Chapter 928: Atletico's work
Chatting and chatting, the video of the Victoria's Secret show on the screen also came to an end.
Seeing that there was nothing to see, outsiders left one after another, and only the click of the mouse and the faint sound of breathing remained in the bedroom.
After a long day of working outside, Fang Junqi felt a little sleepy, so he climbed into bed and lay down to play with his mobile phone, and soon felt that his eyelids were gradually sinking, and he let go of his mobile phone and fell asleep.
Deng Shengyun sat on the chair and looked intently at the "Level 4 Recommended Book List" recommended by the former just now.
Booklists were apparently learned by Babel from listening to music apps, and users can create booklists and share them with each other, as well as distinguish different versions with booklists, which is very convenient and practical.
Just as there are multiple cover versions of popular songs, there are also many translations of popular songs here, and the ones included in this "Level 4 Book List" are naturally CET College English Level 4 specially prepared for candidates.
According to the original design, university graduates should master more than 4,000 carefully selected Level 4 vocabulary, so that they can basically meet the needs of daily communication, and can read ordinary English newspapers and periodicals. But in real life, people find that 4,000 words are often insufficient, sports, music, film and television, IT, ...... Baskets of "new words" from all walks of life can easily undermine morale and create a fear of difficulties, and then because they do not use language often, their ability to continue to deteriorate, and they lose the motivation to read foreign content.
With this in mind, Babel has launched an "English Learning Program" that encourages translators to adapt popular translations to a "syllabus" and create a special version that meets the level of the exam, while the website provides technical and financial support. As the world's largest and second-largest English test, Gaokao English and College English Level 4 and 6 are among the first to be supported.
If you perform well, the next step will be to join IELTS (IELTS, International English Testing System), TOEFL (TOEFL, non-native English test), TCF (French Knowledge Test), DELE (non-native Spanish test) and other international test systems necessary for studying abroad, but those are just long-term plans, and it has nothing to do with Deng Shengyun for the time being, after all, he is only a sophomore.
There are only 7 books in total at the CET4 level, and the "Champion Club" he is reading now is the one with the highest rating and the most readers. These are all written using "four-level vocabulary", and there is also a cross-word translation system, so it is easy to get a meaning when you encounter words you don't know, and it is not very difficult to read.
The story of "CC" is very characteristic of the online text, telling the story of the protagonist who obtains the "football game system", and then starts the golden finger, poachs everywhere to defeat strong opponents, and finally develops the amateur team into a world championship club, which belongs to the typical "system flow".
Today, the "system flow" has long since passed the climate, and the rising star "infinite flow" is also in decline, but this one is still quite interesting, the details are quite vivid and expressive, and the plot is also credible - except for the golden finger.
At first, he didn't think that Deng Shengyun soon found that the story was familiar, especially the character illustrations that appeared in the text, which gave him a very familiar feeling. Just do it when he thinks of it, take a screenshot of the button, search for pictures by picture, and then he found out that this is actually the old book "Champions Club" published ten years ago, so he patted his head and sighed that it was so.
At the beginning, in order to promote their own web games and animation websites, Atletico Madrid went into battle and created this "champion" himself. Published in Dianniang in a free way, while the comic version, the animation version, and the page game are exclusive to the bee website, contributing the initial traffic to the infant bee website.
Deng Shengyun has not read the original version, but he has watched the animation of the same name of "Champion", and now when he sees the character image that resembles him, the relevant memory is instantly awakened, and he even has the urge to open the browser and play "Online Football Club OL" for a while.
To this day, this web game is still in operation, tenaciously continuing the historical record of "the longest-lived browser game". When Bee started, it sold the game to a sports forum for 5 million, and later Atletico bought it back at private expense, which is still operated by Bee and continues to be updated.
The reason why I chose to buy back is not only that this is a commemorative "first work", but also that it is related to economic interests.
With the continuous siege of Bee mobile phone, Bee PT, and Bee software at home and abroad, the popularity and influence of the founder of Atletico Madrid are also increasing simultaneously, causing countless people to be curious. As the first game designed and written by Atletico Madrid, "Club OL" naturally attracts the attention of onlookers, including many foreign players who have crossed oceans and seas.
