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Chapter 676 Almighty Translation——A Small Surprise!

Serina is an international student at Beijing University of Foreign Studies, majoring in Chinese.

As a girl from Afghanistan, 19-year-old Serena was able to study at Beijing University of Foreign Studies in Huaxia, thanks to the help of a Huaxia aunt doing business in Afghanistan—of course, Serena’s hard work is also an important reason one.

It turned out that Serina was an orphan from a tribe in Afghanistan. Both her parents were killed in US raids. Since she was a child, Serena had been in the tribe one by one, making a living by picking up junk—the US military often raided and stayed in Afghanistan. A large number of bomb fragments, but also left a large number of unexploded ordnance.

Serena's daily job is to pick up fragments of bombs, use these metals to shop in the tribe, and exchange some food.

It's normal to be hungry and full - besides, there are also some people in the tribe who are lazy and rob Serina.

Until one point, a Chinese businessman came to the tribe to do business - there was a lapis lazuli vein in the tribe, which was controlled by the elders of the tribe. This kind of gem had a relatively good market in China.

This woman, who was called Aunt Bao, was not afraid of the roadside bombings and suicide attacks that occurred almost every day in Afghanistan, and she calmly talked about business with the elders of the tribe.

Serina has met a lot of Chinese people in the tribe - although the border between China and Afghanistan is only a few tens of kilometers, just a Wakhan Corridor, there are not many Afghans who come to Afghanistan to do business.Serena even learned a few words of Chinese language - she didn't know it at all. Just these few words of Chinese language made Aunt Bao notice her, which also changed Serena's life!
At that time, Aunt Bao was wandering the tribal street with her entourage, and there was a gangster from the tribe sneaking behind her. Serena knew exactly what he wanted to do—these gangsters were either thieves or hooligans, and they often bullied her. He picked up the things he had worked so hard to pick up, and even beat himself.

When the gangster was about to attack, Serena couldn't help shouting loudly in substandard Chinese: "Be careful! Thief!"

The reason why she did this was because when Aunt Bao came here a few months ago, she saw her pity and gave her a pack of biscuits.

Those were the most delicious biscuits Serina had ever eaten—even afterward, Serena ate many kinds of similar biscuits in the capital of Huaxia, but she never tasted that kind of biscuit again.

Although Serina was also afraid of being retaliated by those gangsters, at that moment, she forgot about other things, and she simply didn't want Aunt Bao, who was good to her, to be hurt—those gangsters had knives in their hands!

With Serina's reminder, Aunt Bao naturally didn't suffer the slightest harm, her followers easily maimed the gangster and his accomplices, and Serena never dreamed that just because of her shout, Aunt Bao So he took her out of the tribe, first sent her to Kandahar to go to school, and then sent her to the capital of China.

More than ten years have passed, and now Serena can no longer see the sallow and emaciated appearance of the past. In Beijing University of Foreign Studies, Serena is also a school girl-of course, she never thinks so. What are the benefits of your own study.

In school, Serena studied English and Chinese, and continued to study her native language—Pashto.

Pashto is a small language, and there are no experts in this language in many countries in the world.Not many people learn this language - after all, Pashto is only the language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan, and some people in Pakistan speak it.The total number of people who speak this language in the world is only 2000 million.

2000 million sounds like a lot, but being gathered in one of the most chaotic regions in the world puts a huge limit on the development of this language.

Serena learned simple English and Chinese listening and speaking in Kandahar. After she came to the University of Foreign Studies, she gradually became proficient in these two languages, but Serena did not lose Pashto—this is her own language. Mother tongue, even though her own country is in turmoil right now, but she will not lose this.Just like Aunt Bao said, this is my root!

Serena is very envious of the Huaxia students here. They can quietly enjoy the flowers in spring, bathe in the sunshine in summer, welcome the breeze in autumn, and feel the snow and ice in winter.Their country is safe, no wars, no raids, no roadside bombings, no suicide attacks.

Although she was very envious, Serena still felt that after she finished her studies, she still had to go back to the tribe and teach the children there so that they could read, learn, and see the world.

A "Pashto Chinese Dictionary" compiled by Che Hongcai and Zhang Min is Serina's treasure, and she almost never leaves her during the day.This dictionary with more than 200 million words is an important learning tool for Serena.

Serena has actually been able to use the Internet proficiently.In her spare time, she often searches the Internet by planting flowers to compare some pictures. Although Afghanistan is relatively poor, it is actually rich in minerals. Serina wants to know what is there in her tribe.

Flower search is the most common search she uses—after all, only flower search can quickly and effectively search for the content and explanation of pictures.

The only fly in the ointment is that many similar pictures found in the search are in some highly professional languages ​​such as English and German, which Serina can't understand.Even with the help of a dictionary, those annotations were equally incomprehensible.

"Zianhua search all-round translation software?"

On this day, Serena saw a pop-up window when she was searching for flowers.

The pop-up window of flower search is not as annoying as many advertisements-after all, its content is much more practical.Serena trusts the flower search, so she directly clicks to download.

After downloading, Serena saw a prompt for online translation on the flower search page.

Subconsciously, Serena clicked on a webpage from the favorites—this was a webpage she had saved long ago, but she had never been able to understand it, and it was a similar picture description about minerals in a cave in the back mountain of the tribe.

After clicking on the webpage, Serena immediately clicked on the online translation.Originally, she planned to directly translate English into Chinese, at least she knew more Chinese.

But seeing more choices, she subconsciously pulled down—although the hope was very slim, but how would you know if you didn't try?
This pull really surprised her!

In this online translation, there is an English-to-Pashto translation!
This is simply unbelievable!There are translations in such a small language!
Just... don't know how to function?
Selina suppressed the excitement in her heart, and clicked lightly.

In less than a second, those seemingly difficult English passages immediately became familiar Pashto!

God!

that is really good!
……

Similar scenes are happening all over the world.

In just one day, the download volume of the online translation software of Zhonghua Search exceeded 6000 million!
(End of this chapter)