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jyuan_us wrote:

所以您和我的觀點是一致的。

Yueyin Sun wrote:

文哲：

你的算术做得不错，但有些人可能会这样想：我若报价每千字 400 RMB，也许一个月连一个项目都拿不到。于是，你报价低，我就比你更低。

从另一方面讲，即使每天做上 3000 中文字，都应该有足够的时间去推敲译文，从而保证高质量。这样的质量，应该可以拿到好价钱，而且几乎天天有活干。

Yueyin Sun wrote:


文哲：

你的算术做得不错，但有些人可能会这样想：我若报价每千字 400 RMB，也许一个月连一个项目都拿不到。于是，你报价低，我就比你更低。

从另一方面讲，即使每天做上 3000 中文字，都应该有足够的时间去推敲译文，从而保证高质量。这样的质量，应该可以拿到好价钱，而且几乎天天有活干。

Yueyin Sun wrote:


文哲：

你的算术做得不错，但有些人可能会这样想：我若报价每千字 400 RMB，也许一个月连一个项目都拿不到。于是，你报价低，我就比你更低。

从另一方面讲，即使每天做上 3000 中文字，都应该有足够的时间去推敲译文，从而保证高质量。这样的质量，应该可以拿到好价钱，而且几乎天天有活干。

Yueyin Sun wrote:

那第5句译文，原来是毛荣贵先生自己译的。详见以下链接第八部分“整饬美（parallelism value）”。
http://edgarliang.cnblogs.com/archive/2006/01/17/23745.html

jyuan_us wrote:

3000字我不知道﹐2000字肯定能做到。但一天內項目管理上的閑雜事﹐比如回復郵件﹐做INVOICE﹐來回傳送文件等等﹐佔去很多時間﹐把時間一弄散﹐ 一天翻譯不了多少字。

Tingting Huang wrote:



[Edited at 2007-11-20 17:12]

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
~ Robert Southey


Good things, when short, are twice as good.
~ Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom


It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols


Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet


The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
~ Thomas Jefferson


My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
~ William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918


If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~ Dennis Roth


The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
~ Blaise Pascal, translated from French, Lettres Provinciales, XVI, 1656


In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
~ Sydney Smith


If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday.
~ M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, "The Gun"


"In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!" that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato.
~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
~ Rabelais, Pantagruel


Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
~ Branch Rickey


If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
~ Lord Sandwich


Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
~ Dorothy Parker


If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
~ David Belasco

jyuan_us wrote:



3000字我不知道﹐2000字肯定能做到。但一天內項目管理上的閑雜事﹐比如回復郵件﹐做INVOICE﹐來回傳送文件等等﹐佔去很多時間﹐把時間一弄散﹐ 一天翻譯不了多少字。

Tingting Huang wrote:

看出来了，jyuan，你需要一个小蜜来帮你。:D


[Edited at 2007-11-20 17:12]

pkchan wrote:

想做小袁的小蜜

應該是不太容易的，詳見往帖。

Yueyin Sun wrote:


一、音韵美 (music value)
二、节奏美（rhythm value）
三、简约美（conciseness value）
四、丰润美 (full-grownness value)
五、意境美（artistic conception value）
六、口吻美（tone value）
七、形象美 (image value)
八、整饬美（parallelism value）
九、朦胧美（mistiness value）
十、创造美（creativity value）

jyuan_us wrote: