary translation,including the methods of(1)finding the potential Chinese equivalents of the English business terms,and(2)selecting typical and proper Chinese equivalents in accordance with the frequencies and the meanings of the English business terms respectively.

Web of Science和Google Scholar引文检索功能比较

文章从检索范围、检索方法、检索结果以及检索效果等方面对WebofScience和GoogleScholar的引文检索功能进行了比较分析,指出它们各自的优势和不足。

对英文科技期刊约稿的初浅认识和尝试--以Journal of Translational Neuroscience为例

目的作为一本新创的英文期刊,Journal of Translational Neuroscience杂志需要尽快提升其学术水平,扩大其社会影响力,以期能迅速在国际专业学术期刊界占有一席之地,通过约稿获得高质量的学术论文就显得至关重要。方法笔者从找准期刊学术定位、采取灵活多样的约稿方式、分析解决约稿过程中可能存在的问题以及如何做好约稿后续服务工作等几个方面入手,初浅分析探讨了关于期刊约稿的方式方法。结果通过期刊定位准确锁定目标作者群,依托自身优势资源,参与学术会议,通过编委约稿以及提供优质的后续服务等方法获得稳定的高质量作者群,从而获得持续的优秀稿源。结论拥有持续的高质量稿件是促使期刊进入良性循环的重要保障,通过约稿可以解决新创办的期刊无稿可用和缺少优秀稿件的难题,推动期刊走出困境,渐入正轨。

基于transformer的维汉神经机器翻译

神经机器翻译在许多任务上已取得了不错的效果,然而在低资源语种上的效果并不理想。针对这一问题,该文提出一种基于transformer的维汉机器翻译模型,该模型在transformer的基础上引入了循环机制和时间编码,使模型具有更好的泛化性和计算效率,同时在模型的输出端采用了beam search优化,针对模型的输出存在谐音字、混淆音字等问题采用了字粒度的语言模型困惑度进行评判。实验采用BLEU作为评价指标,实验表明,在少量维语与汉语的平行语料库的基础上,该文提出的改进transformer维汉机器翻译模型能够取得更好的效果,BLUE值提升了0.93%。

A Novel Beam Search to Improve Neural Machine Translation for English-Chinese

Neural Machine Translation(NMT)is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation,overcoming the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems.Although NMT based systems have gained their popularity in commercial translation applications,there is still plenty of room for improvement.Being the most popular search algorithm in NMT,beam search is vital to the translation result.However,traditional beam search can produce duplicate or missing translation due to its target sequence selection strategy.Aiming to alleviate this problem,this paper proposed neural machine translation improvements based on a novel beam search evaluation function.And we use reinforcement learning to train a translation evaluation system to select better candidate words for generating translations.In the experiments,we conducted extensive experiments to evaluate our methods.CASIA corpus and the 1,000,000 pairs of bilingual corpora of NiuTrans are used in our experiments.The experiment results prove that the proposed methods can effectively improve the English to Chinese translation quality.

Translating Interdisciplinary Research on Language Learning into Identifying Specific Learning Disabilities in Verbally Gifted and Average Children and Youth

The current research was grounded in prior interdisciplinary research that showed cognitive ability (verbal ability for translating cognitions into oral language) and multiple-working memory endophenotypes (behavioral markers of genetic or brain bases of language learning) predict reading and writing achievement in students with and without specific learning disabilities in written language (SLDs-WL). Results largely replicated prior findings that verbally gifted with dyslexia score higher on reading and writing achievement than those with average verbal ability but not on endophenotypes. The current study extended that research by comparing those with and without SLDs-WL with assessed verbal ability held constant. The verbally gifted without SLDs-WL (n = 14) scored higher than the verbally gifted with SLDs-WL (n = 27) on six language skills (oral sentence construction, best and fastest handwriting in copying, single real word oral reading accuracy, oral pseudoword reading accuracy and rate) and four endophenotypes (orthographic and morphological coding, orthographic loop, and switching attention). The verbally average without SLDs-WL (n = 6) scored higher than the verbally average with SLDs-WL (n = 22) on four language skills (best and fastest hand-writing in copying, oral pseudoword reading accuracy and rate) and two endophenotypes (orthographic coding and orthographic loop). Implications of results for translating interdisciplinary research into flexible definitions for assessment and instruction to serve students with varying verbal abilities and language learning and endophenotype profiles are discussed along with directions for future research.

