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English to Chinese: Canine Training Detailed field: Livestock / Animal Husbandry
Source text - English Canine Life Stages
The important first four months
The first four months of a puppy’s life are extremely important in terms of his or her future behaviour. Starting at three weeks, puppies learn about their environment through investigative behaviour and social interactions. What they learn at this sensitive period of their lives will stay with them forever. This is the time when puppies are most receptive to new environmental stimuli – after four months they become more apprehensive of the unknown and are more likely to respond with fear to novel situations and impressions.
If a puppy’s interactions and encounters during these first months are varied and positive, it is more likely that he will be confident and relaxed when he is exposed to new things later in life. Provided they are pleasant, all of the puppy’s first experiences will have positive connotations as he grows up: riding in a car, people with hats, things on wheel, umbrellas, children and various household sounds.
Puppies are very keen learners. You should start training your puppy as early as possible, from 8 to 10 weeks. The sooner puppies learn what constitutes appropriate behaviour the less likely they are to develop problematic habits. Training methods that make use of positive reinforcement are extremely effective in teaching dogs of all ages the basics of good manners.
English to Chinese: Monetary Policy Detailed field: Finance (general)
Source text - English Despite the recent turbulence in the credit markets, the Federal Reserve holds fire on interest rates.
CALL a man like Ben Bernanke a pushover and you deserve a punch on the jaw. With a calm resolution that is beginning to mark his tenure, the Federal Reserve chief and his colleagues left America's benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25% after a meeting on August 7th and gave little indication that they were minded to cut rates in the near future.
The Fed acknowledged in a statement that financial markets had been volatile, that credit conditions had tightened (if only for “some” households and businesses) and that core inflation had “improved modestly”. But it stressed that America's economy was still on course for moderate growth, albeit with greater downside risks, and that inflation remains the main policy concern.
Hopes of a bigger shift in tone, paving the way for a cut in interest rates later this year, were firmly dashed. Before the Fed's statement, a cut by the end of the year had been fully priced into financial markets, with another expected by March. Once the market had digested the Fed's stance, it was only marginally less optimistic about the likelihood of lower rates. But by stressing that policy will respond to economic developments, the Fed seemed at pains to quash any notion that it would ease policy to shore up financial markets.
Translation - Chinese 儘管近來信貸市場擾動不安，美國聯邦準備理事會對利率依舊按兵不動。
English to Chinese: Product Data Throughout the Organization Detailed field: Computers: Software
Source text - English Product Data Throughout the Organization
Bills of material (BOMs), routings, work center information, and engineering change management are used throughout an organization. Although the manufacturing facility is the primary user of routings and work centers, and the bill of material was originally intended for engineering purposes, they are now critical inputs to other areas of an organization. Engineering change management is a tool that is used throughout the organization to communicate changes to product data.
Manufacturing engineers use bills of material to develop and communicate manufacturing requirements, and to indicate how and in what order the product should be built. Work centers are defined and manufacturing routings are then developed. To enhance planning and decrease leadtimes, components on a bill of material are attached to a routing operation step to identify where specific material should be issued and consumed in the manufacturing sequence of the product.
Accounting uses bills of material and routings to run a cost roll-up. From the cost roll-up, you can determine the cost of the product and then determine the product price.
If you sell configured items, you use the bills of material that are created for features and options to create an overall bill of material and routing for the final configured item. The engineering change order (ECO) notifies you of changes to product features and options. If significant changes are required, the customer can be notified about any changes to the features and options of the final product.
Material planners, who usually drive planning and inventory control within the company, use bills of material to determine what manufactured and purchased items are required. Routings and bills of material are used to determine when, where, and what quantities are required to produce parts, and what resources and work centers are required to complete the work orders.
When a work order is created, the engineering bill of material becomes the parts list on the work order. The stockroom uses this parts list to pull parts for the work order. Components are issued to the work order so that inventory is relieved.
After the work order and parts list are issued to the manufacturing floor, the product is manufactured or assembled. A bill of material might also be listed on the engineering drawing that is issued with the work order.
Building the product while cross-referencing the bill of material on the drawing and the parts list attached to the work order:
• Ensures that the part is manufactured to engineering specifications.
• Verifies the accuracy of the bill of material.
The service department uses the parent/component relationships in bills of material to determine what parts need to be stocked for warranty and replacement parts.
Translation - English A Profile of Chinese Bronzeware
Bronzeware is one of the representative products of China 's magnificent ancient civilization. It is world-famous for its diversity, exquisite and novel shapes, gorgeous and mysterious decorative lines, and perfectly developed casting techniques.
Bronze is a great invention in the history of mankind; it is an alloy of pure copper, tin, and lead, and also the earliest alloy in the history of metal smelting. It has golden or flesh red color. With its great durability, and because the melting point is reduced to about 800~900 degrees Centigrade as certain amounts of tin or lead are melted with the pure copper, bronze is suitable for the casting into various kinds of containers, tools or weapons. In Chinese, bronze is called “blue copper” as it becomes covered with a blue-green patina after thousands of years' chemical reaction [with air].
