Lin Han, who originally planned to take a few more days off to write a new book, had to resume his busyness again because of the English version of "The Three-Body Problem". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Lin Han sent the original manuscript to Liu Yukun for translation after writing the last two novels, translating the novel is not as simple as imagined, not only to retain the problem style of the original text, but also to optimize it, and make the sentences detailed and appropriate.

On the global forum of SFFWORLD, many readers have spontaneously started a simple translation, and even helped foreigners sort out a Chinese-English comparison table, but this is still difficult to understand.

For Western readers who are not familiar with China, a large number of detailed annotations are indispensable, and some specialized scientific terms also need professional explanations, such as Zhizi in the first part, water droplets in the second part, and two-way foil in the third part.

Science fiction has some technical vocabulary, sometimes just a short technical description, but it requires a lot of extra homework, and Lin Han reads a lot of English scientific papers before he prepares for translation, and at the same time contacts two physicists at Tsinghua University to find out what their scientific community is called, and also reviews mathematical formulas.

As a Chinese in his previous life, he didn't need to read the English version of "The Three-Body Problem", he just bought the English version of the novel to collect the cover, and he flipped through it casually at that time.

In other words, the English version of "The Three-Body Problem" is more like Lin Han's first translation work, relying on himself in the real sense, which completely ignited Lin Han's passion for work!

According to the current progress, Liu Yukun has finished translating "Dark Forest", and he wants to independently translate "Death Eternal"!

The name of the novel has been named "death's-end", which probably means the end of death, similar to the Chinese name.

At night, the heating warmed up the study, and Lin Han sat in front of the computer in a sweater, with a cup of coffee at the table, and he tapped English on the file while reading the scientific papers he had borrowed from the National Library.

"It's 12 o'clock, are you sure you don't sleep?" Chen Jiaxuan's hair was a little messy, she leaned against the door, and she had just put on a mask.

Lin Han reached out and took a sip of the coffee cup, and he replied, "I just happened to write these things in the dead of night, you go to sleep first." I'll write a little longer, and if the keyboard is too loud, you can close the bedroom and study doors. ”

Chen Jiaxuan walked over slowly, she took the coffee cup from Lin Han's hand, and then bent down and kissed him on the lips, "Don't drink coffee at night, you are even more tired than when you wrote "The Three-Body Problem" by yourself when you translated your own novels. ”

"There's no comparison, after all, English isn't my native language, and I have to catch ducks on the shelves, so let's get this English version out as soon as possible, and convert it into Spanish, French, German, Japanese, or something. If it is not written, it is estimated that overseas readers will come to Yanjing to hold a sit-in demonstration. ”

Lin Han hugged Chen Jiaxuan's thin waist, and then helped her tidy up her hair a little, but there was no way to catch up.

"Okay, okay, don't stay up all night, I'm going to sleep. ”

"Good night and good dreams. ”

After seeing Chen Jiaxuan close the door and leave, Lin Han subconsciously stretched out his hand to the table, only to find that the coffee cup had disappeared, he smiled dumbly, shook his head and continued to devote himself to the translation career.

The Chinese version of "The Three-Body Problem" always has some lengthy paragraphs and a large number of words, which if translated directly will increase the reader's reading difficulties, so Lin Han chose to break down these longer paragraphs and remove too many modifiers.

By adjusting the word order, the narrative is clearer. In the past, Lin Han also released the English versions of "I, Robot" and "The Martian", but they were directly copied from memory, without any difficulty, the main branches did not change, and the background and specific plot were modified, which belonged to minor repairs.

This translation of "Death Eternal" all depends on Lin Han himself, in addition to retaining the original literal literal translation, it also has to pay explanatory sentences to ensure that readers can understand his meaning.

As for some typical Chinese colloquialisms, Lin Han did not use the original rhetorical devices, but directly clarified the meaning of the sentences. He is reluctant to let Western stereotypes about China affect the work, and too direct translation can become very mysterious.

Cultural differences are indispensable, and this kind of soft cultural output must retain the original flavor of the Chinese version as much as possible, and cannot be completely Westernized, otherwise what is the difference with the science fiction novels of European and American writers?

I don't know how long it has been, Lin Han shifted his gaze from the computer screen to the window, he stood up and moved his shoulders and neck, at this time the community was silent, and only the street lamps were still standing guard.

The snowflakes fluttered down, and the whole world was covered in silver, Lin Han rubbed his eyes and temples, he looked at the time, but he didn't expect it to be half past two in the morning.

With a slight yawn, he decided to relax and began to pull out his phone to continue playing The Martian, a game that had been running on his phone for almost a week.

During this period, Lin Han did not deliberately speed up the time, he guided the protagonist of the story out of danger according to the normal proportion of time, Rao is that he wrote "The Martian" and watched the movie, but he still died many times in the process of the game.

Click into the game app, this icon looks very feeling, the color is conspicuous and refreshing, and the page you enter is very smooth, after all, this is just a text adventure game, and it doesn't take up much running space.

At present, Lin Han's progress has come to planting potatoes, and the last time the character he chose died was because of the explosion of using oxygen and hydrogen to make water, if readers knew that the author had played so hard, it was estimated that he would die of laughter.

Similar to the game "Lifeline" that Lin Han once played, the main line of "The Martian" is one, returning to the earth safely, but there are many more ways to die.

Even when Lin Han was planning, he wanted to combine "The Martian" with "Gravity", so that the actor could escape from Mars alone, and then return to Earth alone after all kinds of tribulations in the universe.

Obviously, this is different from the plot trend of "The Martian", so it was rejected by the development team and the planning team, but Lin Han himself enjoyed it, and he felt excited just thinking about it, although it was full of all kinds of impossibilities.

