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Text: Uncle Luo Ying
Edited by Uncle Luo Ying
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Since ancient times, the meaning of age to women at different times has varied greatly.
Before a certain stage, it is the capital of the woman's pride, and after that, it is the secret of the woman's silence.
However, there is such a woman who is not confused in her old age, and it seems that she does not have such stage characteristics.
In my impression, she always wears dark formal clothes, neat medium and short hair, light makeup, and her temperament is like an orchid.
Whether it is a gesture or a light smile, it exudes a low-key and charming beauty.
Her name is Zhang Lu, and she was the royal interpreter of Premier Wen's side at the Prime Minister's press conference in September 10.
Some people say that Zhang Lu has successfully defeated the years with her consistent excellence.
In 1977, Zhang Lu was born in an ordinary family in Jinan, and her parents were intellectuals.
Because her parents were very busy with work, Zhang Lu learned to take care of herself and develop the Xi of independent life when she was very young.
Zhang Lu is a native of Jinan, straightforward and very likable.
In 1984, Zhang Lu came to Xie Yi Primary School to go to elementary school, and in the memory of his classmates, he was a hard-working girl.
He was among the best in school, served as the captain of the school's Young Pioneers, and was also a competent squad leader.
When she was in school, Zhang Lu had a lot of friends, and everyone seemed to be willing to play with her, and Zhang Lu never rejected the friendship between classmates.
In her spare time, Zhang Lu always holds extracurricular books to read, and for her, this is mental relaxation.
Zhang Lu's primary school classmate Wang Zhigang clearly remembers that she has relatives who live in Japan and often carry beautiful toys.
You must know that in the 80s, China had just implemented economic reform and opening up.
Although food and clothing are no longer a problem, most people are still not completely lifted out of poverty.
These foreign toys made the students envious, but Zhang Lu was never proud, and generously shared her toys with her classmates.
The teacher also praised Zhang Lu endlessly, she was very good at Xi, and she was not the kind of student who "studied to death".
Zhang Lu has a quick mind and can sometimes even correct the teacher's mistakes in class, and is usually very polite.
She is very good at dressing up, and in that era of scarcity of material life, Zhang Lu was the only girl in the class who wore Qi bangs and a pink flower skirt.
Back then, she was what the elders often called "someone else's child", and she developed comprehensively in all aspects, which can be said to be all-round.
In addition, Zhang Lu's junior high school homeroom teacher, Jiao Xunhe, sued reporters that Zhang Lu was always elected as a class president and cadre with a high vote, and he also worked part-time as a representative of the English class in the second year of junior high school.
These positions are representatives of excellent students, and in addition to daily Xi, they also have to assist teachers in organizing various activities, which is very hard.
However, Zhang Lu never complained, and the heavy class work did not affect her grades.
In the three years of junior high school alone, he was rated as an outstanding student cadre at the municipal level many times, and he also appeared in the school's periodicals and newspapers.
The hard work paid off, and in the year of graduation, Zhang Lu was sent to the Provincial Experimental Middle School with excellent results.
Such an honor makes teachers and parents feel extremely proud, and many people want to ask Zhang Lu's parents how to educate their children.
But everyone around Zhang Lu knows that her parents are very busy with work and usually have no time to take care of their children.
She was able to achieve such great achievements and honors, all of which were made by herself, and there was no one to guide her so-called "education scriptures".
After entering high school, the pace of learning Xi has accelerated significantly, and Zhang Lu's school is full of excellent students.
It stands to reason that in such a collective, Zhang Lu's former brilliance will soon be buried by other people who are more excellent.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Lu once again impressed everyone, and she showed amazing language talent.
In her freshman year of high school, she was able to communicate with foreigners in English proficiently, and the pronunciation of some words was even more standard than that of the teacher.
It's just that she is very tall and was arranged in the back row of the classroom by the teacher, but fortunately, Zhang Lu's eyesight has no problems and she can see the content of the blackboard clearly.
In private, Zhang Lu was rated as the "class flower" by her classmates, and every time the school organized an activity, she rushed to the front to sign up.
In the eyes of her peers, Zhang Lu is indeed very good, and her speech and demeanor seem to be from a famous aristocratic family.
But she is approachable and can get along well with every classmate, and in her third year of high school, Zhang Lu suddenly became obsessed with English.
In her spare time, she reads English newspapers and literature, and she is already familiar with the things in books.
When she goes for a morning jog on campus in the morning, Zhang Lu will carry a Walkman and record the words to be memorized in advance and listen to them repeatedly.
At that time, the Internet was not yet widespread, and people could only obtain knowledge through paper materials such as books.
With these resources alone, Zhang Lu has developed a pronunciation close to that of a native speaker, and her vocabulary is surprisingly high.
Every time she took English class, the teacher couldn't help but ask her to read the model text, and Zhang Lu read it smoothly and fluently.
On the eve of the 1996 college entrance examination, her parents asked her what school she wanted to study, and Zhang Lu replied that she Chinese other schools.
To achieve this goal, she studied Xi harder and slept only a few hours a day.
