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Chinese to English - Rates: 1.00 - 1.80 USD per character / 125 - 180 USD per hour English to Chinese - Rates: 0.25 - 0.60 USD per word / 105 - 180 USD per hour
Surcharge(s): Complex formatting +15% Jobs of high complexity +75% to +99% Rush jobs +20% to +50% Weekend +33% PDF / Power Point +15% Discount(s): Repetitions -60% to -80% New client discount -30%
Chinese to English: 十九大后的中国经济 China's Economy after 19th CPC National Congress General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Government / Politics
Source text - Chinese 四十年前，中国认为面对人民对物质文化增长的需要，落后的生产力是主要问题
中国社会化的主要矛盾已经转化为人民日益增长的美好生活需求和不平衡不充分发展之间的矛盾。改革的领域不仅仅是经济的，还是政治的、社会的、文化的、生态的，即“五位一体”的改革，中国因此进入新时代。“通过市场取向性经济体制改革，通过对外开放加入经济全球化，使中国的工业化道路呈现出典型的”东亚经济发展模式”，并因此而高速增长，年均增长9.7%。四十年后，随着出现产品，尤其工业制成品的丰富、甚者过剩的情况下，面对人民对美好生活的向往，出现的是供给不平衡、不充分的问题，这特别突出的反映在服务业，尤其是高端服务业上。
Translation - English Forty years ago, China believed that backward productivity was the key issue to meeting people's growing material and cultural needs.
The principal contradiction in China’s society has become one between people's growing demand for a better life and its uneven and inadequate development. The domains of reform are not limited to economic, but also political, social, cultural and ecological, i.e. a "Five-in-One" reform, thus signifying China entering a new era. Market-oriented reforms of the economic system, and opening up externally in support of economic globalization, caused the path for China's industralization to feature a typical East Asian economic development model", leading to rapid growth of 9.7% p.a. on average. Forty years later, with the emergence of products, especially the abundance or even surpluses of manufactured products, against people's yearning for a better life lies the problems of unbalanced and inadequate supply, which is particularly prominent in the service industry, notably with the high-end services.
English to Chinese: An online life journal for children 一本網上兒童生活日記 General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English Persistence is my superpower!
- I stick with things and don't give up easily.
- I improved with practice.
- I achieve great things when I am persistent.
- I keep calm when I make a mistake.
- I keep trying until I get it.
- I stay positive.
- I moved toward my goal.
- I do my best.
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Bio
Native in both English and Chinese (acquired respectively from each of my parents).
Postgraduate Qualifications in Laws and Legal Practice (under both Common Law and Chinese jurisdictions).
Over 10 years of Government bilingual service (Chinese-English) in aiding ministerial work on healthcare, emergency, fire safety, higher education, energy, town planning, construction, foreign affairs and core interfaces with Beijing, Taiwan and other municipal authorities.
Already attained Third prize in national translation contest 20 years ago.
Particularly vigilant to the respective preferences in the choice of words of the Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan audiences. Politically-sensitive
Received positive reviews particularly on making the translation even easier to understand than the original without loss of nuances or rhetorics (or even rhymes).
Experienced and equipped with rich TMs in providing official translations and annotations for public or business publications in China, which often explicitly or implicitly cite verbatim speeches of national leaders and quotable quotes from ancient literature, and both of which require utmost care in researching the official translated version (if any) - failing that, in formulating one that is coherent with the overall terminology.
Flexible to cater for weekend or next-day assignments.
For details on my career track and academic achievements, please refer to the attached CV.
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