Back to the topic, the astronaut selected by Lin Han finally planted potatoes after all kinds of hardships, and successfully connected with the earth.

After not having food and living conditions, Lin Han controls the protagonist and begins to explore the surrounding map, the Mars rover, solar charging panels, food, and reactors are all indispensable, and they can't be frozen to death as soon as they go out.

However, the Martian storm came unexpectedly, and this storm actually caused a corona discharge caused by the particles in the sandstorm to damage the circuit of the Mars rover!

The astronaut was isolated more than 10 kilometers from the camp, and if he had walked back on foot to find repair tools, he might have died on the way. Even if you get lost, it may even be the lack of oxygen and air pressure in the spacesuit that causes death.

The graphics and music of the game are very moving, which cost a lot of royalties to buy the right to use, and it is just right to match the game. And the voice actor they invited was very emotional, completely expressing the psychological condition of the wrecked astronaut, and the player had a natural sense of substitution in his ears, and he wanted to rescue him quickly!

This game is for hours, when there was a burst of dog barking sound outside the window, Lin Han rubbed his red eyes, he had just played for hours in one go, and he also successfully used the compass to find the location of the camp, and used another rover to tow the damaged car back!

The playability of the game is very high, Lin Han yawned several times in a row, he saved the game progress, and then mobilized the statistics next to it, the number of deaths has been 11 times, and the cumulative game time is 35 hours.

Saved the cover of the beginning of the game and the screenshot of the number of deaths, Lin Han sent a micro-blog and said: "Let me report to you on the recent work, I am currently seizing the time to translate the English version of "Death Eternal", I stayed up all night last night, but it was because of playing games! The mobile game of "The Martian" has been completed, and it is currently in closed beta, as a game master, after playing for so many hours in a row, I found that they are not friendly to players at all, and I actually died 11 times! And I haven't cleared the level after dying so many times.,I really doubt if this plan was written by me.,I'm going to die by accident.,I strongly recommend that the game be renamed Mars A Million Ways to Die!Star Leap Game"

After Lin Han showed off his Weibo, he went to the bathroom to clean himself up, and then fell asleep on the bed, he was too sleepy.

And the sensation this game screenshot caused online has just begun!

The novel "The Martian" was released by Lin Han last year, and the sales in China were very good, and even Lin Han was favored by the Mars project team of the China Space Administration because of the outstanding achievements of this novel, which shows how influential it is.

Not only does the Chinese space agency have professionals to analyze it, but even NASA engineers in the United States have pursued this novel.

Unlike ordinary serious novels, "The Martian" is particularly humorous and witty, and the writing is very down-to-earth, and almost all of Lin Han's readers love this science fiction novel.

A few months ago, it was said that the novel was going to be adapted into a game, and now the picture is really exposed, although there are only two screenshots that have not been artistically retouched, but they are very eye-catching.

The game startup screen is very atmospheric, on the orange-red Mars, a lonely figure in a spacesuit is facing away from people, barren and lonely, he is waiting for people to come to the rescue!

The screenshot behind surprised fans even more, wtf?

As the author of the novel and the planning consultant of the game, Lin Han can't even pass the level perfectly, not to mention perfect, he has died 11 times and continues to explore, can ordinary players play it?

Isn't it too difficult?

But it seems that it's better to be a little more difficult, and the playability is high, if it's the same as those browser games that are level 999 with one sword, what's the point!

The more difficult it is, the more attractive it is, and Lin Han's fans can't wait to reply on Weibo.

"Good morning Lin Da, it's not a good habit to stay up all night, hurry back to sleep! Foreign readers can wait slowly, anyway, I've finished reading "The Three-Body Problem", whether they can see it or not, the body is the most important thing [covering his mouth and snickering]"

"Oh my God, Mr. Lin is addicted to games and is getting thinner and thinner, I want to play this game too, where can I get the qualification for the closed beta?"

"Mr. Lin, you are embarrassed and embarrassed, you can die so many times in the game you make, hurry up and share it with you, how did you die these 11 times!"

"The front row is a strong onlooker, only I noticed that Mr. Lin's mobile phone battery is only 5%?

"I can't wait when 'The Martian' will be released!"

"It's the right thing to do with a new book, don't play games, playthings are demoralized"

"My God, Mr. Lin must have been targeted by the game developers, hurry up and get revenge!"

"The front row is watching the opening screen of the game, the interface is so good, don't hang people's appetite"

At this time, the editor of Xingyue Games' Weibo also came to join in the fun, he forwarded this and posted a picture comment, "Mr. Lin, can you be content after only 11 deaths? I've died 27 times, and the ghost knows what I've experienced!"

As if Pandora's box had been opened, a group of employees of Star Leap Games posted screenshots of their own games, with deaths ranging from more than ten to more than twenty, and one person reached forty, which was said to be specifically for testing the death plan.

An employee who has died zero times is chattering under Lin Hanwei Bo: "A group of scum, look at the number of my deaths crushing you, what is a life clearance!"

However, the onlookers who ate melons ruthlessly unmasked his mask, and the game time showed that it was only 1 minute, which was obviously just starting to play.

The style of painting has changed abruptly, and there has never been a game company that has closed the beta game to have fewer deaths than anyone, and netizens have opened their eyes once!

These attracted netizens began to ask, when will this TM be able to play, and it can't be too much to arouse people's appetites, there has never been a text adventure game that has received so much attention.

This game, which has just revealed its face, has quietly climbed to the top ten of the new work expectation list of well-known game websites in the anticipation of so many fans!

Star Leap Games and The Martian are about to make a big splash!

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Now I'm starting to miss last month's 333rd, because this month's monthly pass is temporarily ranked outside the 500 open, and it must break out well. )