There was a soft sound of the key striking, and Song Zhiwen pushed the door in.

The bedroom door was closed, but Yang Guo's roar came from the half-hidden door of the study: "How many times have I said this?" To translate in natural language, you don't think that you are a translation machine, you have to be flexible, you know? Your dry translation tone, I think Gu Ge's translation is better than yours after reading it! ”

Song Zhiwen shook his head, put the lunch box he was carrying on the table in the dining room, then walked to the study, knocked on the door, and said, "Guozi, I put the rice on the table, you hurry up and eat it!" Don't be cold. ”

Yang Guo yelled into the microphone of the headset while making an OK gesture towards Song Zhiwen, and he didn't even have time to say thank you.

Song Zhiwen didn't mind, he was no longer surprised by such a situation, he waved his hand and went back to his house.

After Zheng Yujie returned, more than a week later, Yang Guo received the first manuscript of more than 200 pages. Unlike the other three translators, Yang Guo received all the original manuscripts sent by the first batch of Mi Guo, because he also served as the consultant and final review of the whole team, and he needed to read all the manuscripts.

Less than two days after the beginning, Zheng Yujie told everyone in the group that foreign copyright owners notified more than 30 simultaneously published publishing houses in different countries and regions around the world that the time for the book to be listed was advanced from March 6, 2012 to November 21, 2011! I felt that I had plenty of time, but I suddenly became nervous.

In private, Zheng Yujie also asked Yang Guo if he wanted to add two more translators to them, but Yang Guo did not hesitate and directly rejected the proposal. Increasing the number of translators means adding more uncontrollability, but if it doesn't increase, everyone will be assigned more tasks, and of course, the burden on Yang Guo's shoulders will be heavier.

Every day, he not only translates the manuscript that is in his area of responsibility, but also collects the manuscripts of three other people to review and revise. On weekdays, he had to stay online, always responding to questions from his teammates, and he held daily online meetings with them to point out the shortcomings of their translations in the past day.

Usually Yang Guo is a modest and gentle person, but this time as the leader of the four-person translation team, Yang Guo has transformed into a big demon king! He's like those famous movie directors, just catch him a repeat mistake, and you're waiting to accept his roar!

The team members trembled every time they had a meeting, for fear of being roared by Yang Guo, even if they were separated by a network of 108,000 miles, Yang Guo's scolding like a Ferguson-style hair dryer would still spray them bloody.

Three, two doctors, and a turtle who came back from studying abroad, in terms of academic qualifications, Yang Guo is difficult to reach, and in terms of age, they are also a circle older than Yang Guo, at the beginning, they were very dissatisfied with the arrangement of Dongxin Publishing House, and when Yang Guo pointed fingers at their translation, they were also secretly slandered.

However, after more than half a month of cooperation, Yang Guo impressed them with his superb translation skills and profound knowledge reserves, the former has nothing to say, after all, compared to them, Yang Guo is still a professional translator, but the latter is different, every time they ask Yang Guo a question, Yang Guo can answer quickly. Many questions can't even be searched for on the Internet, but Yang Guo is like an omnipotent encyclopedia, as long as it is a question in the book, he can answer them one by one.

For example, Jobs once founded a club called "Buck_Fry_Club" when he was in high school, and the translator who translated this paragraph couldn't figure out the meaning of the club's name, so he came to consult Yang Guo, Yang Guo only thought about it for a while, and pointed out that the name Jobs gave was actually a play on words, and if the initials of the name were reversed, then it could show the hidden "Fuck_Bry_Club", and the principal of their high school at that time was named Warren_ Bryld。

After Yang Guo answered questions and solved problems several times, in addition to "tyrant" in the group, he also had the nickname of "humanoid grain pigeon".

Anyway, the translation of the four-person group continued in the bumps, although Yang Guo still had to take their manuscripts over every night for refinement, but the progress of the three of them was still obvious to all, at least, Yang Guo didn't want to be so tired at the beginning.

What makes the three of them even more impressed is that although Yang Guo has to spend time every day to revise their translations and guide them in the translation process, he does not pull down his own translation, Yang Guo relies on his understanding of Jobs and his mastery of English, and the amount of work he completes every day is still a little more than the two people they have done the most combined.

On August 25, Apple suddenly announced that Steve Jobs had resigned as Apple's CEO, and the board of directors had appointed former Apple COO Tim? Cook takes over the throne of Steve Jobs! Of course, Jobs' resignation represents the end of an era, which is a self-evident fact, but it is also news that is difficult for many people to accept, and it shocked Yang Guo and others.

People are concerned about what will happen without Sect Leader Qiao's apple, but Yang Guo and Zheng Yujie can see something different from this news - Sect Leader Qiao estimates that time is running out! In fact, Sect Master Qiao was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, and although he underwent surgery to remove the tumor in 2004, there are still hidden dangers in his body.

