Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 674 Translation Team

After the conference call ended, Yu Dong got up to go back to school, but was stopped by Yu Yu.

"Boss, everyone is here, let's go to the translation team to have a look."

With that said, Yu Yu had already come up to pull Yu Dong's arm.

Because there are too many translation businesses, Deep Space Company has long established a department in charge of translation affairs.

There were not many people in this department before, less than ten people, and the main work content was usually to contact translators for docking business.

But the later translation department was quite different. In addition to the staff who were in charge of connecting with translators, two other studios were established. One is the English science fiction studio, which is responsible for translating excellent domestic science fiction novels into English. Version.

This is the first studio of the Deep Space Translation Department. The famous translation expert Guo Jianzhong is the director of the studio. However, he has another main job and is not permanent. He only stays in the studio for six days a month.

The other is the French studio for realist literature.

The name of this studio sounds like it is specialized in translating realist works, but in fact this studio is not limited to realist works, they are also responsible for general traditional literary works.

During this time, I told Yu Dong from time to time, asking him to come to the company to see the translation department, but Yu Dong never went.

The reason why Yu Dong has to go to Yu Dong all the time is because the translation department has set up another studio called "Yu Dong Works Translation Studio" during this period.

The establishment of this studio is not only because of the benefits of the boss, but also because of the "Da Vinci Code" that Yu Dong gave them before.

The book "The Da Vinci Code" involves too much cryptography, semiotics, and religious content, and it is not easy to translate. More importantly, Yu Dong also used a lot of Chinese and English puns and English puns. Anagrams, if you don't study them carefully, it's really confusing.

Because the translation was too difficult, the translators wanted to form a temporary team. Later, someone suggested that the boss should simply set up a special studio, so that he could study the works of the boss, and the translation would be easier in the future.

Otherwise, every time Yu Dong throws a book over, they have to start researching from the beginning, which is a waste of time. In the end, their translation speed cannot keep up with Yu Dong's writing speed.

Yu Dong was dragged by Yu Liang to the studio, originally thinking that if they encountered any difficulties, they would discuss it together, but what he didn't expect was that this group of people had already studied "The Da Vinci Code" very deeply. When talking about semiotics, they can speak clearly and logically.

After asking, I found out that the people in the translation studio have not translated a single word in the past few months, and have been studying the related content of semiotics.

A copy of "Holy Blood and Holy Grail" was read by them many times, and it was almost ruined.

Seeing them working so hard, Yu Dong also sighed, this is really not easy.

Translation is a very important thing. If they don't understand semiotics and religious studies, the translated things will definitely not taste right, and it may also greatly reduce the sales of "The Da Vinci Code" abroad .

However, this also reminds Yu Dong that the training of translators cannot be ignored.

He understood the importance of translation a long time ago, and he knew very well that translation is an important part of whether a country's literary works can be famous internationally.

But Yu Dong had always wanted to find those well-known translators to translate, but he never thought about training translators himself, preferably translators with special talents.

For example, the people in the translation studio of Yu Dong's works in front of me, after this experience, the next time they need to translate a book related to semiotics, they will be familiar with it.

After such a studio is completed, it can not only serve the book section, but also serve the film and television industry.

This time, "Love Through Time and Space" has been translated into many languages ​​and became popular throughout Asia. However, there are still many problems in the translation. The problems can be clearly seen in many words in many languages, and many people have given feedback on these problems.

It's just because this TV series is too novel and attractive, so the audience ignores these problems.

The audience ignored the problem of translation because of the wonderful plot, but Yu Dong couldn't ignore it.

Later, if Deep Space Corporation reaches a cooperation with Disney on the mythical universe, then the company will need a large number of translators to translate the works in the mythological universe into other languages.

This amount is very large, but it cannot be sloppy, so it is necessary to start planning now.

After chatting with the people in the studio, Yu Dong pulled Yu Yu aside, "Yu Yu, you organize a translation studio for mythological works. Before we reached a formal cooperation with Disney, this studio mainly focused on research and preparation. Lord, when we reach an official cooperation, the studio can get started."

