Chapter 43: The Two Sides of Trouble
"Daddy, wake up—"
Pillemon opened his eyes, is this his wife calling for her to get up for lunch?
"Daddy, wake up, we're here."
Oh, I think it was on the bus to work in the "New Town". The car is really not very bumpy, suitable for sleeping, and it is warm and comfortable in this new coat, I really don't want to go out......
Pillemon thought about it, but his body still mechanically followed his wife and bent out of the body of the big east wind. When everyone got out of the car, there were two soldiers behind them who carried out the oil---without this, I am afraid that a few would have frozen to death in the body.
This is where they will work in the future.
Pilemon was really desperate, and he had brought the whole family with him. Without most of the autumn grain, the winter will certainly not be able to survive - and neither will starvation. He who has grain has already given it to the merchants from the east at a high price, so how can he lend him any surplus grain? Wandering between dying early or playing to death, freezing to death by touching a fish or being killed by a wild beast, he met a new district recruitment group that came to the village to fool around.
A bag of flour poached the family, and they will eat it later. For a while, Pilemon was a little afraid that this was not to fool people into doing some strange tricks, such as alchemy using people as raw materials, etc. Thankfully, Doniva's coat of arms was assured, and his signature was added to his signature, which made him sign and press his handprint with peace of mind.
They were first led to the dormitory. One of the things that is better about a family dormitory than a bachelor's iron-bed room is the full wooden floors - don't be happy, this is the bed, let's sleep together. The quilt and blanket on the floor are sufficient. As for the husband and wife having sex - we really don't entertain well, otherwise you will go out and settle it?
At this time, the child becomes a burden. But it's okay usually, at least one person from the family who comes to work with the child can take care of the child, of course, all of them are eaten, and the new area is not short of this food money. It's still too early to start any childcare and even a nursery school among this group of people, so let's give some money and clean up your own home.
It's not over when we get to the dormitory. The caretaker also took the family to the cafeteria, the shop, and the public bathhouse, instructed them on how to read the signs and directions, and taught them how to use coins, how to use heating, and how to live here. He also took out a large bag of cleaning utensils from the small tricycle, and explained the sanitary products one by one, and it took a long time to explain clearly.
For Pilemon, what he had to remember most clearly was what time he got up and what time he got off every day, where he would meet, and what color of helmet he was wearing. There are so many rules here, he thinks.
Suddenly, the group of color steel houses that had been quiet a few days ago became lively. Due to the deliberate separation of single dormitories and family dormitories, the residents here are all family residents. The smell of family affection began to mix in the air with the aroma of the meal, yes, they hadn't looked forward to a meal so warmly in a long time.
What was served today in the cafeteria was average, potatoes with chicken juice. Potato cubes they've never eaten before, a soup with a magical aroma that has been prepared in the Otherworld, red diced vegetables, and an all-you-can-eat egg soup like potatoes. At first, the design of this canteen may have been too small, and many people were not afraid of getting dirty on the floor, so they sat in the corner of the wall and munched on the plates.
In fact, the people who dined today were very concentrated and the meal time was long. Pillemon looked hatefully at the two vicious chefs at the door—they were in charge of seeing if any of the unbehaving children wanted to take the plates out, and they were determined to take them away. If the two of them hadn't stood there, Pilemon would have piled the potatoes on the ceiling with a plate and poured a pot of soup on them, and would have had enough to eat in his new home, and would not have had to go to the window and the table here to queue up and sweat profusely - maybe the heating in the cafeteria was too big, but Pilemon was annoying.
Huang Yuan, who was not far from the cafeteria, was also annoyed now.
Colleagues are again fighting in the office over the word "Golgi apparatus". A small number of people suggested that the name should be prefixed with "book organelle" or a word that describes the layered structure more vividly, while most people should unswervingly transliterate it into Elta, saying that this is for the sake of better teaching and respect for science in the future...... Similar examples include "cancer" and "malignancy", "lymphoid tissue" and "immune tissue", "Newton's three laws" and "three laws of motion......
Originally, Huang Yuan's translation team was to translate a large number of popular science self-study books and compulsory education textbooks according to the tasks distributed above. He was reluctant to do so, but the other translation team could translate hygiene slogans, work rules, safety instructions, etc. - how easy it was.
It turned out to be tricky, and somehow the task turned into publishing a dictionary of common proper nouns. Originally, another group had been sent to write this dictionary, but as a result, the thickness of this dictionary changed all the way from a story to a dream of red mansions, and now there is a trend towards the Tale of Genji, and recently it has even been studying to divide the volume. So even his team was brought in to work on this.
As their leader left behind, "If there is a deviation in the translation, you are responsible." I think you still need to learn ...... in the translation industry", and translating this kind of popular science terminology is indeed a new challenge for them.
To take the simplest example, such as the word "chemistry," several groups would have to argue with dictionaries about the origins of chemistry in the English language. In the end, there will always be two factions, those who support the use of pinyin pronunciation to forcibly make the word an Elta foreign word, and those who follow the approximate meaning to give birth to an extended meaning or change it on the basis of the original word. Then the two factions will argue endlessly, and they will always have to invite old professors to guide the country to calm down for a while.
In addition to the terminology, there are weights and measures. Except for the fact that the time is similar to the calendar and the other side of the door, Elta is very different. Whether it's length, weight, volume, it's all different - even the base system is different. The new district does not have the energy to make Elta use Chinese weights and measures - it has to be popularized in the new district, and at the same time ask the shield city to send a set of "relatively standard" rulers and weights, so that it can barely be converted.
Huang Yuan may have been flipping through the foreign language literature of science and engineering yesterday, and today he is facing the conversion of a certain constant in the table of weights and measures. For a man who had long since abandoned proper nouns and science and engineering thinking in high school, this really annoyed him and couldn't be more annoying. He hoped that this dictionary would be published in compulsory education, and that it would be better not to have a high school, let alone a university -- if he was asked to be a translator of high school courses, he would apply for a transfer, and if he could not be transferred, he would have to resign, in short, he would not do it.