Assessing the performance of different outcomes for tumor growth studies with animal models

The consistency of reporting results for patient-derived xenograft(PDX) studies is an area of concern. The PDX method commonly starts by implanting a derivative of a human tumor into a mouse, then comparing the tumor growth under different treatment conditions. Currently, a wide array of statistical methods(e.g., t-test, regression, chi-squared test) are used to analyze these data, which ultimately depend on the outcome chosen(e.g., tumor volume, relative growth, categorical growth). In this simulation study, we provide empirical evidence for the outcome selection process by comparing the performance of both commonly used outcomes and novel variations of common outcomes used in PDX studies. Data were simulated to mimic tumor growth under multiple scenarios, then each outcome of interest was evaluated for 10?000 iterations. Comparisons between different outcomes were made with respect to average bias, variance, type-1 error, and power. A total of 18 continuous, categorical, and time-to-event outcomes were evaluated, with ultimately 2 outcomes outperforming the others: final tumor volume and change in tumor volume from baseline.Notably, the novel variations of the tumor growth inhibition index(TGII)— a commonly used outcome in PDX studies— was found to perform poorly in several scenarios with inflated type-1 error rates and a relatively large bias. Finally, all outcomes of interest were applied to a real-world dataset.

The Role of Cooking for Hospital Food Service in Cancer Care-Units: Nutrition Is a Supportive Care While Cooking Appears to Be a Prescription

Cancer cachexia and treatment-induced side effects can contribute to deterioration in nutritional status in patients declining the quality of life and survival rates. Culinary practices may provide new strategies to minimize the symptoms. NEODIA (learning to live with a cancer on a day-to-day basis) is an observational program whose objective is to better understand the occurrence of treatment-related side effects as well as culinary and dietary habits in cancer patients followed in the Cancer Unit of the Beauvais City Hospital, France. First study step in 2010 has investigated culinary solutions to improve the quality of life of the patient at home. The present part tries in particular to answer the question if the culinary advising is transposable to the offer of restoration proposed by institutions of care in oncology. We first conducted an investigation on the determinants of quality of life in patients currently treated in a hospital service involving 41 people. In a second step, we are collecting information on the food supply itself, using advising of some patient’s specially prepared to test meals as a translational research expertise. The results of our survey show that patient’s remarks constitute real guidelines to adapt the practices in culinary production and healthy catering management. Based on these results, the consistency of frozen prepared meals has been analyzed regarding their potential to regulate the under nutrition-inducing treatment-related side effects. Conducted by the patient’s panel of the translational research group the study highlights the benefits of agro-food products and margins of progress.

Strategies of Back Translation of Works on China Written by Modern Foreign Scholars--Illustrated by Translation of Chinese Characteristics

Since 1980s,with the deepening of the cultural communication between China and western countries,more and more works on China written by modern foreign scholars are translated into Chinese,and most of the versions are of high quality. But there also exist some common deficiencies,the most representative of which lie in the versions reflecting the Chinese elements,that is,the versions are ( 1) less formal; ( 2) less idiomatical and ( 3) unable to correct the errors of the original. However,translation practice shows that back translation is an effective way to solve the problems above. Based on the discussion of the back translation theory and his experience from translating Chinese Characteristics,the author presents some corresponding strategies about back translation.

A Case Study on the Translation of Fictitious Elements in Science Fiction

As The Three-Body Problem translated by Ken Liu went popular in America, Chinese science fiction has got spotlightfrom all over the world. This article studies the translation of fictitious elements in The Three-Body Problem. Based on the specificmethods Ken Liu employs, general requirements for translators are proposed and strategies of translating fictitious elements areelicited. It intends to bring forth enlightening ideas in translating fictitious elements of science fiction and shed lights on this areaof study which few have set foot on.

基于COCA语料库的河北“非遗”外宣模式研究

非物质文化遗产是中华优秀传统文化的精髓。基于美国当代英语语料库COCA,以河北省国家级非物质文化遗产代表性项目为研究对象,对其英译文本进行检索和提取,以探讨其海外认知度、关注热点和认知途径。发现其外宣翻译存在名称不统一、不同非遗项目海外接受度存在较大差异、地域限定搭配不显著的问题。从传播主体来看,应重视译者和人才的培养;从传播内容来看,应引导海外受众深入细致了解我国非遗具体项目;从传播渠道来看,应综合运用图片、视觉、听觉及文字等多模态手段;从传播客体来看,应顺应海外目标受众的认知、情感和行为特点;从传播效果来看,应建立和完善海外受众的反馈机制,有的放矢地根据反馈结果推进非遗文化传播。

Translation principle of medical science English vocabulary

The medical science vocabulary can generally is divided into 3 types: ①Common English vocabulary particular medical science phrase righteousness; ②The medical science phrase vegetable synthesizes of technical term. This vocabulary number is very big, and generally the list phrase be partial to long;③Independent medical science technical term, namely the medical science of the non-medical science phrase vegetable composing professional appropriation technical term.

Web of science及其利用

介绍了Webofscience(网络版科学引文索引 )的内容、特点及服务功能 ,重点讨论了其使用方法和检索技巧。

ISI Web of Science数据库检索系统浅析

本文从ISI Web of Knowledge入手引出ISI Web of Science数据库,在简述ISI Web of Science这个多学科综合性学术期刊数据库的特点及其优越性的基础上;逐一介绍此数据库的检索系统所提供的快速检索、普通检索、被引文献检索、化学结构检索、高级检索等检索方法;以及检索方法的具体应用和检索结果的处理。