Yu Yu nodded, "Well, I have thought about this issue, in fact, my idea is that even if we don't reach a cooperation, we can let the studio translate some less important mythological works, so that they can practice their skills and also help them understand the meaning of the work. Works can be exported to create momentum for the mythical universe in advance.”

"Well, your idea is not bad, you can do it this way. In addition, if you want to continue to output, the works in the mythical universe must continue to be enriched, and the background line must be as perfect as possible."

The mythical universe created by the deep space is already very different from some folk myths.

There is no way around this, because if you want to put these mythical characters in one system, many original mythological stories will have to be changed.

Yu Dong is very supportive of this change. Anyway, there is no standard folk mythology, and there are different versions in different places. It is better to let the deep space company make a new version and string these stories together, otherwise If it is not, the IP of fairy tales will not develop at all.

"Okay, I'll talk to Jiang Jie about this later."

Yu Dong nodded, suddenly remembered someone, and asked, "Has the serialization of "The End of the Great Wall" by Guo Qianshan finished? I've been busy recently, so I haven't pursued this novel."

"Well, it's early, now he basically updates once a week, and it's relatively stable. But it's quite strange to cross a thousand mountains. The results of the first phase of the essay award have come out, and "The End of the Great Wall" is No.1. Our people contacted him, but he didn’t reply for a long time. It’s been half a month. Whether it’s a message on the site or an email, he didn’t reply.”

Yu Dongrao smiled with interest: "Really? Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. Since he participated in this essay competition, it means that he still attaches great importance to it. Now that he has won the award, he will naturally be happy, but he regards what you sent him. The news is nothing. Have you been in contact with it before?"

"No, although this guy doesn't respond to our messages, he usually responds to other readers' comments, and is very active in the comment area."

"It's very interesting." Yu Dong smiled, "I suddenly thought of him, and I also think the things written by this guy are very interesting. Maybe I can invite him to add some stories to the mythical universe."

"But this...do you want Jiang Jie to provide..."

Before Yu Yu finished speaking, Yu Dong raised his hand and interrupted him, "It's not necessary. He may have his own reasons for not replying to the message. He may contact you a few times later. If it really doesn't work, just send a message on the website." Announcement, if he does not reply after seeing the announcement, then this award will be voided for him.”

The essay award this time is time-limited.

Because these works were not signed, and now that "The End of the Great Wall" has won an award, Deep Space will also sign a contract with the author while providing the author with a bonus for the essay award.

But if the other party keeps not responding, it will take up a quota for nothing, which is naturally not allowed. No matter how important Deep Space Company is to its works, it is not doing charity. It will let a book that has not been signed for a long time win the essay award.

……

In fact, Zhao Yan had already seen the message sent to him by the Deep Space Chinese website, and the reason why he has not responded is very special and naive, and it has something to do with an angry remark.

In order to write "The End of the Great Wall", he quit his job before, and went to the Great Wall to experience it for a long time.

During the several months after his return, Zhao Yan stayed in the house every day.

He spends most of his time reading and writing, and the rest of the time he chats with his readers.

After a long time, my parents have opinions, and my father has talked with him several times about this matter.

The first time, the chat was okay, my father didn't say much, and he just let him take care of himself. By the second and third time, my father had already started to get a little angry. At that time, Zhao Yan made a wild statement, saying If the number of likes of his book does not exceed 100 million, he will not write a book in the future, and he will not let people know who he is.

When I said this, "The End of the Great Wall" only had [-] likes.

But even if it's only [-], it's already the highest among all the solicitations.

Speaking of likes, I have to talk about the ingenuity of Deep Space Company. In order to increase user interaction, Deep Space Company has added a "like" function to the website. There is a "Reply" in the lower right corner of each reply. "like".

The like icon is very simple, just a thumbs up, very vivid, even netizens who enter the deep space Chinese website for the first time can roughly guess the meaning of this icon.

It is said that this icon is based on Yu Dong's thumb, but it is not known whether it is true or not.

