Chen Mingming, executive vice president of the Translators Association of China and advisor to the correction campaign, said: "Translations of public signs not only help foreigners, but their quality also shapes the image of a city."
中国译协执行副会长,本次纠错活动的专家顾问陈明明表示:“公共场所标识的翻译不仅能帮助到外国人,标识的翻译质量也塑造着城市形象。”
Some mistranslations were a result of verbatim translations such as a shop sign that reads "name smoke name liquor" (branded cigarette and liquor) on Beijing's shopping street Wangfujing, while some others stumbled at polysemantic Chinese words like an emergency exit whose English translation sign reads "export"(export and exit share the same word in Chinese).
有些翻译错误是因为字对字的直译,例如说北京购物街王府井的一个商店标识“name smoke name liquor”(名烟名酒),另外还有一些让人读不顺的标识是用到了多义的中文词,比方说有一个紧急出口的英文翻译是“export”(export和exit的中文字是一样的,都是“出口”)。
Zhang Qian, vice head of the office, said signage of private businesses where owners often resort to the Internet for quick solutions, have formed a new citadel for wrong translations.
北京市人民政府外事办公室副主任张谦表示,私营企业的老板往往在网上翻译他们的标识,出成品快,因此也就多出了一大堆错误译例。
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