Quality in simultaneous interpreting is a frequently discussed concept. In the enterprise setting, earnings conference call remains a rarely explored field. This thesis offers a descriptive study on assessing interpre...Quality in simultaneous interpreting is a frequently discussed concept. In the enterprise setting, earnings conference call remains a rarely explored field. This thesis offers a descriptive study on assessing interpreting quality from perspectives of fidelity, fluency, and appropriacy. As the corpus, Tencent 2022 Third Quarter Result Announcement provides an ideal transcript to the author to conduct its analysis. Interpreting is frequently done without bearing in mind the multitude of factors that can affect the quality of interpreting. Drawing a conclusion that the interpreter does make a lot of omissions, pauses and hesitations posing a negative effect on the fidelity, fluency and accuracy of the interpreting, the present author suggests that more preparation should be done for improving performance, such as terminologies, company background information, a reasonable speech rate, good image and acoustic quality, and so on.展开更多
The Chinese translation of the?ūra?gama Sūtra—Dafoding rulai miyin xiuzheng liaoyi zhu pusa wanhang shoulengyan jing大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經—is a unique classical work that articulates a specific B...The Chinese translation of the?ūra?gama Sūtra—Dafoding rulai miyin xiuzheng liaoyi zhu pusa wanhang shoulengyan jing大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經—is a unique classical work that articulates a specific Buddhist worldview,its recondite principles,and ways of practice.Unsurprisingly,it has attracted the attention of almost every school of Buddhism.The first full English translation of the sūtra was published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society(BTTS)in the 1970s—a decade when a number of newly established institutions embarked on the project of translating Buddhist texts into English for the first time.By contrast,China has been translating Buddhist scriptures for more than 1,000 years,which has given rise to a variety of translation discourses.Therefore,it makes sense to utilize these discourses when analyzing the recent translation of Buddhist texts into English.From the perspective of the three traditional Chinese translation discourses—Yan Fu’s three principles of fidelity,fluency,and elegance;Sengrui’s matching term and meaning;and Xuanzang’s five guidelines for not translating a term,this paper discusses translation issues by comparing the Chinese and English versions of the?ūra?gama Sūtra.This analysis reveals that the traditional Chinese translation discourses are valuable resources that should be respected in the contemporary translation of Buddhist texts into English.展开更多
文摘Quality in simultaneous interpreting is a frequently discussed concept. In the enterprise setting, earnings conference call remains a rarely explored field. This thesis offers a descriptive study on assessing interpreting quality from perspectives of fidelity, fluency, and appropriacy. As the corpus, Tencent 2022 Third Quarter Result Announcement provides an ideal transcript to the author to conduct its analysis. Interpreting is frequently done without bearing in mind the multitude of factors that can affect the quality of interpreting. Drawing a conclusion that the interpreter does make a lot of omissions, pauses and hesitations posing a negative effect on the fidelity, fluency and accuracy of the interpreting, the present author suggests that more preparation should be done for improving performance, such as terminologies, company background information, a reasonable speech rate, good image and acoustic quality, and so on.
文摘The Chinese translation of the?ūra?gama Sūtra—Dafoding rulai miyin xiuzheng liaoyi zhu pusa wanhang shoulengyan jing大佛頂如來密因修證了義諸菩薩萬行首楞嚴經—is a unique classical work that articulates a specific Buddhist worldview,its recondite principles,and ways of practice.Unsurprisingly,it has attracted the attention of almost every school of Buddhism.The first full English translation of the sūtra was published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society(BTTS)in the 1970s—a decade when a number of newly established institutions embarked on the project of translating Buddhist texts into English for the first time.By contrast,China has been translating Buddhist scriptures for more than 1,000 years,which has given rise to a variety of translation discourses.Therefore,it makes sense to utilize these discourses when analyzing the recent translation of Buddhist texts into English.From the perspective of the three traditional Chinese translation discourses—Yan Fu’s three principles of fidelity,fluency,and elegance;Sengrui’s matching term and meaning;and Xuanzang’s five guidelines for not translating a term,this paper discusses translation issues by comparing the Chinese and English versions of the?ūra?gama Sūtra.This analysis reveals that the traditional Chinese translation discourses are valuable resources that should be respected in the contemporary translation of Buddhist texts into English.
