Bailuyuan, I am Bai Xiaowen

Chapter 50 Big Money
"Squad leader, thank you for introducing such a good job to me."

"Xiaowen, call me Lin Qingshan. My courtesy name is Hanlin. You can call me Qingshan or Hanlin. We are all friends."

The squad leader really wanted to be friends with Bai Xiaowen.

He has good grades and comes from a good family.

I still admire Bai Xiaowen who has better grades.

Now seeing Bai Xiaowen's English is so smooth, I want to make friends.

"Brother Qingshan."

"That's the right name. We are all classmates, kind."

This squad leader actually still has characters, but no one in their village will take a special character.

Went back to school and went to the dormitory.

Bai Xiaowen started to write directly, trying to write more, the more words, the more money he made.

Pens and coins are used, and the writing speed is faster than brushes and soft pens.

The paper used is of good quality.

I wrote vigorously, recalling the translations of later generations in my mind.

It is the one translated by Mr. Yang Jiang in the 90s.

Bai Xiaowen is glad that he read a lot of books in the library when he was studying, mainly because he read a lot of novels.

Through memories and based on today's English level, it is quite easy to translate this book.

The writing speed is getting faster and faster.

"Old Bai, what are you doing?"

A roommate who was more curious came to have a look.

When I saw the book, which was all in English, I was stunned.

They were all in the same class, and he knew that Bai Xiaowen's English score was perfect.

But reading this kind of books that are all in English is too powerful.

The English proficiency of people nowadays is generally poor.

There are no very good teachers.

Maybe a foreign teacher would be better at English.

The English teacher in their class is also half-baked. He can do simple things but cannot translate world famous works.

Looking at Bai Xiaowen's serious look, the roommate must not be joking.

It feels like Bai Xiaowen is different from them.

I kept writing and it was night before I knew it.

I went to have dinner, thinking that when I come back, I will continue to write with the kerosene lamp on for a while, so that I can finish the translation earlier and save more time.

The brightness is not enough, and the school has regulations on sleeping in the dormitory, so it should not be too late, and there should be no light at all.

Fortunately, there is a space, and the mind enters the space directly, and manipulates to write.

The efficiency is better.

After a whole day, I wrote [-] words.

In this way, this is 20 yuan.

But it still needs to be done. If Director Lin of the Commercial Press is right, he will only give the money if he feels that it has passed.

The next day, I wrote more than 1 words.

By the fifth day, I had written a total of [-] characters.

On Friday afternoon, the last is physical education.

Prepare to take a leave and go to the printing office again.

"Teacher, I feel like I have a fever, and I want to ask for leave to prescribe some medicine."

The physical education teacher attaches great importance to Bai Xiaowen.

No matter which subject, Bai Xiaowen's grades are the best, including sports.

"Pay more attention to your body and find a classmate to accompany you."

"It's okay, I can do it alone."

After leaving the school gate, I went to the printing office again.

I still went to look for the monitor's uncle, Director Lin.

"Director Lin."

"It's Xiaobai, it's for translation, right? Is there any translation manuscript? Show me."

Bai Xiaowen first threw out [-] words, half of the content.

Now foreign classics are very popular.

When advocating a new culture, we think that foreigners’ things are new. For some foreign books, many students in modern schools like to read them.

However, there are relatively few translated books.

There are even fewer good translations.

One of the most famous translators nowadays is Lin Shu and Lin Qinnan from Beijing.

Formerly a Juren of the Qing Dynasty, he taught in the Imperial University.

Director Lin was a little curious when he saw this manuscript. It took so long to come up with so many.

Their printing office also has several people who understand English to translate.

They are all carefully crafted. Several people read each other's manuscripts and made modifications and polishes. The translation speed was relatively slow, trying to make it perfect.

I feel that Bai Xiaowen is too fast and superficial. After all, he is a young man.

Director Lin read the content.

The standard of translation is very high.

The format is vernacular.

Now that the new culture is in full swing, the vernacular is even more popular.

"Yes, the translation is very good. But I have to show it to other editors at the printing office. Just wait here for a moment."

After getting a cup of tea for Bai Xiaowen, Director Lin left for a while.

The [-]-word manuscript was taken away, and Bai Xiaowen didn't panic.

He knew the background of the Lin family. Forty thousand characters were only 40 yuan, and the Lin family couldn't afford to be corrupt.

Squad leader Lin Qingshan seems to value friendship.

This is his uncle, his father's younger brother, and he won't mess around even if he thinks about it.

Director Lin took the manuscript to meet several editors in his English department.

"Guys, take a look. This is the translation of Don Quixote. Take a look. How is the translation?"

One person divided several manuscripts and looked at them.

Corresponding to the English version of "Don Quixote".

One of them made an admiring voice, "Okay, this is translated by everyone, it is just right. I tried to translate a few sentences, but I can't achieve this effect at all. It is more appropriate to the original. It is not the English version, but the original Spanish version .”

The original book is in Spanish, but they translated it into English.

Few people know English, and even fewer Spanish.

Therefore, most of the famous books translated from other countries are mostly translated into English.

Each of these people gave high praise.

They are all editors of the English Department of the Chinese Press, and they originally did translation work themselves.

Director Lin also felt very good, but he was not too sure, after all, he was his nephew's classmate, a middle school student.

For these things, there is a celebrity effect. If a famous person or an overseas student gave him a manuscript, then he would not have the slightest doubt, and immediately decided to submit the manuscript.

Now I have asked these colleagues to take a look, and they all agree very much.

He also felt relieved.

"Director Lin, who translated this? In my impression, our printing office has not translated it so well."

All the translators at the printing office knew each other.

I also know the external hires.

Those who are more familiar with that style of writing will know it.

Director Lin didn't follow any of them and continued, "Just a friend. Just think it's good."

"That must be good, I think, anyway, it's better than my translation."

Literati are more modest.But sometimes very proud.

Director Lin went out and went to see Xiangzi again, "Nephew Xiaowen, I just went to withdraw money for you. You said you translated 40 words, here is [-] yuan, take it."

According to the agreement, translate a thousand words, one yuan, and forty oceans to the past.

(End of this chapter)