Interpretation Learning - Sep 2021

1. 发端/开始时 onset 
2. 仙女 Fairy
3. 保济丸 Po Chai Pills  (Abdominal, Stomach Ache Relief)
4. 斧标驱风油 Axe Brand Medicated Oil
5. 驱风油 Pain Relieving Oil
6. 黑道 Criminals
7. 白道 Law Enforcers
8. 知识库 Knowledge Treasury
9. 意识 Connotation
10. Polytheism 多神论
11. Pantheism 泛神论
12. 才子 Literary Genius / Gifted Scholar
13. 邓丽君 Teresa Teng 
14. 圆寂 parinirvana (perfect death)
15. 直接 right to our face (directly) 
16. 百病不侵/百毒不侵 Immune to Diseases
17. 无敌 invincible (too powerful to be defeated or overcome)

Interpretation Learning - Aug 2021

1.  没有难成的事 Nothing is too hard (impossible)
2. 无论得时不得时 in season and out of season
3. 逗留 stay put
4. 叛逆 Rebellious
5. 举荐信 Letter of recommendation
6. 跺下脚下的尘土 shake off the dust of your feet
7. 阴影 Shadow
8. 误会 Take me wrong/misunderstand
9. 既然 Since
10. 饭碗 Livelihood (rice bowl)
11. 传家之宝 family heirloom
12. 火葬 cremation 
13. 土葬 Burial 
14. 天空相遇 To meet in the air
15. 不管 Regardless of/No matter
16. 裹足不前 Hold back
17. 无情 ruthless
18. 落户 （指在某地报入户口，长期定居）Settle down
19. 让步 give in (Health give in)

Interpretation Learning - July 2021

1. 韵律 Prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)
2. 语义映射 Semantic Mapping 
3. 語域 Register (linguistics) (the degree of formality of language)
4. 不是那么理想的家庭背景 Rough Upbringing/Background
5. 名望 Good reputation/Well Known
6. 根据 Basis
7. 补白 Fillers (Em..Er..You know..) 
8. 静音补白 Muted Fillers
9. 降服在他的领导 Submit (instead of surrender) to his leadership 
10. 优点和缺点 Strength & Weakness
11. 讲道理  reason things out
12. 事后分析 Postmortem 
13. 语料库 Corpus
14. 酸碱 Acid & base (alkaline)
15. 民间信仰 Folk Religion
16. 交易观 Notion of transaction
17. 儿女经火 Sacrifice of children
18. 燔祭 Burnt Offering
19. 管家 Butler
20. 对信仰的不纯正 Corrupted faith 
21. 后（交）传 Consecutive 
22. 同传 Simultaneous interpretation 
23. 标准英音 RP Receive Pronunciation=Standard English (is the instantly recognisable accent)
24. 极乐世界 paradise
25. 笔译 Written translation

Other Comments/Learning

• “You know.." is an informal register which we want to avoid in a formal setting.
• Whisper interpreting (the interpreter listens to the presenter by ear, and then whispers the translation to an attendee)
• Consecutive interpretation is like memory training
• Simultaneous interpretation helps to build up Semantic Mapping tremendously

5 Types of Registers

a) Frozen Foam (cannot change in the way we say it)

b) Formal Foam (one directional speech)

c) Consultative (two-way, conversational)

d) Informal (Casual)

e) Intimate (languages between husband/wife, children)

Interpretation Learning - Apr 2021

 

No.	English	中文
1	Prologue	序幕掀开
2	Condensed version	缩影/缩写
3	Watershed （Divide, Separate）	分水岭
4	Rooster /roo·stuh/如s特/	公鸡
5	Crow /krow/	啼叫
6	Inadequate	感到不足
7	Capacity for clear thinking	心窍
8	Hinder by sin	罪的拦阻
9	To explain well	好好讲解
10	Barabbas	巴拉巴（强盗）
11	Prefiguring	预表
12	The fish vomited Jonah	鱼把约拿吐出来
13	Ponder	思想
14	Philadelphia（Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city）	费城
15	Pennsylvania（one of the states of the US）	宾夕法尼亚州
16	It’s a big loss/It makes a big difference   It does not make a difference without me	少我一个就少很多     缺我一个不缺
17	All this is from God (1 Cor 5:18)	一切都是的都是出于神
18	Gospel Culture Centre	福音文化中心
19	Riches & splendor	富贵荣华
20	Unfold/Reveal/Present	展现
21	All the kingdoms of the world and their splendor	世上万国于万国的荣华
22	By pass/detour	绕过
23	Choices/Options	选择
24	Talents	人才
25	Age is catching up: starting to feel old (Her age is catching up to her)
26	Deeply Believe	深深的认为
27	Late Rev Peter Hsu /嗅/	已故许彼得牧师
28	Principal / Dean	院长
29	Master of Divinity (M. Div) - prepare people for a ministry profession in the church or pastorate	道学硕士
30	Master of Arts (MA) - typically includes a specific emphasis (Biblical Counseling, Christian Education, Christian Leadership, Cross-Cultural Ministries, Media Arts/Worship and Biblical Exegesis/Linguistics)
31	Master of Theology (ThM) - is more focused on the study of Scripture in context (including theology, hermeneutics, apologetics, church history and global studies).	神学硕士