Chapter 521: The Unspoken Rules of the Translator

"Brother Guang, what now?" Lin Jingwei asked in a low voice by curling his neck.

"Why are you still asking me? I'll leave it here, today Lao Tzu paid such a big price, if you can't get it back, you just wait to dry it on the flagpole outside the school library!"

"Don't mind! Let's take one step at a time, there will always be a chance! In addition, your current voice is almost fairy-like, and with your pure man's tone, it feels so unique. ”

"Shut up Lao Tzu! ”

In fact, Chen Guang is also very interested in the high-level business negotiation meeting of a multinational group as large as Tianjin Energy.

He had told Rufey a long time ago that he wanted to learn to do business, but unfortunately there were no good opportunities.

Today, I went to this high-end international negotiation meeting by mistake to sit in on it, and it was an opportunity to study and exercise.

If it comes, it will be safe, and it will be dragged in anyway, and there will be no way to get the watch for a while, so Chen Guang simply listened seriously.

Lin Jingwei handed over a piece of information from the side, which should be related to the meeting, so as to facilitate understanding of the situation.

Chen Guang raised his head to take it, only to find that Manager Jiang, who was sitting in the corner next to him, cast a flattering look at him and Lin Jingwei.

Look, this is the real workplace expert, people have a keen sense of smell, and the flattering stammering is also so skillful, which can make people comfortable and make people think that he is useful, but he is really a talent.

While reading the information and listening to the people over there negotiating, it didn't take long for Chen Guang to understand the situation.

He groped his mouth, this thing was kind of interesting.

The so-called interesting is not that he is really genius enough to figure out the doorway of transnational business in an instant, he only knows that it is a competitive negotiation between three companies from the Arab region or the administrative unit of a small country.

Five or six people dressed in traditional Arab attire were apparently the spokesmen of each of the three Arab powers, including the Oran company he had heard of earlier.

The negotiation mainly involves the joint venture between Visions and one of the three parties to build a shale gas energy project that is difficult to exploit, with Visions providing the technology and the winning bidder of the three companies providing economic and policy support.

At present, the global Tianjin Group is a relatively leading level of related technology, and there are companies in Europe and the United States that can do it, but it is obvious that the conditions provided by Huaxia in cooperation with other countries in this regard are much better than those of European and American enterprises, which is also the advantage of Huaxia multinational companies in the third world or the Arab region in recent years.

Compared with European and American companies that ask for sky-high prices and eat people without spitting out skin, others are more willing to cooperate with Chinese enterprises.

The specific content of the negotiation between the three companies is about to point out their own advantages, and at the same time, it also involves what Cheng DΓΉ can get in return for Tianjin Group in the later stage of cooperation.

What really made Chen Guang find interesting was that the translation used in the negotiation process was not the international English, but Arabic!

All of a sudden, things got interesting.

Although the three Arab companies are all serious Arab aristocrats, and their idiomatic language is indeed their own mother tongue, Chen Guang is quite surprised that in such a high-end meeting, they actually use a small language as a translator.

Anyway, the mother tongue spoken by several Arabs made Lin Jingwei, a freshman who passed English level 4, and the guy who boasted that his English dictation ability reached international standards looked confused.

But Chen Guang said that I sounded completely no different from my own native language!

While observing the meeting, he looked at the middle-aged translator who was talking to Bai Hua, and began to grope his mouth, this old man, there is a ghost!

This man's level is very high, and his small means are extremely hidden.

If you are not particularly familiar with Arabic, in other words, you will not be able to hear it if you are not close to a native speaker.

As the saying goes, when Chinese people's English is taken abroad, it is easy for people to hear the difference, even through a mobile phone.

Pronunciation is no longer standard, but there are some very subtle habits of word choice and sentence formation, and there is a clear difference between the mother tongue and the foreign language.

This is true for English, not to mention the more niche Arabic.

On the surface, this translation is indeed a translation of the words of the three Arab nobles, and he is also dutifully translating Bai Hua's speech, and the second translator who is responsible for listening and monitoring next to him has not been able to hear the problem.

But in fact, this man's translation is biased!

He's clearly focusing on that Oran company!

In the writing of Chinese official documents, the use of some words is particularly skillful, such as "must", "should", "must", "do your best", "prohibit", "strictly prohibit" and other words, different words represent different tones, in the process of writing a strict official document, the use of each of the above similar words has to be carefully considered, often the difference in the word may cause misunderstanding when formulating policies or issuing documents.

In the same way, there are similar words in Arabic, and even the same word has multiple expressions of dΓΉ.

For example, the translator said something similar to the two companies: "We will fully cooperate in the construction of the pipeline in Anolor province to eliminate the difficulties of the project. ”

However, when he translated, he changed the words "full cooperation" to "do his best to cooperate", and there was an extra word, which seemed to be emphasized, but in fact weakened.

