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English to Chinese: the proof is in the pudding
Source text - English With the possible exception of Wal Mart, Tesco is the world’s most successful and most admired chain retailer. Ross Mackenzie, the CEO of Old Fashioned Foods recently told a gathering of exporters, and would-be exporters, how the company formulated the product line, its presentation, and its promotion for the international hypermarket world.
Tesco has 30 per cent of the UK market share and 45 per cent of the dessert market share which, of course, is Aunt Betty’s sphere. When ten years ago Old Fashioned first ran its eye over the dessert shelves, there seemed to be several very well known and very well-entrenched incumbents, notably Heinz with its spotted Dick and sponge pudding brands.
As Sir Edmund Hillary might have told them, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Old Fashioned went ahead, and laid out its wares before Tesco. Bearing in mind that Heinz then enjoyed a 98 per cent market share dominance in their category, this was a piece of bare-faced cheek.
Here however, Old Fashioned had an answer, crisp in its simplicity. Tesco operationally would not be dealing with anyone in New Zealand. They would be dealing with an agent down the road. Tesco could forget about New Zealand as anything more than a mildly exotic brand with fresh and healthful connotations that could be drawn upon when and if required. In fact the New Zealand origin element has been played down, simply because there is no discernible advantage. As it turns out this was a wise decision.
The reason is that Tesco, anxious to extend its appeal into the old Sainsbury’s carriage trade territory, is making an issue of food miles; an issue not favourable to such a geographically distant supplier as Old Fashioned.
English to Chinese: Freeze-dried seeds really Last
Source text - English When Lowell Woodstock returned to Beltsville in 1978 after 2 years in Saudi Arabia, he found that all the freeze-dried onion seeds he had left from earlier freeze-drying experiment were viable, while more than half the air-dried seeds were not.
Woodstock, a plant physiologist with the Agricultural Research Service, kept the freeze-dried seeds for 7 more years of storage at room temperature and 40-50°C, found little sign of deterioration.
The original research in 1976 showed that freeze-drying markedly improved storage life of onion, pepper, and parsley seeds at temperatures are equivalent to those in tropics and subtropics.
Woodstock says freeze-dried works very well in combination with air-drying. First, seeds are air-dried to about 10 percent seed moisture and then freeze-dried down to 5 percent.
Air-drying can easily reduce seeds to about 10 percent, but after that point it becomes difficult, requiring either high or prolonged heat, both of which can damage seeds.
Woodstock believes that onion seeds and possibly other vegetable seeds dried by this two-step method can be selected in moisture-proof packets and stored for many years at room temperature or indefinitely at sub-freezing temperatures.
Lowell Woodstock is at the USDA-ARS Seed Research Laboratory.
Translation - Chinese 美国农业研究所的植物生理学家劳威尔.伍德斯多克在沙特阿拉伯侨居两年以后，于1978年回到了美国贝尔茨维尔农业研究中心。并发现早前所作的冻干法实验中留下来的所有冻干洋葱种子都发芽了，而过半的风干种子都没有发芽。
伍德斯多克将这些冻干种子放在室温40至50度下又贮存了七年之久，并发现基本上没有变质的迹象。
1976年的研究表明，将洋葱，胡椒和芫荽种子放在与热带和亚热带等同温度条件下，用种子冻干法来延长其贮藏寿命，效果显著。
伍德斯多克说，冻干法与风干法相配合，能达到满意的功效。首先将种子的含水量风干至约百分之十，然后再用冻干法降低含水量至百分之五。
用风干法降低种子含水量至百分之十很容易，但如果再使其降低却很困难，则需要高温或延长加热，然而这两种方法都会损伤种子。
伍德斯多克相信，通过这种两步法干燥的洋葱种子，其他菜籽也可能照此处理，把它们装在防潮袋里，可以在常温下保存多年，也可以在低于冰点的温度下无限期储存。
劳威尔.伍德斯多克是在美国农业部---农业研究所下属的种子研究实验室任职的。
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My name is Catherine and I am originally from the mainland of China. I have been living in English-speaking countries for about 20 years. I had been in Dublin in Ireland since 1998, doing my language course and the first year of BA degree in Media and Journalism. In 2002 I came to New Zealand to continue my study in Media field. I got my BA degree of media communications stidues in 2005 in Auckland university of Technology, majored in Multimedia design.
During four-year-Degree study within both courntries, I gained a strong English language skills in oral practice, literature field, and strong writing skills, specialised in Humanity, media, advertising and communication fields. I also gained strong multimedia design skills, such as graphic design, website design, DVD and video produciton. I am capable to use wide range of design software, such as adobe suite and macromedia web deisgn suite.
I got my first job in 2005 in a local Translation Agency. My position was the Translation Co-ordinator and In-house Chinese language translator. the company's service include both advertising and translation, so it provided me many opportunities to conjoint my design and language skills.
I have a pair of eyes on details and layout. I can provide the following service: business card translation, flyer and brochure translations, magazine pages translation, website page translation, university student handbook design and translation both and documents translation.
After one year of working, at the end of 2006, I started doing one-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Translation and Interpreting in the largest university of New Zealand: the univeristy of Auckland. This further education theoretically and practically improved my professional skills in translation and interpreting.
In the past 10 years, I have been working in the BNZ Bank in various positions. I am recently working as mortgage lending support. During my work, one of my tasks is to translate Chinese financial documents into English language. Please see my CV for more details.
If you have any quries, please feel free to contact me.
I look forward to hearing from you
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Catherine
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