Interpretation learning - Jan 2023

1. Epitaph 墓志铭
2. Rampant 猖獗
3. Eulogy 悼词 dàocí
4. Tickling 挠Náo痒痒的
5. Drifting 飘逸
6. Peeking 偷看
7. Purge 清除 (Remove)
8. indigitous 卑鄙的
9. Crumple 弄皱zhòu
10. Jenga (Staking Blocks) 叠叠乐
11. pangolin 穿山甲
12. Corn flakes 玉米片
13. Waffle 华夫饼
14. Pan cake 煎饼
15. Cause Trouble 捣乱
16. Abhorrent 可恶的
17. Amok 疯狂地 (The soldiers ran amok after one of their senior officers was killed)
18. Apostasy 叛教
19. persimmon 柿子
20. Guava 番石榴
21. Canistel (peach of immorality) 仙桃 
22. Peach 桃/桃子
23. Yogurt 酸奶
24. espionage 间谍
25. Taco 炸玉米饼
26. Incentive 奖掖
27. Crouch 蹲伏
28. Pomelo 柚子
29. ousted (expel) 被赶下台/逐出
30. Poaching 偷猎
31. Retribution 报应/罚

Interpretation Learning - Dec 2022

 1 “他必兴旺，我必衰微。」” 约翰福音‬ ‭3:30‬ ‬‬”He must become greater; I must become less.” John‬ ‭3:30‬ ‭‬‬

2 “弟兄们，我不是以为自己已经得着了；我只有一件事，就是忘记背后，努力面前的， 向着标竿直跑，要得　神在基督耶稣里从上面召我来得的奖赏。” 腓立比书‬ ‭3:13-14‬ ‭

“Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3:13-14‬ ‭

3 香膏 Perfume 

4 三十块钱 Thirty silver coins 

5 无名英雄 Unsung Hero

6 双列停车 Double parking 

7 颠覆 overturn 

8 箱鼓 Cajon 

9 亭子 Pavilion 

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)