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"Job title inflation" haunts the business world

Nowadays, entrepreneurs are apt to crown their employees with high-sounding titles. Even small businesses have use for such titles as market managers and COO. Some people rack their brains to have as many titles printed on their business cards as possible. Hence the "job title inflation".

According to Chenxi, a senior consultant from zhaopin.com, "People need titles for a psychological reason". He points out that a "project manager" sure sounds more professional and powerful than a "salesman". To the employees, an "inflated" title helps boost their self-esteem and bears testimony to their qualifications and experiences.

Chenxi reckons that the "job title inflation" arises from the social and economic development in today's China. On one hand, growing business requires renovating titles for some posts that have enlarged their job responsibilities. On the other hand, enterprises offer "stunning" titles to their employees instead of giving them a promotion or pay rise.

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Controversy arises from ban on Three-Word Chants in full in Shandong province

Recently, Shandong Province Office of Education decreed to strengthen the instruction of traditional Chinese culture in schools according to the principle of "accepting the good while rejecting the bad" and to prohibit teaching the unabridged version of such classical Chinese textbooks as Pupil Rules, Three-Word Chants, and Child Prodigy Poetry. This act has attracted wide public attention. Opinions vary on the means of "accepting" and "rejecting". Some netizens argue that nothing is perfect in the world, what matters is not for us to decide what to accept or reject in a book. No matter what color the world is, we had better let the children decide for themselves.

譯題三中的這件事使我想起了在天安門廣場(chǎng)上豎立起的孔子像，在國(guó)學(xué)熱和傳統(tǒng)文化熱的帶動(dòng)下，傳統(tǒng)蒙學(xué)的教科書成了一些學(xué)校推行傳統(tǒng)文化教育的必讀課本。弘揚(yáng)傳統(tǒng)文化真的不需要選擇嗎？答案是否定的，傳統(tǒng)蒙學(xué)教科書的很多內(nèi)容確實(shí)背離當(dāng)代社會(huì)價(jià)值觀，兒童在成長(zhǎng)的過(guò)程中，尚不能形成自己的判斷力，把這樣的教材直接交給學(xué)生去閱讀，肯定是不妥當(dāng)?shù)摹Ｖ劣谡形慕谷耐扑]《三字經(jīng)》，也不能算一種好辦法，中國(guó)的教育一直頗受詬病的就是統(tǒng)得太死，太過(guò)統(tǒng)一。筆者覺(jué)得要解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題，我們需要拿出適合現(xiàn)代教育的傳統(tǒng)文化教材，深化教育改革。

上面一段題外話可能超出了翻譯研究和實(shí)踐的范疇，但譯者的思想影響翻譯的例證比比皆是，這種影響大多是“明修棧道、暗渡陳倉(cāng)”式的，直接說(shuō)出來(lái)的較少。言歸正傳，“全文推薦”中的“全文”可以翻譯成in full，也可以翻譯成the unabridged version。“取其精華、去其糟粕”是漢語(yǔ)成語(yǔ)，通常翻譯成keep its essence and discard its dross，但也可以翻譯的更口語(yǔ)化一些，比如accepting the good while rejecting the bad，我讀中國(guó)人寫的英語(yǔ)文章和老外寫的文章，感覺(jué)差異最大的地方就是中國(guó)人寫的太嚴(yán)肅認(rèn)真了，失去了文章應(yīng)有的“隨機(jī)應(yīng)變”的精神風(fēng)采，翻譯更是如此，聯(lián)合國(guó)要求翻譯一般是從外語(yǔ)譯成母語(yǔ)，大概也是這個(gè)原因，然而對(duì)于中國(guó)文化的推介，不能單純靠外國(guó)人來(lái)做，我們要主動(dòng)出擊，這勢(shì)必又要我們自己把大量的中國(guó)經(jīng)典譯成英文，這項(xiàng)工作十分考驗(yàn)譯者的水平，我國(guó)外宣人才目前依然匱乏，不是因?yàn)槎⒄Z(yǔ)的人不夠，而是因?yàn)槟軌虺酝竷煞N文字，并能熟練自由“切換”的人不夠，注意是“切換”不是“轉(zhuǎn)換”。

如何“取”，怎樣“去”？這兩句話的翻譯必須考慮上文成語(yǔ)翻譯中詞語(yǔ)的選擇，筆者的翻譯是the means of "accepting" and "rejecting", 是根據(jù)上文的用詞而定的。最后是“畢竟這個(gè)世界不是只有一種顏色”該如何譯呢？說(shuō)實(shí)在的，筆者雖然翻譯成了No matter what color the world is, we had better let the children decide for themselves.但并不代表我贊成這種觀點(diǎn)。最后想對(duì)那些在翻吧發(fā)“開(kāi)假發(fā)票”等廣告的人表示自己強(qiáng)烈的憤慨！！！

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