Rebirth 1975: My Wife is Love-Brained

Chen Yan originally wanted to say that I had read this book, so I translated it faster.

But after thinking about it, I finally didn't say it.

This job now concerns whether he can make money to support his family in the future, and Zhu Dakang is obviously only half-baked in foreign languages.

If Zhu Dakang doubts his ability because of this reason, wouldn't that be shooting himself in the foot?

"Well, this is a literary work, mainly dialogues and some daily descriptions, so it is relatively fast to translate!" Chen Yan made an excuse.

Anyway, Chen Yan is confident in his translation ability.

Just pass the level!

After I officially start working, Zhu Dakang will see my abilities, and it won’t be too late to explain it to him then.

After hearing Chen Yan's words, Zhu Dakang didn't know what to say.

There was only one thought left in my mind: what kind of monster had I picked up this time?

Because the task was heavy and the translator Zhu Dakang had found before was not fast enough, Zhu Dakang also tried to translate it himself, but... he couldn't understand it at all!

Now Chen Yan told him that this translation was relatively simple!

Oh my god!

Are we learning the same foreign language? Or is the one I'm learning fake?

At this moment, Zhu Dakang's heart was filled with frustration.

"Maybe, his translation is not very accurate? Well, that's probably the case! But as long as it can be read, I can polish it after the translation is completed if it doesn't work later!" Zhu Dakang thought.

He then asked Chen Yan to take a rest first. He hurriedly took out the translations of the two manuscripts translated by the previous translator from the cabinet, intending to see how accurate Chen Yan's translation was.

At this speed, as long as the accuracy rate is not less than 80%, it can be used!

I can use the extra time to find someone to review it, so that I can complete the translation task assigned to me by my superiors.

Thinking of this, Zhu Dakang began to make comparisons.

He is not good at foreign languages, but Zhu Dakang can understand the translation!

But when he compared the two translations, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Then he muttered absentmindedly, "How could this happen!"

"The translation accuracy is 100%! Moreover... the writing is much better than that of the comrade I found before! How is this possible!" Zhu Dakang's mouth twitched, and he forced himself not to shout out.

With mixed feelings, Zhu Dakang compared the two translations word by word.

Finally, after seven or eight minutes, I finally completed the comparison.

He took a deep breath, turned around and looked at Chen Yan, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Others translate faster than he can compare!

Originally, Zhu Dakang wanted to test Chen Yan's translation skills, but at this moment, he felt like he had shot himself in the foot, and his face was burning!

Chen Yan looked at Zhu Dakang's tangled expression and asked anxiously, "Is there something wrong with my translation? It shouldn't be like this!"

"No, no, no! No problem! Chen Yan, your translation is very good!" Zhu Dakang quickly shook his head and said, "You are a real translation genius!"

Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief and then smiled, "What's the point of being a genius or not? As long as the translation is fine, it's fine!"

At this time, Zhu Dakang suppressed the messy thoughts in his mind, looked at Chen Yan seriously and asked, "Chen Yan, please inform me that after the assessment by Comrade Zhu Dakang, the head of Lanshan County Xinhua Bookstore, your translation level has reached the conditions for participating in national translation tasks!"

"Now, on behalf of the organization, I will assess your personal information! Are you willing?" Zhu Dakang said in a serious tone.

Chen Yan knew that this was an inevitable process, so he nodded and said seriously, "I do!"

"Okay! Fill out this form first!"

As he spoke, Zhu Dakang handed Chen Yan a personal information registration form.

After Chen Yan quickly filled out the form, Zhu Dakang looked at the information on the form and asked, "I will submit your information to the higher-ups later, and then you will be a formal translator! Let him go through the process first. You are an educated youth who went to the countryside to work, and you know Director Xu. In my opinion, you have passed the assessment! You can directly participate in the translation work! However, since you have just started to participate in the translation work, you are just an ordinary translator and can only participate in the simplest translation work at present! When the number of manuscripts translated is enough, you will be able to receive some more confidential tasks, and the remuneration will be much higher!"

"I understand! Uncle Zhu, then just let me arrange it!" Chen Yan said with a smile.

Zhu Dakang let out a long sigh, "Then translate this! This is a foreign literary work with profound life philosophy and practical significance! Since it does not involve confidential documents, ordinary translators can take on this task."

"No problem! But translating the whole book may take some time! I come in the morning and leave in the afternoon every day. Do you think it's okay? Uncle Zhu?" Chen Yan said after thinking for a while.

After he finished speaking, Zhu Dakang was stunned for a moment. "I didn't ask you to translate the whole book! The translation will take forever. The higher-ups are pushing us very hard. You only need to translate a part of it. I'll figure out the rest!"

Chen Yan suddenly felt a little reluctant.

He finally caught an opportunity to make money, he didn't want to give it up!

"Well, Uncle Zhu, I forgot to ask you just now, how is the remuneration calculated?"

"Different manuscripts have different levels of difficulty in translating. Well, for literary works, the price is a little lower, about three to five yuan per thousand words! The higher the translation accuracy, the higher the price!" said Zhu Dakang.

Chen Yan's mind started to work rapidly.

The Catcher in the Rye, he remembered that this book had about 150,000 to 160,000 words. If he calculated it based on the standard of five yuan per thousand words, he could probably get more than 800 yuan if he completed the translation!

This is a huge sum of money!

"Uncle Zhu! How about this, you don't have to look for anyone else! If I finish translating the entire book in a week, can you let me translate the entire book?" Chen Yan took a deep breath, raised his head and said to Zhu Dakang.

Ok?

Zhu Dakang was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to persuade Chen Yan not to have too much pressure and that it didn't matter if he translated slowly at the beginning.

But... I didn't expect Chen Yan to take the initiative to take over this task!

Zhu Dakang grabbed Chen Yan's arm and asked, "Can you really finish the translation in a week? Can you guarantee the accuracy?"

After seeing Chen Yan's level, Zhu Dakang decided to go crazy with Chen Yan!

"If it's all literary works like those two pages, my translation accuracy can reach more than 98%!"

The reason why I said 98% is that Chen Yan was worried that due to the high intensity of writing, sometimes there would be some mistakes, which was inevitable. If he hadn't been worried about this, he would have told Zhu Dakang that I could achieve 100% accuracy.

After listening to what Chen Yan said, Zhu Dakang clapped his hands suddenly!

"Okay! Then I'll give it my all! I'll leave it to you! However, a small part of the book has now been given to another comrade for translation, and he has translated about 10,000 words! The rest will be left to you! In addition, after the manuscript is out every day, I will give you the royalties on the spot! I know you are working in the village and your life is hard, so you can call me Uncle Zhu, and I will try my best to help you!" Zhu Dakang said with a smile.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhu! Well, shall I start now?" Chen Yan was full of energy as he got in and out of the car. He had already seen the Great Unity waving at him again!