翻译与美食 (Translation and Gourmet Food)

Angeline_sh wrote:

这个王安没听说过，相对来说，我对西交大的感情更深一些，氛围也更好。

Dr. Wang's insistence that his son, Fred Wang, succeed him, contributed to the company's failure. Fred Wang was a business school graduate, "but by almost any definition," wrote Charles C. Kenney, "unsuited for the job in which his father had placed him." His assignment, first as head of research and development, then as president of the company, led to jealousy and to resignations by key R&D and business personnel.

One turning point occurred when Fred Wang was head of R&D. On October 4, 1983, Wang Laboratories announced fourteen major hardware and software products, and promised dates of delivery. The announcement was well received, but even at the time there were warning signs. According to Datamation, Wang announced "everything but the kitchen sink. And if you could attach the kitchen sink to a personal computer they would announce that too."[12] Very few of the products were close to completion and many of them had not even been started. All were delivered late and some were never delivered at all. In retrospect this was referred to as the "vaporware announcement" and it hurt the credibility of Fred Wang and Wang Laboratories.

In 1986 Fred Wang, then 36 years old, was installed as president of Wang Laboratories. On August 4th, 1989, Dr. Wang fired his son.

Wang Laboratories filed for bankruptcy protection on August 18, 1992. The three Wang towers in Lowell, which originally cost $60 million to build and housed 4,500 workers in over a million square feet (100,000 m²) of office space, were foreclosed and sold for $525,000. Wang itself would have bought the towers property at the foreclosure sale but no one at Wang had anticipated that the final price would be so low, and so an opportunity to reacquire the towers was lost.

The company emerged from bankruptcy a year or two later with $200 million in hand and embarked on a course of acquisition and self-reinvention, eschewing its former role as an innovative designer and manufacturer of computer and related systems. Later in the 1990s with the acquisition of the Olsy division of Olivetti the company changed its name to Wang Global. By then Wang had settled on "network services" as its chosen business.

In 1999 Wang Global, by then back up to $3.5 billion in annual revenues, was acquired by Getronics N.V. of The Netherlands, a $1.5 billion network services company active only in certain parts of Europe.

Angeline_sh wrote:

真是孤陋寡闻啊，这个王安没听说过，相对来说，我对西交大的感情更深一些，氛围也更好。

现在就可以感受到，都是些身经百战的老将啊，相形见拙了，感觉自己还很嫩呢：D

chance wrote:

你那叫富人的苦恼

我们这里昨天晚上国家电视台播放了一个专题报导，题为“红色亿万富翁”，主要介绍当前国内新富翁的生活，应该看看。我只看了几眼，因为知道这个节目过几天可以在网上看到，我可以贴出链接，可惜是法语节目。

chance wrote:

老傅和霈霖及各位：

老傅的诗很有气魄，我喜欢。霈霖居然也能译诗，佩服。建议你们把诗作和译作以及诸位的感慨专开一栏。也许只有KEVIN才能这样操作？

老孙：

我擅自把你贴的照片缩小了，以便你在论坛贴出，与诗相配，才更显壮观。我想你贴出时注名原出处，应该不会有侵权之嫌。只是图片缩小后，不如以前壮观了

以下是链接：

http://francechinexpress.online.fr/images/gansu_01.gif

http://francechinexpress.online.fr/images/gansu_02.gif

Pei Ling Haussecker wrote:
大家太夸奖我了.谢谢!
谢谢贝姨提拔.很高兴能为贝姨’争光’. 谢谢文哲指教.谢谢Han Li 和pkchan大叔和 wherestip (wherestip 是什么意思?) 指点. 还有乐音和chance姨的夸奖.乐音贴的相片好壮观呢,有机会肯定要去看一看.(感觉很像得奖谢词,有点别扭,不过总不能不谢谢大家的好意)
小平二十几岁就已经体会那么深了,真是敬佩. ‘才女’真是不敢当.
p/s我一向叫人家的名字叫惯了,希望大家不要见外,因为真的不知道要怎么叫才好。

Wenjer Leuschel wrote:
呵，樂音兄，這兩地我都去了，印象深刻。當年沒留在蘭州雖然是對的，但對蘭州及河西走廊的印象無法忘卻。路上遇到的那些在文革時落戶的人家，更是無法遺忘。

Pei Ling Haussecker wrote:

大家太夸奖我了.谢谢!
谢谢贝姨提拔.很高兴能为贝姨’争光’. 谢谢文哲指教.谢谢Han Li 和pkchan大叔和 wherestip (wherestip 是什么意思?) 指点. 还有乐音和chance姨的夸奖.乐音贴的相片好壮观呢,有机会肯定要去看一看.(感觉很像得奖谢词,有点别扭,不过总不能不谢谢大家的好意)
小平二十几岁就已经体会那么深了,真是敬佩. ‘才女’真是不敢当.
p/s我一向叫人家的名字叫惯了,希望大家不要见外,因为真的不知道要怎么叫才好.

[Edited at 2006-11-10 17:19]

pkchan wrote:
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:KUbgEQeNNi_79M:http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~ming/photos/fourcities/boston/Lobster.JPG

Yueyin Sun wrote:

...也十分佩服他当时为了爱情而宁愿牺牲大好前途的精神。

[Edited at 2006-11-10 19:27]

Chinoise wrote:

不过话又说回来了，这次中诗英译（小比赛;))，你虽然赢了你薇姐，可不许骄傲……

大伙儿在“译坛美食城”畅谈美食与翻译，实乃人生一大幸事（PK：诗译当然可以在此地谈！）。此刻，贝某还是“识趣地”躲在一旁自得其乐（喝毕特咖啡和绿牡丹茶），改日再给你和薇薇小妹出一道更具替挑战性的难题。

Pei Ling Haussecker wrote:
我小姨子在南京出差,有什么美食(店)好介绍的否?最好用英语,她不会中文.

Denyce Seow wrote:
还没赢，还没赢，我还没出招呢！;) 今天才知道有这么一项比赛，怎么Betty没通知我呢？是我刚看到Betty在这页提到我的名字，才翻了前面几页发现的。Denyce

Pei Ling Haussecker wrote:
志摩说...
恋爱是生命的中心与精华;恋爱的成功是生命的成功,恋爱的失败,是生命的失败,这是不容置疑的.