When it was the turn of the Oran company, it became the best it could.

The gap is self-evident.

Although the person in charge of the three companies almost had the same meaning when he expressed his position in their native language, after he translated it, he heard that the taste was not right in Bai Hua's ears!

This may be regarded as a very high-end unspoken rule in the translation industry, using controllable differences in expression, adopting ambiguous expressions in the negotiation process, and unconsciously emphasizing the importance to benefit one party.

Now that English is popular all over the world, it is difficult to do this, but Arabic, a small language, can be done by people with a high enough level of proficiency.

Of course, this risk is also extremely high, once exposed, this person's reputation is basically rotten, and his career is over.

But the greater the risk, the greater the benefit, there are always people who take risks, and today Chen Guang can be regarded as a scene witness.

It's really a coincidence, if the person here today didn't have Chen Guang, if he hadn't just passed through the language master's version of Xu Xianhai and became a generation of language tyrants, he would really be able to hide the success of this middle-aged translator today.

At first, Chen Guang didn't plan to meddle in things, after all, this was someone else's meeting, and he just wanted to come with his ears, but when the meeting lasted for about an hour, Lin Jingwei was already holding his chin and almost falling asleep, but Bai Hua was already under the subtle interference of this translator, and gradually psychologically biased towards Olam Company.

Although this is only an agreement of intent, when the day is over, it is clear that Olam will have a favorable position among the three bidders.

This is obviously unfair to the other two companies, and it may also cause hidden dangers to Bai Hua and the Tianjin Energy Group behind him.

Orland is not kind.

Chen Guang gradually couldn't sit still, if he didn't have anything to do with this white birch, of course he wouldn't bother to meddle.

But I came today to be a thief, to steal other people's things, at the beginning I still relied on other people's favors, and inexplicably robbed other people's "childhood sweethearts", although he was worthy of the love rival, but he owed something after all when he took other people's money.

I can't hear it, forget it, but now I want to be a thief, and I owe favors, and I hear the strangeness in this matter, how can I ignore it when I know that Bai Hua is going to suffer a big loss?

Brother is an upright person!

He was on pins and needles, and he was uncomfortable.

Finally, Chen Guang poked Lin Jingwei in the shoulder, "Don't sleep, ask Manager Jiang who this Arabic translator is?

Lin Jingwei opened his eyes in a daze, although he didn't know what Chen Guang was going to do, he still asked honestly.

"This is Professor Lu of the Capital Foreign Language University, our domestic authority on Arabic, and he is also quite famous in the world. He seems to have been introduced by another vice president. Among the three Arab companies, the person in charge of Oran Company has very poor English, so everyone simply asked Professor Lu to help, and it is no problem to translate directly into Chinese, and it is more convenient to communicate. ”

Chen Guang suddenly understood that Brother Yu, sure enough, he had a big event when he was observing a meeting today.

Did the Arab aristocrat of the Oran Company really not know English?

Not necessarily.

Judging by the ears of Chen Guang's super language master of 5,000 foreign languages, even when this guy speaks his native language, his pronunciation hides some deep little habits.

Not only does he know English, but he is also proficient, which shows that he is pretending!

He's acting!

Professor Lu also favored him when relaying, and this professor was introduced by another vice president of Tianjin.

This is clearly a big pit dug by the vice president, Olam Company and Professor Lu!

Not to mention how miserable the birch pit will be, but if Oram Company finally wins the bid, it is inevitable that Tianjin Group will suffer a certain amount of losses, and the tripartite forces that dig the pit will definitely benefit again!

Forget it, since they're all here, I'm just going to do Bai Hua a favor.

Chen Guang secretly made up his mind in his heart, but he was not in a hurry to demolish the other party on the spot, after all, this was a big occasion, he was just an outsider, and jumping out rashly would only make people laugh.

When the meeting is over, Bai Hua will definitely find Lin Jingwei and himself in private, and then help him with this favor and debunk Professor Lu's small actions.

"I quietly tell you that this Professor Lu has a ghost. Chen Guang said a word to Lin Jingwei lightly, and then said no more.

Lin Jingwei was completely dazed, "Don't make trouble, you know a fart." ”

"Hehe, I know Arabic. "This grandson actually looks down on people, I can't bear it!

"Congratulations, Sister Yue, you have won the championship of this year's Lie Contest. "How can Lin Jingwei believe it, is this so fantastical good?

Brother Guang, the statue of Qin Hui who knelt five times in front of the fourth level is still vivid, and now you tell me that you know Arabic, don't bully me for not knowing science!

"Sister Yue Nima, hi!" Chen Guang didn't bother to take care of him. (To be continued.) )