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Google,?Looking to Tiptoe Back into China,?Announces A.I. Center

By CARLOS TEJADA December 14,?2017

谷歌宣布在中國成立人工智能研究中心

• Google?pulled?some of its core businesses?out of?China seven years ago.

七年前谷歌(Google)將一些核心業(yè)務撤出了中國

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A.I.: artificial intelligence，縮寫用的大寫??Internet:已經(jīng)用小寫了，不要用大寫了。

Tiptoe Back：悄悄

Pull out of:退出??Pull into :?? 汽車進站，pull into station

• Since then,?as China’s?online scene?has?grown and prospered,?the American search giant has been?looking for?ways to?tiptoe back in.

從那以后，隨著中國網(wǎng)上景象的發(fā)展繁榮，這家美國搜索巨頭一直在尋找悄悄回到中國的方法。

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?online scene? 網(wǎng)絡產(chǎn)業(yè)??scene：領域=field=industry=sector? ??eg： a booming bar scene??

發(fā)展壯大：grow and expand,??grow and thrive,??grow and flourish,?grow and prosper

? looking for ways= explore ways

• On Wednesday,?it?unveiled?a small but symbolically significant move toward that end: a?China-based?center devoted to artificial intelligence. The move?nods to?the country’s growing?strength?in A.I.,?thanks to substantial government funding?prompted by?Beijing’s ambition of?having a say?in the?technologies of the future.

周三，谷歌公布了一個規(guī)模不大但具有象征意義的、朝著上述目標邁出的一步：公司將成立一個致力于人工智能（簡稱AI）的中國中心。北京有在未來技術領域擁有發(fā)言權的野心，這種野心推動了中國政府的大力投入，讓國內(nèi)在人工智能領域展現(xiàn)出日益增長的實力。谷歌此舉是對這種實力的認可。

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unveil 公布= roll out 出臺? ??roll out a new product

move toward that end,??move“舉措”cn?? initiative,??toward that end “為了這個目標”

China-based,??Shenzhen-based HUAWEI

?devoted to=dedicate to 致力于/專門從事…

? nod to：（向…點頭;）表示贊成/積極回應；

strength 實力；優(yōu)勢；強項；（替代advantage；英文傾向于簡單，能用字母少不用字母多的單詞）

sb's strong suit/point? 某人的強項

thanks to “由于”；往往后面跟的是好的事情，但也不絕對，

substantial 大力的=heavy=huge

?funding=investment 資金投入

prompted by 由…促使/推動=driven? by

having a say有話語權，有發(fā)言權?have a final say 最終發(fā)言權

the technologies of the future 不同于future’s technologies

Jobs of the future? 對未來有更高要求的工作，不同于future’s jobs

• Google said the center would have?a team of experts?in Beijing,where the company has hundreds of employees?in?research and development,?as well as other roles. The center will?be led by?Fei-Fei Li,?who?runs?Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and?leads?the artificial intelligence?arm?of Google’s Cloud business,?and Jia Li,?the head of?research and development for the A.I.?division?of Google Cloud.

谷歌表示，該中心將在北京擁有一個專家團隊，谷歌已在北京有數(shù)百名從事研發(fā)和其他工作的員工。谷歌AI中國中心將由李飛飛和李佳領導。李飛飛是斯坦福大學人工智能實驗室的負責人，領導著谷歌云業(yè)務的人工智能部門；李佳是谷歌云業(yè)務的人工智能部門研發(fā)主管。

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a team of experts?觸類旁通? 翻譯的簡易表達：a country of +人口數(shù)量；a city of +人口數(shù)量

in research and development? “從事”?翻譯技巧：用介詞in代詞動詞engage?

英文喜歡用介詞來隱藏動詞。A world for peace 代替build a peaceful world

Be led/headed by sb 由…來牽頭/領頭

負責人：動詞run

中翻英原則：能用動詞就用動詞；名轉動，動轉名。Eg：推動產(chǎn)業(yè)升級：用動詞upgrade

arm ：公司的職能部門

investment arm 投資部門

A.I. division of Google Cloud

平常在做報告時可用arm；但在正式寫時，如寫名片時不用arm，而用division。政府部分用department，企業(yè)部門用division。

• he Silicon Valley company,?which announced the center’s opening at a software developer conference in Shanghai,?cited?China’s growing academic and technical contributions to the A.I. field,?and said the new center would be?“working closely with?the vibrant Chinese A.I. research?community.”

在上海舉行的一個軟件開發(fā)者大會上，這家硅谷公司宣布了成立該中心的決定。谷歌在宣布中提到，中國在人工智能領域的學術和技術方面的貢獻不斷增加，并表示新中心將“與中國活躍的人工智能研究界緊密合作”。?

• “The science of A.I.?has no borders,”?Fei-Fei Li said in a post on Google’s website,?and?“neither do its benefits.”

“人工智能科學沒有國界，”李飛飛在谷歌網(wǎng)站上的一篇文章中寫道，“其帶來的好處也沒有國界?！?/p>

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Cited：指出 ，后面是給出了原因

Work with ：Cooperation? 合作

Work on：研究

Mark trouble :搞事

Vibrant同義詞dynamic

community??國際社會： the international community

工商界：The business community

The sports community:體育界

has no borders =Know no borders:

music Knows no borders:音樂無國界

the disease respects no borders 疾病無國界

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