I am sorry, Peking University ...
... but what's the reason behind translating 创新 chuang4xin1 ("innovation") as "imagination"?
I am sure, when it comes to Operating Systems, your 2007 Imagination Festival keynote speaker does rely much more on the latter than the former, but do you really need to rub it in that bad?
source: Xinhua News
Seriously: If Asia's best university (according to the 2006 THES World University Rankings ) can't hire a translator, I don't know who will.
Really sorry.
Thanks go to blogger "Beyondword" for pointing this out to me.
posted by olr — 纪韶融 @ 4/26/2007
17 Comments
17Comments:
wow,贴上了:)北大确实不懂创新.中国文人们习惯把"想象"当成"创新",空想只是创新的一部分,现代创新更多的是实践.文人们常常把发挥小学生的"想象力"作为是培养创造力的主要目标,夸夸其谈而轻视把想象变成现实的实际操作能力.这也从根本上反映了中国文化里面缺乏创新理念的顽疾,固执愚蠢地用自己的"想象"来解释世界,甚至都懒得查一下词典.大学校长懒惰到不认字也不稀罕,相当懒惰.
可以发给我一个名字吗？这样就会让大家知道本来是谁提出这个错误。。。
就算是一名为Beyondword的网友吧
谢谢纪韶融
其实组织者的这种故意错搞是他们的生存伎俩而已,汉语的口号是给国家首脑主管上司看的,因为他们号召中国要"创新"."Imagination 大奖"是搞了让盖茨开心一下的临时玩艺,他们知道什么是科技Innovation,但若号称"Innovation 大奖"则由他们这些人来颁给盖茨就很有班门弄斧的滑稽了,好比是南郭先生来给莫扎特颁发音乐创作大奖,他们觉得在世界人民面前玩笑不能开的太大,即使在相对可以愚弄一下的落后中国.于是耍了这样的两面手法,既用玩笑般的英文秀愉悦了盖茨,又用了中国当前政治化的汉语来做他们的名目欺骗政府与首脑,更误导了国民.如此挖空心思的imagination就是最高学俯或许也是微软本身携手的最高境界了,十分无聊而且可恶.
-----Beyondword
oh this sux. such an obvious mistake occureds in China's best university. and when Bill Gates was giving a speech!!
hey oliver are you still in Singapore?
57: Yes, I am. Wanna meet?
poor PKU. but you made a mistake too, 'Beijing University' is not the formal English name of the university you denoted(I deduce this from Bill Gates's lecture), in fact it's Peking University, with Peking,an obsolete usage, meaning Beijing.
留言了两次都失败了，汗颜啊
imagecup是微软组织的全球性比赛，2007年颁奖活动放在北大的百年大讲堂，比尔先生亲自来参加了。也就是北大把一个大会堂租给微软作为活动场所，仅此而已，所以如果存在错误，也和北大无关...当然了，这个命名是美国人提出的，是否存在问题都难说，希望作者明鉴。 详细地址请google下，似乎留言里不让我贴出....
嗯，似乎是留下了，看来是反spam的问题^^
祝好 大头酷象
大头酷象,谢谢你的解释。
虽然微软公司租了这间大厅，我还是觉得大学的负责人应该检查一下在类似于地公关活动中不会发生这样的错误，不是吗？
The meeting is the Imagine Cup held by Microsoft, so Imagination is a big part of Gates' speech. However, if you translate "imagination" to "想像", it is not a good way to translate.
No, the basic problem here is that the translation doesn't match either way.
So what was first, the Cup's English or Chinese title?
Whoever organized that ImagineCup just can't put up 创新 instead and say 差不多. Not at Peking University.
I don't think it's a big deal. "Imagine" is overrated. BTW, is PKU really the 1st in Asia? I strongly doubt that.
你好，纪韶融。给您提个意见。您只解释了那些个CHINGLISH原来想表达的意思，但没有告诉外国人，为什么会出现这些词句的。呵呵，如果您知道他们为什么要这么写，会更有意思，而且也能了解中国语言的特点。其实，大多数人只是犯了“逐字翻译”的错误而已。您能解释一下中国人为什么会这么做就更好了。
听到过这个笑话吗？有个中国人到美国，碰到一个车祸，警察找他作证，他说：“One car come, one car go. Two car 'pengpeng', one car die."
Hi,
I did already.
Please take a look at my post on March 13th:
The most asked question: why?
Best,
olr.
Hi Rick,
you are free to do so.
PKU's number 1 position was taken from the 2006 THES World University Rankings. This definitely varies depending on the source of reference, it is clear, though, that we are not talking about some provincial backwater school here.
P.S. I think Microsoft is overrated.
Post a Comment
<< Home