Then they were disgusted by "superstar boots, click to send" and "the more you recharge, the more powerful", many people ran to Atletico Madrid's Twitter and Facebook accounts to leave messages and complain, and finally made Boss Ma anxious and directly bought back their own operations at a high price. Fortunately, the performance of the game after the revision rose sharply, and he quickly earned back the repurchase money, and he didn't suffer much.
As for the three networks he wrote, "Jianghu Prawns", "Champion Club", and "I'm Coming to the Ming Dynasty" do not have these problems, because there has never been a contract relationship, and the copyright is all in his own hands, whether it is an adaptation of anime or a translation to the sea, there is no need to look at other people's faces.
Although these books have little technical and historical value, not to mention that they are not as good as Bill Gates's "The Road to the Future" that led the information technology revolution, and even the "Quantum Physics for Infants" that Zuckerberg uses to teach children are more compelling than them, they are not useless, at least filling in some record gaps, and satisfying many people's identification and curiosity.
The Chinese version of the three books is free, but the translation version published in Babel is charged, and it is the most expensive on the website.
But it's still worth the money, on the one hand, it has the blessing of the author's fame, on the other hand, it is also because the appearance of these three books is unusually gorgeous, and the layout design throws off the physical book a few streets.
And the reaction of netizens did not disappoint, and the corresponding English translation: "A_Man_of_TheWorld", "ChampionClub", and "MyMingDynasty" ranked among the top three on the website's sales list, far behind the competitors. It's a pity that the other two are martial arts and historical themes, which contain too many pinyin elements, so they don't appear in the "fourth-level book list".
There are already differences between the plot of the version and the animated version, and the translated version has been adjusted and polished, and it has almost become a new story, so that people will not feel familiar and bored. After the initial jerky period, Deng Shengyun was gradually attracted by the story, his eyes were firmly attracted by the words on the screen, and he completely forgot everything around him, not noticing that the light in the room was gradually dimming, and he did not notice that the door was pushed open and someone walked to him.
Immediately afterwards, a small hand slapped his right shoulder hard, Deng Shengyun woke up and turned his head, almost twisting his neck.
Seeing the person coming clearly, he complained repeatedly: "Director Guo, what are you doing? Why don't you turn on the lights when you come in? Do you know that people are scary and scared to death!"
This is indeed Guo Ming's fault, when he entered the door and saw Lao Yun staring at the screen intently, he deliberately did not turn on the lights to disturb, just to give him a surprise.
However, such a thing could not be done, he quickly changed the topic, raised his eyes to see the full screen of letters on the monitor, and asked suspiciously: "How did you remember to read English materials? Haven't you already passed the fourth level?"
"It's not information, it's it. Of course, it's okay to say that it's a learning material, this is the fourth-level learning material recommended to me by Brother Qi. ”
"Oh?" Director Guo was successfully aroused by his curiosity and leaned over to look at the screen.
Deng Shengyun casually set up a bookmark, got up and gave way: "You look slowly, I'll go to the toilet first." ”
I didn't feel anything when I was focused on it just now, but at this moment, there was a burst of urine, and I couldn't stay for a moment, and I ran towards the bathroom like a gust of wind.
With three points of curiosity, Guo Ming sat on the seat given by the former, picked up his mobile phone and looked at it.
It was also his first encounter with the Internet that had been translated into a foreign language, and he was quickly drawn to it.
What attracted him was not the familiar plot, but the book reviews and topic discussions left by foreign users. Watching a group of foreigners seriously discuss "what system do you want most", "which sect do you want to worship the most", and "what should you do first when you meet a portable grandfather/crossing/rebirth", my heart is also refreshing. When I was a child, I watched "Seaman", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and "Transformers", and when I grew up, I watched "Iron Man" and "Wolverine".
As for the disparity in the number of audiences on both sides, he selectively ignored it.
Holding the same view as Guo Ming, there are also reporters from the Central Aunt's News Department.
