Having made up his mind to translate those two works by himself, Zhang Chu now feels that his English level needs to be improved.

The basic English proficiency gained from the messianic system was no longer sufficient to cope with such a complex situation.

The reason why "Sherlock" and "Life of Pi" were successfully translated was mainly because these two works were originally in English!

Zhang Chu is just restoring them, and the difficulty of creation is very low.

At present, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Sou Shen Ji" do not have any English reference, and every word, every word, and even every noun needs to be explained.

What he needs to do is to open up the market, promote the concept of tomb robbery to everyone, and explain terms such as inverted buckets, feng shui, and zongzi.

It's like doing it in China, working hard abroad with zero foundation, but the difficulty has increased a lot!

If the difficulty of tomb robbery in the domestic market is ordinary, it is not only a nightmare abroad, but will probably be upgraded to the hell level.

Zhang Chu hadn't used the savior system for a long time, and he was worried that he had developed a system dependence, and he would think of finding a system to solve anything, and if he left the system, he would be a waste.

He's been living quite a bit of a good time since then, but now he's back after he's calmed down.

There has been no change in the savior system, except that Zhang Chu's reputation value has come to more than 60 million.

Of course, this number does not mean that he has so many fans, and the real number of fans is probably between a few million and ten million.

Every news can bring a wave of prestige, and the increasing number of hardcore readers is the reason for the skyrocketing prestige!

He didn't get any credit during this time, so the system's lottery wheel couldn't be turned at all, unless he was willing to spend reputation points to push.

It's just that the prestige value of the prize is too random, and if something useless is randomly drawn, it is estimated that it will be distressed.

At the beginning, matcha was drawn out by Zhang Chu in the lottery, but no matter how it looks, it is an ordinary ordinary cat, it can't speak or transform, and even being cute and cute is slowly learned later!

In the skill area of the system, Zhang Chu saw his primary calligraphy proficiency, primary English proficiency, primary painting proficiency, etc., and he said directly: "The system will help me improve my English proficiency, how much prestige do intermediate and advanced levels need?"

The prestige value that has been saved for so long is just for this moment, and more than 80 million is enough to consume for a while.

"Skills require 5 million reputation to upgrade from beginner to intermediate, and 30 million reputation to upgrade from intermediate to advanced. Master's English proficiency cannot be increased with Fame, but can only be exchanged for Honor Points. ”

Zhang Chu frowned and thought about it, is it worth spending 35 million prestige, maybe an intermediate English proficiency can cope with the situation in front of him?

However, he wants to make his work as perfect as possible, "Ghost Blows the Lamp" is a big IP, he hopes that the book can sell well in Europe and the United States, and the movie can also have a good response.

The things used to open up the market and the things used to lay the foundation should be used as well as possible, which is the same as decorating a house.

Since you have this ability, use the best materials within your ability!

"That helped me take my beginner English proficiency to an advanced level. Zhang Chu said after thinking about it, the rest of the skills are not used for the time being.

During his time at Yan University, he was also regarded as Taoguang, except for the initial inexplicable signing up for the Chinese Good Literature Essay Competition, the rest did not take the lead.

Even in the calligraphy competition, no one in the class knew that he could write well with a brush.

At this time, on the display page of the system, Zhang Chu's reputation value dropped directly from more than 80 million to 49 million, a full decrease of 35 million!

And it's worth it, before he had only a simple outline of the English version of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in his mind, and now all kinds of sentences are almost crazy to drill out of his head.

After Zhang Chu withdrew from the system, he said to himself: "It looks like you have to win two prizes, otherwise the lottery turntable won't work!"

Now he only has the first prize for good Chinese literature essays, not even an ordinary commercial award, and it is normal for him to be regarded as a model of commercial writers.

He doesn't like to write books specifically for the tastes of book critics or literary award judges in order to win awards, but wants to win awards on the basis of satisfying the reading needs of readers.

Whether it is "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" or "Sou Shen Ji", the hope of winning the award is very slim, and now if "Life of Pi" wins the Booker Award, how many lottery chances will the system have to reward?

Just as Zhang Chu was daydreaming, matcha suddenly jumped to the side of his head, sticking out her tongue and licking his head desperately, as if she was tasting some peerless food.

Holding the matcha down with his backhand, Zhang Chu didn't like the wet feeling on his face, he planned to experience the power of the upgraded skills, what kind of power it could look like.

Sitting in front of the computer, he opened the ORD file and the web page at the same time, his eyes fixed on the content of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" on the web page, and his mind was thinking about how to translate this work.

After all, it takes so much prestige to be proficient in advanced English, and it's really not bad to use!

All kinds of colloquialisms, slang and grammar knowledge came out of nowhere, and when I saw a sentence in Chinese, my head was like an enhanced and accurate version of Google Translate, translating it into English.

Try it out, it's really good!

The prologue of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" does not have many words, and Zhang Chu actually took only a few minutes to translate it, without feeling the difficulty at all.

"If you can't get along in the literary world in the future, maybe you can still make a living as a simultaneous translator. ”

Zhang Chu jokingly said that now he is full of confidence in the English version of his two books, and he just needs to wait for Menglong Culture Media to sign the contract with Random House.

However, what he hopes most is that the agreement for this translation work can be delayed a little, at least let himself write the full text of "Sou Shen Ji"!

At that time, he had almost no pressure to update the serialization, and had enough time to translate those two sets of works.

Presumably, Random House will not be too persecutive, in the end, the hot sales of "Youth Pi" and "Sherlock" gave Zhang Chu the confidence to negotiate, so that Menglong Culture Media has bargaining power.

This kind of work full of Chinese characteristics is a hot potato in translation, and almost no translator dares to take over, and Zhang Chu, the original author, is the best choice for Random House!

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