Eventually, she realized her dream and was admitted to the Department of International Law of the Foreign Affairs University.
In the next four years, Zhang Lu lived a very fulfilling life in college, and she also learned to sing, and her classmates said that she sang well.
During this period, I also took a lot of professional certificates, read more and more foreign works, and often used foreign press releases as translation Xi.
Seeing Chinese translators talking and laughing in diplomatic occasions, Zhang Lu felt very proud and wanted to become a translator and serve the motherland.
Zhang Lu's university often opens lecture halls, and students who are interested in topics can participate on their own, and she is never willing to miss a class.
In class, she has a deeper insight into language translation, and the answers she gives are more accurate, which makes her classmates and teachers empowered.
By the year she graduated, she had perfected her professional skills and quickly found a job as a senior translator in the unit.
Zhang Lu's mother said that since her daughter joined the work, she has fallen into endless busyness.
Throughout the year, there is very little time to go home for reunions, and phone calls are rare, and they usually send text messages to greet them.
A reporter from Qilu Evening News found Zhang Lu's certificate of honor in the archives of Shandong Experimental Middle School, along with her photo.
Gao Dehua, the teacher of the class at the time, said that high scores do not necessarily mean high ability, but high ability can often achieve high scores.
It is not difficult to get started with English translation, but it is difficult to learn "fine", and the same sentence is translated to people at different stages, and the results are different.
In 2010, the National People's Congress (NPC) session was successfully concluded, and in order to answer some of the public's doubts, Premier Wen personally attended the press conference.
And this press conference suddenly became the focus of the people of the whole country, and even many foreign friends were very concerned about it.
Due to the large number of international media on the scene, professional translators are indispensable, and Zhang Lu's talent has long been seen by the superiors, and she was specially arranged to attend the reception with Premier Wen.
During this period, Zhang Lu's calm performance impressed foreign friends, especially her on-site translation of classical literary works.
When answering a reporter's question, Premier Wen quoted a fragment of "Lisao": "I have not regretted what I have done with my heart, although I have died nine times." ”
As an ordinary translator, this sentence has no way to start, and no matter how it is translated, it feels almost meaningless, and it is not as elegant as the artistic conception of the original text.
However, Zhang Lu translated the "nine deaths" in the sentence as "thousand times", and the meaning was conveyed quite accurately.
Premier Wen is very knowledgeable and particularly fond of quoting classical poetry to promote traditional Chinese culture.
On March 14, 2010, he used Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty to answer reporters' questions in "Warring States Policy: Qin Ce V", "No matter how high Huashan is, there is a road at the top".
张璐几乎没有太长时间思考，当场脱口而出“No matter how high the mountain is， one can always ascend to its top。 ”
Later, this translation was regarded as a model by the English teachers of Chinese universities outside the provinces, especially the best translation in the second half, which vividly showed the belief of vowing to reach the top.
After this reception, the translator Zhang Lu became an Internet celebrity forum celebrity.
Her popularity even surpassed that of Olympic champion Liu Xiang, but many people don't know that Zhang Lu attended major occasions as early as 2009.
At that time, Premier Wen visited British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, with Zhang Lu as the on-site interpreter, and the two sides had a very harmonious conversation.
From 2010 to 2020, she attended the Prime Minister's press conference for 9 years, and it was a complete success.
Now that Zhang Lu is serving as Deputy Director General of the Translation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, the burden on her shoulders is getting heavier and heavier.
Huang Shan, the editor-in-charge of the China Translation Fellow, said that Zhang Lu's success as a qualified diplomatic translator did not happen overnight.
This is something that has been built up over time, and language is an empirical discipline that does not involve a mess of techniques, but relies on repetition and Xi practice.
It is even more difficult to be a good diplomatic translator, because many political words are inherently sensitive, and if they are translated incorrectly, the consequences can be very serious.
We all know that the foreign correspondents at the Prime Minister's Reception are seasoned and have a tricky angle.
If you are not careful, you will fall into the trap of their thinking, so the pressure on the translator is very high, and you must always be vigilant.
For example, a diplomatic spokesman jokingly remarked a folk proverb on a major occasion: "It's easier to please God, but it's hard to send God." ”
For us, the meaning of this sentence is easy to understand, but for foreigners, there are many definitions of God, it can be a certain religion, or it can be a representative of the origin of a certain country, whether it is a literal or paraphrased translation, it does not seem to be appropriate.
The word "god" alone involves a variety of cultural factors, and diplomatic translators deal with such issues on a daily basis.
Zhang Lu's excellent performance is infecting this generation, and I hope that there will be more such pillars in the future.
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Resources:
Chongqing Evening News - "Beauty Zhang Lu Fluently Translates the Prime Minister's "Lisao" Popularity Exceeds Liu Xiang", 2010.03.16
China.com——"Zhang Lu: Becoming a Qualified Diplomatic Translator Is Not an Overnight Achievement", 2015.12.21
Ta Kung Pao - "Zhang Lu/Miao Translation of Ancient Poems" 2021.3.25
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