Translation word count each day 一日翻譯量

做了翻譯十多年,好多人問過我這個問題。說實在的,早期可能大概會計算一下,後來經驗比較多之後就不大在意了。業界一般認為譯者每日翻譯字數應該以兩千字為極限。或許有譯者緊守這個字數,以免超出極限之後的翻譯質素滑落。 這一個限制有其道理,但我也已經過了這個階段。接案比較忙的時候,白天處理英譯中字幕、中譯英文件,晚間將中文漫畫或小說翻譯成英文,亦是可能。曾經試過半夜兩點依然譯著小說,頭腦像是準備進入淺眠階段,第二天檢查前一夜我譯出來的英文,其實錯誤很少,所以後續的校對也順利。...

Reading journey 閱讀之旅

After graduation from NTNU, I have been reading English books of a wide variety of genres. Several years back I enjoyed reading Jeffrey Archer, particularly the Clifton Chronicles. Before Jeffrey Archer, I was reading Haruki Murakami novels and John Simmons’s...

Random Talk – Thinking the Unthinkable

With the theme of Thinking the Unthinkable, we discussed about what was going on in Hong Kong and how the No China Extradition movement started. On issues back home, Bot discussed the possibility of Chinese Malaysian students scoring A for Jawi, if it is to be made a...