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English for Computer Science

Lecture 8

English-Chinese Translation (2)

Challenges in E-C CS Translation Tackling the Challenges Translation Practice

Challenges in E-C CS Translation

New terms and names

Non-finite verb structure

Clauses

Passives

Embedding structure

Challenges in E-C CS Translation

Examples

Twitter can remain the simple and incredibly useful tool that it is without trying to replicate Instagram.

In research systems, the light is projected from below, allowing the resin to be quickly spread into uniform thin layers, reducing production time from hours to minutes.

In 3D printing, additive processes are used, in which successive layers of material are laid down under computer control.

Challenges in E-C CS Translation

Examples

Such a network is said to follow the end to end principle in that those applications are set up between end peripheral devices with no control being exercised by the network.

Paraskevakos, working with Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama, demonstrated a transmitter and receiver that provided additional ways to communicate with remote equipment, however it did not yet have general purpose PDA applications in a wireless device typical of smartphones.

Tackling the Challenges

New Terms and Name

Meaning translation

IOT: 物联网 Facebook: 脸书

Sound translation

Twitter: 推特 Yahoo: 雅虎

Meaning + Sound translation

WWW: 万维网 hacker: 黑客

Keeping the original

Python: Python语言 Instagram: 图片分享（ Instagram）

Tackling the Challenges

Non-Finite Verb Structure

Based on this finding, recent researchers attempt to separate an image into regions or objects which can be described more accurately using local information and combined features.

基于这种发现，最近，研究者试图将一个图像分割成区域或物体，这样便可以利用局部信息和组合特征将图像描述得更加准确。

In-Class Exercise

Translate the sentence on a previous page. Pay attention to the logical connection when translating the non-finite verb structures.

In research systems, the light is projected from below, allowing the resin to be quickly spread into uniform thin layers, reducing production time from hours to minutes.

Tackling the Challenges

Clauses

Some written languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Thai do not have single-word boundaries either, so any significant text parsing usually requires the identification of word boundaries, which is often a non-trivial task.

一些文字，如中文、日文和泰文，也没有字词的边界，所以任何重要的文本分析通常需要识别词的边界，这项工作往往并不简单。

Tackling the Challenges

Passives

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by automated tools.

语义网是对万维网的延伸和扩展。在语义网中，其内容不仅可以用自然语言来表示，而且表达为一种可以被自动化工具读和用的格式。

Tackling the Challenges

Embedding Structure

In computer and information science, ontology is a technical term denoting an artifact that is designed for a purpose, which is to enable the modeling of knowledge about some domain, real or imagined.

在计算机和信息科学中，本体这个技术术语指的是一种人造物件，设计它的目的是为了能够对某个真实或虚拟领域的知识进行建模。

Translation Practice

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Translation is one of the few human activities in which the impossible occurs by principle.

See you next time.

Mariano Antolín Rato