After returning from the release of water, Deng Shengyun woke up Fang Junqi, who was sleeping with a stuffy head, and the two who missed the meal went out to eat together. When I passed by the first floor, I happened to see the evening news broadcast on TV introducing the situation of online translators going overseas, and Babel, as the leading boss, was naturally the focus of the introduction and praise.
Thousands of online books have been translated and moved to foreign websites, which have been liked by millions of readers in more than 100 countries around the world, with a total of more than 3 billion clicks, and dozens of "overseas gods" with overseas income of more than one million. In the eyes of Aunt Yang, a vice-ministerial-level propaganda unit, this kind of achievement is undoubtedly a face-saving cultural export behavior, and it is natural to report it on a large scale, so that the masses across the country can enjoy themselves together.
After stopping to read the news, the two of them walked away and walked towards the nearest school gate, while paying attention to the surroundings for available shared bicycles.
Perhaps because the teachers and students of the university do not "cherish" their own bicycles, the shared bicycles on campus rarely encounter the embarrassment of missing saddles, missing screws, and missing valve cores.
Thinking of the report he had just seen, Deng Shengyun couldn't help laughing, "Haha, those traditional writers of the Writers' Association must be very depressed, right? In their opinion, the online article has an exaggerated plot, rough language, and low style, and is simply useless, but now it is being praised by the official media, how can people live?"
"How else can you live? You still have to live, don't you? In the past, I seriously looked down on the popular, and then I looked down on the Internet publishing because of the physical publishing, and now I haven't opened the door to welcome the gods of online literature to join the Writers' Association?"
Fang Junqi smiled, and then said: "The country is also anxious, contemporary literature is elegant and profound, but there are only a dozen or even single digits of masterpieces that go abroad every year, and the entire field of contemporary literature is in a serious state of 'super', what else can we talk about building cultural soft power in such a situation? Although the number of readers of online articles is also limited, and it is not like physical books that can affect the mainstream society of Europe and the United States, it also makes people see the hope of reversing the situation, so it is natural to write a special book. ”
"Yes!" Nodding in agreement, Deng Shengyun suddenly complained to his roommate: "Brother Qi, you're too unkind, aren't you? Such a good website, why didn't you tell me earlier? If I had known that I could still learn English like this, maybe I would have been able to pass the fourth level this time." ”
"Dear, I didn't know it before!" Speaking of this, Fang Junqi was also full of grievances: "If I had known, I wouldn't have been hiding it from you all the time, right?
"That's right," Deng Shengyun asked, "Then how do you know?"
"No, there is no such content on his scarf at all, I don't know if it's on Twitter, I don't bother to climb the wall to see it. ”
After a pause, Fang Junqi revealed the mystery: "If I hadn't chatted with Zhang Huan yesterday, she inadvertently talked about it, and I would have known nothing like you." ”
"And how did she know?"
This major has special pronunciation and dubbing courses, and many people can't become hosts after graduation, so they become voice actors. There are also some people who take jobs online before graduating, helping to record some advertising slogans such as 'you can't buy at a loss, you can't be fooled' and 'Huang He ran away with his sister-in-law'. Zhang Huan was also brought into the pit by a senior sister, and she went to the bee CTA to take orders to earn pocket money when she had nothing to do, and Babel's translation and dubbing tasks were also posted on the CTA, she took the list a few times, and naturally knew about this website. She thought I knew, so she didn't mention it to me, alas!"
"Oh!" Deng Shengyun responded, turned over and got out of the car, and pushed the cart out of the school gate with Fang Junqi.
After riding some more distance, they parked their bikes on the side of the road and pulled out their phones to end the trip. This is also the most attractive side of shared bicycles compared to private bicycles and public bicycles, and they can be parked on the side of the road when not in use, so you don't have to worry about losing them. As for whether the car will be taken away by the urban management next, or whether it will be taken back to unload eight pieces, or whether it will be moved home to dismantle the locks, paint and modify for personal use, it has nothing to do with the user.
(End of chapter)