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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：移动手机新科技  GRE阅读：GRE阅读练习：移动手机新科技  GRE考试强化课程  Translating technological terms throws up some peculiar challenges  科学术语翻译中的难题  Speaking the customers language  让手机语言本土化  OUSMANE sweats under a tin roof as he thumbs through a Chinese smartphone that he is selling at the technology market in Bamako, Mali. Words in French, Malis official language, scroll down the screen. “A ka nyi?” (Is it good?) a customer asks him in Bambara, Malis most widely used tongue.  巴马科马里的科技市场里，炽热的锡皮屋檐下的奥斯曼手中拿着销售的中国制造的智能手机。马里的官方语言是法语，手机屏幕上也是满满的法文。一个顾客用马里大部分人使用的曼丁哥语问“手机怎么样?”  Mozilla, thefoundationbehind Firefox, an open-source web browser, wants Ousmanes customers to have the option of a device that speaks their language. Smartphones with its operating system (OS) are already on sale in 24 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Mexico, for as little as 33. Other countries will be added as it makes more deals with handset manufacturers. And Bambara is one of dozens of languages into which volunteer “localisers” are translating the OS.  火狐(开源网络浏览器)制造商谋智公司致力于让奥斯曼的顾客中的手机显示本土语言。现在已经有24个国家在销售该公司开发的操作系统，包括孟加拉国，印度，墨西哥。与更多手机制造商达成协议后，更多国家会销售其操作系统。致力于“本土化”的志愿者正在把该系统翻译成各种语言，曼丁哥语也在其中。  Mozilla has 230 localisation teams, says Jeff Beatty, who co-ordinates some from his office in Utah. Their work takes both time and ingenuity. Firefox for a computer uses about 40,000 words; for the phone OS, 16,000. Translators must express technological terms in languages shaped by livestock, farming and fishing, and choosealternatives for culture-specific words such as “cookie”, “file” and “mouse”.  Jeff Beatty说谋智公司在各地有230个队伍。他们与犹他州的办公室的一些人员进行协作。这项工作既消耗时间又耗脑力。电脑版的火狐浏览器包含四万用词;手机客户端包含一万六千词。翻译人员需要表达农林业，畜牧业，捕鱼业产出的技术词汇。并且在遇到具体文化相关用词如“密码缓存”，“文件”和“鼠标”选择同义词。  Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a