--- On Sat, 30/3/13, Jactry Zeng <jactr...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jactry Zeng <jactr...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [website] Simplified Chinese translation for release 1.5.27
To: ht...@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Wine Devel" <wine-devel@winehq.org>, "Qian Hong" <fract...@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, 30 March, 2013, 10:41
2013/3/30 Hin-Tak Leung <ht...@users.sourceforge.net>
>
>
> I think both are terrible translations but could not think of a better
> alternative off my head, so I went to consult google translate. It defaults
> to 運行時庫 for "runtime library" but allow me to choose a few other
> alternatives, among which is
>
> "執行階段程式庫"
>
> Don't you think that's much better!?
Hi Hin-Tak,
Thanks for your review.
I also think both "运行时" or "运行时库" was not best translation. But I have seen a
lot of documents in Simplified Chinese translated it in this way.
Maybe it was not too accurate...
And in my opinion, "运行时" meaning some function, "运行时库" meaning a runtime
library.
To be honest, I think a lot of Chinese translations of technical topics (or
even not-technical topics) are quite poor, and little beyond a word-for-word
substitution.
run -> 运行 ("to convey/process", the more common use of "run", of
'using your legs faster than walking' is obviously wrong)
time -> 时 ("hour", "during")
library -> 库 ("storage container", the more common use of "library" to mean
"collection of books" obviously wrong).
Whereas
"執行階段程式庫"
meaning "the program/routine library of/in the execute stage" is quite a lot
more fitting to what 'runtime library' actually means.
As I was saying, one needs to be vigilant about automated translations being
'not quite correct'. I suspect it is a much abused practice in China, so you
see the same (mis-)usage over and over.
There are entire web sites devoted to poorly translated public signs in China
and making fun of them. It is quite educational - one gets lazy and and accepts
the occasional poor translation, but seeing similar but slightly different
mistakes collected in a large quantity really makes one think.
2013/3/30 Jactry Zeng <jactr...@gmail.com>
>
> I translated it as "高质量" meaning a picture have hight resolution.
Here has a typo, hight -> higher .... --
Regards,
Jactry Zeng