Likes can very well reflect the popularity of a work, because an account can only give one like to the same work.

And because an account can only approve a work once at most, Zhao Yan's goal of 100 million likes seems very outrageous.

Nowadays, there are only more than 300 million netizens in China, not even 400 million. Even if these people are all on the Deep Space Chinese website, and each of them registers two accounts, there are only 700 million likes.

If Zhao Yan wants to get 100 million likes, he needs one-sixth of the accounts to give him likes.

In actual operation, it is even more difficult to reach 100 million likes.

According to statistics, there are a total of 800 million accounts on Shenkong Chinese.com, but a large part of them are small accounts created by netizens, which are usually dead accounts.

There are only 500 million active accounts within a month, and only 200 million active accounts within a week.

Anyway, since Zhao Yan let go of his harsh words, his "The End of the Great Wall" has experienced a long period of struggle, but the number of likes is stuck at 91, and it has been delayed. He tried to shout every day to let readers Give him likes, but the number of likes per day will only increase by one or two hundred. At this rate, it may take two or three years for the remaining [-] likes.

But at that time, his book had already been written, would anyone continue to read his book?

To be honest, Zhao Yan now has some regrets, but every time he wants to give up, when he thinks of his father's disbelieving eyes, he chooses to continue.

If he doesn't eat steamed buns to fight for his breath, he will spend the 100 million likes even if he has to.

In fact, the number of 100 million is not something that Zhao Yan just said casually. The article "Falling to Mars" that Dong wrote together, there were seven or eight articles in total, and the number of likes exceeded one million in a short period of time.

But the novel "The End of the Great Wall" quickly became popular, and the number of likes and comments increased every day, so Zhao Yan felt that 100 million likes was nothing at all.

If Yu Dong knew that Guo Qianshan was Zhao Yan, and the reason why Zhao Yan didn't reply to Shenkong's message was to win this breath, he probably wanted to give Zhao Yan a big mouth.

From Yu Dong's point of view, such things as millions of likes are illusory, and should not be considered by an ambitious writer like Zhao Yan at all.
In other words, it is also very easy to get 100 million likes, contact Deep Space, and then confirm the contract.

After signing the contract, Shenkong will immediately pull a banner on the website to announce that "The End of the Great Wall" has won the essay award, and will put this book in any corner of the website so that everyone can see it. Even send the news to Dongdong.

After such a promotion by Deep Space, 100 million likes is naturally light.

But Yu Dong didn't know about this at all, not only he didn't know, even Zhao Yan's own father Zhao Changtian didn't know about it.

On the same day, Zhao Yan let go of his cruel words, saying that he would only show up if he had 100 million likes. In fact, Zhao Changtian didn't care at all, and even forgot about it. He just saw his son staying in the room every day, with a sad face, which was very uncomfortable.

Probably a week after Yu Dong asked Yu Liang about Qian Shan, Zhao Changtian couldn't resist calling Yu Dong.

Yu Dong was quite surprised when he received Zhao Changtian's call.

Zhao Changtian seldom called Yu Dong directly. Although the two had a personal relationship, Zhao Changtian was very particular about him. He usually contacted Yu Dong's brokerage company, Deep Space, whenever he had anything to do.

Under normal circumstances, it was either during the Chinese New Year or because Yu Dong had a new work, Zhao Changcai would only call Yu Dong's private phone.

"Editor Zhao, it's not a good year, I was quite surprised to receive your call." Yu Dong laughed.

Zhao Changtian said with some embarrassment: "Yu Dong, I called to ask you something personal."

"What private matter?"

"Has Zhao Yan contacted you?"

"Zhao Yan, no, what's the matter? Speaking of which, I haven't seen this kid for a long time."

"No..." Zhao Changtian muttered to himself.

He doesn't know much about Zhao Yan's novels, he only knows that he participated in the deep space Chinese website's essay call.

Hearing Zhao Changtian talking to himself, Yu Dong raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's wrong with this kid?"

(End of this chapter)