The Journal of Specialised Translation Issue 13 – January 2010 Coping Strategies for Fast Delivery in Simultaneous Interpretation Changshuan Li‚ Beijing Foreign Studies University ABSTRACT Fast speech is the arch enemy of simultaneous interpreters. Prior preparation may address deficiencies in knowledge and terminology‚ and to some extent‚ alleviate the pressure of speed of delivery. But if the speed is beyond a certain limit‚ no interpreter can transmit the message in full‚ even if he/she
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CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION‚ ANALYSIS‚ AND INTERPRETATION This chapter presents analysis of the data gathered and the interpretation of findings. Discussion on the findings of the profile of the respondents and the system assessment are also presented in this chapter. 1. Profile of the Respondents 1. Age Table 3 shows the data of the respondents. Most of the respondents where students comprising of 56 or 42.74 percent whose ages ranged from 17-20 years old ranked first. This was followed
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Should the interpretation of law be strict or loose? Law can be understood differently by a different variety of people who apply if different whether it’s strictly‚ loosely and everything in between. I believe that the interpretation of law shouldn’t be really strict‚ but shouldn’t be very loose at the same time. I believe that the interpretation of law should be in the middle of strict and loose. If the interpretation of law is loose‚ then people will just go around it and find their way out
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Film Dr. Strangelove A brief synopsis of the film‚ General Ripper‚ a paranoid Air Force base commander‚ orders a troop of B-52 bombers into the Soviet Union to drop hydrogen bombs on military targets. General Turgidson sees this as a chance to entirely abolish the “Communists” and prevent their predictable vengeance. But the president is a pacifist‚ and he invites the Russian Ambassador into the war room. They call the Russian Premiere to warn of the attack and explain that it was accidental
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This man locked between four walls‚ has all the time to relive the crime‚ his horrible mistake that sent him to jail. Deprived of liberty‚ he remembers what life was like when he was free. Every second he spent outside those walls. All the people who cared for him. He was never grateful for the life he was living. It used to be no bars‚ no chains‚no guards to wake you up in the morning. Now that time has changed as they even tell him when to bath. Sitting in the dark‚ watching miniature
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Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare’s sonnet 138 is published in 1599 in a poetry collection entitled “The Passionate Pilgrime”. It reveals the nature of his frustrating relationship with The Dark Lady‚ emphasizing the effects of his age and his decline in beauty‚ and the effects on a sexual/romantic relationship. When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her‚ though I know she lies‚ That she might think me some untutored youth Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties. Thus
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Adaptation: The Journey We All Take As movie-goers‚ we all have seen films advertised with the “based on the book” tag line. Unfortunately‚ after watching these films there are always viewers that bring up the fidelity of the film to the original piece. Artistically‚ this raises the question of to what extent do we define originality. Robert Stam‚ the author of Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation‚ pointed out that a film’s fidelity to a novel is an issue deemed by audiences to be moralistic
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"Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china. The dining-room was stripped of parquet‚ the skirting was up‚ the door had been taken off its hinges‚ and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become." The Second World War had just finished and the boys were living
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STORY-TELLING THROUGH FILM: Comparing Interpretations of a Scene from Macbeth Film‚ like novels and plays‚ is a form of narrative or storytelling. However‚ image (and‚ to a lesser extent‚ sound) is the main ‘language’ film uses to tell the story. Some of the elements of this language include: ∙ ‘shots’ (where the camera points‚ how it moves‚ focuses etc.) ∙ editing (how shots are put together to tell the story) ∙ sound design and editing ∙ artistic design (including
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Is Fashion Art? Everybody questions art. You would think art is merely created for admiration‚ but its not. The average person would describe art as a drawing on a piece of paper‚ and this quote by Clement Greenberg (1909-1991) suggests why: "The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art‚ any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby‚ each art would be rendered pure’ " "Painting is not sculpture it is two-dimensional;
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