What'sagoodtranslation? 　　WhenwedoEnglishtranslation,wecan'tmemorizethemeaningsandtheusageofallwordsandtranslatethewholearticlesverysmoothlywithoutanytools,especiallyinacademictranslation.Anytranslatorshavelimitedvocabularycapacityinhismind.Wemaybeskilledattranslatingarticleswhichbelongtoourfamiliarfieldsandseldomturntoothertools.Eveninsuchcases,westilldarenotsayweneveruseothertoolstoassistourtranslation,andmostofthetime,wehavetotranslatearticleswhichbelongtothefieldwearenotveryfamiliarwith. 　　Ifwewanttobeagoodtranslator,besidesmemorizingmorewords,phrases,idioms,sentencepatterns,wehavetograspthefollowingskills: 　　Firstly,weshouldestablishourvocabularycollectionsofdifferentfieldsforfutureusage.Awordcanhavedifferentmeaningswhenusedindifferentsituationsordifferentfields.Forexample,blackmeans"黑色的"inChinese,butblackteais红茶insteadof黑茶inChinese.Weshouldlookupwordsinthecorrespondentvocabularycollectionstofindtheappropriatemeaning. 　　Secondly,weshouldgraspsomebasicinformationsearchknowledge.Somewordsorsentencescan'tbetranslatedbyourselves,andweevencan'tfindtheproperexplanationinthedictionary.Buttheirmeaningsortranslationcanbefoundinacademicpapersoronthenet.Soweshouldknowhowtodoinformaitonretrievalifwewanttobeagoodtranslator.Forexample,intranslatingbiologicalandagriculturalpapers,it'srelativelydifficulttotranslatetheChinesenamesoftheplantsoranimalsormicrobesintoLartinortheLartinoftheplantsandanimalsintoChinese.AsmostLartindictionarieswerecompiledmanyyearsago,somanynewspeciesarenotincludedinthedictionary.Instead,informationisrenewedveryquicklyonthenetorintheliteraturedatabases.IfwesearchtheLartinwordsontheGOOGLEorothersearchengineorintheliteraturedatabases,itwillbeveryeasytogettheanswers. 　　Thirdly,weshouldcommunicateandcooperatewiththecounterparts.Everyindividualhaslimitedcapacity,butwecanextendandenlargeourcapacitywhenwecooperatewiththecounterparts.It'sthesameinlanguagetranslation.Therearemanywaystocommunicateandcooperatewiththecounterparts.Whenwemeetunfamiliartranslationmaterials,wecancalltodiscusswiththosewhoarefamiliarwiththemandgetsomeveryconcreteanddetailedinstructionsoradvice.Wecanalsocopythephrasesorsentences,evenpassagesonthenet(suchastheYahooknowledgeSchool,BaiduBar,GoogleKnowledgeSchool)toinviteotherstotranslateforus,thenafteraperiodoftime,wejustgotoselectthebestanswersfromthevariousanswers.Wecanalsopublicthearticlesonourblogstoinvitethecounterpartstohaveadiscussionortranslatethemwithus. 　　So,ifwewanttobeagoodtranslatoranddobettertranslation,weshouldnotonlymemorizemorewordsandgrasptheneededtranslationmethods,it'sverynecessaryforustograspthebasicinformationsearchandretrievalmethods,andalsoestablishabroadandsoundnetworkoftranslationresourcesandnetworkofprofessionaltranslationpersonnels.