Monday, October 18, 2010
She actually asked me to translate this piece of abstract from a certain journal article.
From CHINESE TO ENGLISH! Not the other way around.
I was really stunned when she showed me the abstract. Here's how it looks like:
利用电气石的热释电性、压电性和自发极化性产生的荷电效应,对卷烟烟气有害成分中的带电物质进行有效吸附原理,本实验研制了一种含电气石复合功能涂料的成形纸并将其用于卷烟减害降焦中.结果表明,含电气石复合功能涂料成形纸可降低卷烟危害性,焦油、CO、NOx、亚硝胺、羰基化合物、氢氰酸、苯并芘类物质降低率分别为12.6%、15.O%、25.2%、12.5%、12.2%、30.4%、19.4%,且卷烟感官质量评价较好,没有明显影响卷烟的抽吸风格.
And yes, I am as perplexed as you are now. It is extremely cheemology!
The worst thing is, she should know my chinese standard when I speak to her right? I can even take a long time to figure out how to say "By what time do you need this?" right in front of her, and burst out in laughing fits when I really can't think of what to say, and eventually asking my fellow intern to translate for me to her.....
But anyway, thanks to the amazing technology of Google, there was this translate button which I could click when I searched for the article. Although the translation was horrible, I managed to edit it to something reasonable, although it took me about 45mins to 1 hour. Thank you very much and DON'T LAUGH!
Here's how it turned out:
Using tourmaline’s properties of pyroelectric, piezoelectric and spontaneous polarization of charge generated effects, and the principle of effective absorption of charged particles in harmful substances of cigarette smoke, this study developed a tourmaline composite materials coated cigarette paper to reduce the harm of tar. The results show that tourmaline composite materials coated cigarette paper can reduce harm of tar, CO, NOx, nitrosamines, carbonyl compounds, hydrogen cyanide, benzo[a]pyrene substances, by 12.6%, 15.O%, 25.2%, 12.5%, 12.2%, 30.4%, 19.4% respectively, and gives a good evaluation of the sensory quality of cigarettes, with no significant effects on the smoking style of the cigarette.
This is like so super cheem lah! I don't even understand what's pyroelectric and piezoelectric!
Oh, and by the way, if you're wondering why I think that this translation is a very strange request to me, let me remind you that my sup is a China Chinese....
- Strange request
by snoopy_lim @ 8:58 PM