The history of Apple's rise is also the history of Qiao's suffering from cancer, but Apple's glory cannot save Qiao's health, Qiao's body is deteriorating, and every time Apple's press conference is held, Yang Guo can see his increasingly thin body and pale face.

Even though it was 2009, Steve Jobs experienced a sick leave for half a year, and he did not really resign from the position of CEO of Apple! And this time, he actually put down the scepter of the head of the apple, which means that his health has deteriorated to the point of no return!

Jobs's life has entered the countdown, and Yang Guo can almost hear the ticking of the clock, which also indicates that there is not much time left for Yang Guo to translate, and Yang Guo is like a clockwork machine, and begins to translate day and night.

Yang Guo now in addition to the routine exercise every morning, in addition to taking care of her and accompanying her when Qiqi wakes up, in addition to eating and sleeping, he sits in front of the computer and rotates, even if it is a meal, he has no time to cook, lunch eats the steamed buns he bought in the morning, and dinner is waiting for Song Zhiwen to come back from work to pack for him.

The original plan to go home was also canceled, for his parents, he had to say sorry for the time being, and when this matter was over, Yang Guo planned to go home and accompany them for a month, to make up for the mistake that he had not returned home for more than half a year.

What makes Yang Guo feel relieved is that after a month of guidance and supervision, his team members have grown up quickly. In particular, Guan Yanyan, a boy who came back from studying abroad but was not much older than Yang Guo, not only did he translate a lot -- almost half of the three of them, but his translation level had improved greatly.

Guan Yanyan studied information technology when he studied in Australia, and a boy with a science and engineering background squeezed into the translation team led by Yang Guo this time by virtue of his translation ability that he had exercised for several months in the American drama subtitle group. It is true that at the beginning, his strength was the weakest in the group, and it was very difficult to even gnaw on the thick manuscript, but he was also the most serious and willing to spend time among the three.

Every day, Yang Guo has to translate until late, because his body only needs three hours of rest to be able to regain his spirit, but every night at three o'clock, Guan Yanxi will come to him with questions, and Guan Yanxi's spirit of hard work and conscientiousness really touched him. In private, during the break, Guan Yanyan will take the initiative to discuss the translation experience with Yang Guo, and Yang Guo will often open a small stove for him and cultivate him very carefully.

Every time Yang Guo has a meeting, he will say: "Steve Jobs is one of the greatest people in the world in the last century and even this century, and there will definitely be countless pairs of eyes staring at his book after it is published, and every mistake we make now, every information we miss, and every word we mistranslate will be infinitely magnified." If you don't want to be pointed at in the future, and you don't want to be complained about and criticized by the people of the whole country, just translate it seriously for me, and don't let go of every detail! ”

Guan Yanyan would listen to Yang Guo's words very carefully every time, and this passage was like a sharp knife hanging over his head, urging him to work harder and more seriously to translate.

Although Yang Guo sometimes scolded him very ugly, the two still formed a deep friendship, and their academic pursuit made the two of them cherish each other even more. And Guan Yanyan really became the best translator under Yang Guo in the translation team under Yang Guo, and later, he became the left arm and right arm of Yang Guo to create his own foundation, that is a matter of the future, so I will not show it here for the time being.

On September 20, Zheng Yujie approached Yang Guo with a solemn face and told him that they had received another 200 pages of manuscript revised and added by the author. With more than two hundred more pages, Yang Guo and the others felt that their heads were all big.

You know, they always thought that it was the more than 400 pages of the original manuscript in their hands, and roughly estimated, they could still complete the task perfectly according to the plan, but now there are more than 200 pages, almost half of the previous manuscript! How is this done? Do you want Yang Guo to keep them awake?

Yang Guo felt a lot of pressure, especially during the online video conference, and his brows furrowed even more when he saw the increasingly thin and pale faces of his team members.

After announcing the "bad news", everyone was in mourning, and the only girl in the group even pulled her hair to say that she couldn't bear it. Seeing that the other two were faintly resistant, Guan Yanxi gritted his teeth and said, "Boss, if you give me a hundred pages, I can still hold on." ”

However, Yang Guo was unwilling to let him stay up all night to catch up with the manuscript anymore, not to mention whether his body could hold it, how good could the translated manuscript be in that extremely exhausting situation? In the end, it is not for Yang Guo to revise it, so it is not to increase the workload for himself? In that case, it's better to leave it to yourself to translate from the beginning!

After discussion, Guan Yanxi turned another 40 pages of the manuscript, the other two people each had 20 pages, and Yang Guo took the remaining 120 pages of the manuscript. Although it is a lot, but working overtime, gritting his teeth, Yang Guo feels that it is still possible to finish it.

The translation team has also entered the final sprint stage, and Sect Master Qiao's time is running out, and their task is still so arduous. But at this moment, no one dares to slack off, because they are not competing with themselves or the publisher, they are fighting with the tenacious and unyielding Qiao Sect Master, fighting against the impending Grim Reaper, and fighting with the sky!