In the various ancient nations of China , “the biggest affair of a nation, offering sacrifices and fighting" - the most important things for a nation were to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, as well as to fight with other nations. By the ceremonies of offering sacrifices to gods and to ancestors, a nation’s internal unity and the stability of its government could be maintained; through war, the winner could occupy more territories, and appropriate more wealth, grain, livestock, etc. Because of that unique form of governance, bronze was widely used for ceremonial articles and weapons since the three ancient generations: the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty. All of these formed the traditional Chinese bronzeware cultural system.
The historical development of Chinese bronzeware can be divided into three eras, according to its functions: the breeding era, the prosperous era, and the transforming era. The breeding era refers to Longshan era (about 4500~4000 years ago); the prosperous era includes the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty (about 4000 years ago). This era lasted for more than 1600 years. The transforming era was from the end of the Warring States era to the Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty. In the transforming era, bronzeware had been gradually replaced by ironware; much less of it was used, and its use had also changed from ceremonial objects, musical instruments, and weapons to everyday utensils. Consequently, its shape, features and decoration also changed dramatically.
Chinese to English: A Profile of Chinese Bronzeware Detailed field: History
Source text - Chinese 中國青銅器的概述
青銅器是中國古代燦爛文明的代表之一，她以品類繁多，造形精緻新奇，紋飾縟麗神秘，鑄進技術先進完美而聞名於世。
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A Profile of Chinese Bronzeware
Bronzeware is one of the representative products of China 's magnificent ancient civilization. It is world-famous for its diversity, exquisite and novel shapes, gorgeous and mysterious decorative lines, and perfectly developed casting techniques.
Bronze is a great invention in the history of mankind; it is an alloy of pure copper, tin, and lead, and also the earliest alloy in the history of metal smelting. It has golden or flesh red color. With its great durability, and because the melting point is reduced to about 800~900 degrees Centigrade as certain amounts of tin or lead are melted with the pure copper, bronze is suitable for the casting into various kinds of containers, tools or weapons. In Chinese, bronze is called “blue copper” as it becomes covered with a blue-green patina after thousands of years' chemical reaction [with air].
In the various ancient nations of China , “the biggest affair of a nation, offering sacrifices and fighting" - the most important things for a nation were to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, as well as to fight with other nations. By the ceremonies of offering sacrifices to gods and to ancestors, a nation’s internal unity and the stability of its government could be maintained; through war, the winner could occupy more territories, and appropriate more wealth, grain, livestock, etc. Because of that unique form of governance, bronze was widely used for ceremonial articles and weapons since the three ancient generations: the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, and Zhou Dynasty. All of these formed the traditional Chinese bronzeware cultural system.
English to Chinese: N5000 Gateway Detailed field: Computers: Software
Source text - English 1. The N5000 Gateway is designed to deliver terabytes of managed capacity to help address access requirements for enterprises of all sizes. N5000 Gateway systems can be configured for simultaneous active/active access with secure failover across two independent systems in a cluster. SAN and NAS consolidation is now a possibility, using multiple N5000 Gateway systems and SAN storage systems configured in a scalable SAN infrastructure. Customers with these storage subsystems in their SAN environments can now take advantage of the N5000 Gateway capabilities to dramatically improve business efficiency and reduce data management complexity.
2.On your server, the system console comes preconfigured to allow input and output only by means of the service processor. The service processor must be accessed either through the serial management port or the network management port. By default, the network management port is configured to retrieve network configuration using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and to allow connections using Secure Shell. You can modify the network management port configuration after connecting to ILOM through either the serial or network management ports.
3.
Q1. Choose one statement which applies to you most when choosing a current bank account.
(1) There is only one banking organisation I would ever consider
(2) There are several different banking organisations that I would consider to get the best package
(3) I would consider most of the banking organisations and go for the one that has the lowest charges
(4) I would consider most of the banking organisations and go for the one that is in the most convenient location at the time I am choosing
Q2. Is that because
(1) It always has the lowest charges
(2) You have a particular preference for the banking organisation itself
(3) It's in the most convenient location
English to Chinese: Canine Life Stages Detailed field: Livestock / Animal Husbandry
Source text - English Canine Life Stages
The important first four months
The first four months of a puppy’s life are extremely important in terms of his or her future behaviour. Starting at three weeks, puppies learn about their environment through investigative behaviour and social interactions. What they learn at this sensitive period of their lives will stay with them forever. This is the time when puppies are most receptive to new environmental stimuli – after four months they become more apprehensive of the unknown and are more likely to respond with fear to novel situations and impressions.
If a puppy’s interactions and encounters during these first months are varied and positive, it is more likely that he will be confident and relaxed when he is exposed to new things later in life. Provided they are pleasant, all of the puppy’s first experiences will have positive connotations as he grows up: riding in a car, people with hats, things on wheel, umbrellas, children and various household sounds.
Puppies are very keen learners. You should start training your puppy as early as possible, from 8 to 10 weeks. The sooner puppies learn what constitutes appropriate behaviour the less likely they are to develop problematic habits. Training methods that make use of positive reinforcement are extremely effective in teaching dogs of all ages the basics of good manners.
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