China has already learnt costly lessons from the casual use of English.
中国已经为“乱用英语”付出了高昂的代价。
Beyond confusing public directories, and hilarious - or sickening - renditions of restaurant menus, the lack of accuracy in business documents has become the latest stumbling block to the sale of China's high-speed trains, something the country is most proud of and eager to sell around the world.
除了让人不明所以的公共目录,和让人恶心又想笑的餐馆菜单,最近一份有失精准的商业文件,将中国一项高铁交易“搅黄”了。而高铁是中国最骄傲、最热切想要推向国际的项目。
Zhang Minyu, vice-general manager of overseas market with CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., told China Economic Weekly late last year that the company was once "one step away from winning a bid in north Europe in 2017" but finally lost the contract due to an error in translation of the construction plan.
南车株机分管海外市场的副总经理张旻宇在接受《中国经济周刊》采访时提到,2017年一个重大北欧项目,原本离竞标成功只有一步之遥,却因为方案中的一处 Vocabulary
directory:目录
rendition:表演,表现
sickening:令人反感的
stumbling block:绊脚石
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