Chapter 23: The Military Wife Who Wants to Be a Translator (7)
After arriving in the city, An Nan first went to the post office to send the translation manuscript, and by the way, he took the manuscript fee sent by the newspaper before.
When Qin Hongwu saw her take it, he raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "You really learned to translate English?" ”
"Of course, although it was only a short story, most of the translations I translated were accepted." An Nan raised her chin and replied proudly, Qin Hongwu was really impressed by her, but still asked, "You have only been studying intensively for less than half a year, right?" So soon to have the level of translation and publishing? ”
"I laid a good foundation before, and I have been racing against time to learn in the past six months, and there are so many materials for practice, keep trying to keep learning, and it will naturally be fast." An Nan didn't lie, it's just that her foundation was laid in her previous life, and she can master the trick so quickly in this life.
Coming out of the post office, Qin Hongwu first sent An Nan to the largest bookstore in the city, and asked her to read and buy books here now, he was going to the city armed police team to do business, and he would come to pick her up when he was done.
An Nan took his backpack and waved at him and entered the bookstore.
Today happens to be the weekend, and there are many customers in the bookstore, so An Nan followed the catalog to find the book he wanted. Just as she was quietly looking down at a book of bilingual poetry in Chinese and English, she suddenly felt a warm gaze focused on her, she had always been vigilant, and suddenly looked up in the direction of her gaze, and saw a boy of eighteen or nineteen looking straight at her.
The boy didn't have time to look away, and after being caught by An Nan unexpectedly, his fair-skinned face turned red visibly.
Although shy, he still stammered to greet An Nan: "You, hello, are you, a college student majoring in English?" "Apparently I saw the book in An Nan's hand.
An Nan shook her head with a smile, it's been a long time since I've seen a boy who is so shy to talk to a girl, if she is single now, maybe she will have to flirt with him, such a cute and young boy, how easy it is to arouse women's strong desire for protection and motherhood!
It's a pity that she is now a married woman, and although she is in name only, she still decided to keep a little moderation, so she said to the boy with a look of pity: "No, I got married before I went to college." ”
When the boy heard this, his face was immediately full of loss, if there was a tail behind him, the tail would definitely hang down, but he was just depressed for a while, and soon spoke to An Nan with great interest: "You can read Chinese and English poetry collections without studying in college, so your previous English grades must be very good, right?" ”
"It's so-so, but I've been teaching myself translation for the last six months, and I can still understand English." An Nan said not very modestly.
"Whew! It's a shame to pretend to be able to read English with a book! When did English become so easy to learn? Even illiterate people who didn't go to college can teach themselves to be translators? Some foxes dressed up in a bewitching and glamorous way are holding a collection of poems and pretending to be, eighty percent of them are here to seduce men, right?! A sharp and piercing female voice sounded with a thick sense of mockery, and it was obvious that the object of this ridicule was An Nan.
Hearing this, An Nan looked at the woman who spoke harshly and ugly, and found that she not only spoke ugly, but also looked ugly, with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, and shrugging her eyebrows.
She stood beside the boy just now, raising her nostrils and looking at An Nan with contempt.
"Don't say that, she's been reading the content for a long time, and she must be able to understand it." The boy frowned and looked disapprovingly at his female classmate, helping An Nan to speak.
When the woman with hanging eyes heard this, she became even more angry, pointed at An Nan and said angrily: "Pei Fei! Don't let that woman fool you! You see her dressed like that, deliberately pretending to be cultured just to attract the attention of men! I've seen a lot of these scheming women! ”
"This young lady, I just said that I am married, please don't slander me at will, and I don't think there is anything wrong with my clothes today, simple and generous, elegant and comfortable, you can't look down on this kind of dress, probably the benevolent see the benevolent, the lewd see the prostitution, right?" An Nan squinted his eyes and taunted back sharply, and the people next to him who heard her say "Adulterers see lewdness" couldn't help laughing, after all, An Nan's clothes are really ordinary, not out of place at all.
"You! You're a strong word! Saying that getting married is just to lower a man's guard! "I don't believe you really know English!" If you dare to read out the English poems in this collection, I will believe you! ”
She was sure that An Nan was pretending to be garlic and didn't understand English at all, so she said this, thinking that in this way An Nan would be scared, afraid of being exposed, and then she would run away in shame after being exposed by herself! In this way, Pei Fei will know the true face of this woman, and thus be impressed by the self who exposed her!
Although the hanging eyes are ugly, she thinks very beautifully, but unfortunately she met An Nan.
"Okay!" An Nan smiled meaningfully.
"W-What?" Hanging eyes obviously didn't expect An Nan to really take the move, and didn't react to what she meant for a while.
An Nan turned directly to a page in the poetry collection, and read it according to the original English version above, her voice was soft and pleasant, her speech was clear, the tone was accurate, the light accent was clear, and the whole poem was read in a subdued tone, full and beautiful, even people who could not understand English could appreciate the rhythmic beauty of English and the rhythmic beauty of poetry.
An English poem was read fluently by An Nan, and the audience next to him immediately praised An Nan's pronunciation standard, and the recitation was smooth and fluent, Pei Fei looked at An Nan with bright eyes, looking like a little fan brother: "It's so good to read!" ”
An Nan smiled at him with a bright smile, and then stared fixedly at the shocked hanging eyes, and said, "How is it?" Do you still think I don't understand English? ”
Hanging eyes suddenly turned red with shame, raised her sleeves to hide her face and fled, even the little boy she admired couldn't take care of it, she was embarrassed in front of her sweetheart, and she didn't have the face to stay any longer.
"This young lady, the poem you just read in English is so good! I don't understand it, but I can hear it! By the way, I heard you say you're a translator? A middle-aged man with a big back and a suit suddenly walked up to An Nan and said with an amiable smile.
An Nan nodded: "Yes, both translation and interpretation are involved. ”
"That's great! I am the boss of Dongfanghong Lock Industry Co., Ltd. in B City, specializing in the production of various locks and lock cylinders, it is like this, our company recently imported five lock-making machines from abroad, but these machines did not take long to somehow not work, but followed by the foreign experts who came to guide have gone, and our company's people can not understand the manual, so they are at a loss, and they have recently stopped work for a week, and the loss is great...... I wonder if Miss can help translate the machine's manual into Chinese? Rest assured, as long as the translation is good, money is not an issue! The middle-aged man pleaded with An Nan as if he had grasped a life-saving straw.